blogfest

TGIF Bloggywood!

So today is the Pay it Forward Blogfest!
Here is the original post by The Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment, one of the two hosts – check it out as it has all of the details & such!
But basically the idea of this blogfest is to introduce everyone on the linky to three of your favorite bloggers who might fall under the radar and not receive the recognition you think they deserve. Or you can totally just shout out to three blogs ya love. Either way – the hosts are encouraging everyone to take a little time and really peruse a blog or two (or 225 – wow lotta peeps linked up!).
I read a pretty diversified list of blogs regularly – but am always looking for someone new to lurk upon!

So with that being said… lemme introduce you to the three blogs/bloggers who I must give mad props to… and some are actually peeps I have met via my other blog (yeah that diet one I am yappin’ about all the time) misadventures of a chunky goddess.

1. Nicole @ 4 Boys and 2 Divas. She is a newer blogger and I just adore how she blogs & vlogs. She rocks & is kind enough to be doing the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred with me & being so real & honest about the process. You cannot help but l♥ve her!
2. Foxy Coxy & Hot Coco @ (Victorious Secret) From Flab to Fab. These two fellow Weight Watcher junkies cover it all – the trials, tribulations & highs of the Weight Watcher journey along with ah-may-zing healthy recipes & their take on life. Go check ‘em out fo’ sho’!
3. And last but never least – my dearest bloggy friend Ms. Marie @ The Dancing Paralegal. We met on the Weight Watcher site via their blogs & honestly I cannot remember who traveled over to blogger first? I wanna say it was her because she wanted to swear and Weight Watchers online won’t even let you say beaver (in the animal context) without censoring your ass. Anywho… we both migrated over to the Land of Adult Blogging & have been giving each other the bloggy l♥ve ever since. Her blog rocks & her series on her recent trip to Europe is just amazing & gives me major world traveler envy!

Go give my girls some much deserved bloggy l♥ve!

There ya have it… hop ‘til ya drop!



♥cyn♥

pay it forward blogfest!

Blog-o-sphere!

So I was catching up/reading my favorite blogs ( I have MANY) this morning & I came across a daft scots lass (lurve her blog!) & her post about a superb hop/blogfest going on tomorrow – so I had to give it a shout out of course.

Here is the original post by The Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment, one of the two hosts – check it out as it has all of the details & such!
Go and show both hosts some bloggy l♥ve!






Happy Thursday bloggy peeps!
♥cyn♥

Wanna know more about my weight loss journey, Weight Watchers, and/or my quest to complete Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred?
Check out my diet blog -- misadventures of a chunky goddess.

the power of girlfriends -- meet ciao mama

day: 35
bloggerhood!

so last monday i was graciously asked to write a post about women and our friendships for ms. daffy @ batcrap crazy in conjuction with friends you l♥ve -- a month long blog celebrating & empowering women and other women closest to us.

friends you l♥ve hosts a blog hop every monday where you select a friend from the blogosphere to guest post at your place and come on back and link up to the blog hop! all blog hop participants (guest posters included) are eligible to win prizes from eyedews!
(this is just one of many really cool events they have going on this entire month!)


okay phew – with all that being said, you guys know i am all about spreading the bloggy l♥ve & what better way than to pass the torch on. without a thought i asked ciao mama from the fabulous blog mommy bags to guest post and what follows is simply lovely and the perfect example of why i chose her…
she is real, raw, hysterical, sincere, stylish, and if we weren’t on opposite ends of this country – i can guarantee we would be besties and having some mad misadventures of our own!
without further adieu … ms. mommy bags herself!


It was set up to be just another week until I received an email from Cyn over at Misadventures of a Chunky Goddess one of my favorite all time blogs. Besides being a kick ass gal the girl is just friggin funny and has quickly become a really great bloggy friend.
Ms. Cyn asked me to do a guest post and I was what the f*** are you serious? Like…. I am about to gag ova here…I was so stoked and so honored the first thing I did was freak out…What would I post…how about if I sucked donkey balls and would have to hide my pitiful self from the bloggy world forever? I snapped out of it and I decided I would just be me and just write the way I write. The post was supposed to be about women and friendships this is all in conjunction with friends you love - a month long blog/site that celebrates & empowers women through discussing our bonds with other women. Again, thank you so much for the honor Cyn.

Quality over quantity any day. I used to be vice versa just a few years ago. I felt the more “friends” I had around me the better. I felt I needed a bunch of people around me in order to feel accepted. It was so high school it was ridiculous. As you grow up and get older you realize what the meaning of true friendship is. I discovered who I thought were friends of mine {and ours} were just really “acquaintances” at best. I discovered that women I thought were sisters were actually just fakes – I know you’re like…… this is supposed to be about great friendships between women - I am getting to the point I swear.

I saw the true colors of these friends when the shit hit the fan – when my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer I saw the light. I saw women who told me they would always be there for me and I thought were best friends run for the hills. No phone calls to see how my mom was doing, no support calls and just no calls. I will always remember the hurt I felt, here I am going through the most painful thing ever and there was no one around. In a way it destroyed the little trust I had for women. My first emotion was to go after them with fists flying but after calming down I decided they were just not worth the trouble and jail time. Through all this dark “muck” I was going through at the time quite a few bright lights of hope flashed through and showed me what true friendship is supposed to be. I received phone calls from friends that I had lost contact with because of all the BS of hanging out with certain members of the “group”. These women checked on me and my well-being and they called to see if they could do anything for me and my fam. They were there when my mom passed away. They showed up at the wake they showed up when I placed mom in her resting place. They were there when I cried myself to sleep for months straight and refused to leave the house because I felt so lost. They were there when I picked up the phone every day to call my mom and realized she was no longer here. They took me out, they helped me out and finally I started to feel better. One of my friends helped me build the crib and get the nursery ready when my hubby was too busy at work and I too prego to work the drill. These friends gave me a baby shower and sent many welcomes when baby was born. These friends have been around when I just needed a hug a glass of wine and a shoulder to cry on. These to me are true friends, friends that are in your life that make you feel special and loved and that you matter. There is only a handful in my life right now because I choose it to be that way. I would rather have a handful of really good jelly beans in a jar than a jar of so so jelly beans.
I love all of mine to pieces and you know who you are! I have learned allot during my 41 years and the one thing I did learn is that truly good friends are hard to find…Show them some love and let them know how special they are. Peace!



told ya see is fabulous… please stop by her blog -- mommy bags -- and give her a shout out!
she rocks!
thanks mb!

spread the bloggy l♥ve, eat your veggies, and love yourself!
xxoo
cyn

no more muffin top weekend blog hop -- vol.3

happy freakin' friday!!!
totally stolen word for word from my other blog...

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i love a good hop and with all the wonderful ones out there i thought it was time to create one of my own please link up your blog, giveaway, facebook, twitter, google+, whatever your little hearts desire.
no rules!!!!
of course it would be nice if ya followed me, rocked my button, and took the time to check out a blog or two.

this hop will run from friday thru sunday each weekend (when we dieters need the most support – or at least i do)! so show the bloggy world some l♥ve -- link up and pass the hop around!

be kind, return a follow, make friends, & have fun!
xxoo
cyn

keepin' company blog hop

cool hop on some cool blogs -- heck of a bunch and traci66-- oh and my other little diet blog -- misadventures of a chunky goddess -- is the #3 hoppy featured spot -- so w00ts!

please follow the two hosts -- and rockin' the button is always nice!




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HoLLa: Update on Life vol. 4

Hello blog-o-sphere!

Well I dunno about the rest of blogdom – but I have had a crazy/wild week. Well that’s how I feel at least. Nothing crazy nor wild has happened – but I feel wiped? Go figure.

I had my weigh-in/meeting today! Down 5.2lbs.
Yeah!
More details on my other diet blog – check it out if ya want. It’s my place where I let it all out and I can be more than a mommy blogger. Not that I don’t love being one or that there is anything wrong with that so don’t send me mommy hate mail.
Sometimes I wanna toss out an F bomb out there and be a grown-up. Don’t we all?

Anywho…

So apparently my oldest son, Hunter has a girlfriend.

I will refrain from saying anything at this juncture...

Not that I ever think my son would read my blog – they know it exist but being teenage boys – they don’t care. Hence why I have to bribe and threaten them in order to get a photo on here… but I digress.
Yeah girlfriend…

Ummm...
:blank stare:

Moving along…
I wrote about Skylar and her potty-training this week. Well girlfriend has gone the past two days without one accident and told us everytime she had to do her biz. Of course she has a diaper at night – but we will lick that soon enough.

But look at this…

Brandy-new Disney Princess potty seat. All pink and pretty right?
Well look at what it says…

Magic?
Is that what they are calling it nowadays?

Although I mean c’mon – she is pretty darn cute. But as cute as she is – her poops & peeps are not magical!

Let’s move on shall we?
So the other night I was getting ready to go to the gym and looking for my shoes…
I look over and see this…

Skylar was using my shoes as a *bus* for her American Girl Dolls.
Okay… I admit I got big feet – but a bus??

Weekend hop created by little 'ol me -- cause I am the self-promoting type in case you hadn’t noticed. Link up and play along!

There were other hops I wanted to share but I suck and didn’t get to writing in time… sorry!

With that being said…
I will leave you with these gems.

How can you not love this face and her bigger-than-life personality?
If anyone would have told me at age 41 I would have a two year old – I would have laughed my ass off in their face. Now I cannot imagine our life without her. She is my *Crazy Daisy* as I call her and lord know this child keeps me on my toes – but she also keeps me young and with a zest for life.

Life is good – fall briskness in the air – and I lost 5.2 freakin’ pounds!
♥cyn♥

girls weekend hop

Because I am the type who likes more bang (heh-heh she said bang) for my buck -- gimme the weekend hop where my linky-ma-do can work its magic for days!
Link up -- all the cool kids are doing it.

Plus I dunno about the rest of the Mama's out there but the closest I am getting to a Girls Weekend...

Sh*t I Hate Sunday...

I am slackin – but you know I am dying to bitch – so here goes!

Shit I hate…

I hate people who bitch non-stop about work. Ummm its called *work* for a reason and if you hate it so much do something about it. I did and don’t regret it one bit – well my bank account is wicked pissed at me – but what else is new?

I hate getting older. I realize I am not old… but I am getting older and I am noticing *stuff* -- fine wrinkles, gravity hitting and I am not talking about tits and ass – weird places I never thought gravity even had anything to do with. Oh and grey hair – and it blows. I wanna know how this happened because I don’t feel a day over 34!

I hate girls who wear makeup and dress like hoochies at the gym. And I generally don’t mind the hoochie look – as an ex-hoochie and all. But at the gym? Come on – that is just dumb!

I hate when people cannot take a joke – yes there are some things that just arent cool to joke about – but jeesh, life is too short to be pissed off at everything ALL the freakin’ time!

I hate that I finally got twitter kinda figured out and now I am a twithead poking around on there all the time – like I got time for that shit?

I hate that I had a ton of shit I wanted to write about earlier and damn if I can remember any of it now.

And with that I end this – go link up or at least stalk this hot mama!

And when your done pervin’ her – be sure to link up to my first evah blog hop no more muffin top weekend blog hop on my spanky new diet blog misadventures of a chunky goddess.

Peace out – oh wait, I hate when people say that.

♥cyn♥

Short & Light

Happy Last Friday of the *Official* Summer!

Wowzers -- can you believe it is September already!?!?!

Hunter and Peyton started school yesterday -- can you see the excitement in their faces?






Or how stoked they are that their Mom still takes *First Day of School* photos?
Heh!
I am a cruel bitch, what can I say?

Speaking of bitches...
GO STALK STAT!

I am keeping it short and light today -- Skylar is in full cheerleader garb and itchin' to go outside.
She is such a cutie-patooties!

xxoo blogdom!
♥cyn♥

On a side note: I feel kinda shitty for making sucha fuss over being without power for 4 1/2 days when so many people have it far worse -- which I found out yesterday after watching some actual news. Hurricane Irene was one mean MoFo and my heart goes out to those who have lost and suffered much more than me!

JuSt BeCaUsE...

for my wannabe stalkers...




and just because I am a show-off...

THinGs I am L♥VIN' Thursday

Yeah I know it’s technically Friday – gah – the day got away from me yesterday…

HaPPy L♥VEfest!

OMGosh do I ever – it is my current obsession and a site I am on daily. (Thank you Lesley from Fabulously Flawed for showing me the way!) It’s a site to catalog things you love – and well, I love LOTS of things! I have cleaned up so much space on my PC thanks to Pintrest!
And yes, you need to be *invited* to join – but I am guessing EVERYONE gets invited.
If you are already there – come find me – Cyn Knight!
Let’s be Pintrest Pals!

Ummm yeah – who wouldn’t want an ginormous industrial strength stainless steel curly slide in their home???
I L♥VE it and if I had that space – you bet your sweet arse I would have it! Although I cannot imagine what something like that must cost?!?!

Love this idea!
I L♥VE mirrors – but they can be quite expensive – this is just three floor-length mirrors ($6 a piece at WalMart) hung on the wall horizontally.
GENIUS!

I don’t have any little boys anymore as mine are on the verge of turning 15 & 17 (WTF!!!) – but this costume is FABULOUS! Brian and I L♥VEEEEEEEEEEEE *Nacho Libre* -- and this ensemble is just classic funny!
Heh-heh!

I ♥ Bookshelves…
What a perfect way to make a room complete AND have a place to store books or whatever you like. When we move – I AM having bookshelves by-golly!

Chevron stripes – so L♥VE them!!!
I have a newfound love for stripes – and give me a chevron stripe and I am giddy as hell. (I know – I REALLY need to get out more!)

I am seriously L♥VE’n this ‘do (the cut not the color) and seriously considering going under the scissor and going this length.
That would entail taking about five inches (give or take) off.
Hair is SUCH a crutch – I like having longer hair but ack – it spends the majority of the time up in a clip. I need something A LOT easier to tend to.

I L♥VE Succulents – or Hens & Chicks as my Mom calls them. I just love the variations and colors.
They are of the cactus family so they thrive in poor soil and with little water!
YAY!
Just the plants for me!!!
I LOVE the succulent gardens – just lovely!!!

Finally...

I L♥VE Ancient Aliens – it is my MOST favorite show.
And I really L♥VE that Season 3 starts NEXT Thursday July 28th!!!
*w00t*

So there ya have it – just a taste of the things that are blowing my skirt up – what are you L♥VE’n this week?!?!?!

♥cyn♥

Oh yes!
Gotta PiMP...
Come HoP!










***All images via Pintrest***

Hippity-BLoG-HoPs

Showin' some love and pimpin' out some of my fave HoPs!

Link up -- have some fun with these kickass HoPs!

After my post earlier I needed to lighten it up a bit! ;)

TGIF!

♥cyn♥