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Baby Turns My World Upside Down

I’m alive! =) Gaaaaah

It’s not very hard to let your blog go specially when it’s summer time …

BUT.

I opened my mail today and lookie there, what do I see?! A newsflash from Entrecard partnering with SezWho. Sez who?!

It’s clear I haven’t been using any comment plugin. Ancient-ness.

Anyway, I perked up at the mention of new things at Entrecard. One of the worrisome things about Entrecard was the humongous bounce rates I get from people cruising to drop and skip instead as oppose to dropping and pausing to read my entries.

Entrecard, ever evolving and  refining its strategy, has thought of a brilliant way to not only reduce bounce rates but also help bloggers gain relevant readership via comment credits.

Partnering with SezWho enables Entrecard to track members commenting on each other’s posts and reward this otherwise free and social activity.

Hold your horses!

Before you start speed-posting, remember, it’s quality posts that count. After all, isn’t the idea of blogging to be relevant to your readers? The higher your post rating the easier it is to get EC credits.

From a blogger’s perspective, I think this is absolutely awesome. Just imagine, you would go from, oh hey, so and so visited my blog today to oh woooo! i got a gazillion comments and a five-star rating! How cool is that!

With the old Entrecard system setup, a lot of great bloggers are still being ignored in the race to raise credits and be able to advertise for free. With SezWho comment plugin, entrecard just became more relevant in that it actually tries to create more connections between and among its members.

I am still waiting to see how SezWho is going to perform on my blogs but from what I’ve read (SezWho enhancing comments and traffic stays on your site instead of getting redirected) I’m liking it. Kudos to Graham (and Phirate) for taking Entrecard one step further and creating more value to its members.

Learn more from this latest news here and here.

Yes, the word on the street today is relevant. =)

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Read: maria">Entrecard members get the ultimate reward: more comments for your blog! »

Things had been a tad quiet around here [oh okay, a little boring!] that I thought I’d post a crustini video. Is my son trying to tell me he really wants to be a clown when he grows up? Happy Sunday!

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George Carlin, irreverent, offensive, and totally entertaining. I enjoyed his one-liners a lot, though I am definitely not a fan of his digs at religion. I’m a Catholic, go figure. Bah.  Seriously, I think one’s religion is one’s own and shouldn’t be messed with. Go find your own. Or not and just listen to George.

He passed away from heart failure yesterday (Sunday) in Santa Monica (California). His brand of stand up comedy is Bad-A**. Not for the thin-skinned. Nu uh. If you get easily offended, specially if you’re an American, you must have given him a wide berth.

One of my favorite George Carlin one-liners go something like “may the forces of evil become confused on its way to you …” and “if you’re alive you have a ticket to the freak show and if you’re an american, you get front row seat”, probably not the exact words but close enough.

After decades of stirring up controversy and hard core stand up comedy, George has succumbed to what he didn’t want to do. He once said, I want to live. I don’t want to die. That’s the whole meaning of life. Not dying … I wonder what he would have said about the “other side”.

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It’s hubba’s first father’s day yesterday and as you can imagine with first time dads, he’s thrilled to the bones specially when he saw the father’s day card baby crustini gave him.

It was a happy day yesterday … but I can’t help but feel a touch of sadness. Don’t get me wrong, hubba makes me happy and I’m like smiling a lot because hey, it was my first Mommy’s day and now his first Papa day and soon enough it will be the baby’s first Baba day!

It’s my hubba’s first father’s day yesterday … eight years ago  it was my daddy’s last Father’s Day celebration (June 18th 2000 to be exact) where he was named “Father Of The Year” by our parish community. Four days after, he passed away. Father’s Day weekend was the last time we would all be together as a family.

Gaaaah. Allow me to be sappy for a minute please. At least - I try to tell myself over and over - he didn’t suffer much. He was still up and about the day before he passed away though he had been deteriorating due to his illness (kidney/liver). And he did have my mom at his side until the end. Isn’t it just beautiful to have your loved one at your side at the end of your day and the last words you leave them with is “I love You”.

Anyway, moral of the story - whether you’re feeling healthy or not, have yourself tested for Hepatitis A, B & C. It’s a disease that just lingers and doesn’t manifest until it has already damaged your liver. The good thing is there’s a better fighting chance now for people with this condition, unlike eight years ago, so do your children and your loved ones a favor and have yourself checked.

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The crustini baby has just discovered walking … my life just got a bit more complicated =) [but lovelier and livelier by the day] … so mommy and papa, being cool parents they are [ha ha] thought it would be fun for the baby to have his very own Jeep Liberty Renegade. Teeeheee!

It’s soooo much fun to watch the baby go forward to grab his drum (bribe really so he’d get comfortable walking) and reverses so he can be at his starting point. LOL I have to remember to get video of that, we were laughing our heads off while he tries to manuever his “car” to go on “reverse”.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

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