Tuesday, March 24, 2009

This is Post One Hundred!

I started this blog just a few short months ago, and now I've reached post #100!  Amazing - I was convinced that I wouldn't stick with it and would drop off the bloggy radar after a few posts - but apparently it's become quite the habit for me.  Primarily it's been my journal to record the funny, sweet, and often ridiculous happenings of the Frogster household; however, it's also been a way to "meet" many new friends, connect with old friends, and be a successful part in opening my Etsy shop.

Thank you faithful readers for visiting often and encouraging me in this venture.  For my hundredth post, I thought I would share a few photos from the past.  Perhaps for those of you that don't know me that well, they will reveal a little more reason why I am so (crazy) um...interesting...
Here you see me with my neighborhood friends in the ghetto.  I am the tall one with the gargantuan glasses and smile.  I was probably about 8 or 9 in this photo: my little sister and brother are standing to my left.  Does anyone else see the resemblance between Matt ( my little brother) and my youngest, Michael?  (check my sidebar for a current pic of the Mikester)
My sister and I love to be normal, in the background, and certainly not the center of attention.  That is definitely evident in this photo.  No, I am not a teenager in this picture, but obviously at the ripe age of 23 I still acted like one.  Not much has changed. . . 
Ah, my single days!  My teacher friends and I found lots of excuses to have parties, and at this particular birthday bash, I insisted that everyone wear tiaras.  We didn't take pictures of the party poopers who refused to do so.  This was my "white-teeth, perfectly-tweezed-eyebrows, never-wore-glasses, bleach-blonde" phase.  (Need I add that this was all "before children"?!)
And the honeymoon - here's my man and I at Sea World, one of our many stops on our cross-country road trip honeymoon.  This seems like forever ago!  Chris told me one of the reasons he married me was because I made his life a lot more exciting.  Within weeks of this photo, the movers were a month late delivering all my things (and had lost a couple of bookcases) and I had gotten a severe case of mono.  He said he wanted exciting!

Anyway, there's just a smidge of my random life.  Because it is my hundredth post, I want to do something a little special for my readers.  Here's how it's going to go down:
1)  Please leave a comment for me under this post.  Be creative and entertaining - the more I like reading it, the better chances you have at winning!
2)  You can leave up to three comments on this post.  
3)  The contest will close after I have received one hundred comments on this post - so you'd better spread the word 'cuz I'm not that popular folks!
4)  I will choose THREE commenters that make me laugh, smile, grin, and otherwise be immensely entertained the most to receive a small customized goodie package in the mail.  Lets' just say there will be some things that taste good, some that look good, and some that smell good!

Okay, so don't fail me here and get commenting!  

28 comments:

  1. ok so I was the dork in school too. I thought it was cool to wear coy boy boots with pink and black spandex shorts. I thought I was cool and my mom evidentally did not care that I was the dork in school, but how cares I look back at it right now and laugh since it is funny now, but not then

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  2. I wore glasses in school too and had braces when I was 16. I kinda had grown out of my dork stage but at least then I liked to wear my cowboy boots with my jeans and not spandex

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  3. I had the bleached blond phase with no glasses too, but now I am back to black with my glasses to read, I have noticed that we grow out of our dorkie stage in life but at least for me when you get older you grow back into your dorkie stage. Why is that>?

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  4. The week after marrying J. I had to get an apindectomy. And, worst of all, I felt my side hurting for like the full week but was enjoying honeymooning and thought maybe I just pulled a muscle in my side (ha!!). Then I got to spend a full week in the hospital after the surgery. Lol .... He thought he liked exciting and spontaneous.

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  5. I like big butts & I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny....oh....you didn't ask for a song, did you? ;)

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  6. Jeanette - I'm so glad that you have stuck with the bloggy thing & that you & I have "met" online. It is good to see how someone else deals with the insanity of 3 monkies so close in age. Congrats on your 100th post! *hugs* Oh! thank you also for your sweet words on my blog about my new at-home business! I'm still nervous! EEK!

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  7. I'd also like to say that I think you look simply lovely with or without glasses, bleached hair or not. I'm not just sucking up to win, either. ;)

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  8. It was great getting a look at your PAST! I would never have thought you were the bleached blonde, tweezed eyebrown, no glasses type!!

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  9. I know I am SO bad at faithfully commenting. =( Boo me! But I do read, and I'm so glad that we have reconnected in bloggyland after losing touch after our PCC days. I'm headed over to Writer Chic now to draft a post that I hope will send some traffic your way. Happy 100!

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  10. HELLO!!!!!! =) What a fun idea!! Hope you get to 100 soon!!! =)

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  11. Love the first picture. I wondered what your natural hair color actually was;)

    My hubby got mono within our first few months of marriage, during the college year no less. I remember when he had to take time off work to recuperate, and we snuggled on the couch and watched the original Star Wars for the first time. It all seems like long,long ago,in a galaxy far,far away now...Yep, the years sure do sneak up on you:)

    Congratulations on your 100th post!

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  12. Congrats on your 100th post! :)

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  13. hahahahaha, great pics!!! :) I wonder who took that second pic. Surely Mom would not have approved of us jumping on her couch. I remember that day -- it was Matt's graduation party and it was pouring like crazy. And we played a lot of mud volleyball. :)

    And I love the ghetto friends pic. We thought it was normal. And yep, Mikey looks a bit like Matthew, at least in that pic -- but I don't think Matthew really looks like that anymore. Hmmmmm.....

    Anywhos, love the pics and don't enter me in the contest. I'm sure I would have a very unfair "advantage" since I am your favorite sis. Love you!!!

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  14. ohhhhh, now that I think about it, maybe Chris took the pic?? I'm pretty sure he was there that day. And I wish I still had those jeans....

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  15. and b/c I haven't commented enough already (I'm REALLY not trying to win the contest, don't worry, people :), I would just like to point out that I AM still a teenager in that pic. Like 19-about-to-turn-20. But a teenager nonetheless. :-D

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  16. Anonymous9:19 AM

    Yeah, who did take the picture of you two jumping on the couch? Not my main question though -- I want to know who the little kid is in that same picture. --Mom =)

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  17. I had those glasses too only mine were red! LOL I guess I was trying to make a statement??? Not a good one mind you but a statement nonetheless!

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  18. Visiting from Writer Chic--nice to "meet" you. Congrats on your 100th post!

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  19. I just saw your "tweet" on the sidebar about spinach. I chop it up & cook it in spaghetti sauce. I'm not a big fan of "hiding" veggies, I let them know it is in there, but they don't have that "texture" issue that kids get sometimes. HTH! I also take baby spinach leaves & put it in grilled cheese sometimes.

    Oh! And in response to your question about Micah, he's 2yrs, 4 months. :D

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  20. Yah! Congrats 100. I don't know if I'm close to that yet. Maybe. I love the pictures! Thanks for sharing more about yourself. I love to be wild and crazy sometimes. I'm actually quite shy at first but once a person gets to know me they will, without a doubt, tell me I don't have a shy bone in this ol' body of mine!

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  21. I really want to help you give away your little goodies so here's my 2nd comment. I adore your monkeys! Riley and I played "monkeys" this morning. He loves to pretend and today I was Momma Monkey and he was Baby Monkey. Until I became the sneaky alligator and "snapped that monkey right out of the tree". LOL

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  22. My son...not sure which one, maybe Samuel, saw a picture of me from notsolongago with big, freaky glasses and asked Mike why I "looked like that". As if!

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  23. Hi Jeanette! Happy 100th post! I can't think of anything witty to say....I love the "not me Monday" stories...too funny!!!:)

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  24. Nothing witty, but adding a comment nonetheless!

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  25. And another... :)

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  26. Hi! I went to PCC with you. I found your blog through Monica's. After reading a couple posts, I went back and read from the beginning! (I love hearing about people I know of, even if we didn't hang out in college.) Just wanted to say "hi" and up your comment count.

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  27. Me again...just wanted to say I went through my dorky phase in junior high (too big t-shirts, sweatpant shorts and dirty white slip on shoes with holes in them. Had the requisite huge pink plastic glasses too!) And who didn't highlight their hair while going to a Florida college? Congrats on your 100th post. (Isn't blogging fun? I just started mine last June and I love it!)

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  28. Rain, Rain, go away. Think we'll actually see any sunny weather this coming weekend? Honestly, I just can't get used to Oregon weather (at least during the rainy season).

    You needed the comment, and I needed the therapy,lol. Hope you hit 100!

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