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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/rEPRdC9xwGQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/rEPRdC9xwGQ/aloha-hacker.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">27</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/aloha-hacker.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-1428674860948641227</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T00:05:00.643-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WW</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">i love lucy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hair appointment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">red hair</category><title>WW:  Color Me Red</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have a hair appointment today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to walk out of the salon with a head of gorgeous auburn hair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1-uJvg4Y4I/AAAAAAAABu8/e7e07nO0vTU/s1600-h/2006-long-red.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 290px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1-uJvg4Y4I/AAAAAAAABu8/e7e07nO0vTU/s400/2006-long-red.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431251158028542850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to be look like a WHOLE NEW WOMAN.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sexy, vibrant, BOLD new woman!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman who is not afraid to embrace her inner Lucille Ball!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Actually, I already do that...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, I will probably walk out of the salon with my same old boring blonde highlights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because as I found out a few years ago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red hair maintenance is NOT EASY, and also VERY EXPENSIVE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;But, I sure did love it...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1-0VnaLSHI/AAAAAAAABvM/OXeF76s08p8/s1600-h/red05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1-0VnaLSHI/AAAAAAAABvM/OXeF76s08p8/s400/red05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431257959081134194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My awesome hair in 2005.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Angie and I could be twinsies if I went RED!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.sevenclowncircus.com/%E2%80%9D" target="”_blank”"&gt; &lt;img src="http://sevenclowncircus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sevenclownbutton.jpg" width="”125″" border="”0″" height="”125″" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-1428674860948641227?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/XZu94PaVF1U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/XZu94PaVF1U/ww-color-me-red.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1-uJvg4Y4I/AAAAAAAABu8/e7e07nO0vTU/s72-c/2006-long-red.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">32</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/ww-color-me-red.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-938130834686752730</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-22T00:17:00.119-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">baking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">birthday</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cake</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><title>Birthday Cake, Aloha!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I don't know about you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I LOVE Birthday Cake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1kch05tlbI/AAAAAAAABu0/JCTMVr1NKK4/s1600-h/happy-birthday-cake.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 149px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1kch05tlbI/AAAAAAAABu0/JCTMVr1NKK4/s400/happy-birthday-cake.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429402193233810866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week, my oldest son turned 10 (sob).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked him what kind of a birthday cake he wanted, and he chose chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admittedly, the cake I made was from a BOX...because I am lazy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did go all &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Betty Crocker &lt;/span&gt;and whip up the frosting myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was soooooo good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My questions for you this week are all CAKE related!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.  What is your favorite kind of cake?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(Double chocolate for me!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.  What are you thoughts on whipped cream frosting?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Personally, I think it is an abomination.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.  It is your birthday party...someone wheels in a giant cake...you go to blow out the candles when SURPRISE!  Who pops out of your cake?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(You can pick me if you want.  But be warned ...I ain't cheap.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;I am hoping Kailani shares my feelings on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;whipped cream frosting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-938130834686752730?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z1njT6jCI/AAAAAAAABtk/3m1ArUjrQ3w/s400/Jenni%2B+Baby+3.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428655723195829282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Baby Douglas .... 4 lbs 13 oz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was 6 weeks early, and I was scared to death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank God, he was perfect....just small.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I have been absolutely &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CraZy&lt;/span&gt; about him ever since he showed up &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;suddenly&lt;/span&gt; that day in January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z_RdgM8wI/AAAAAAAABus/VWdTjjZqg1w/s1600-h/BirthdayFun1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 296px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z_RdgM8wI/AAAAAAAABus/VWdTjjZqg1w/s400/BirthdayFun1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428666338795909890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Dougie's 1st Birthday &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z5FIlfOoI/AAAAAAAABt0/0FyO-R1JBrY/s1600-h/DSC00969.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z5FIlfOoI/AAAAAAAABt0/0FyO-R1JBrY/s400/DSC00969.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428659529952737922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Auntie Beckie's Wedding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z9p-vNzQI/AAAAAAAABuM/sxAIQZ-8foo/s1600-h/DougieCrop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z9p-vNzQI/AAAAAAAABuM/sxAIQZ-8foo/s400/DougieCrop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428664561010855170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Christmas 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Happy 10th Birthday, Douglas Bean.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Angie knows a thing or 5 about kids' birthdays..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.sevenclowncircus.com/%E2%80%9D" target="”_blank”"&gt; &lt;img src="http://sevenclowncircus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sevenclownbutton.jpg" width="”125″" border="”0″" height="”125″" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/cYLVg7T3LVM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/cYLVg7T3LVM/ww-10-years.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S1Z1njT6jCI/AAAAAAAABtk/3m1ArUjrQ3w/s72-c/Jenni%2B+Baby+3.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">37</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/ww-10-years.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-5462949729820459725</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-15T00:07:00.400-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jenni Jiggety should be on TV</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Tonight Show</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Conan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><title>Aloha, NBC!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have a solution to NBC's late night dilemma!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S0_cBfAbMBI/AAAAAAAABtc/Mtwa6yBC7xw/s1600-h/conanjiggety.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S0_cBfAbMBI/AAAAAAAABtc/Mtwa6yBC7xw/s400/conanjiggety.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426797994065997842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Because I am TOTALLY available to host The Tonight Show!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think having a woman would be really good for ratings...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus I will work for shoes and Sephora gift cards thereby saving them a&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; ton&lt;/span&gt; of money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think they should call me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do you have an opinion on this whole debacle?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Are you on Team Jay or Team Conan?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If you could host the Tonight Show for one night, who would be your DREAM guest?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Please welcome Kailani to the show...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-5462949729820459725?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/ATkRQH-SSk0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/ATkRQH-SSk0/aloha-nbc.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S0_cBfAbMBI/AAAAAAAABtc/Mtwa6yBC7xw/s72-c/conanjiggety.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">42</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/aloha-nbc.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-1020817484970215062</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-13T00:05:00.230-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WW</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sunset</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">winter sucks</category><title>WW:  Winter May Suck Eggs...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But it does have it's beautiful moments...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S00-mSMDkwI/AAAAAAAABtU/8CzavFr6Rm0/s1600-h/december192209+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S00-mSMDkwI/AAAAAAAABtU/8CzavFr6Rm0/s400/december192209+001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426061953489670914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pretty spectacular, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I am &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;still&lt;/span&gt; counting down the days until Summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Winter may &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cough up&lt;/span&gt; a pretty picture every now and then, but it still is pretty &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sucktacular&lt;/span&gt; to feel your boogers freeze inside your nose on the way to your car in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Now go to Angie's and look at some beachy pictures!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Then pack and MOVE all your crap to California.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.sevenclowncircus.com/%E2%80%9D" target="”_blank”"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.sevenclowncircus.com/%E2%80%9D" target="”_blank”"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sevenclowncircus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sevenclownbutton.jpg" width="”125″" border="”0″" height="”125″" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-1020817484970215062?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/JC2CCCy6n6Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/JC2CCCy6n6Q/ww-winter-may-suck-eggs.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S00-mSMDkwI/AAAAAAAABtU/8CzavFr6Rm0/s72-c/december192209+001.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">30</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/ww-winter-may-suck-eggs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-9077683569921674786</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-08T00:04:00.342-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">american idol</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">television</category><title>Aloha, American Idol!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S0aVoG7vmpI/AAAAAAAABtM/9KCWPwq7RtY/s1600-h/american-idol-logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 177px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/S0aVoG7vmpI/AAAAAAAABtM/9KCWPwq7RtY/s400/american-idol-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424187317502843538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How excited am I that the new season of American Idol starts next week????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VERY Excited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The auditions that kick off the first part of the season are pretty much the BEST part of the whole thing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, it is nice to listen to the people who can actually sing, but of course the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;best&lt;/span&gt; part is watching the crazies and the tone deaf sing their delusional little hearts out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I admit it, I love when Simon is mean to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you be watching this season?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you miss Paula's slurring and silly antics?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do you think Ellen will do as a judge?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you were going to audition for the show, what would you sing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Kailani thinks you did your thing, dawg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-9077683569921674786?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/twip4F5hbuQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/twip4F5hbuQ/ch-ch-ch-changes.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">24</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/ch-ch-ch-changes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-8672248455455892272</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-01T11:57:14.097-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the jetsons</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">appliances</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2010</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">new year</category><title>Aloha, 2010!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sz4ktRxIkaI/AAAAAAAABss/a8GZZlCTcII/s1600-h/photo_1262244574054-1-0_69449_G.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sz4ktRxIkaI/AAAAAAAABss/a8GZZlCTcII/s400/photo_1262244574054-1-0_69449_G.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421811361682854306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wow....did that really just happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How can it be 2010?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where's my flying car, talking robot maid, and teleportation device?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am pretty sure I was supposed be living like Jane Jetson by now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yet here I sit in 2010, and there is no robot maid ANYWHERE in sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess the last ten years HAVE brought some pretty cool new innovations into my life...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like my iPhone, my TiVo, the Wii...and probably some other awesome gadgets with funky capitalization that I am not thinking of...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;But how far away do you think we are from having Rosie Robot?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because I am getting pretty tired of cleaning up my house and keeping my children in line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I'd like one of these:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sz4oT_q0jDI/AAAAAAAABs8/_tVLZBhcQWc/s1600-h/Jetsons+kitchen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 381px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sz4oT_q0jDI/AAAAAAAABs8/_tVLZBhcQWc/s400/Jetsons+kitchen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421815325374319666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty freakin' sweet, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What would YOU like to see invented for your convenience this decade?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Resolve to check out other the other Alohas:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-8672248455455892272?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/wss5dW-WsDk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/wss5dW-WsDk/aloha-2010.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sz4ktRxIkaI/AAAAAAAABss/a8GZZlCTcII/s72-c/photo_1262244574054-1-0_69449_G.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">21</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2010/01/aloha-2010.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-8822426540826742362</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-23T00:09:00.242-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WW</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the boys</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stop growing up</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">photos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">santa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">believe</category><title>WW: Don't Stop Believing</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You know Mom...I know it's not the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;REAL&lt;/span&gt; Santa who comes to our family party.  It has to be one of his helpers. The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;REAL&lt;/span&gt; Santa is way too busy to come out at this time of year." -Douglas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SzGH9jbSK_I/AAAAAAAABsc/JLUD8j5pN5E/s1600-h/Bassett+Party2009+035.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SzGH9jbSK_I/AAAAAAAABsc/JLUD8j5pN5E/s400/Bassett+Party2009+035.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418261318254865394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But just in case it was the REAL Santa, he &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;had&lt;/span&gt; to look to see if he could spot the sleigh in the sky after Santa left...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SzGH-OSJKjI/AAAAAAAABsk/9mwIJOylY2M/s1600-h/Bassett+Party2009+044.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SzGH-OSJKjI/AAAAAAAABsk/9mwIJOylY2M/s400/Bassett+Party2009+044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418261329759250994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can my boys please stay little forever?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Angie believes in Santa...and she believes in YOU.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://angiescircus.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://assets.blogaliciousdesigns.com/clients/angie_7clown/html.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-8822426540826742362?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/ylFem-R7HsQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/ylFem-R7HsQ/why-my-jeans-are-crunchy.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SzA7sc1NnDI/AAAAAAAABsU/7G340gFB4Ow/s72-c/6a00d83451c52869e200e54f1252f58833-640wi.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">19</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/why-my-jeans-are-crunchy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-5704362025983632557</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-21T00:20:00.483-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">school</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">snow</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">snow day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><title>Bitter!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sy7q0Din3SI/AAAAAAAABsM/r9Vfn7C-ZRA/s1600-h/december192009+004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sy7q0Din3SI/AAAAAAAABsM/r9Vfn7C-ZRA/s400/december192009+004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417525581797907746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;17 inches of pure white snoooooow...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really, really, &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;REALLY&lt;/span&gt; wanted a snow day today...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I did NOT get one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My boys got a one hour delay...but all that really does is mess up everyone's morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So instead, I had to slip and slide my way off the work to deal with the Christmas-crazed children whose craziness is now compounded by a snowstorm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-5704362025983632557?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/4If4ZVo8PVA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/4If4ZVo8PVA/bitter.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sy7q0Din3SI/AAAAAAAABsM/r9Vfn7C-ZRA/s72-c/december192009+004.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">16</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/bitter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-7187156792107960136</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-18T00:22:00.698-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">presents</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><title>Merry Aloha!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here we are!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the last&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Aloha&lt;/span&gt; before &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Christmas&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you believe it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What are you plans for Christmas Eve this year?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What is your favorite holiday movie?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Were you able to get my gift into the mail yet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(I'll be waiting by the mailbox!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Aloha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-7187156792107960136?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/_7r2fsUmZJM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/_7r2fsUmZJM/merry-aloha.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">22</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/merry-aloha.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-5977956105497975696</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-17T00:08:00.771-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">beautifulfabulous</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">repost</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">oldies but goodies</category><title>The Christmas Sweater: An Ad for Men!</title><description>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;From the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;Beautiful! Fabulous!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Files...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/christmas_sweater/set?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=5007113"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFkh0ZjZ6R1RDM1JHUnFLYUZIRlZGRGcAAAACaWQKAWUAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg" title="Christmas Sweater" width="400" border="0" height="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/christmas_sweater/set?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=5007113"&gt;Christmas Sweater&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?.mid=embed&amp;amp;id=504748"&gt;jenni jiggety&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you looking for a fashionable holiday gift for a very special lady in your life? Well LOOK NO FURTHER! A snazzy &lt;i&gt;Christmas Sweater&lt;/i&gt; is THE way to go this holiday season!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's right! Trust me! I know what women want! Women like bright, shiny things! They like bells, bows and sequins! &lt;i&gt;A Christmas sweater combines all of those things&lt;/i&gt;! What could be better? You think she’d rather have jewelry? I am here to tell you that jewelry is over-rated! Any guy can go to the jeweler and buy diamonds! You want to buy a gift that shows you have STYLE and CLASS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Christmas sweater is the perfect gift for your girlfriend, your wife, or both of them! You simply cannot go wrong with one of these timeless Christmas classics!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just imagine the look on your lady’s face when she tears open her gift to find one of these stunning, sparkly beauties! Oh, yes…she will be speechless! She will be in AWE. She may even cry! And, when she finally is able to regain her composure, she will look into your eyes, thank you lovingly, and then put her new treasure back into it's box (because she will not want it to get dirty, of course). It will truly be a gift she will NEVER forget. And she will assure you that she is going to save it to wear on a very special occasion…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…like Christmas -Year 2068.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-5977956105497975696?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/PtwKAdy5NWI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/PtwKAdy5NWI/christmas-sweater-ad-for-men.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">17</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/christmas-sweater-ad-for-men.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-8193486306306889853</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-16T00:01:03.429-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WW</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silliness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wordy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sick</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">santa</category><title>WW:  How Can You Miss Me If I Never Go Away?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SyhIIjphhLI/AAAAAAAABsE/pC9gn82aj9A/s1600-h/SAntaJenni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SyhIIjphhLI/AAAAAAAABsE/pC9gn82aj9A/s400/SAntaJenni.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415657863758578866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;This picture has nothing to do with anything, BUT since I am SO busy making pictures and cracking myself up, I thought I would share.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if you noticed (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;lie to me&lt;/span&gt;), but I haven't posted for the last few days!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truth is, I have been SICK and busy and all around &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;GROUCH-tastic&lt;/span&gt;, and I decided to take it out on the internet by not posting on my blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take THAT, internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I showed YOU, Al Gore...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anywho...I am a little less busy (although NOT less sick) so I decided to give the internet a break and come back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So stay tuned, because I have quite a diatribe coming up about how much I hate having a sore throat, and I will soon be singing the praises of Motrin and Halls cough drops with pectin! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you sure don't want to miss &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;If you are interested in some MUCH BETTER Wordful Wednesdays, you should go see Angie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Angie is the picture of health and holiday cheer, whereas I am all Grinchy and ill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://angiescircus.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://assets.blogaliciousdesigns.com/clients/angie_7clown/html.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-8193486306306889853?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/yhczXaJTKDg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/yhczXaJTKDg/ww-how-can-you-miss-me-if-i-never-go.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SyhIIjphhLI/AAAAAAAABsE/pC9gn82aj9A/s72-c/SAntaJenni.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">27</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/ww-how-can-you-miss-me-if-i-never-go.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-6715221408355229394</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-11T00:03:02.829-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">help</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">QOTD</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shopping</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">aloha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><title>Aloha, Shoppers!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So I am going to use my Aloha Friday post to appeal to the internet for some SNAZZY gift ideas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What should I get my mom for Christmas?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How about my sister?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Teacher gifts...any thoughts?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How about a $75 Yankee swap gift that would be appropriate for a man or a woman?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come one now...I KNOW you must have some ideas for me.  I have been trying to come up with some of my own, but as hard as I try I can only come up with packs of gum and multi-packs of Scotch tape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Kailani would love to be my personal shopper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://islandlife808.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p215/Local-Girl-photos/logos/125button.jpg" alt="An Island Life" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-6715221408355229394?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/1Hvve-LMs5k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/1Hvve-LMs5k/aloha-shoppers.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">27</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/aloha-shoppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-2264427095731127686</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-10T00:19:00.522-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silliness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bathroom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pee</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">doug</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">busted</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">privacy issues</category><title>No See Me Pee</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SyBrsduzZ8I/AAAAAAAABr4/mjbXRahBYIs/s1600-h/strange-toilet-sign-in-korea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SyBrsduzZ8I/AAAAAAAABr4/mjbXRahBYIs/s400/strange-toilet-sign-in-korea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413445163738687426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all the years I have know my husband, he had NEVER seen me sitting on the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know why I have a little "thing" about it...but I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheesh!  Can't SOME things remain private?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, my &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;no-see-me-pee&lt;/span&gt; streak ended this weekend when one of my kids came into the bathroom while I was going, and then left the door open on his way out.  Of course, my husband comes strolling past at that moment...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a urination BUST!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He laughed about it later, but deep down he knows whenever he is kissing me from now on, he is going to be thinking about me sitting on&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; the can&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it.  The magic is gone now. We are officially old people who pee in front of each other and massage one another's corns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-2264427095731127686?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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It was VERY cool!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UX5iGj2I/AAAAAAAABrY/x6Ry_J1TwPY/s1600-h/EnchantedVillage09+017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UX5iGj2I/AAAAAAAABrY/x6Ry_J1TwPY/s400/EnchantedVillage09+017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413067677936029538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boys LOVED it and spent a lot of time looking at each of the displays!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UKhfV8oI/AAAAAAAABrI/qT1vFVaRO3U/s1600-h/EnchantedVillage09+012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UKhfV8oI/AAAAAAAABrI/qT1vFVaRO3U/s400/EnchantedVillage09+012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413067448143704706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8TTLzxDJI/AAAAAAAABqw/W9GNV1jt_VY/s1600-h/EnchantedVillage09+016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8TTLzxDJI/AAAAAAAABqw/W9GNV1jt_VY/s400/EnchantedVillage09+016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413066497430981778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UfK30UEI/AAAAAAAABrg/YWDMb5rTTkc/s1600-h/EnchantedVillage09+020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UfK30UEI/AAAAAAAABrg/YWDMb5rTTkc/s400/EnchantedVillage09+020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413067802849595458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We had a GREAT time and if you live in the are, I would recommend checking it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would also recommend picking up a batch of the Jordan Marsh blueberry muffins they are selling on your way out.  YUM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ps....do you think the people at Jordan's would be interested in acquiring a giant Freaky Santa to add their collection?  I have one I would be willing to part with for a price (free).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8Y03sJa6I/AAAAAAAABrw/m8cWHu1k7OY/s1600-h/snowydec+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 223px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8Y03sJa6I/AAAAAAAABrw/m8cWHu1k7OY/s400/snowydec+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413072573704006562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Angie would totally come get my Santa if she lived closer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://angiescircus.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://assets.blogaliciousdesigns.com/clients/angie_7clown/html.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-3779396738125016007?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/7jKqITUetBQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/7jKqITUetBQ/ww-enchanted-village.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx8UjZzITCI/AAAAAAAABro/KPhHGcru6q0/s72-c/EnchantedVillage09+009.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">14</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/ww-enchanted-village.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-2391233271721163641</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-08T00:09:00.127-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crap I have to get done</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">randomness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holiday</category><title>Random Crap I Have to do Before Christmas</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx3HCeAf7YI/AAAAAAAABqo/-5r6VbUSMso/s1600-h/ChristmasShopHappy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/Sx3HCeAf7YI/AAAAAAAABqo/-5r6VbUSMso/s400/ChristmasShopHappy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412701172398026114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;1.  Design, Order, Address, and Mail Christmas cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Buy presents. Lots of them.  Too many to even really wrap my brain around.  There are MANY MANY gifts left to purchase is what I am saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.  Take up drinking heavily on weekdays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  Wrap presents sloppily.  Slap bows on them to cover up my ineptitude as a wrapper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.  Attend family gatherings and smile a lot even though I'd rather be at home on my couch in my pajamas watching SoapNet and scratching my butt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.  Consider becoming a Jehovahs Witness, and decide against it because I like my birthday and hate having doors slammed in my face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.  Bake and consume copious amounts of baked goods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.  Stop my youngest son from eating every single candy cane on the Christmas tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.  Wish there really was a Santa Claus...because I have been a VERY good girl this year and could use a lot of new stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Sing Christmas songs until I literally CAN'T STAND it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ho Ho Ho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Keely tried to stop me from linking up to &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theunmom.com/"&gt;her blog,&lt;/a&gt; but I am UNSTOPPABLE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-2391233271721163641?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/mrQ5uzfBG6s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/mrQ5uzfBG6s/aloha-swine-line.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">24</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/aloha-swine-line.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-6422231608448687768</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-03T00:06:00.164-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">writing prompt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">7th grade</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mama kat</category><title>Word Up (Writer's Workshop)</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The year was 1986.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hair was enormous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The teeth had braces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boobs were (are) as flat as a board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was a 7th Grader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I knew everything about &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;everything&lt;/span&gt;, and I was SURE my parents were out to make me as miserable as humanly possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, those were the days...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like all kids in 7th grade, I had &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;awesome&lt;/span&gt; taste in music, and my favorite song of the year was this classic little ditty:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SxctL0KYxpI/AAAAAAAABqY/PlLhu5x3rgE/s1600-h/bangles_walk_like_an_egyptian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SxctL0KYxpI/AAAAAAAABqY/PlLhu5x3rgE/s400/bangles_walk_like_an_egyptian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410843158312961682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walk Like An Egyptian by the BANGLES!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I taped the video on MTV and would play it over and over...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would sing all the Susanna Hoffs parts because she was the coolest one in the group and why would I sing any other part but the BEST one, right???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking back on it now, I have NO idea what the lyrics of that song are supposed to mean...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is just nonsensical musical sing songy FUN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either that or it was a metaphor for consumerism and trouble in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;One of those.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Slide your feet up the street bend your back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Shift your arm then you pull it back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Life is hard you know (oh whey oh)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So strike a pose on a Cadillac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This not-so-analytic analysis of Walk Like an Egyptian was brought to you by &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mamakatslosinit.com/"&gt;Mama Kat's Weekly Writer's Workshop Prompt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-6422231608448687768?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/h7B2YBlERt0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/h7B2YBlERt0/word-up-writers-workshop.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SxctL0KYxpI/AAAAAAAABqY/PlLhu5x3rgE/s72-c/bangles_walk_like_an_egyptian.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">30</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/word-up-writers-workshop.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-5977047226313219042</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-01T22:54:06.945-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silliness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">madness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">santa</category><title>WW: Guess Who's Back???</title><description>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tFhNMB6ymWw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tFhNMB6ymWw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To check out Santa Madness from 2008...go&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; a-clickin'&lt;/span&gt; below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3181132902219303817&amp;amp;postID=5165867807070068132"&gt;Week One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3181132902219303817&amp;amp;postID=793819488042998147"&gt;Week Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3181132902219303817&amp;amp;postID=4870410892668819373"&gt;Week Three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;- &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My personal favorite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3181132902219303817&amp;amp;postID=7924313634817368760"&gt;Week Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Angie Thinks Santa is Kinda Hott...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://angiescircus.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://assets.blogaliciousdesigns.com/clients/angie_7clown/html.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-5977047226313219042?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~4/4yXxEPhPEV0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JiggetyJigg/~3/4yXxEPhPEV0/ww-guess-who.html</link><author>jennibeanv@aol.com (Jenni Jiggety)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">21</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.jiggetyjigg.com/2009/12/ww-guess-who.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181132902219303817.post-6620685315094672800</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-01T00:14:00.137-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">doctors</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">I am a big baby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gyn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">don't judge me</category><title>Medical Indignities</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So yesterday I went to my yearly gynecological exam to have my pap smeared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;yearly&lt;/span&gt;...but if I am being honest, it has been about 8 years since my last one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Don't judge me.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What kept me away for  8 years?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SxSHLp_O6BI/AAAAAAAABqQ/RWgtSgDLaMQ/s1600/Cusco_Vaginal_Speculum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RVgkANSnM70/SxSHLp_O6BI/AAAAAAAABqQ/RWgtSgDLaMQ/s400/Cusco_Vaginal_Speculum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410097686698190866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dreaded speculum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I'll have you know that I had to cross my legs tightly as I posted that picture.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The speculum is as nasty little device, isn't it?  I mean, I get that it is necessary tool for the doctor to get the job done, but does it have to be so medieval looking?   Couldn't it be made of something softer?  Couldn't it be pink?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Couldn't they offer complimentary shots in the waiting room so the whole thing doesn't seem quite so awful????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But my &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;smearing&lt;/span&gt; went fine, just so you know...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh!   And she said I don't have to have another one done for three years!  Which is AWESOME because by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;my&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;calculations, that means I don't have to go again until I am 60! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Just kidding.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Maybe.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e135/jennibeanv/blogimages/jjsig.gif" alt="Jenni" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://jiggetyjigg.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/32x32_su_solid.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt; Stumble It!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3181132902219303817-6620685315094672800?l=www.jiggetyjigg.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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