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Bloggy McBloggerson and other tid bits from around the Internets

There are some kinds of news, old or not, that should be shared regardless. Quite a while ago I entered a contest over at Nancy Pearl Wannabe’s place and not quite as long ago I received my prize; a pile of Japanese candy and goodies that I have been drooling over and devouring one at a time to savor them.  The ginger candies are my absolute favorite!

(Isn’t this just fantastic?!  I absolutely love all these little pieces of Japanese candy, celebratory fans and coins and other deliciousness!)

Also included, but not pictured here because I was probably wearing it, was the most delicious scarf in dark purple and a beautiful teal color.  Oh my laws, I love it!  (Don’t worry, there are pics so you can drool over it as well.)   NPW really did a number on her prize package and it absolutely made my day!  Thanks chica!

My several-weeks-ago meet-up with Isabel, Marci, Britt, Becky, Monica and Christar is one of those “must be shared” bits.  I have loved The Pie restaurant publicly for ages and privately for even longer than that.  And when the idea of meeting up with these lovely ladies started to evolve into pizza, I knew The Pie was it.

Christar & I got there a bit early and started on a fantastic project.  You see, the Pie has this fantastic tradition of allowing their customers to autograph or graffiti the walls however they see fit.  I bought one of those mini sample size Gimmel paints that you are supposed to use to try out a paint color in your home, or bricks at underground restaurants.  Christar and I quickly painted a few bricks “Sexy Pink” and tried to ignore all the crazy looks we got from various other patrons, waiters and the owner himself.  Hey, if they allow wall graffiti, they can’t be picky when we paint the thing pink.

(See that bright pink patch?  It’s now famous all over the Internet.)

They also can’t be upset that we graffitied our URL’s all over their wall.  It’s considerably more refined than “heidi was here” or “for a good time call….”  Whatever, it was awesome.

Sitting and chatting for hours with a handful of bloggy friends was even more awesome.

(Monica, Marci, Heidi, Isabel, Becky, Britt, Christar)

Laws, we had a fantastic time!  The pizza was incredible, the cookie-dough dessert thingy that I have been fantasizing about ever since.  It always amazes me how a group of almost strangers can chat about everything and nothing for hours and hours like old friends–it’s fabulous; and perhaps the thing I love the most about The Internet.  Let’s do it again ladies, ok?  (photos from Isabel)

Because I’m on the topic of bloggy friends, I thought I’d post this tidbit about Janssen, who just graduated with her Masters in Library Science.  She was here in Salt Lake a couple of months ago and we met up at the library for an hour or two–and I never actually posted the pics–so congrats Janssen, you are amazing!

Ok, I think I’m all caught up on bloggy things.  The moral of this story is bloggers are lovely people and I hope you all meet a handful of your favorites sometime soon!  (Those of you going to BlogHer, I’m terribly jealous.  We’ll leave it at that.)

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