Check… Check… Check… Oh, oops—Hello.  Last May, the family and I made a list of things to do over summer break. You just caught me checking off a few of the activities that we’ve completed.  Meanwhile, to keep my blog from collecting dust I’m posting a photo of some peppers CD picked from the garden yesterday:

Peppers the Size of Bananas

I’ve been wandering about in the blogosphere lately and abandoning my own blog in the process.  Don’t worry.  I’m still here.  But after reading one woman’s blog, a little lightbulb went on in my head called, “GADS!  Blog… Work…?”

While I’m fully aware that bloggers have been fired for posting material about work related events, I feel the need to clarify a few details with regard to my own blog:

• The wonderful (see how I added that nice adjective?) folks in my office not only read my blog, but they embrace it.  (You know you do!)  And at staff meetings?  There are times when we discuss potential content for future blog posts.  (Ok, it’s not at the top of the agenda.  But it does happen.)
• Not only do coworkers offer suggestions on updates to my blog, they get downright competitive in getting themselves mentioned in it.  (Back people!  Back!)
• If my boss did not know about and enjoy reading my blog, I would not post work related information, leaving me with approximately 80% less blogging material and henceforth, less desire to blog.  It’s a win-win situation.
• My blog places my employer in the spotlight, highlighting the positive impact the Sisters have on the community and my family.  You can’t fire a blogger for that kind of PR.

So there you have it: My blog stays, along with the work related content of my choice.  (Oh yes, I will continue to be tactful.)  But if you choose to blog about personal work related issues, take Heather’s advice: “Never write about work on the internet unless your boss knows and sanctions the fact that YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT WORK ON THE INTERNET.”

Mine does.  I’m honored, ladies.  Thank you.

After much arm twisting (ok, just a little bit of email nudging), Flying Purple Moose responded to the BlogMe interview.  I visited AAK for the first time after she pinned her location on my guest map and invited me over to her Space for chicken.  Chicken in Tanzania?  Surely, this had to be a joke!  But it was not.  AAK is a witty and sassy American dynamo living in Africa, and her writing keeps her faithful readers coming back for more. 

We would all like to get to know Flying Purple Moose a little better.

She’s all that.  (You will enjoy.)

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I’ve wanted to play around with my new Audio Player ever since I added it to my new blog, so here goes.  First stop: No auto start.  (Better, Meredith?)  Next: Sequence of multiple songs.

This sure beats the old blog’s media player.  Freedom is such a good thing.