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Post details: #10 - High-Five Fridays

03/28/08

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#10 - High-Five Fridays

My Tenth High-Five Friday...

I'm calling a one-week moratorium on High-Five next week... so this will be it almost mid-April! Please bear with me!

#5: Rick Mercer

Canadian Political Commentary (sorry friends from outside the Great White North,) with a sincere comedic and cynical edge! Rick Mercer is easily one of the most humorous political commentators in this country... oh, and he does skewer ALL sides of the political spectrum... but of course, when he makes fun of "X" or "Y", the zealots of "X" or "Y" seem to think he's aimed at them... which honestly isn't true... but what the heck, it's politics, right?

#4: FarShores

Another fantastic collection of news and articles on all types of paranormal news and articles. An excellent site for news and general things most consider odd and weird! Big High-Five for Farshores!

#3: Life at Stars Rest

This is a blog I literally "stumbled" across... and I love... I have a sincere soft-spot for dogs and horses... and the photos are amazing! It's a great blog to visit!

#2: DUAL WINNER!!! Dackel Princess and RennyBA's Terella

Next time you see a news item that says that the internet is bad or wrong... read this post and this post and you'll see that the internet really, Really, REALLY can bring people together! This is TOTALLY wonderful!!! BIG BIG BIG HIGH FIVE~!!!

#1: Real Talk!

The blog of my big sister! (Don't you notice the family resemblance?) Gotta give my bigus sissus props today for some much needed help she gave me recently. I'ze gots me a great big sis... and she deserves a BIG high-five!

Find out how to give your High-Five Fridays here!

The purpose of this meme is to give high-fives to 5 people, posts, blogs and/or websites you've admired during the week. I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 5 high-fives on Friday. Trackbacks, pings, linky widgets, comment links accepted!

Visiting fellow High-Fivers is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your High-Fives in others comments (please note if NSFW - Not Safe for Work).

Hey High-Fivers... I pride myself on commenting back to anyone who comments on this here blog... but I've made a wee decision based on laziness and time... and that is, if you're going to post up in the comments two (or more) URLs for HFF sites, I will read them all (honest!) but probably comment on only one.

Just FYI...

Time Is Running Short on our Dream!

Click here for details... 'cuz we need some sorta help... and maybe you or someone you know can assist us with our dream...

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Comments:

Comment from: DrillerAA [Visitor]

· http://www.jr-brainfreeze.blogspot.com

Thaks for sharing. I'm always looking for new adventures in the blogosphere. I'll surf these later today.

Have a great week-end.

Permalink 03/28/08 @ 07:56

Comment from: The Marketing Whore [Visitor]

· http://marketingwhore.naughtyblog.net/2008/03/high-five-fridays-11.html

A one week break? Have you run out of clever sites? Run out of reading? You always have such great finds!

Of course, you can stop; but I do reserve the right to whine. :P

Permalink 03/28/08 @ 13:59

Comment from: Slip of a Girl [Visitor]

· http://tadtoomuchtanfortaupe.blogspot.com/2008/03/high-five-fridays-11.html

I've spent most of my time reading at Star's Rest -- I'll get to the others, I promise! Just really into their posts, esp the ones discussing horses and herds. I think there's quite a bit of this would be meaningful to humans as far as connections, contact v. isolation. Very interesting.

Permalink 03/28/08 @ 15:01

Comment from: RennyBA [Visitor]

· http://www.terella.no

Hi Sue & Matthew!
I feel flattered - what an honour to be listed among your Hight Five and really; you've got the point: Blogging connecting people :-)

Since new here: Hello from Norway - great to meet you and you have a readable blog - keep up the good work!

Permalink 03/28/08 @ 18:56

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey DrillerAA... I hope you enjoy them... I'm really happy to have found the posts between Dackel Princess and RennyBA...

Hello The Marketing Whore... Whine away! I need to re-charge my HFF batteries... and unless something leaps up and bites me in the butt, I'm taking a week... sorry...

Hi Slip of a Girl... LASR is an amazing blog and visually and "readably" stunning...

Howdy RennyBA... Many, many thanks!

Permalink 03/28/08 @ 22:30

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses for now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live as does our dream! (It's just a little quieter on that latter bit...)

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