Wonderful Weekend . . . Except For Football

We had a beautiful weekend and were able to spend some time outdoors. Saturday we enjoyed the zoo in the morning and played a set of tennis. Gerard just bought a new racquet a couple weeks ago but hadn't tried it out yet. I don't think it made any difference because I still won 6-1.

I had a great email Saturday morning from a fellow blogger who read my book (My Funny Dad, Harry) and wrote a very nice review. You can see it at his blog The Espenblog Times or My Funny Dad, Harry. It always makes my day when I hear about someone liking the book I wrote about my Dad.

I was also able to spend time on the computer getting caught up on my Entrecard drops from it being out of use for awhile and was able to get some draft posts written and my award post done. These awards are nice to get, but it takes a lot of time to pass them on.

Then came Sunday and we had a very good message on being completely surrendered to God by being a living sacrifice and willing to follow His leading. My Sunday School was good as always, but this group is hard to please when it comes finding a treat they all like. For birthdays, I bring in some kind of little treat for the class and if we make our attendance goal, I bring in a treat the following week. I brought Twinkies because one kid is allergic to anything chocolate which cuts out a lot of treats! Two out of the 7 don't like Twinkies so they chose Jolly Ranchers instead. Oh well, I'll continue looking for a treat they all like.

In the afternoon Gerard and I went walking at the park, enjoying the leaves that are beginning to change color and then settled in for football. I got knocked out early on my pool getting only two games right out of 5 but Gerard was doing good. He was 4 for 4 with just the New England game left to go. We both picked that one, feeling sure it would be a lock with the Patriots as the underdog getting 6 points, but no. I think it was really the Browns playing out there in Patriot uniforms--they were terrible. The QB was awful. They were on the 1 yard line with 4 downs and couldn't get any points! AAAARGH!

Personal News Network--Easy to Use & Fun to Read

The Personal News Network is a place for personal blogs and personal news. It is so easy to create a blog there and there are many good posts too if you like personal things.

One of my My Space friends, J Kathleen ( author of "Out of the Ashes") recommended PNN to me and I am very grateful. My first blog was done there called "Zemeks Updates." It has two especially nice features that I like that aren't available on blogspot--at least not to my knowledge.

(1) It is very simple to create a navigation bar and have a whole lot of different sections to your blog. The sections I have on mine are:

What We've Just Read (books Gerard and I review as we read them)

Sports With Gerard and Leo (Gerard's comments and Leo the Wahoo Lion's comments on sports, mostly their favorite teams)

Life is Tough But God is Good (My thoughts on some things.)

Cat Corner--MEOW (Things related to cats, incuding posts by my cats: Spunky Doodle & Manny)

Parma Heights Baptist Church (Our church news, activities, comments)

Political Stuff (I'm not big on politics, but sometimes will include comments or things political here)

My Funny Dad, Harry (my first blog entry about the book I wrote in memory of my dad)

Reviews on My Book (Some book reviews I received on "My Funny Dad, Harry")

Karen, the Author? (Why I wrote the book.)

Our Miracle Cat, Moe (Pictures and text to memorialize our first, wonderful cat and share his story with the world. I never saw another cat that looked just like him. He had a special mark down his nose and sort of looked like a spotted cow. It's his picture on my Entrecard)

Favorite Web Sites (Just a short list similar to the one on the side bar here.)

(2) Not only can you have a lot of sections, but you can rearrange them very easily anytime you want as well as rearranging your posts on the page any way and any time you wish.

The only downside to PNN it that it doesn't use Entrecard.

Here is a link to my PNN blog http://karen.pnn.com and to a PNN directory of interesting posts
http://pnn.com/directory/explore

I hope you will give PNN a look!