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Monday, November 22, 2010

The truth is in the journey...

I thought I'd kick off my first entry back from oblivion with some questions for you guys. What are some of your fondest holiday memories? Do you have any traditions that you do every year? What are they? What is your favorite thing to do this time of year? What is your absolute favorite thing(s) about the holiday season, thanksgiving, winter, etc.

It's been a long journey to come back to my beloved blogs. I've missed all you guys so much! I've been so busy! I'm quickly running out of my unemployment benefits and still have no job :( Been job searching and applying to a virtual ton of places. Hopefully I'll get something soon! Also been taking time to finally go through most of the emails in my main account. Hope all is well with everyone. Here's to posting as regularly as I can!

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Happy 100 Entries!

Wow! I seriously cannot believe I have blogged 100 times here in Randomness Rocks! This is so unbelievable to me. Time has flown by! Is there an award for this?! Do I get to be a Blog of Note (BoN) now?

Acceptance Speech

First of all I would like to thank all my current fans and followers- without you or your support I'd be bored and far less random. I'd also like to thank the academy (ok just kidding). I'd like to thank my future readers and followers who aren't even reading this right now. I'd like to thank them because they will become an important reason why I keep blogging. I'd like to thank God for creating me and allowing me to share my randomosity with the world and for creating the people who made computers and software and the internet and blogging. Without all of you and them none of this would be possible. Thank you again! Here's to many many more! Have a great night!

Time for some fan imput!

How should I celebrate? What should entry 101 be about? Should I keep 101 as "21 Things Hiring Managers Wish You Knew (day 5)" or be random and do something different- something special? Will someone make me an award I can display on my blog please?

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Famous July 4th births and deaths

BIRTHS
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1998 Malia Obama (daughter of Barack Obama current US President)
1955 John Waite (singer)
1943 Geraldo Rivera (investigative reporter, talk show host)
1938 Bill Withers (singer, songwriter "Lean On Me")
1937 Thomas Nagel (American philosopher)
1930 George Steinbrenner (owner of NY Yankees, ship builder, horse owner, shipping magnate)
1927 Neil (Marvin) Simon (playwright "Biloxi Blues")
1924 Eva Marie Saint (actress "On the Waterfront")
1918 Abigail Van Buren [Mrs Morton Phillips] (columnist "Dear Abby")
1918 Ann Landers ("Dear Abby's " twin sister, advice columnist, author)
1911 Mitch Miller (record company executive, producer, arranger, musician & instrumentalist)
1910 Gloria Stuart (actress, Rose "Titanic", founder of Screen Actors Guild)
1883 Rube Goldberg (inventor "The Rube Goldberg Machine" [made the easy outrageously difficult], cartoonist)
1881 Ulysses S. Grant III (American soldier), died in 1968
1872 Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (30th U.S. President 1923-29)
1828 James Johnston Pettigrew (Brig General of the Confederate Army)
1826 Green Clay Smith (Bvt Major General of the Union volunteers), died in 1895
1826 Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa (composer of "Oh! Susanna", and "Swanee River")
1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton (Governor of the Union), died in 1885
1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne (author)

DEATHS
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2009 Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
2009 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
2009 Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
2009 Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
2008 Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2008 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
2007 Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2003 Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
1997 Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
1995 Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
1994 Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
1993 Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
1957 Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
1934 Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist and two Nobel Prizes winner (in physics and chemistry).
1910 Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1901 John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1891 Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
1826 John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83