birthdays

Happy 6th Birthday, jillapalooza.com!

February 28, 2013

It’s jillapalooza.com’s 6th birthday today. Wow! Six years of mediocre blogging with little to no focus, spaced between months of dry spells. It’s amazing when you think about it. It’s also amazing that I have a 100% track record for making a blog birthday post, yet I’m at about a 32% rate for wishing happy birthday to people I actually know.

Some site stats for you:

Posts: 504
Comments: 496 (which is funny because most of my posts don’t have comments at all)
Total Views: 3,049 (well, since installing Jetpack)
Most Popular Post: Killer Beez Nails

I know, I know. Impressive, isn’t it? ;) Stay tuned for more totally awesome things to come in the next year.

View all the blog birthday posts here.

Happy 5th Birthday jillapalooza.com!

February 28, 2012

jillapalooza turns five today! It seems like just yesterday I was begging Nick to install WordPress because I didn’t know how to do it myself. It was a strange world of confusing html, but I persevered! Admittedly this site has seen some terrible times throughout the years, and I’d probably cringe if I had to go back and use the old versions. Things are pretty squared away now, though.

Because I’ve consolidated some blogs into this one, jillapalooza should be seeing a little more action. And who doesn’t want a little action on their birthday?

Happy 31st Birthday to Me

September 28, 2011

Monday marked my 31st birthday. Woo. Hoo.

It was uneventful for the most part. My relaxing evening was interrupted by multiple phone calls, which people who know me know I absolutely despise. The ones (I should say “one”) wishing me a happy birthday were okay, though. Social networking definitely won out for the preferred method of birthday well wishing.

Nick and I were going to go to the Red Lobster for dinner, but his softball game conflicted with it, so I took a rain check. Then I babysat Charlie. That was okay. She slept the whole time, and I managed to get a bit of reading done. For those of you interested, I had a late dinner of Pizza Rolls and wine, but it was the gross wine from the bottom of the bottle, all thick and nasty. I’ll have to remember to shake it up next time.

I think I’m just bummed because for the first time in three years, my birthday wasn’t marked by MSD’s Dive Fest. Even though I don’t have much drive to dive in MN during the summer, I still looked forward to the weekend. That’s okay, though, cuz I still got two doses of the cklahrs over the weekend.

So I guess I’m officially over 30. At least I don’t have children.

Happy 4th Birthday jillapalooza.com!

February 28, 2011

jillapalooza turns four years old today! Do you know what that means? Content! Four years worth of fabulous content! Feel free to go to the archives and reminisce.

My blog-a-day this month kind of fell through the cracks, but in my defense, I was deathly ill for about a week. Then just mostly ill for another week. And then in pain for about another week. *shrugs* Maybe I’ll try again at a later date. #ProcrastinationRocks

Until then, have some virtual cake for me jillapalooza.com

Cake photo stolen from Black Bunny Bakery

Let’s Play Catch-up

March 11, 2010

First and foremost, Happy Belated Birthday to jillapalooza.com!! It turned 3 on Feb. 28.

Second, for those of you wondering, yes I have seen New Moon. I know I didn’t go all crazy blogging about it this time around. Let me give you a summary:

Twilight⁸ & New Moon¹: TwiSarah had a fantastic New Moon party on Nov. 19. There were 8 of us in attendance (including Katie, Marissa and Team Dog (btw, I listed them in alphabetical order because I’m anal, not because I like Katie the best or because I’m hating on Emily (a.k.a. Team Dog))). We watched the 9:00 pm showing of Twilight, followed by the 12:01 am showing of New Moon. It was totes awesome.

New Moon²: Emily and I spent the night at Sarah’s because we were up fangirling all night. What better way to spend a Friday off of work than watching New Moon again at 12:45 in the afternoon? I can’t think of anything. If you can, you’re wrong.

New Moon³: On Saturday Nov. 21 I made the traditional trip to Cloud to see New Moon at 9:00 pm with Blog Reader Kristen and Curtis. Oh, and Susan. We had to fill her in on the Twilight though because she hadn’t seen it. We ate at Red Lobster for dinner beforehand. It was yummy. Did you know if you go to redlobster.com you hear delicious sizzling noises?

New Moon⁴: On Tuesday Nov. 24 TwiSarah and I needed another fix, so we went to the 8:30 pm showing.

New Moon⁵: After filling up our bellies with Turkey on Thanksgiving, I saw NM again with my cousin Trish and her daughter Ashley.

New Moon⁶: On Saturday Dec. 5 I brought Sarah Taylor to the movie for her birthday. Carlos, who was in town for work, came with us as well.

New Moon⁷: Sometime in February TwiSarah, Team Dog and I watched NM again. It had been 2 months. Too long. Way too long.

New Moon⁸: After months of planning to go to the movie with my sister Lani, we finally got around to it on Feb. 18.

New Moon⁹: On Feb. 28 (and I blame me missing my site’s 3 year anniversary on this) I saw NM for the final time in theaters with my good buddy Laura. I guess I shouldn’t say the final time. Even though the DVD comes out in 9 days, it’s still playing at the discount theater, so…

I saw New Moon more than Twilight, which I said I would. Mission accomplished.

TwiSarah and I considered being Eclipse virgins, but I think we decided on just the tip (see post at Twitarded). We haven’t watched the 10 second teaser or the 90 second trailer that came out this week. We are holding out until tomorrow to see the trailer on the big screen before Remember Me. For the record, I’ve only seen the first trailer for RM a couple of times and viewed a couple of stills. I have absolutely no idea what the movie is about and I’ve been very careful to avoid the spoiler for the “twist” ending, which is quite difficult because it’s all over teh interwebs. I even fast forwarded through the RM clips on all the talk shows RPattz appeared on. *Pats self on back*

Although I admit I did consider looking at the spoilers because some of the scenes might kill me dead (see below) and then I’ll never know how it ends.