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Let me hear you say it now … IT’S FRIDAY!

FreePlay Friday is the “anything goes” day where we talk about random things, family, life, and you.  I’d like for you to comment and chime in with your own random thoughts and comments.

Here we go:

1. The Flu has hopefully left our home.  Jon Michael went back to school today.  It started with Rebekah, then to Andrew, then to Jon Michael.  Will’s had a little touch of something, but nothing serious.  Joy has also had a nasty cough but no fever.  So far, I’ve been great.  Woo-hoo!
2. Andrew (our 2-year old, soon to be 3 in April) is starting potty training today.  Yep, he’s sporting some “big-boy” pullups with Diego.  I had a long talk about him not peeing or poo-poo’ing on Diego.  He laughed.  He nailed the potty this AM.  Joy gave him a big ole’ chocolate.  Rock on.  Once this mission is completed, we’ll be DONE with diapers.
3. Tomorrow is the Super Dolphin Race, a fundraiser for our elementary schools here on the island.  Joy will run the 10K.  Immediately afterwards, she’ll join Jon Michael and Will in the 1-mile “fun-run”.  WHO THE HECK EVER CALLED A RUN “FUN”?  I’ll be cheering from the sideline.
4. As most of you know, I’ve been using IntenseDebate for my commenting system here on the blog.  I’m sure it works great for some, but for me – it is broken.  I’ve been trying to stop using it, but I’m trapped – their servers host my comments, and if I try to break off the relationship, they keep my comments, and I’m stuck.  It’s not supposed to work that way.  For some reason, their system that “syncs” the comments back over here to my blog doesn’t work on my site.  So, when I de-activate their plugin, about 99% of your comments are lost.  I am giving them one last change today to help me export the comments back to my blog.  If they don’t help, I’ll just have to chalk it up to a big mistake, de-activate, and lose all your comments and start over.  I won’t be hostage.  I can’t say it’s their fault, it could be a screwy server setting on my site.  All I can say is that I’ve been asking for help for a month and it still isn’t resolved.  My last email of 3 days ago still hasn’t been answered.

And now – some link love … these are items that I “starred” in my Google Reader this week that are worth to share:

1. Jan Owen discusses “The Dangerous Act of Worship”, a book I’ve heard a lot about, and I’m tempted to read.
2. Chris blew me away with this video of an incredible sounding “fake grand piano”.
3. Ben Arment posted this quote that is so true, and needs to be read.  READ THIS!

And I saved the best from last … if you’re on FaceBook, you’ve probably gotten a kazillion of those dang “25 Things About Me” tags.  I delete every single of them.  (yeah, I know half of them came from all of you reading this).  Well, thanks to Ben for this hilarious video:

OK – so gimme come comment love – what’s happened in your week – what’s your funnies – share your stories!

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