Ask Sluggy & Other Important Stuff

If only I looked THIS cool blogging!

*   I am having a craptastic week here other than finding some change.  I broke a tooth yesterday so I am hopped up on Orajel until I get to the dentist later today so let's do a round of  "Ask Sluggy".
Go ahead and ask me anything you want-personal, financial, silly, serious.
Fire away!

*  About future giveaways on the old blog.  Let me know what you personally prefer on these......
Do you like a themed giveaway?
Doing a Giveaway per month...is that too many per year?
Do you like picking your own box contents from a selection presented?
What specific items do you hope to see more of as prizes?
Do you like "item" giveaways(and not just toiletries/candy)...if so, what sort of items would you like to see?
Should I do more "Only those who haven't won before" Giveaways?

*  About the blogroll......
I will be doing a bit of cleaning up on the blog roll soon.  Ditching some blogs to either haven't posted in ages(except for a few legacy blogs)or ones that now bore even me.
Do you have any favorite blogs I don't have over on the sidebar?  Tell me about them and maybe I can add a few blogs too.

*  Anybody down South want to meet me?  Hubs and I are taking a trip down to VA, NC, SC and maybe as far as Savannah GA in March.  Any readers down in these parts want to have a meal or drink or go grocery shopping with us?  We can be charming and highly entertaining when pushed to be and I always bring "gifts aka toiletries" with me.  lolz  Email me your area and availability and I'll see what we can do.


Sluggy

Show Me Yours & I'll Show You Mine!

Sometimes I wonder about myself.
I think I am aware and "with it" but then things happen and I just shake my head at myself.

Like the other day when I was on someone's blog who is on my blogroll.....and I clicked on a link for someone on their blogroll and went to read a new-to-me blog.....and then I saw that this person had my blog on their blogroll.  And I was like, What?!?  How did I not know that?.....or who are they, do I know them?....it was a verbal head scratching of sorts.

And then I looked and this person evidently had become a follower at some point on my blog and put me in their blogroll but they never said anything about doing that to me nor had they ever left a comment on a post.
Because if they had I sure would have gone to their blog sooner and probably put them on my blogroll too.

I try to operate with some degree of neighborly etiquette out here in cyberspace.  I love to exchange links with other bloggers if I feel they are a good fit.  A "good fit" could be interpreted many ways......they are frugal, they are retired, they have teens, they talk about finances, they are funny, they practice the domestic skills, they live an interesting life, they are a woman of "a certain age", they are fun to read about, and so much more.

If you look at my blogroll, you'll see many voices.  All of them unique in their own way.

Likewise, I don't expect, but I feel it's neighborly for other bloggers that I have honored with inclusion in my blogroll to include me on their blogroll.  That's not to say that I won't put them on mine if they don't put me on theirs.  Some people are just more particular then I am as in "I have a XXX blog and I only link to other strickly XXX blogs", some people don't even HAVE blogrolls, some people are narcissistic and don't even consider/care that there are other writers out there,  and then there are the some people who are assholes.  Nobody who I read is an asshole.   ;-)

I have removed a few blogs over the years too.  I try not to do this but if  a blog is abandoned and not updated after half a year or so or if the blog changes drastically and goes in a direction I don't find palatable I will remove them.  IE-I removed a blog awhile back because they changed from personally written posts to writing advertising posts full of marketing hyperlinks to get them a higher score of some sort in advertising rankings.  Yah, they would start out talking about a subject and then veer off and become an advertisement for a law firm halfway across the country from where they are located.  Not cool.  There are ways of making a little cash off of your blog without turning the whole thing into a commercial.

All I am trying to say here is that if you have a blog, and you would like to exchange links with me and possibly grow your readership, EMAIL ME!  Also, if you have put me on your blogroll please let me know so I can reciprocate.

Sluggy