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On the move towards tacogirl.com

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I have been working hard and moving fast towards launching tacogirl.com Thanks to Alissa's guests posts on Cayo the past 2 days - I have been able to immerse myself in wordpress and and get familiar. I found once I started it was pretty easy although I know I have just touched the surface. I also found a good wordpress tutorial site - that walks you through some very useful stuff. Really getting a better feel for twitter and how I can use it to help market my blog. I just saw @tacogirl on right hand side of twitter and realized that not only do I know how to reply direct to a tweet by moving cursor to right of tweet to bring up direct reply arrow - now I can see peoples replies or who has sent direct messages to me that I may have missed. More to come I have so many things on my plate right now and the first one needs to be food ha ha. This afternoon I am tackling something on my blog list that has needed to be done for a while but was never quite the right timing - redoing my...

Sunday = beach day

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Happy Mothers day shout out to our 2 Mom's in Canada - and mom's worldwide. Hope you are having a great day. Nothing says happy Sunday like a day at the beach - but first come the chores lol. Paul is downstairs hacking away at the banana trees with a machete and mowing the lawn while I tackle the upstairs bathroom. Back and forth with Dick and Carole on the coconut phone this morning - hoping to co-ordinate a snorkel at Chunky and Ruthies spot - Lara just popped up to check in on timing for the beach. What a chatty morning now Colette is saying hi. I have a system down for cleaning the counter. Since we have a double sink with a lot of counter space I clean one half then while it is start dismantling stuff on the other side - add random blogging and packing a beach bag into the mix today. Amazing how we all of are running on the exact same slight delay. Afternoon was great - ended up at Catamaran for a b it then walked to Canucks to meet Dick and Carole - they were dropping Zac...

Mini power outs

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Working hard all morning on lobsterfest planning - between organizing Blog Fiesta and decorating two booths I am keeping myself quite busy. Of course you can't run on empty so cooked a lovely breakfast for Paul and I this morning - eggs - fried potato & ham with toast on the side. Message from Quick Silver Dianne... There will be scheduled power outs from 8 - 8:15 am and 4 - 4:15 pm daily until Tuesday. Lara came by this aft and we hung out on the veranda talking about our latest dreams and schemes. It's always good to have our chat sessions we both get a lot of ideas that way. Went to Pedro's tonight for some bowling - yahtzee and pizza. On our way there we had a fabulous happening - ran into Ruth and Monel carrying fresh made warm fudge. 2 YUMs up for that delicious goodness ha ha. Lizard hanging out on our veranda

Change is good

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There is lots of change in the air right now. I see evidence of so many major breakthroughs and changes among my friends here and back in Canada. I am glad my change is good and brings excitement instead of upsets. Thanks to the input of Jen on Authority Blogger Forum and Ashley Morgan at Upstart Blogger - Paul I and have reached a major decision. It's time to take a big step forward and let go of blogger so I really focus on building tacogirl.com. I will keep you all updated as the changes are happening and let you know when it is time to change your bookmarks and re-subscribe to the new rrs feed. I sometimes wish I knew better and had gone with wordpress from the get go, Paul reminded me things happen the way they are supposed to and that I did not know better at the time I decided to blog so I chose an option that I was able to figure out for myself. Damn that voice of reason - he is so right. Lost power for 5 minutes - glad it came back fast. There might be more to come as I ...

Roller coaster

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Been riding the tech Roller coaster today. Dealing with blog things and trying to figure the best way to deal with blogspot now that I own tacogirl.com - what a headache. I have to say though I am so lucky with Paul - it is not always easy to work with someone over tech stuff. He puts up with me and is so helpful to make things look good and run smoothly. I got some very exciting news today - Carbunkle Trumpet and his lovely wife Shawna are coming in from Memphis for Blog Fiesta in June. For all those of you who are planning to attend I promise I will get a schedule sent out soon - I am just waiting on confirmation from a few places so I can make it official. I have just confirmed Pedro's for the meet and greet on Friday June 19th. It will be an open party - anyone who wants to come meet the bloggers is welcome to join the fun. For all you bloggers coming to the event this location has wifi option for live blogging. I just took a short quiz to find out which adventurer I am - se...

We miss you already

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Had my last meeting with Chunky and Ruthie - they leave tomorrow boo hoo. Ruthie called this aft while I was studying the manual for the underwater camera she gave me and asked if they could come by with some fudge brownies - yum. I took the opportunity to get last pics from their season walking down the road towards our house. I am quite excited about the camera - Ruthie said it will be a great starter model - I will be checking to see if those pesky jellyfish are gone so I can test it out. Here they come Chunky and Ruth We miss you already and you have not even left yet

Mobile Party Posse

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What a fantastic afternoon - nothing like hijacking your friends front yard on the beach with a full out bbq party. John Henry Grilled up a storm - chicken wings - burgers and pork chops we had enough food to feed a small army and then some. Chunky was agreeable to having some wings and chops for tomorrow - last day of their San Pedro season and it saves them on cooking. Molly was definitly agreeable to have the left over half burger. After dinner some of us played Yahtzee while others went straight for the hammocks. Party posse moved over to the hot tub at Caribbean Villas. I came home to clean the coolers and get blog done. Was going to go back and join them but they were already on the move and then everyone suddenly fizzled out fast. p.s. Joe I somehow managed to loose that good pic of you in the hammock I swear I uploaded it and did not see it this morning. We will just have to have a do-over. Joe holding up m&m's Chunky helping the boys start the bbq Molly loving the beac...