This month’s winner of the first Giration Awards goes to my neighbor, Erin!

Congratulations Erin! Erin wins the first award for several reasons.

1. Not only was this picture taken at Erin’s house on her birthday, but the entire reason we are fortunate to have the giration at all is because of Erin. Therefore it is only fitting that she can have the honor of being the first to win this prestigious award.

2. Upon being asked to go over to play PS2 Jeopardy at Erin’s one night, she asked me if I’d bring the giration over because she missed it. Maybe because we originally bought it to give to Erin, she feels a special bond with giration?

Who am I kidding. Who DOESN’T feel a special bond with giration?

Please note how Erin wisely holds the giration at a safe distance. Look how proud her husband is!

Who will be the next to win the giration award? Could it be you? Do you have that certain ‘giration-sais-quoi’? Only giration knows…

History of the giration and archives of previous winners…

…is so when later on down the road, when you FORGET what you did and need the same solution, you can go back and search the forums for the answer you so thoughtfully provided.
I’m usually pretty good at posting my solution in the forum. Except this one time, I just wrote “thanks!”.

Yeah Jess, thanks for NOTHING! LOL….

Here’s something to ponder…these are the silly things I wonder about on a regular basis.

When going to dinner party, it’s normal and considered good practice to bring beer, or a bottle of wine, or both. So when the host asks you what you want to drink, here’s the thing.

Do you go for the alcohol that the host already has, or do you open what you brought?

The first suggests that you don’t want what you brought*. So does that show that you think you didn’t bring anything good? The second suggests that you are rejecting what the host has provided, and do you plan on doing the same thing for dinner?

Kind of silly, really, but I’ve wondered, nonetheless.
*Smoking Loon 2001 Merlot (California) is the best wine I’ve ever had for under $10, btw. And a beautiful bottle also, if you like that sort of thing.

Sorry for the huge photos twice in one week on the page.. but I couldn’t help wanting to post these.

My neighbor gave me a balloon, thinking that Reboot might want to play with it. I tell you, until that bad boy popped 15 minutes later, Reboot was just like a little child. She didn’t try to chew it, rather she enjoyed holding the string down with a paw and paddling it back and forth with the other paw, just like we all did when we used to get a balloon!

The best part was when she let go of it and it floated to the ceiling. We have as an MPEG file. At first she whined, but then was smart enough to jump up and yank down the string. When it hit the ground, she then pulled down the topmost part of string so she could continue to play with it.

Had a blast on Friday night at Dave & Busters in Providence for the first ever meetup of Southern New England Bloggers!

SNE Bloggers was designed as a place to link bloggers in Southeastern MA, RI and CT.

A great time was had by all, about eight of us were there, and none of us left until about midnight. It was a pleasant surprise to see such a diverse group of people that really didn’t know each other that well just enjoy each other’s company. Because no matter how different we all are, you know we all have at least one thing in common: blogging!

Though there could have been more people that showed up, however, Jason decided the SNE Blogger’s logo resolution degraded a bit too much if the sign was any larger.

The dollar bill was added later for means of comparison.

Again, all in all, a wonderful time was had by all.

Jim, Jonathan, Jason and Tom. Not shown, Amy.