Between BEEF TITS and DAIRY QUEEN, there's something going on here

She broke her neck while training to get her black belt in tae kwon do (which didn’t matter!) whereas I only got to purple belt in kung fu and I didn’t break anything.  Sure, we’re all different, and that’s exactly why I love Chattermaster’s blog.

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Yes!  This is another edition of my inspired-by-subbers project to do an expose of everyone on my blog roll … and when I’m done, to shuffle it up by adding MORE subscribers (subbers only; paying it back) and expose more of you to each other.

My project here, it’s sort of like we’re in this big cyberspace gathering at someone’s mansion (surely one of you have a mansion??) & I’m intro-ing subbers to subbers as we motley of people from all nations enjoy our union in cyberspace.

“This is Colleen of Chattermaster and in her ‘Who I Am’, she says what matters most, apart from family and the obvious, is Dairy Queen!  We don’t have that in Australia, I wish she’d post me some!”

‘Red’ wanders by, nibbling a canapé.

“Oh! Here, Red!  Everyone meet Red she’s got a great blog called Momma’s Money Matters that covers subjects like Friday’s Follies and Story Time and Writer’s Spotlight – so varied, & interesting – and subjects of real substance, too.”

A waiter passes by with a tray full of drinks and gestures toward our group.

“Oh yes, please, I’d love another tomato juice.  Thanks.  Want a drink, Francis?  We’ve got champagne, pineapple juice, good ol’ Foster’s Beer from Australia.  Hey everyone, meet Francis.  He’s my latest subber, subbed on 9^th May – how cool!  Francis’ page is Niltsi’s Spirit.  He lives in a town north of Ontario, Canada.  Francis is into graphics, photography, painting, wood carving and his blog, like many, is about LIFE.  That’s what I love about wordpress – it’s life here, life there, life everywhere that I’m not, and I love hearing it.  Francis’  latest post is about his friend Lucinda who needs help and all you need to do is click a link and you’re helping her.  You’ve got to check it out.  And vote!  It’s a great cause!”

Viveka wanders by and Michael smiles at her.

“Viveka!”  I cry delightedly.  ”Great to see you at the cyber mansion, at Wordsfall Subbers Unite 2012!   Michael, you’ve got to meet Viveka.  She’s got the most sensually suggestive gravatar I’ve ever seen – and she photographed it herself using a mirror!  From Sweden!  Lovely!  But she’s more than a pretty picture, BELIEVE me – you’ve got to read her blog, My Guilty Pleasures.   Viveka, this is Michael, or Ocular Manifestation Maelstrom, which I think speaks for itself – hee hee!  No, no-one says it better than Michael himself.  His blog is ‘A typhoon of thoughts, words, pictures thrown in a blender and hit frappe!‘”

Noeleen notices David Bowie has stepped into the room and heads straight for her.  She trembles with all the delight, esteem, wonder, admiration, respect, ‘love’ she’s held in her being for Bowie since he entered her life, by the vibe of music, at the age of 12.  David Bowie joins the group of subbers in the cyber space party mansion.

“Hi,” the most brilliant Mr David Bowie says with his GORGEOUS lips, teeth, cheekbones, eyes, tone of voice, manner, stance, style, “I’m David – “ and UNFORTUNATELY, Noeleen faints in cyberspace, and when she comes-to, can’t remember the rest of the party (cryyyyyyyyyyyyy).

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But I digress!!  So sorry.

This post is an accolade to Colleen’s blog, Chatter master, which features on my blog roll.

In her post Black Belt Path to Life, Colleen starts out with saying she weighed 220 pds.  I didn’t know how much that was as I’m used to kilograms in Australia.  When I learned it is 99.79 kilograms I was, like, wow… HOWEVER, thank goodness Colleen’s daughter had a horrible, non-inspiring and totally discouraging cheerleading coach, because now she weighs 155 pds – or 70 kg!  I know that doesn’t exactly figure in so few sentences, but you’ve really got to read the post to understand:  and it’s a great story, inspirational, true.  Sometimes we’re devastated in life when something doesn’t go our way (cheerleading) only to find there was a greater plan panning out and life actually DOES go our way, alternatively, and what a journey it proves.

Chattermaster is what I consider a very down to earth – INTERESTING – blog of someone’s daily life.  Now, if Colleen were unemployed, childless and a fan of Judge Judy and Days of Our Lives, that wouldn’t be so, but she’s not.  She lives a very full life – decidedly full – and writes about it, from delving into family history (and I LOVE old b/w photos, the faces in them, posture, the look in the eyes which appear to be viewing you there in 2012, looking into them, then).

Colleen’s posts are so varied, from old ladies objecting to being served beef tits for dinner to declaring I’m Not Gay and I Don’t Hate You (this one was sad) to Integrity is Not Part Time.

One of her best posts, I’d say though, was Colleen’s collaboration with me. She wrote it, I was inspired by it, I asked could I video her words and she said yes. I was stoked. I took to the words, the meaning, the message immediately, and together Colleen and me made ‘I am Not Ashamed‘ 

I am Not Ashamed

Try I may for this accolade to subber Chatter master, I really can’t sum up her blog style because it’s just so, so, how do I say this? um…

so Colleen!

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