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Channeling My Inner Meemaw

February 4, 2011 By Blonde Mom 4 Comments

Looking through Blissdom photos on Flickr (oh hush you know you look for your photos from events, too) this week I noticed there were zero of me from the official evening parties and then it dawned on me…

I was in bed by 9:30 Thursday night. Just ask my awesome roommate Kelly.

I did go to a lovely dinner Friday with a fantastic group of ladies thanks to Therapon beauty. But even then I ended up going to bed as soon as we got back to the hotel. I think all the extra oxygen being piped into Opryland Hotel got to my brain because I was wiped. Or maybe it was all the walking. Or maybe it was all the flashmob preparation.

Michelle Branch put on an incredible performance Thursday night and I did muster up the energy to hang out for that after a couple of crazy pink mystery cocktails with a squid-like looking creature floating around in the bottom of the glass but by 9:30 it was just me in my pjs in my hotel bed with Sir Elton John and David Furnish.

My grandma always did love a good celebrity gossip magazine.

All that was missing was her crystal dish of candy (usually filled with orange candy wedges) and a diet Pepsi.

Oh lookie, photographic evidence that I can stay up past 9! Just some of the bloggers who attended the fun dinner Friday. (L-R) Jill from The Diaper Diaries, Dawn Jacobs Camp from My Home Sweet Home, Robin from Pensieve (Tennessee girl…hollah!), Jo-Lynne Shane from the newly launched and awesome All Things Chic, me, Romy from Romy Raves, Shelly from Life on the Wild Side. Bottom row (L-R) Tori from Baby Bloomr, Christina from Therapon, and an awesome lady whose name I do not know (please let me know if ya’ll do!)

Shelly and Nashville bloggers Tobi from Dr. Baby Mama Drama, Tori, and me.

Loralee from Looneytunes and me. She made my evening with a sweet comment. The feeling is mutual. Also? She knows Ree, the Pioneer Woman, personally.

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Noddin’ My Head Like Yeah

February 2, 2011 By Blonde Mom 11 Comments

That’s me in the front in stripes doing the rocker chick stance with Nashville bloggers Calie from Broccoli Cupcake and Sami Cone from SamiCone.com to my right. Yeah I’m all confident here after the entire thing was OVER. Thank you Jesus for deodorant. Picture taken by Think Maya with Rachel from A Southern Fairytale’s camera.

About 90 of us were on the down low for a secret mission going down at the Blissdom Conference last weekend.

Operation Party In the USA went off beautifully after the fantastic keynote by Scott Stratten Friday evening. We slipped on our fingerless gloves and took everyone by surprise.

Do ya’ll know how difficult it is for me to keep a secret? I didn’t even tell my Blissdom roommate, Kelly from Faithful Provisions.

We practiced in our homes, our cars, and sometimes, like me, our offices (behind closed doors and giving the parking lot passersby a thrill or perhaps pause for why a woman was dancing in the dark to Party in the USA) for weeks. The entire thing was choreographed by Nashville area blogger Jana Warnke, who is a beautifully creative soul to dream up such a fun idea. She posted tutorials to a secret group on Facebook and coordinated the entire thing so well that even someone like me, who got her butt kicked in hip hop class two years ago, could master it. Nashville blogger Malia has a great post about how the whole thing was dreamed up last fall.

Never in a million years would I have believed that I’d participate in a flashmob.

Never in a million years would I have believed that I’d know EVERY SINGLE WORD to a Miley Cyrus song.

“So I put my hands up!”

Here’s a fun video shot when Nashville blogger Carrie Ferguson Weir from Tiki Tiki blog grabbed a camera from Shab from No Todo Yago. I’m in the middle at about 1:09.

For more flashmob goodness, click here.