It’s a fantastic salsa bowl designed by Michael and Tom of Salsabol.

Isn't that a brilliant design? It's curved at the top to help push the salsa onto your tortilla chip, so it doesn't fall off as you leave the bowl... genius! Plus, it comes in any colour you want, as long as it's yellow. Who doesn't love sunny yellow?? I love yellow, so it's all good.

Check them out on their website, and you can also find them on Facebook.

Thanks again, JennyMac, Michael and Tom! You made my day!

  ]]> http://youknowthatblog.com/2010/09/30/hey-i-won/feed/ 10 http://youknowthatblog.com/2010/09/06/gah-im-hit-im-hit/ http://youknowthatblog.com/2010/09/06/gah-im-hit-im-hit/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:21:45 +0000 Jenn http://youknowthatblog.com/?p=2767 Thom, that scoundrel, tagged me. He’s always threatening to bite me (or was that asking me to bite him? I forget), and I guess this is the cyber form?? Not quite sure about that, I think it’ll take further consideration.

It’s easy though; I am to answer only 8 questions and then tag 8 other bloggers.

I know what you’re thinking; oh puh-leeeeze don’t let her tag me, oh please oh please “Oh how fun!” Right? Right? Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking when I got tagged. Again.

Here are the questions and my answers:

1. Why did you start blogging? I have always been full of it. Words, that is. Advice too. Ideas. Minutiae.

2. If you could travel anywhere in the world with no restriction of costs, where would it be and why? Everywhere.

3. Did you have a teacher in school that had a great influence on your life? If so, what? George Cuperis, for 3 years in Jr. High (in Calgary) he was a man of violent temper, and great passion, and the best music teacher I’ve ever had. I also had a number of excellent academic teachers in high school that stand out, and a couple Profs from College as well, but none made the lasting impression that Cuperis did.

4. If you could spend the day with a famous person, who would it be, and what would you do? David Suzuki. Brilliant, brilliant man. Geneticist by training, and even more importantly, a huge advocate for our natural world.

5. Toilet paper – over or under? Depends on the dispenser? Usually over.

6. Name one thing in your life that you would do over if possible. I would have gone through to be a veterinarian.

7. Tell about your pets – if any. Boo, the tiny black kitty, and Sadie, our mammoth Australian Shepherd. Boo was a normal shelter adoption as a 7 week old ball of black fluff, and Sadie was a rescue that we got when I was 5 months pregnant with Wee One – Sadie was 4 years old at the time. We’re her 5th and final family.

8. Do you live in a small town or a large town. (You don’t have to name the town.) Medium-and-growing-fast Town.

Now to tag my 8 victims…

• Bad mom
• ShaMoo
• Knarf
• J-B (but we all know he won’t do it!)
• Jade
• Annie (a reason to blog again, Annie!!)
• Tortuga
• JazzBumpa

Tagged? All you need to do is exactly what I did here – post this on your own blog, modifying the answers of course, and whatever else you see fit (don’t curse me!) and then link back to me and let me know so I can enjoy your answers too.

Don’t hate me.

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Travel

The first step away
Worst for those left behind you
Hurry back to us!

J-B is leaving us for an extended vacation across the pond! We will definitely miss him, and I’m sure you join me in our valediction;

Bon voyage, happy trails, arrivederci, and safe journey, J-B! XOXO

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…Yeah….

Ok, so the Challenge for our Haiku-versary did not go as expected, and we didn’t get a single new haiku-er to join us! Wow, colour me disappointed. Perhaps I didn’t publicize it as well as I should have. I don’t believe it was lack of interest, because… well, it’s haiku, and that makes it cool. ‘Nuff said. I’ll do something different for our next challenge, and someone will definitely win!

We did get some past haiku-ers back though, and that was delightful to see!! Welcome back to the fold, friends! ;)

Next week’s theme: Contemplation

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

<a href="http://youknowthatblog.com/tag/haiku-wednesday"><img src="http://youknowthatblog.com/images/youknowthatblog-haiku2.jpg" width="250" height="160" alt="Join the fun!" title="Join the fun!"></a>

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Challenge!

Been a great first year!
To superlative haiku;
Raise a glass, friends… Cheers!

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It’s Challenge Day, and our first Haiku-versary!

The Challenge for our Haiku-versary is to bring in the most new Haiku-ers (“new” meaning never participated here before, and ideally people who will join us and stick around!). Please have your new Haiku-er identify themselves as coming from you in the comments, and use the proper graphic and link (below) on their blog. The winner* of our challenge will get their choice of a $25 gift card to Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or iTunes, and be announced with next week’s haiku!

Good luck, Haiku-ers!

* standard legal mumbo-jumbo… void where prohibited by law (we’ll figure something else out in this event). To be eligible for this challenge, referred new haiku-ers must have a “real” blog, in existence for at least 6 weeks prior to this challenge, be new to this meme, yadda yadda yadda. Common sense stuff. Ask me if you’re not sure :) This haiku Challenge ends at 11:59pm EDT (Toronto/New York/my time) June 23, 2010.

Next week’s theme: Travel

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

<a href="http://youknowthatblog.com/tag/haiku-wednesday"><img src="http://youknowthatblog.com/images/youknowthatblog-haiku2.jpg" width="250" height="160" alt="Join the fun!" title="Join the fun!"></a>

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

Click here for info and background on this weekly event!

The basics:

Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Fathers

My submission for this week:

Father? Any man.
It takes a truly great one
To be known as Dad.

Happy Father’s Day to all the great men in my life, including of course, my own Dad, my husband, J-B, and Knarf. Love you all dearly!

Next Week is our Haiku-versary CHALLENGE!

The Challenge will be to bring in the most new Haiku-ers (“new” meaning never participated here before, and ideally people who will join us and stick around!). Please have your new Haiku-er identify themselves as coming from you in the comments, and use the proper graphic and link (below) on their blog. The winner* of our challenge will get a $25 gift card to your choice of Starbucks, Tim Hortons, or iTunes!

Good luck, Haiku-ers!

* standard legal mumbo-jumbo… void where prohibited by law (we’ll figure something else out in this event), new haiku-ers must have a “real” blog, in existence for at least 6 weeks prior to this challenge, be new to this meme, yadda yadda yadda. Common sense stuff.

Next week’s theme: Haiku Challenge! [and the theme word is Challenge, also]

Note: Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

<a href="http://youknowthatblog.com/tag/haiku-wednesday"><img src="http://youknowthatblog.com/images/youknowthatblog-haiku.jpg" width="250" height="160" alt="Join the fun!" title="Join the fun!"></a>