The Queen's Meme #35 ~ The Gratitude Meme

Sometimes silly.
Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box.
Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one's answers are quite like yours!



Sometimes life hands you pomegranates. You get wiser. Sometimes life hands you that icky lemonade. You get stickier. Sometimes life hands you a boatload of people who either enhance your journey in lovely ways or rock the boat off course just for the hell of it. You get an oar and row in your own direction. It happens to all of us. Either way, there's gratitude to be found if you're willing to look. Sometimes the conflicts are indeed blessings in disguise - you just don't know it yet. Sometimes the storm IS the thing you will one day bless while you wait for calmer seas.
Maybe not today, but someday.
So find some patience and hang on.
We all have something to be grateful for one way or another.
I found a few things this week. I hope you did too.

The Gratitude Meme

1. What are you most grateful for when you first wake up in the morning?

2. What are you most grateful for when you go to bed at night?

3. Who is the person who has had the most influence on your life?

4. Is there someone you'd like to thank for something special they did for you but haven't yet? Take the time to do it in this meme.

5. Who was your favorite or least favorite teacher?
If you could talk to them now, what would you say?

6. Do you say grace at mealtime?

7. Name one thing you take for granted everyday.

8. Have you ever looked back at your life and realized that something you thought was a bad thing was actually a blessing in disguise?

9. What are the top five things you are most grateful for in your life?

Announcing BlogBlast For Peace 2010!

Welcome to the 7th launch of BlogBlast For Peace aka Dona Nobis Pacem in the blogosphere. It's inception began in 2006 with one single post and a cry for peace in our world.
A small group of bloggers answered that challenge and it began to spread across the internet in ways that humble me still. It reaches across political lines and religious creeds, abides in corners of unrest and places of hope, gives voice to individual beliefs and promotes tolerance for diversity. It celebrates the genius in each one of us, found in sparkling conversations of passionate pleas for change in the earth. It is that hope for change that motivates us.

It was the Internet's first ever online movement of its kind to invite bloggers to post the same message on the same day. From blog to blog it has moved and continues to grow. We have been amazed to see the power and passion shown each year displayed on pages across the world. We visit each other with our prayers and scribbles, prose and poetry, art and angst, heart and hilarity - and we are moved by it. From one post to thousands of others in fifty countries and almost every state in the United States, something rare and wonderful happens on BlogBlast For Peace day.
I am privileged to witness it.
I invite you to experience it.
It's time.
Join us!

November 4, 2010
Bloggers from all across the globe
will blog for peace.
We will speak with one voice.
One subject.
One day.

How To Get Your Peace Globe 2010
Here's how to do it in 4 easy steps!

1. Choose one of the Peace Globe designs shown on this page. Right CLICK and SAVE in JPG format.

2. Sign the globe using Paint, Photoshop or a similar graphics tool. Decorate the globe anyway you wish. You can even include the name of your blog. Click here for thousands of inspiring examples from previous BlogBlasts.

3. Return the peace globe to me via email ~ blogblastforpeace at yahoo.com and sign the Mr. Linky below. Leave a comment and your blog's name and url in the Mr. Linky so that we can visit each other.
Your submission will be numbered and dated in the official gallery with a link back to your post and a permanent spot on the Official BlogBlast For Peace website.

4. On November 4,2010 DISPLAY YOUR GLOBE IN A POST on your blog, FACEBOOK WALL and TWEET IT!

Title your post "Dona Nobis Pacem" - Latin for Grant Us Peace. This is important. The goal is for all blog post titles to say the same thing on the same day. Write about peace that day or simply fly your globe.
Come back here and sign your name again once you've posted your own globe.

Need ideas and inspiration? Go to BlogBlast For Peace.com to see the gallery of thousands of peace globes and posts from 50 countries already submitted and numbered.
If you'd like to read about the history of this movement, go here.

You can also find us on....

Join the Peace TWIBE
Bloggers Unite group
IPEACE Group

What should you do while you're planning what to write and create?

1. Post this badge on your site and Facebook pages to promote.
Or feel free to use it as your globe on November 4th. Just grab the code below.

November 4, 2010

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2. Become a Peace Globe Worker Bee.
This organization of busy helpers and dedicated peace bloggers began in 2009. The concept was created by this man and taken up by a growing number of bloggers with a passion for peace and this movement. Read "You See There Were These Bees...." to find out how the bzzzzzzz started bzzzzzzzing. Any one of the bloggers mentioned in that post or who commented on that post are ready and willing to assist you.

What does a PGWB do? Many of you already do the following actions that define a Peace Globe Worker Bee: Spreading the word, posting the date, flying the Blog Blast banner, offering assistance to anyone who needs help making a Globe, or directing bloggers to one of the sites where they can find out more about the movement. Please take the bee badge with you too! We want to see the peace bzzzzz everywhere! We appreciate all you are doing already to spread the word.

3. SHARE and TWEET this post every chance you get until November 4th, 2010.

This is what has gone before.
I can't wait to see what you do with this movement in 2010.

Papa's Marbles ~ How It All BeganThe Silence Of PeaceBlogBlast For Peace #1BlogBlast For Peace #2 June 2007BlogBlast For Peace #3 November 2007BlogBlast For Peace #4 June 2008
BlogBlast For Peace #5 November 6, 2008BlogBlast For Peace #6 November 5, 2009


If words are powerful....then this matters.
Join us!

BlogBlast For Peace logo and concept is the sole property of Mimi Lenox.
2006-2010 copyright
All rights reserved.

The Queen's Meme #34 ~ The American Idol Meme

Sometimes silly.
Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box.
Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one's answers are quite like yours!

The American Idol Meme
You be the judge!

1. Do you watch American Idol?

2. Who is your favorite judge?

3. Who is your favorite contestant this season and why?

4. Who is your least favorite contestant this year and why?

5. Have you ever actually voted via text message?

6. Is there a part of the show you find really annoying?

7. What is your overall opinion of the show this season?

8. Do you like Simon Cowell as a judge? What do you think of his judging style?

9. Is Ellen DeGeneres qualified to be an American Idol singing judge?

10. If you could pick a song to sing on the show this week, what would your song choice be and why?

11. Who is your favorite all-time American Idol winner? If you like, post a video of their performance.

The Queen's Meme #33 ~ The Spring Fling Meme

Spring has flung and fling has sprung. It is time to put your imaginary hat on and step outside the box into the world of fantasy. Spring! Love! Lust! Pheremones! Broken hearts! Dares! Parties! Beaches! Trips! The world of flinging! Ahh....the romance. Ahhh...the migraines.

Webster's defines a spring fling as: a short period of unrestrained pursuit of one's wishes or desires.

The Spring Fling Meme
(The Lovers Dance)

1. Tell us about the your latest spring fling.

2. What made your fling so special? OR what made it so bad?

3. Have you ever been flung on vacation?

4. All current serious relationships aside, what would be your fantasy spring fling?
Come on. You can tell us. We won't tell your significant other. Maybe.

5. How long did your spring fling last? (either the one in your head or the one in your bed)

6. Is there a blogger you'd like to fling for spring?
Would you tell them?

7. What is the worst thing that could happen during a spring fling?

8. What constitutues a proper spring fling? ie: Kinds of activities? How will time be spent?
What should spring flingers do? What should they NOT do?

9. If your fling lasts through summer is it still a spring fling?

10. How do you get out of a spring fling relationship?

Read about the Queen's mysterious fling here.
You didn't think I'd decree this meme without writing the manual first, did you?
I'm in such a pickle.

The Queen's Meme #32 ~ The Peep Peep Meme

Welcome to the Queen's Tuesday Meme #32

Sometimes silly.
Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box.
Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one's answers are quite like you

Easter has come and gone. But I'll bet you have stories to tell! We present: The Peep Peep Meme. I feel a sugar rush coming on....

1. What does Easter mean to you (if that is not too personal)?

2. When did you last go on an Easter egg hunt? Did you find anything?

3. Your favorite celebrity is dressed up in a bunny outfit and about to jump out of a cake. Who is it?

4. What is the most unusual thing you've ever done with Easter eggs?

5. What's your favorite color of peeps?

6. Do you believe in the Easter Bunny?

7. Imagine: You are invited to the White House for the annual Easter egg hunt. What surprise should President Obama put in each egg for the kids?

8. What's your favorite kind of candy to eat at Easter?

9. Have you ever dyed eggs for Easter?

10. You have just found a genuine Faberge egg (like the one pictured here) worth millions of dollars. Would you keep it or sell it for cash at auction? What would you do with the money?

11. Do you have an Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it?
Show us a picture of your hat.

12. Please share any special Easter memories or traditions you have with us.

The Queen's Meme #31 ~ The What Not Meme

Welcome to the Queen's Tuesday Meme #30

Sometimes silly.
Sometimes serious.
Always fun!
Step out of the box.
Be creative.
Use your imagination.
No one's answers are quite like you

The What Not Meme

People are always giving advice on what NOT to do in this situation and that situation. I’ve had it with the know-it-alls this week. I’m switching it up.
It’s your turn to be the expert. Answer what NOT to do in the following situations.
It’s your spin on potential societal blunders (and a few quirky scenarios you might find yourself in). You didn't think I'd leave my quirk home now did ya?
Have at it.

What NOT To Do when you’re…..

1. On a first date

2. Intoxicated

3. In the shower

4. At your ex’s wedding

5. In jail

6. being stalked



7. Stuck to an igloo

8. In sewing class

9. Asleep in a helium balloon

10. At a birthday party for twins

11. On a nude beach

12. At the opera

13. you’re falling in love

14. Low on gasoline in a bad part of town

15. Having a baby

16. On fire

17. Lost at the mall

18. At a single’s dance

19. Riding a bike on the Jersey Turnpike

20. Driving your significant other's car

21. Being robbed at gunpoint

22. Kissing

23. Paying the hotel cashier

24. Buying lingerie

24. Commenting on a blog

25. In Queen Mimi's dungeon