Kielbasa Stories on Facebook

Kielbasa Stories can now be found on Facebook.

I decided if Misiu, the man who repeatedly said that social networking is for Communists, finally joined Facebook, then Kielbasa Stories could join too.

Any tips or advice on how to best utilize a blog fan page would be appreciated.

Sank you very much!

I know you’ve been waiting.

Yep, I‘m a procrastinator. I totally procrastinated this one. You’re probably a procrastinator too (If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me). I mean we’re all procrastinators in at least some aspect of our lives. You can call somebody a procrastinator, right? It’s not offensive to say that somebody procrastinates. It’s not the same as calling somebody lazy (although I’m pretty lazy as well). The same words exists in Polish “prokrastynować” so at least Professor Miodek would understand what you’re saying. Be careful though when calling a Polish person a pedestrian. They’ll think you said something else entirely and you’ll have some explaining to do.

I know you’ve been waiting to contact me. Now you can thanks to the comment form I finally added to Kielbasa Stories. I know how strong the desire to contact me has been over the years by the sheer volume of e-mails I’ve received since I added the form two weeks ago. All that pent-up need. All those words gone unsaid. Yep, I hear you. All none of you, hee, hee, because Kielbasa Stories hasn’t received any messages yet. Not even from the crazies but they usually just post a comment saying that I am an idiot and then they move on.
So cheers to me for finally completing a task that has been on my to-do list forever. Check!

How does Poland celebrate Halloween?

This is the top keyword search phrase for Kielbasa Stories this week. The second top keyword search phrase is gross and makes me regret using the word kielbasa in the name of my blog.
So how does Poland celebrate Halloween?
I would have to say, grudgingly.

A conversation I had with Misiu just came to mind. We were sitting in the one and only coffeehouse in my little American hometown this summer just sipping our coffees and watching the world go by. Misiu was trying to come up with the proper word to describe my hometown.

“Quaint?” I offered.

“No,” he said.

“Charming?”

“Nope.”

“Rural? Agricultural? Out-of-the-way? Folksy?”

“Nope.  I was thinking ramshackle.”

“Oh, ramshackle. I can see it.”

:)

Should

I should write about so many things, but just can’t find the time. I should write about how our new year started out with a bang when a guy rear-ended us on January 1st. I should write about my broken washer and the mountain of dirty clothes piled up until the new washer is delivered tomorrow. I should write about how Rosie somehow attended Religia at pre-school and informed us that “good boys and girls go to church” and “Jesus helps Mommies and Daddies”. I should write about how when you split your time between 2 domiciles, you need 2 of everything. I should write about my lack of motivation for any kind of resolutions this year.

I should, I should, I should, but I’m too busy.

I guess I am just “blessed with work” as my Grandmother always put it.

Wishing you many blessings in 2012…especially the blessing of work :)

One Lovely Blog

Thank you Megi for the award. It helps brighten things up around here.

We are lucky ducks!

Look what we got! Delicious homemade Halloween cookies from Lois B. – otherwise known as the Polish Housewife. They were packed with care and sent all the way from Poznań. They arrived in perfect condition :)

Lois, our postman commented on the box with the St. Martin’s croissants pictures and told us how lucky we were to receive such a precious package.

Thank you again. I had to hide half the cookies from the kids! They have demanded your recipe.

Check out Lois’s other blogs Food is my Love Language and Lois B 365 Project.

You probably thought I was on vacay

No such luck. Actually, I’ve been very busy. I may be one of the few English teachers who has a busy summer season. Summer for ESL teachers in Poland usually equals starvation- school kids are on holiday, business people are on holiday. Just about everyone is taking a vacation. Except me. (dramatic pause to dry a tear)

Summer can equal starvation unless, like me, you take all “your” teachers’ lessons and all your friends’ lessons plus all your own lessons. Then you don’t have time to scratch your arse…or check your blog.

Oh, sweet September. I am waiting for you.

Homeland By Choice

Here’s a little project just recently started by a small group of us.

Inspired by Stardust.

http://homelandbychoice.blogspot.com/

Join us!

Something's up

Something's up with blogger so all comments and posts from the last few days have vanished. Let's see what happens to this short post.

Feel free to comment about any topic just to check if it works.

Something Odd?

Should I be concerned that recently a large percentage of referring URLs and referring sites are coming from a site that is definitely "for adults only"? I find that odd. Any thoughts?

Blog of the Year 2010 Blog Roku 2010

I would like to thank everyone who voted for Kielbasa Stories.

While I did not crack the top 10, I did make it to about #100 in the rankings (out of more than 1000 blogs in my category). It was great fun and I thank you for your support.

Good luck to those still in the running.

Chciałabym podziękować wszystkim, którzy głosowali na Kielbasa Stories.

Choć nie przebiłam się do pierwszej 10, udało się przebić do około # 100 w rankingu (z ponad 1000 blogów w mojej kategorii). To była super zabawa i dziękuję za wsparcie.

Powodzenia dla tych, którzy są ciągle w konkursie.

It’s time to vote! Czas na głosowanie!

If you’d like to vote for Kielbasa Stories in the Blog of the Year 2010 competition, please send a text message of A00320 to the number 7122 (til January 20th).

The cost of the text message is 1.23 PLN and will go to a charity supporting rehabilitation efforts for people with disabilities.

Thank you very much for your support and keep your fingers crossed for me.

Jeśli chcesz oddać głos na Kielbasa Stories w Blog Roku 2010 wyślij SMS o treści A00320 na numer 7122 (do 20 Stycznia).

Koszt SMS to 1,23 zł. Dochód SMSów zostanie przekazany na turnusy rehabilitacyjne dla osób niepełnosprawnych.

Dziękuję bardzo za wsparcie i trzymajcie kciuki za mnie.