Sense and Sensibility-ness-ing-ly

...or "What makes themolk & Michelle's blog? A MeMe Top Ten."

Mr StepFamilyTalk has a lot to answer for. So to does Mr FreakedOutFathers (and Mr LOGICal eMOTIONs for that matter too), but then Mr FOF let Mr SFT take all the heat for this. I've been tagged to do a MeMe...

Wikipedia tells us that a MeMe is "a unit of cultural information, cultural evolution or diffusion which, in some cases will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate." Basically, in blogging terms, it's an idea to review/express who you are and what you blog for and is viral in nature. Thus, we have rules for this MeMe:

*Please try to limit your post to 10 items or less

*Tag 5 of your friends or blogrollers

*Take your time. Do some digging in the archives and find the perfect
ones - it’s to your advantage more than anything else. Just think: if
you were to pull out no more than 10 existing posts from your blog
which hit the high points of your blog SO FAR, (with the specific intent
that your blog will be DEFINED by these posts) and put all your future
writings into better context, which posts would they be?

*Please if possible, link to this post for meme info, and please link to
the post that you were tagged in. Memes go on for quite a long time
and when trying to follow one backwards to see some of the other
posts, it gets quite difficult when only the blog URL is used. Just a
request.

*The people you tag, please let them know by email, contact form
or some other efficient method.

Subsequently, I have e-mailed and tag these people to step up to the plate:

Scott & Jo
The Website Guy
Death By Children
Hello Internet
BadDadRadio

To fulfill my obligation to this process, I offer you the 10 defining posts of Sense and Sensibility-ness-ing-ly - themolk & Michelle's blog...

1. "CarbonCopy - It's not the police...". The angry themolk.
While I tend to be a lot geek in everything I offer, I sometimes spill over into a rant. I try to keep them even-handed, really I do. But let's face it, CC and BCC on e-mails is well over (and often incorrectly) used...

2. "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory". The cinemaphile themolk.
I'm a big Tim Burton fan. I'll proudly watch anything he's done (lots of times, more than once). This film stands up there in the Burton top 3 (for mine). Plus I like film as a medium. There's SO much you can do with it.

3. "Ahmet's Turkish Restaurant". The gourmet themolk.
It's no secret, I like my food. This is one of the many reviews that make up my burgeoning idea for CaesarSalad.com - really should tell you all about that sometime. It was great Turkish food, too.

4. "Controlled Crying". The Mrs themolk.
Michelle does blog occasionally... and while they aren't always a report on the chaos that it is to raise kids, this one was especially poignant for me as I feel she captured ever so accurately what the hell was going on.

5. "Vale Joan Molkentin (nee Drabsch)". The reflective themolk.
My thoughts spilled into bits and bytes when I heard my paternal grandmother had passed away.

6. "When Dad's attack... and fall apart... and don't cope...". The parental themolk.
I have never and will never suggest that I am the best Dad in the world. This is why.

7. "The best ad I have seen in ages". The spiritual themolk.
Whilst many might even question the claim that I am Christian, it's there. I'm there. Just possibly not your 'centre-stage' Christian.  ;)

8. "The Biggerest Loserer". The shrinking themolk.
I know this isn't a 'post', rather a category of them, I wanted to include the whole process as it stands by itself (almost worth a whole separate blog - but we know how multiple blogs for one person ends up). I am shrinking... keep an eye out and you will hopefully be suprised, amazed and inspired.

9. "WC14:Arthur, Illinois". The creative themolk.
This is so much fun, and to date this is my favourite response. It's atypical that I get few comments when I post these on my site as few people get my sense of humour when I write like this. I don't mind. I can play my humour for the masses when I need to. I don't need to here.

10. "Geeking you up to speed". The geeky themolk.
I'm a geek. No question. I've always wanted that on my business card (and I have a fancy schmancy way of doing it next time - that'll be a post in itself when it happens). I have some pretty serious opinions when it comes to technology, and this latest geek post is not only indicative of this, but offer some great suggestions by me. Even if I do say so myself.

Just for the record... this was a lot more work than I expected, but well worth it. A little navel gazing never hurt nobody occasionally...