Sunday Social: Blogging

This Weeks Questions:

1. What is the name of your blog? How long have you been blogging?:
Byrd is the Wyrd - Byrd is my last name & Wyrd spelled that way to match! I've been blogging for 10 years this year!!

2. Why do you blog?:
I love writing & sharing & being able to find others to connect with!!

3. What is the first blog you ever followed?:
The earliest I remember would be the sites/blogs of my Livejournal friends Ashley, Ashleigh & Dani.

4. What is your favorite post you wrote in 2013?:
That's easy! Transformation, which is a post about my path back to God after my sister was killed by a drunk driver.

5. What are your blogging goals for 2014?:
To make my posts more Christ centered, to blog about things that matter, to open up more about my life as a dialysis patient so I can reach out to others facing the same fate, to do more themed posts, to do devotional posts. I want 2014 to be a productive year!

6. Top 3 favorite blogs to follow?:
Both of Christy's wonderful blogs: The Lazy Pit Bull & Chrissy, Inspired
Marquis' lovely faith based blog:Simply Clarke
Angie's awesome book review blog: Once Upon a Book
& of course, Neely's blog, which I read daily: A Complete Waste of Makeup

Y'all check out this post for more info about the history of my site!!
http://byrdwyrd.blogspot.com/2013/02/happy-wednesday.html

Next Weeks Questions: Random
1. Top 3 favorite kinds of food
2. First 3 things you do in the morning
3. Last 3 things you do at night
4. 3 TV shows you NEVER miss
5. 3 places you want to visit
6. 3 people you can always count on

Come link up with us & make new friends, comment on some blogs & make your Sunday very Social!

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December 2013: Blog Hop

Add your blog to the December 2013 Blog Hop on Bloggy Moms! Add your blog to the blog hop, then meet more bloggers! See more at: http://www.bloggymoms.com/page/december-2013-blog-hop#.UpzXZ8Qe18N

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Giveaway: Enter To Win a $175 Amazon Gift Card!!

I am very lucky to be partnering up with some amazing pet bloggers for this wonderful giveaway, & just in time for the holiday gift giving season!! These are the warm-hearted blogs that are joining me on this giveaway:

• The Lazy Pitbull
• You Did What With Your Weiner
• Dolly The Doxie
• Canines & Couture
• Cascadian Nomads

Entering to win is simple: Leave a comment below, telling us what’s on your holiday wish list this year! That’s all you have to do to be entered to win!

Do you want bonus entries? Of course you do! Just follow the simple steps in the Rafflecopter widget below! Bonus entries are not required, but they will definitely increase your chances of winning!

Get entered to win by next Thursday, December 5 at 11:59pm ET. A single winner will be randomly selected & notified via email on Friday, & will also be announced on my Facebook page, Shares Save Lives!


Oh & please take the time to visit my fellow giveaway hosts. We all work very hard everyday to promote awareness towards the proper treatment of animals.

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Sunday Social: Halloween!

This Weeks Questions:

1. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?:
This really cool monster/zombie type costume designed by my Daddy. He used a recipe for this awesome face makeup like they use in the movies. It was textured, lumpy, gorey, bloody & just plain gross, lol!!

2. If you could go back to your childhood & dress up as something, what would it be?:
Probably to the year we threw a big Halloween bash. My mom had all 3 of is custom designed & tailored costumes. I dressed up in a gorgeous genie costume, that was silver & pink, so silky, shiny & luxurious. I felt like a million bucks that night!

3. What was your favorite Halloween costume as an adult?:
The year I dressed up as Cleopatra. That was an awesome costume.

4. What is your favorite Halloween candy?:
This is a difficult question!! Seriously though, overall? Probably candy corn. As far as whet you get when trick or treating, I'll go with 3 Musketeers or Milky Way.

5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?:
Definitely the year that Michael & I went all out decorating our apartment & dressing up. We won 1st place in this big contest that Mississippi State was having & we didn't even know there was a contest, LOL!

6. What is your favorite scary movie?:
The Original version of The Grudge I guess. It's really a very hard choice though!!


Next Weeks Questions: Random
1. What is currently on your wish list?
2. Share a new iPhone, droid, iPad app that you have recently discovered that we all need.
3. What is a new fall tv show that you have added to your dvr?
4. Share your social media links so we can follow you. (Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, etc) Tell us which is your favorite and why.
5. What is a tv show, movie, or song that you could watch or listen to over and over and never get tired of?

Come link up with us & make new friends, comment on some blogs & make your Sunday very Social!

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The Sunday Community

(Photo by: Alex North | Biloxi, MS)

I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
--Genesis 9:13

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Sunday Social: Life

This Weeks Questions:

1. What do you value most in life?:
My family & friends, science for providing me with dialysis & God's amazing grace.

2. What do you think is the greatest invention in your life and why?:
Most definitely dialysis. It is the reason I get to keep spending one more day with breath in my lungs.

3. What do you think is the secret to a good life?:
Faith in God! We would be nothing & nothing would be if it weren't for Him!

4. What would you most like to be remembered for when you're gone?:
For making a difference in the lives of stray, feral, homeless, lost & abused animals. I want to give a voice to those who have none. I want to open no-kill shelters & pass laws to bring TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) programs into effect.

5. What accomplishment in your life are you most proud of?:
I am most proud of my strength to survive, no matter how dire the circumstances.


Next Weeks Questions: Halloween!
1. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?
2. If you could go back to your childhood and dress up as something, what would it be?
3. What was your favorite Halloween costume as an adult?
4. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
6. What is your favorite scary movie?

Come link up with us & make new friends, comment on some blogs & make your Sunday very Social!

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Cover Reveal: Author Teresa Jones presents Rebecca's Resistance

We are excited to showcase the cover reveal for author Teresa Jones's book, Rebecca's Resistance. Teresa recently signed her first contract with new historical romance publishing house, Parchment & Plume!

Blurb: Every year Bella Plantation comes alive with the Christmas season as the prominent Bellafield family hosts their annual holiday parties. The only thing more famous than the parties at Bella Plantation is the marriages that are arranged during the parties, as well as the one marriage that has never been arranged.

Rebecca Bellafield has been introduced to the finest men that South Carolina can offer and still she has resisted each suitor. Her mother wants a marriage based on name and money, while she is looking for someone to share her life with.

When her mother announces that this year their approach to suitors will be different, Rebecca is sure that the holiday season is going to miserable that is until she gets caught in the eyes of a green-eyed stranger.


Rebecca's Resistance will be available at all ebook retailers on October 3, 2013!


Author Bio: Teresa Jones is a native from Pennsylvania where she grew up in small coal mining towns and spent her younger years reading everything she could get her hands on.
 
She has been writing stories almost as long as she has been reading them and used to sit in her closet, writing in her notebooks while her imagination carried her to places far away.
 
She now resides in Texas with her husband and their "children", a black lab named Maximus and an orange tabby named Princess. When she is not reading or writing she is planning an escape to the coast to be as close to the ocean as possible.

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