Recently, I was tagged on Face­book by a few friends on this new topic, “25 ran­dom things about me.” The rules on Face­book are dif­fer­ent. I’ve changed the rules slightly for the blogosphere…

Here are the rules.

Once you’ve been tagged, you are sup­posed to write a post with 25 ran­dom things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose five more peo­ple to be tagged. You also have to tag the per­son who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. To do this, you sim­ply link to their blogs so that they know you responded to their tag.

(You may include the above rules in your post so that the per­son being tagged knows them, too. You may also want to tweet your post to notify them on Twit­ter, too.)

Let’s start with things you may already know…

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Edited to add: For peo­ple who don’t know, there’s a meme (a new thought, trend or “buzz”) going around. It’s called “tagging.”

Looks like I’ve been tagged by Rob Sellen. Here’s the rule: I’m sup­posed to list 5 things you prob­a­bly don’t know about me, and then “tag” 5 other peo­ple who are asked to do the same. Okay, here goes…

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Sylvie is so upbeat and pos­i­tive about her breast can­cer — and her upcom­ing mas­tec­tomy on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 11 — that she decided to make the best of it in the only way she knew how… “Mar­ket and mon­e­tize it!”

She decided to start a blog about her jour­ney, com­plete with AdSense, affil­i­ate links and more. Cre­at­ing and writ­ing on a blog is part ther­a­peu­tic (she feels lib­er­ated by writ­ing about it), part edu­ca­tion (she wants to use her “adven­ture” to increase aware­ness), and part profit (breast can­cer key­words are very profitable!).

Nev­er­the­less, it’s part of the heal­ing process and great med­i­cine for her soul. As she says so fer­vently: “Life gave me lemons, so I might as well make the best of it. Lemon­ade? Heck no… I’m going to turn lemons into lemon merangue pie!”

Go take a look at Breast​Cancer​Vic​tory​.com and post a comment!