Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past several months and only decide to poke your head out when publishing a Hub, you’ve probably noticed the amazing work of the HubNuggets Team, which has been led by the one and only Canadian sensation herself, Shirley Anderson. Each and ever week they scour through literally thousands of potential HubNuggets to find the 10 HubHugget Wannabes that get posted for the weekly vote. Of course, they all have a lot of fun cooking up the hot, fresh and tasty HubNuggets each week, but they also put in a lot of time and effort to make sure that the best possible Hubbers and HubNugget Hubs get showcased each week.

Well, due to some new time constraints and responsibilities that a couple members of our HubNugget Team have recently run into (one involved a lot of partying, so please don’t feel too bad for them), we all have decided that it would be great to bring on a couple more superstar Hubbers to help us keep this HubNugget train a rollin’. When I asked for potential suggestions of who we should add to the team, it didn’t take long for two specific Hubber’s names to be mentioned and I’m now happy to officially announce that those two Hubbers, RedElf and Zsuzsy Bee** have accepted our invite and are now getting up to speed on all things HubNuggets!

If you’d like to see the current roster of HubNuggeteers, be sure to check out the freshly updated HubNuggets How-To, Q & A.

**Although I feel that the new HubNugget Team selections are nothing short of spectacular and fantastic, I can’t help but think that it’s a part of a Canadian takeover scheme that’s slyly being crafted by Shirley. Or, maybe I’m just being too paranoid? You make the call.

Each week we have two very awesome things called the HubMob and HubNuggets that go on here at HubPages and they’re both really fun ways to promote awesome Hubs, meet other Hubbers and to get a little more involved in the HubPages community. Whether you’re joining in the latest HubMob or voting for this week’s hot and tasty batch of HubNuggets, getting involved in these types of HubPages traditions will only make your experience just that much more fun.

If you’re looking to check out what I’m talking about, here is how you can find this week’s super-sweet installments:

This week’s HubMob: It’s All About Men!

This week’s HubNuggets: Roundup at the HubNuggets Coral

Keep on having fun, Hubbers!

…and now, for your viewing pleasure, a random video of a cat jumping into boxes:

Be sure to check out this this week’s installment of the HubNugget Wannabes and the latest and greatest HubMob. This week’s HubMob is all about the upcoming holiday of Halloween (one of my personal favs) and already has over 30 HubMobsters contributing to the spookiness.

Once you’re done getting the you-know-what scared out of you over at the HubMob, be sure to check the latest and greatest Hubbers and their fresh, out of the oven HubNuggets. There are 10 HubNuggets for you to check out and once you’ve decided on which one you think is the tastiest of the bunch, be sure to place your vote so that it can be one step closer to achieving the ultimate HubNugget glory — getting sent out in the HubPages Weekly newsletter.

Thanks for your time and now back to your regularly scheduled program…

Every single week we have a few super-awesome Hubbers who have made it their lifelong passion to help make HubPages a more fun, interactive and inviting place to be by posting up both the HubMob and the HubNuggets (ok, maybe not their lifelong passion, but they do really enjoy them). If you haven’t checked out what they’ve got to offer this week, then you should give them a few minutes of your time over here whenever you get the chance:

• HubMob Weekly Topic: Healthcare << click to become a HubMobster now!
• This Week’s Tasty HubNuggets: Newsflash: 10 New HubNugget Wannabes Make Their World Premier << get ‘em while they’re hot! (and be sure to vote!)

Thanks, and may the Hub be with you my friends.

As with any vacation, it’s never that easy when you’re trying to get back into the swing of things (a.k.a. getting back to the ‘real world’), but lucky for me I was given a little bit of help with the adjusting once I finally came back into work after being gone for my wedding/honeymoon for 2 weeks. When I came back to my desk for the first time after returning to good ol’ San Francisco (yes, I remembered where it was), I noticed a card that was addressed to me sitting there just waiting to be opened. By now I’m more than used to opening up cards, so I grabbed it, tore it open and pulled out the card that you see below:

It, of course, was a wedding card, but I began to wonder who would possibly send me a wedding card to the HubPages headquarters? I thought that it was a little odd that a member of my family or other friend of mine or Stephanie’s would send a card to my work address, but once I opened it up it all made sense.

Much to my surprise the members of the super-awesome HubNuggets team had sent over the card and honestly, I couldn’t believe it! I don’t think that I could have possibly started out my day any better than with a card like this from a group of Hubbers that have added (and continue to add) so much to the overall HubPages community. So, I guess that this is my way of saying thanks to the HubNuggets team for not only the fantastic wedding card that they mailed to me, but also for all of the great work that they do with showcasing great, new Hubbers each and every week with the HubNuggets. As you can see below, this card put quite a smile on my face, which isn’t always easy when you’re coming back to work after laying around in paradise for the past 8 days.

Thanks again to the HubNuggets team and if you’re wondering what the heck HubNuggets even are, be sure to check out this Hub that gives you all of the info you need and more.

It’s once again time to check out the latest and greatest Hubbers that HubPages has to offer and the Hubs that they have published for all the world to see! We like to call these Hubs ‘HubNugget Wannabes’ because until you and the rest of the HubPages community votes for them and puts them into the top 5 of the 10 Hubs that are listed, they aren’t officially a HubNugget yet. It’s totally up to each of you to decided which ones deserve to be HubNuggets and which ones don’t.

So, when you get a chance, be sure to head on over here read some of what the newest Hubbers have to offer and place your vote for the on that you like the most. Remember, voting for the HubNuggets is your Hubber-given right and something that you should take advantage of each and every week!

This week’s HubNuggets have been posted over in a Hub that’s an ode to some of the greatest soap operas of all time. The HubNugget Voting Hub is title As The HubNugget Turns and you have until this Wednesday morning PST to place your votes (that’s when I put the HubPages Weekly newsletter together).

If you have no clue what the HubNuggets are all about, be sure to check out this Hub that the HubNugget ring-leader Shirley Anderson wrote that explains it all in detail: HubNuggets How-To, Q & A.

Thanks for voting and congrats to each of the Hubbers whose Hubs have been chosen as HubNugget wannabes!

After over 120+ people placed their vote over here, the final HubNuggets were finally made official yesterday and sent out in the HubPages Weekly newsletter to all of the fine Hubbers out there (over 55,000 of them!).

Also, it’s worth mentioning that Kelsey Tallis has set an  all-new HubNuggets record for the highest percentage of votes with a dominating 40% (which she can thank her friends and fellow 30 Seconds to Mars fans over here for). Here are the 5 Hubs that made the cut:

HubNugget 1: Jared Leto and the So-Called Cult of 30 Seconds to Mars (40%) “The name Jared Leto may be familiar from movies like Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Panic Room, etc. He also stars in Jaco van Dormael’s new sci-fi fantasy Mr. Nobody (set for release in May). But a lot of people still don’t realize he is also the front man for the increasingly popular rock band 30 Seconds to Mars (30STM).” Read more » More Kelsey Tallis • Join Kelsey Tallis’s Fan Club

HubNugget 2: The Other Side of SubPrime Loans (14%) “The roots of subprime crises can be traced back to as early as 2001, when the terrorist attacks happened and US economy had started reeling under immense pressure and that was also the period when dotcom bubble had burst.” Read more » More jayb23 • jayb23’s Fan Club

HubNugget 3: FoodEco-Friendly and Frugal: Buy Less Packaging and Get More Food (14%) “Everyone wants to save money, right? When we are busy being hammered by an economic crisis that could rival the Great Depression, we’re always thinking economy. Right now, we need to have our precious dollars go further. But sometimes, we get fooled by packaging. While it might seem like processed and prepackaged foods save you time and money, it’s a carefully crafted illusion. Packaging is designed to entice you - and your kids. But it isn’t delivering any nutritional value.” Read more » More MoniqueAttinger • MoniqueAttinger’s Fan Club

HubNugget 4: 99 on Wednesday (11%) “A year short of a century. It’s beyond a number. It’s a lifetime. A life of love, laughter, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-greats and yes, even great-great-greats. A life of teaching and learning and crying and laughing and peace and wars and mostly, love. She’s loved more than anything else. More than she’s cried. More than she’s laughed. More than she’s been angry. She has loved ALOT. And she IS loved ALOT. She has influenced people, family and strangers alike. She is responsible for introducing hundreds, if not thousands of people to Christ. She is the reason I have the peace of knowing that no matter how bad it is or becomes here, I’ll eventually find myself in a place of perfection where there are no tears, no pain, no hurt, no anger, no stress, no frustration, no fear. I owe her more than I will ever be able to repay.” Read more » More Laughing Mom • Join Laughing Mom’s Fan Club

HubNugget 5: How to Quit Smoking: An Easy Method (6%) “Almost five months ago, I quit smoking after fifteen years as a smoker. I had tried and tried in the past to put the cigarettes down, but nothing worked. I hated the chiding that I received from family, and the unsupportive comments that my husband made about how it’s “easy” to quit. He was never a smoker. I had read books, browsed websites, signed up for programs and talked to counselors. Nothing had helped. I’d been pregnant three times as a smoker, but it was my last birth that really pushed me over the edge and forced me to make a decision. She was born at less than six pounds, two large knots tied in her umbilical cord. My labor was induced due to fetal distress. I knew then that something had to change.” Read more » More Everyday Miracles • Join Everyday Miracles’s Fan Club

I’m not really sure what that title means, but I wanted to post up the 5 winning HubNuggets that were sent out in the HubPages Weekly newsletter today. Each of these are really, really great Hubs that are definitely worth reading, so be sure to give each of them a look when you get the chance. Also, if you’re curious and want to see the Hubs that didn’t get chosen as HubNuggets, feel free to check out the HubNugget voting Hub over here.

HubNugget 1: Foxfire or A Gift In The Dark (24%) “There are many types of glowing fungus. Many are external fungi that grow off of wood, like the shelf shaped bracket fungi. There are also glowing mushrooms. The foxfire that I had found was not an external fungus. It had permeated the wood itself. Though most findings of foxfire tend to be anywhere from vivid blue to deep green. The foxfire from my find was very pale greenish yellow. There have been findings of yellow and pink foxfire as well.” Read more » More Paper Moon • Join Paper Moon’s Fan Club

HubNugget 2: My Husband Quilt or How A Mess Can Become An Heirloom (21%) “After my husband died I had to deal with a lot of issues. If you’ve suffered the death of a loved one then you know how overwhelming it can get. One of the things someone told me to do was to go through his clothes as quickly as I could and ‘get them out of the house. You’ll feel better not looking at them.’” Read more » More womanNshadows • womanNshadows’s Fan Club

HubNugget 3: Top Ten Songs about Bad Habits (Videos of All Songs) (16%) “There have been many songs about bad people, bad places, bad things, and bad ideas - bad girls, bad boys, bad love, bad everything! Most intriguing of the “bad” songs, I think, are the songs about “bad habits.” Glorifying drugs, food, drink, smoking, and more in song seems like a strange topic for song writers to write about and for singers to sing about - but it’s been done successfully over and over again.” Read more » More English Teacher • English Teacher’s Fan Club

HubNugget 4: You Tube Idol Susan Boyle Rocks My World (16%) “So it was when I started seeing the headlines surrounding Susan Boyle and her appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent”. More of the same I thought as I would click past the ever growing publicity. I figured the well of news from “American Idol” had run dry for the time being and now we were being subjected to the same ho-hum entertainment drivel from the other side of the pond. Then, the other night, all that changed.” Read more » More John Z • Join John Z’s Fan Club

	HubNugget 5: Define Darkness? (9%) “When we hear someone ask us to, ‘Define Darkness’ our first instinct is to think of all the bad stuff that goes on around us, this was not my first thought. The darkness brings a new world, a monochrome world, as beautiful in its way as the daylight world with all it’s splendid colour.” Read more » More Hawkesdream • Join Hawkesdream’s Fan Club

Here are this week’s tasty, chewy and super delicious HubNuggets — fresh and hot out of the oven. Also, this week’s HubNugget wannabes have now been posted over here, so go and get your vote on now!

HubNugget 1: Snuggie Sightings (28%) “Ok so by now, we’ve all heard of snuggiepubcrawls.com, and we’ve all seen people all over town wearing Snuggies in public like its perfectly normal. Heck, even I posed once with a Snuggie on while I was pouring a beer for a customer, and yes, it was warm and comfortable, and didn’t fall off. We’ve all seen it, done it, or sworn that never in a million years will I ever put ‘one of those things on’.” Read more » More cdub77 • Join cdub77’s Fan Club

HubNugget 2: Filling out a dating profile (18%) “In my vast experience with online dating (two- and-a-half weeks now), a number of issues have arisen.” Read more » More 1964human • 1964human’s Fan Club

HubNugget 3: Maintain Your Sanity (14%) “Pressure, stress, depression are the new age labels for disease and are very common among people because of many direct or indirect factors. Western Analysts ascribed this stress to the modern city life. Psychological pressure builds up daily and makes us so judgmental, irritable, and causes us to have serious wrong interpretation about the outside world which can narrow itself to reach our families.” Read more » More shamelabboush • Join shamelabboush’s Fan Club

HubNugget 4: The Perfect Cup of Coffee - when you have the time. (12%) “Starbucks is good and its convenient but I tell the employees there (I know most of them and most of them know me by name) that I make a much better cup of coffee than Starbucks. I’m not sure how many of them believe me, but it’s true.” Read more » More Florida Keys • Join Florida Keys’s Fan Club

HubNugget 5: Wanna see the beauty of Veggie Flowers? (8%) “Vegetable flowers are those which bloom before a vegetable grows in a particular plant. Many of them go unnoticed, but some are very beautiful.Their presence gives a pleasant look to the environment they grow in. They are rarely used as food, But many a times they are used for flower arrangement purposes and be more decorative in flower vases.” Read more » More vivekananda • Join vivekananda’s Fan Club