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Sunday housecleaning time! And instead of cleaning my real house, I`m going to tidy up my little corner of the Internet.
I am pleased to say that my site meter is FINALLY up and running. Notice to all blog trolls -- go ahead and flame me. I can now see your IP address, ha ha HA HA!
And I can see searches -- someone found their way to this site by searching "70s dress up," and they got my Barbie vs. Bratz post. That is too funny.
There`s a lot of very un-funny stuff out there, though. The blogosphere isn`t the happy, sanitized place I originally thought it was, when I first started reading blogs. I first found this out on Blogging Baby, where I was called all sorts of ugly names on several comment threads. There`s something about anonymity that brings out the worst in people.
Along these same lines, it also appears that one of my favorite bloggers is now on the receiving end of some very undeserved ugliness. And no less than two blog pals have emailed me this week, responding to comments I made on other blogs. This is getting too much like the real world!
So I figured, I`d come clean. I will hearby reveal all of the ugly secret things I`ve said about other bloggers:
1) I have called this blogger "uber-cool." I don`t know her personally, and haven`t been reading her blog very long, but.... I get the feeling she might actually LIKE that description. However, I don`t want to take any chances and piss her off, because she lives near me, and I don`t want her to come over in the dead of night and leave a pile of dirty diapers on my doorstep or anything.
2) I found my way to this blog one day when I was searching "leather-clad midget gimp." go ahead -- try it searching that and see.
3) I accused this blogger of being a very gifted writer merely pretending to be a mother of three, with serious health issues, just for kicks -- to see if he/she could pull it off.
4) I offered money to this blogger to send me a photo of her ass in a thong, and had an email conversation with her about spanking.
5) I said I would sleep with this blogger AND her husband.
6) I met this blogger and she swept me off her feet, and we had a wild, passionate lesbian affair. Well, actually, no, we haven`t met yet, but we might. And when we do meet, we probably won`t have an affair, but we might. Can`t rule anything out, right? Anyway, I bet that got your attention!
And now that I have your attention, I`ll get a MEME out of the way. VMC has challened me to do this. But instead of passing it on, I`m going to take the highly unorthodox step of starting an entirely new MEME. Why? Because, because, BECAUSE! This is the Wild Wild Web, and I can do as I please, for good or for evil. Except in China.
FOUR JOBS I`VE HAD:
1) My very first job ever, besides babysitting, was CASHIER AT KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN. I lasted just a few weeks -- when they fired me, they told me I was "too high strung for fast food."
2) TELEPHONE SOLICITOR for New England Green chemical lawn treating service. "Hi, this is L. From New England Green! In the next few days, we`re going to have a representative in your neighborhood doing FREE lawn analysis and price estimates! There`s no cost or obligation, and you don`t even have to be at home while they`re there. Can we leave this information at your door, sir? Hello? What? No, I will NOT go fuck myself! GoodBYE!" Fortunately, I was paid by the hour, not by my success rate.
But I kind of liked calling people, even though most of them were hostile. Sometimes I reached lonely old people, and chatted with them for a while. If they said yes, please leave the information, we were supposed to make sure they didn`t have any dogs who would attack our lawn guys. This was a great opening for people to talk about their pets -- sometimes even memories of their long-dead pets. As I said, I was paid by the hour.
And at this job, I encountered the most unfortunate last name I have ever seen: "Wormfuch," pronounced -- yes, you guessed it -- "Wormfuck." I still Google her every so often, but I guess Mrs. Wormfuch changed her name, or died, because she`s no longer out there.
3) DOUGHNUT FINISHER on the midnight to 6:00 am shift -- I LOVED this job. I worked with these two really funny guys, and I got to know every cop in that town. You know why cops love doughnut stores? Free coffee and doughnuts. It`s really that simple. What`s not to love?
I was so spectacularly good at this job that the guys even begged me not to go back to college, but to stay and keep making doughnuts. Perhaps this gave me self-confidence in life -- I always knew, in the back of my mind, that I had a skill, and could always go back to doughnuts if I failed at everything else I attempted.
4) ASIAN OIL MARKET REPORTER for the now defunct Knight-Ridder Financial News wire. This is one of those jobs that should have sucked, but didn`t. I was criminally underpaid, the job itself was tedious, and I mean, come on -- it was OIL, you know? But I had a great time, for a couple of years, and worked with some great people. I even got to take two reporting trips to China, which was waaaaaaay cool. I still have a sweatshirt from the Shanghai Petrochemical Corp., made of 100% polyester fiber from their plant. It really puts the sweat in sweatshirt.
This is getting too long. I`m bored with this MEME. Sorry, VMC, but do you really care about what movies and TV shows I watch? I don`t even care, so how can anyone else care?
As I said, I will now start my own MEME, and randomly tag a few people -- VMC, you asked for it. Andrea? Uncle Roger? Gawdessness? Mollie? Dongurigal? Mande? Val? Jenorama? J? MFA Mama? Happy Feminist? Mo-wo (and/or p-man)? MetroDad? AndieD? Autumn`s Mom? RocRebelGranny? MIM? The Juniper`s? Susan? Mary P.? Oh, I could keep going -- there`s too many people I want to list here. I could just go down my blogroll and delurkers list, and tag everyone. In fact -- anyone who reads this, consider yourself TAGGED (and I have a site meter now, so you can`t hide!) and leave your answer in my comments if you don`t want to clutter up your own blog.
1) What was the last thing you prayed for?
2) What was the nicest thing you ever did for someone else?
3) What do you think about to cheer yourself up when you`re down about something?
Ready...set...GO!
I am pleased to say that my site meter is FINALLY up and running. Notice to all blog trolls -- go ahead and flame me. I can now see your IP address, ha ha HA HA!
And I can see searches -- someone found their way to this site by searching "70s dress up," and they got my Barbie vs. Bratz post. That is too funny.
There`s a lot of very un-funny stuff out there, though. The blogosphere isn`t the happy, sanitized place I originally thought it was, when I first started reading blogs. I first found this out on Blogging Baby, where I was called all sorts of ugly names on several comment threads. There`s something about anonymity that brings out the worst in people.
Along these same lines, it also appears that one of my favorite bloggers is now on the receiving end of some very undeserved ugliness. And no less than two blog pals have emailed me this week, responding to comments I made on other blogs. This is getting too much like the real world!
So I figured, I`d come clean. I will hearby reveal all of the ugly secret things I`ve said about other bloggers:
1) I have called this blogger "uber-cool." I don`t know her personally, and haven`t been reading her blog very long, but.... I get the feeling she might actually LIKE that description. However, I don`t want to take any chances and piss her off, because she lives near me, and I don`t want her to come over in the dead of night and leave a pile of dirty diapers on my doorstep or anything.
2) I found my way to this blog one day when I was searching "leather-clad midget gimp." go ahead -- try it searching that and see.
3) I accused this blogger of being a very gifted writer merely pretending to be a mother of three, with serious health issues, just for kicks -- to see if he/she could pull it off.
4) I offered money to this blogger to send me a photo of her ass in a thong, and had an email conversation with her about spanking.
5) I said I would sleep with this blogger AND her husband.
6) I met this blogger and she swept me off her feet, and we had a wild, passionate lesbian affair. Well, actually, no, we haven`t met yet, but we might. And when we do meet, we probably won`t have an affair, but we might. Can`t rule anything out, right? Anyway, I bet that got your attention!
And now that I have your attention, I`ll get a MEME out of the way. VMC has challened me to do this. But instead of passing it on, I`m going to take the highly unorthodox step of starting an entirely new MEME. Why? Because, because, BECAUSE! This is the Wild Wild Web, and I can do as I please, for good or for evil. Except in China.
FOUR JOBS I`VE HAD:
1) My very first job ever, besides babysitting, was CASHIER AT KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN. I lasted just a few weeks -- when they fired me, they told me I was "too high strung for fast food."
2) TELEPHONE SOLICITOR for New England Green chemical lawn treating service. "Hi, this is L. From New England Green! In the next few days, we`re going to have a representative in your neighborhood doing FREE lawn analysis and price estimates! There`s no cost or obligation, and you don`t even have to be at home while they`re there. Can we leave this information at your door, sir? Hello? What? No, I will NOT go fuck myself! GoodBYE!" Fortunately, I was paid by the hour, not by my success rate.
But I kind of liked calling people, even though most of them were hostile. Sometimes I reached lonely old people, and chatted with them for a while. If they said yes, please leave the information, we were supposed to make sure they didn`t have any dogs who would attack our lawn guys. This was a great opening for people to talk about their pets -- sometimes even memories of their long-dead pets. As I said, I was paid by the hour.
And at this job, I encountered the most unfortunate last name I have ever seen: "Wormfuch," pronounced -- yes, you guessed it -- "Wormfuck." I still Google her every so often, but I guess Mrs. Wormfuch changed her name, or died, because she`s no longer out there.
3) DOUGHNUT FINISHER on the midnight to 6:00 am shift -- I LOVED this job. I worked with these two really funny guys, and I got to know every cop in that town. You know why cops love doughnut stores? Free coffee and doughnuts. It`s really that simple. What`s not to love?
I was so spectacularly good at this job that the guys even begged me not to go back to college, but to stay and keep making doughnuts. Perhaps this gave me self-confidence in life -- I always knew, in the back of my mind, that I had a skill, and could always go back to doughnuts if I failed at everything else I attempted.
4) ASIAN OIL MARKET REPORTER for the now defunct Knight-Ridder Financial News wire. This is one of those jobs that should have sucked, but didn`t. I was criminally underpaid, the job itself was tedious, and I mean, come on -- it was OIL, you know? But I had a great time, for a couple of years, and worked with some great people. I even got to take two reporting trips to China, which was waaaaaaay cool. I still have a sweatshirt from the Shanghai Petrochemical Corp., made of 100% polyester fiber from their plant. It really puts the sweat in sweatshirt.
This is getting too long. I`m bored with this MEME. Sorry, VMC, but do you really care about what movies and TV shows I watch? I don`t even care, so how can anyone else care?
As I said, I will now start my own MEME, and randomly tag a few people -- VMC, you asked for it. Andrea? Uncle Roger? Gawdessness? Mollie? Dongurigal? Mande? Val? Jenorama? J? MFA Mama? Happy Feminist? Mo-wo (and/or p-man)? MetroDad? AndieD? Autumn`s Mom? RocRebelGranny? MIM? The Juniper`s? Susan? Mary P.? Oh, I could keep going -- there`s too many people I want to list here. I could just go down my blogroll and delurkers list, and tag everyone. In fact -- anyone who reads this, consider yourself TAGGED (and I have a site meter now, so you can`t hide!) and leave your answer in my comments if you don`t want to clutter up your own blog.
1) What was the last thing you prayed for?
2) What was the nicest thing you ever did for someone else?
3) What do you think about to cheer yourself up when you`re down about something?
Ready...set...GO!
posted by L. at 12:44 PM
26 Comments:
I am sulking.
You have made no requests for hot internet lesbian love affairs or pictures in thongs or anything like that from me.
Huh.
I could even knit a thong out of red shoestring licorice.
You know.
If I wanted.
Oh Gawdessness, you got your revenge. You made me imagine a thong made out of red shoestring licorice, and then of course I wondered, "How would it taste?" And then of course I thought, EEEEEWWWWW!!!!
Site Meter has some really interesting info. I turned it on a week ago. I've told you some of my findings.
Interesting new MEME. #2 will take some thought.
I need to look at my site meter I guess.
And think about the meme.
And check out the links in your post. I recognize one. Maybe
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I was right about your first link.
I figured the thong comment HAD to be MIM, because she does have the best ass. And I'm a straight woman. I just want to have that ass attached to ME. Sigh.
How do you set up all of that tracking on Blogspot? I'm interested.
Oh man oh man oh man! I've come back a few times because I had to really think about this one. Here goes nothing.
1) I don't really "pray" anymore. The last thing I remember praying for with fever was for my parents to stay together and not get divorced. I can still feel the weight of my plea.
2) The nicest thing that I did for someone else was to make my son feel special after his baby sister was born. By the time Ben came to the hospital to meet Sophia, I was sleep deprived, my pain meds were wearing off, and all I wanted to do was spend quiet time with my new baby. I was in that intense mode where I had no room in my mind for anything besides my newborn. Even though I soooooooo didn't feel like it, I made sure to greet Ben with open arms, spend quality time with him while he was there, and put him first. I'm so glad I did.
3) To cheer myself up I usually think about something funny that Ben does or did. The best is that he usually follows with "Was that funny Mommy? Was it?" Kinda like laughing at your own jokes. Which never bothers me by the way. Maybe because I've been known to do it myself on occasion.
P.S. Can you really tag other people to complete a meme when you haven't done the meme yourself?
1. Latest hot prayer topic for me: Healthy baby, dear lord.
2. Nice thing I have done.. Don't know if it's the nicest but when dear, complete wreck friend went to rehab after the 90 day program he ran by himself in his basement suite.. which got him into rehab.. I went over there and cleaned the place up. I left a few key artifacts of the CARNAGE that had been his binge for his information but overall I held my nose and did it. Part of my part of his clean start. You know he never said anything, and I don't mind. At all, maybe that's the nicest part cause the place was stomach turning.
3. My girl is instant cheer up any day of the week.. or failing her we do have a cat that thinks he is Barry White and gives more love than should be legal.
1. good things for Sarah and Gawdessness...
2. various. but one that I enjoyed the most was when my dad had a lamenectomy in '02, and I went out and hung around the hospital most of the time. my siblings were all occupied, and Mom was kind of not that helpful, but I had the best time listening to all my dad's stories, walking the halls with him, and finding out, at the end of my trip, that my glasses were a good match for his eyesight! really good daddy/daughter time...
3. that I'm not alone, and that no matter how bad it is, there is some good to come...
fried chicken, huh? that made me smile...
1. To have a baby *sigh* Not working so far.
2. Hmm...the nicest thing I did for someone? I usually don't think that I do nice things (although people tell me I do), but I remember the things people have done for me. The nicest thing someone has done for ME, was when E7 applied for a three year transfer to NYC so I could live there for a while. He doesn't want to leave Japan so that was a pretty big sacrifice on his part do do that. :)
3. I think about E7 and my family in the U.S. That usually works to get me cheered up a bit. :)
1. I was up all praying to the porclein god, and I prayed to get well enough so I could leave on a road trip the next day. It actually worked!
2. I cleaned up my co-workers desk after a students accidentally tipped over a cup full of milky coffee all over his computer wires and cords.
3. I think about the dog that I am getting. I think about my to-do list. Chris thinks about her family - that just gets me more down about the fact they we live so far apart.
1. It is a toss up. Really really really praying, it is a close one between asking for my baby to be born healthy (yup), my uncle to awake from his coma (nope) and my sister to live (nope)
2. Smile at them a genuine smile when they were feeling shity
3. Life and living it. Also winning the lottery and all the cool things I would do with the money.
lol I now have 3 new blogs to check out.. and it is ALL your fault if I never make it to class/work or have sex with my spouse again. (of course now that I know you are sleeping around the internet I will send him your way)
1) Not to hard I am sick sometimes very very badly I pray for health but I donno that I think anyone is listening so then I pray that there is someone listening too.
2)I have a rule that you donna talk about the good deeds that you do. It is a spritual thing but this is the internet and you don't know me so..... hummm the nicest thing is actually real tough there are a couple. a) I was behind a lady in a grocery store she had the newbi dipers and some quick food (maybe chips or somthing) she looked completely frazzeled and when they asked her to pay she couldn't find her money so I paied her whole bill b)old person standing by a broked down car on the highway... yes I was alone in my car... yes I still stopped and help them get to a gas station c)Found girl working the streets and spent the next sevarl months getting her aid so she wouldn't have to do that anymore d)I feed everyone that tells me they are hungry even if I donna have a lot of food myself e)I talked a guy down from jumping off of a very tall building and took him to the hosiptal and stayed with him until the drugs they were giving him worked and he was ok without me. LOL see I told you how do you choose....... but if you meet me in real life you cannot ever tell anyone...... they are my secrets. People think I am a B*tch and I would like to keep it that way.
3)ummm ooo ummmmm er nothing I don't know..... usually I read the net.
I'm running behind -- I only got my post done last week on the "Five Weird Things" meme, but I'll work on it , I PROMISE!
I'll probably clutter up my own blog w/it, since I'll ramble on as usual ;-)
Leave a comment for me, they are like little raindrops falling on our parched Texas soil...
I posted these on my own blog, but this seems to be the gathering place so I am posting here also.
1) What was the last thing you prayed for?
I prayed for some people whose situation was mentioned to me in the comments of one of my blog posts.
2) What was the nicest thing you ever did for someone else?
I try to do a lot of nice things for other people but I don't keep track. One that comes to mind: I found an old woman wandering back and forth in front of my house just after sunset. She spoke spanish and I only barely do. It turns out that she got off of the bus at the wrong stop and had no idea how to get back to her daughter's house. We found her daughter's phone number in her purse. Called it and got the address but no one there had a car. I got the police to give her a ride.
3) What do you think about to cheer yourself up when you`re down about something?
I look up at the blue sky and smile. (Here in Phoenix we have a lot of blue sky days.) Then I go out for a walk. (Yes, even in Phoenix's 120 deg F. / 49 deg. C. weather.)
This one does not apply to me. I am an atheist who does not do nice things and is never cheerful.
Now that we've got that covered, dammit, why did you have to go and out me? I'm actually Tom Wolfe. There, I said it.
And MIM's ass? Oh my god. A thing of beauty, to be sure. Heh.
1) Last time, on January 16, I prayed my plane wouldn't crash. Always do that.
2) Nicest thing? Sorry, can't really think in superlatives, but I always try to give an old lady a seat (that's if I'm not pretending to be asleep.)
3)My goofy friends and my husband's tempestuous farts
Hi L.!
I'm not in your list, but I'm definitely a lurker/ one of the delurked, so I'll do this meme. I like it a lot better than some of the others anyways!
I'll post it either tonight or tomorrow on my blog...
I don't have enough material for a post in response to your tripartate query, so here I go:
1. The health of our unborn child.
2. I'm drawing a blank.
3. This is pretty sad, but I'd have to say medication. I mean, meditation. Yep. So it's that, or it's ice cream, delicious, creamy, secular ice cream.
(1) Like most people, I last prayed for the health of my child. Unoriginal but, unfortunately, I don't pray half as much as I should. So I'm glad God heard that one.
(2) Nicest thing I ever did for someone else was actually possibly more rewarding for me than for them. But I used to teach reading to adult illiterates. Teaching a 55 year-old woman how to read? Maybe not the nicest thing I ever did for someone else but few things have made me feel better.
(3) When I'm down, nothing cheers me up like getting on the floor to play with my daugher. Being somewhat prone to depression sometimes, I can't even begin to explain how great of a medicine this is.
Hi L,
Duly tagged. It will take me a bit, rush time on a project.
Cheers,
Scott
I have absolutely loved everybody`s answers. I`ve got to do this again! And no, Andie D., I don`t have to do my own MEME, because I didn`t tag myself.
Hee hee.
L., according to Site Meter you read the MEME on my blog yesterday about 4 PM. Therefore you have been recursively TAGGED !!
Hee hee hee hee!
Posted by Jen on jw's site and copied to here:
1) I pray daily. I try to spend at least 30 minutes a day either reading the bible and praying. On average I pray that my daughters and husband would glorify God in all that they do. I also pray for each indivdual.
2)The nicest thing anyone could do for another is to pray for them.
3) I remind myself that I have been given this trial or problem for a reason. Then I go and talk about it to my husband. If he's my problem I go and hug him( it reminds me he's for me).
Just for the record, I'm completely offended. If you were going to have a lesbian affair with anyone, I thought it would be me. Would it help if I really send you a photo of amy ass in a thong???
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