First post of 2011

Hi there. I can't believe that I have not written anything this year. That is not to say that I have been idle. I freelance write over at examiner.com where I have taken my love of science fiction and fantasy and have written up a nice bit of articles.

The thing is I really miss talking on here. I almost deleted the blog, but soooo glad I didn't. I went back to read some of my older posts and cracked myself up. I am actually pretty awesome and funny. Yes tooting one's own is perfectly acceptable if I say so myself.

Anyway, I will try to add my two cents again. This really is an awesome blog.

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Why are so many obsessed with being skinny?

I was listening to the radio this morning and Kelly Ripa was on talking, and when the DJ asked her what she does to maintain her weight, she rattled off about 3 to 4 different regimes. While I think it is great to be healthy, I draw the line at looking like a little skinny rat. Then I asked myself this question: is there something fundamentally wrong with actually looking like a woman with curves?

All I see everyday are ads aimed at making me feel bad for having hips or having soft body parts. I used to have real bad self-esteem issues. I still do up to a point, but I also realized that I like looking and feeling like a woman, and not someone else’s idea of what a woman should look like. I want to get healthy hence the trail walking I am trying to do on the weekends. But I refuse to diet anymore. All it does is make a person irritable and hungry.

Looking and feeling like a woman is ok. I know this from personal experience. I did a drastic diet and lost the weight and for a bit I thought I was happy. I was small, and skinny, all I ever wanted. But I was not healthy. I had even more issues with being “skinny.” And like most people who lose weight, I too gained it back. But in the gaining, I was actually happier because I had some of my womanly parts back. I can tell you this I do not ever want to be that skinny ever again.

But on the flip side, some women are genetically slim or skinny. That is fine, but to be obsessed with trying to look like a skinny person, then that is where I draw the line. I mean that is like wanting to be tall but genetically your short. Just some things in life you have to let go.

In the end, I am glad that I am a woman with curves. Being healthy, well that is the goal, not weight loss, even though it will occur, I know it won’t lead to the skinny rat I became. Curves rule!

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How I see...

This chair is just a regular chair, but sometimes, I see art in the simplest things. I also added a nice treatment over the picture in photoshop.



Art is everywhere. Though I do not consider myself an artist, I am proud of the work I've produced with my digital camera.

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A Blogger Apology

Dear Zesty Nachos,

I Acquanetta Antoinette Ferguson, apologize for not being there for you, spending time with you. I’ve been a neglectful blogger, and for that I am ashamed.

Lately I have not expressed myself. I’ve only put up things to give away, but not giving any of me to you. Zesty, we’ve been together for over a year, and this time apart has been, well bad.

I am also sad to admit I forgot your birthday. I am a bad blogger. But no more. I vow to spend quality time with you. I am going back to how it started, how I would tell the world through you, how things affected me.

Zesty, me and you, well we are good for each other. I will still do giveaways, but I was never cut out to be that type of blogger exclusively. I know you shine, when I shine.

Starting with this apology, I will strive to give you what you need: my thoughts, my rants, my raves, my everything. Zesty Nachos, it is on.

Love

A blogger ready to kick some major ass!

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Some embarrasing moments at work

I love blogging. It allows a person to truly express themselves like a personal diary except anyone could read it. Today I was talking to my friend about things in general when I told her about two embarrassing moments that happened to me while at work. I just started laughing all over again just thinking about my situations and I tell you they are hilarious.

First I will start off as these happened. It was the late 90’s and I was a glorified telemarketer and I would sometimes where wigs. Well the room I was in held about eight people plus the CEO in his office to keep an eye on us. We would sometimes talk in between making calls and someone said something that was extremely funny and as I tend to do I laugh with my whole body and I tilted my head back forgetting I had on a wig, which was not secured by the way. Before you knew it the wig flew off and the real laughter began.

For almost two minutes after it jumped off my head, all I could do was leave it on the ground as we were just laffing too hard. They would look at my head, which was covered in a stocking cap, to the braided monstrosity on the floor and start all over again. I think that whole room, CEO included, were on a laugh fest for fifteen minutes straight.

The next incident only involved me and one other co-worker. Was also a different job. This was probably around 2005-2006. Now this incident will forever be etched in my memory. I was at my cubicle and the girl next to me was in hers working. I had to plug my radio in to the socket, so I got on my knees first, then bent over. Then that is when it happened. A blast, and not from the past. I immediately shot up and looked behind me. The girl had this look on her face that was more like “did I or didn’t I?” Seeing the look I said “excuse me” and that was the magic phrase. We both fell out and laughed for thirty minutes straight no lie. The more we thought about it the harder we laughed and I mean hard, you know where you are coughing?

So these are two moments in my life where embarrassing things happened to me. I am still laughing to myself at the moments. Ah memories.

Do you have any embarrassing moments in your life that still make you laugh today? I so want to know!

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Customers: Evil is thy name!

Customer service. Ah to see it or hear it, brings forth either good memories or bad memories for the customer. But what about the service rep who has a bad experience with a customer? No one ever wants to talk about the service rep’s bad experience, oh no they do not.

Well I wrote a sarcastic funny blog post (part 1 and part 2) on how a person should act towards their customer service rep. But just last week I realized that people are selfish and bitter with themselves and treating others in a horrible fashion is their way to feel good.

I am very good at my job. Too good and I am not bragging, but it makes it hard for me to move on into a different position. To make extra money I will also be the emergency on-call person. Basically I have a computer and a phone and at a moments notice I can receive any kind of emergency call at any time. Example would be a flood or leak or something water related.

Well on last week I had a call from a couple of horrible people who were nasty and evil. It was in regards to no hot water. They still had water. Just not hot water. I’m going to tell you right now I have never, ever been as angry as I was when I spoke to these people who just went off on me for basically doing my job, the same way I always do my job on a call such as these. I spoke to the wife who proceeded to tell me in a very condescending way how to do my job. Then in the background her husband was calling me an idiot and he was gleefully shouting how he was going to get me fired.

Now what kills me is that I totally had their information in front of me. What if I was like those people who lose it? Or I was crazy? Though sometimes I think I must be to stay in this business of servicing customers!

All joking aside it ended up being a horrible experience for me, as these people eventually got their hot water turned back on, but it was only off no more than thirty minutes to an hour yet they took it to the next level of stupidness. The thing is, that experience is with me and will stay with me as my truly horrible experience of a customer.

What about you? You ever had that crazy person who got all crazy for basically nothing? I surely want to know! Thanks!

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I need a Man

Well that is what my kids tell me. And apparently they aren't the only ones. On facebook I am being bombarded with ads of single men from interracial dating sites, black males, mature males and millionaires.

All I can say is wth? Why do I need my boys and facebook to tell me I'm single? Hek I know I am and I am fine with that. If I meet a lovely gentleman who I find interesting, then hallelujah I'd be happy!

I mean I am funny, quirky, can talk about almost anything, I mean why wouldn't a man want all of this? Apparently they don't hence my single status. I'm not picky. All I want is a man who is taller than me, muscular, flipping hot, and can talk to me about anything. Oh wait, that is a fantasy man from my many romance novels I read. Hmm I see a pattern.

Maybe I am picky. Though I don't think I am asking for much. I could go on with my list but I don't really put my dirty side here. That is what my erotic blog is for. No shame in the plug, thank you very much. Hek even the three hotties in the pic would need to be tried out on a trial basis.

Well nothing for it. My boys will have to deal. I am happy. I've already been married. Been there done that. Now I am not getting any younger, but at the same time, I am special and any man would be happy to hang with me. Thanks for reading.

p.s. Anyone know where I can find those hunky firemen? Seriously. =D

p.s.s Don't forget to enter the giveaways I'm doing here and here

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Wow! Two more Blog Awards!

I have received 2 more blog awards and I can tell you that I feel light as air. Not that I am or anything, but it is such a nice feeling knowing that what you love, other’s “get”what you’re all about!

The first award is the One Lovely Blog award. This was given to me from the lovely Angela who has been a little under the weather. You should drop by her blog and see why she received the award. She is truly inspiring.



So here are the rules of receiving this “lovely” award: I am to pass it on to 15 other bloggers I’ve newly discovered. Well because of that it has taken me almost two weeks. Now I read on another blog, the person who won this award, he thought this was like spam, but I don’t see it that way. I have to go on other blogs and look at their sites. I just thinks it gives new blogs and opportunity to get traffic. =D

So in no particular order, these are some blogs who caught my eye when blog-walking:

http://travelwithmarie.blogspot.com/

http://ariazink.blogspot.com/

http://beautifulmomentsbykris.blogspot.com/

http://www.dointheworkingmomthing.com/

http://mariescozycorner.blogspot.com/

http://www.parentingnotes.info/

http://www.redheadranting.com/

http://www.junkdrawerblog.com/

http://www.sharonblog.com/

http://jenniferbeckerlandsberger.blogspot.com/

http://theroaditravelon.blogspot.com/

http://momoftweenshelp.blogspot.com/

http://www.spicybugz.com/

http://www.mahoganymade.com/

http://www.ilovehateamerica.com/

Now for the other blog award I received I must thank Stacie who is truly wonderful blogging about her life while Raising an autistic child as well as raising awareness. Truly inspiring, and I really thank her for the award.



The rules are to pick 5 blogs that are new and that I am happy I found. Here they are in no particular order:

http://www.sharonblog.com/

http://theredheadriter.blogspot.com/

http://www.ilovehateamerica.com/

http://www.allena83.com/

http://www.crabbyblogginglady.com/

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1981

This was a big year for me. I was in a class play. My reign as a klepto was officially over. I still had no boobs. I was turned down to be a cheerleader. I read my first young adult romance. I finally got a backbone. I was a double dutching jump roper until a girl with man feet jumped on my foot and sprang it. And like that, my career was over. My little sister was born. I could go on, but as you can see this year holds a lot of meaning to me. At least the stuff I remember.

BTW the TV pic I used? We seriously had this giant monstrosity in our home! Memories.

I was ten years old and in the fifth grade. It was in a shared class between two teachers. Yes I still remember their names. That is how much an impression this class made on me. Mrs Crittendon in the mornings, and Mr. Hamaguchi in the afternoons. Mostly what I remember from the classes is all the fun stuff, which we seemed to do a lot of! This is where Mrs. Crittendon took my love of Judy Blume further by having us act out passages from the books “Tales of the 4th grade nothing” and “Super Fudge.”

We also did mini readings from Shel Silverstein’s poetry. I swear I can still remember my ten year old self reciting the poem in which I can’t remember the name, but this bit of passage “If I eat one more piece of pie, I’ll die. If I don’t eat another piece of pie I’ll die.”

The big play we did in that class for the whole school (which I forgot to mention above, we did all of these mini plays/recitals in front of the whole school) though was Jungle Book. I will tell you this; my part was for one of the elephants. At first. The teacher saw how much energy I had, like way too much, and she switched me with a boy who was perfect for the slow moving elephants. I in turn became one of monkeys in King Louie camp. My god how do I still remember this?

We were so good; we also put on the play for the parents. We also did the whole play in fluorescent colors/lights. Pretty ingenious if you ask me. The lights were placed around the stage on the floor and all the scenery and us kids were painted with florescent paint. To make my part of the monkey come alive to the audience a cut out painted monkey head was taped to my chest. Seriously looked like monkeys dancing.

I also had my first slow dance in this class. It was not like junior high or high school where the dances were held in the gym or auditorium. This was just for the class. Well I remember the song, It was Stacy Lattisaw and the song was “Love on a two way street”.

I also learned how to line dance and what “dosy-doh your partner” meant. This is when I first found out that there was really a school like in the movie “Fame”. They were called Main Attraction (which at the time I did not realize you had to audition for!!) and they performed for us kids, basically recruiting for the School of Creative and Performing Arts. I was in and after their performance I begged my mom like for the rest of the 5th grade year to let me please go to the school.

I can go on and on, but this year was a good year, and after remembering it, it makes sense that this is the beginning of my love affair with books, and the need to perform. Thank you Mrs. Crittendon and Mr. Hamaguchi!

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Scary Movies are not for me!

I thought this post would be appropriate for the month.

So my friend and her daughter saw this new freaky movie, “Paranormal Activity”, which is supposedly true and filmed here in San Diego.

Now I personally do not like scary movies, though I’ve seen a few to know it is not my thing, but when there is a movie supposedly based on fact and filmed in my city, well there is no way on God’s green Earth I will ever see that movie!

You see my imagination goes into overdrive to the point I can’t sleep and I start to experience my own paranormal stuff. So no thank you “Paranormal Activity!”

When I saw “Blair Witch Project” I was scared. I watched it with my sister and it was probably after midnight. All of a sudden, after the movie ended, I look at my sister who has tears welling up in her eyes and all she is doing is pointing with her mouth hanging open.

I will tell you now; I was ready to leave her and my kids to whatever supernatural thing was happening no lie! Wrong I know!

When I finally turned around, my dang phone cord had twisted itself into the shape of those stick figures that were hanging up in the trees in the movie. If you seen it, you will know what I am talking about.

I was so effin (this is my way of cursing, thank you very much!) scared, and at that precise moment, as we stared in horror at the cord, someone knocked on my door. No lie!

We screamed bloody murder and jumped so high I am surprised we didn’t jump on the ceiling! I tried to make my sister answer the door (wrong I know haha), but I finally made myself walk to the door. It was the next door neighbor’s friend who knocked on the wrong door. I was so relieved that I turned into a gibbering idiot for 5 seconds. He looked at me like I was crazy, but I didn’t care. After that we watched Inspector Gadget, the movie, to get our minds off that crazy mess we experienced! (Can I tell you, that writing this I am getting scared all over again?)

So this is one of many reasons why I will not see scary movies in general. And this would be my definition of scary movies, such as torture and any type of Asian horror, which is a whole other type of scary to me. This will be The Ring and The Grudge. Enough said on that.

Now I will probably see Zombieland, because it just looks funny, though a bit gross, but knowing me, after seeing it, the dang Zombie apocalypse will happen and I am in no dang shape to be running from zombies so I’d probably end up being one.

So what scares the poop out of you? Or are you like my friend who will see these movies because she enjoys being scared?

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Wibiya toolbar on the bottom: Why is it so much cooler?

That is what I thought when I first started seeing the Wibiya toolbar on other blogs. You know the pink one at the bottom of this blog? If you can’t see it, it is because I assume you don’t use Firefox as your internet browser. By the way, I look good in Firefox.

I searched high and low and spent countless hours researching. I could have asked other blog owners, but I didn’t. I wanted to be part of the cool kids, and you know how it is when you ask, they may or may not let you in!

So I found it. It is in Beta mode, so they sent out invitations first. Well I didn’t let that stop me! When you click on the link it will take you to their front page and all you need to do is click on the green get it now button and it takes you to the page to request the bar.

On this page you’re just going to put in your email address, name and your site URL to ask for an invitation. It took only two days of sitting by my email before my cool kid status was assured! Oh yeah, it is totally FREE!

Here is a blurb from the company:

“Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars. Our platform offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications.

Currently we offer a fixed set of tools such as creating a blog community via Facebook connect, enabling twitter alerts on your blog and enabling post navigation but there is a lot to wait for as we will be adding more and more application through time.”

It really is an interactive toolbar. Play with mine (lol) and you can see for yourself. It is totally customizable to match the color scheme of your blog and bottom line it really is just a bitchen’ tool to have!

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Love being a Girl! My top 10 Romantic Movies

Just saw 27 Dresses for the first time tonight, and I am glad I did. It is a romantic comedy with a feel good ending. I will admit I cried a bit at the end. After watching the movie I started thinking of some of my favorite movies I own or I’ve seen that have made a good impression on me and make me glad that I have girl parts!

So here is a top ten list of some girly romantic or romantic comedies I adore in no particular order!

1. Valley Girl. I can not stop watching this movie with the hunky Nicolas Cage and that one chick (Deborah Foreman) who did My Chauffeur. Yes I am a nerd who knows her 80’s movies.

2. Love Actually. Oh. My. God. This movie has an ensemble cast and during Christmas in England, they all go through their own Trials and Tribulations. There is a little black girl in there who sings Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas” that just touches the heart.

3. Strictly Ballroom. I saw this movie after trying to find a dvd and saw this as the last one in the store. I picked it up and was glad I did. I found my love of Ballroom dancing because of this movie. Meaning I see it on tv, thank you very much.

4. The Wedding Date. Dermont Mulroney. That’s it. He is hotness personified in this movie.

5. Sweet Home Alabama. I love Resse Witherspoon in this movie. I know the ending but will watch it again and again.

6. The Wedding Planner. Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey are just wonderful in this movie.

7. The Princess Diaries. Ahh this is such a sweet movie.

8. Wedding Crashers. Because though this one is coming from the male point of view I laugh ever so hard each time I watch it.

9. Xanadu. Ok there is love. There is comedy. Have you seen the outfits? I laugh every time I see it!

10. Hope Floats. Because I had to have a Sandra Bullock movie on this list! This one is one of my favorites!

So what romantic or romantic comedies just do it for you?

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Holy Smokes Batman, My first Blog Award - A Great Read Award!-Update

I am humbled by my first award. I won't lie, I've always wanted one, so I worked hard to create an award worthy blog. I campaigned long into the nights to bring you, John Q Public, an outstanding blog. Did I succeed? I think so.

Ok joking aside, this is seriously a surprise for me! I feel like thanking the academy, but I am afraid Kanye will tell me his blog is the best of all time! Ok I need to stop (I smiled as I wrote that).

So I want to thank my blogging friend Autumn for this cool award. Now the recipient of this award (that would be me, just in case you forgot!) must do a top 10 list. Great now I gotta think hard.

So here is my top ten list.

10 Karaoke Songs I rock ever so hard!

1. All That Jazz - This is a result of growin' up listening to musicals. Love to pull this song out. It is a crowd pleaser and I have soo much fun with it!

2. Hands in my pocket by Alanis M.- I love this song. Flicking a cigarette (that's my dulcet tones, thank you very much!)

3. Underneath it all by No Doubt - My girl Gwen sings this song well, but I do it better, lol, ok big head much? I even do the reggae rap part accent included.

4. Mercy by Duffy - This is such a fun song, with an old school flare!

5. Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter - Because everyone sings country music. My friend says I add a little soul to it.

6. At Last by Etta James - This song is so lovely! I try to sing it every time I go out.

7. Some Kind of Wonderful by Kelly Clarkson - Usually this girl is hard for me to sing, but this song I tried to sing at my friends wedding. The system didn't work so I sang it to her in karaoke. This is another crowd pleaser.

8. Blue by Leann Rimes - Another country song. I just had to try it. I sound so awesome. Ok people telling me this in a bar may not be validation, but I'll take it!

9. No One by Alicia Keys - Because everybody sings Alicia!

10. Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette - I first heard this song on the City of Angels soundtrack and I was instantly hooked with the haunting music and powerful lyrics. I love singing this song, and all the admiring stares. Well they are a bit glazed, but maybe that's tears.

Ok now I am supposed to forward this to 10 people, but I don't have 10 blogs I regularly interact, but would love to! So I will forward to two people. Makes my life easier, though I do hope to have prominent interaction with more of you. That is a hint to get your butts in gear!

**Hi all! Because I was drinking some good wine last night I forgot one other important Bloggy friend! So yeah I will blame it on the alcohol!

Enid Wilson is one of the first frequent commentators on my blog. She is also a writer wh0 I have had the pleasure of reviewing two of her books. She is a huge fan of all things Pride and Prejudice and a Mr. Darcy, and has created some interesting reads. Her blog is cool too!

Pinky's Rant is my best friend in life and she is so funny and straight bitchy in her blog! She tells it like it is and that is how it should be!

Jenna Byrnes I reviewed a book of hers, and she latched onto my blog. She leaves comments and I in turn have left her comments on her own blog. She is funny, writes some dang good books and her blog is cool!

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Working the blog

Hi all. I love my blog. I mean from the name to the inane posts I am just loving everything here. But I also want more people to see how truly awesome this blog is. Am I conceited? No because I am this blog's biggest fan.

So for the past month I've been really trying to kick up the traffic to get more people on this site. So I can tell you some that are really good is the Entrecard and Along for the Ride traffic builders. These are the ones I started with and I am happy with the results. Also Link Referral is stepping up.

I just added CMF, Spott, BlogExplosion, Traffic Digger, and Adgitze to see if these will work, but no words yet on these.

While I love Entrecard and Link Referral, you really have to spend some time clicking on other sites to get it reciprocated on your own site. Not a problem, but it takes a lot of time to build up the traffic.

But Along for the Ride is probably the easiest traffic builder. All you do is add the widget. That's it. No click, no ads. Love this one the best.

Then there are the directories I've added myself to. Not for sure if they are working or not, but I keep the pretty little widgets on my site for looks.

I can say this, with the work put into these sites, the big payoff is the traffic as well as the followers who love my site as much as I do.

So while it is a lot of work, it is worth it. Now if only I can get paid the big bucks to blog, then I would love it even more. So far I am still in the cents when it comes to google adsense.

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Pimpin oneself out: We all do it!

That’s right. Everyday you do something for a little something. Now you’re probably getting up in arms over this. Well I say calm down butter cup. I have some examples.

As a blogger, I am looking for traffic, money, comments, and links exchanges with people. What do I do for that? Well I take a “walk” down internet lane and look at all the interesting ways to get “paid” and all by putting myself out there. If you look at my blog sidebar, you can see all the places that I put myself on the net. Yes as you can see I’ve been a busy girl! Like I said, pimpin’ myself out to get “paid” ain’t easy!

Now as a book reviewer for examiner.com and Thomas Nelson I am looking to not only improve my writing skills, but to also receive books to read. So what do I do for that? Well I put a little blurb on my examiner page for all prospective authors/publishers to hit me up for a review. For the Thomas Nelson reviews I put the badge on my page and request books be shipped to me to read and review. My payoff for both? I get free books, and they get free advertisement. We both are doing well.

These are my pimp out moments. Pimpn’ makes the world go ‘round!

But here are some other ways that you may think are not, but really are pimpin moments. For those who work in an office setting, you know people who pimp themselves out on a daily basis. You might even calls these people suck-ups or brown-nosers. But they are pimps. They are looking to get paid. For example, when the boss is looking for volunteers, these people always jump on the bandwagon. They cozy up to the boss by stroking his/her ego. And that person’s pay day is a raise or even recognition. Yes they too are pimps.

And what about when the tables are turned? When you are out at dinner, and your server/waiter/waitress wows you to the point that you actually give them a much bigger tip cuz they just did it for you? Yep they are pimps. Or when you get such great customer service either over the phone or in person, don’t you “pay” that person with compliments? So as you see pimpin happens both ways and in almost every situation.

What are you doing to pimp yourself out? What’s your big payoff for said pimpin?

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Why I Blog

When I first decided to start a blog, I had no idea what I wanted to say. I've done some research, but some of the blogs out there were not me. There were mom blogs, how-to blogs and anything and everything under the sun blog.

My purpose was I wanted to write. I felt that what I could bring to the table was a little bit of shock, entertainment and overall my opinion. So while I am not blogging about my crafty ways (I crochet), or blog about relationships (I so suck at them) or anything else "useful" I feel that the mixed bag approach works best for me.

I love spouting off or just talking about the wacky thoughts that pop up in my head. I don't like to keep 'em in my head as I feel that the rest of the world must be subjected to them. But I digress.

Frankly I love to write. Its fun and for me it has helped me to write better.

Why do you blog?

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My son: An absolute Terror

My youngest who is fourteen, has been giving me grief since 7th grade. He is now in the 10th grade and has been on restriction before school started this term. The thing with him is he needs boundaries as he has trouble listening. And he also has a problem with lying.

Since the 7th grade, I've tried everything I could do to keep him in line. His whole attitude is him not caring, which if you're a parent is beyond frustrating.

I was going to college but had to stop because I had to make sure I was home when he got home from school. He got so bad in the last year that I had to go send him to his father to live (my ex). But that didn't work. And it became worse when I changed my job because I come home sometimes after 6 pm. But now my sister lives very close by.

As of now, he is doing better. His routine is he leaves home for school and after school goes straight to my sister's until I come home. So far he is getting an A in one class. I am hoping to keep him to this routine until I can trust him again. After all he is my baby boy.

While I have some control over him, I still feel out of sorts, cuz that boy has a mouth on him, that makes me act like my mom when I was his age. I can say it is not an everyday occurrence but when it happens, I see red.

Bottom line I want what's best for him. Even if I have to force it on him. After all it is my right as his mother. Just saying.

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HTML 101

I am loving the whole blogging experiencing so far and I’ve even looked at other people’s templates to kind gauge how I want my own presented. But the one thing that has eluded me is the blogger badge html!

I want to show myself off but how can I? I finally figured out what to do as far as photoshop and such, but I don’t have a clue on the html.

So if anyone is willing to help a sister out, I’d be much obliged, and of course an exchange of links would be a given. So I implore you, if you can help me that would be cool as ice, baby!

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Yet another Change

Because this is a diary of sorts, I just wanted to talk about my new blog template. This is like my 6th change. What can I say? I crave what other people have. But this latest one, I think we are gonna be good for awhile. It is a magazine style that I like as no matter how long my posts are will be shortened, and allow folks to read just how amazing I am.

So I like to toot my own horn. Toot Toot. But the color is why I really went for it. I love purple, and it has been hard to find a template to satisfy love for purple. This color is as close to my fav color, though some might call pink (gag), I will stick with the magenta/almost purple color. Yep that is an official color I just made up. You can thank me for that.

But I am hoping this one is it for me. My only complaint? That the little chick on the top doesn’t look a little bit more like me.

So tell me, is this template a winner?

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Commercials and their wackiness

Annoying commercial jingles that stay with you, must mean they are doing their job. Every time I see Bumblebee tuna, that dude playing the guitar going through peoples homes singing pops in my head. I stay away from that brand of tuna. I refuse to have a man go through my house singing about tuna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHvmbYk-Dg Check the video here. Sound quality suck but this commercial creeps me out on so many levels, and the people in their houses are calm. In my house it be a different story, like me screaming and trying to find something to throw at the crazy man. Probably a brand of Starkist tuna. Just saying.

Or that one commercial for Stride chewing gum? Can you imagine chewing some gum, enjoying the flavors when some goat, wrestler, or German dance troupe hit you to try and make you spit the gum out? Yeah right! I stay away from that brand of gum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgi16des-U Here is the video of a man just minding his business walking across the street chewing his gum, when he is suckered punched in the man parts, then after the goat hits him again, these fools roll up in a van (btw creepy!) and steal that piece a gum, while that man is on the ground trying to get air into his lungs. I refuse!

I think about stuff like this all the time. I don't think I'm crazy, but these commercials are presented in away that actually makes me think twice about having it in my house. Just saying.

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