Cheers!
Break out the streamers and champagne. Call the New York Times and CNN. Declare a Public Federal Holiday. Call the Guinness Book of World Records…..
I did not expect this to happen until the weekend, but…….
Not quite what was going on today in BlogLand, but my blog got a lot of hits today (like over 20), pushing my all time number of hits to date over 1000! 1007 at this moment in time to be precise. I thought I might celebrate by thanking you all for your curiosity, support and goofing off at work by toasting to you with a icey cold Harpoon Summer Brew, complete with a large wedge of lemon, yummy and refreshing on a hot day like today.
I watch my blog stats almost compulsively. I think it is really cool to keep track of what pages get the most hits, and especially how people find me thru the search engines. Sometimes I think I go a little crazy with the “tags”, but let me tell you people hit them by doing searches on some pretty strange things. I think the “one eyed one horned flying purple people eater” tag gets the most hits, second to that is the “chick flicks” (speaking of which I promise I will get back to my tissues reviews some time very soon).
So heres’ to you, my friends, family, fans and strangers for helping me break the first thousand hits mark and making my little blog a success (at least in my feeble little world)!
P.S. (Shameless Plug)
- If you have not figured it out yet, you can now go to my “About” page and read the ever so interesting and captivating “Some odd number of things about me”. It is a work in progress, haven’t quite hit the 100 mark yet (hence the “some odd”), but I am adding to it regularly. You should try it some day, try writing 100 or more ‘interesting’ facts about yourself (that you are willing to make public – wink-wink), it’s pretty damn hard.
It’s Alive
Three Eyed Three Horned Flying Hot Pink Hot Tamale Eater…..
Unlike my post the other day these pics do the hot pink “watermelon” color justice! Quite vivid!
This guy has a lot more butt than the OEOHFPPE, it can stand up on it’s own!
I am in the process of designing wings, and hope to have it’s three eyes, a tail and hair on it by the end of the day. I am thinking green hair and purple wings. As well I plan on making legs/feet, well, maybe, we’ll see.
I think I overstuffed it a bit, it seems to be bursting at the seams. I hope that over time and usage it will relax a little. My stitches are getting better, more uniform, but I can still see many imperfections that I’ll have to work on (I tried to hide them all in the pics).
Maybe after a few more trial runs for friends & family I can perfect my stitching. It keeps getting suggested to me that I sell my creatures/monsters. It is a good idea, but stitching them well enough to sell seems like a lot of pressure.
Stay posted for more news on the metamorphosis of the TETHFHPHTE.
5 Tissues* Chick Flick Nite – “Things we Lost in the Fire”
Hope comes with letting go.…..A recent widow invites her husband’s troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
I am going to start my own rating system for the movies that I rent. Instead of 5 stars I will use a scale of tissues, 1-5. You see, I get all my emotional and hormonal blockages cleared out on Monday night, “Chick Flick Nite”. I indulge in take out, something sweet, get in my jammies early and watch a girly movie that my other half has no interest in (or tolerance for). I am a sucker for the real tragic ones involving you know, the terminally ill, death, abuse….. hardcore. But they are usually the films in which I find good lessons and they always help put life in perspective. Don’t get me wrong, I am a sucker for a Meg Ryan or John Cusack movie with a happy ending. Just that sometimes us chicks need a good cry, and if you are past due for a good cry just let me know and I will set you up with the perfect movie to purge all that stored up ick.
“Things we Lost in the Fire” is a five tissue movie, quite literally maybe six or seven. Raw, powerful, tragic, yet beautiful and full of lots of hope. The tragedy is in your face right from the beginning – death – addiction – very slow and deliberate it does not ever seem to cease. But through all the challenges these characters go through we see beautiful moments, moments of hope, moments of tenderness, of charity, of love…. it is a movie about being human and surviving thanks to the help of others (whose lives are equally as fucked up as your own).
Accept the Good
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