Cranky Fibro Girl

Harnessing the healing power of snark

I’m It

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My friend, Elliott, has tagged me for a meme that requires me to produce 8 random facts about myself. So, here goes.

1. If I won the lottery, the very first thing I would do would be to install a soda fountain in my office so that I could enjoy the ambrosia of a fountain Coke whenever I wanted.

2. My husband and I refer to our cats in the third person, as in, “The Pip really enjoys expressing her love for us via the judicious application of her ass to our faces.”

3. Growing up I was of course not allowed to swear, but I was also not even allowed to say “shut up”. So during the spring of my freshman year of college I began my extremely late adolescent rebellion by calling up my husband (then boyfriend) for the express purpose of yelling out my very first swear word. (Do I know how to be a rebel or WHAT?!)

4. Thanks to nine years at Evangel Christian School I can sing all the books of the New Testament in order.

5. I passionately hate the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Just ‘cuz.

6. My favorite word is “creamy”.

7. When I was a senior in high school I was offered a partial music scholarship to Southern Methodist University for my piano playing ability, but I turned it down.

8. I must, at every second of the day including the times when I am asleep, be located near a bottle of hand lotion.

Friday’s Feast #125

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Appetizer: Which celebrity (or celebrities) do you think will make headlines this year?

I plan on increasing my own personal celebrity this year and expanding the use of my powers through humor. To that end I recently signed up with My Space as an artist so that I could upload and prominently feature my humor podcasts, which you can listen to here.

Soup: They say that good things come in small packages? What is something little that you think is great?

Coca-Cola. So much happiness packed into such a tiny red can.

Salad: Name a song that makes you want to dance.

Even though I have no idea what it’s talking about, I always want to dance whenever I hear “Black Horse and a Cherry Tree” by KT Tunstall.

Main Course: What is your favorite font?

Um, I don’t really have one. I do have a favorite number, though-8. Actually it’s probably more of an obsession. Before I got married, both my first and last name had 8 letters in them. And I was born on the 8th of October.And whenever I’m listening to people speak, I’m always rearranging their words into groups of 8 syllables. Hm…perhaps I’ve shared too much.

Dessert: If you were to write a do-it-yourself article, what would it be about?

Actually, I did recently write an article about how to survive as a generalist, or as someone who is interested in everything, in a world of specialists and experts. And so to continue today’s theme of shameless self-promotion, and to give my friend Karen (who kindly included it in the humor section at her site) over at Square Peg People some link love, you can read it right here.

Dine For Yourself

We Become What We Mock

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And verily, I say unto thee,
The Mocker did arise and go forth
unto the land of kitchen supplies.

And lo, she did purchase an espresso machine,
and also did obtain a special frothing pitcher
for to create her own Chai Tea Lattes at home,
a drink unto which, verily, she hath become accustomed
since returning from her sojourning
unto the far Seattle-land.

And yea, The Mocker did look out
upon all that which she did mock before-
the fru-fru Italian names
and the specialized equipment,
which then begat these many beverage elitists.

And lo, as she looked out across
the Hot Beverage Landscape
and saw that verily it doth now reside
within her kitchen as well
The Mocker saw that it was very good.