It’s been a while since I’ve posted any bookmarks-I am working on a new site which will be a resource of odd and interesting linkage, just give me time!
Today’s bookmarks are a hodge-podge of sites. Enjoy.
- Birthday Alarm-If you’re like and and have a tendency to forget birthdays, this site is great. You can email friends and family inviting them to add their birthdays to your list. When a birthday arrives-you receive a notification. Nifty site.
- This Is True-I subscribe to this site- it’s free. Offers weird news stories from around the world.
- Newspapers 24-One stop access to newspapers from around the world. Great source for information.
- John TP.com-Excellent site offering WordPress tips, tricks and themes, Windows XP tips and tricks and other technical goodness. My geeky side loves his site.
Beth
October 24 2006
Humor
God Bless my mom, really. She means well, however, her approach to life’s issues is a little brutal at times. She’s convinced the reason I haven’t been hired is because I’m overweight. I’m not monstrously huge, I look good in my clothes and dammit, I’m cute. But convincing her it isn’t my weight, it’s the lack of intelligence of those who have interviewed me, isn’t working. The following is a snippet of a conversation we had earlier:
“Can you get on that internet and look up lingerie?”
“Yeah, why? You’re wanting me to find a sexy nighty for you? That’s sick.”
“No, I saw on a show the other day about overweight women who are wearing this body suit that holds in their fat.”
“So, I can go from fat to skinny just by wearing a body suit? Was it built by NASA?”
This leads into her, a thin woman, telling me, a fat woman, items I should have on hand to distract people. She wants me to distract my fat. The only thing that is going to hide my fatness-is a fatter woman standing next to me-it’s a fact. I need more fat friends. Per my dear, sweet mother, fat friends won’t work, the items below will.
- Lipgloss. Sure. Shiny lipgloss is going to make me look skinny. Look, I just put some across my lips. Jesus, I’m a size 8 already.
- Nice earrings. What? How are earrings going to make me look skinny? Well, since she’s an expert, it leads people’s eyes to my face. No-it leads them to my ears. Then again, my ears are quite thin.
- Control panties. Have you ever put a pair of these on? I might as well bind myself in duct tape.
- Nice hair. Not that you can have it handy, but, I’m to always have my hair fixed. Gel, hairspray, goop-this will make me look thin. Maybe I should just shave my head and tell people I’m the “Stop The Insanity” woman from a decade ago-gone wrong.
- Manicured nails-toes and fingernails. I do this now-and I’m not looking any thinner.
- A blazer. At first I got all excited and thought she meant the vehicle. Of course not. She meant the one thing a fat woman should never wear simply because the damned things can be uncomfortable and heaven forbid a button pops.
- Black slacks. Got ‘em. I’m still fat.
- A small necklace. Again, to distract. With all this distracting I might as well be invisible.
- Nice clean shoes. Great, I’ll be trying to talk to people while they’re looking down at my feet. That’s a definite social go-getter.
I have a solution? A diet? Huh, mom? THAT would work. Which is what I’m attempting to do-a little difficult since I have no idea when a food product will make my gall bladder act up-but hell I’m trying. Maybe I should go get a manicure/pedicure in a pair of control top panties and say screw it.
I’m all for animals. Love them. In fact, I’ve been feeding a stray, wild kitty for the past several months. But, some people take their love of animals a bit too far. Or, they have nothing better to do than to dress the beloved pet in a Yoda costume. Ok, ok. I’ll admit this little guy is adorable.
In other ramblings, I have a blog pet peeve. Why do people feel it necessary to tell me what my IP address is? I know what it is-it’s mine. It’s there every day. I don’t need to see it on your blog. That’s like posting a picture of me and saying, “Hello, this is what you look like.” No? Really?
With all the hoopla surrounding PPP one would think it was the end of the internet as we know it. My thoughts? Every blogger, at one time or another, has signed up with a service, whether it’s an affiliate site, Adsense, text links, etc. Why? Because there is money to be made and advertising is the easiest, most lucrative, (if you’re lucky), way. I originally heard about PayPerPost in a shoutbox on a popular blog exchange I frequent. I was trying to determine a way to keep my domain up and running. Once my blog was approved and I posted my first paid post-I was hooked. Thirty days may seem like a long wait to be paid. But, it really isn’t. To date, I have been paid $137.05 and will be paid an additional $216.16. How am I using the money? For now, it’s paying for my domain and several bills I can pay via PayPal, (since I no longer have a checking account). As I build up, I will open a checking account and transfer half, keeping the remainder in my PayPal account. I’ve stated many times before- I only choose opportunities which interest me, or, may interest my readers. I see no difference in a reader skimming past a paid post, than a reader skimming past another ad. I’m not ashamed and neither are the thousands of other bloggers writing paid posts.
