Sending loving thoughts to all of you - I miss you so!
February 14, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day
Posted by Marti @ September 19, 2007
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast ye mateys! Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Have fun!
Enjoy this cute graphic
from Susan Reynolds and delight in the day, me hearties!
Categories: Special Days, Friends, Humor, Blogging
September 10, 2007
Free Hugs
Today is free hug day. Last year I was involved in the Project 2996 blogger tributes to victims of 9/11.
This year I wanted to do something in remembrance, and I discovered Free Hug Day on Facebook.
From the site:
September 10th, 2007 will be remembered as the biggest Free Hug Day this world has ever seen. Everybody get ready, this one is going to be HUGE.
Invite everyone you can!!!!! Thank you!!!!
The Reason for the date,
September 10th is the day before 9/11. We will all sit down on that day and think about the tragedies that have befallen this world, we will think of the twin towers, of the Iraq war, of the terrorist attacks all over the world. We will think to ourselves…what has this world come to? where has the good gone? That is why I created this event, so when you do ask yourself that, you think about all the hugs you had received the day before and you think to yourself that there is love left. I want people to be reminded that this world has a great amount of good left in it, and that it should never be forgotten.
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I think this is a beautiful thought - to think about those we love, who touch our lives and live in our hearts. Share a hug today with those people - in real life and on the Internet.
Peace and joy to all of you!
{{hugs}}
Categories: Special Days, Friends, Humor, Blogging
August 10, 2007
Life is like…
Life is like a roller coaster - you never know when you’re gonna be upside down or puking.
OK, so I am no Forrest Gump in the world of quotable quotes.
We have husband’s car back! The forest fatah won’t stop us, because we are pure of heart (and have rental coverage - lol). Of course NOTHING is ever easy in MartiWorld, so retrieving Neonica (Husband’s nickname for his car) was a long days journey into night.
We returned the PT Cruiser (which I loved - I want one SO bad it makes me tingle - lol) and paid the piper. I did get some cool Geico schwag: key rings, cup insulators and bumper stickers imprinted with the cave men and the cute little lizard.
Then we walked across half a mile of asphalt like a cat on a hot tin roof. We inspected the car and it was all together again. We were prepared for the great escape. We plopped into the internal inferno of the Neon and with what we thought was a final wave, turned the key. It gave us a raspberry (that sound you make when you stick your tongue between your lips and blow, which is not nearly as nice as Lauren Bacall’s husky whisper, “You know how to whistle don’t you? Just put your lips together and blow”). It would not start.
I marched back across the parking lot like Patton. I was all over that technician like Quentin Tarentino on a cinematic metaphor.
They brought a big battery charger out on a (not hello) dolly, and re-charged the battery, then pulled the car back into the shop. We retreated to the big chill of the waiting room as 12 angry men tried to figure out WTF the blonde could have done to the car that was obviously running when they drove it to the parking lot. I think they decided to call in the exorcist. Whatever they did, they got it running.
Sort of.
We drove out to pick up the wizard of oz and when he got in the car, none of the dash lights worked. Not even the radio display would light up. Back to the future we went, with Husband muttering, “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my automobile! And, you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!”
It wasn’t pretty.
:)
But all is not rotten in Denmark (or Missouri). Liz Strauss has stirred up a brouhaha worthy of the Witches of Eastwick with her post about women bloggers.
Yours truly and many other fabulous females are on the list, go check it out!
Now the list seems to be filling out nicely. What women bloggers can you add?
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My apologies to darling Chase, who is a wonderful blogger. He tagged me for a meme, but I have a massive amount of editing facing me and I don’t have the time (or nearly as interesting of a story as he does!) so I must decline.
I send him the very best wishes though, and appreciate the thought!
Happy Friday to one and all!
July 23, 2007
Stunday
For most of you, yesterday was Sunday. Here it was Stunday, as in a day of stunning events.
First, I was stunned (in a good way) to see a spike in book sales following mention by Chris Brogan, praising Queen Klutz. I’ve been pimping …errr…promoting the book for months and haven’t seen this kind of sales. Maybe it was his honesty. Not many men would admit that their wife laughs in bed, 
and this brave soul left this twitter post:
God love ya, Chris.
I saw a similar spike following my interview with Liz Strauss.
I thank them both! Isn’t it great when the blogosphere smiles on you?
Then I was stunned (in a strange way) when Husband got gasoline. No, the act of gassing up the car isn’t stunning (expensive, but not stunning). He dropped Daughter and I off at the grocery store (scene of the non-juggling hair-hanger routine) and took off for the service station on the corner.
Daughter and I finished shopping and waited outside the store. We could see the station but didn’t see his car. We wondered where Husband was, and made up all sorts of fictions about what could be delaying him.
Truth is stranger than fiction, though.
When he pulled up to pick us up, he said, “You’re not gonna believe what happened.”
It takes a lot to send our Unbelievablility Meter into the red, but this did.
While he was at the station, and we were inside the store, he was approached by a scraggly fellow wearing a bandanna. (Not just a bandanna, but as the topper of his crusty, fashion faux pas outfit). ScragglyMan asked Husband for a ride to the hospital.
Husband is no fool. He’s been around the block. Hell, he’s been around the world (and yes I mean that both ways - LOL) He sized up ScragglyMan, and determined that he appeared unarmed, non-threatening, and indeed in need of medical assistance. So Husband drove him to the ER.
Along the way, the tale of ScragglyMan unfolded. ScragglyMan’s recent past is…uh…”colorful”.
He needed a lift because he didn’t think he could walk the five more miles it would take to make it to the hospital. His medical emergency was that he was peeing blood now, after being on a meth bender for several days (or possibly months). He wasn’t able to drive because he’d lost his license some time back. Seems he’d been driving someplace to get some weed, and he got kind of tired, so he decided to take a couple of mini-whites, but it turned out they were tranquilizers. He fell asleep at the wheel of the car and had a wreck. For some reason (which he didn’t fully understand) the state saw fit to take his license way from him for this infraction. Oh and he was in mourning because his sister was recently found in a shallow grave. Fortunately they’d reached the ER by the time this bit of information came out, although Husband was never really worried because he is six foot four and ScragglyMan was small, frail and peeing blood (luckily, not in the car).
Even I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Then we drove over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. Armed with multiple pages of notes on possible fixes for taming the demon Vista, we again attempted to get the DSL to work. We tried them all. None worked. So with a sigh, I called customer service again.
I was stunned (in a, “this-must-be-a-parallel-universe” kind of way) to get someone who spoke English without an India accent. I was even more stunned when he walked me through the setup again, but had me register the modem this time ‘round. Sweet Jesus action figure, things started to work!
So that was the solution. It seems so simple and obvious, I don’t know why one of the 150 people around the world (only one meaning - LOL) I’ve spoken to in the past few weeks couldn’t have told me this, but at least it IS working now. We turned the machine off and back on several times, and tested it in different parts of the house, and it was all good. (Knock on wood - LOL.)
So it was a stranger-than-fiction, stunning weekend here in Mazoorah. How was yours?
chris brogan
liz strauss
