Miscellaneous Mutterings
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Where has all the funny gone?
I'm sorry I've neglected you my little bloggy pet. It seems my time has been held hostage by a new love - the writer's forum.
"Writers forum?" you ask. Yes, it's true. I've been cheating on you and posting more to the forum than to you, dear.
But don't fret. The forum could never take your place. Not for good, anyway.
I'll be back soon to grace these virtual pages with the quips and essays of a recovering rebel, housewife and home schooling mom. All I need is a good night's sleep and a minor fiasco caused by my husband to provide some inspiration.
No, Alex's yelling "Mom, Jon doesn't want a box of Kotex for his birthday!" in Target today wasn't inspiration enough. It's got to be bigger, louder.
Keep my seat warm.
Truly yours,
Gooblink.
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A group of 25 women at 5:00 AM on Monday morning singing, acapella, an obscure hymn that nobody under the age of 80 would recognize, with quarter notes jumping both ends of the musical scale forcing us (I mean them) into falsetto, sounds like a band of diffident Munchkins singing to the Wizard about the Merry Ol' Land of Oz.
And that was before I'd had my coffee.
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A while ago I wrote a "post":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=103 about a panicky phone call I received from my sister who decided to give away a set of dishes that, for years, she had been protecting like it was the Hope Diamond.
It was funny to me, to think that it would be so hard to part with a set of gift-with-purchase stoneware after 20 years of keeping it safely in storage. Last night while visiting with friends the conversation naturally turned to stemware, and I suddenly remembered a time when I, too, jealously protected a seemingly priceless object. Here, now, I confess my hypocrisy.
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Every so often I review the Gooblink traffic statistics and it's always entertaining to see the search criteria used to bring a person to my site for the first time. Here are a few:
The top phrases or words are "get your goad,":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=6 "get my goad,":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=6 "obstreperous,":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=4 and "sensory deficit.":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=12
Someone even found me with the phrase "Playtex Living Gloves.":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=35 They must have had to search through many pages of results to find Obstreperous Heart and I applaud their determination.
More than one person was looking for "Karlsbader Oblaten.":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=44 Mmmm, yes, I'd like more of that too; anyone here from Germany?
When I saw that someone found my site by Googleing "toilet bowel fuel injection,":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=13 and "concrete ejumacation,":http://gooblink.com/blog/index.php?id=34 well, I just have to believe they stumbled onto the wrong site.
Read more: Search and You Will Find, Click and the Door Will Be Opened
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Bartering for goods or services is a great way to stretch a dollar. My husband does a lot of work for a veterinarian, and when we did have a cat (may he rest in peace) Chuck was able to barter desk-top support services for Max's prescription cat food. One day he came home, dropped the 25 lb. bag of food on the kitchen floor and said, "I need to carry a sign that reads: Will Work for Cat Food."
Sometimes though, you just need some cold, hard cash.
ME: "Honey, do you have {x-mount-of-dollars} to deposit into our checking account so that we can pay the life insurances, health insurance, electric, home owners association, and MUD bills and buy groceries for the week?"
CHUCK: "Hmmmm. I have a bunch of receivables outstanding, but I'll try to scrape some cash together somehow..." Then, as if reading my thoughts he added, "...and without the use of a ski-mask."