Tennis was canceled all weekend because after the rain we had on Thursday afternoon / evening the courts were flooded. So were many of the streets – and my living room. My pretty floor to ceiling windows are apparently very badly sealed. I didn’t have any sandbags handy so I used beach towels to mop up the large puddles (this during my first party in my new place!). Makes me very happy that our new building has a laundry room with large washers and dryers in the basement – because what a wet mess!
I’m happy to say that the get-together with my friends went well in spite of the weather and the mess. But I do have to start all over again with my windows and floors now!
The “brilliant” post idea came back to me, and as I suspected it wasn’t that great anyway. My thought was: when you have a monstrously huge zit blemish and you are sure you can see the person you are talking to looking at it so you make an apologetic comment / joke about it and the person you are talking to totally denies noticing anything, are they lying just to be nice or have you just drawn their attention to the one thing that you didn’t want them to notice anyway?
(It might amuse you to know that this idea came back to me last night as I was washing my face. I don’t care what dermatologists say – enough chocolate and I get zits. End of story.)
I like to look at my blog stats, not only to see how many visits I get on a given day but also to see what searches have led people to my blog. One of the most consistently popular searches is for people wanting to convert their digital books from one format to another. That one I can understand. The next most popular lately is for people searching on “birthday ear pulling” which is funny enough but “birthday ear pulling with cake” really amuses me. I had a post of birthday traditions from around the world on one of my own birthdays, but I am happy to say that no one actually pulled my ear. I wouldn’t have permitted that even if they had offered me cake!
It does make me remember that when I was a child, the other children always took the opportunity to give you a “birthday spanking”, the number of smacks corresponding to the number of years. I suppose that’s a tradition that has totally died out. Try that these days and you’ll end up in the headlines for assault.
This adorable creature (chick? duck?) is the product of an after school art club my son attended this term. If you don’t let yourself get distracted by all the bling you can see where he started his stitching, so neatly and carefully, and then became bored and just wanted to finish. The fact that he stitched the whole thing at all is impressive to me – he’s a seven year old boy after all!
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by Blog Services March 1st, 2010 at 10:16 pm