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4 Rubber Duckies and a Funeral

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Today is a good day for a Threesome

Today is a good day for a Foursome

I know I said I wouldn’t write about this again. But it’s ALL consuming and no other thoughts can penetrate my brain at this point in time so… sue me. Have your lawyer contact my lawyer and we can let them duke it out. Because I’m going there……I can’t help myself!

I don’t think I signed my original pledge in blood or sacrificed a small bird at the end of my hopeful paragraph, so your lawyer might have a weak case. Just saying……..

Something has gone wrong at the spot where my tooth used to be located. I don’t know what is wrong, but my highly tuned instincts tell me this is so. I know this gut instinct is spot on, because I would like to die. I would like someone to take a sledgehammer and knock me upside the head so I can finally be unconscious and blissfully out of my misery. This new enhanced pain makes me wonder what in gods name was I whining about when I simply had a broken tooth. Broken tooth pain felt like a soft breeze caressing my skin compared to this new mind boggling experience.

I called my dentist office at 8:00 a.m sharp this morning.

Secretary Mindy, all cheery and bright, “Good Morning, Dr. W office, how may I help you?”

Rebecca: “Yes, This is Rebecca, your favorite Dental phobia patient that you did a tooth extraction on Friday.”

Secretary Mindy, “Oh hey Rebecca, surprised to hear from you, how are you doing?”

 Rebecca: ” Yes, something has gone terribly wrong and I would like to schedule a time to come in so you can all just kill me. Put me out of my misery. Mount my head on the wall to evoke fear in all your patrons.”

Secretary Mindy: “Hahah, you’re so funny.”

Rebecca:” I’m dead serious. I would like to die now. I wanted to die last night, but I don’t have enough pain killers left to overdose. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME.”

Secretary Mindy: “Can you be here by 11:20?”

Rebecca: ” I’ll be early. Do I get another rubber duckie to go with my collection?”

Secretary Mindy: ” I’ll give you two.”

I’ve had about all I can take of this. If there wasn’t such a thing as bad luck, I’d have no luck whatsoever. Please tell me someone else has experienced this sort of tooth misery before. I can’t be the only one. I’m talking the kind of pain that makes you want a quick and peaceful death, just so you can sleep again………..

BUT, I’m not letting this tooth issue break my daily writing streak of 48 days. Nope, no way. Someday, I will return to normal. Someday I’ll write about something that doesn’t reek of moaning and groaning and irrational requests. Someday, I may even eat again~

Have Blog, Can it be Better?

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Today I shall not focus, mention, whine, or elude to an all consuming issue I promised I wouldn’t type about again. Surely this is proof of the admirable will power I’ve gathered over the grace of time. But I am thinking about changing the title of my blog to “Pill Poppers Unite” and compare notes with others who have suffered misery under the guise of teeth maintenance.

Ignore that whole last paragraph.

blogToday, I decided I wanted to focus on helping other bloggers. When I changed blogs a few months back to seize and conquer my own domain space, I was pretty clueless and floundered through trial and error. Blogging for me, up until this point is pretty much like how I take pictures with my basic Nikon digital camera. I point (write), I shoot (publish), and hope for the best.

Many people have asked me questions, seeking direction and advice for their blogs lately. Things like, how to host your own blog, to how in the world do I continue to post daily entries. Honestly, I don’t have the best answers for those questions, remember, point and shoot,  but I’ve started to follow a couple of blogs that have helped me along and I wanted to share them today. This lady can learn new tricks!

The first blog I highly recommend is called One Cool Site. Timethief is the Author of this blog and on her About Page she writes ” Blog description: Tips and Tutorials on How to Become a Better Blogger, How to Build a Better Blog and where to find free Blogging Tools and Resources” I think that describes her fantastic blog perfectly. I’ve gone through many, many of her entries and achieves and discovered valuable blogging information that frankly after 5 years of blogging, I was clueless about. Go visit her site, explore, and look at your own blog through a new light.

The other blog I’d like to point out today is Wright Creativity, authored by Kirsten. Click through her categories~This blog focuses on writing content and social networking. She provides tips on the many social networking sites available and often pens entries that inspire new writing topics and ways to improve your blog experience and interaction on your own blog. If you find yourself in a writing rut or trying to figure out how to mingle with the crowd, go visit and get back on the highway.

I also recommend joining the social network site Blog Catalog. It’s the mack daddy collection of blog sites on the Internet. For me, it’s like being a little kid in the biggest candy store ever built. Blogs, blogs, blogs galore and no end in sight to the potential discoveries. At the bottom of this page you can also click on my blogcatalog widget. That’s the easy way to find one another in the candy store~  

Between those two blogs alone and joining the blog network site, I believe anyone could get down the basics without frustrating trial and errors. I know blogging is personal and everyone does it for their own reasons, but it never hurts to improve things around us. So, go forth, learn new tricks and above all, keep writing……….

1,000 Priceless Comments

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Today someone will be my super duper special 1,000th commenter.
Cha-Ching!

I know this, because right now I am at 992 comments according to my handy dandy dashboard. By the way, Charley of Constant Courage (excellent blog to read and participate in) blessed me with comment number 992, just in case anyone feels like doing some math.

Earlier this week when I noticed I would probably hit that banner mark, I thought to myself, oh I should do something special and remarkable to show my appreciation and celebrate. But then I had a tooth issue that has turned into a bit of a nightmare and honestly~ I am still drugged to HIGH heaven, in pain and can barely think straight much less plan a party.

Got Prescriptions?

Got Prescriptions?

Lets just say, I got myself a bit of an infectious party going on inside my mouth and the medieval procedure has been postponed until Friday. Until then, my party is in the form of 3 prescription bottles, a zoned out brain, an icepack and my bed.

 I don’t do stoned well. There may have been a time and a day when I enjoyed having my brain floating around in lala land. If perhaps there was such a day, way back when, that I enjoyed the side effects of mind altercation, those days are long gone. Now, I just can’t function.

Opps, two more comments just came in. Thank you Fred and Total Chat (?) on my Pass the Salt entry. So I guess that makes Fred #994 comment~ So close, so close. Who oh who will it be???

One should not try to write when their brain is bubbling like an egg on a hot sidewalk. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t visited a lot of blogs this week. It’s difficult to concentrate and absorb little things like words and letters. Hmmm, I think that’s my way of saying, if I haven’t been by your blog this week, I have a legit excuse! But I’ll be back to normal routine by this weekend. Friday should be my saving grace………..

I do want to thank everyone for gracing me over the last several months with your comments. Moving blogs is unpredicatable business, but I’m glad I did it.
Thank you for your support of my new location.
Your gift of words have been priceless, hilarious, insightful and thought provoking.

~I am a humbled and blessed blogger~

 

Saturday Save

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Saturday Daily entry Save~cha-ching 39 days in a row~ I snuck out of town for the last 24 hours. Gone. No house. No wireless connection. No email. No laptop. No kids. No cell phone. No pets. I did let the husband tag along because I am a kind and generous soul. I was a wild woman, carefree and without responsibility. It was brief, but it was divine. I consider it one half of my Mothers day present to myself, time out and away from the house~

m123Tomorrow is the big day. The holy Mother of all appreciation holidays. Not only do I look forward to how my daughters will spoil me, I get to spoil my own Mother. The whole day carries good vibes and I’d never turn my back on good Mamma juju.

As I’ve wandered around the Internet over the last week I’ve seen many, many good suggestions for Mothers day gifts. I’ve seen the standard ideas, some unique possibilities and a few that just raised my eyebrows and made me hope to gawd my daughters didn’t stumble across the article. When it comes down to it, I’m not really worried about what I get……..But, if I have a choice or voice in this matter I do have a few requests.

  1. Since it’s my day, no one and this includes pets, should make a single– solitary noise in the morning until I am fully awake. I’ve heard about this fairy tale called quote “sleeping in” and I’d really like to test it out. I’m fairly certain it’s just an urban myth, but like a mad scientist, I’d like to experiment~But please have the coffee fully percolated and ready for my favorite cup. You can do this silently, I have faith!  
  2. Standard, no lift a finger around the house, Mothers day rules should apply, but this year, I would like a bell. That’s right a bell. The jingle jangle of a bell would enhance my pedestal status on the couch. I’m certain.
  3. For one day, no one should text message around me. That’s right, nadda on the text messaging your friends right next to me and my pedestal. The annoying, click click click your fingers make at warp texting speed drives me batty. I know you didn’t know this bothered me so, but there. It’s out. If you must text, go to the bedroom or the bathroom. Just think of all the exercise you’ll get! It will be like watching a tennis match.
  4. Rice krispy Treats. Make a whole pan thats just for me. Say a vow to the Patron Saint Mommyday that no one will dare swipe a square or look at my feast with hungry eyes and a quivering lip. There should be no rice krispy treat guilt, on Mothers Day. Do that, make me rice krispy treats and I’ll pledge a whole ‘nother year of putting you both on a pedestal and loving the hell out of you~

That’s it. I think, that’s simple enough. Now, I’ve got to run, clean the house top to bottom, do as much laundry as I can get in before midnight, scrub some toilets…….you know, get the house prepared for my day off sort of deal~~~

Feel the Quickie Love

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Honest work is getting in the way of my habitual habit of blogging this morning. So, by Rebecca standards, this should be a quickie. I’ve got less then 15 minutes to pull this off……Wham, bam, thank you…..blog entry. Barely time to squeeze in a warm-up paragraph. So, did your mind go there? Seriously. I want to know. It’s good to know the company I’m keeping~

blackI’ve played with my header again. (keep it clean folks, keep it clean) Are you feeling the love yet? Does the May quote entice feelings of friendship and does the colorful pink petals positively ooze with welcome ? Yes? No? If it’s a no, spare me the agony and just say the sort of thing a person says about a newborn baby that looks like a creepy wrinkled 90 yr. old bald man. Say, “Oh, yes, well, I just love the color of your font. Yes, font, it’s just adorable.” When in doubt, compliment the color of the hair, or eyes, or font style. That’s called, huddling in the safe zone.

I’ve also lost 10 lbs. What? You didn’t notice?!!?? I whittled 5 lbs off each side of my blog here. I did some side bends, a few jumping jacks, and shrunk my layout from a 99% tent dress down to 89% wrap. A whole dress size! I feel positively sexy!! Now if I could figure out how to flash some cleavage ( I can’t find that feature in my template…. yet)  I’m sure I’d score some sort of bonus points. Give me time, give me time…………

 This feels like one of those writing tests. Don’t think about what your typing, just do it for 10 minutes straight, as fast as you can and hope for the best. No matter what, don’t stop typing. You see thats what I’m doing, typing because I’ve run out of things to write. I know, this must be thrilling. Witness Rebecca start to flail and desperately add letter after letter in a feeble attempt to fill white space. I should apologize now, because I’ve only got 2 minutes left in my allotted work break. Apologize for subjecting visitors to an entry that clearly evolved from desperation and shallow waters. Forgive me, I’ll do better tomorrow~~  

Does the pink make up for it? It should! It’s pink for blog sake! Can you get anymore cheerful and sweet then pink? Nope. Didn’t think so………