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Tag, I’m it! 6 Random Things

WebKittyn tagged me for this meme, and you know me, I can’t pass up a quizzie!

The Rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on the blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know they have been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Ok, here goes!

1. In junior high school, some friends of mine would hold gross-out contests during lunch. I almost always won. Through those contests, I discovered that I love chili and oreos (yes, together).
2. If I could do anything in this world, I would want to be either an opera singer or a cartoon voice-over artist.
3. Banana Boat and Bath & Body Works products give me a rash.
4. I have a Trapper Keeper that I use to keep my design ideas and notes handy.
5. Artificial sweeteners make my stomach hurt.
6. Canned and bottled sodas taste “funny” to me, but those from a fountain are delish!

Now it’s my turn to say, “Tag, you’re it!”

Glas, Zang, Jules, Cookie, Beth, and Conservative Belle.

Humpday Hilarities

This week’s edition courtesy of my mother and is a local one

Tailgating Dog

A lady was telling her son the other day that she saw a man driving down I-10 and a dog was hanging on the to the tailgate for dear life. She said if he hadn’t been going so fast in the other direction she would have tried to stop him.

A few weeks later her son saw this truck at the bass pro shop. It’s a taxidermist!

This is in Daphne, Alabama.

I’ve so GOT to find out who that guy is and ask what possessed him to stick his stuffed dog on his truck’s tailgate!

I’ll stick to my pilates, thanks

I’ve started working out again, and even though it’s helping as far as my overall health goes, my appetite is still out of control and my metabolism seems unchanged (I know it takes a while!). While out running errands earlier this week, I stopped by a display for the newest “fat burner” pills in Wal-mart (Fentraphen).

I know what you’re thinking, and yes, I know it’s a waste of my time looking at that garbage.

So I’m reading the pamphlet and thinking “Oh yeah sure” to myself, and then I started reading the “Do not take if” section…

WARNING: Do not use if you are pregnant or nursing or at risk of or are being treated for high blood pressure, heart disease, renal disease, hyperthyroidism, spasms, psychiatric medication, suffer from migraines, …

Well, that strikes me out.

Fine. Screw you pill makers, I’ll stick to my pilates and steps, thank you very much.

Time for a new monitor?

I worked from home yesterday and ran into a bit of aggravation. My 19″ LCD has started flickering off and on sporadically recently, but for the most part it would stop if I changed the refresh rate. Last night it wouldn’t stay on and so I had to unhook it from my laptop. Jim thinks perhaps it’s a bad cable. I haven’t had a chance yet to test it out on one of our other machines, but it’s about 2 years old now … if it is going bad, it’s just one more thing that I will have to put off replacing until after the Disney trip.

*sigh*

In a way though, I guess this could be a good thing. I had actually been thinking on getting a widescreen LCD and maybe putting it up on the wall behind my desk using one of those flat panel mounts I see all the time in Best Buy. Or maybe a dual monitor set … either way, it’s the waiting part that sucks. ;P

Weird wrong number

I’m sitting at my desk at work and my cell rings …

Caller: “Yes, this is XXXXX from XXXXXX. I’m calling in regards to your request.”
Me: “Pardon?”
Caller: “You requested some information from us regarding Corpus Christi real estate. Is this a convenient time?”
Me: “I’m sorry, you must have the wrong number.”
Caller: “Um, … *awkward pause* … Oh, my apologies then! Would you like to hear the pitch?”
Me: “Thank you, but no. Sorry. I’m not interested.”
Caller: “It will only take a moment of your time. I–”

~click~

I can forgive wrong number callers, easy peasy. I do it too. No biggie, just hang up and try again — but don’t call me by mistake and then expect me to listen to your sales smack. ;P

The Power of PMS

Growing up, my father used to say that PMS was something that women “made up” or that it was all in our minds.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. :roll:

PMS makes us behave in very strange ways. The moody roller coaster from Hades. The bizarre cravings. Crying every time a certain commercial comes on the TV. God help me, I can recall from memory several really bad experiences I’ve had thanks to PMS.

It makes us do really stupid things …

… like me waking my husband up at 3:30 in the morning so I can let him know that I’m still mad at him. :shock:

Ummm, yeah. Sorry ’bout that, Jim. :oops:

Wrong number

It’s not often, but we get wrong number calls at our house. Usually it’s someone trying to reach the local Dairy Queen. (whose number now is nothing like ours, but apparently USED to be one digit off!) Every blue moon or so, we’ll get a call intended for someone else.

I came home last night and a wrong number called the house and left a message on the machine. It was from a local insurance office leaving a life insurance quote. I laughed to myself and deleted the message. Part of me wondered for whom the call was really meant — if I knew, I’d let them know that they could probably get a MUCH cheaper rate with my insurance carrier. LOL!

Revisiting: Blogroll OPML Export

A comment left on my plugin announcement post has pointed me in a new direction. It turns out that this function indeed DOES exist in WordPress, but it is highly under-documented barely mentioned in the WordPress Codex. I think initially my searches were too narrow, which is why I never ran across any of the following information.

Gonahkar’s comment gave me something new to search on, and I was able to find it mentioned in the WordPress Codex under WordPress Files:

wp-links-opml.php

Produces OPML output of Links that were added to the blog via the WordPress admin menu.

A note at the top of the page states that the file descriptions are for WordPress Version 2.x. I was unable to find this file mentioned anywhere else in the documentation. However, under WordPress Features I stumbled across a reference to the export function:

Exporting

Did we say you can also export an OPML file with your list o’ links?

Very cute, guys … c’mon, where is the rest of the documentation on this? From this point, I clicked through to the section on the Links Manager. The page starts with the following:

WordPress allows you to store a set of external links, also known as your blogroll. These links can be put into categories, imported, exported, added, deleted, and edited.

However, the export feature is not mentioned again on the page, nor any others pertinent to WordPress’ current release. The only other mention that I was able to find was this:

Features

* Plugin architecture
* Custom fields
* Sub-categories
* Thumbnail creation
* OPML import and export

These are from the WordPress 1.2 changelog, which tells me that this ability has most likely been in WordPress a while. It’s highly possible it’s been forgotten, or maybe it’s been left out for a good reason. I can’t but speculate as to its reason … but at least now I know it does exist.

I may revise my plugin in the next few days to include this information and will most likely alter its purpose/function.

Little things

You know, sometimes it’s something little that makes your day. I sit and read my feeds and see something that’s either really sweet, or slap-knee funny, and just puts you in a good mood. Here are a couple examples of such that I ran across today:

“Portnoy’s Picnic…” by Sad Old Goth and “Honey, I’m Home” by SondraK.

Of course, I had meant to try out the Cuss-o-meter (courtesy of Rachel Lucas) on my site, but won’t have time to do so until after I get home.

So, until then … Go. Play. Wander.

Leave it to the French…

You’ve heard of wine clubs, right? Well, what about wine pawns?

According to Slashfood, the Crédit Municipal de Paris is accepting wine as collateral for loans to its customers.

A spokesman for the pawnbroker says that this move attracts customers who wouldn’t want to pawn jewelry or the like, but a valuable bottle of wine is discreet enough to remove from the home.

Funny thing … in our house, alcohol would be one of the first things we’d notice missing!

There’s a Monty Python skit in there somewhere, I just know it!

“Bring out your wine! Bring out your wine! … ” :wink:

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