Let's give them something to blog about ...

Here are some random things. (I have a vague feeling I'm supposed to be doing a meme ... uh ... I'll do that tomorrow. Unless I can incorporate them into today's entry? Hm ... let me go see what Barbie tagged me about. ... ..... .. .... ..... ....(and she trails off with excessive and erratic ellipsi, leaves you hanging, calling over her shoulder, "Help yourself to a scoop of nutella while I'm gone.")

Oh yeah, here it is. 8 Random Things About Me. I can work that into my pre-planned (ha!) rambles.

1.) Today I got a blister trying to pound out what I thought was a thin cement pad under some bricks along the side of our sidewalk. Turns out it's at least 6" thick and while we made progress, not enough. More pounding tomorrow. So glad I bought myself a baby sledge hammer a while back!

2.) When I get email from my husband, my computer yells "Yahooo!"

3.) Um ... I haven't done tonight's dishes yet because I was out pounding, and then I was smacking.

4.) Oh yeah, I wanted to tell you about Smack. There's this site called Jellyfish and you can sign up there, then go there before you shop online, and places registered with them give you a cashback rebate. Kind of like eBates. Ebates? don't know which way they cap that. Anyway, if you already are shopping at some of those places, you may as well get a rebate, eh?

5.) That didn't really tell you about the Smack part, though. They (jellyfish) also have Smack shopping where during a show they bring products up one at a time and the price slowly drops and you don't know how many they're selling, but if you want it you're torn between waiting for the price to drop and not wanting to miss out. If you don't want to buy it, you can still guess what % off it'll go for, and if you're the closest you get 'guru' points, which is fun.

6.) I'm not really tellng you much about myself, am I? I can't think of much you don't already know, besides the blister, which I already mentioned. Oh, and sitting on the cold cement while leaning and pounding turns out to be really hard on my hips and back. I'm stiff and achy and feeling very old now.

7.) I have really bad astigmatism; the times I've tried to get contacts I've had to get the super duty way off the charts expensive ultra-weighted ones, and they still never sit right. So ... bummer. I'm sure I'd be very cute in contacts.

8.) You already know about my two-tone hair in high school, but did you know it was green for awhile? No, not very cool lime green or not-so-bad-school-color-Spartan-green, but pretty scary-bad grayish-moss-green. Which came from when I tried to dye it back after it was two-tone. The "ash brown" reds washed away leaving "ash brown gray" over "bleached so white it screamed" and made a lovely grayish green color. Which I then dyed auburn to cancel out the green (color theory at it's finest) and it mostly worked, except in bright sunlight, when people would suddenly notice "hey, your hair looks greenish on top." -- I grew that out for over a year and had almost all one-color, natural hair when I suddenly decided to dye it plum, in college. And from then on it changed color monthly. But I have always been fond of the plum.

9.) Maybe I should give you a bonus thing about me, since many of these things are lame. Um ... Um ... Did I ever tell you about the time in college during exam week when I'd been up studying for something like three days straight, and it was the end of the week when almost everyone else has gone home or is done and partying, but I still had one exam? And at 3 am I was awakened to this weird loud buzzing sound. I jumped up and turned off my alarm clock (I had one of those ones where the little clapper vibrates on the big bell thingies), but the noise continued. So I stared at the clock for a long time. Then tried turning the alarm back ON. But that didn't help either. I looked around the room and couldn't place the noise. I heard people outside in the hall and went to ask them if they could hear it. When I opened the door, there wasn't anyone hanging out nearby, so I shut the door and headed back for bed. Then I realized that the noise had been louder when the door was opened. So I opened it up again, just to check. And it was LOUD and almost seemed to be shaking the whole hall. And I thought, "That's strange." and then it dawned on me it was the fire alarms. And I couldn't remember whether I was supposed to wear shoes or not if the fire alarm went off. I went in and found my shoes and eventually made it outside.

It turns out it was one of those exam week party false alarms.

Which, I guess, in my case, was lucky.

So ... there you go. 8 things plus one that are, sort of, in the spirit of the meme. And I'm tagging the first 8 people who read this. Who, I believe, judging from my recent junk comments, will all be spammers. It will be nice to hear from them, don't you think? I am sure you are as curious as I am about my friends "low prices evrpure" and "ZZzz" and "auto insurance low price" -- so, spambots, take it away!

Oh, but any real people reading this can do it, too. No, really.