I Want YOU (to leave a comment on this entry specifically, because I am ever the curious one)
Monday, July 6, 2009 A short while ago, Notquiteawake, in a bid to see how many actual readers she had, asked everyone to answer a few simple questions in the comments, which gave me an idea.
I have one of those fancy schmancy counters that tells me things like that 38.2% of you have your screen resolution set at 1280x1024 or that 0.25% of you are from Finland, but I'd like to see all your shiny faces for once, because what my counter doesn't tell me is who you are. Hello, person from North Carolina who apparently stayed on this site for 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 50 seconds! Say hi back! Do you like cats? I like cats, too! Let's go get a sody pop together.
So, here's what I want you to do:
1) If you are already actually on this website, AWESOME, and if you are reading this is in a feedreader, click on this entry's title and come on over. We'll wait, because you're cool.
2) Answer the following three questions in the comments section:
a) What is your website url?
b) Where are you from in real life?
c) What strange belief/idea did you have as a child?
I'll even leave the first comment, because I am a setter of good examples.
See? It's easy, and now I can go and visit your websites and roll around naked in my, for once, overstuffed comments section. I'm curious about who you all are.
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PS. I totally won't roll around naked in my comments section. To do that, I'd have to print out all the comments, and we haven't had any printer ink around these parts in at least five years.
PPS. I just realized that I could leave a picture of my naked boobs in the comments section in lieu of actually rolling around naked, but I generally keep those puppies to myself, and I have family members who may not want to be smacked in the face with my awesome rack.
PPPS. No, even if you are not family, I will not smack you in the face with my awesome rack. This is not that kind of website.
Reader Comments (213)
a) My website url is www.schmutzie.com
b) I hail from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
c) When I was a kid, I thought that virgin wool sweaters came from sheep that had never had sex, and I wondered how they could be absolutely sure that certain sheep had never had sex, and how did that affect their wool, anyway?
1. No url. Not a blogger.
2. Dry-as-a-bone Edmonton. (Praying to the rain gods).
3. Strange belief: if I thought about every scary thing I could imagine before going to sleep, I wouldn't dream about those scary things. I had to be very specific, though, like "vampires in black capes, or red capes; monsters in my closet or under the bed" etc.
a) http://kdiddy.org
b) Pittsburgh, PA, USofA
c) I believed that inanimate objects had souls, so I always felt bad kicking balls or playing with a new toy over an older one. I thought I hurt their feelings.
I obeyed your tweet, and for that, thank you for not sharing YOUR puppies. I have my miniatures of my own to tend ;).
a) http://www.pensieve.me
b) You mean now or at birth? Currently, Chattanooga, TN; at birth, Athens, GA.
c) When I was little, I was CERTAIN I was going to die from lock jaw, so for YEARS--YES, YEARS--I slept with my thumb and forefinger in my mouth to keep my jaw from totally clamping shut. I really should've talked to someone about that....
I might just have to copy this idea....you mind???
:)
a) What is your website url?
>>http://www.secretagentmama.com
b) Where are you from in real life?
>>NE of Atlanta GA (but I was born and raised in suburban Buffalo, NY)
c) What strange belief/idea did you have as a child?
>>I was Wonder Woman!
Robin, copy away. I did!
a) My url is http://daisybones.com
b) Charleston, WV, USA
c) I thought I was crazy, possibly schizophrenic, because I narrated my life in my head. I summoned all my courage to tell Mom, sure she'd have me taken away in a strait jacket. She shrugged & said: "I'll buy you a journal."
a) No url
b) Saskatoon, SK
c) There was a really gigantic flood when I was quite young. My family was supposed to be going to a party & my Mom didn't want to go because of the storm. My sister, Dad & I were waiting in the car when my Mom came out & in a desperate voice asked if the records were in the car.
For some reason all this tension & sense of urgency & my own fears about the storm led me to believe that if you had records in your car during a storm you would be perfectly safe! I was way too old when I finally realized this was not true at all.
a) http://redstapler23.blogspot.com
b) Ventura, California, the most beautiful spot in the USA
c) I thought my dad could call ahead and control the stoplights, because my mom told me he could. Bonus: I also thought the word "doubt" meant the sound high heels make on hard floors.
a) my website is marybeth494.blogspot.com but my blog name is Cats, Books, Life is Good
b) I'm a Jersey girl - born & bred (NJ)
c) I thought if I wished hard enough, I could become part of the books I read. I still wish I could enter a few of them:)
a) http://www.noshowmo.net
b) Richmond, Virginia, USA
c) When I was a kid, I believed that my dad somehow knew how to make traffic lights change from red to green. He would always tell us right when our red light was about to turn green. It wasn't until I was 25 and had been driving for 10 years (!) that I remembered he used to do that, and figured out he was just watching the yellow lights from the other direction.
1. No url. Not a blogger YET
2. St Thomas,Ontario. Home of life sized Jumbo the elephant statue.No I'm not kidding.
3.When I was a kid my imaginary friend Pete told me to cut my long beautiful hair and I did. Ended up with a pixie cut and everyone thought I was a boy.
1. www.ohmyseven.com
2. I was born in Michigan, but I live in Medford, Oregon now, by way of California. I've lived a few places.
3. When I was little, I believed that my name (Brooke) was too masculine. I therefore decided that the day I turned 18 I was going to change my name. To "Aquamarina." Because that's better.
1. http://hardtobehuman.blogspot.com
2. Dayton, Ohio, USA & vicinity (Beavercreek, to be specific)
3. I thought that eleventeen sounded like a number that had to exist somewhere, somehow.
1. http://marymelindasworld.blogspot.com/
2. Seattle
3. I haven't had my coffee yet, so I can't think of childhood beliefs, it hurts to use my brain.
a) lecturesoneverything.blogspot.com, which is really not as defunct as it seems.
b) Regina, SK. Same as you! Wow!
c) I had a book as a child, with a story that changed nearly every time I read it. Then one day it stopped changing, and I was very disappointed. Not really a strange belief because this really HAPPENED, but this is what I'm giving you.
d) kdiddy: I *still* feel the same way.
Hello!
I'm at http://www.fluidpudding.com, I'm from St. Louis, and I used to think it was perfectly acceptable to refer to my eighth grade English teacher as "Mr. Eunuch." Sadly, he didn't feel the same way.
a) mikeraburn.wordpress.com
b) Raleigh, North Carolina
c) I was convinced that the people in the TV could see me. Every time The Brady Bunch came on, I ran and put on a shirt (normally optional in Florida), so Marsha wouldn't see me laying on the couch half-naked.
www.nothingwitty.com
Meridian Idaho!
When I was a child I was terrified of volcanoes, (because we have so many in Idaho?) cobra snakes (Don't you know they can magically teleport from India?) and tornadoes. I'm still afraid of tornadoes, even though we really don't get them here in Idaho either.
1) The only site I spend much time putting content on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayayarai
2) Saskatoon
3) I believed my stuffed animals came alive and went off and had little parties after I fell asleep.
a) my websites are
www.exurbanis.com/about and
www.sendoutcards.com/debbierodgers
b) I was born & raised in St. Thomas, Ontario but the life sized Jumbo statue wasn't there then.
Since 2003, I have been very happily settled on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, just outside the village of Tatamagouche (site of the second season of "The Week the Women Went")
c) When I was a kid and heard people say "spring is just around the corner", I thought I could see it if I triked down to Southwick Street.
a) www.magpiemusing.com
b) raised in one NYC suburb, lived in NYC for a long time, now living in another NYC suburb
c) i didn't know that you could pay cash at department stores - because i only saw people (like my mother) using charge cards.
I too may steal this idea.
A) No blog of my own, I just read everyone elses.
B)Columbus, Ohio, USA
C)I believed that every song my dad sang was his original creation. When I heard one of his songs on the radio I just assumed the beatles stole it from my dad.
a)www.doahleigh.com
b)Grand Rapids, MI
c)I believed that I had to be married to have sex. Ha!
1. my blog is http://angstontheplanks.wordpress.com
2.I'm from Georgia
3. When I was a kid I had a tiny box of "worry dolls" from Guatemala or someplace. Every night I'd assign each doll a problem to solve. I believed they'd eventually make me popular and pretty and get me A+ in Geometry. Damn things never worked though. I failed geometry twice.