“Blame Tara Who?” Meme

I have no idea who Tara is, the sprite who incited both Deeper Issues Dot and Passing Thru Betsy to honor me with meme action, but I thank her deeply for this opportunity to share more deeply true Jannie.

1. Who is the hottest movie star?

Larry of the Three Stooges is my all-time fav, but if we’re talking contemporary actors, I like that Russell Crowe guy.  Girl-wise, I like Uma Thurman.

2. Apart from your house and car, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?

Definitely my genuine-imitation Mr. Spock belt buckle, as seen on tv.  A $379.99 value I scored for only $19.99.

Next most expensive thing, my good-used marble cheese tray for $17.50.

3. What’s your most treasured memory?

Oh, I have so many, but the June Saturday afternoon I got my green wrestling outfit when I was 13 springs to mind.  I was so energized by the shiny spandex, I put ”Big Mike” McGillicuddy in a headlock for 30 minutes until he finally aplogized for teasing me all those years about my knobby knees.  Then all of us kids on both sides of the long-standing feud kissed, made up and went for shakes at the Dairy Dip where my Uncle Sylvester dropped by with his 3-legged goat, Miriam.

4. What was the best gift you ever received as a child?

The box of elbow macaroni Aunt Freda brought me from Italy.  I still have half of it.

5. What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made?

Putting salt instead of sugar in Uncle Sylvester’s birthday cake.  Whoops.  Miriam ate it, tho.  Stole the whole thing right off the picnic table and lived to “maaa” the tale.

6. 4 words to describe yourself.

Spritely.  Optimistic.  Forgiving.   Infinite.

7. What was your highlight or lowlight of 2008?

Getting the Christmas tree early was so great!  Jim brought it home the day after Thanksgiving, a real nice fir that had slid off some old guy’s truck at a red light.  Lowlight of 2008  — missing out on the bake sale at church ’cause I had to sit with the cat at the vet’s all day due to his post-neutering psychosomatica.  I heard there was divinity fudge.  And candy apples.  And baklava flaking so lightly and honeyed it could make angels cry for weeks.

8. Favorite film?

Three!   Waking Ned Divine.  Ghostbusters.  How To Hook A Rug In Four Minutes.

9. Tell me one thing I don’t know about you.

I wear a full-body vintage girdle every day.  Like this one…

10. If you were a comic book / strip character, who would you be?

I would be the stick-person named Susan Lam that Kelly created and centers her adventure stories around.

Bonus question: What’s one stupid thing you did today, Jannie?

Didn’t let the water run at least 45 seconds first thing in the morning before drinking some.

Ta-da!

Okay you guys know what’s coming next, right?  I’m supposed to pass this on to seven of you.  But I’m gonna make it 10, ’cause I like the number 10, it’s so… Metric System.

So, here goes.  And if anybody feels left out, please e-mail me and let me know you’d like to be tagged for my next meme, as I have no way of knowing who likes meming and who wants to avoid it like a rabid pigeon on a sugar-high.

1.   Tammy of Windows 2 The Soul
2.   Carla of Kootenay Bliss
3.   Teahouseblossom of Teahouseblossom
4.   Karyn of Sailor Mittens
5.   Bella of She Sleeps With Sea Glass
6.   Aimee of the Aimee Brons Blog
7.   K of Interstitial Life
8.   TheWeyrd1 of Keen Observer Of The Human Condition
9.   Lane Savant of Feel Free To Laugh
10. Adrenalynn of Rainy Day

Tagged ones, Blame Tara indeed! 

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I’m going to choose one of those 3 little pics as the default for my non-Gravatarred commenting buds.  I know.  I know.  You’ll miss the highly esteemed Mystery Man we chatted about in my previous post about getting your very own Gravatar and how easy (and free,) it is.  Sorry.  But folks, M. Man has seen his day here and we do have the technology to make this blog all that it can be: my Wordpress Consultant, Kim Woodbridge sees to stuff like that, whoo-hoo.

I’m leaning towards the wood duck.  What do you think?

Here is the duck bigger (If you wish, click it to bigger it even more.  Actually, click twice for maximum biggerment.)  I shot him (with my camera,) along the running trail last year.  He is so freaking gorgeous – looks like a painting, I do declare.  Wait, is he in fact a “he?”  I need to brush up on my wood ducks.

So let me know if you like 1, 2 or 3 better and I’ll go with the general concensus.  Please!  And thank you!

Oh, and I’ll totally post that “Blame Tara Meme” next time – look for it on Saturday morning, early.  It reveals tidbits about my Mr. Spock belt buckle, my Uncle Sylvester’s 3-legged goat and my full-body girdle.

Toodles!

Got Gravatar? No? It’s Easy!

Globally Recognized Avatars — a.k.a. Gravatars, are those little square photos that appear beside blog comments.

Maybe you’ve seen mine around?

Lately, as some of you have noted, I’ve changed up the automatically-generated comment images for the not-yet-Gravatarred of you.  I was tired of the old “identicons” and upon experimenting with Wordpress’ other choices of aliens and monsters, which are too weird even for me, plus some of you were assigned sad faces and that just won’t do, I’ve settled on…

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Friends, if you don’t have your own Gravatar, It’s SO EASY to get one and YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE A WORDPRESS BLOG for it to work, the latter tidbit I owe to the wonderful bloggers Karyn and Barkaly.

Here’s what Gravatar.com says…

“Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled sites, like Jannie’s!”

Of course, I could’ve told you that myself but I have to show off that I finally figured out how to do a blockquote box!

Go Jannie, go!  Kick some blockquote keister!

Hey, and once you have your Gravatar, all your past comments become magically retroactively Gravatarred.  And Gravatar.com does not use your e-mail address for anything even remotely nefarious. Plus, and get this  — just for signing up, Gravatar will send you and 7 friends on an all-expenses-paid first class World Cruise!!!

So, if you don’t have a Gravatar and would like one, why delay another moment! Go now — Go! To Gravatar.com.

And for those of you who already have your Gravatar, have you anything you might like to share about yours?

Another chance!

Friends, if you missed out on winning one of my CDs in the recent extravaganza, be not of heavy heart. My pal Jeanne bought two and is offering one on give-away as part of the launch of her new site, Chronic Healing!  To be eligible all you have to do is pop over there and leave a comment on this post.  How easy is that?  She’ll pick the winner June 8th.

And that photo above, just one of my favorites ever I took of Kelly.  She was 5.  Tap dance recital costume.

[Oh yeah, over at Jeanne's you can leave multiple comments to increase your chances of advanced Janniedom, thanks Jeanne!]

So how ’bout that!

Our little Billy Mays, picked comment numbers 25 and 46, making the two winners of the Jannie CD Give-away (whoo-hoo)….. Paige of Paradise Mountain To Hell’s Valley and Nikkicrumpet. So congrats, you two!   And thanks everybody else for playing – some of you gave it a bold old try indeed. It was fun!

Here’s the second part of the session with a bit of cropping, as I realize the original at over 5 minutes was possibly a bit long for peeps with very busy lives.

And here’s a still with light “enhancement.”

Oh, and my ego so LOVED all your comments on that last post, thanks.  See you soon!