Ten Things I've Learned This Week Already
1. When speaking to college students about blogging (on a panel with other, more serious bloggers), casually drop the words "fat cunt" into your discussion.* That way you are assured their full, undivided attention.
2. It's really best to remove the stickers from your child's clothing prior to washing. Because trying to peel them off the walls of your washing machine? Totally sucks ass.
3. Be careful blogging tired, migrained, or irritated. Which means I'll probably never blog again.
4. That sometimes you just need someone to agree with you totally and completely, and Tertia is excellent at that. Even if her chat ability vanishes from time to time because her Internet is powered by Ibex.
5. That Twitter is a dangerous, dangerous thing and one should NOT go looking for what others are saying about you there. Very bad. Very, very bad.
6. That sidewalk chalk does NOT brush easily off jeans.
7. That it turns out I do like my pink/red (it keeps washing out back to pink) hair quite a bit, and I will probably keep it through BlogHer because, after all, the best way for folks to be able to recognize me is by saying, "I'll be the fat chick with pink hair. OK, I'll be the 40-YEAR-OLD fat chick with pink hair. OK, I'll be the one with the name-tag that says Cecily." Because who knows how many full-figured pink haired bloggers there really are, and I should not assume I am the only one, after all.
8. That no matter what I do, I cannot get my dog to get out of bed when we do. In his old age, he is turning into a sullen teenager.
9. That perhaps rather than having NOTHING to sit on in our trailer, I can indeed live with that $50 used floral print couch.
10. That when I am an idiot, it's best to apologize quickly and move on.
*I used to be in the top ten Google searches for "fat cunt." Sadly, I see I've dropped into spot #20. That is simply unacceptable, so I will have to use those words--fat cunt--several times to up my ranking. I mentioned on the panel that I was high up in the Google search for that term when they asked about how people find your blog. Heh.
