This Post Has Lots of Stuff!
If you've ever said, "Gee, I wish Rita would post a hodgepodge of unorganized crap" - and I'm sure that most of you have* - then today is your lucky day! Because this post is exactly that. Although I like to call it "Bullet Points of Random Awesomeness."
*Okay, so you probably haven't ever said that really, but let's pretend.
- First things first: I've got a new giveaway up! It's a spectacular pair of Le Creuset baking dishes in, like, the most happy color ever. So go click on the giveaways tab at the top of the page (or here) and enter to win - all you gotta do is leave a comment! Yay!
- Secondly: I think I've figured out why I have such a wrinkly forehead, y'all.
It's my posture.
My computer sits right in front of a window, and I just caught a glimpse of myself slumped over at the keyboard, looking like Quasimodo 2.0. My posture is horrible! Absolutely appalling! And if I'm not careful, I'm gonna be starting all my sentences with, "Before I had this hump on my back ..."
When I'm all hunched forward like that, I noticed I have a tendency to keep my eyebrows raised. I guess it has something to do with how I'm looking at the screen, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the ever-deepening creases on my too-young-to-be-wrinkled forehead. Sountil I forget from now on I'm going to try to be more mindful of both my posture and my facial expression!
- i wish i could write like this. like i'm too busy and important to fuss with the capitalization of letters. like my powerful stream of consciousness cannot be interrupted with those intrustive I's and A's. But I'm a writing nerd and everything has to be capitalized, punctuated, and sometimes italicized. It's kind of a pain, really.
- I seriously think Cameron has an abnormally loud voice. Like, when he talks, it's at a fairly normal volume but when he cries? He sounds like a bellowing calf. His voice is so ... big. It's so embarrassing out in public when he has a typical two-year-old meltdown and everybody within a five-mile radius can hear (and, consequently, gawk).
*Okay, so you probably haven't ever said that really, but let's pretend.
- First things first: I've got a new giveaway up! It's a spectacular pair of Le Creuset baking dishes in, like, the most happy color ever. So go click on the giveaways tab at the top of the page (or here) and enter to win - all you gotta do is leave a comment! Yay!
- Secondly: I think I've figured out why I have such a wrinkly forehead, y'all.
It's my posture.
My computer sits right in front of a window, and I just caught a glimpse of myself slumped over at the keyboard, looking like Quasimodo 2.0. My posture is horrible! Absolutely appalling! And if I'm not careful, I'm gonna be starting all my sentences with, "Before I had this hump on my back ..."
When I'm all hunched forward like that, I noticed I have a tendency to keep my eyebrows raised. I guess it has something to do with how I'm looking at the screen, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the ever-deepening creases on my too-young-to-be-wrinkled forehead. So
- i wish i could write like this. like i'm too busy and important to fuss with the capitalization of letters. like my powerful stream of consciousness cannot be interrupted with those intrustive I's and A's. But I'm a writing nerd and everything has to be capitalized, punctuated, and sometimes italicized. It's kind of a pain, really.
- I seriously think Cameron has an abnormally loud voice. Like, when he talks, it's at a fairly normal volume but when he cries? He sounds like a bellowing calf. His voice is so ... big. It's so embarrassing out in public when he has a typical two-year-old meltdown and everybody within a five-mile radius can hear (and, consequently, gawk).
And that's all the Bullet Points of Random Awesomeness I can muster for now - I hope you aren't, like, overloaded on awesomeness because of it. (Although come to think of it, I guess there are much worse things to be overloaded on. Like Long Island iced teas. Don't ask me how I know ...)
Keely, The Un Mom, has a link up every Tuesday for random posts, you should totally check that out. I love it.
ReplyDeleteAnd my little one has a voice like that. Like normally he is pretty mild mannered, but when he gets in a huff it is like a crazy person is talking.
i'm also a sucker for the punctuations and all that, but i use the small letters because i lose my train of thought when i edit...
ReplyDeleteI just get lazy. Sometimes I use punctuations, and sometimes I don't.
ReplyDeleteI love it! Sometimes when I am commenting I will use all lower case letters...shhh don't tell anyone :)
ReplyDeleteI'll be sitting at my computer and then suddenly realize that I'm all hunched over, too. I'm really trying to work on it.
ReplyDeleteYep, the computer will do that to you. Trying to read the screen and all the bad posture to go with it. I can't imagine what my grandmother would say, "Don't slouch! Keep your elbows off of the table!" Hehe.
ReplyDeleteI like proper punctuation too :)
I've totally *wanted* to do random thought posts, but then it fills like I'm not working hard enough to be a blogger.
ReplyDeleteI like BPR awareness, it's a worthwhile cause though ;)
I sometimes want to through my kids out the window too, but very rarely, my laptop.
I have terrible posture too, especially when I'm sitting at the computer. Yup, I'm gonna be a hunchback by the time I'm 40.
ReplyDeleteI am just surpised that we are all not wearing glasses from looking at these computer screens so darn much...
ReplyDeleteJenn
My posture is awful. Whenever I visit my Grandma she's all, "Your posture is really bad." Gee, thanks Gran.
ReplyDeleteYou made me giggle. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy posture at the computer isn't all that great, but I'm trying to be more conscious of it. In other situations it's good, probably because my dad always told me how important good posture is for not only your appearance, but also for your internal organs to work their best. And besides, it makes my stomach look flatter. LOL
ReplyDeleteI feel like I haven't been on in forever....good blog. And glad you figured out about your forehead - hope you work on that now! LOL
ReplyDeleteLong island ice teas. Those things are deadly! I spent a little while on the floor of a public bathroom because of one those once. Good luck with the no slumping - it's hard to do all the time.
ReplyDeletei'm with you on the capitalization thing. i hate messing with that shift button when i'm on a literary roll! great hodgepodge post! love it! (crap! i had to use the shift for my exclamation points- but you're worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
ReplyDelete"Why Rita," she said with a southern syrupy voice, "what-all do you mean, Long Island Iced Tea? You couldn't possibly know what they were, being a fine upstanding mama citizen that you are." Don't ask. I don't know.
ReplyDeleteMy posture is horrible ALL the time. In my family, it seems to be hereditary. We call it "the candy cane back."
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