Filed under: Amusement, Entertainment, Fun, Hobbies, Holidays, Life, Notables, Random, Shameless Self Promotion, Travel, Who Cares
I know it kept you awake at night. Really, I do. I have this ability to just know these things and so for those of you to which the Olay company now owes the increase in profits, I do apologize. I’ll just make a list to make it easier and hopefully most of you will be back to your normal, non-wrinkled and cheery selves since you’ll be getting a good rest the night after you read this.
- I experienced a wee bit of Africa on the back of a donkey.
- I viewed the mountainside from a gondola almost 8,000 feet above sea level.
- I bought five pairs of kick-ass shoes from stores we don’t have here in Saskatchewan.
- I ate delicious (though overpriced) food in a five star restaurant.
- I laid on a bed of nails because I’m cool like that Criss Angel guy.
- I changed a flat tire on the side of a highway.
- I experienced the joy of a sulphur pool.
- I saw a bear, therefore I bought new pants.
- I stood on a glass floor in a tower 5,000 feet above sea level.
- I won $780.00 gambling at a casino in Manitoba.
- I lost $78.00 gambling at a casino in Manitoba.
- I enjoyed a hot air balloon ride over Southern California.
- I joined the Alberta Speleological Society and went caving.
- I crossed Ontario’s longest suspension foot-bridge (overlooking Georgian Bay).
- I photographed nature at its finest in Glacier National Park in Montana.
- I spent four days touring wineries.
Okay. I’ll admit it. I didn’t actually do all of those things. I did some of them. I’ll leave it up to you to guess which.
I promise you that four of them are true, and I’ll post a photo each day for the next four days, to show you which. In the meanwhile, why aren’t you supporting man boobs? I’m a little veklempt about the lack of support. You do realize when once is talking about boobs of any kind, support is paramount.
Yeah, well, so what if that kind of support isn’t what I mean. I’m trying anything I can. Geez people. You should care. There are men with boobs all over the world right now, that are suffering emotional difficulties because you won’t support them.
For shame.
Oh.. and I’ll try catch up and answer comments in the next wee bit. I have some Melee’ers to add to the list, and to be honest, right now I’m sticking labels on all my youngest’s school supplies. I was too busy fraccing in advance to get those pens and pencils labeled before we went away.
Filed under: Amusement, Blogging, Entertainment, Fun, Humor, Internet, Notables, Oddities, Peeves, Personal, Quizes, Random, Shameless Self Promotion, Uproars, Who Cares
… but regardless of my slight against quizes (it was in yesterday’s post, but I was only joking) I took some quizes and thought I’dshare them.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get a result other than this fraccing rainbow.
You Are a Rainbow |
 Breathtaking and rare You are totally enchanting and intriguing But you usually don’t stick around long!You are best known for: your beautyYour dominant state: seducing |
Then there was the quiz that was supposed to tell me who’s my inner rock chick.
You Are Pink! |
 Tough. Sexy. Tough. Soulful. Tough. Guys are both attracted and scared of you. “I’ve been the girl with her skirt pulled high Been the outcast never running with mascara eyes” |
So, I like Pink, I can live with that. But since I was a rainbow when I tried to find out what type of weather I was, and then it told me I was Pink, I thought I should find out what color my brain is.
Your Brain is Green |
 Of all the brain types, yours has the most balance. You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver. You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don’t get stuck in bad thinking patterns.You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual). |
So then, having a green brain, I thought maybe it’s steering me wrong. I did the are you living the wrong life (who has a crush on you) quiz and after answering all of the questions, instead of giving me a result, it gave me a link to click. When I did, I was taken to the site for that silly machine called Zoltar, you know… the one in the movie Big. The one that turned the Tom Hanks character from a 13 year old boy to a man. I thought… cool. But to get an answer, you have to plug in your cellphone number and your answer is then texted back to you.
Frac. Like I’m going to do that when I have no idea who’s going to have my number.
I decided that would be it for now. I didn’t really think I was a rainbow and although I do like Pink, it said my brain was green. GREEN. I mean, I like green, it’s a good color. Look at all the green on the fracas blog. That’s proof I’m not a green-ist. But umm… as brains go, green kinda makes a person think of mold, and going bad and being all rotten. It kind of made me a little peeved.
I’ll save you the trouble of doing the quiz just to get to see the Zoltar machine. It’s here.
And I’m sure you’re either thrilled about each one of these cursing me for getting you hooked on that dumb blogthings site too.
Well, I did say I’d be back to post on the 30th, and I sure hope there are some names to add to the BUST Stereotypes campaign… so I’ll be back later today.
I hope you enjoyed the assortment of frivolous entertainment I left for you in my absence.
Mwah!
Filed under: Coffee, Entertainment, Fun, Hobbies, Hobby, Holidays, Humor, Internet, Media, Myths, Oddities, Random, Travel
Sometimes life is boring.
Maybe you’re at work and it’s just one of those days. Maybe you’re at home with some nasty virus, ready to scream if you have to watch another lame television show and thinking if you do one more crossword, you’re going to go crazy enough to poke your own eyes right out of your sockets and then your elderly mother will give you that see-I-told-you-one-of-these-days-you’d-poke-your-eye-out kind of look.
I wouldn’t want that to happen, really… I wouldn’t.
You’re reading this, and that means you read here at fracas (well even if this is your first time, humor me please) which makes you… a fraccer. And I like my fraccers, so I wouldn’t want you to poke your eyes out of your sockets.
So here I am to the rescue, even though I’m not even here. I’m busy climbing mountains, wrestling bears and bungee jumping off of cliffs the likes of which most people have never seen or ever will see in their lifetime.
(Okay, I’m not doing any of those things, but I am away and wrote this post before I left because I was thinking about you, my cherished fraccer.)
I was reading over at this site and one ‘factoid’ stuck out as if it were a tongue, just taunting me to prove it wrong.
- “Every single possible 3-character .com domain (over 50,000) has long since been registered!”
Seems like a pretty fantastical and really out there kind of claim to me. All of them? Every combination existing?
But you see, I can’t prove it wrong, because I’m off deep-sea diving, hand-picking my own Kona coffee in Hawaii, and trying to discover the best recipe for Poi that can be found out there, so that I can post it and steal all of Rachel’s traffic.
Okay, okay. You don’t believe I’m doing any of those things either. I’m probably not, and for sure not trying to steal Rachel’s traffic. I love Rachel and her Coconut & Lime food blog, it’s really great. But I am actually away, which is why I can’t prove that all those domain names are actually registered.
Would you please give it a try for me?
Your task… should you choose to accept it, is to brainstorm all the 3-character .com domain names you can think of, check them out over at GoDaddy (or any other favorite site you might have for that kind of thing… I’m not picky) and if you discover one that’s not taken, post here to be victorious!
Go ahead. What better did you have to do today? Were you going to fill your day by taking some online quiz to find out what kind of panty you are, or were you planning to write your Master’s Thesis on whether the toilet tissue should be hung with the flap facing inwards or flap facing outwards?
Hop to it now. Report back. I’ll be checking.
And please… wish me good luck with that coffee picking. I hear that Valdez guy is really annoyed with me for breaking our date. What could I do though? I heard that Kona coffee was really great and being a coffee freak who has never been to Hawaii yet, wouldn’t you go if it were you? I’ll probably just travel under an assumed name so he can’t find me. If you see me in an airport somewhere, just please… don’t yell out, “Hey fracas.”
Thanks.
Disclaimer: No, I didn’t really go to Hawaii either. If I weren’t so funny, I bet I’d really piss you off.
Text link to sources:
‘this site’ = http://www.stunning-stuff.com/list-funny-facts/8.html?pg=3
Rachel’s = http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/
GoDaddy = http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
Poi recipe = http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_15609,00.html
Eyeball photo source = http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2006/02/forthcoming-events-reminder-and-new.html
I hope you’re enjoying the posts so far. I thought about asking a guest writer to fill in, but decided to show how much I appreciate everyone who comes by to read here so often by putting in the time to ‘bank’ a number of posts. It wasn’t easy either let me tell you! For a mom, sometimes trying to find time just to do a daily post is like getting a 12 year old boy to have a shower. Not to mention the back to school shopping and all that!
Whew! I burned the midnight oil a few times.
Ok, ok… it was actually the 3:00 am oil.
So today, I thought I would show you all what the fraccy front yard looks like.
Well, maybe not the whole yard.
I have to go across the street to get it all in, and then you don’t get the benefit of seeing the nice flowers and foliage up close. I’ve decided then, to show a certain portion of the front yard that’s quickly resembling a nice secret courtyard. It was a large rectangular piece of grass weeds and ants when we bought the house, and over time we dug beds on all sides with the beds along the longest portion dug right at the street instead of up near the house. We used shrubs at the street level so they would grow to be about 5 feet high and create privacy inside the yard.The plantings then, create a living fence (they’re almost tall enough) with the inside of the front yard being available for our pleasure.
Using curvy lines, we created a woodsy sitting area along one side, and on the other, a brick patio with a spot where a portable cast iron firebowl will go. We have another more permanent stone firepit in the backyard, but this one will allow us to have a wee fire in the early summer when the mosquitos are an annoyance. Okay, that means before the dragonflies eat them all. You see, by the end of July this year the dragonflies were darn near as big as a small bird… like a finch or something. Okay, okay… so that’s a slight exaggeration. Slight.
But I digress. Sorry.
The thumbnail on the left is the woodsy sitting area in the spring, and the thumbnail on the right is the same area in the summer. Click either to see them full size.
I have to say, this sitting area is the one I’m most pleased with. It’s the most wonderful place to sit in the morning with toast or in the evening with coffee, and the best part of it all, is knowing we did it all ourselves. By the sweat of our brow (and there was much) and the crick in our neck (there were a few) it’s there because HGTV said we could do it, and by gum… we did!
