Category — listy goodness

I found a great blog challenge on Gwen Bell’s blog and decided to participate.

I made a Best of 2009 Blog Challenge page, but you can do it anyway you want to.

I’m not tagging anyone to participate but I hope you all will so I can see what your Best of 2009 list is. What can I say, I’m nosy.

After three weeks away with the faeries, I came back to find I’d been tagged in a meme by Pannonica. Who am I to not answer the call?

Here’s the fine print and rules and all that:

• Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
• Share 7 facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Seven facts about me:

1. I enjoy getting these “all about me” sort of memes. Where else is it so acceptable and even expected to talk about yourself incessantly. I don’t know too many people who truly hate talking about themselves and these let you rattle on and on!
2. I enjoy cleaning messy things – stoves, bathrooms, bedrooms…whatever. I like seeing things well organized and clean. It gives me warm fuzzies that are second only to putting on warm socks fresh out of the dryer.
3. I am usually pretty generous with my things except for popcorn and books. I DO NOT share popcorn. Period. Get your own and keep your greedy eyes away from mine. I will share my books, but I am the nastiest librarian ever. When I say I want that book back in exactly the same condition I lent it out in – I really mean it.
4. I have an absolute horror of being late for things. If we’re meeting at 6 for dinner, you can bet I was in the neighbourhood at 5 (and sitting in nearby coffee shop checking my watch obsessively) and I will be no less than 15 minutes early for our date.
5. My book collection is organized like Chapters. Children’s books in one section, classic literature in another etc. I tried putting them on the shelves in alphabetical order by author, but I could never find anything. I expect to find Dickens and Austen keeping company and that my collection of hard cover Twilight books will be in general fiction.
6. Which leads to…I liked the Twilight books. No, I do not have any shame. I mean sure, they are silly and obsessive and even creepy at times – but the 16 year old girl in me LOVED them! The adult I was supposed to become thinks they’re ridiculous, but I never listen to her much anyway.
7. I believe that being a kid for the rest of my life is an honourable aspiration. It allows me to still believe in things I can’t see, own crayons and a couple of colouring books, play with toys when I’m feeling silly and adore cartoons. Plus, I still think that Sugar Crisp cereal with chocolate milk is fantastic!

Now for the dreaded tagging – but you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to (or Pan got to you first):

• The DailyDish – because now that she’s moved and got her pretty blue garbage bags out for collection, I feel OK about being nosy.
• Nate – anyone who can write about Guitar Hero as science is someone I need to know more stuff about.
• Lens Impressions – I’m hoping she’ll write one on Waldi’s behalf because honestly, that dog is ridiculously adorable. And I want photos too.
• Romi – I’m just nosy – her site is more entertaining than People magazine and her facts will be hilarious.
• Free and Flawed – She already shares lots about her life – but the public need to hear more is not so easily sated. Plus, she draws stick people too!
• CurlyWurlyGurly – Come oooonnnnn – all the cool kids are doing it!!

OK, that’s only six people, but I never said I would follow the rules.

I know, it’s been done a million times – the old “search term” blog post; the post that proves you had nothing to say to anyone but felt the need to talk anyway.

I never said I was a creative genius. So, here they are; the search terms that have led people here since my first post (and my comments in parentheses):

• cthulhu whore (wtf?)
• using Valtrex instead of condoms (not a good idea btw)
• stick people
• facebook ettiquette, ex-girlfriends (so much I could say, so little time)
• erotic stories
• peeing -dog toilet “stick figure” (and again…wtf?)
• french stripper names
• darth vader’s penis (”Hey baby, wanna see my light sabre?” – oh come on, YOU were thinking it too!)
• “his dirty bare feet”
• wie spritzt der same aus dem penis (Google translate says it means: “such as injecting the same from the penis.”)
• addicted to pens (Whoever you are, me too! And I love you!)
• sneaky blueberries
• can you still get an STD after a vasectomy (Yes. Wrap it up you moron.)
• barbarian screaming

These are just the ones I found amusing. Anyone else want to share some of the more amusing (or horrifying) search terms that have brought them traffic?