This isn’t really a post

But it’s something. There are plenty of sites out there to keep you from getting stuff done, and THIS is one of the most awesome I’ve seen in a while.

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Tags: bighugelabs, nonsense

I had this longish kinda post

Lots of pictures and fun stuff and stories about the craziness of today, but then I somehow found this The Passively Multiplayer Online Game and got all distracted and don’t really feel like finishing the other post. But I will tomorrow, and it will be worth it. Honest.

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It’s my birthday and I’ll meme if I want to

Yes, it is. Nobody got me a chainsaw again. Decades of disappointment continue with no end in sight. Fine. I did get the blog a domain for my birthday, http://randomlynicole.com. Which just comes, well, right here. The blog has to prove it deserves hosting and design and all that crap before I do anything else.

Oh, there’s a new podcast episode and Bear Jesus got his blog updated too. Also fresh googly eye pictures.

Anyway, I’m a big nerd and I think blog memes are fun. So I wandered over to  The Daily Meme, and picked this one.

First

• First job: hardware store clerk
• First screen name: colie
• First funeral: great-grandfather
• First pet: chameleon
• First piercing: ears
• First tattoo: butterfly on the ankle. shut. up.
• First credit card: don’t remember. in college.
• First kiss: Ricky
• First enemy: Melissa

Last

• Last car ride: home from the gym
• Last kiss: goodbye to husband
• Last movie watched: Roadhouse
• Last beverage drank: Dr. Pepper
• Last food consumed: saltine cracker
• Last phone call: husband
• Last time showered: last night
• Last CD played: Amy Winehouse
• Last website visited: uh, http://thedailymeme.com/lost/

Now

• Single or taken: taken
• Gender: female
• Birthday: May 20!
• Sign: Taurusish
• Siblings: One sister made of awesome
• Hair color: red with gray blond streaks
• Eye color: blue
• Shoe size: nine
• Height: 5′6″
• Wearing: black tshirt and black yoga pants
• Drinking: Dr. Pepper
• Thinking about: going to do some wii bowling
• Listening to: the ceiling fan and my fingers tapping on the keyboard

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Tags: meme, birthday, blog

Fourteen minutes!

Before I totally fail the blogging every day thing yet again. So, um, here.

This is so not a craft I would ever be tempted to try. Entirely too much work. But click on the picture (say click, take a pic! <– if you got that, I feel your pain). YEAH SO. Click on the picture to go see some really cool painted eggs. Goodnight.

P.S. I got the blog a domain today, even though it doesn’t deserve such extravagance. No hosting, don’t want to get out of control. So now this is also http://RandomlyNicole.com. Which, for my fellow oblivious friends, is also now the title of this damn thing.

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Tags: crafts

Live, from the Gaping Maw of Incompetence

The dreaded bounce house party.

*not really that dramatic of a pause*

I’m not a party person. I suck at party planning, decorating, all the stuff that makes good parties. Also, my house? Not exactly “party clean” on a daily basis, you know. But, we must think of the children, right? So a party was had.

The kids did have a blast, and I even caught them all in one picture – I just had to let the picture run for 30 seconds and pretend I wasn’t shooting video. Honestly.

The first part involved weeks of transforming a disaster of a storage/junk room into an actual studio/craft room that people could see and even enter. The process will probably be a whole other post, but here is a snapshot of what happened. It is actually all kinds of awesome now, and completely finished. Well, I’m going to paint the new door. Don’t hold your breath for white, either. This is my room, after all.

I made a nifty slideshow of part of the cleaning process, but it doesn’t want to post. If you really want to see it, click here.

There was OCD level cleaning of the entire house, and minor repairs and paint touch-ups were done. Whatever paint that was, it did a good job, but was certainly not one of the type that clean up easily with water. I found that one out the hard way. The only thing that got this stuff off (that I had around, anyway) was direct blasts of Goo Gone. My hands look normal now, but still feel really weird, and this was two days ago? Maybe yesterday. A blur I tell you, total blur.

The Boy wanted a baseball themed party, with a bounce house. The bounce house he picked out was in the shape of a giant humvee. That part was easy enough, but I thought after putting all that cash into the bounce thing, we’d go homemade with the cake this year. Big mistake. Huge. I always have sucked at decorating cakes, and practice isn’t making perfect at all. Liars, whoever says that crap.

I first tried skating by with just cupcakes that look like baseballs. Even I could do that, right? Kinda…fortunately my friend Jean showed up and took over the icing part, thought I did those red line type things. They do look like baseballs. They. Do. NOT FAIL.

Boy informed me that birthday parties also have cakes, though. A square cake like a baseball diamond. Once again, I overestimated my abilities, and even procrastinated baking the cake until this morning. Red Velvet cake. Boys utterly delighted that the batter looked like a big bowl of blood. Yes, that is the corner of a box mix. I told you I suck with the cake thing. I made the icing from scratch, so bite me.

Transfer of cake to board for decorating – did not go so well. Kind of a lot of it stayed in the pan. I got out a spatula and carefully reconstructed the cake.

In spite of my obvious MacGyver-esque ability to manage this situation, the husband realized it was time to run to Kroger.

I still finished my cake, dammit. It is bad. It is not my worst ever. Nobody ate any. Bastards.

There was much bouncing and Wii playing and lots of friends and the party in general did not fail. Now I have six months off until the next one.

Oh, I might have stuck some googly eyes on the bounce house. Oops. Check out the Googly Anarchy Group, there are quite a few new additions this week, all good!

Finally, my birthday is in like 5 or 6 days, and it looks like I have to give up my dream of a chainsaw yet again. I don’t know why everyone is so against me having one. Help, help, I’m being oppressed!

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Tags: birthday, party, cake, googly eyes, craft pit, home improvement, chainsaw

Random stuff from the internets today

Not necessarily fresh stuff, just stuff I saw during my wandering today. So don’t give me your internet hipster crap about how you’ve seen all that, done all that. This is part of what went into my brain today.

@thirtydaes was tweeting about some Sue Simmons clips, and I got sucked down a YouTube hole of news bloopers for a while.

Hilarious Video

Awful news story (one of many, too many)

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment accusing a man and woman of training the woman’s child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/13/child.dominatrix.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Made a really cool widget for Digsby, only WP doesn’t want to let me use it. SIGH. It’s still an awesome IM/Email/Social Media thingy. Interface? Can you believe I used to make a living as a Network Consultant? Children cause brain damage, I just know it.

The coolest new toy I have, Digsby.

The weather forecast, obsessively, as the big Day of Bouncing party is this Friday. This forecast will change by the hour and be completely wrong anyway, but I can’t stop checking. Please, please can I just not have a backyard full of mud for Friday? Is this so much to ask?

Harry Potter sock yarn. I kind of like the Draco colorway, does that make me a bad person?

I listened to some news podcasts, and this episode of Shitty Blog Radio where Jeckles says a few things I am going to have to discuss with him later.

Then I posted this blog post so Venus and Walt would shut. up.

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Tags: blog, weather, party, yarn, boring, news, internet, digsby

My sister is the most awesome person in the universe

She is awesome for lots of reasons, but like me, she gives good mail. I think we inherited that skill from our mother. Today we’ll talk about her package sending skills, because she sent one yesterday. Check out the random swag she sent.

This book

Hello Kitty Notecards! With haikus on the back. Seriously.

Fabulous pink skull journal. Did I mention the fake crocs (suck it, haters) I bought that are pink with white skull designs on them? To her I did.

A purple Snoopy, because, well, he’s purple. I think that’s candy he is holding. That part doesn’t matter.

Rubber duck in bunny ears and Dr. Pepper candy in a cute little Dr. Pepper bottle.

I have a little bit of a rubber duck fetish. Especially if they are purple. Who knew? She knew! I think she sent every one of these guys, in fact.

Best of all? A Spam Single Pack, because it made her laugh. It makes me laugh too.

She’s coming to visit in a few weeks, be jealous. Be very, very jealous.

Obligatory OMG about Flock blog editor? I just dragged that book picture from Amazon and it coded the link and everything. I am not an affiliate and that is not for profits and glory, but it is cool, yeah?

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Tags: birthday, sister, jenn, dr pepper, ducks

Social Networking Postcard Project

Yes, more stuff from Twitter. @Tojosan started it, and I think it is a fabulous idea that needs to spread. I found postcards and stamps, that’s half the battle, right? Yes.

I wanted to send six (of course), but only three people replied. Sadness. I begged again this morning and got tons more. Postcards going out to

@theberrygirl

@dawniemom

@nmckinney28

@FabGirl

@KnittWitt

@carseycritter

@shawnz

@bluboy137

@pusspatrell

Ok, technically the ones for pusspatrell and FabGirl haven’t left yet, because you know the book of stamps I found during the cleaning frenzy? No clue where I put them. They’re here somewhere. Exactly where I put them so I’d be able to find them. I’m not even going to blame that one on old age, I’ve always been this way.

So there, random fun and a blog post to get Venus off my back. Yay!

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Tags: socialnetworking postcard project, postcard, social media, venus

Shazam!

Ok, I’m kind of oblivious to my physical surroundings. I realize that. So yesterday when we went out in the front yard, it too me a minute to notice one of the trees was a little bit…broken. We’ve had a lot of rough storms blowing trees down right and left lately, so I thought well, our turn.

Helpful neighbor man came over and cut the branch down for us today so the city can haul it away. Not wind. Lightning. My tree was hit by lightning. The tree right outside my house. Ack.

So yeah, I took a bunch of pictures, because I’m a freak like that. Even freakier, I went out to the brush pile and dragged the burned branch back into the garage. I don’t want to get rid of it. Why? I don’t know. I just like it.

In a totally un-tree related note, I can drag and drop from Flickr to the Flock editor? So cool. So lazy.

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Tags: blog, tree, lightning, storms

Hi, I’m addicted to beta invites, and I don’t care who knows it.

Anyone else?

I have the following invites available if anyone is desperately seeking them. Unless I hate you.

Blippr (2)

Grooveshark (4)

SocialThing (11)

BrightKite (2)

Evernote ( 8 )

SnapFoo (9)

Photophlow (1)

By the way, this is Day 1 of Venus bugging me to blog every day for a month. Now watch her bitch that this is hardly a blog post. Well she can suck it.

I even came back to fix a mistake (TWICE NOW). Dedication, man. I have it.

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Tags: blog, venus, beta invites, social media