So here’s the deal, people.
It’s Sunday and time for more Featured Bloggers!
Also? It’s Sunday, and I need to get off the computer so that Mark can help me finish moving all of my shit to the new laptop he bought me. I am so fucking lame that I have been unable to accomplish this transfer on my own, and so for the last week, the laptop has just been taunting me.
It is black and shiny and filled with taunting about how I might be able to leave this basement and type in the sunshine (assuming Portland had any sunshine).
Stupid laptop with its sassy ways.
Plus also? After over a year of working mostly from home, Mark has taken a six month consulting job that requires him to be on site most weekdays. I have grown very happily accustomed to having Mark here with me during the day. Hmmmph.
So I have been a tiny bit lonely this last week.
Sigh.
I WILL GO INSANE IF I HAVE TO SPEND ALL OF MY DAYS IN THIS BASEMENT ALL BY MYSELF!
More insane. Hush.
Pretty sure that’s why Mark bought me the laptop.
Ahem.
So I need to make him help me today, because Mark has VASTLY overestimated my ability to turn this laptop into anything other than a statement about my complete incompetence.
Stupid laptop with its taunting sassy ways.
Alright, focus.
People? If you have posts you want me to read? Send me a link. Make Me Come.
Send me lots of links. Because after today? I am going to be all giddy and commenting while I am sitting in my back yard! Or while I am lying in bed. Or hanging out at a coffee place. Or sitting on the toilet.
It’s going to be awesome!
I promise not to actually comment about the fact that I am sitting on the toilet as I comment. I will just be giddy and naked-assed, but you will never know. Hee hee!
OK, now I am all creeped out about coming as I sit on the toilet.
I will not Google . . . toilet plus orgasm.
I will not.
I so did.
It’s not good. ACK!
Where was I? Oh yes . . . having to get off the computer so that I can get out of the basement and be sane.
Shut up.
This week? Three giggly posts.
I love giggling. Go check them out . . . you will giggle.
Promise.
Spontaneous Me
By Ben from And Other Things I Don’t Understand
Cleaning out the cockroach nest, I mean the shed
By Sheri of Things and Stuff
What do you wish you had known when you started writing
By MKP of MKP-Hearts-NYC, Brooklyn Edition
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GO READ THESE THREE POSTS AND GIGGLE.
I will be over here preserving what little sanity I have left.
Mark?
I need help, babe.
I am all incompetent.
And the laptop is sassing me.
Hush.
New things to read! Yay!
In my house, I have to make the electronics behave. And if they are sassy? The daughter’s husband is a geek.
And I mean that in a good way.
Very convenient that she married him.
Renee -
If I did not have Mark to help me, I would have to write letters with paper and pen. Like in the olden days. Plus smoke signals. I am pretty sure I would be awesome at smoke signals.
But because I have Mark?
I am answering this comment while sitting at my dining room table.
Which means that I am laptoppy!
Happy sighs.
Mark is fabulous.
LOVE finding new peeps to follow. Thank you.
And, I know, the taunting of the laptop///but I’m with you, and Mark: the basement, the Markbeinggone….you just can’t.
You must be at a coffee shop, or in the sun, or even upstairs on the sofa.
Such a good man you have.
I know…when my husband was home for a year, and then had to be gone during the day after that time, I felt so lonely and strange that first week.
But then I got used to it.
Love Story for today, summed up in one sentence.
xo
Alexandra -
I want to be clear . . .the sentence that sums up love for you is . . .
But then I got used to it.
I am giggling hysterically!
That’s awesome!
And I do love Mark.
I am no longer trapped in the basement!
Yay!
I got a new laptop too!
Mine is white and shiny, though.
Jury is still out, as the whole point of the new laptop was because the old laptop was uncomfortable to type on and thus I felt chained to the desktop.
I am not certain that the new laptop, even with its beautiful shiny whiteness, is better for me from a typing standpoint.
We shall see.
Yes…we shall see.
Lori -
So far, I have noticed that I am more typo-prone on this keyboard. The letters are all closer together than I am accustomed to them being.
But I can see out a window.
That is pretty fucking fabulous.
Yay!
Confession…
My husband just bought me my very own Kindle! I was instantly in love!
I become overly excited when I remembered that I could read blogs on said Kindle.
I squealed so loud that I scared the hell out of my eight year old when I found your blog!
So thank you for making my Sunday (which has been full of rain, snow and hail) full of happy giggles and pig like squeals!
P.S. I am good with computers and my husband recently purchased a desktop for me. I have it all set up and absolutely love it – now if only I could figure out how to make my incredible brilliance come out in my blog the way you do. ~Sigh~
Christina -
Happy sighs at the thought of you reading the Featured Blogger posts and giggling. I adore all three of these people. Ben I have loved for forever. Sheri and MKP are more recent loves.
But someone who can make me laugh?
Swoon!
I love laughing!
Plus also?
Yay for Kindle readers!
That is awesome.
Just a heads up…people will look at you funny if you squeal like a pig in the middle of a restaurant during lunch rush. haha
Christina -
Yay for having disrupted the people around you!
So happy.
I loved that post from Ben! I’ll check out the new ones too! Yay for new blogs!
Lindsay -
You know how I feel about Ben. Love that spontaneous man.
Sheri and MKP also hit it out of the park this week.
I needed laughter this week.
LOVE those posts!
Daw, I’m all sheepish and stuff. Thanks so much for featuring me!
MKP -
THAT POST WAS AWESOME!
And seriously . . . If you are as theatrical as I imagine you to be?
You should think about that Mortified thing. You so should.
You would be amazing.
I will visit all three featured bloggers (while I try to NOT think about what Google turned up in you search of toilet plus orgasm).
But I also have to say – because I couldn’t get my computer to cooperate in a comment at Surfer Wife’s blog – that your guest post there…in two words…
beyond spectacular.
Loved it. (also two words.)
And another two words? So sorry. You know. For talking about a beautiful Kallan post in the same comment as toilet orgasms.
That’s just wrong in every way. And only a little bit funny.
But mostly wrong.
Julie -
Thank you so much for the compliments on my Guest Post over at Surferwife’s. I think she was a little surprised I didn’t do funny for her. But I never write anything in advance, so when I sat down to write?
I found I was in a melancholy place.
Not sad . . . just thoughtful.
I am so glad that you liked that post. I was pleased with how it came out. Happy sighs.
And thank you for checking out the Featured Bloggers!
They are awesome!
Part of the reason I married my husband? I mean beyond the good man with good assets part? Is because I now have my own live-in software engineer/IT guy. I do not like computer/laptop/assorted technology sassiness.
Ms. WTH -
I know!
Mark has many fabulous qualities, but among them?
His ability to connect me with the outside invisible world.
Yay!
Love that man.
I am intrigued that you enjoy having your husband home with you all day. I work at home and my husband was laid off for a year. In theory, it was nice because he was home all the time to take care of stuff around the house, and later to care for our baby.
In theory…
I think it’s my fault. I am a schedule-oriented person. I have my ways of doing things. He got a bit in the way of my ways.
Stephanie -
At first, it was difficult. I was used to having my own space and doing things my own way.
But I love spending my days with Mark. He is my favorite person in the whole world, and I love spending time with him. I will miss that time.
Sigh.
But this will be good also.
It will.
I refuse to make you come on a toilet. and now that I never know whether or not you will indeed be on a toilet? I will not send you any links.
I am all afraid of toilet reading and coming now.
ack!
and being home with Cort? is nice. although when he is gone? It is lovely. I miss my alone time.
Katie -
How much time can I really spend on the toilet in a given day, babe?
The chances of your link making me come in those few minutes? Slim.
Snicker.
Send me links, babe.
Hee hee!
I do not know your toilet habits. if you are like my husband you are not doing anything toilety in there after about 10 minutes. the rest of the time is all angry birds because you don’t want to move. then you come out and complain that your foot is asleep and you have a ring around your ass.
wait.
what were we talking about?
Wait.
What the hell are Angry Birds?
My hub is such a computer guru, that I have regressed to complete moron status when it comes to anything computer-ish, so I understand your situation.
In fact, as I now type this, the letter r on the keyboard keeps coming off, I can’t figure out how to get it to stay, hub is downstairs, so it took me twenty minutes type to this stupid comment.
So I hope you frickin’ like it.
Ms. FranceRants -
Yes. Exactly like that. I have regressed to moron status.
But all of my keyboard letters are where they are supposed to be.
Of course, this laptop has only been in use for perhaps an hour. It would be very embarrassing if I had already broken off letters.
I can type rrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRR all I like!
Yay!
p.s. did you notice how i completely mucked up the second to the last line…here it is corrected: so it took me twenty minutes to type this stupid comment.
as for links, i’m a blogging moron too, so just click on my name and it will bring you to my site, which you show up as a follower, so i assume you read…
but you know what they say about assume…it can make one look like a total asshole sometimes….
Guess what?
I have been to your blog a few times, and I have liked what I’ve read.
But generally? I make comments only where people invite me. Really. I am all contrary and bothersome that way. I leave awesome comments, and I occasionally head out into the internet and leave them randomly.
But generally?
If you want a comment from me? You need to send me a link.
Please do! I would love to come by again. You are the one of the dentist and the snow, correct? Pretty sure Empress sent me your way a while back.
Send me a link!
I’m so very not tech/compu-savvy. Apparently, I should be, but I’m not. It kinda bums me out, but not enough to actually do anything about it other than Google searching from time-to-time.
If the Goog can’t solve my problems for me then, I mean, really….
CJ -
I have grown so dependent on Mark, I am an imbecile when it comes to all things technical.
I am doomed if he ever leaves me for someone sane.
Snort!
Doomed.
Yay, I’m featured! You totally made my day :)
Sheri -
Oh, how I loved your drawing of the dresser infested with cockroaches.
That was a fabulous post, babe!
I am all swoony for those cockroaches!
Snort!
LOL – I am happy to report I avoided the google temptation, but the “not good Ack” helped. Seriously, I hope you love your laptop as much as I love mine.
Rhonda -
So far?
It is really quite awesome.
Thank you!