I have no shame and take issue with the great Groucho Marx who once proclaimed, “I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member.” I think I made that point clear in the email I sent Alltop begging to be included:
Hi,
I love what you are doing and would love to be considered in the mommyblog category. I write June Cleaver Nirvana.
This is why you need me:
I am smart, cute and funny.
And modest (well, in real life I dress modestly ¦).
I draw a mean stick-figure.
Thanks,
Holly
www.junecleavernirvana.blogspot.com
PS ”Think of all the publicity Alltop will receive when I snap someday and end up on the 6 o ™clock news. You can have the story FIRST and then proudly proclaim that you knew me when ¦
I think I swayed them with that PS.
The dear people at Alltop responded by sending me a lovely email that ended with this PS:
PS.
We’d much rather you mention Alltop during your acceptance speech at the next Bloggers Choice Awards! 🙂
To which I now reply: Me too, but really, which is more likely?
Ya, I would stay close to your TV if I were you.
Today’s potluck food is homemade strawberry jam. We will have to visit TX Poppet for more since I ate the entire jar she canned and gave to me (in one sitting–is that wrong?). Yummmm. I will also have to go to the bakery and get some more fresh bread because I ate all of that too.
Ryan(7)’s closest friend was over this afternoon to play. She came running into the kitchen with the following question, “Holly, is Ryan married?”
And now for a brand spanking new Nirvana feature:
POTATOES. And as if potatoes weren’t exciting enough, I am rolling out yet another new feature:
Crapicity: a state of crappiness in which Holly’s perkiness factor decreases dramatically.
Today’s crapicity inspired the artwork above. Is it my lack of sleep or has the degree of difficulty on word verification jumped significantly in the last few days? Over the weekend I was word verificationized multiple times on multiple blogs. On several occasions I have just stared at the screen thinking there is no way I am going to get this right.
Wow. This week was a bit weird on the Google front. Someone entered the Nirvana after googling, “catchy waffle slogans”. The weird thing is that I love waffles and would have totally posted catchy waffle slogans if I knew there was such a Google need for such things. Note to self: write and post some catchy waffle slogans to boost Nirvana ranking ASAP. Another dear reader arrived after googling, “nirvana sweat pants”. Just weird. But my favorite this week has to be “we aint no June Cleavers”. Yes, you are right. We aint and June would have phrased that much differently.
I come from the “you don’t want me to say three” style of parenting. At 3 bad things tend to happen. Reid(4) was overhearing my count…ONE…TWO…for his older brother’s benefit when he muttered the following under his breath, “And now for our bonus number…three”.
Is there a number at which GoogleReader stops counting?
If anyone finds my A game, please let me know where I lost it. I’ll give you to the count of three…
When do you get to return to St. Thomas – I mean really, Stedman must have a conference or two to attend.
Oh sorry, yes, blog award. Yes, alltop should love you as much as we do. Yes, Crapicity. I will stay on track… I will stay on track….
Did you get yourself some butterfly bandages yet? 😉
Great post as always!! I am busy right now with the end of school year push but had to stop by and say ‘hi’!
I agree on the word verification. I almost never get it right the first try and some of them…I have no idea what letters those are. Thanks for not making me think to post on here 🙂
A four-year old cynic! The teen years are going to be SO blogworthy at Nirvana.
Congrats on the alltop love. It’s like seating at the cool table in the lunchroom. (which is funnier when pronounced w/ the Rob Schnieder “copy guy” accent I was going for) 😉
Word verification has been AWFUL recently. AWFUL.
I come from the three school as well. I think I got to 5 though this weekend.
The way you know you’re funny is when you hear your kids saying totally funny things like that–they had to get it from someone!
Yes the word verificiation thingy has gotten out of control. I just put jjjjjjjjj on the first one, then it gives you an eaisier one!
As always this was entertaining. I love Reid’s bonus number comment. Is he following in his mom’s footsteps?
My head pops off at “five”…we’ve all got a threshold. And I would have eaten that strawberry jam with a spoon as well which is why I’m off to the dentist to have one of four cavities filled. The others will have to wait considering each is costing me $250 a pop. Why oh why don’t we have a dentist in the family. Sorry I’m hijacking your potluck day.