A blog desperately seeking a new name.
My cousin, known here on the blog as Common Loon, forwarded me an email with one of the funniest attachments I’ve ever seen. I Googled around to see if there was a website for it, but all I could find was a link to the same PDF that CL sent. Prepare ye to laugh until you cry.*
* For maximum impact, you need three things: an understanding of Facebook, working knowledge of the Christian passion story, and a liking of irreverent humor.
Once again, a week of very few posts — this is getting to be a habit. A bad, bad habit. But the reason, this time, is a good one (unlike, say, last week.) I’ve been working on a really fun project at the office that’s been taking up a ton of time. We’ve finally announced it today, and though I generally try to keep a bit of separation between work and this blog, it’s too cool not to share. The message below is from our work blog, and since I wrote most of it, it doesn’t even count as plagiarizing. Much, anyway.
Oh, and you have to be a member of Facebook to click through to a lot of the links, so if you’ve been thinking of joining, but haven’t yet (Common Loon, I’m looking at you!), maybe now’s the time.
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Everyone has stuff lying around that they don’t need or want anymore – things that are too good or useful to throw away, but are no longer really needed. For most people, these items eventually make their way into thrift store donation boxes and garage sales. Now, however, they can be sold through the new Facebook Marketplace – with proceeds supporting the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
To kick off this new marketplace, Facebook is launching an initiative called “Celebrities Selling for a Cause,” and we’re a part of it. Actress Jennifer Coolidge is selling a custom made dress she wore when starring as Paulette in “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde” and donating the proceeds to benefit the National Trust’s “Rebuilding New Orleans” project.
Happily, you don’t have to be a celebrity to sell for a cause. Anyone can buy an item or sell one on behalf of the National Trust and all the proceeds will go toward our efforts along the Gulf Coast. I’m not sure what I’m going to buy yet, but I know my colleague Caroline has her eye on the collectible sock puppet up there now. I know I’ll be going through my closets when I get home tonight – and I suggest you do the same. Together, we can make a real difference in rebuilding New Orleans.
And, even if you can’t buy or sell an item, there are several other ways that you can support the National Trust:
Below is a meme that’s been running around Facebook for a week or so now, and I’ve been tagged more than a half-dozen times, so I thought I’d take the plunge and try it. I’m posting it to the blog first, though, because I know my imported blog notes are invisible to certain people on FB, whereas I don’t really know if regular notes are. (It also saves me from coming up with something new for the blog today, which is an added bonus.)
Share Rules:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I’ve worked for the same organization (though in different jobs) for almost 10 years and, the occasional frustration aside, I still like it and am glad to be there.
2. I’ve had 12 different addresses since graduating from college.
3. I am not generally a shoe person, but spent the absurd amount of $300 on a pair last year and haven’t regretted it once. They are amazingly beautiful and even just looking at them makes me happy.
4. I buy a lot of purses. I secretly believe that if I find the perfect one, I will magically become organized.
5. There are mornings where I am sure I need coffee more than oxygen.
6. Those mornings are the only time it really bums me out to be single, since I would like to have someone to bring me coffee in bed.
7. Knitting is one of my favorite things to do, but I haven’t picked up the needles in weeks because all my current projects are in some state of disaster.
8. I am hopelessly addicted to “Lost” and “Mad Men.”
9. I think bananas are disgusting.
10. Despite growing up in a state that’s attached to Canada, I was 34 before I visited there.
11. I have never seen an episode of the original “Star Trek” tv series, nor any of the movies.
12. I think coffee pots with timers — so the coffee is automagically ready in the morning — are one of the best inventions ever. And yet, I often forget to set mine up before I go to bed.
13. I really love bacon (it’s one of my favorite foods), but find the current fascination with “extreme bacon” recipes to be pretty gross.
14. I like swearing, and find the ability to creatively use profanity to be a character asset, not a flaw.
15. I have more hair on my head than most people — way more. So much, in fact, that the shampooers at salons have been known to call people over to feel my hair. (This is slightly creepy.)
16. “Gypsy” by Suzanne Vega is my favorite song — and has been for more than 20 years. I could listen to it forever and not get tired of it.
17. I spend more time playing tetris, solitaire, and sudoku on my phone than I do making/receiving calls.
18. There is a reasonably good chance that I am going to be late for work today, which is especially bad because I have a meeting.
19. I have an excellent internal clock (I almost always wake up 5 minutes before my alarm and am pretty good at guessing the time without looking) but I have almost no sense of how long it takes to do things, so despite knowing what time it is and when I need to be somewhere, I am always running late.
20. I hate the fact that morning people run the world.
21. I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen in concert 14 times in seven cities (and nine different venues). And if the pre-inaugural “We Are One” concert — which I attended, but actually saw only on the jumbotron — counts, then I’m up to 15 shows and 10 venues.
22. I love to drink but don’t like being drunk.
23. I have a scar in my right eyebrow from falling off a bar stool when I was two. (It would be a better story if said stool was actually in a pub of some sort, but it was just in a beach house.)
24. Hockey is the only pro sport I really love and understand intuitively. This is probably from going to so many games with my dad as a kid.
25. Almost two years after he died, I still haven’t figured out how to stop missing Dad.
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