Broke your arm? You poor dear, that really sucks. But take heart — you don’t have to live under a rock. You can still do tons of fun things, like…
taking up a new hobby. How ’bout apprenticing as a yarn spinner…
a weaver…
or trying your hand at photography? (Moms in newly-acquired reading glasses make perfect subjects.)
If you’re learning an instrument, what a perfect opportunity to isolate one hand!
Can’t join in Kung Fu? Don’t worry! Observe your buddies to keep those moves sharp in your head.
Fan of shopping? Those skills needn’t suffer at all with a pesky broken bone or two. You can still enjoy shopping for all kinds of things — like, spider bread…
wigs…
and the perfect pumpkin.
A broken arm needn’t keep you from hanging out with your buds either, the real ones…
or the fake.
With a broken arm you can still keep up with your favorite blogs…
enjoy your favorite foods…
read to your dad…
and remain a vital supporter of your local jazz scene.
You can still enjoy the great outdoors too — just go easy, communing with nature or….
busting a few gentle moves in a bamboo forest if that’s your thing.
So don’t worry. Be happy. That cast will be off before you know it and you’ll soon be back to doing all the crazy- fun stuff that got your arm broken in the first place!
In a comment here the other day about Page Rank and such, Today’s Woman, Rose DesRochers funned “I’m still waiting for someone to write a post about how great I am. hehe”
Well, Rose, I think you recently crafted a GREAT Interview with Lorelle VanFossen — yes, THE WordPress Lorelle VanFossen, author of “Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging.” In that interview I fell in love with the wildly wonderful Lorelle who never concerns herself with stats, advises us first and foremost to be bloggers who care and considers finding a WiFi connection the pinnacle of blogging success.
Btw, I’m having trouble finding her book. Anyone have one for sale?
Attention Blogger Peeps: Lorelle’s wisdom can apply to all bloggers, not only WordPress users.
So Rose, has your dream come true with this post of mine? (hehe) Do you feel as great as you seem? Ah, but I already know you must be great because you’re a fellow shih-tzu lover. (Rose’s 2 shih-tzus have a blog all their own.)
And folks, just slightly non-related to this post, here’s a picture of 3 guys in kilts holding up a log.
1. Why does the above pack of batteries cost $6.99, but the same 4 batteries — PLUS two flashlights (at the same store) cost only $4.99?
2. Speaking of batteries, why do some last for 20 hours and others from the same brand (even from the same package) last for only 2 hours?
3. How do mosquitoes know to bite you right where you can’t see them — the backs of your legs, arms, neck, etc.?
4. Speaking of flying bugs, how do fruit flies materialize from absolute thin-air, any time of the year?
5. What the heck’s up with the “Healthy Meals” aisle in the supermarket?
Should the other food aisles have signs like this…
6. Speaking of supermarkets, why does my nearest one feel the need to completely rearrange its stock at least once a year, just when I’m finally able to find stuff again?
7. Why in movies, tv shows and commercials, even after the characters turn out the lights, do their bedrooms still appear blindingly bright? And could you (do you) sleep in such a bright room?
8. Why do I live in eternal hope I’ll be able to somehow magically recreate — with my own hands and scissors — the one great haircut I’ve ever had?
9. Why did that hairdresser never return my calls? I left 2 messages on her cell. (She said she was soon leaving Supercuts to open her own shop and would welcome my business.)
10. I voted in an election, turned legal drinking age, graduated college, got a credit card, a car, a husband and a dog. I divorced, remarried and had a child. Any of those should’ve made me feel like an adult, right? So… why has it taken until now that I need reading glasses for me to finally feel “all grown up?”
Hey, I just read that Google says the more often you post to your blog, the better your page rank. So maybe I oughta publish my Highly Exciting Polls here in my regular posts instead of wasting all that tasty Google juice on sidebar antics? I actually have no idea what my page rank is, (nor how to find out) but whatever my PR may be, I sure don’t want to upset what I imagine to be its delicate eco-balance.
Plus, how much Really Interesting & Potentially Funny Stuff can I actually come up with on me EVERY day, anyway? 365 days a year?! For the next 55 years?! Oy.
So the “Daily Polls” will be posted HERE in my regular posts, and occasionally – not daily.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, sighs with relief.
Edit: Check back Thursday morning for the plane-jumping answer in a comment at the bottom of that poll. I know you’ll not feel like sleeping or eating until then, but try to okay?! 🙂
And below, the scintillating polls that have come before, may they rest in eternal sweet peace.
Well hey, Lovely Peeps: I have actually veered a bit off the Daily Poll Sidebar Plan. See here. And now… back to this post below, as it appeared in its original form…
Has Jannie ever jumped out of a perfectly good airplane?
Does Jannie sleep in her bra?
Does Jannie love or hate pickled beets?
Which did Jannie study for 2 years as a child — pan flute or accordion?
How old was Jannie when she took her first private singing lesson — 10, 16, 22, 34, or 41?
Well, guess what, Peeps!!? You will learn the Absolutely Truthful answers to those and many more never-before-asked Jannie questions!
Yes — more Jannie tidbits than you ever dreamed possible or probably ever wanted to know are coming to this blog in the form of my new — ta da — Daily Poll.
Whoo-hoo.
A new Jannie poll will be posted every morning at or near the top of my right sidebar! (Notice one up there now?) And right after I post my new Daily Poll, I’ll post the Absolutely Truthful answer to the previous day’s poll question. And how do you find the previous day’s answer exactly? Great question! Well, just click the button on my sidebar — the one that looks exactly like this…
Then follow the easy directions laid out on that page. Simple, eh? (I hope.)
Does Jannie want you to pop in here often for some silly stuff? Yep!!
Does Jannie hope to grow her readership like Thomma Lynn Grindstaff grows corn and tomatoes? Yep!!
Does Jannie yearn for her Google Adsense revenue to skyrocket from $100 a year to possibly $105? You betcha!!!
But mostly Friends, I’m instituting this new 100% PTS (poll transparency system) because I feel a little bad about that whole weekend in Bulgaria thing. Tho my recent poll showed most of you realized I was kidding (I thought a Mach-17 private jet might have been the first tip-off.) 🙂 I do apologize to those of you who either thought or weren’t quite sure if the President of Bulgaria whisked a bunch of us away for “the flaming marshmallow toss, the trampling of the moldy tomatoes” and other time-honored Bulgarian camping traditions.
I’m thinking I might even start adding some kind of “this post was created with considerable leg-pulling in mind” disclaimer at the bottom of any future fanciful flights, because you are all such dears and deserve the Absolute Truth in Jannie Blogging, unless otherwise specified in the Funstering Codebook — page 47, section 12, article B-21.
And just so you know, I am not privy to who clicks what on the polls or from which I.P. address the votes come, so don’t be shy to pop in and test your skill on information that will amaze and astound, if not change the very course of cosmic arrangements. 🙂
Yes, folks! All this, in addition to my regular blog postings every 2 to 4 days! Could blogging wonders possibly get any better?!?! I don’t see how. (Well maybe if I finally get an iPhone, but that’s another story.)
Isn’t this all too exciting?
I’m going back to be [edit: bed. I’m going back to bed, — thanks Chrissy for pointing that out!] now.
Well… I’m sure you now need a nap or a tranquilizer, after the sheer excitement of what’s just been revealed here. And as soon as you recover from the bliss and shock of all this I bet you’ll rush out to tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends… 🙂
