I didn't do today's One Word exercise. Well, I did, but then I erased it. Then I tried to think of several others themes I could write on using that same word, and I didn't like any of those either. I realized that I couldn't think of one "non-dark" 60 second write up for the word "final." I thought of lighter subjects like final paper, final answer, and final frontier, but once I used the word in a sentence I didn't like what I wrote, or I didn't think it was suitable for public consumption ;)
It's odd that I can't write something with a positive or neutral spin using the word "final." It seems I have a problem with that word. The problem, I think, is that I think it's a very short sighted word. I don't know that anything really is final. Is death final? Probably. But I don't know. Are breakups final? Sure, because people tend to not change. But what if something did change. Really changed. Would it still be final? Maybe not.
I don't think I ever have enough information about anything to deem it absolutely final. There's too much change in the Universe and too much I simply don't know to be comfortable making a statement like that. I don't think I could ever use the word "final" with any certainty, unless I was under duress. Even then, it would still be conditional to me, which makes it not final.
One Word: Specific
A one minute writing exercise from One Word.
"Specific"
Specific. Specifically what? Ugh. My mind is drawing a complete blank. I think this word is too specific. How about specimen? Can I write on that? It looks a little like that. No?
Could you be more specific about what you’d like me to write about?
"Specific"
(The sequel)
Specific.
I would specifically like to know when the new word changes over on this site. Since I had this specific word yesterday and, though I can’t be too specific at the moment, what I wrote then wasn’t all that interesting. So I would like another word now please. Or I’d like to know at what specific time this site switches to new words so I can return then and write something a little less specific than this specific prose on this specific word. Specifically.
One Word: Basic
One of the sites that Eden suggested to help bloggers with this month's NaBloPoMo theme is One Word, which shows you a word and gives you sixty seconds to write about it. - Anything at all in 60 seconds. "don't think. just write."
Since it usually takes me an average of 60 minutes to write a blog post (I've timed it!) I welcome this exercise!
Basic. Basic instincts. Basic…. isn’t there a line of basic toiletry products? Like skin products and shampoo and stuff? For some reason, the colors white, green and orange come to mind. Maybe that’s their logo.
There’s also Basic the computer language. If anyone remembers that. -Did I just age myself?
Since it usually takes me an average of 60 minutes to write a blog post (I've timed it!) I welcome this exercise!
"Basic"
Basic. Basic instincts. Basic…. isn’t there a line of basic toiletry products? Like skin products and shampoo and stuff? For some reason, the colors white, green and orange come to mind. Maybe that’s their logo.
There’s also Basic the computer language. If anyone remembers that. -Did I just age myself?
I should probably explain what NaBloPoMo is
NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month. The goal of NaBloPoMo is for participants to write a post a day for an entire month.
Although November is the official month for NaBloPoMo (with prizes and everything!) people are invited to take up the challenge of writing a post a day during any month. To help inspire bloggers, NaBloPoMo assigns a theme for each month, and also offers daily writing prompts, but these are optional. Bloggers are not required to write on a specific month's theme or a specific day's writing prompt. Any post about anything at all counts.
NaBloPoMo's theme for March 2011 (for those who'd like to write on it always, sometimes, or never) is "In a word."
* Note: NaBloPoMo moved in 2011. More information here.
Although November is the official month for NaBloPoMo (with prizes and everything!) people are invited to take up the challenge of writing a post a day during any month. To help inspire bloggers, NaBloPoMo assigns a theme for each month, and also offers daily writing prompts, but these are optional. Bloggers are not required to write on a specific month's theme or a specific day's writing prompt. Any post about anything at all counts.
NaBloPoMo's theme for March 2011 (for those who'd like to write on it always, sometimes, or never) is "In a word."
* Note: NaBloPoMo moved in 2011. More information here.
NaBloPoMo Badge 2
Here's another. This one matches my blog a bit better :)
As with the other badge, a link back or mention would be nice, but is not required. (See that post for html code.)
As with the other badge, a link back or mention would be nice, but is not required. (See that post for html code.)
NaBloPoMo Badge
I'm thinking about doing March's NaBloPoMo, but I'm not sure I'll be able to fully commit. There's just too much going on that keeps me away from the computer right now. Still... a word? How tough can that be? ;)
Feel free to grab the badge below if you'd like to use it on your site. Ironically, though I made it, I'm not sure it goes with my own site! Lol!
If you use the badge, it should link back to NaBloPoMo.com. A separate link and/or a quick mention of my blog would be great, but is not required.
Happy blogging!
Edit: Adding some code to help people place this in their sidebar.
If you know how to put html code into a sidebar widget, you can use the code below. Make sure you download the image to your computer, re-upload it to wherever you normally host your pictures, and replace the part in red (below) with the URL of your image. If you'd like to remove the credit/link to Noisy Quiet you may. I'll leave that up to you :)
<center><a href="http://www.nablopomo.com" target="_blank"><img title="NaBloPoMo badge by NoisyQuiet.blogspot.com" src="YOUR IMAGE URL GOES HERE"/></a>
<br/><font size="1">Thanks to <a href="http://noisyquiet.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Noisy Quiet</a> for the badge</font></center>
Feel free to grab the badge below if you'd like to use it on your site. Ironically, though I made it, I'm not sure it goes with my own site! Lol!
If you use the badge, it should link back to NaBloPoMo.com. A separate link and/or a quick mention of my blog would be great, but is not required.
Happy blogging!
Edit: Adding some code to help people place this in their sidebar.
If you know how to put html code into a sidebar widget, you can use the code below. Make sure you download the image to your computer, re-upload it to wherever you normally host your pictures, and replace the part in red (below) with the URL of your image. If you'd like to remove the credit/link to Noisy Quiet you may. I'll leave that up to you :)
<center><a href="http://www.nablopomo.com" target="_blank"><img title="NaBloPoMo badge by NoisyQuiet.blogspot.com" src="YOUR IMAGE URL GOES HERE"/></a>
<br/><font size="1">Thanks to <a href="http://noisyquiet.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Noisy Quiet</a> for the badge</font></center>
Is White Popcorn EXTINCT?
Why can't I find white popcorn kernels anywhere? I've been looking for over six months and no stores anywhere seem to carry white popcorn kernels anymore. At first I thought each store was sold out, but the white popcorn never came back. Anywhere! Every time I go to a new store, I check, hoping they'll turn out to be my new "supplier" but no such luck. White popcorn kernels seem to have disappeared off the planet.
I don't understand what happened. For years I could go into pretty much any store and, in the section that sold popcorn kernels, I'd have my choice of white or yellow. Yellow is ok, but I prefer white. White is crispy. Yellow pops up more spongey and chewy and tastes kind of stale to me. I like crispy!
I can still find microwavable white popcorn, and pre-popped white popcorn, but I don't want those. And I can't imagine how they're are being made since ALL white popcorn KERNELS seem to have been obliterated from the Universe!
After yet another failed quest at a grocery store today, I guess it's time to start scouring the net. In the past everything I've found had prohibitive shipping fees.
Maybe I can tell people that's what I want for my next Birthday? How much you wanna bet that if I do, no one will get it right. (- I can see the stack of microwave bags now...)
I don't understand what happened. For years I could go into pretty much any store and, in the section that sold popcorn kernels, I'd have my choice of white or yellow. Yellow is ok, but I prefer white. White is crispy. Yellow pops up more spongey and chewy and tastes kind of stale to me. I like crispy!
I can still find microwavable white popcorn, and pre-popped white popcorn, but I don't want those. And I can't imagine how they're are being made since ALL white popcorn KERNELS seem to have been obliterated from the Universe!
After yet another failed quest at a grocery store today, I guess it's time to start scouring the net. In the past everything I've found had prohibitive shipping fees.
Maybe I can tell people that's what I want for my next Birthday? How much you wanna bet that if I do, no one will get it right. (- I can see the stack of microwave bags now...)
Pink!
I think I can live with this degree of pink, but we'll see.
Here's the credits for my current makeover:
- Rose graphics from Graphic Garden
- Title design inspired by a similar design at Graphic Garden
- Background inspired by a similar one from Delicious Design Studio
- Modified Blogger Awesome Ink template
- Code fix for Awesome Ink templates, that allows posts from the same date to appear as separate posts instead of one long post, from Southern Speakers
- Label Cloud code by Phydeaux3
- Label Cloud "number of results per page" tweak from Hackosphere
- Author Comment Highlight code (slightly modified) from Tips for New Bloggers
- Favicon code generated at Happy Blogging
Added Later:
- Hide/Show, Expand/Collapse, Peekaboo, Sidebar and post code from: Blog U
- "Break out of Frameset" code from MediaCollege.com
- Pinterest Widget code from Code It Pretty, with some additional code added from CSS Globe.
* If anyone figures out how to override Blogger's navbar link styles I'd love to know. I like using the clear bar for this template but I hate the blue rollover link. I'd prefer to not hide the bar because I think that confuses some people.
I'm working on it
Oh the angst that goes into working on a new template! I get caught between wanting it to look a certain way, but also making sure it will still "work" with the content of the blog. The latter part is more difficult. Sometimes I get on a roll and then realize that what I'm coming up with is not a good fit for here. Sometimes the design is too cheerful, or too young, or too dark and moody, or too "something." Sometimes I want a very plain template and I often think about going back to one of those. But then I want to add "just one little thing" and all bets are off again.
What I really need is a quirky template, but for that I need quirky graphics and I don't have any of those at the moment. So for now I'm finishing up a template that's nice but hopefully not too nice. And pink. It's looking very pink. -But far less pink than it was a few days ago.
I'm still tweaking, which is another issue I have when I'm working on a template. The more I modify a template, the more I worry that something will mysteriously stop working when Blogger changes something on their end.
Ok, back to work. New look coming soon!
What I really need is a quirky template, but for that I need quirky graphics and I don't have any of those at the moment. So for now I'm finishing up a template that's nice but hopefully not too nice. And pink. It's looking very pink. -But far less pink than it was a few days ago.
I'm still tweaking, which is another issue I have when I'm working on a template. The more I modify a template, the more I worry that something will mysteriously stop working when Blogger changes something on their end.
Ok, back to work. New look coming soon!
It begins with an S and ends with a W
I was leaving a grocery store and I noticed a woman with only one item in her hand. I made a comment about "Wow, you came all the way here to just get one thing?" and she said "Well, I came back. I was here before and someone used a very nasty word."
"Oh…" I said.
"Yes," she replied, and then added pointedly, "It begins with an S and ends with a W."
She continued talking, (she seemed like a very nice woman) but I couldn't make sense of anything she said after that because I was 100 percent completely stuck on "a bad word... that begins with an S... and ends with a W?"
Somewhere during our walk to the parking lot she said, "Well I'm a widow" - Which seemed like a random detail at the time, but I later realized that "widow" ends in "w" so maybe that's a clue? Of course she then seguayed into talking about fruit and I couldn't figure out if that was related to her being a widow (Was she recently widowed? Was the fruit for a memorial service?)
I'm still stuck. I have no clue.
It's not her fault. Clearly it's mine for not keeping up with current widow vernacular.
"Oh…" I said.
"Yes," she replied, and then added pointedly, "It begins with an S and ends with a W."
She continued talking, (she seemed like a very nice woman) but I couldn't make sense of anything she said after that because I was 100 percent completely stuck on "a bad word... that begins with an S... and ends with a W?"
Somewhere during our walk to the parking lot she said, "Well I'm a widow" - Which seemed like a random detail at the time, but I later realized that "widow" ends in "w" so maybe that's a clue? Of course she then seguayed into talking about fruit and I couldn't figure out if that was related to her being a widow (Was she recently widowed? Was the fruit for a memorial service?)
I'm still stuck. I have no clue.
It's not her fault. Clearly it's mine for not keeping up with current widow vernacular.
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