Category: internet finds

Are you in need of a blog makeover? Bloggy botox? A new summer look?

Today my fabulous SIL, Beth, unveiled a spectacular new venture with her friend Christy—Be Design. Go check it and update your digs on this here internet. If you place an order by this Thursday, your order is 50% off –how’s that for an offer you can’t refuse?!?!

Kacie, over at Sense to Save has tagged me for the seven things meme. Have you checked out Sense to Save? It’s a nifty blog dedicated to living frugally and finding bargains. She also happens to have recently graduated from IU (a mere hour from where I live) and as I found out in reading her seven things meme, she’s 5’10”, just like me.

It’s been four months since I last posted my randomness…..here are seven more things:

1. As I just stated, I’m 5’10”. In junior high, I attempted to play basketball. I, of course, played center and forward, and shared these positions with another gal who is also 5’10”. The boys (who all were shorter than us at the time) called us the Twin Towers. In 1986, it was totally appropriate.
2. My freshman year of high school it didn’t even occur to me to try out for basketball. Instead, I joined Stage Crew and Drama Club. I loved every minute of it.
3. As a result, I was the Drama club’s candidate for the homecoming court. Completely not my personality, but secretly, it was a lot of fun.
4. I attended Marian College because I applied there and was accepted and awarded financial first–because they didn’t require an essay. After getting a good scholarship there, I didn’t feel the need to finish any of the other applications (i.e. write the essays).
5. I started college as a theatre major.
6. That lasted a semester. Then I switched to early childhood education.
7. I picked early childhood because there was no foreign language requirement.

So there you have it–seven things that all prove I am NOT an over achiever in any sense of the word.

I’m not tagging any one this time around–but if you’d like to do the seven random things, please leave a comment so I can check it out! Also, to make me feel better about under-achieving self, leave me a comment telling me about how you took the “easy way out” at some point in your life!

Like any blogger addicted to her own stats, I love reading what brought people to Gotcha Baby.* A lot of people are looking for floor bed ideas. But even more people are searching for the theme to Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. I can only guess that those searching for the theme are writing book reports–when the hell else would you ever, ever search for the “theme” of the book?

I mean, it’s good to look at a literary work and get the “deeper” meaning of the text, not just the play-by-play of the plot….but personally, in junior high school I had a hard time deciphering between the main idea and the theme. And got a few points off here and there because of it. But I eventually figured it out–and not by searching for summaries on the internet. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even by a set of Clif notes until Moby Dick junior year. Do they even still sell paper Clif notes? Or can you just by access online?

Anyway, if you’ve come here looking for the theme, I did name one in my review, but probably there are others, so please, please, please–read the actual book!

*I will always heart Sitemeter, for it is my first love of bloggy stats. But Feedburner? OMG. Leaves Sitemeter in the dust. It’s a little creepy, all the things I know about y’all now…but it’s a sickness and I love it.