Saskia who?

I know, I know. It's been like 2 months. I've been remiss.

For a while there, I considered just bagging this whole blogging thing for good. It's not that I don't love you all, or that I've lost my Zest for Life.

It's that my life is pretty. damn. boring.

Of course, once things started picking up again (baby dophins! trips to NY/RI/CT! dick in a can!), I found there was so much I wanted to say and way too little time in which to say it. I contemplated trying to write post-dated posts, accounting my activities in the last two months...but really that would just be cheating.

So I'm planning to do a two three fifteen whatever-it-takes-part post to catch you all up.

I think I'll begin at the end and wind my way back to the beginning, Star Wars style.

Are we excited yet?

Not Funny.

I have been terribly amiss with this blog, and for that I'm sorry.

It seems the more I try to cram into this sad little brain, the less funny I become.

Or perhaps it's because I'm relatively happy as compared to some of those previous posts, and only my dark side brings out the humor in me.

That's pretty twisted.

Anyhow, I promise to try and be more regular with this thing, lest I lose one of my 14 (!!) readers.

Muppets on Crack

Last night I was lying in bed, running through my list of things to do today:

Damn I have to go see Hugh The Torturer tomorrow at noon he’s going to ask me why it’s been two weeks since I last saw him and what have I been doing and what fruit have I been eating bananas I haven’t been really motivated to hit the gym but went today because I really wanted a piece of dad’s birthday cake even though it ended up not bring worth the trouble it was sort of dry and the icing just wasn’t up to Publix par not nearly as yummy as the white sugary icing with the fudge cap if it had been that icing I would have eaten cake until I tossed my cookies haha The Bloggess wrote something about tossing cookies and the Cookie Monster oh god remember the Muppets on Crack posters? Those were funny.

Now you have an idea of why it’s hard for me to get to sleep sometimes.

The really bad part was, I was lying there thinking I need to find a copy of the Muppets on Crack for Jenny because she would soooo enjoy that but I was too lazy to lean over and write it down to remember in the morning.

So instead I just lay there chanting to myself: “Muppets on crack. Muppets on crack. Muppets on crack…” It was kind of a creepy marriage between counting sheep and putting a rubber band around my wrist. Except now I have PETA screaming at me for neutering sheep with rubber bands after shooting them up with crack and I can’t remember my point.

Anyhow, here's where I found the Muppets on Crack story. It's pretty hysterical completely uncalled for.

Argh. Erg.

That's supposed to be some sort of pirate grunt of frustration.

It was brought to my attention by The [Lovely] Bloggess that my 'leave comments' capabilities were incapacitated and I got all verklempt basically because she is awesome, and probably would have left some amazingly laugh-so-hard-you-pee-your-pants funny comment. But nope, Blogger required some major HTML coding to get my comments back in order (I'm still not really sure they are exactly) and the moment has passed. Who knows if she'll even come back to visit?

I mean, she is very busy writing a book and being a Super Mom/Wife and sorting out pills.

So do me a favor, whichever one of you invisible people get this first please send me a test comment. It doesn't even have to be witty or long, just write 'test' and send. I have to know.

(funny part is, I could probably just comment to myself....but that sort of feels like voting for myself which I can't even do in my own poll despite the fact that it would probably boost my confidence level another 5%.)

Hurry! I wouldn't want to miss out on another opportunity for drunken commenting.

Told you so.

I mentioned in passing that I was looking to update the blog's look, and I think I've come up with a pretty unique look.

I added a poll at the top right, feel free to vote. Also, I welcome comments with any suggestions regarding fonts, colors, sizes, etc.

(I do realize that this poll will probably only end up hurting my fragile ego when it ends with 3 votes: Karen, mom, and dad.)

(It will also give me just one more internet neurosis to add to my ever-growing list.)

(But I'm willing to try it out.)

(Just please don't vote Hate it.)

(Unless your name is Ron, in which case it's pretty much expected. Jackass.)

It's a Blogger's World.

Most of my (6) readers don't have blogs. Or at least, don't have blogs that they obsessively actively write in on a regular basis (ahem, you know who you are. tsk, tsk.).

I have been writing on this thing for nearly a year (Yay! for celebrating TWO birthdays a year!) and have amassed more than 140 entries. That's pretty massive, at least for me. The girl who tends to get really excited about a new project only to Oh! that looks like fun. (Read: ADD)

Over the last few months I've had absolutely nada to do some extra time on my hands and have been exploring other blogs. I have always found people's thoughts and opinions interesting, so reading other people's public inner monologues is my idea of Super Fun.

I don't search out any of the blogs I read. It all started for me with Laurie at Crazy Aunt Pearl. She wrote a book that is simply hilarious called Drunk, Divorced and Covered with Cat Hair. I read her blog rather religiously for some time before venturing into the world of The Others.

From Aunt Purl, I found a sassy chick named Tia who has a seriously wacky sense of humor that I adore at Clever Girl Goes Blog. Through Tia I was introduced to Jamie at Oh! How Lovely!, whose constant updates of Project Runway keep me in the loop and whose post Trying put into words things I couldn't.

Through Jamie I found what has to be thus far one of my Top 5 (to The Others, please note the number of blogs mentioned actually can be counted on one hand, thus that was NOT a dig at your site!) and most recently added blog-read addiction. It's like I'm....mmmagic! is a cleverly written blog that has almost made me pee my pants numerous times. Thank heavens for my incredibly well-trained sympathetic pelvic nerves.

In perusing these various sites, I've come to feel that my site is, well, a bit...bland. Oh, the content is alright (if I say so myself...and if I stay away from the Basket Full O Crazy. and wine.). But the layout leaves something to be desired. I mean, really kids: I'm a freakin interior designer. My site should be Bling! and Super Colorful and reflect the Awesomely Cool Person that I am.

Wow. I think that was the most self-centered thing I've said in a long time. Felt nice.

Anywho, keep on the lookout for my new layout coming in [insert lead time on ordered layout here]. Oh please, just check back every once in a while, K? I promise Good Things. The end of April is my new New Year. And it's gonna be a damn sight better than last year. I hope promise.

Oh, and have you noticed my new fancy for the strikethrough HTML? Yeah, I'm a pro. Feel free to envy.

(I'm not really a pro. I stole borrowed was inspired for the idea from The Bloggess. Who I basically worship. So I hope she won't mind.)