Beth has discovered yet ANOTHER ingenious way to injure herself

This evening during dinner Beth ran upstairs to go to the bathroom. She had only been up there for a second before the following took place between her upstairs and me downstairs:

Beth (screaming): Mooooooooommmmmmm!!!!!!

Me: What?

Beth: Come up here!

Me: Why?

Beth: I hurt myself!

Me: What happened?

Beth: I bumped my nose on the toilet.

Me: [Certain I must've misunderstood.] ... Um... what?

Beth: I bumped my nose on the toilet.

Me: [Not wanting to even ask, I mean, is that even possible? How do you bump your nose on the toilet?] How did you bump your nose on the toilet?

Beth: I was bending over looking at my feet and I bumped my nose...

Transfer complete

Whew! I have done all the transferring I'm going to do this week. This time around I transferred posts having to do with food and a reading challenge I did. I also transferred birth stories [ sorry, shamelessly sassy, don't read them ;) ]. A couple posts that may have been linked to from the ones I transferred got transferred as well, while a couple others just aren't worth the bother. I DID NOT get my perspective photos over, which I still want to do, so look for those next week or later.

Also, I still need Ecchs to contact me. Thanks!

Apology

I want to apologize to anyone who has my old blog still in their reader and saw a bunch of posts pop up. I reposted some empty posts today. You can ignore them and delete that blog from your reader. I posted my absolutely final post there today. I am still working on my transfer for this week. Hopefully I'll have them posted today sometime.

Transfer announcement

As many of you know, I recently moved to this blog from one that was no longer anonymous and am in the process of transferring posts from my old blog. This week I am going to be transferring posts with recipes and/or food. Also, I think I'll go ahead and bring over that post with the photos where I was playing with perspective; they were fun. So, once again, this is your heads-up: Don't panic if you suddenly see that I have published a large number of new posts, most will actually be old posts.

Also, I still do not have contact information for Ecchs, who won my Pay it Forward contest. Please, if you are Ecchs or if you know Ecchs, put us in touch with one another. Thank you!

And the winner is...

This whole Group Effort Pay it Forward contest thing was FUN! I entered EVERY SINGLE ONE in the hopes that I break my streak of never winning anything chosen by a random-choosy-type-thingy, be it a hat or a number generator. My streak began the moment of my conception and has continued to the present day. I blame my mother, who only has to CONSIDER entering a contest to win it. The fates are evening things out with me.

ANYWAY, the only contest I DIDN'T enter was mine, because while it wasn't SPECIFICALLY stated that we couldn't enter our own (at least I don't think it was), it seemed somewhat WRONG to do so. Mainly because, IF I WON, my integrity would be called into question. And we wouldn't want that now, would we? It would seriously hamper my ability to lie, cheat and/or steal in the future, and I don't like to limit my future endeavors. Also, I would be tempted to make the prize for winning this contest a COMPLETE KITCHEN REMODEL!!! Which I can't afford. SO, I didn't enter, but HOLY CRAPOLY, FIFTY-TWO people did. Let me just say that 52 different people have NEVER EVER even BEEN here in one week before, let alone COMMENTED on a post. So thank you all for stopping by, I hope you'll be back. I know that I found a lot of new places to visit during those elusive moments of free time (like when I should be doing laundry or dishes or something).

What I'm going to do is head on over to the random number generator now, so sit tight a minute...

OK! I'm back, and the random number is... drumroll please... EIGHT!!! And the person who left the eighth comment is... Ecchs!!! Now all I have is a link to a profile that doesn't give any contact information, so I hope Ecchs comes back to see who the winner is. If you know who Ecchs is, please help us contact one another. And Ecchs, if you see this, EMAIL ME (address in the sidebar) - YOU WON!!! I don't know what yet, but YOU WON!!! YAY!!!

Inane rambling thoughts...

Religion fascinates me. And the terminology and practices do as well. Historical and theological reasons for those practices, whether something is tradition or dogma, the fact that so many know so little about whatever religion they practice - all of that fascinates me. I try to avoid discussion of religion in this forum (or anywhere for that matter) because it is a topic extremely personal to so many. HOWEVER, I've been thinking...

Isn't it funny that only a Catholic is ever considered "lapsed"? Even the definition of the word lapsed from the online Miriam-Webster dictionary uses "lapsed Catholic" as the example of the use of the word.

But the definition is not exclusive of other uses, so why have I never heard of a lapsed Lutheran? Or a lapsed Methodist? What about a lapsed Hindu? Lapsed Buddist? Muslim? Jew? Certainly I've never heard of a lapsed satanist. If someone doesn't believe in any sort of god whatsoever, and then he changes his mind, could he be called a lapsed atheist? If someone finally made a commitment one way or the other, would he be a lapsed agnostic?

And I've only ever heard of a Christian being "born again." When really that would be more fitting for a Hindu.

These are the things that go on in my head. Triggered by someone's simple use of "lapsed Catholic." Used to be, I would just think this stuff and go on about my day, but NOW I can subject you all to my inane rambling thoughts. And ask: What inane rambling thoughts do you have? And if you were a lapsed something, what would it be? I'm most definitely a lapsed worker-outer. And a lapsed healthy eater. I really need to fix that.

Is it an illness?

After spending HOURS entering contests and mentally noting all these great new blogs to go back and peruse when I have a chance, I FINALLY entered them ALL and am now ready to post something new today. Oh, wait, I just refreshed and there are MORE, so gotta go. I'll leave you with this to ponder:



Illness, or reasonable fear of store running out of yummy creamers? In my defense, two of them say "Limited Edition."