I’m sure you’ve heard of Stephanie and Christian Nielson’s accident and the blogging community’s efforts on their behalf. I confess I feel stupid talking about someone I don’t know. Even if she is Mormon, and a blogger, and probably (hopefully) hopped up on enough good drugs that even if she heard I was trying to capitalize on her personal tragedy help by holding a (meager) giveaway in her name, she wouldn’t care (or she would, but in a good way, you know, because she seems like a genuinely good person).
I thought about donating my BlogHerAds revenue, and then I thought — Why the heck am I so stingy? So — leave a comment with your Things That Must Go, and I’ll donate $20 to NieNie. You can also learn more about what’s already been done and read about the recovery process.
Two fund-raising efforts that I’m excited to submit my own creations to are the Great NieNie Cookie Sale (I’ll be making Homemade Oreos) and The Blog Book (I’m searching a bit desperately for a funny post in my archives). I encourage you to join in those efforts, if you have any interest at all in cookies or blogging, and really, who doesn’t love those two things?
Here’s my Things That Must Go: Back-to-School Edition
Hustling for business at the school Skate Night. I took the girls to Sally’s school last night, where the parking lot had been cleared for skating, biking, and loud cheesy music.
As I sat on the grass eating a cold hamburger, I noticed a cute teenage girl and her mother, who looked like a Miss Utah handler.
The daughter took a flier from her mother, approached a group of elementary-age girls, and launched into a cheerful sales patter about Mini Drill Team Camps held at the High School on Saturdays.
For your registration fee, you get a free t-shirt, and personal instruction, and there are so many girls who wait in long lines to get in, but you can register early, and you’ll make so many friends and the girls who go there are so cool and pretty and you’ll be so popular.
Just remember to show your mother the flier as soon as you can, and tell her how much you want to be JUST LIKE ME when you grow up.
Now it’s your turn — what things must go? (oh. Deadline? Hmm, well, to be honest, I’ll donate the $20 bucks even if no one comments, but I sure would like to hear your things that must go. To be eligible to have the donation made in your name, comment before Monday night, okay?)
I know it’s been a long time since the iTunes Things That Must Go, but here are a few great entries from last month:
Stacey @ Happy Are We As for my 2cents, I think this whole idea of tv signals going digital has got to go! Why must *everything* be upgraded in the name of progress? (Seriously. I thought this was a joke when I first heard about it. We’re perfectly happy with our bunny ears, over here. As long as we’ve got hulu.com, too).
Beth The inability to find ANYTHING in Home Depot including a sales person. The place is huge and all I want is a light switch plate (and some nobs) and it’s like going on the ultimate scavenger hunt. Every sales associate points you in a different direction and secretly I don’t think ANY of them know where anything is. (My problem is I usually have no idea what to call the super-important-thingie I need).
and the winner: Tiffany The clothes the creepy guy wears.
He roams aimlessly around our house, going through our junk mail in the mailbox, looking in the windows of our (locked) cars, and not replying when I say hi. He has worn the same grey shirt, jeans, and dirty sneakers since we moved in. I hear that he lives next door but his wife won’t let him in b/c he “lost it” mentally and is basically homeless now. I feel sorry for the old unshaven alcoholic-man, but his clothes have GOT to go.
His wife should throw his clothes out on the lawn to him or something. Maybe they only do that on movies and commercials when there’s a balcony though.
(I’ve got your email address, Tiffany, so I’ll send that iTunes card right over. Might I suggest Ingrid Michaelson’s new song “Be Okay.” Great!)
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Um, I think it would be even worse without the homeless guy’s clothes. Then he’d be a really scary sight buck naked!
$20 for each comment? AWESOME.
Things that must go: My gray streak. I can say bye bye on the 26th…
My backache. I’ll be begging for a backrub by Sunday… I need better posture!
traceys last blog post..Montages make me feel better….
Things that must go:
My tax $$ going to bailout sketchy mortgages.
Inept power company employees telling me they got my late payment and my account is in good standing and then pulling the plug on my power.
Creepy guy who steal my cell phone but then decides to give it back but w/ a nasty text greeting every time I turn on the phone. Ewww!
compulsive writers last blog post..if you like
My 2 year old potentially giving up naps all together… the house will NEVER be clean again!
Olivias last blog post..B-A-N-G-S
In sticking with your Back-to-School theme:
Our school district’s inadequate bus routes MUST go. First day of school: fist-fight in the back of the bus because middle school boys had to pile up to get a seat. Second day of school: kids 3-to-a-seat, plus some on the floor of the aisle. Third day of school (and every day since!): comfort of the front seat of Mom’s Suburban. The district’s answer? High fuel costs, insufficient funding. Just grateful I can be home to transport daughter to/fro.
My heart is just breaking for the Nielsons (and I don’t know them either) but they seem like wonderful people. I think it’s so nice what your doing.
the mama bird diariess last blog post..you had me at 140 calories
Tracey — sorry, I should have been more clear. I’d love to give $20/per comment, but that’s not what I meant.
I am going to make cookies and submit posts to the other fundraising efforts, though (in addition to $20 for the best TTMG). Does that count?
Boy Scout Jamboralls. Just sitting around — my favorite kind of camping. At least I have my Blackberry!
Of course, if I’d known I was only going to get 2 comments, I might have meant to donate 20/comment. Guess I better go back to posting about Sarah Palin.
English teacher mode here but these are the things that I would like to see “go” in my student’s essays:
1.) Accidentally reverting into “text lingo” when writing an academic paper. U get the idea.
2.) Using passive voice instead of active voice
3.) verb/noun agreement – Or I be going crazy.
4.) proper pronoun use – he, she, I SINGULAR – they, their, them PLURAL
Wow, thanks. I’m glad I could clear all that up. I don’t think I’m asking a lot of 18 year olds, but apparently I am.
1. This arm hair I’m trying to get lasered off.
2. This 10 lbs of gooshy fat.
3. Cigarettes.
4. This incessant demand for me to eat and feed my family so that we stay alive. It just feels so wrong. It shouldn’t be this high-maintenance, this thing called “Life”.
5. This faint desire of mine to have another baby. It’s not going to happen and I don’t want it to. So, stop thinking about babies!
Natashas last blog post..Raising money for Nie Nie.
Bad aim by my potty-trained two year old son. I’ve yet to throw Cheerios in the toilet and say, “Ready – Aim – FIRE!” but I’m getting close to my breaking point.
Nothing says FUN like cleaning the bathroom floor five or six times a day!
Love the donation idea, btw.
things that must go: Junk food representation in children’s toys. Seriously. Can’t we stop the insanity before it starts?
Well, I’m late as usual. Nonetheless, I’d love to pitch in my TTMG:
- Wallpaper. All of it. But especially the circa 1980′s peach-and-seafoam-green-pinstripe that plagues my kitchen walls and burns holes in my eyes every time I look at it.
- Unwiped runny noses. They’re everywhere this time of year – church, the playground, library storytime, Walmart… Look. Your poor toddler can’t wipe it himself so pack some Kleenex, mom, and keep that upper lip dry! I’ve got 3 kiddos under 5 and sniffle-duty is a full time job but I’ll be darned if my child is going to snot on someone else. So gross.
- Game shows where people have to fit through holes. Seriously? How is Fox getting away with an entire half hour of oddly shaped bodies squished into shiny rompers, jumping through walls made of nerf? Does anyone really watch this?
Lauren @ Heaven Help the Horsleyss last blog post..Camera Crush
I really like what you had to say here! It\’s about time! Would you mind if I placed a link back from my blog?