Happiness for bloggers
Do you ever get weeks where big things go wrong? You wash the dishes while life is raining hailstones onto your spring garden? Where even your metaphors are appalling?
My food history life isn’t bad, to be honest. What with my class and the Prohibition testing and the treats at the market, it’s rolling along nicely. That’s why I’m turning to it to cheer myself up now that everything else is so awry. Last time I went on a recipe testing spree. This time my waistline can’t stand it and I’m in the middle of teaching and deadlines anyhow. This means I need something else.
I can’t not do the cheering up: lots of small things are going right in my life, but several very wrong big things have happened, and I need help. I can’t wave a magic wand and sort things out. Not even my nieces believed I was capable of such magic when they were seven years old and very gullible. Now they’re teenagers, so I won’t tell you what they think of me. Except that they reassure me that no matter how strange I may be, they will still love me. And if I’m talking maudlin, then you know for certain I need a bit of brightness.
What I can do to create more joy is give away more fridge magnets. I just got a new set of them, you see (entirely new design – I’m living dangerously). I was going to give them out on my birthday, but that’s late April and I need to be made happy NOW. So, the first ten people to send me an address (anywhere deliverable, worldwide) get a really cool Food History fridge magnet. I have thirty unspoken for, right now (I ordered fifty, but they go quickly) so if more than ten people want them, I might be tempted to give more away.
Please, please ask for the magnets. Please send addresses (which will be destroyed as soon as I’ve got your magnet in the post). Use the button on the right hand column, the one that says “contact me.” That way your address won’t go on the web by mistake. Ask soon - I need to be made happy.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:48 am
I’d love a magnet! Where can I send my mailing address?
March 31st, 2008 at 1:51 am
If you can’t find the contact button, then how about sending it to philologa(at)gmail(dot)com ? Philologa is purely fictional, but doesn’t mind forwarding messages to me despite that. What’s really worrying is that she has written articles despite not existing. Sometimes I worry about the state of the universe, but at least her email address will reach me.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
May I have a fridge magnet? I can never have too many fridge magnets. Do you need my address? You know where I live.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Which Lynne are you? (the trouble with web postings on things) If you’re one of the Sydney ones then I can bring it in June. If you’re the Melbourne one we should meet for coffee in April. If you’re the Canberra Lynne then give me a ring and we can have coffee nad I can deliver anytime. If you’re any other Lynne, I’ve lost your address.
Sorry - I really didn’t know I had so many Lynne’s in my life!
April 9th, 2008 at 7:30 am
very interesting concept giveaways - I can always use another fridge magnet to hold my ’stuff up’ - LOL … where do I sign ….
April 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
If you can’t find the “contact me” button mentioned in the post, you can send your street adddress to philologa(at) gmail (dot) com