Over at Big Blogger All Star, the infamous Misty asked for celebrity endorsement, “Web celebrity endorsement! You know. Zeldman, Halcyon, Haughey, SOMEONE” – and who came through? YES… I came through. Halcyon Styn endorses the Big Pink Cookie, and you should too.
I’m so giddy I can’t even type. My blogwhoring knows no shame. I think I’m going to cry.
Why the hell am I still awake? And not just awake – but wide awake? Oh goodness, this week is going to be just as much fun as last week was. But there are some really important things you should know about, and I won’t be around later today* to tell you:
:: According to the planner, today is Gretchen’s birthday! Go share some sugar, wish her some love, all that good stuff – ok? Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday, dear Gretchennnnnnn… Happy Birthday to youuuuuu!!!
:: You’ve heard it before, and I promise this is the last time I’ll say it here – I made the Final 3 at Big Blogger All-Stars, and I want to win – but I need your help. Please go and vote for me in the polls. I need your help. If you won’t do it for me, do it for do it for Shiktook. Whatever you do, please vote. You have until 6pm PST today (Monday) to vote. That’s 8pm CST, 9pm EST. Vote!
* I’ll be at work – remember?
So, here I am … happily surfing along and what should happen? I end up at the Kuro5hin.org Error 404 page. What’s this link? Learn more about the storied history of the 404 error. I’m all for learning. Ooooooh… look! Links to the best 404 Not Found errors on the web, categorized for my surfing enjoyment!
Of course I pick the “Adult” category. I mean, it’s the first one on the list, so I have to pick that one – right? Well, I must say, I will never look at a clown the same again. (May or may not be work safe, depending on where you work.) And considering all of the begging I’m doing for Big Blogger votes (pick me! pick me!) I think I need a 404 page like this one.
Yes, I really must get a nice 404 page myself. Everyone needs one. Now, where was I again?
Rusty finally gave in and posted at kuro5hin.org about BigBlogger and the end of the line! Ok, must really rally the troops hard – with 34,000 subscribers this could be the final blow. Bastard! (I don’t feel bad saying that here, I’ve called him that on IM already.)
Poor Ken though. Rusty wrote, “The other finalist is Christine” … uh, no. Ken is a finalist too, and a damn good one. I would feel guilty about asking you guys to vote if I had ever been up against Ken – but I wasn’t. Edited later: Well, I shouldn’t speed read before a nice afternoon nap. I totally missed the part about Ken. Oops. Hooked on Phonics, here I come…
Go vote for me. Please. Must crush the K5 machine!
Whenever I start to dig through all of the supplies over at Bramble Berry for soapmaking – looking for goodies for Sudsalicious (ugh, pop-ups! I must get that site out of the claws of Network Solutions so I can move it!) – I start considering eBay auctions. There are seasonal soap items, or things I would only make once, that I don’t want to add to the Sudsalicious site. I want to just auction them off – but when I look at the auctions out there already they aren’t doing well.
On the other hand, when it comes to candles – I know that Liz must be doing well with her Bay Candles on eBay – I have a ton of them! And she runs things a lot like I want to – I make them when I can, and when I want to. With a full time job I simply can’t meet the demands of having a ton of orders waiting for me sometimes.
So this is today’s consumer survey: if you were buying handmade soaps would you be more likely to buy them from a site or from eBay? Would you consider buying them off of eBay? What would influence your decision?