I am so sorry that this is tardy, we seem to have come down with a fiendish plague at my house. I don’t think it’s swine flu or even regular flu, but it is responsible for copious amounts of snot and phlegm.
But that is boring and so to avoid the crime of writing while sick (which always results in page after page of me whining how UNFAIR it all is and weeping at the tender beauty of my courage in the face of rhinovirus) I’m proud to announce the grand prize winner is:
Sean from Lance Bass Ruined My Life for Book Thongs
Stephanie from Adventures in the Life of Me for Fortifido and Dog Snuggies. Be sure to check out her animals trying Fortifido and the Snuggie, too cute!
I will be contacting the winners by email later today to get their addresses to mail their prizes. Although I probably won’t get to the post office until we all stop leaking. I am a good citizen that way.
This one ultimately wasn’t that disgusting, but I only got to the point where I could eat it by convincing myself it was just like black pudding. That might not work for everyone.
I’m not one of those bloggers that gets a lot of hate mail, but this post has gotten me a few indignant replies. Don’t knock it til you try it, they say. Yeah, well don’t be getting all pissy at me until you’ve read my dang post and see that I almost puked just dipping my finger in the brain juice. So I did try it. Oooh, scuzz.
Okay, as a person who eats and enjoys Spam on occasion I have to say you are setting yourself up for a LIFE OF MISERY if you can’t find a way to make peace that people are going to mock your choice in canned goods. That is something my life coach taught me and I am sharing it with you all <– see, THAT’S why I should win good mood blogger.
This is the most viewed post on my blog. The funny thing is, I think if I’d been able to just pull the chicken out of the can as I’d planned instead of having to pour it out, the post wouldn’t have been nearly as popular. Handling the chicken was pretty disgusting, but the taste wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t good, either. Really the taste wasn’t there.
I wasn’t the first person by far to taste and post this, but as far as I know I am the only one who served it with spring mix and a blood orange garnish.
I don’t know why I wasn’t content just to let my brother try this one, but after we taped this, I went and tried one and prompted yakked in the sink. Oy, I think it was the hot dog water smell that made me sick.
You can see more of my food posts here. Let me know in comments the grodiest foods you’ve tried!
Or, my unofficial entry into the IHMMB Scary Products Contest, with video
Fish and cheese sausage from Korea
The packages sure are cute, aren’t they. Maybe the one with the boy holding the giant sausage and licking his lips is vaguely alarming, but mostly cute. My mom bought these for me at Winchester Farmer’s Market, where you can buy all sorts of international goodies. She thought my boys might eat them for after school snacks.
Now that the How to be Rich and Happy fan page has fiftysixtupled in fans, I feel confident in saying I am the go to person when it comes to building your online community with Facebook. FIFTYSIXTUPLED! And it started out with zero and I’m sure the amount of increase can be expressed traditionally, as a percent-number but didn’t you hear the part where it started with zero and you can’t divide by zero and I’m pretty sure division is required for percents but that doesn’t matter because the ROI in social media can’t be adequately expressed in numbers, it’s about the conversation. Of which I’ve had many these days.
But not in the Random People That Join Groups Then Ignore Them Forever Group, I did join and I thought about leaving a pithy comment, oh yes I did, but then I thought to myself, oh no, this is not a random act of joking for you my friend, this, this is inspiration. You are a maven, you go out and show them that using the right strategies it is possible to start a group that grows conversation, that webs people into a connection force so sticky that Spiderman would weep at the quiet beauty of your weaving.
And here they are, in no particular, the first groups I shower-thought just now:
My friend and coach Tim Brownson let me set up a Facebook fan page for his book How to be Rich and Happy. I’ve discovered I’m more than a bit geeked out about the possibilities of fan pages, so I’m exploring the idea of doing more. That’s a total hint for somebody who needs a page but doesn’t want them to do it themselves to contact me while I still work for pats on the head.
You can become a fan of How to be Rich and Happy on Facebook and get updated when there are new posts on the blog and other news. I think even if you don’t buy the book, the blog offers a lot of value.
By the way, Tim and John have decided to offer a larger free sample of HTBRAH, you can get it here, no need to register or join a mailing list, just click the download link. [click to continue…]
