Blogging

Ok, the latest interweb meme. If you had a single bullet destined for a celebrity, who would you pick? Pretty straightforward question, but it really needs to be a celebrity, not an athlete or politician, etc.

Me? I’d pick either Andie MacDowell or any celebrity who’s a Scientologist.

What about you? Post your response on your blog and pass it on!

Greetings Friends, Family, Acquaintances and Lurkers! Finally, finally, finally, I have ported my blog to my new, self-hosted domain. It has taken weeks of effort and cost just a little bit of money, but it means I’m in control and all my content is safe and backed up locally.

There is still a bit of work to do with moving my pictures over from Blogger and fixing bad links, but it will all happen in time. For now, my content is in place and I can start blogging again! I want to thank Michael, Bob and Sean for all their help – could not have done it without them!  

If you have blogrolled me, please update your link with my new address: www.iheartdavids.com. I will be putting stuff in place to help make permalinks pointing to my old blog work – I am hopeful I can get this done right.

As an added bonus, you are now able to subscribe to my blog! There is a form on the subscriptions page, but if that doesn’t work, just send me an email and I’ll add you to the list.

 Thanks for everyone’s patience as I got this up and running. Now I’ll be able to focus on blogging!

Fun! I was tagged by Cristin as a Rockin’ Girl Blogger. *blushes*

Now it’s my turn to tag 5 of my favorite girl bloggers. Ladies, pass it on!

Ele – Ele gets the credit for inspiring me to start my own blog. Plus, we have our own small world story.
Cristin – Sisters, what can I say?
Stew – I love my new friend who gives me cucumbers from her garden and wants to talk worms!
Ruth – Damn, isn’t Hannah cute?
Monica – A blogger newbie but a really old friend.

**UPDATE**
OK, I’m an idiot. The cool domains I listed below are not available.
These are:
www.jenisblog.com
www.iheartdavids.com
www.thomasjeromenewton.com
www.jenianddave.com

I am thinking I’m going to start hosting my blog myself. I don’t feel comfortable relying on Blogger to keep all this content – it’s my baby and I love it!

*UPDATE* My latest thoughts:
http://www.sayit.com/
http://www.speakoutloud.com/
http://www.iheartdavids.com/blog/
http://www.jenisblog.com/
http://www.jenianddave.com/
http://www.thomasjeromenewton.com/
http://www.aboutme.com/

I’m thinking about getting my own domain. Suggestions on what it should be?
Here are some thoughts:

http://www.jeniq.co.uk/
http://www.qfactor.co.uk/
It just cracks me up that I can have a .co.uk URL!

Anyway, I’m not that stoked about Q-Factor, but some bastard has taken http://www.jeniq.com/.
Do you guys and gals have any creative thoughts?

Here’s my tag cloud according to Technorati:

A note to everyone who’s got a Blogger account: Read Cristin’s cautionary tale.

OK, I was inspired by Ele’s post to reveal five things about me that you may not have known. I guess it’s hard to stay away from embarrassing things, but I’m going to try. 🙂

1. Prison Love Story
The year I graduated from college, I found a job teaching Adult Literacy for a few hours a week at the local jail. One of the inmates in my class was a bank robber. His name was Drew. He was the only intelligent, articulate person in my class, and he was my “trustee,” an inmate who got to help run the class. He wasn’t bad looking, either. We would spend 15 minutes talking on the phone together every Saturday, until he got shipped off to the State Penitentiary. One day, I kissed him! It was a very brief, very Jr. High-thing but it was so crazy stupid to do. I still keep a picture of him to this day, just in case anything fishy every happens. Hmm, he had a five year sentence so he should have been out now for about 5 years unless he shived someone at the State Penn….

2. Lack of Indoor Plumbing
I, too, lacked indoor plumbing for a period of time when I was a kid. My dad and brother and I moved out to a house on the top of a mountain outside of Independence, Virginia. The house was just a shell, and it took a while to make it livable. Until then, we took a little shovel and a roll of toilet paper off into the woods with us. During the day we’d fill up a raft with water to let it heat in the sun for baths, or we’d boil water and fill up our enormous shop vac – I was young so I fit in it nicely. I know I’ve got some photos around here somewhere…

3. Lasting Effects
When I was 18, I had the briefest of affairs with my boyfriend’s 30-year-old brother. I found out a few years ago that my boyfriend’s family has still never forgiven the brother for seducing me. Yeah, I really do call it seduction. Try imagining how smart you were at 18 versus 30 – I was stupid at 18. (Let that be a lesson for all you 18-year-olds.)

4. Turned On or Terrified?
John Denver said it turned him on to think of growing old. Not me. I’m terrified. I always have been.

5. Emotional
Some of you know this, I guess, and others may suspect it, but I am really emotional. Here are some of the things that make me cry:

• Lonely little old men
• Lonely little old men buying potted meat in the supermarket
• Veterans
• Veterans’ Day Parades
• American Express commercials
• The trailer for Pursuit of Happyness
• Someone playing music for me, like these street musicians in Colombia or when Chris played Space Oddity on acoustic guitar for my birthday when I was 17
• Most movies, especially sappy, sentimental ones

OK, that wasn’t too bad, I guess. Your turn next.