Let's Be Friends!

This is pretty much how I feel about losing google reader.

Today I wanted to do the obligatory the-sky-is-falling-no-more-google-reader post! BOO! While I'm bummed that google reader is going bye-bye, I am really excited because I'll actually be LEAVING blogger very soon for wordpress.org. *cue awesome dance montage with flowers and birds...or cash >.>*

How I feel about my new blog, WHICH IS ALMOST DONE!

My site, The Happy Type, is being worked on by the lovely Melyssa at The Nectar Collective and I have been ABSOLUTELY blown away with the amazing collaboration and mock-ups that she's sent me. My new blog is going to be the best thing since sliced bread/cheese, and boy do I love carbs and dairy products (mostly melted together) so I don't use that phrase lightly. ;) I know that my site will be good-to-go in REALLY soon, but I wanted to make sure that all you wonderful people would be able to find me easily since I won't be able to rely on google reader to spread the good word.

So, let's be friends on bloglovin', because then we can totally rock a teeter-totter in confidence knowing that the other has got our back! Follow me on bloglovin', here. I am so excited about my new site and I can't wait to work on creating the vision that I have for it, but most of all I am escatic about sharing it with as many people as possible.

Have a wonderful day, beautiful!

Day 11: BEDM Challenge What I can't do

Today is day 11 of the BEDM challenge and today's most was HARD. I had to really sit and think about this one and I was not a happy camper! What could be giving me so much ire? Here's the prompt in all of it's glory:

"Sell yourself in 10 words or less."

Oh, dang. First, I thought hmmm....maybe I should do a 10 word sentence? Maybe just 10 words? An interpretive dance? Bleh. My approach was to describe some things that I can't do because if you buy something don't you want to know what it can't do? So here we go!

"I can't cartwheel, sing, or bicycle. Let's be friends."

What do you think? How would you have tackled this challenge? Have a wonderful day and I hope your weekend is going well!

Day 10: BEDM Challenge Impressing A Boy: A Cautionary Tale

Today's blog challenge post is a really great one and I had a lot of fun putting together this post.

Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.

To say the least there was no shortage of material for this bad boy. Haha. Sometimes, I feel like my life is a series of ridiculous events so I had to really think to narrow this down. Since moving abroad there have been the countless times that I have had to resort to pantomiming what I am trying to say because I don't know the Korean word for it, which is always a source of entertainment to the locals. Or the time that I went nearly out of the city on the wrong bus when I was supposed to meet a friend. Or that one time in college at a crew regatta that I had to change shirts to match the rest of my team...ON THE WATER....in front of the racing crowd. 

However, for this challenge, I decided to go back, waaaaaay back and I think I picked a winner. In Korea there are escalators for everything and it's pretty much impossible to go throughout your daily routine without taking a couple of them, and when thinking of which story to pick I was inspired by their constant presence. 

So there was this one time in high school...don't all truly embarrassing stories begin like this? Anyhow, I was 16, on a school trip, and I had the most MASSIVE crush on this guy in my group. My class group was walking in this museum that we were visiting and when we went to to take the escalators to the second floor one of them was broken. Suddenly, one of the friends of my crush decides that it would be a fantastic idea to run up the broken escalator to beat all the schmucks waiting for the one working people mover. 

Who waits in a line?! NOT US, we were fearless. 

So the group starts charging up the stairs and my crush looks at me and is all, "I'll beat you to the top." Naturally, I want to impress said crush. UGH. So what do I do? I run UP the broken escalator and TRIP. 

BAM! Down, goes Fraizer! 

This was pretty much my reaction when I bit the big one.

So, I land in an undignified heap a few steps down from where I started, and what thanks do I get for trying to impress my crush? Does he stop to help me up? Does he EVEN ask if I'm alright? No, he continues to RACE TO THE TOP! By now everyone in the group has seen what has transpired and I am getting heckled like no one's business, because this is high school after all. I pick myself up as dignified as I can and mumble something about the stairs being slippery when one of my mortal enemies gets her obligatory shot in. Life cannot get any MORE embarrassing for me at 16. I pretty much want to die, limp up the stairs, and proceed to melt into the museum wallpaper for the remainder of the trip.

I'm laughing, not crying as I recount this cautionary tale.

The good thing is that when I recall this tumble down the escalator I can't help but die laughing. What was I thinking?! Time has a way of making what seemed like the end of the world into a hilarious story that you can share with blogger friends. Hooray. 

Speaking of blogger friends if you are from the BEDM challenge and find me through the link-up let's be friends! Comment, follow, and I'll do the same for you so we can stay connected for the rest of the blog everyday challenge! 

What is your most embarrassing moment? Now that you know mine I would love to hear yours!