Lessons from Techies and Drag Queens

Posted on | April 27, 2007 |

Somewhere in between beginning this post and now, I’ve had a person on a white horse save me. Well, maybe he was just sitting in front of a white horse, or something. Anyway, it completely helps to have a techno-geekster in the family. That would be the MoH’s family. The MoH’s youngest brother who just finished an hour or more on the phone with me fishing around in the cPanel of my web host. Fun, fun, fun. But Wooooo-Hoooooo! It’s up and running. So cool, don’t you think?

So gallant MoH-in Law…

How do I thank thee? Let me count the ways.

I thank thee to the depth and breadth and height

My blogging fingers can reach, when up late at night

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace….Huh? I never have really understood that part Elizabeth, dear, but you get the idea, right? Oh, and don’t forget about the swell dinner out I promised you and your wifey. I’ll tell the MoH to get right on that with his check book. And Phil at Though Sparks has also been persistent in his support with emails and suggestions, and time spent creating helpful posts, and comments made. A totally great guy with a resourceful site. If you haven’t bookmarked him yet or made him a Technorati favorite, what the hell are you waiting for? He has a great piece today on “Post to Blog from MSN Messenger with Plug-In.” Standing ovation from me to both of these swell guys!

So now that I’ve had my blogging butt saved, I can go back to the business of — well, what is it I do? Talk about things like the odd combination of junk I got yesterday in my email. The junk shows up as brown, and I get an option to justify its state of junk-ness. But when I get to see one right after the other like:

“Right Bra Size — Right Attitude” and “Spring Break Travel” and “Looking Good — Make your day a bodywrap day. Lose 6-20” of unwanted size in one hour,” I’m thinking, this isn’t junk. Someone out there in webland knows that I’m rolling on the floor and kicking and screaming over my sad blob and is in some mysterious way trying to reach out to help. Come on, think about it. But there’s only one flaw — An attitude adjustment with the correct bra size is going to be royally effed up if the hooters are caught up in the bodywrap. Then on the spring travel gig, I’d be walking around hooterless with a brassiere flapping in the wind. Ugly, but hilarious. Okay, maybe it’s junk after all.

And on that note….it’s Friday! Yes! I haven’t quite figured out why that still matters to me as I sit here daily in my non-employed state, but somehow it does. One of the ways we celebrate the weekend around here is, of course, eating and drinking merrily into the night. This really begins on Thursday night, because we’re getting ready for Friday. I know you agree with me and probably do this, too. So last night, I celebrated almost Friday by making a fabulous Sharp Cheddar Souffle while the MoH played on-line poker on his laptop at the counter. He actually won about $9 on his $2 investment for the evening, and by the time the souffle was done, we were flopped on the couch watching To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Yes, the RT, too, who didn’t quite get the whole drag queen thing. But he watches Monty Python, so same difference if you ask me. To Wong Foo was a totally great movie to go with the souffle and also learn a lesson to go with my whole frustrating blob day. Patrick Swaze’s character Vida Boheme states at one point that, “The solution to most of life’s problems is to dress really fabulously, girls.” So who knows. Maybe that has been my problem all along. If I looked as good as Patrick Swaze and Wesley Snipes in a dress — seriously — I’d change out of my jammies every day, and then everything else would be perfect. Feh. Right.

So celebrate! Get out the Barbie — the one you grill on, not the blow up doll. And if you don’t have a good burger recipe, check this one out. Go ahead. You won’t be sorry. And if you’re not a carnivore, then wait for the recipe on the cheese souffle. Mmmmmm…

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10 Responses to “Lessons from Techies and Drag Queens”

mel
April 27th, 2007 @ 7:45 pm

Oh, hey, you’re back in business! That cheese souffle looks pretty damn good, but am certain that a souffle is well over my cooking capabilites…macaroni and cheese anyone? Top Ramen perhaps? Maybe you could mail me one? Come on…you live close enough…it could make it…it could! Fine. Hrmph. Glad your blob is a blog again.
kellypea
April 27th, 2007 @ 8:03 pm

Yes you could make it Mel, and when I get the post up on the other site think about trying it. It’s so cool — I know your kids would think so, too! Mmmmm…..
Anne Maybus
April 27th, 2007 @ 8:53 pm

Yippee! You are off again! Congratulations on the new format. Nice and clean looking. Keep up the good work.
kellypea
April 27th, 2007 @ 9:10 pm

Thanks, Anne! Glad to have you here. Still have some work to do on the side, but it’s nice to take a breath.
Lisa
April 28th, 2007 @ 12:09 am

Freakin’ love the new blog! Looks fab as I knew it would!

That souffle looks amazing.. I’ve never had one before - must do something about that! xoxoxo
kellypea
April 28th, 2007 @ 6:08 am

Okay Lisa — I’ll get the souffle posted this weekend. I promise. And you’ve got to make one because they are totally sinful. It makes you feel like a rock star, or, well, something like that when you take it out of the oven. Do rock stars cook? We even do the screaming thing at it to see if it collapses. Nope. It’s all a bunch of shit. Well, not the souffle. The collapsing.

Glad you like my new “skin.” *hah on nails and buff on lapel*
earlene
April 28th, 2007 @ 4:14 pm

Nice “skin”? What does FEH mean and hah on nails etc? You are over my head, but still funny and an excellent cook.
kellypea
April 28th, 2007 @ 4:52 pm

Hola, “Skin” is tech talk for the theme a page is wrapped in. This page’s “skin” is called “Tree.” Someone designed it so it could be uploaded and “wrap” around all the computer lingo so it would actually look nice instead of the blob I had up for a couple of days. It’s like what Erica does. And now, follow my directions. Raise your hand up to your mouth with the palm facing your mouth. Lower your fingers down over your palm so that your nails are positioned in front of your mouth. Now, “Hah” on your nails to create condensation, then buff. Voila. “Hah” And you heard it here first.
domestika
April 30th, 2007 @ 4:45 pm

Nothing says thank you like a cheese souffle! And your blog is looking as good as the food… YAY for geeky friends, eh?
~ Jen
kellypea
April 30th, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

Hey Jen,
I’ve missed you, and finally stopped by your site a day or so ago since I’ve been lost in this blog switch over thing. But now I’m up for air and making adjustments, so very good to hear from you! Geeky friends are the best! How’s the book coming?