Thursday, June 21, 2012

THIS WEEK'S CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

I'm taking a little time off from the happy chore of reading and reviewing my friends' books in order to write this -- my 700th post!

And no, I am not going to tell you 700 things about myself. You already know me all too well.

But the current state of affairs is as follows:

I've been on Blogger since December, 2009.
3, 993 people have looked at my profile.
My blog has had a total of 23, 893 hits. 
I have 132 followers.


Does anyone know the identity of my very first follower?




That's right! The beautiful and ever-popular Little Chick! I love her so.

After a while, LegalMist came on board and started the ball rolling. She encouraged her followers to stop by my place to meet me. Before I knew it, I had 13 followers, and it stayed that way for quite some time. Then Cinderita wrote, How come Lola only has 13 followers? She encouraged even more folks to stop by and cop a squat.

And the little blog that could kept growing and growing, and I love each and every one of you. I wish I could name every person who has become my friend because of this blog, but it would take too long.

I have been Dumped First Wife, Lola, Janie Junebug, and now I'm a combination of Lola and Janie. Multiple personality disorder really can be fun.

The majority of my hits come from the U.S., with the U.K. in second place, and Ireland in third. Slovenia remains on the "hits" chart. I loves me my Slovenians, and they loves me back.

You still haven't seen me, except for the back of my head:
I hope you think it's a nice head. The Head was in San Francisco at City Lights Bookstore when The Hurricane photographed The Head.

As for search terms used to find me, I still think the funniest is "fucking my skinny wife." People who ask Google why Mr. Rogers wore a sweater may end up at my post explaining that Mr. Rogers was never in the military and he wasn't covered in tats. He wore sweaters because his mom made them for him.

Now a little information about this, the week that still is:

It's hasn't rained in a few days. The water has receded considerably. I have one swirling little pool of tadpoles desperate to stay alive. I think my attempt to start a tadpole farm will fail. Boo-hoo.

The Hurricane called recently to say she had been at rowing practice (she rows crew), and the coach told the team to row to a different dock than they usually use because something had been found in the water. The team went to the other dock. At their dock, they could see that the police and other rescue personnel had removed a body from the water -- a very sad sight indeed. The Hurricane's shoes were on their dock, so they became part of the crime scene. A member of the team drove her home so she wouldn't have to ride her bike wearing socks and no shoes. The police questioned The Hurricane because she had a murderous look in her eye. They wanted to know what time she was on the dock and what she saw, which, Thank You God, was absolutely nothing but water. Then they asked if it was Colonel Mustard in the dining room with the knife. 

The Hurricane felt a bit overwhelmed and wrung out by her morning. I hope this is her final experience with corpses. She used to row in a park, but at one point it was shut down for quite a while because murder victims washed in from San Francisco Bay.

When will killers learn they can't get rid of a body by weighing it down and dumping it overboard? Right, Scott Peterson? You nasty little so-and-so.

I filled out an application for medical insurance. It should be in effect next week. I have documents that go with it, and I thank so many of you for advising me in my insurance hunt that concluded with Miss Scarlet in the ballroom with the revolver.


Tomorrow, I have a question to answer. I need to work on a short story this weekend, and I hope to do more reading. When I post next week, the first item on my agenda is to review Twelve Habits of Highly Successful Cats & Their Humans by our beloved Dulcy and Dee Ready. To purchase the book now, please visit http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=twelve+habits+of+highly+successful+cats+and+their+humans&sprefix=twelve+habits%2Cstripbooks%2C289.

Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug

P.S. It was really Dr. X in the billiard room without a clue.


31 comments:

  1. Congrats lady! :-) Keep it up!

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  2. Congrats woman! That's a big deal! I feel bad for your daughter. Well and the victim too but it's a little late to feel sorry for them. I hope she gets her shoes back soon. As for your tadpoles I half expected (as much as you dislike the frogs) for you to still try and keep them alive haha. Thanks again for doing my review. I hope your insurance thing works out. I know it's a total pain but better to have some than none. (ok it's late and yes I did just make a racy remark.)

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    1. Naughty Lyndee. The Hurricane will be find without those particular shoes if she doesn't get them. She doesn't lack for shoes or clothes.

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  3. Everyone's talking about their first follower today. And you can borrow some of our rain if you want, we've got buckets of the damn stuff.

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    1. Thank you for your very kind offer, but please keep your own damn rain. It's supposed to rain here all weekend.

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  4. That had to be a traumatic experience for Hurricane. But glad she didn't have to see it. And also glad you went ahead with the insurance thing.

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    1. The Hurricane was pretty calm about it, but she said she took it easy the rest of the day and went to a cafe in the city to work on her laptop. She loves to work in cafes and drink her beloved coffee

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  5. Congrats on your 700th post! I rarely remember that we can check our stats. Now I'll have to go look at mine. ;)

    Dead bodies? Wrong time, wrong place and losing her shoes? Dang! And then you have your dead tadpole bodies, too. :(

    Hope it's a quiet, deathless weekend. ;)

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    1. Thank you! At least I don't have to look at the dead tadpoles. They are covered with flies. Now doesn't that thought make a pretty picture?

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  6. Dear DUMPED, LOLA, JANIE, LOLA/JANIE--May you be li8ke the Energizer bunny--just keep going & going & going....!!!

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    1. Since I shall live to be 101, I have a lot of blogging left to do.

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  7. Congrats on such a successful blogging career so far! It's amazing how many dear friends you make from simply blogging.
    Poor Hurricane and her shoes! That's crazy...but I am cracking up over your "Clue" references! Enjoy your reading time :)

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    1. I'm glad you like the Clue stuff. I didn't want to be disrespectful, but it's not as if the murdered person's family will read my blog.

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  8. Congratulations on your post number 700! That's some achievement. You know, I had 13 followers for the longest time and worried that no one would ever read my blog. What I enjoy most about blogging is the people one meets from all over the world. I have a Flag Counter and when I click on it and check, I am amazed at all the countries that have visited my blog, even if only once. It's so much fun, isn't it?

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    1. I absolutely adore having readers all over the world. I've even had visits from Iran and Saudi Arabia. It's so cool!

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  9. WOW You're getting insurance! I am so jealous/impressed.

    Big congrats on your 700th post. That's a big deal indeed.

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    1. AND my new insurance will be so much cheaper than my current insurance. Please, God, let everything go through.

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  10. Congrats on reaching...err...100 in dog blog years! :)

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    1. Thank you x 700 = a heckuvalot of thank yous

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  11. Dear Janie, congratulations on 700 postings. Wow!!!!! And all those followers who delight in coming to your blog--as I do--for your weekly movie reviews and your wry way of presenting your life.

    I want to thank you for boldly stating Dulcy's new book at the end of your posting and for providing a link for it to Amazon. I so look forward to your review. Peace.

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    1. Thank you, Dee. I so look forward to reading your book. I LOVED the first one.

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  12. I just posted my 502 post. I didn't even notice. My kids did though... they are still waiting for dinner...

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  13. All that reading and here I am, sending you my manuscript. Timing is everything. It's raining buckets here....oops....now it stopped....oops...now it's raining buckets...oops...

    I'm NOT used to this, but it's better than the three and four days of steady rain we used to have in Indiana.

    If I hadn't been blogjacked, I'd be on my 12th year by now.

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    1. Hey, I asked for the manuscript, and it just so happens I love to read almost as much as I love dogs. Isn't the weather weird in Florida? Rain. No rain. Sunshine. Rain. Rain. No rain. Rain. I could go on and on, but I shan't.

      Love,
      Janie

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  14. Yeah yeah yeah everybody is feeling sorry for The Hurricane.

    Not me. No. Think about it. TWO places she visits quite a lot for "sports" get closed due to dead bodies turning up ?
    Coincidence ?

    Maybe, but those tadpoles might be dying of a bit more then lack of water and if I was you I'd be VERY nice to her....

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    1. I think I'll send that child a check right now.

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  15. Just ordered a copy of Dee and Ducly's book. I wish Bumper would write more. He's one funny cat.

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    1. Thank you for purchasing Dee and Dulcy's book. I know they appreciate it.

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  16. Yes only seen your head would like to see your face too.
    www.thoughtsofpaps.com

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