Me and a good friend…we’ll call him Sponge Bob (cause he always seems to be sponging from me hehehe!) were discussing the other day about possible entrepreneurial outlets for me…I am the quintessential entrepreneur…always looking for new ways to support myself…anyhow…we got on the subject of the cartoons and were discussing putting them in a full colour book with captions sort of like the whole ‘Blue Day’ thing…Hmmm not bad really but the idea I was stuck on was putting the cartoons on t-shirts and selling them online with the captions on the back like ‘I’m losin’ it!’ and on the front having the relevant ‘I look forward to…’ phrase for each cartoon etc etc WELL… I loved the idea and wanted to run with it so we were going through the cartoons to sort through which ones would be suitable, when I picked up one of my latest cartoons titled ‘Bath Dam’ he immediately turned it down saying ‘Now Flab, who in heavens name would want to wear your huge arse on the front of their t-shirt… to which I replied..the slogan on the back of the t-shirt could read ‘check out my flabuless arse!’ We argued over this for quite some time…Now why I even wanted my arse on a t-shirt worn by someone, I didn’t know, probably on the other side of the world…I dont know…but I hate loosing…so finally he dared me…’ok missy lets put it up for sale and see if anyone buys it…if you win, I will babysit your kids for two hours every friday night for the next month (I love to party friday nights! Although I don’t get the opportunity much)…and if I win you have to massage my feet every day for the next month (yuck…massage those stinky flippers)…never one to turn down a bet I agreed…and so my loyal fans somewhere on this big wide world called the world wide web there is a T-Shirt for sale with my Arse on the front…I tell you what…if someone can find it, I will personally buy one for you as long as you wear it and send a pic so that I don’t have to massage stinky feet for the next month! (yea yea I know thats cheating)….You’ll have to look hard…It will look something like this:
So guys…comment here and tell me what the consensus is…should I release my own special brand of madness and go into the t-shirt design business? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I don’t know about where you are, but here in NZ we have some great Easter sales…usually, I stay WAY away but as my clothes have now started to fall off…I mean HELLO…I would say that when your underwear falls down to your ankles in the middle of a busy shopping center…ITS TIME TO GET SOME NEW CLOTHES…not a good look…but you will be so proud of me, without blinking an eyelid I simply stepped out of them and promptly walked calmly to my car and never looked back…there is NO way I was going to turn around and make eye contact with anyone who may have seen and I guess I will have to find another shopping centre to shop at… after all, I don’t want to run the risk of anyone coming up to me and saying “Excuse me…I think you left your panties behind!” and holding up my ‘nanna parachutes’ for everyone to see!
So today I braved the mad sales…and I decided to be adventurous…instead of taking clothes into the dressing room that were my size I started taking clothes in that were two sizes smaller than what I actually thought I was…OK…so I started with the smallest of the sizes (14US). True, I barely got my legs in the trousers and do you think I could yank them up over my voluptuous hips…believe me I tried! I pulled, I yanked, I wriggled, I jumped up and down I even crossed one leg over the other to narrow my hips (my mother’s tip)…but the darned pants wouldn’t budge…You would think that was bad and humiliating enough…but you should have seen the faces of the other women in the dressing room…oh the scorn…they were looking at me, like, I had NO right to be wearing clothes at ALL with a body like mine…determined, I continued…Its a pity really, cause maybe then, I wouldn’t have had to buy the pants…with a huge split in the butt seam…After I decided I didn’t really like them at all…
But there is good news today…the next size up (a size lower than what I thought I was)…actually fitted perfectly…so I am now officially a size 16US. Happy Easter for Me!
Enough Madness for now…I hope y’all have a great Easter Holiday! Oh and before I forget, I uploaded some more music and another FlabTV video-cast last night titled: ‘Flabuless, On Music’. No great, earth shattering enlightenment’s revealed but if you wanna know WHY I listen to WHAT I listen to…it’s worth checking it out.
ok…so I had set April 1st as my D-Day for quitting smoking…the trouble was, early the day before…I ran out…GRRR…so guess what I did…yea you guessed it I went out and brought another pack…WELL my justification was that it wasn’t D-Day yet….so I simply had to get more to see me through…hehehe (wicked thing that I am) But now the plot thickens because April 1st came and went and I still have a newly brought pack of smokes taunting me whenever my hand dips into my handbag and ya think I can just throw them out!…Doh… That would be a waste…hehehe! I am not ‘putting it off’ you know. I have VALID reasons! So today I have formulated my own QUIT method…and it is VERY scientific…
You know what everyone says about exercise and how to build up your fitness…you take one lamp post at a time…and then the next day you run to the next lamp post every day increasing…I have decided to try that out with smoking…so I am going cold turkey using a sort of ‘Matrix’
Here’s how it works…at the moment I have a smoke every hour give or take a couple…hehehe! At 4pm this arvo (its 5.08pm now) I had a smoke which means I am due to have another any minute now… Hang on…before I go any further I am just going out for a puff!….
Ok I am back now…where was I? oh yea the scientific way to QUIT so I have had my smoke for this hour…now I have to wait 2 more hours before I can have another one and then I have to wait 3 hours to have the next one after that etc. etc. Once 24hrs, of doing this, is up I then have to wait 1 day before the next and then 2 days etc etc…and then when 7 days are up I have to wait one week then two weeks…are ya with me! Or have I just confused the hell out of you? I am going to map it in my calendar so that you can keep up with my progress. Using this formula I have worked out .by end of March 2057 ( 78yrs old) I should be officially smoke free…or dead….which is the same anyhows…You do the maths…it REALLY works…well…hmmm…we shall see…
I have updated my calendar for the first year so that you can see when I am due for my next smoke and I will hold myself accountable to you guys for sticking with the program. After all, who knows I may end up writing a best seller book about his new QUIT smoking self help method and make myself a whack of $$$$… Woohooo! It is in my interest then to make SURE it works. Money is a powerful motivator! Well, I guess I’ll start tomorrow!…hehehe… only kidding! The Cold Turkey Matrix Revolution has already begun! …I might think about changing the name.
Wow Guys…I know its been a couple of days since you have heard from me…I have been busy…if you haven’t noticed already. The website has had some major upgrading and restructuring…but we still live at the same address…due to some root file changes your RSS and blog links might be out of whack now…so if you get a error page when you go to your bookmarked site link! you will know why!!! Well actually, it just occured to me you probably WONT know why because you wouldn’t still be subscribed to this feed…ooops oh well hopefully you will come and track me down… hehehe
Ok so notable changes to the site include:
eCARDS yes you asked for it here it is…you can now send ‘The Lighter Side’ Cartoons direct to your friends and families inboxes…I had been searching for an eCard system that didn’t mean receivers have to ‘pick it up online’ (I hate those! half the time I don’t even bother)…finally, after much research I found it…so lets get this party started! Feel free to start sending the cartoons to your friends so that they can forward them to their friends and hopefully we can start a ‘The Lighter Side’ REVOLUTION all around the world…I will KNOW I have succeeded when I in turn get forwarded my own cartoon from Iran! hehehe but we won’t go there now will we…Hmmm…say no more.
I also put a lightbox feature on the blog pics so if you wanna see something really cool click on the cartoons in this blog and you will see what I mean…
In my next Blog I want to tell you a bit about the artist behind ‘The Lighter Side’ - the incomparable, Eric Jones…so stay tuned, in the meantime you can visit his website www.giveacaricature.com from my FlabFav’s Page. I plan to be releasing new cartoons every couple of weeks (it depends really on how fast Eric can draw them up)! so there are exciting times ahead…I have 44 more conceptual babies where those first 5 came from so there will be PLENTY of more laughs ahead…
Ok so a boring post from me today…but what d’ya expect it’s 1.37am in the morning for me…so when y’all are waking up I am going nun nies…dreaming of y’all. hehehe well maybe not. Be Good and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do! Heheheh.
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