“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

- Damon Runyon

Thanks for the meme, Kevin. Don't you have anyone better to tag?

Sitcoms? I don't watch TV. No, not because my dad hogs it, I just fell out of the habit when I was in Beauty School. I didn't have time, and when I did, there were better things to do than flip through 1000 channels and say "there's nothing on!"

My life is sooooo much cooler than any sitcom character's, anyway. I can't think of any that I would want to be, so I'll let the people who still check out blogs (even though its Summer) pick some out for me.

I reject your meme, and substitute my own!

I don't know what is going on, but this blog has already had around 250 visitors today (about 3x what I get in a full day), and almost all of them are going to the Mall Diva's category archive.

The other common denominator is that the visitors are coming from different radio stations via something called listenernetwork.com; e.g., "kzst.listenernetwork.com/SearchWeb.asp." Clicking on the incoming reference doesn't show anything helpful. The only thing I can think of is some mention or reference from a network-syndicated show or quiz is driving this, but I can't find any useful information about why this is happening from SiteMeter, Technorati or TTLB (or maybe I just don't know how to ask the question).

If anyone can explain this sudden rush of interest (not that I'm shocked, given it is the Mall Diva, after all), I'm all ears.

Update:

For those searching the Mall Diva archives, only the last 17 appear on the main page under this category heading. You can browse previous entries by selecting her category, then clicking on the monthly archives on the right hand side of the page. Her very first post (about having her wisdom teeth pulled) can be found under March, 2005, but she didn't appear again until September (the thrill of being shot at) and then began writing more regularly in October of 2005 (with an account of a former classmate being charged with murder). NW.

Yep, it's that time of year again. The time of year where we start thinking about and planning for one of the most important events that mark a revolutionary change in the history of America; nay,nay, the world!

"Independence Day," you say?

No! My birthday! What do you think? Gosh!

Yes, that famous date, 8/18/88.

Do you know what that means?

GOLDEN BIRTHDAY!

And since I want this day formally acknowledged, I decided to buy myself an early birthday present. Ahhh, the benefits of working in formal dress store. Here it is!

WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM FOR SOME BREAKING NEWS:
THE MALL DIVA HAD WEETABIX FOR BREAKFAST THIS MORNING. YES, THANKS TO TOM, WHO SUPPLIED IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS CEREAL, WHICH CAN INDEED BE FOUND AT TARGET.

Now back to your original programming.



What? I'm not going to show you, it would ruin the surprise! Stay tuned for the big reveal that will take place in 58 days, or 8 weeks and 2 days if you prefer.

(And no, that bag does not contain a body - dead or otherwise.)

While we were staying in Quilty, Ireland, I discovered my new favorite breakfast item: Weetabix. It's a gray brick and looks kind of like the pellets we feed to our guinea pig.........never mind.



Anyway, you just put it in your bowl and pour some milk on it like normal cereal. It soaks up the milk just like a sponge! Don't pour too much milk, though, or it gets all soggy and nasty. Then sprinkle several tablespoons of sugar on top and you're good to go!

Or if you want to be unconventional, I guess you could dip it in your morning cup o' joe or Mountain Dew, but that would be weird.

But now I have a dilemma because I don't know where to get my Weetabix fix, so I'm sending out a plea for help:

Does anyone know where in the Twin Cities I can get the weety goodness before I go through withdrawal?