{"id":1152,"date":"2006-08-28T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2006-08-28T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T20:12:58","slug":"eeek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Eeek."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/80\/224247566_b189192ce9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people go by made-up names on their blogs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;m too lazy for that.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t ever try to hide my blog, yet I do nothing to promote it.<br \/>\nEveryone I &#8216;know&#8217;, knows I have a blog and i&#8217;m not usually shocked when they say &#8216;Oh, yeah&#8230;I read your blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every now and again, I get that shock.\u00a0 The first time is when I found out that Tyler&#8217;s girlfriends&#8217; mom (did I say that right?) read my blog.\u00a0 I thought for certain she was going to make her daughter break up with him because, &#8216;hello, step mom is a freak of nature.&#8217;\u00a0 She said she thought it was great and wished she could open up like I did.<br \/>\n*Shewwwww*<\/p>\n<p>Last night at a fundraiser for a little boy who lives in our town that has cancer, I got that shock again.<\/p>\n<p>I was handing out my business card (yes, I was social, I talked, I handed out cards&#8230;the meds MUST be working) and he said, &#8220;Oh I know where to find you.&#8221;\u00a0 I had to think about it for a second and remembered that we are both parents that watch over our kids on MySpace and had chatted a little bit there.<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh yeah!! MySpace.&#8221;\u00a0 I was so proud of myself. Yes, the medicine is making me forgetful, but I still have some braincells left.<br \/>\nThen he says, &#8220;Yeah, Random and Odd dot com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.\u00a0\u00a0 I figured he must have made a mistake and got that mixed up with my MySpace and ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night I asked him again how he knew about the dot com side of me.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;You have it linked.&#8221;\u00a0 I thought for sure I had removed all links to my blog on MySpace&#8230;but then I remembered, it&#8217;s linked on my Flickr site.<\/p>\n<p>After talking to him for awhile I PRETTY sure he&#8217;s going to still let his daughter hang out with my daughter.\u00a0 His wife is as cute as a button and totally down to earth.\u00a0 He&#8217;s totally cool and the type of guy you would want to hang with too.\u00a0 So, I guess it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just hoping they don&#8217;t go back through the archives and read about the boob stuff.\u00a0 How totally embarrassing would THAT be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people go by made-up names on their blogs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;m too lazy for that.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t ever try to hide my blog, yet I do nothing to promote it. Everyone I &#8216;know&#8217;, knows I have a blog and i&#8217;m not usually shocked when they say &#8216;Oh, yeah&#8230;I read your blog.&#8221; Every now and again, I get that shock.\u00a0 The first time is when I found out that Tyler&#8217;s girlfriends&#8217; mom (did I say that right?) read my blog.\u00a0 I thought for certain she was going to make her daughter break up with him because, &#8216;hello, step mom is a freak of nature.&#8217;\u00a0 She said she thought it was great and wished she could open up like I did. *Shewwwww* Last night at a fundraiser for a little boy who lives in our town that has cancer, I got that shock again. I was handing out my business card (yes, I was social, I talked, I handed out cards&#8230;the meds MUST be working) and he said, &#8220;Oh I know where to find you.&#8221;\u00a0 I had to think about it for a second and remembered that we are both parents that watch over our kids on MySpace and had chatted a little bit there. &#8220;Oh yeah!! MySpace.&#8221;\u00a0 I was so proud of myself. Yes, the medicine is making me forgetful, but I still have some braincells left. Then he says, &#8220;Yeah, Random and Odd dot com.&#8221; Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.\u00a0\u00a0 I figured he must have made a mistake and got that mixed up with my MySpace and ignored it. Later that night I asked him again how he knew about the dot com side of me.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;You have it linked.&#8221;\u00a0 I thought for sure I had removed all links to my blog on MySpace&#8230;but then I remembered, it&#8217;s linked on my Flickr site. After talking to him for awhile I PRETTY sure he&#8217;s going to still let his daughter hang out with my daughter.\u00a0 His wife is as cute as a button and totally down to earth.\u00a0 He&#8217;s totally cool and the type of guy you would want to hang with too.\u00a0 So, I guess it&#8217;s okay. I&#8217;m just hoping they don&#8217;t go back through the archives and read about the boob stuff.\u00a0 How totally embarrassing would THAT be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}