Note my winking grimace…my feet were burning with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns…

Being carless on a snow day always leads to hijinks

This all started when Auntie Beth received an “Elf Yourself” card from her OKC pal Allesan. I know it’s exactly what the marketing geniuses at OfficeMax want us to do, but I’m going to encourage it anyway.

Go! Now! Make yourself a jazz-handing, dancing Christmas Elf! Chop Chop!
And when you are done, send me the link [ contact at theguigirl dot com ].

Here’s my first version, starring Reese, Auntie Beth (as the sultry, curvy elf) and Me (as the doofy out of sync elf).

Go forth and be merry, elf yeah!

Homestarrunner Halloween Toon

I’m going to start the new year off right.

Cool Thing of the Month: One of my new colleagues came across a site that allows you to create your own South Park character. I haven’t actually watched SP that much since I was in college, but I did have a blast building my own character. And as you may have suspected… I built my character in my own image (I guess I’m just that self-absorbed). I’m not sure why I added the Wolverine style claws… latent mutant envy?

I tag thee Kim, Frizzle, The Gang at E-Lah…the challenge is on! Create Your Own South Park Character Now!

Just like a morning cup of coffee for me, I have to spend a few minutes a day not thinking about work or daily life-stress. So what do I do to kill that precious 5 or 10 minutes? I check out my *Daily Time Waster*.

A few months ago, while I was still working for BMW, a work friend had introduced me to this wonderful 6-panel comic involving dinosaurs. The thing is, the actual renderings of the panels rarely change. Only the story or context changes, usually with hilarious results. Go check out dinosaur comics to see what I mean.

Cool Thing of the Month: I just published my first book! Well, that doesn’t necessarily make me an esteemed author yet, but I do recommend you bibliophiles go to Blurb right now and download the book software and give it a test spin. My best friend is already enjoying the fruits of my publishing labors.

Cheers for now, I’m off to be a good Post-Christmas Consumer.

Okay, the latest evening time waster for me is overheardinnewyork.com. The premise is simple: People overhear some fragment of a wacked-out conversation, then turn around and submit it to this site. The overheard conversations are sometimes a bit vulgar (warning! not necessarily a work or kid-friendly site!), sometimes politically (ahem!) incorrect, and always hilarious (in or) out of context. It’s my secret little piece of “the best city on the planet” without having to pay the outrageous rent.