Some of you may remember a few years ago I started a blog whereby I would attempt to live my life, for one year, as per the Martha Stewart calendar found in the delicious Martha Stewart Living magazine and blog about my experiences being an ultra-organized, anal retentive Alpha Bitch.
I soon abandoned this endeavour as Being Martha is extremely time consuming, it is in fact a full-time job. I already have a full-time job. I also felt the blog itself was taking too much of a negative slant in terms of all the things I was supposed to do but couldn't. I don't have chickens to gather eggs from, I don't have to visit "suppliers" for my household goods, I don't have a greenhouse, stables, potting shed, or corral to tend (unless Frontierville on Facebook counts) and, what disappointed me most of all, I do not have a monthly appearance on the Today show booked. Too bad because I think it would be a lot of fun to fly to New York once a month and knock back the Chardonnay live on-air with Hoda and Kathie Lee.
The inspiration for this new blog actually came around this time last year. Because this one time I ordered one thing from a mail order catalogue (A London Underground "Mind the Gap" front door mat) my name is now on EVERY mail order company's database in Canada and what appears to be about 44 of the 50 US states. As the spending season approaches my mailbox begins to overflow with glossy pages attempting to part me from my hard earned cash.
The logical thing to do would be to take the catalogues from the mailbox and transfer directly to the recycling bin. Do I do that?? Hell no.
I actually look over everyone of them. I began to notice that among the DVD box sets of ancient TV programs, personalized-with-your-child's-name storybooks, Snuggies (I own 2), I "heart" my __________ (insert dog breed here) t-shirts and Thomas Kinkade (shudder) jigsaw puzzles was some truly disturbing merchandise.
This blog will feature bizarre items I've found in catalogues and things I enjoy and find useful, Snuggies, as well as things I would like to see nuked off the planet forever, like Toddler and Tiara Moms.
Please feel free to read, follow, share, comment....thanks!
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