Clean the shirts on their backs by putting one on yours.

The putrid piles of
clothing in my house are proof
of this one truth: I

hate doing laundry.
But at least I have the means.
Some out there do not.

The term that is used
is “natural disaster.”
I’m sure the victims

feel anything but
natural picking up the
pieces of their lives.

I have not suffered
severe destruction but
just thinking about

the devastation
after floods, hurricanes, and
twisters, I shudder.

At such desperate
times, I can imagine that
all help is welcome.

Tide is offering
practical help to those who
need it in this way:

You buy a shirt here;
proceeds provide clothes cleaning
service for victims.

So now even if
I am not cleaning my own
family’s clothing…

I can take comfort
in knowing that I’m helping
clean laundry elsewhere.

Dis, Dat, & De’Uddah.

Today I have for you…a few ramblings/odds and ends.  What, you were expecting genius?

First off, I’m setting this post to publish right after midnight… so as I write this it’s Sunday night, and I’m excited and somewhat giggly about fun times to be had on Monday morning.  With any luck there will be some fun pictures to show you later.

Also, some things I wanted to mention:

On my old (Blogger) site, I removed the “nofollow” code from the template in order to give my commenters linky love whenever they commented.  To learn more about the “DoFollow” Movement, click on the “You Comment, I Follow” button on the left sidebar.  Many thanks to Dawn for pointing me to this post so that I could install a plugin to do the same here.  So, it’s official, mah peeps.  If you comment here regularly, you’ll get yourself some Google Juice for your own site.  Now, isn’t that just peachy?  And, if you haven’t noticed yet, I also use the CommentLuv plugin, which gives everyone a link to your most recent post – and according to Feedburner Stats, those babies do be gettin’ some clicks!  See, I really do loves you guys.

Next, since moving over here to my lovely new place at WordPress, I’ve gotten behind on updating the Weekly Winners Blogroll.  I have every intention of keeping that blogroll updated at all times.  As such, I’d love for you guys to whip my ass into shape help get me back on track.  If you have participated in Weekly Winners, could you please click over to the blogroll and make sure your link appears there? 

If it is NOT there:
1) Please forgive me!  I suck giant, hairy, donkey balls! (But I’m trying to quit – do they make a patch for that?)
2) Let me know so that I can remedy the problem.

Also, I’ve been throwing around some ideas for actually creating and manufacturing some funny t-shirts, and possibly calendars and coffee mugs, to sell.  What I’m looking for from all of you is some input on whether it’s worth it or not.  I’m thinking silly pictures of Zack (aka The Mexican, our chihuahua) (and yes, I know this other person who does something similar – so sue me)   or possibly some of my favorite nature shots in a yearly calendar.  You guys have seen my shots (and if you haven’t, you can hop over to my flickr account and peruse).  Would you buy a calendar of this stuff?  Would you buy a shirt advertising my site if it said something funny?  Or just a funny shirt?  Framed prints of my best photographs?  How about a dog turd with my autograph on it?  Ok, ok, I realize I just went a little too far.  But how about if Braden signed it?

Seriously, though, what do you think?

For your efforts, I leave you with this video, which might just make your day.  Trust me.