The Never-Ending Loop of Dorkitude. And A Contest!

The Contest

Hey, did you notice? Yesterday's post? Well, I was so anxious to get it posted for y'all that I forgot to give it a TITLE! And y'all know how I love thinking up titles, particularly ones that appear to be almost completely unrelated to the subject (loosely) covered in the post.

This cannot stand. I can't have a title unknown post in my archives, people. It is just not my WAY.

So let's have a contest!

NAME YESTERDAY'S POST, FRIEDOKRA STYLE

Y'all submit your suggestions for a title in the comments.
And because I know y'all will have many awesome and appropros suggestions, you may submit as many as you like, each on its own comment (so you'll have multiple comments and thusly multiple entries).

I'll draw a random winner on Friday.

But wait! There's more.

If you want to double down and get yet! another! entry! in for the drawing, well then just take a short hike through the FriedOkra archives and submit a separate comment telling me your favorite FriedOkra post title to date. You don't have to tell me your favorite post - just an actual title you liked.

I can't wait to hear what y'all come up with. Get to namin'!

What?

The prize?

Mercenaries, all of you!

Let's see. How about a cute little blue and white polka dot True Blue™ Spa Hop To It Perfect Pedicure Kit, which is not only very handy-dandy and useful but also VERY PUNNY - it contains Toe the Line™ Foot Scrub, Shea It Isn't So™ Foot Cream, a top coat polish, a nail brush, those nifty toe separators and some pretty blue pedicure slippers just like the ones they give you at the nail salon!

Name That Post, people.

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The Dorkitude

Well, I did it, y'all. And I dorked it up REAL good just to be sure, too.

We went on that picnic, the ladies-whose-names-I-didn't-know, all of our girls (and one cute lil boy) and I. When I got to the rec center and took my seat on the bench with the two Mamas, and a sucked it up and introduced myself, laughing, and then (here's where the dorky part comes in) I yanked out the two little pre-cut pieces of an index card I'd tucked into my purse and wrote my name, phone number and email address along with the address to FriedOkra and I gave each of them one. And then, because I wanted y'all to be proud of my complete dorkitude, I pulled out my trusty little purse-sized spiral-bound notebook and a pen and had each of them was kind enough to write down all their digits for me.

They have lovely names. Oh yes, and some very lovely penmanship, too!

And do you know they didn't even move a little further away from me on the bench after that? They were both thinking they needed to do the same thing, they said. People, after that? I just felt emboldened. RECKLESS, even. So I went on and I told them allll about FriedOkra and that post I wrote describing our little Monday morning meetings and the related Name Quandry.

And yet they still let their girls play with Bean!

Well, I just can't tell you how relieved I felt.

One of them even visited the blog yesterday and sent me a very nice email saying she liked it. Note, she didn't say she UNDERSTOOD it. She said she liked it. You know what? I b'lieve I can live with that.

I still want Mommy cards though, so sometime in July when I go to the salon for my first annual blogiversary makeover, I'm gonna have some made up. That match my blog. To bring things full circle, dorkitudinally-speaking.

Good luck in the drawing, people! I can't wait to hear your FriedOkra-style post titles!