Sprizee :: A simple girl replete with complications

Guess who almost made it on Graph Jam?

Rock the vote.

Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool?

Theoretically speaking, if my words were published here, do you think I could start claiming that I "had been published"?  Now, of course, I'm only speaking hypothetically about this.  Had my words actually have been published here, then yes, of course I would add "freelance writer blogger for the Seattle P-I" to my updated resume.  But since I'm just playing the What If game, I think, instead of updating my resume, I'll just go browse The Frock Shop's new awesomely updated site.  Hello sunshine.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I love the Soldiers and Assassins post over at Amieable. So much so, I spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how I could capture it, wrap it up in a sheet of crisp white paper and a silky red bow, and carry it around with me all day long.  Then I had plans to spend the rest of the evening curled up next to my non-existent fireplace reading my favorite book, with the precious post still tucked under my arm, next to my heart.  But the idea of File | Print | OK wasn't quite what I had in mind when I said I wanted to capture it.  So, I suppose, passing it along will have to suffice.

NKOTB

There's a new kid on the block.  She's hip.  She's arty.  She's married to Wheelson.  And she all around rocks, basically.  Check her out yo!

Don't adjust your dial.

We will return you to your regularly scheduled program shortly.  In the meantime, while this station preoccupies herself with work related items including the party for over 150 peeps this weekend at The Space Needle, please familiarize yourself with the following materials. 

Sturge Drunk blogging at it's best.

Defective Yeti  Inventor of the careless band bracelets.

Que Sera Sera  Scroll down to selling it. Shut up lazy ass.  Yes, it's worth it.

Sir Awesome Getting awesomer by the minute.

The Superficial  It's snarky.  It's witty.  No celebrity is safe.

And keep in mind, there will be a quiz next week.

100 Things About Me!

1)  I vow to never post an annoying list of hundred facts about me.
2)  Refer to number one.

Top 10 reasons Murphy and I can’t possibly be the same person

1) I don’t know crap about St. Louis or Indianapolis.

2) Two blogs? I don’t have that much free time on my hands.

3) There is no three. There’s never a three.

4) My friends named Stacy don’t spell their name Stacey (because I only associate with people that realize there’s no need for the extra “e”, no offense Murph).

5) I’ve never met Birdherder. Heck, I’ve only seen his feet.

6) I would rather pour acid down my throat than be forced to work for the government… unless that day is a federal holiday and if that’s the case, bring on the acid. I’ll do anything for a day off.

7) Most days Murphy starts posting at 6AM PST. Most days I’m still asleep until at least 8AM PST.

8) Murphy can spell. I can’t.

9) I can’t think of anything else to list. If I was Murphy my brain would be stocked full of more things to say. Clearly, I’m not Murphy.

and…drum roll please…

10) Let’s face it. I’m just not that bitingly witty, funny and/or cool.

Or am I?

Re: Yahoo schmahoo

Regarding the September 2nd post,

Get busy Johnny. The virtual punch isn't going to build itself.

On second thought, this will only end up with Johnny swearing at his computer, handing it an unfair beat down for his inadequate attempts to finish this project and a lame project handover to Murphy (who will smack Johnny and deservedly so).

Birdherder? You better do it instead.

P.S. I, for one, hope Sturge NEVER EVER decides to act his age.

How'd you come up with Sprizee?

Prepare to be bored people. There is nothing particularly interesting and/or humorous about how I came up with the Sprizee. I had always (okay, since 6 years ago) planned on registering a domain name. And because I have an charming annoying tendency to dwell on the details, I had this reoccuring obsession with dreaming up different, unique domains that I might one day actually register.

At one point, I almost registered grumpyrobot.com but that was mostly because I used to work at a company that made me want to scream at the top of my lungs, pull all my hair out and shoot my manager. Sprizee.com was another domain name I had toyed with registering. Okay, that's very interesting and all Sprizee, but what the hell? You still haven't answered the question! I'm getting to that. Don't get your panties in a wad.

The origin of the word sprizee is due, in large part, to the dude... although for the record let me point out to the court that I decided on the spelling. Just think...if some other person had gotten their grubby little hands on it first, perhaps it would have just been sprizy and lord knows that's simply not as cool as sprizee.

So here's the deal. This old lady at the dude's church used to offer him Lifesavers™ when he was a kid... except she didn't call them Lifesavers™... instead she would say, "Would you like a sprizee?". I know. What the hell, right?

Well anyways, somehow the word got stuck in my head and so when I would mock up designs for projects I was working on, I ended up using Sprizee a lot because a) I got tired of using Latin b) Sprizee just looked cooler and c) No one could ever correct me on mis-spelling it since I created how to spell it.

Doing some more research (and I use that term loosely) I googled Sprizee and not a single thing came up. I had found a unique name that I could exploit at my leisure. I figured Sprizee was as good of a name as any to use. So basically after procrastinating for approximately 3 years and never getting around to creating a Moveable Type blog, I caved and turned to blogger.

I'm still just as lazy as ever. About two weeks ago I register sprizee.com but I still haven't bothered to a) put content on that site or b) simply redirect it to here. Oh well. At least I'm consistent.

Thanks for asking Murphy.

P.S. Going to see Keane tonight at the Showbox. They better not pull a Death Cab for Cutie and sound like crap live. Seriously, I won't be amused.

Thursday I don't care about you

A while back Birdherder asked me how does one pronounce sprizee?

So I responded with the following:

spriz·ee (sprī zē)

Breaking out the character map on my keyboard in an attempt to convey the proper pronunciation of the word Sprizee has given me a headache, but further more I don't think this exercise has done much in the way of actually conveying to you how one pronounces sprizee.

Ummmm....take the first part of sprint and add it to the first part of zebra and you're pretty damn close. In other words, just like it looks. Since I made up the word I tried to spell it how I thought everyone should. I toyed with the idea of sprizy for a minute but I don't think I need to tell you that two e's is much cooler than just a y. So there you have it.

Thanks for asking.

So you may be thinking to yourself, the point of this story is "how does one pronounce Sprizee", but you'd be wrong, because clearly the point of this story is I am anything but succinct because I should have simply said, "ryhmes with dizzy".

Then it's decided. I am definitely not succinct.