The Potbelly Pixie

Spot the Fake Smile

I ran across a fun little psych test at another blog and thought I'd post about it here for my readers to enjoy, too.  It's called SPOT THE FAKE SMILE and it tests your ability to detect genuine vs. artificial smiles, using brief video clips.  It's quick and fun, too!  Give it a whirl if you've got a spare five minutes or so.

To view MY results, click here -- but do so after you've taken the test yourself, or be warned:  my results will spoil your ability to be objective.

I've been tagged

... and no, I don't mean with an ID chip, through the ear, after being tranquilized by a posse of khaki-clad wildlife rangers.  And I haven't been sprayed with graffiti art as part of a territory-marking inner city gang war, either.  It's not that kind of tagging

No... I've been tagged as part of the Internet Tag Game.  Talented needle felting artist Patricia Knight of ZADA CREATIONS got  me today.  Hi and thanks, Patricia, for the notice, and for linking to me in your blog! 

To get "untagged" I have to list five random things about myself here... then tag five other people, paying it forward.  In addition to being just plain fun (it is, by the way), tagging by cross-linking to one another's blogs/sites is a great way to get noticed by big search engines like Google, hopefully increasing page visits, so it makes good business sense, too!

HERE ARE MY FIVE RANDOM THINGS:

• I can bend the very tips of my eight fingers downward at a really weird angle
• I type over 100 words per minute, last time I checked
• My maiden name was Goth.  The Goth "look" came about well after I became an adult, though.  Thank GAWD!
• We've got Navy, Army, and Secret Service in my family.  I am the lone oddball kumbaya-singer of the clan
• In high school, I sat next to and was friends with the (very cool) woman who recently married Tony Bennett

I TAG THESE FIVE VERY COOL FOLKS, all of them friends and outstanding bear and/or doll artists:

• Chrissi Catherwood -- CATHERWOODS BEARS
• Veronica Philion -- THE BEARISTER BOOKCASE
• Krista Griffiths -- K PAWZ CREATIONS
• Angela Jarecki -- WHIMSYMOON DESIGNS
• Ellen Borggreve – ELLEN BORGGREVE DESIGN

HERE ARE THE RULES FOR PLAYING INTERNET TAG:

• Share 5 random facts about yourself on your blog
• Link to your tagger (that's me!) in your "random fact" post
• Include these rules in your post
• Tag 5 people by including both their names and links to their blogs in your post
• Let those you've tagged know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

Tag... you're it!

Shel goes Emo

The uber-cool, artsy folks at www.illustratedATCs.com -- a group which, individually and collectively, has a sense of humor that positively slays me with its clever intelligence and sense of irony -- pointed site readers to the silliest little gadjet for a bit o' poetic fun:  the Goth-O-Matic Poetry Generator! 

There, in Mad Lib style, you can select from a small handful of poetic themes and then customize blanks with words of doom and loss, creating your own darkly Goth poetic masterpiece!

Here, a reflection of absolutely NOTHING that's going on in my head, heart, or life, and presented for your amusement and entertainment, is my Goth-O-Matic creation.  Of course, I couldn't be bothered to give it a title, since my life is a black abyss of pain and all.  Laughing here...

Embrace the darkness!