1. All the McDonald's employees greet you by name when you show up to use the free WiFi for hours on end.
2. You have great fun discovering the built-in webcam and use it to take freeze-frame shots of yourself, fighting the urge to giggle with glee in public.
3. You do this two days in a row and photoshop one of the pictures to look vaguely like a watercolor painting.
4. You post it to Facebook.
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One of the joys of having recently purchased an extremely cheap digital camera is that you can take poorly-framed blurry pictures of the world around you.
If you happen to go for a walk around town, you can take pictures like these, for example:
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And if you get really bored at any point during your day, you can take blurry, awkward, and poorly-framed pictures of yourself.
Like this, for example.
Hee hee.
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I spent most of Saturday with a headache.
While waiting for the Excedrin to work, I squandered a few precious hours of life over at Yahoo Avatar, trying to create a likeness of myself.
And I suppose, maybe, in some freaky alternate universe, this might conceivably look like me.
My hair is curlier, and I wear the ponytail higher, and my evil robot has more legs. I love sandals but I hate the kind that slice your toes in half.
I WISH I was this skinny.
Let's try a different one...
Here I am in a trench coat, after a long day of flashing unsuspecting bystanders. Apparently I had to bury a few unfortunate victims who couldn't handle the shock. It's so annoying when that happens.
One more....
Here I am as an anorexic vampire with butterfly wings who happened to get lost in a blizzard.
I'm strangely attracted to this one...
Apparently, so is my cat.
Today's Manic Monday theme is "Colorful".
Since I can't think of anything to say, I'm posting some colorful pictures instead. 
The colorful sweater one is me when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. That was back when candy bars were only 20 cents, and gas was less than 75 cents a gallon.
I had no idea what "dietary fiber" was, nor did I have any clue that it might become important in the next third-of-a-century.
I'd never scooped any cat poop yet, McDonalds cherry pies were deep-fried, and the Internet (as we know it) didn't even exist.
Neither did cell phones.
Then I became old...
Ok, ok, I became a person in my 30's.
Soon to be 40's.
I now occasionally eat multi-grain crackers, low-fat milk, and shredded wheat with bran.
I've scooped more cat turds than I care to remember.
My heart has been broken so many times I've built a little fortress around it. But don't worry; the fortress is made of 100% recycled materials and is completely biodegradable.
I try to keep the mildew to an absolute minimum.
I have learned about hellish things like bureaucracy, disease, politics, and being put on hold for an hour while desperately waiting for a customer service representative who actually understands what I'm talking about.
On the bright side, I still think farts are funny.
Surely that's worth something.
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The queen of clubs
Liked pizza subs
And all their savory taste
The knave of clubs
Ate veggie subs
And had a smaller waist
... which is why he must be shot.
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I made this yesterday, during a moment of insomnia, tea-saturation, and hopeful creativity.
It'll be my Facebook picture for awhile.
Now if you'll pardon me, I'm craving peanut butter cookies and I simply MUST go find some.
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Here is a poorly-lit, poorly framed picture of me with my eyes closed, holding a bottle of toilet cleaner against my face for no reason.
Blogger is still doing weird stuff with my header pictures.
I'd heard that the tech problem I mentioned HERE and HERE had been fixed, so I tried to upload a new banner...
And there was still crap going on.
Instead of poor resolution, this time the problem was that the banner had been shrunk all the way down to the size of an address label. In fact, no, it was even smaller than that.
Shrunk, ridiculously small, for no reason.
So I'm still having to use Flickr as a third-party hosting site for my images.
I wish Blogger would get its act together and fix this mess.
Anyway, here are two pictures I took of myself today for no reason, which I incorporated into the new banner I made:
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Thanks to this website, I now know what I would look like if I was an M&M.
The hairstyle isn't quite right, but everything else is ok. I do love to wear sandals in the summertime. I do love books. And of course I'm part alien, so my skin is a beautiful shade of blue-green.
I love the snarky expression.
Notice how I chose the peanut version instead of the plain round version. Consider it a symbolic awareness of my inner nut.
I will melt in your mouth OR your hands, depending on what happens there.
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Oh, and here's what Fab would look like as an M&M.
I'm not sure what his melting policy is.
You should probably ask first, before you do anything too drastic involving hands and mouths.
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Two pictures of me sitting on the toilet this afternoon while holding a harp tuning wrench against my face for no apparent reason:
Last week Mr. Fab did this on his blog, and I simply had to be a part of it. It's a different kind of meme; instead of being tagged, you have to request the tag. You then get "interviewed" by the person, who asks you five questions you have to answer. Then you get to offer interviews to five other people, and you decide what questions to ask them.
I've been noticing that other people have South Park avatars of themselves on their blogs, so I decided to try making one for myself.
(apparently there are a few different sites out there that can help you do this... I used this one.)
Since I am a gal of many moods, I came up with three different South Park Jannas.
Here....
First of all, this is what I look like when I get up in the morning.
(And yet, surprisingly, I'm still single!)
Please stay away from the hatchet.
Next, this is me after I've had time to clean up and get dressed and make myself presentable enough to go out into public. It's as "dressed up" as I get, folks.
And then, last but not least, we have the more casual Janna, drinking Mountain Dew and 'letting my hair down', occasionally wondering if I'm on the right planet.... (Can you feel the excitement? Huh? Can ya?)
This was great fun, making these. I think eventually I may put one of them in my sidebar. (Which one should I put there?)
....And what do YOUR South Park selves look like?
