If you haven’t seen this clip, you’ve probably been living under a rock or have extremely bad internet service.

Alright already.  It’s actually called “The Dramatic Chipmunk”.

I’ll start off by saying it’s not my fault I can’t remember the name of the clip.  First, off, it’s a prairie dog NOT a chipmunk.  There’s a world of difference.  Prairie dogs are much bigger and nastier than chipmunks.  In New Mexico, where I used to live, they were known to carry bubonic plague (yes, really) and made nasty pock marks all over kids’ playgrounds.

Second, it looks more suspicious or suspecting than dramatic to me.

Anyway, my failure to remember the correct name has achieved legendary status with my two sons and my oldest asked me to preserve my gaffe on my blog.  Fine.  Here it is.

Over the years I have referred to said “dramatic chipmunk” as, ahem:

• The suspicious gopher

• The surly groundhog

• The dubious guinea pig

• The grouchy hamster

• The skeptical squirrel

• The pretentious prairie dog

• The outraged rodent

• The pugnacious beaver (that’s good for a few howls from my husband…what?!)

…and I’m sure there were a few more.

Wait til my boys bring their girlfriends over.  I’m sure I’ll be ready to dethrone the suspicious gopher and crown something else “Mom’s stupid saying” only next time it’ll be about one of THEM.  Mwuhahahahaha….  Can’t say they weren’t warned.  **cue dramatic music**  Da-da-daaaaaaaaaa

Saw this widget on a book review blog so of course I had to try it.  Warning, if you click it, it may also launch a browser for a dating site, so curb your mouse if you’re leery of that sort of thing (pop up sites and/or dating.)

Created by OnePlusYou – Free Dating Sites

Surprised it’s G? I am. I thought it would be PG or PG-13 at least. Methinks it’s my landing site which is just a picture and a bit of text. So I gave it the address of the blog page and got this:

Damn. (<<–should have kicked me up to PG right there.)

Now obsessed, I checked my “Books I’ve Read” page. This is how it rates:

Now, I have to laugh. My reading titles are racier than my blog posts.

Testing my YA writing (another blog and pen name), I got this:

Aww come on!

Perhaps this is a problem.  A teaser Tuesday excerpt containing the male character’s saltier language is to blame.

Checking my erotica pen name’s blog, I got:

OK, now something is SERIOUSLY wrong here when my YA writings are naughtier than my erotica writings.

Actually, the logical explanation is that my naughtier pen name blog is almost 100% password protected. The search engine could only read the post titles. I’ll call that a win in terms of sanitizing the appearance for the unauthorized.

Claire’s writings, though, perhaps need a little spicing up, at least this blog.  I’ll work on that (though I suspect my beta readers will laugh when they read this.)