The Google Connection

We've all done it (haven't we?). "Googled" ourselves to see what could possibly be "out there" with our name on it. What strange, popular or bazaar worlds are we unwittingly connected to? Well thanks to the modern miracle of search engines, those weirdos out there sharing our names need no longer stay hidden from our view!

Typing "Atira" into the Google search engine will yield some pretty entertaining results. For a two year old, our little Atira has accomplished quite a bit out in the world! Here are a couple of "her" best sites, Enjoy!

The Atira Group - Creating Sustainable Luxury Spaces. You've got to check this Website out! I loved it, beautiful pictures, great business. Glad they share the name with Atira.

The Atira Card - Investing in prepaid cards backed by VISA?

Atira The Beautiful Middle Eastern Dancer - My favorite! This reminds me of our Atira. Do you think she will dance like this when she grows up?
Watch The Video!

Atira's Fashions - Imported Middle Eastern wear.

Have YOU ever googled yourself? What came up? Any fun stories? I'd love to see some comments posted on this one!

Anica C. said... I think the funniest result I got back when I Googled my name was a Youtube video of Anica Milenkovic...a Serbian Pop Singer? It is a riot!

Be sure to look for the guy in the leopard pants!

Click on the following link to see it! Watch The Video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEqTdcDbSk4

Would a rose spelled backwards smell as sweet?

On a baby name site today, Namipedia (never mind how I ended up there) and I found myself inadvertently having to defend my daughter's middle name which is Neveah (i.e., Heaven or rather, Haeven spelled backward). Little did I know that there is quite a controversy surrounding this little name. It seems that folks either LOVE it or HATE it. Since it's only recently risen to popularity, I didn't realize it had since become the subject of cynical jabs by snide, overtly opinionated bloggers (are there any other kind?) saying things like... " Heaven backwards--is that like naming your baby Hell?" (a funny blog, by the way). Or "If it's a boy, will it be Lleh? It has also been heralded as perhaps the most "stylistically divisive" name in America. Who knew? When we decided to give our daughter (who was born in 2006) the middle name Neveah, we had hearty approval from our friends and family, except one who asked me if that wasn't the name of a brand of lotion? Of course, she was referring to the beauty and body care product line: Nivea which I thought was quite amusing. Like it or not, it may make for a good conversation at your next baby shower :)
I wonder... has anyone come up with a skin care line called Aevin?

Killing The Poetry Bug

So, I tried entering a poem on Lulu today.. (a contest site offering a 5,000 dollar prize for the best amateur poetry.) Not a bad idea except that my poem was way too long for their 24 line standard entry. Determined to squeeze it in, I tried taking out all the in-between lines and running the sentences together like water colors blurring on a canvas.. (not the best choice, really?) After that failed, I did something every artist hates, I started chopping away at my own work.. ahhh! Cutting out well crafted lines for the sake of saving space! Leaving the poem pruned and scalped!! Nothing short of artistic torture. No, I learned today that killing your own art for the sake of conformity isn't worth any amount of money...but since it's done now...maybe I'll keep my fingers crossed for that 5,000 dollars!!

CLICK HERE to enter your own work on Lulu. (Remember 24 lines only!) Just one catch...if you win, you share your prize money with me!

CLICK HERE to see my trimmed poetry on Lulu. (Search for me by name, Poet Anica Washington)

Plaxo

Welcome to the Matrix, Neo! CLICK HERE And you'll be taken to Plaxo. What a cool site... connects all the different social networking sites that are out there at one easy portal.

Entering The Blog-o-Sphere For The First Time

Wow, so this is blogging. Does anyone else have any memories they'd like to share with me about how they felt during their "first time". Blogging that is! I would really love to know if I am the only person who's experienced this sensation...(we'll call it blog-o-phobia for now) characterized by a slight tingling at the ends of your finger tips while you're anxiously typing away, followed by a strange floating feeling in the pit of your stomach as you ruthlessly scrutinize each and every word that comes out. Maybe it's the fact that I know full well whatever I type will be launched aimlessly into the sea of social cyberspace and eventually the drizzle of my mind's inner dialogue (good, bad or otherwise) may end up frozen somewhere in the archives of all blog-o-dom?... Where ever that might be? It's kind of like sending a good plastic water bottle into the land fill...where it could be dug up perfectly preserved in say a million years by another human race. Maybe I'd much rather recycle my water bottles, keeping my personal, spontaneous and odd thoughts from becoming blog-o-sauruses for future generations of young anthroblog-o-gists to pick at... It all just seems a little intimidating, don't you think?