Two of the things mentioned in the title are related. Can you guess which ones?
If you guessed Parakeets and Parkitcharlie YOU'D BE CORRECT!
But I want to save that story for the end, so let's turn to Powerpuff.
In the post Questions: The Return, I mentioned I had a terrible break-up with the vacuum.
I wasn't joking.
There was a short time when I wanted nothing to do with the vacuum cleaner.
The events leading up to the messy split were anticlimactic. I was vacuuming my room per usual. Back and forth. Back and forth. But then we hit a bump in our relationship.
It was probably all for the best. We had nothing in common really, he liked a clean house, I hated cleaning. He was full of hot air, I wasn't. He had to be plugged in to be turned on...
But that day when we were cleaning we hit a snag.
Literally.
He sucked up the corner of my beloved Powerpuff Girls blanket. It had been hanging off my bed and he just snatched on.
I was startled. I turned him off instantly and ripped my blanket out of his jaws.
I was done with him from that moment on. He knew what that blanket meant to me...
Of course, that lasted for as long as it took for my mother to tell me to clean again. Which I did, but there was no fondness in my action anymore.
Since then we've gotten a newer, nicer, vacuum. We're cool.
And now for the other two
But I will try to give you the sparknotes version.
I have a green parakeet, his name is Charlie.
Around the time I got him, I decided to get an email account that I could remember. I liked the name Charlie and my bird so I decide that Charlie should be a part of it.
But charlie@blablablabla.bla is boring!
It need a kick
So I thought about how funny it would be if someone named Charlie had the last name Parkit.
Park the car! Parkit Charlie!
Thus, parkitcharlie.
Years later I used the name in a short story called "I, Don't Care" (got an honorable mention in the lad fair) giving birth to the character that I would use later in what the loyal readers know to be as CPRB.
From there I've used parkitcharlie as my username for pretty much anything and everything.
Really. Google it. I'm everywhere.
And that, is the post for today!
Comments are welcome! Bring your friends!
I googled it. You ARE everywhere. Wow.
ReplyDeleteIf you google parkitcharlie, the first three pages and a few entries at the top are directly things about you, then there's some "soandso reblogged parkitcharlie."
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