A Broken Man

I've been wanting to post this for quite sometime now but have been a little apprehensive about it. Marzie of Wishing On A Falling Star is celebrating her blog's second anniversary and to commemorate that, she is having one of her famous contest. And the prize is a lovely teddy bear. To win, all you need to do is name the bear.

Even though there is still some time left before the actual closing date for this contest, I'm pretty late in taking part and trying to figure out a name for this bear simply because of the huge number of other desperado's ... urrmmm ... I mean contestants with such incredible posts and names for this bear.

I feel intimidated by their entries. Take for instance, that no good scum, I mean good buddy of mine, Adrian and his entry called Marzipan. His post for this contest is so well thought out that it includes the rationale for the name, tons and tons of research and trivia about teddy bears. He really wants to win that bear.

Then take for instance, Ken. Now that fellow even wrote a poem out for his entry called Donnie. A poem for gods sake! I mean how do you top that when I can't even string three sentences that rhyme properly let alone write a whole poem. Then there's Nessa with her entry called Randy Rover and with not so subtle clues stating that the teddy bear belongs to her and only her! That girl has no shame whatsoever!

There's also a host of others with their entries for some remarkable and great names for the bear. And they're all such great names that I don't know what I can do, say, influence, lie, cheat or con my way into getting Marzie to see that the bear really needs to be given to me :D

So I named the bear Alexa. And there's a perfectly good and maybe not so rational rationale to the that. You see, I know Marzie for close to 2 years now. She's basically a very nice and decent girl except for that EVIL streak she has about tagging me with horrendously difficult tags! LOL! She was one of my first few commenter's when I first created this blog. She is the first one to have totally made me go stark raving crazing by giving me a taste of my first ever tag called the Alexa Train.

And boy, was it a tough one. It was so tough, much tougher than selling self defense products that I had sleepless nights just trying to figure it out. My social life was screwed. My family was neglected. My health went down the drain. I was on the verge of a total breakdown. I spent hours fretting trying to figure out how to do that tag (you do remember that tag don't ya, Marzie? LOL!).

There I was a newcomer to the blog world with hardly any clue how to even write a proper post and she goes and send a meme that would give Einstein or Hawking a run for their money. It was like rocket science to me. I was almost in tears fearing the shame that would befall me if I couldn't get the tag up. I sat and stared at the wall blankly for hours on end. Wifey just couldn't get through to me. I was inconsolable.

And slowly but surely, after endless nightmares, countless tears and almost pulling out all my hairs, I finally managed to get it done. Even though I was ecstatic and joyous, deep inside I was scarred for life. I was not the same person anymore. I wake up nights screaming in fright, soaked in sweat. And the nightmares keep coming back every night. I'm beginning to lose my mind.

Now, the only thing that could possibly help me regain my sanity would be to win the bear. It just might take away those awful nightmares. It just might give me back the life I knew. And you owe it to me Marzie for making me go insane trying to figure out that tag. And only Alexa, the Bear can slowly but surely bring some semblance of normalcy back to my life. It's only morally right that you give me the bear.


LMAO! Ok, ok, that was a little too overly dramatic and absolutely way over the top but hey, I want that bear, ok? And besides my mug needs a partner to keep it company anyway. Don't you know, good things comes in pairs? A bear and a mug. Just perfect. And at least you won't be feeling so guilty about the anguish you caused me with that tag by sending me the bear ... LOL! What do you guys think? Does she owe it to me to get my sanity back or what? :D
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