Do You Google Yourself???

Wow! I'm back already!!! How's that for inspiration??? I am really trying hard to make this a part of my new year intentions...to spend more time on my martini manuscripts.
So today's burning question...Do you google yourself??? Sounds almost illegal doesn't it? I will never forget the first time someone asked me that...or the first time someone asked me if I had a blog. A blog...I blushed... that's a highly personal question I thought. After all...I thought it was some kind of blockage of a personal organ. My knowledge of all things technical is very limited and those who know me have often heard me say that I am an 8-track player faking it in an I-pod world. For all I know...I-pods are so yesterday now. The other night my daughter sat on the couch and with just a few clicks on her newest toy...a blackberry I believe it is, she had an overhead view of our house from the far outer reaches of space! Bam! What do you think of that she exclaimed as she stretched her handheld device towards my face. Oh great...my house can be seen with that kind of clarity from the unknown reaches of the universe? And all I thought I had to worry about was if the HOA police did a drive by and noticed my dying pansies in the planter by my front door...oh no...now they can be mocked by NATO or the Russian Space Agency or worse yet...Martha Stewart who has nothing better to do ( including sleeping ) in the wee hours of the evening if she too has the capabilities to reach out and spy someone.
I guess I had better catch up to all that is going on around me and quickly!!! Here I thought I was doing so well...after all...yes, I do google myself and quite often. I find it very entertaining or usually do on most days. The other night however I had a horrific google experience. There I was...innocently reading where I had been and counting up all the listings I was now associated with. For someone who doesn't know how to get there, I sure have been getting around. I was on to the third page when another google listing caught my attention. A woman by my same name was listed as a model in N. Carolina. Hmmmm, this is interesting...someone with my very same name is a model. Wow! How fun! So I gleefully clicked on " the other Gina McNew "...this should be interesting I thought. Interesting...well that was what I was hoping for...mortifying was more like it. The other me was not the model I had pictured in my mind...no....I was expecting some girl next door, bright smiling, attractive someone and what I got was reason to spit out my chardonnay all over my keyboard. I will spare you the less then attractive details but I was speechless!!! I felt the blood rush from my face from having been so completely wrong in my preconceived thoughts. Then...just like that, I burst out laughing. That's what I get for googling myself I thought...and my laughter turned to tears streaming down my face and the need to quickly include my yaya's in my funny drama. I forwarded it to them but was kind enough to include a warning on the subject line that what they were about to see was scary and to prepare themselves. Didn't want to be the cause of any more drinking accidents...after all a chardonnay is a horrible thing to waste. Of course they wrote me back immediately and asked me what I was going to do. Do??? There's nothing I can do...she has as much right to be googled as I do and so we were connected by name and technology whether I liked it or not. Then I laughed out loud again and replied...guess you know where this is going to go...that's right...when life hands you a deal like this...BLOG AWAY!
And so now I share with you my newest little ditty....read along to the rhythm of Mary had a Little Lamb....

Gina McNew has lost her boobs
but knows just where they'll be found
A google search
on a chair where they're perched
And inches from touching the ground!

No offense or harm meant to the other me...but please, for the sake of the children...get some clothes on lady!!!
So my dodies...lesson for today...google cautiously, blog frequently, laugh loudly!
Pinkies out!!!