Amazon has this thing that I am 99% sure most people have never noticed but is my husband and I’s favorite thing. For a while there, we used to check out it religiously every night.

This wondrous thing is the Gold Box. The Gold Box is a section of the site tailored just for you based on your Amazon activity. Based on the type of stuff you usually purchase, it recommends random things to you that you may like. But it doesn’t just offer them, it offers them at huge discounts and sometimes ludicrous quantities (I once got like 25 disposable cameras for like $1 each). But the icing on the cake is that it only offers each thing to you for a limited number of seconds. So in addition to being a random deal that would likely tempt you, you have only a very short time to make the decision. It’s not shopping for the weak of heart, I can tell you that much.

They have changed it slightly since the days when we used to visit it all the time. They added a few deals that don’t expire in addition to the countdown ones which, honestly, are for pansies. They also upped the time from a few seconds to a few hours so its a little less stressful now. They also give you a preview of items that are coming up so it’s honestly the sort of thing that could get really addictive.

Right now, in my Gold Box, they are recommending all this man stuff like hunting knives which leaves me with the conclusion that my husband was on my computer the other day.

Take a look at your Gold Box and let me know what’s in yours in the comments.

I just wanted to let you know that I will never be writing one of those sorts of books.

Well, never say never, I guess, but, if I do write one of those, that is the sign that the aliens have gotten me so I am trusting you people to raise the alarm.

I hope I never get famous enough that hundreds of people a day whine on my blog that out of the thousands of messages I get an hour, I didn’t answer theirs. Then there are the people who whine that she won’t send them her money. Rosie must have the patience of a saint. I want to just block those people for life or smack them or something. I suppose this is why she has fans and I don’t but, damn, some of her fans are so darn emotionally needy. I think anyone who reads her blog even occasionally hears me on this, unless you are one of those people who are emotionally needy and then I cannot help you.

The woman gets thousands of messages a day. She has a life, a job and 4 kids for God’s sake! Most people with 1 kid don’t even have time to answer email! She is not going to read all the messages that she gets ever. She just picks a few random ones. If she answers you, yay, but if not, holy God, it’s nothing personal you nuts. Jeez!

I come to Rosie’s blog for the pictures of babies, small children, squirrels, dolphins, and crafts not your whining. You are killing the cute!

I know that just made me seem imbalanced but I enjoy reading almost all
of Rosie’s blog and I love the fact that she has that direct channel to
the fans and haters both on her site, but those people kill me. I
cannot tell if they bother me on her behalf or if they bother me
because I am afraid if I become famous it will happen to me. Either
way, argh!