Sunday, February 6, 2011

Q. What Do Web Writing and Haircuts Have in Common?

A. They should both be short!
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Today my Tired friend and I had a web writing training session with Web Writer/Content Strategist/Web Contenter/Writing Strategist/Strategic Contenter Extraordinaire Ahava. (Who can also be found here - 10 poofahs if you can find me!)

We learned much, and I hope I actually remember some of it going forward. That would be nice. One thing I did learn is that my blog is not very SEO-friendly. In fact, it is downright unfriendly. Sometimes, my blog just slaps SEO upside the head, for no reason at all.

In any case, I don't do important SEO things like "label" and "tag" and "link." In fact, you will actually see this sentence many times in the blog: "I would link to it but I'm too lazy."

But that's okay with us. You see, we at aliyahbyaccident just like to make fun of stuff. We don't care, really, if lots and lots of people read the blog, or if it's just Momz and DADZ, who is usually a week behind but always catches up. We don't need the "spiders" to "find" us.

I mean, it is important to us to be #1 in "traifin' up the kitchen" - we still are, by the way - but other than that, our "raison d'etre" (that is French for "hors d'ouevre") is just to write stuff that is hopefully funny. Sometimes, we are the only people who find it funny! And that's okay too!

It's Cuttin' Time
In other news, Nadav "Shaggy" Rose was in need of a haircut. You may recall that he already had his first haircut. (I would link to it, but I'm too lazy.)

But hair has a way of continuing to grow, darn it, so a few months later, it was falling into his eyes again. On erev Shabbat, Donny gave him an uneven haircut. As Shabbat was "coming in" (Heblish strikes again), I didn't have time to take a photograph of the lopsided hairdo, unfortunately.
Now, I didn't particularly care that it was uneven and rather dorky looking. The kid's (almost) 9 months old. His social life consists of chatting with the Little People, who are no great shakes in the haircut department either.

But it bothered Donny a great deal - yes, I know those of you who know Donny are just shocked - so after Shabbat, he grabbed his razor and gave Nadav his first military-ish style haircut. Not quite as buzzed as Yaakov, but still pretty short.

What do you think?


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11 comments:

OneTiredEma said...

Whoa. Keep Donny away from AM. (It took me years to part with the curls. So...)

faith/emuna said...

now we have another way in how you are different from nadav (unless you also shave your head. not that theres anything wrong with that...) actually its similar to my sons haircut, then again *he* IS in the army.

Baila said...

OMG, he is just so darn cute!!!

Anonymous said...

thank goodness hair grows!

SaraK said...

Wow, that is a serious haircut!
Who needs SEO? I just sent your blog to the women in my chug aliyah because the blogs that everyone recommends are written by guys and the women want mommy-focused info.

Gila Rose said...

Yes, yes, it is short; luckily, he's just cute enough to pull it off. The shortness also makes it look super blond.

SK - interesting that most aliyah blogs are written by guys, since the ones I know about are all written by gals! Thanks for spreading the ABA love!

Risa said...

Are the little people the congregants of the little people shul mentioned in my comment in August 2009? In all seriousness, though, Nadav looks adaorable in both pictures. He looks a lot like one of the other little people in the post-haircut picture. I guess they must have come off the same conveyorbelt at the toy factory!

Gila Rose said...

If Nadav is a Little People, he's totally the gigantic monster that eats all the other Little People.

Kathleen said...

I agree he looks adorable in both photos!

Dadz said...

I AM NOT ALWAYS A WEEK BEHIND.
OFTEN MOMZ READS THE BLOG TO ME AT HOME. SO THEN I FORGET THE NEXT DAY TO COMMENT.
ANYWAY, HERE I AM COMMENTING.
ALSO WE ALWAYS LOVE YOUR BLOG; AND THAT'S NO ACCIDENT

Gila Rose said...

Awwww, DADZ! (But I'm not going to stop making fun of you....)