Hallelujah, I’m done with my first full edit! It only took a month from the day I received it to return it. Obviously, I’ll be speeding up my turnaround time. 🙂 Did she get her money’s worth from me? I do believe so, considering my comments added 10,000 words to her total word count!
Anyway, my brain is fried from going thought 154 pages in the last three days, so you are now going to be subject to a few random rants. I encourage you to leave your own rants in the comment box.
Actually, these rants aren’t completely random as they all have to do with internet ads. Maybe because I’ve been on the computer so much?!
1) the Tru ads. It was bad enough when they were just pictures of girls who were so beautiful, yet desperately lonely, and just waiting, for you–yes, YOU–the man hiding his computer use from his wife to contact them. Oh, no, that was not enough. We now are treated to MOVING, beautiful, desperately lonely women. You might get something from clicking on those ads, but it’s not going to be Tru love. You might even have to see your doctor about it.
2) the before/after fat ads. For a few days, each of my hotmail accounts had ads with real bodies pictured, but again, a still image was not enough. No, we need to use digital effects so when a pencil or pointed finger pushed the fat, it jiggled back and forth. [gagging sound] These have since been replaced with cartoon fat ads, a drastic improvement. I can only assume that people with enough time on their hands complained and saved the rest of us from a fate worse than death. (I actually had to hold a paper over the edge of the screen, covering the poking/jiggling show, to read my email.)
3) the facebook teeth ads. Click here to find out a stay-at-home mom’s secret to turning yellow teeth white. Quite often, at least two of the ads were for this, so we were treated to yellow crooked teeth with lips contorted to show them off. Let me save you a click. Take this SAHM’s secret and run with it. First, jump in your car. Second, drive to Walmart. Third, purchase the Equate brand Dental Whitening Strips for a fraction of the name brands. Fourth, apply to your teeth. You’re welcome.
I have nothing against beautiful, desperately lonely, overweight women with yellow teeth … but I don’t want to see ’em every single second I’m on the internet. And thus ends my random online ads rant.
Anyone?
I hate those ads too. Some of them are way too sexual and I’m annoyed that there’s nothing I can do to remove them from my screen.
Grrrr….
Congrats on finishing! That’s awesome. 😉
I use Firefox for my browser. There’s a wonderful add-on for it called Ad Block Plus. It does just that! You can right click on any image ad and then block it forever. This add-on alone, if more people were aware of it, would be enough to make IE completely obsolete.
Rachel, I’ve installed Ad Block Plus and love the empty space on the side of my screen. Thank you for the tip!!