It's like they know that I know that they know!

I didn't meet my goal of sewing anything this weekend but it was because Drew was home and husband-time always trumps any other activity.  We had a great Saturday, going to see two movies in one day!  I haven't done that since I was a kid, and I didn't usually pay for the second movie (shh, don't tell.)  We saw The Other Guys which was cute little fluff, had lunch at a great Turkish restaurant and went back to see Salt.  I had higher hopes for Salt, namely Angelina Jolie's Russian-speaking abilities.  I won't spoil the movie but she speaks Russian in it, and she does it very poorly.  I love languages, I speak two foreign languages and my ears are always open for an accent.  I die for foreign accents!  Thus, I was very disappointed that she basically mumbled her way through her Russian lines.  Liev Shcrieber though?  He did awesome!  I actually was able to pick out a couple of his words, thanks to the similarities between Russian and French and that just put a big ol smile on my face!


But that's not the point of this post!  I'm freaking out y'all!  Last week I was on the Get it Girl blog and she wrote about rugs and how she found an identical rug on Overstock for just over a third of the price of one at Nieman's.  I've been wanting a new rug for our living room because the one we have is dark and I'm dying for some light in there and I really liked the rug she featured.  I also want to sew new, lighter pillow covers for our throw pillows on the sofa - we have too much brown in there!  ANYWAY, I really liked the rug and I clicked over to Overstock to check out the sizes and prices. 

 The rug in question.

Image courtesy Get It Girl Style

Imagine my surprise when I'm on the computer today checking out my celebrity gossip and there's an ad for the exact same rug I was looking at!  It's like they know!!  I mean, I know that there's some goblin in my computer recording every site I visit and showing me the corresponding ads but this just creeped me out!

I was looking at those other rugs too!

You know, I'm so glad that I keep my nose clean and I don't conspire to do illegal things because honestly, someone with a strong enough computer and enough know-how could find out whatever they wanted about you!  My rug example is so minor compared to how much information is floating around out there.  I mean, really there's not a lot you can do about it because we're only human and if a human devises a way to protect themselves, another human will come along and find a way around that.  I guess the only hope you really have is that you're boring enough and poor enough that no one wants to bother with you.

Which means I have nothing to worry about!

You had to know that was going to happen right?