I look so skinny! It's so great! Why am I not this skinny anymore?
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
A Tribute to Gingersnap in 4 Parts-Part 1
I just had the greatest time catching up with an old high school boyfriend. He was in town from New Mexico doing some training with the Air Force. We only dated for three months my sophomore year, but they were obviously blissful ones, based on these shots. Look at these smiles! We were on our way to Homecoming 1994. We made such the odd couple, be he was just a sweet boy. He is still a sweet man. Same sense of humor.
We connected on an adult level and that was enjoyable. Much of our conversation was catching up on each others lives, we haven't seen each other in 7 years!
It was really great to catch up and we both agreed we need to get together again sooner than later. He's moving to Illinois from New Mexico in a few months and I would really like to meet his wife.
This photo tribute is to you GingerSnap. I wish I could put them all in one entry, stupid Beta...Anyways, thanks for the laughs and all of your fantasies about the practice rooms. LOL!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Ok Go
This band is now in my top 5 favorites! Go check out their video at YouTube. It's freaking awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINJQ5LRh-0
Monday, September 11, 2006
Blog of Note
http://indexed.blogspot.com/
You have to read this blog. It's freaking hilarious! Why am I not this creative or funny?
You have to read this blog. It's freaking hilarious! Why am I not this creative or funny?
To Those Comtemplating the Switch to Beta
Here's my take on the new Beta Blogger....
1. I can't say that much has changed between the old and new. It pretty much looks the same as it always did. Even your dashboard hasn't changed that much when signing in.
2. They have jumped on the Google Supertrain that everyone else and their mom has bought into. You now sign in with your Google email address. While it's nice to know I can write posts that save to draft through my email, it's not all that convenient when it comes right down to it.
3. It has some severe limitations at this point. You can't upload YouTube to it. You can't even upload pictures to your blog right now. That's very frustrating as I wanted to write a post about Ok Go and post their picture and video here. They claim they're resolving things, but I'm not seeing it. Plus, you can't leave comments with your name on non-beta blogs. Another annoyance as I now have to sign them as anonymous and remember to put my name at the end.
4. One of the newest features is that you can rearrange your template. You can move features around. They haven't added any new templates, but you can alter more about them, like text color on a regular basis. If I really cared about that, it would be a much cooler feature.
Overall, I recommend everyone stick to the old Blogger for now until they work the kinks out. I guess I should have known that when I saw the word beta. Nothing in beta is ever very good. And I can't even switch back which is probably the biggest drawback of them all. I'll let you know when it's improved.
1. I can't say that much has changed between the old and new. It pretty much looks the same as it always did. Even your dashboard hasn't changed that much when signing in.
2. They have jumped on the Google Supertrain that everyone else and their mom has bought into. You now sign in with your Google email address. While it's nice to know I can write posts that save to draft through my email, it's not all that convenient when it comes right down to it.
3. It has some severe limitations at this point. You can't upload YouTube to it. You can't even upload pictures to your blog right now. That's very frustrating as I wanted to write a post about Ok Go and post their picture and video here. They claim they're resolving things, but I'm not seeing it. Plus, you can't leave comments with your name on non-beta blogs. Another annoyance as I now have to sign them as anonymous and remember to put my name at the end.
4. One of the newest features is that you can rearrange your template. You can move features around. They haven't added any new templates, but you can alter more about them, like text color on a regular basis. If I really cared about that, it would be a much cooler feature.
Overall, I recommend everyone stick to the old Blogger for now until they work the kinks out. I guess I should have known that when I saw the word beta. Nothing in beta is ever very good. And I can't even switch back which is probably the biggest drawback of them all. I'll let you know when it's improved.
Just a blanket statement...
If one more person tells me that it's all in God's time or God's plan, I swear I will slap them. I seriously don't want to hear that right now. And I feel I'm completely entitled to all of my feelings. If you feel the need to suddenly get religious on my ass, don't bother. You weren't in the past, so don't start now. I like it that way. I'll keep my God hating to myself from now on if it's going to become a hassel. I like that my blog is something I can share my feelings in, but there are just some things that people should leave alone. Give me your sympathy, but not your soap box. On that note, I think I'll refrain from mentioning any baby news on this blog to save myself the headache. If you want to know, call me. You know the number.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Service Project
We helped out with a service project through church yesterday. Even though I'm incredibly angry with God right now, I didn't feel like I could take it out on other people by not helping, so we headed over to help an 8 month pregnant lady move out of her apartment. How's that for ironic? I'm mad at God for not giving me a baby, and I go to help an 8th month pregnant single mom move.
Anyways, I have to say that after moving her out of her apartment, I feel:
a) incredibly wealthy
b) incredibly selfish for the things that I want and buy
c) a new appreciation for vaccumming/dusting/mopping my floors
d) dogs that don't shed
Holy crap did this lady have dog hair. Everywhere. Kendall helped to move out one of their couches and when he took the couch away from his face he had giant globs of dog hair still stuck to his cheek. YUCK! We all left covered in dog hair. It was on every piece of furniture that we moved. This reinforced the notion that Kendall and I will never have a large dog. Because they pretty much all shed.
I have to say that we were a little un-Christian in our response to the filth. We didn't say or do anything in front of the lady, but when we saw her soiled mattrass, several of us refused to touch it. And then underneath was piles of dog hair and dirty clothes, it almost made me gag. The other thing we noticed was a smell that permeated the entire apartment, a combination of wet dog, dirty clothes, and something we couldn't identify. The last observation that was made was that it seems like those who are "less fortunate" (aka "poor") always seem to own a HUGE ass TV. Why is that? Several people that the church has helped move have been low income and yet seem to afford a big screen TV. Any thoughts?
Overall, it was a good experience on many levels and the woman involved was very appreciative and even cried once. I enjoyed helping her, and who knows, maybe it was good karma for our baby making.
Anyways, I have to say that after moving her out of her apartment, I feel:
a) incredibly wealthy
b) incredibly selfish for the things that I want and buy
c) a new appreciation for vaccumming/dusting/mopping my floors
d) dogs that don't shed
Holy crap did this lady have dog hair. Everywhere. Kendall helped to move out one of their couches and when he took the couch away from his face he had giant globs of dog hair still stuck to his cheek. YUCK! We all left covered in dog hair. It was on every piece of furniture that we moved. This reinforced the notion that Kendall and I will never have a large dog. Because they pretty much all shed.
I have to say that we were a little un-Christian in our response to the filth. We didn't say or do anything in front of the lady, but when we saw her soiled mattrass, several of us refused to touch it. And then underneath was piles of dog hair and dirty clothes, it almost made me gag. The other thing we noticed was a smell that permeated the entire apartment, a combination of wet dog, dirty clothes, and something we couldn't identify. The last observation that was made was that it seems like those who are "less fortunate" (aka "poor") always seem to own a HUGE ass TV. Why is that? Several people that the church has helped move have been low income and yet seem to afford a big screen TV. Any thoughts?
Overall, it was a good experience on many levels and the woman involved was very appreciative and even cried once. I enjoyed helping her, and who knows, maybe it was good karma for our baby making.
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