I Learned Something New

So here I am posting again. Guess what? I finally (after 24 years on this earth) learned how to rinse/wash my face off without having water run down to my elbows!! Woo! I use the "cupped hand" method of rinsing of the face and EVERY single time before this morning I had water running down my arm and falling off onto the counter or floor off of my elbow. Rinsing off my face in long sleeves was not possible for me before, but now it is a feat I can handle! I found out it is all in the wrist. For those of you who have a similar problem... When you are holding the water in your cupped hands and bringing them (your hands) to your face the rule is... always keep your wrists higher than your palms. It works! It is also possible. For everyone else who already knew this and have had it mastered for years... well... just shut up and stop laughing! :)

Clearing My Name

There was a comment left on one of my posts that I believe merits an entire post... here is the aforementioned comment:

"you can never have too much blue eye-shadow(common Jason quote)"

This person is referring to the picture two posts down. For the record... that is glare and I would never ever ever ever ever wear blue eyeshadow! (unless I were dressing up for an "old" person dress-up party or a nerdy '80's party which has happened). I furthermore urge all readers to refer to the other eye in the picture.

I rest my case.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

So... I obviously enjoy stick figures... here's the best thing in the entire world...

STICK FIGHT

No Russia For You!

Guess what? If you are using a VISA card you cannot buy anything from Russia. I learned that last night. Russia just happens to have a spectacular .mp3 web site that I was trying to buy from and it declined so I called my bank today and said "what's up with that?" and they told me what was up with it. So... no Russia for you if you are a VISA user. You have to buy expensive music because of a rise in identity theft in Russia.

Piercing and Stick-Figures

Hi. I will update this post (done) with a picture later I'm sure. Jess and I went to the Cities tonight to get my nose pierced. So I have my nose pierced now. I didn't get directions before we left since I am so used to just calling up Amanda and asking her where to go. She knows where it is because it is near a hospital. If you know Amanda, that will be amusingly ironic. So... we were in the Cities and we got completely lost. LOST lost. Then, when we got on the correct road we went in the wrong direction so we ended up in the ghetto (according to Jess' mom, who was corresponding with us over the phone since she was the direction-giver and not Amanda). Anyway, we got everything straightened out and got there... I just wanted to mention we were in the ghetto.

Here's something else... I really like to draw elaborate stick-figures. One day at work I decided to make a stick-figure for everyone on my team. I just drew whatever kind of little stick guy I thought of first when I thought of that particular team member. I ended up with a little Mexican dude with a poncho and sombrero, a ballerina, a speed skater, an Egyptian, an modern dancer, a head-banger, a cheerleader, and one other one I can't remember. So there's that. My cute little team members all have then hanging up at their desks. It's so cute!

Well They Weren't Lyin'!

So apparently Blogger.com doesn't lie when it states things like "these features coming soon" because I can post on other people's blogs, now and they can post on mine!! Weeee! I like to think that it was because of my last post. If that was the case then that post worked better than signing a petition and sending it in to your state senator (which we all know works pretty well).

I did a stupid thing...

So... I came across this little prompt while blogging on my merry way the other day (ok... the other week) and it said something to the effect of, "Yeah, so... do you want to merge your blogger account with your Google account to create Blogger Beta?".
SoI am thinking... "Well, heck yes! That will be great... fantastic even. What could be better than merging Google with anything?"

So I do.

This was a stupid thing. Now I cannot comment on a non-Beta blog. This sucks because a lot of people I know do not have a Beta account. Now I cannot join in the hilarity... beware of merging!!! The people here at blogger.com try to comfort the unfortunate already merged user with sweet phrases such as "these features are coming soon" but what about the blogs I want to comment on NOW? Beware of merging!!!! (<---- said in a wispy, ghost-like voice....both times).

How To: Dissuade Yourself From Becoming A Blogger

I found this on my Google homepage how-to of the day so I thought I would blog about it :)

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend.

Steps
-Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.

-Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.

-Write on a regular basis in a text editor instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.

-Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

Tips
-Rest easy in the knowledge that it's perfectly okay and respectable to not have a blog at all.
If attention and validation are what you're looking for, know that you will get neither from blogging. As above, very few people will ever know that your blog (or you, by proxy) exists. The remainder of comments posted to your blog will be sappy treacle, which you won't trust as being sincere anyway.

-Consider writing on a wiki instead. Unlike most blogs, wikis like Wikipedia and wikiHow are read by millions of people each month. Several wikiHow authors receive "fan mail" messages every day from appreciative readers. In addition, many authors discover that they enjoy the wiki collaborative writing process more than writing in solitude.
-If you plan to use a blog as a way of keeping in touch with a group of people, such as friends, family, or co-workers, then you may want to make sure it's inaccessible to the public (for the public's sake as well as yours). Using a message board instead of a blog can simplify matters and help keep it interactive.

-Try participating as a regular commentator to three to five blogs that you think highly of. This plan has the advantage of writing for the public along with not doing the publishing oneself.

Warnings
-The information you post on the Internet is likely to linger for years and years to come, as web pages are archived by "snapshot" services like the Wayback Machine. Once it's out there, you can't take it back. An employer running a Google search on your name years down the line might be turned off by your now documented obsession with your cat.

-Keep in mind that, unless you expressly make it otherwise, blogs are extremely public. This is not your secret diary that you write your innermost thoughts in because only you have the key and you wear it around your neck 24/7. If you have stuff that you don't want your mom, your best friend, your significant other, your secret crush, or your cat to know, don't go blabbing it to complete strangers on the internet. You cannot assume that the people you don't want to see what you're saying won't somehow stumble across your blog and know all your dirty little secrets. If you must record these thoughts for posterity, do so offline.

-You may never know if you enjoy blogging unless you try it.

How I Feel (Feelings)

Ok This is how I feel about soap operas (I thought of this in the bathroom just now)...
Whenever I watch a soap opera (or even part of one) I feel like banging my head on a wall because EVERYTHING goes wrong all of the time because of misunderstandings and assumptions. I feel like yelling at the T.V. "Hey! How about if you just ASK so-and-so if they had been kidnapped as a child or if they are REALLY a princess from some small tribe in Africa working undercover as a marine biologist to collect information for a top-secret scientific experiment that will destroy half of the world's population instead of just assuming they are?!?!". Anyways... watching soap operas makes me not want to jump to conclusions about anyone or anything because it REALLY messes things up. It's lame! I'm getting a little worked up right now so I will stop.

*Disclaimer: I go home to my parents house on my lunch breaks several times a week to see my mom and a soap opera is always on the television so that is why I see soap operas sometimes!