Sometimes witty...most times not.

Kindle

2007-11-19T10:26:00.000-08:00

I am excited about The Kindle (less excited about the $400 price tag, but that's neither here nor there.)

I am a bibliophile. I read constantly, but taking books with me everywhere is heavy and a hassle. I also have a tendency to leave them places, which makes me VERY angry. Once I finish a book, if I am away from my house or away from a store I am basically stuck with nothing to read. This leaves me reading things like a 2 year old Spin magazine at the Ford house or a 5 year old Reader's Digest at the doctor's office. Is Kindle the answer? Maybe.

While I am excited about Kindle, and I do hope it takes off, it also kind of saddens me. I can't help but make the connection of Kindle - Kindling - Fire - Burning books - Fahrenheit 451 - end of books as we know them now. There is nothing better in the world than going to a bookstore, smelling the paper and ink, and purchasing a great book to curl up with. Will reading be as great as it is without this experience? Would Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have felt as great without the heft of all 700-plus pages?

I am anticipating the first reviews. It seems amazon did not let any out into the tech world for the bloggers to review. Will I buy one now? Not likely. Later, maybe, let's see how the story unfolds.

Oops.

2007-11-19T08:36:00.000-08:00

So, I suck at NaBloPoMo. I failed to post every day.

I have made my peace with that though. I realized that in the haste to post every day I wasn't posting much and it's really quality over quantity right?

That being said, I am glad I attempted NaBloPoMo, because it did make me blog more and I did get some clarity out of a few of my blogs.

Anyway, I will still be posting here regularly as well as at my livejournal, which is pretty much friends only...so for those of you who have been reading, stick around. I promise to get more interesting.

Parallels between my life and Harry Potter

2007-11-13T23:53:00.000-08:00

We have an open position at my job. We have had it for quite some time.

Lately, HR has really been ramping up efforts to get the position filled, but for some reason it doesn't seem meant to be. Two interviews in a row now have been canceled due to the interviewees just randomly not showing up. These are people who are actively seeking employment, people who confirmed the times and completed phone interviews before they were supposed to come in.

My theory? I am starting to believe that the last guy who held the job (who was let go) put a Voldemort-like curse on the position and it is now never to be filled.

Learn something, give something.

2007-11-12T11:00:00.000-08:00

We have all done the "clicks for charity", but here is a charitable site that will help you improve your vocabulary, figure out how smart you are on a scale of 1-50, and of course, feed the hungry.

Get clicking!!

God bless us, everyone!

2007-11-11T16:19:00.000-08:00

My neighbors have already decorated for Christmas. They have a blow-up bear with present, a Christmas tree made of lights, and lights on their house so far. They inflate/turn on the decorations nightly.

I was going to take a picture of it, post it here and make some smart ass rant about how it is too early, about how my other neighbors still have Halloween decorations up, but as I pulled up to my parent's house today I realized the people who gave me life 22 years ago today have already hung their Christmas lights.

So, here's to Christmas before Veteran's Day!

Google ads knows too much.

2007-11-10T16:52:00.000-08:00

I was reading a friend's ad-funded LJ and I came to the realization that it kind of weirds me out how well Google ads works.

The ads at the top of the journal were for "Debate team gear!" This wouldn't have weirded me out at all if I was reading an entry about debate teams or debate in general, but I wasn't. In fact, the only debate team related activity that had happened on my computer in the last 15 minutes was an e-mail to my old debate coach about my availability to judge a debate tournament for him.

That is pretty creepy.

Birthday gifts!

2007-11-09T16:02:00.000-08:00

So far for my birthday I have been given:

* A digital camera
* A chicken fried steak
* A package of Scantrons

With two days left to go, this is shaping up to be a good haul...lol.

Five years off.

2007-11-08T19:07:00.000-08:00

You Are 27 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Slacker.

2007-11-07T13:51:00.000-08:00

I have a paper due today. In fact it is due in less than four hours. At this point I have yet to write one word of this paper.

This is not something I am especially proud of, I just cannot seem to get motivated to complete the paper.

The solution to this? I am going to skip my first class tonight to write the paper for my second class.

Leslie, it's your Grandma.

2007-11-06T18:48:00.000-08:00

The post last night about birthday parties made me think about age. It is odd how at (almost) 22 I can feel so old sometimes, but there are so many times when I feel like a kid.

A great example of this would be this evening. While I was in the library at school waiting for my study group to arrive, my phone rang. Answering it, I hunkered down for at least a 15 minute conversation, it was my Grandma.

She was calling to tell me that she had put my birthday card in the mail and that she was thinking about me. We chatted for awhile and a few members of my study group showed up, but my grandma kept up the stream of conversation. As group didn't officially start until 6pm, I figured I was fine to continue talking to her until then. She asked me about my day, about Randall, about work, about school, etc. We chatted about normal grandma stuff and then ended the conversation.

When I hung up the phone I sheepishly said, "That was my grandma...calling to check in." Rather than showing agitation my group members took a few minutes to tell me about their grandmas and how they wished they were still around to call and check in about birthday cards.

This brought home the fact that while I am forever getting older and of course am an adult, I am still lucky enough to be young and enjoy things like grandmas and in my case great grandmas and great grand-dads.

So, today's life lesson reinforced by blogging? Call your grandma. It will be worth it.

22 and life to go.

2007-11-05T20:12:00.000-08:00

I was lying in bed and I had a realization...I had forgotten to blog today! So, I hauled my sleepy ass out of bed and here I am.

My birthday is Sunday. It is funny how as you grow older birthdays become less of a big deal. I remember being eleven years old and dying of anticipation waiting for November 11th to roll around, for my friends to arrive, the cake to be cut, the pinata to busted and the fun to be had.

Last year was a benchmark birthday and really the last of the big hurrahs. Sure, I can have a big three-oh and then the dreaded four-oh, but the big parties complete with Barbie cakes and hours worth of decorations are long gone.

It is with this bittersweet thought in mind that I have decided to revisit my childhood for this birthday. Instead of doing the normal twenty-something bar-based bash, I have decided to spend the night surrounded by my nearest and dearest in a bowling alley/lazer tag/arcade type establishment; just as I did eleven years ago.

I think I deserve one more hurrah, crack out the Barbie cake and the streamers...it's birthday time.

Let's go racin!

2007-11-04T06:25:00.000-08:00

It's Sunday, it's also November 4th, which means at Texas Motor Speedway it is RACE DAY!

I'm headed out to the track for the rubber burning, metal crunching, paint trading, redneck fueled activities of the Dickies 500.

The Beast

2007-11-03T17:13:00.000-07:00

We just spent five hours at the "Ford House". End result, Randall has a new truck. It's a beast. An F150, 4x4, lifted, huge tires, the works.

Pictures to come later.

SaCOWgewa

2007-11-02T10:13:00.000-07:00

Every year for Christmas my mom buys me the Chik-fil-a "Cow Calendar" as a stocking stuffer. This year for lack of a better calendar find, I hung it up in my cube at work.

This months cow: SaCOWgewa. Love it.

Speaking of Christmas, it seems like the push to make Christmas a two month long celebration is going strong:

I saw on the news this morning that many retailers have decided to take a different approach to "Black Friday" deals. Wal-Mart will begin selling five big deals, including a $350 laptop today. This is an different approach and I am interested to see how it works out for them. It kind of makes the whole "each store only has three of this product" catch obsolete as the stores will now have to carry stock for two months rather than one day.

Then, a co-worker told me that a lady had called into the radio station he listens to in the mornings and irately demanded to know when they were planning to start playing Christmas music. This is just idiotic. It's November 2nd. Let's enjoy a few more Alvin and the Chipmunks-free weeks before we are forced to surrender ourselves over.

NaBloPoMo

2007-11-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

For awhile now I have been contemplating starting a 365 project blog. 365 days of pictures creating something that I can look back on, improve my picture taking skills with and to just basically have fun. My major qualm about starting a 365 is that I really just don't know that I will have the stamina to follow through and post the picture each day. I would hate to start a 365 project and end up with 87 project. That seems pretty lame.

That being said, I have decided to do NaBloPoMo(National Blog Posting Month) as a test. If I can blog every day for the month of November, I am going to go ahead with the 365.

For those of you unfamiliar, NaBloPoMo is the less daunting sister of NaNoWriMo, which I have NO interest in doing...I just do not have enough hours in the day.

November will pose a nice challenge for me. I will be traveling the week of 11/19-11/24, so blogging on the fly will definetly be more difficult than blogging while I am bored at work. Also, there should be plenty to write about as my birthday, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday all fall during the month.

So, here goes nothing. : )

Somewhere else.

2007-09-24T10:23:00.000-07:00

I have been posting here pretty regularly. If you are interested, head on over there. I will likely be back here eventually as I tend to come and go.

HP

2007-04-17T08:17:00.000-07:00

I am debating whether or not it is too soon to request the Friday my sister and I will be camping at Barnes and Noble off from work.

Cadbury Goodness

2007-04-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

I just ate the last mini egg.

Sad.

2007-03-08T07:04:00.000-08:00

Are You Being Served? was my first foray into British TV.

I loved him.

RIP Mr. Humphries.

Wow.

2007-02-28T12:50:00.000-08:00

No wonder everybody is easy.

You just never know.

2007-02-16T10:30:00.000-08:00

This guy used to work with me.

He sat on the next row of cubes.

CREEPY!!

Bad Omen?

2007-02-15T17:16:00.000-08:00

Kasey caught cheating.

Kasey gets punished.

The Weekly Bob.

2007-02-15T17:10:00.000-08:00

I am in love with The Weekly Bob.

He is a 7 year old who makes his own weekly newspaper and delivers it in around his neighborhood in Dallas.

So cute!!

Thanks to Unfair Park.

St Patrick's Day.

2007-02-08T10:27:00.000-08:00

The Toadies will be doing a reunion show following the Dallas Observer's St. Patrick's Day Parade.

This is awesome. My roomate and I were just talking about how excellent it would be if they Toadies did the St. Pat's Parade again.

Liam.

2007-02-07T10:15:00.000-08:00

I am a Yahoo! girl through and through, and I love Liam (mail backwards...ha), Yahoo!'s new mail mascot.

He has been a shadow boxer, a sumo wrestler, a soccer player, chased by an ostrich, decked out for Christmas, and now just in time for Valentine's day, he is blowing heart bubbles.

Check him out:

Liam in Love.

Deathly Hallows.

2007-02-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

Going to BN to reserve my book tonight and I am already planning for 7/21.

Thanks Yahoo! for providing my afternoon laughs.

2007-01-31T13:51:00.000-08:00

This cracked me up. I know it shouldn't have, but this part takes the cake...

"Clemson University and the NAACP said Tuesday they are investigating an off-campus party held during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend that some considered offensive because white students drank malt liquor and at least one partygoer wore black face."

Quelle horreur!!! WHITE students drinking malt liquor!!

Obviously they have never slummed it college kid style.

NASCAR countdown.

2007-01-30T11:11:00.000-08:00

18 days, 16 hours, 47 minutes, and 48 seconds until the Daytona 500.

More weather.

2007-01-17T10:03:00.000-08:00

I think it is ridiculous how the news channels make up names for wintry weather segments.

We got to come into work at 10am today, that was pretty cool.

My hero.

2007-01-14T15:53:00.000-08:00

My Hero season one is now available on DVD!

Awesome.

Winter Weather Blitz.

2007-01-14T13:58:00.000-08:00

At least that is what the weather channel is calling it.

Right now it just seems rainy and cold. It would be cool to get the day off work tomorrow, so...

let it ice, let it ice, let it ice.

PostSecret.

2007-01-11T06:27:00.000-08:00

I bought the new PostSecret book last night and am going to listen to Frank Warren speak tonight at Books-A-Million in Grapevine.

I am very excited. PostSecret is an amazing project and sometimes it's scary how my secrets are there, but I didn't send them in. It's good to know others are right where I am.

Refresh.

2007-01-04T10:29:00.000-08:00

Starting again.

I like reading other people's blogs, I just seem to have a hard time writing in MY blog.