I think I need to start a new line of products (see Google Me). A couple of weeks ago, I lost my keys. We'd just come back from vacation, it was the next morning and we were rushing to get Tyler off to pre-school so that we could have some long awaited alone time. My head wasn't back to 'routine' status and I'd somehow misplaced my house and car keys - which led to a whole chain of events including a 1+ hour roundtrip to get a spare set of house keys to let us back in our home.
Mike called the car dealer to get a replacement car key and that was $90 plus an appointment with the dealer. Why do we need to book an appt.??
A week later, I lose my brand new work blackberry. As any of you who own a blackberry knows... its your lifeline. It was fairly new so I knew I'd get a lot of hassle over getting a new one.
This leads me back to... I need to start a new line of products that include a subderma GPS for all of my belongings. That clapper and whisle keychain thing they make is useless if you aren't in the same room as the object. I need a full on GPS tracking all of my stuff.
Keys, blackberry, presents I hid from my husband for 'later', bracelets, bills... all of it.
I want it to map me a pathway, tell me how long before I find the item, and indicate when I'm right on top of it.
On second thought, I don't really need to produce this line, I just need to use it. Can someone please come up with it?
As the Captain on Star Trek says, "Make it so" .
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sites I've found
Occasionally, I stumble of sites and bookmark them, and never - ever - check them out again. But I thought I'd post them on the blog with the hopes that I'll browse back every so often.
Here is my latest find. Moo cards, they're mini-busines cards. For those of us that are designers/photographers, this is a cool way to customize and print cheaply. For those that aren't there are pre-created designs. Overall very cool. I haven't fully checked out the site, but I'm blog-marking it for later.
And this is a cool page (so far) from Hostess with the Mostest.
Before I forget, I want to remark that evite has some cool links to blogs. That's where I found the ones above. I also found a recipe for a new twist on a 7 layer dip.
Its a bit of a mix between Ewwww and Hmmmm:
http://blog.evite.com/evite/2009/04/sweet-seven-layer-dip-recipe-yes-really.html
http://blog.evite.com/evite/2009/04/sweet-seven-layer-dip-recipe-yes-really.html
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Christening the Basement
"We did it, we did it. I have to say we did it. They said we couldn't do it. But Today, its been done." Thats a loose quote from Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady when they finally got Eliza Doolittle to speak like a lady. They danced around the room rejoicing.
That's how I feel about our basement. There is much, much more to do, but we hit a hard dent. And tonight, we had friends over and actually used the room. Tyler had a friend playing with him in there, the kids had their dessert on the picnic table. It was so cool. yea, us! lol
Which leads me to wondering.... how IS it that I accumulate so much crap? My neighbor across the street has double the kids I do, plus a dog, and has no stuff in her rooms. I have stuff in every conceivable corner. I think my stuff breeds when I'm not there. And its been proven to be bad for me - I found an expired Transit check, that's just lost money - yet I can't ever get a handle on it.
I wonder, is it some sort of gene that causes clutter-people vs neat-freak-people? Like the 15th choromosome or missing enzymes? Color blindness is hereditary, why can't clutter be? I tried all the hints and none of them work or last. Its like I yo-yo clean. One minute I'm doing all the rules, next, I'm wading through papers to get to the ringing phone. Whatever, the machine will get it. Maybe.
I hate to be messy. I sincerely try to clean. It just accumulates back immediately, like when you sqeeze a blob of goo out of a balloon, it quickly oozes back in and fills up the space.
I dunno. I gotta make a New Year's resolution to resolve to be better with my mess. Next year.
Anyhow. Guess what? my basements clean and Tyler's playing in it!
:)
That's how I feel about our basement. There is much, much more to do, but we hit a hard dent. And tonight, we had friends over and actually used the room. Tyler had a friend playing with him in there, the kids had their dessert on the picnic table. It was so cool. yea, us! lol
Which leads me to wondering.... how IS it that I accumulate so much crap? My neighbor across the street has double the kids I do, plus a dog, and has no stuff in her rooms. I have stuff in every conceivable corner. I think my stuff breeds when I'm not there. And its been proven to be bad for me - I found an expired Transit check, that's just lost money - yet I can't ever get a handle on it.
I wonder, is it some sort of gene that causes clutter-people vs neat-freak-people? Like the 15th choromosome or missing enzymes? Color blindness is hereditary, why can't clutter be? I tried all the hints and none of them work or last. Its like I yo-yo clean. One minute I'm doing all the rules, next, I'm wading through papers to get to the ringing phone. Whatever, the machine will get it. Maybe.
I hate to be messy. I sincerely try to clean. It just accumulates back immediately, like when you sqeeze a blob of goo out of a balloon, it quickly oozes back in and fills up the space.
I dunno. I gotta make a New Year's resolution to resolve to be better with my mess. Next year.
Anyhow. Guess what? my basements clean and Tyler's playing in it!
:)
BBC Book List
Here is another one of those FB posts that are running rampant. I'm putting this one on here to share, and again, not have to post on my page. Enjoy!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:Look at the list, copy it and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ()
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ()
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible - () only some
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ()
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ()
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ()
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:Look at the list, copy it and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ()
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ()
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible - () only some
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ()
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ()
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ()
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
Friday, February 20, 2009
Linda Needs
I keep getting tagged in FB and rather than torturing everyone with a million posts, I thought I'd do it here. I still think they're fun.
Here’s how it works: Google “[your first name] needs” and share the first 10 results That's it: it is that simple. But be honest! These are actual quotes from the top ten results. Tag the person who tagged you, and pass it on...So here's my google search results (my comment follow the hyphen):
Linda Needs...
1) to be part of a loving, committed marriage - I am
2) mental health - bahahahahaha
3) as much free space at the front of a platform as possible - huh?
4) a new best friend -hey, I need all the friends I can get. lol
5) a tech makeover - er... okaaaaay
6) a fresh perspective - I can always use that
7) our help - ha ha ha ha ha
8) an extraordinary meeting /Aruba - oh yeah, I need Aruba, baby
9) Prayer and encouragement - wow. get to work, folks.
and finally,
10) linda split up with her boyfriend and shes now single if anyone wants her you know what to do hehe. - um... that one really, really doesn't fit.
Here’s how it works: Google “[your first name] needs” and share the first 10 results That's it: it is that simple. But be honest! These are actual quotes from the top ten results. Tag the person who tagged you, and pass it on...So here's my google search results (my comment follow the hyphen):
Linda Needs...
1) to be part of a loving, committed marriage - I am
2) mental health - bahahahahaha
3) as much free space at the front of a platform as possible - huh?
4) a new best friend -hey, I need all the friends I can get. lol
5) a tech makeover - er... okaaaaay
6) a fresh perspective - I can always use that
7) our help - ha ha ha ha ha
8) an extraordinary meeting /Aruba - oh yeah, I need Aruba, baby
9) Prayer and encouragement - wow. get to work, folks.
and finally,
10) linda split up with her boyfriend and shes now single if anyone wants her you know what to do hehe. - um... that one really, really doesn't fit.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Google Me
I have so much to do that blogging should not even be on the list. But I had a thought this morning and really wanted to put this down, before I forget it.
I think someone out there needs to create something that can Google my head. After motherhood, my memory has deteriorated so badly, I can't remember people's names when I'm looking right at them. Or what a food is called that I'm eating. I find myself logging onto Google for daily reminders all the time. "What did I see that actress in before?" - when I'm watching TV. Did I use butter or cream? - when I'm cooking. I don't bother trying to remember anymore, I just Google it, because the file cabinets in my head are full.
Thinking about that made me realize that I need more. I need it for my personal life, not just what is interesting and common to all the other web users. I need a search engine for my brain. For instance, "Where did I put my keys?" I blink and a chip just filters through all the mess and comes up with: Right pocket, brown coat. And extra links will offer, Coat in: Hall closet.
Or I'm staring at some child from daycare and their parents are talking to me and I quickly, invisibly, Google my head for Linda's images and a pic of the kid pops up with "Marcus, age 2 yrs, 8 months" under it, and I continue my conversation, "yes, Marcus has gotten so big, too! But he's nearly 3".
I may pay extra to have the "Google My Office" so that when I go on vacation, I can truly check out and not have to remember work stuff at all. When I return and someone says, "How much are you spending on all of your designers?" I can Google my head in the Office app for Budgets; Designers. Or if my boss askes, " What is the corporate policy on using the Brand in advertisements?" I can Google my Office head and check out the sublinks for Branding, Trade Advertising, Policies & Restrictions and ::poof:: I seem so caught up and in the moment. When in reality, I was still playing in the snow with my son.
But someone please come up with it soon, my cells are decreasing as we speak.
I think someone out there needs to create something that can Google my head. After motherhood, my memory has deteriorated so badly, I can't remember people's names when I'm looking right at them. Or what a food is called that I'm eating. I find myself logging onto Google for daily reminders all the time. "What did I see that actress in before?" - when I'm watching TV. Did I use butter or cream? - when I'm cooking. I don't bother trying to remember anymore, I just Google it, because the file cabinets in my head are full.
Thinking about that made me realize that I need more. I need it for my personal life, not just what is interesting and common to all the other web users. I need a search engine for my brain. For instance, "Where did I put my keys?" I blink and a chip just filters through all the mess and comes up with: Right pocket, brown coat. And extra links will offer, Coat in: Hall closet.
Or I'm staring at some child from daycare and their parents are talking to me and I quickly, invisibly, Google my head for Linda's images and a pic of the kid pops up with "Marcus, age 2 yrs, 8 months" under it, and I continue my conversation, "yes, Marcus has gotten so big, too! But he's nearly 3".
I may pay extra to have the "Google My Office" so that when I go on vacation, I can truly check out and not have to remember work stuff at all. When I return and someone says, "How much are you spending on all of your designers?" I can Google my head in the Office app for Budgets; Designers. Or if my boss askes, " What is the corporate policy on using the Brand in advertisements?" I can Google my Office head and check out the sublinks for Branding, Trade Advertising, Policies & Restrictions and ::poof:: I seem so caught up and in the moment. When in reality, I was still playing in the snow with my son.
But someone please come up with it soon, my cells are decreasing as we speak.
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