Blogging for Summer

I miss this blog. My life exploded (as lives will) and I just... stopped. The only thing in my life that is still the same is my apartment and my kitties. Different friends, different job, different guy.

Time to get back to blogging.

My inspiration for this comeback is twofold. Firstly, I miss it. Secondly a friend of mine from an old job was in town a couple of weeks ago and gave me the address to her Blogger blog, and it really made me want to give this another shot.

As a good blogger I will link to her blog for you, because I believe it has a lot of potential and that if you enjoy mine you will enjoy hers. Orange Peels

Well it feels good to be back, even if I still don't have a lot to say.

Current Obsessions:
Girl Talk
Puzzle Quest
My New Piercings
Camping
Alton Brown
Numb3rs

self-help blogs: my newest addcition

So, There is something evil about google reader. It makes it so easy to read dozens of blogs everyday. AND if you find a couple really good blogs on a subject you love then they usually link to other related blogs you will also love and then you end up with a dozen blogs all on the same subject. For me this subject is self improvement or as I have adopted; Life Hacks. It is interesting and useful to have a bunch of varied but similar views on life and how to work it. There are so many things I have read that I was astonished by and must read about 10 more times before I am satisfied. Here is a list of all of my "starred" google reader posts that are about life hacks. Most are from www.lifehack.org.

1. The very simple secret to a happy marriage
   
2. 5 little ways to show your love
3. Believe it or not your beliefs affect the physical world
4. 7 control points to curb the flow of negative energy into your life
5. 22 ways to maximize your opportunity in life
6. 12 ways to boost your positive energy
7. 13 tricks to motivate yourself
8. How to fail at practically anything
9. Build a reading family: how to share reading with your kids
10. 6 reasons why it makes sense to arrive early
11. Eighteen ways to invest in your life
12. Tapping into the fountain of youth
    
13. Nine ways to live the lifestyle of a champion
14. Master the simple science of positive thinking
15. How to build a reliable work ethic
16. Can you catch productivity

See what I mean. It's amazing!

On a side note I have almost finished "Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan and it is WONDERFUL!!!

lmao

Funniest thing I've read all day!

how to find my blog

I use sitemeter to monitor the traffic to my blog. One of the coolest features of the statistics it gives is that it shows how visitors found your page. Initially a ton of my traffic was from the link I had on boing boing (see my post about it here). Nowadays though, I am getting most of my traffic from random Google searches.

These are kind of funny so I figured I would post 'em on here:

• Medicine makes me drowsy at work
• Retail Idiots
• Dice of Doom
• Diablo 2 Profile Colors Pink
• Starlight Hostess
• My Cat, Whisper
• Catch Cat The Mouse Screensaver
• Diablo Jargon Read
• Earthbound SNES thoughts
• List of Stupid Things Quiz
• you tubes starlight shinin star (i'm no. 1 on this one!)
  
• Summer Sucks
• Yawning Lexapro
• WOW Jargon

It's kind of hilarious. It just shows how varied and random my blog really is.

On a side note, sitemeter also thinks that the majority of the visitors click on the "funny" label over all the other labels. I will try to make more funny posts, as that is what you all want!

20 days later...

I am surprised to discover that a mere 20 days have passed since I blogged last. It truly feels like an eternity. So many things have happened this month which have kept me running around like a teenager (ha ha, I am still only 19 after all). A few highlights of the last month;

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. read it, loved it, will certainly review it here soon.
   
2. Friday July 13th; got a job, got a job interview, got promoted at my current job. Very lucky day for me.
   
3. Monday July 30th; got fired from my job for sexual harassment. Accidentally brushing a lesbian's ass in passing is a fireable offense it seems. This happened a mere day before I was supposed to start training to be a server. Life is not without irony it seems.
   
4. Saturday July 7th; My insurance gets canceled.
   
5. Friday July 27th; I find out my insurance is canceled, about 3 days before I need to refill my Lexapro prescription.
   
6. My internet has been working (before today) about 25% or less of the time.
7. I downloaded a virus on my computer
8. My fiancee got the beginnings of pneumonia and a massive bacterial infection.
   
9. I cleaned my car
10. I went fishing twice
11. Tried to appeal for independent financial status so I can go to school, and was told that my reason was not valid and the government doesn't care.
    
12. Discovered that even two classes at the ridiculously cheap community college here will cost me 600$ plus books.
    
13. When I had free schooling in high school I dropped out and now that I want to go to school I cannot afford it.
    
14. I don't have a job (looking for help?)
15. Had to pay 78 USD for a shiny sticker to put on my license plate.
    
16. Got about 100 USD refunded from my bank for over draft fees. (yes!)
    
    
    

So yeah, that is a brief overview of the last 20 days.

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Summer sucks

Summer Is Gross.

I hate being sweaty and sticky.

Hot is miserable.

I used to live in Arizona (currently in Illinois). It was not nearly as gross there for some reason. Sigh.

Humans are soft and weak. It's 87 degrees and I am all bitch-y and moan-y. It's probably 130 in Iraq.

but now i must dash off to mi madre's to do my laundry!

Ta ta