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A List of lists to write:1. Movies to see/buy2. Books to read/buy3. Things to knit4. things to blog about5. Places to visit6. Dishes to cook7. Music I love8. TV shows that SUCK9. Reasons to do things10. Reasons not to do things11. Things to Sell12. Things to buy13. Ways to be green14. Ways to appear green15. Costumes for Halloween16. Favorite Games17. Favorite Magazines18. New music19. Videos to

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I bought a new CD the other day.Good Girl Gone Bad Reloaded by RihannaI am enjoying it a lot. There is a nice blend of upbeat dance tunes and chill out ballads.Favorite Track: DisturbiaLeast Favorite Track: Take a BowRating 4.5/5.0 (points deducted for lumping all the slow tracks together)

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Because I know that you, have been wondering for days how to perfect that artificially colored and flavored, diabetic-shock-inducing, cheaper than water beverage, I now give you the secret to delicious Kool-Aid.Ingredients:1. packet of kool-aid (no cheap knock-offs you will thank me later)2. A pitcher. 2 quarts. Go get something with a lid. The fancy ones without lids will leave

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Things every girl (not just for the single ones) should have: Why MSN is full of crap, and there is more to life than the next boy...Firstly I must cite a couple of sources:1. MSN's Article which spawned this topic2. This entry on Pink Haired GirlNow I shall compile my own (moderately pirated) version of this list:1. Porn: trust me on this one girls!2. Steel-toed boots: bonus points for any color

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Dear ReaderSo after that last depressing post, I reread my posts, all 2-dozen or so of them. They're not too bad actually. Then I reread the post I just wrote....Can you say Drama Queen? I mean, where do I get off being so self-loathing and cynical. That's not something I do!!! So for those of you who read it. I'm sorry. Please go back a few posts to read something funny I wrote. Thanks.Julia

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The dreaded and terrifyingly disabling phrase that lingers on top of my dashboard...Last Published....A LONG ASS TIME AGO....which translates to; "How come you keep blogging about how you're going to blog more and NEVER do it!?! " which makes me wonder what I am even doing back here in the first place.I have no illusions of grandeur that make me think my words are somehow more powerful or more

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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

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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

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Funniest thing I've read all day!

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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

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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;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. read it, loved it, will certainly review it here soon. Friday July 13th; got a job

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Julia --[noun]: A master blogger'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

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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

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So, I am a hostess at a big chain restaurant here in my town. It is my second hosting job, even though after my first I swore I would never host again (i took my current hosting position because they told me if I did good at the door they would let me serve... two months ago).That being said, here is advice (warnings) for anyone considering this line of work;Reasons why NOT to be a Hostess!You

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So someone asked me to update on my success and failures with Lexapro which is an anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication. I kind of wanted to wait to post anything until the drug has had it's say, which usually takes 2-3 weeks. I have, however, noticed a particular side-effect that is annoying. Really annoying. Drowsiness. I'm serious, about 2 hours after I take it, for about 4 or 5 hours I

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So I have been seeing a lot of hype about apples new iphone which seems to be revolutionizing smart phones. It can anticipate what you're trying to type which minimizes errors on the touch screen, it's selling like hot cakes and it's got the letter 'i' attached to it. There are a couple of marketing hooks I have noticed that no matter what they're applied to, they will increase sales. One of

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Well I just started playing Diablo 2 and I am a little addicted right now! It is really fun and fairly straight-lined game play which I like. I refuse point-blank to begin playing World of Warcrack... um.. that is World of Warcraft I mean, sure I considered jumping on the MMORPG bandwagon, but seriously, how much of my life to I want sucked away by a stupid game?!? There are 6 million people who

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The last 36 hours have been some of the most amazing of my life.1. My blog was linked on boing boing2. My best friend's boyfriend called me up to tell me that he got me a copy of EARTHBOUND! One of the rarest and most fantastic SNES RPG ever, and also a huge part of my childhood as I played it frequently for 8 years. I once owned two copies of the game, but my mom gave them away without thinking,

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First I must say it has been a random week here in my little bloggy worldSecond I have ALMOST gone a week without doing this:13. if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up on #5, in which case start a second blog and keep your big mouth shut about it this time.From: How to Blog by Tony PierceSo without

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Oh man, I cannot believe it! You can't believe it. I bet you, reading this right now, were led here by Mark Frauenfelder and his Boing Boing Article about his new book Rule the Web! I have never been so honored. It proves true that the MOST IMPORTANT thing about blogging is link to everyone you can because someday they might return the favor. Even if you have 2 readers. Just Link. I'm still kind

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So, today I got to dig through about 500 miscellaneous dice at a gaming store. Every color and design imaginable and all kinds of numbers. Here's a list of what i got!two d6 (six-sided die) that are red w/white and yellow w/ black pips but what makes them extraordinary is that instead of six they have a star! I heart stars, they're awesome3 d6 that are a swirly metallic bluey purple with silver

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I dig Lists. They are the quintessential tool for thought organization, and yet they have this organic quality that gives each list a unique feeling. They're far more flexible then most other forms of organization and they are the most paper/thought efficient which makes them good for the environment (saving paper!). So here is a list for you.Music Videos Worth Watching on You Tube(unless you

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Blogs I Like and Why:a compendium of neat blogs that I have discovered in the past.1. Ooh Shiny - This is a blog that updates frequently and is a bunch of random but always neat and unique things. Usually they have some aesthetic value and they're all linked to the website you can buy them at. A great way to discover new places to spend money!2. Offbeat Bride - I am getting married some time in

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[for kitten pictures see bottom of this post; funny stuff 1st, cuteness later]Last night we hooked up our new(ish) DVD player to our very old console TV that sits on the floor. It has a screen saver that bounces around the screen and changes color when the movie is paused. Well last night while our movie was paused, my cat, Whisper, became curious about the mysterious yet patterned movement on

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This post is especially about idiots. I am not an idiot; I try not to associate with people I know to be idiots. The notable exception to this rule is when I am working. I work at two jobs; the first is as a bookseller and barista at the big-name bookstore in my area, the other is at a corporate restaurant as a hostess. Hosting doesn't give me much interaction with people for them to show their

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One of my comments recently [which I am astonished that I have comments this early] asked what my blog is going to be about.I have given this a lot of thought and there are a lot of blog ideas I have been kicking around for this blog. Some are very specific and some are very broad but most of the ideas would bore me after maybe 5 or 6 posts. For example, I thought I would blog about all of the

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So I explored a bit of advice from the book mentioned below, and decided to check out just how much better Google is than Yahoo (as I am using blogger and have a gmail account already). I discovered that all of my Yahoo e-mail's can be sent to my gmailbox. Also that Google reader far surpassed my mail beta client for RSS feeds. Got back to my "igoogle" which had been dormant for a while.I'm

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A couple of things inspired this blog.The first of which was a book; Rule The Web by Mark Frauenfelder. I was inspired by his book to do more with the time I waste on this computer then stumbling forever through the endless abyss that is cyberspace. A lot of what he wrote about was things I was already doing: using firefox, good emailing, flash games, music sharing etc., but the one thing I

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