So.... yeah.... I haven't blogged or vlogged in like... two weeks. *lame*. I did a valentine's day vlog (well, I shot the footage at least), but the editing portion of it has taking forever and ended up largely unsuccessful. And then, the other day one of the hindges on my laptop broke, which was an annoyance. But, yesterday, when, after smelling that "something electronic is on fire" smell I removed the power adapter cord from my laptop only to receive a minor-yet-still-painful burn in my finger, it was obvious that Mr. Laptop was having trouble. The plug in portion of the cord had actually begun to melt, causing it to bend at about a 20 degree angle. Also, I think it melted some of the "innerds" of the power supply inside the laptop too, as evidenced by the gunk that's on the end of the cord. I got out my old power cord, which I had replaced by in November b/c the old one had such a bad connection that I'd practically have to push it in with my hand the entire time it was charging to maintain the connection. Due to the melty-melty, the old cord works even worse now. So, I have a laptop with about an hour's worth of power left in it, a propensity to melt shit, and a screen that much remain stationary.
Blah!
Is it really dead after 3 1/2 years? Are we really about the pony up over a grand for a new computer? *sigh*. In the exciting news category, I think we may go for a MacBook this time, rather than a PC. Nick's always been a fan of Mac's, and I must say that I do look forward to the possibility that having a Mac will make my vlogging life easier, since a) MacBooks come with webcams, b) I wont have to convert my quicktime videos into windows media player format anymore and c) I'll have the advantage of using iMovie which, while not pro-level, still is probably better than Windows Movie Maker. MacBooks also have magnetic power cords... Word!
Anyway, that's the news, yo. Boring.. yeah... sorry :(.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Notes About YouTube
Hey blog people! :) Thanks for your positive response to my venture into V-logging. Its still weird for me to talk to a camera (I have to ask Nick to go to another part of the house, listen to music, and pretend he can't hear me when I'm doing my videos) but all in all I think its safe to say that I've been bitten by the video bug, so you will see more Vlogging from me in the future. .
A couple of you have had some questions about how to find me on YouTube, so I'm going to take a minute to talk about that. First, my YouTube homepage is:
htp://www.youtube.com/user/snappyjdog
You can see all my videos there, although most of you have probably already seen all of them (consisting of the three Vlogs I've posted here as well as to additional house tour videos.) Also, I want to mention that you can create a free profile with YouTube and then you can "subscribe" to my videos and YouTube will notify you when I've uploaded new videos. Also, of course once you have a YouTube profile, there's nothing stopping you from making and uploading your own videos too! :) It would be extra cool if I could interact via video with some of you, especially those of you I don't get to see that often. Also, if you view my videos on YouTube directly, you can get a bit more info about the video itself. For instance, the last video I did about the hippie bags was a video response to another YouTube video and if you watch the video on YouTube directly it will link you to the video I am responding to.
I'll also probably continue to embed my new videos into my blog here.
Finally, VBG asked me to post a link to the girlinthemirror vlog I talked about in my last video. Here is a link to her YouTube homepage:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gir1inthemirror
Ok... that's all for now. Thanks for reading/watching. :)
A couple of you have had some questions about how to find me on YouTube, so I'm going to take a minute to talk about that. First, my YouTube homepage is:
htp://www.youtube.com/user/snappyjdog
You can see all my videos there, although most of you have probably already seen all of them (consisting of the three Vlogs I've posted here as well as to additional house tour videos.) Also, I want to mention that you can create a free profile with YouTube and then you can "subscribe" to my videos and YouTube will notify you when I've uploaded new videos. Also, of course once you have a YouTube profile, there's nothing stopping you from making and uploading your own videos too! :) It would be extra cool if I could interact via video with some of you, especially those of you I don't get to see that often. Also, if you view my videos on YouTube directly, you can get a bit more info about the video itself. For instance, the last video I did about the hippie bags was a video response to another YouTube video and if you watch the video on YouTube directly it will link you to the video I am responding to.
I'll also probably continue to embed my new videos into my blog here.
Finally, VBG asked me to post a link to the girlinthemirror vlog I talked about in my last video. Here is a link to her YouTube homepage:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gir1inthemirror
Ok... that's all for now. Thanks for reading/watching. :)
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
What Are You Looking At?
So, yeah, I know that I haven't posted in over a month and a half. So much for NaBloPoMa, huh? Other than a possible allergic reaction to posting every day for about four days in a row, haha, I can't say that there was any real reason for my blog neglect. But whatever, I'm here now, right? lol
I could give you a few bullet points about what I've been up to in the last month and a half, but I think that would be less than entertaining, so instead I think I'll do the next laziest thing and steal a new years resolution survey from VBGirl. Here goes:
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? bought a house, sold another one
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Honestly, I can't remember what my resolutions were from last year, which may be why I have a HUGE list for this year....
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes- new niece YAY
4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes
5. What countries did you visit? None other than this one
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? Focus and motivation
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 29th, the day we closed on our house
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? starting and sticking to a diet (I've lost almost 10 pounds yay)
9. What was your biggest failure? money managment
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? no, yay
11. What was the best thing you bought? the house, the house, I love our house!!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Nick, who totally rocks and does nice things for me very single day. :)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? George W, the majority of the US Congress, the Illinois legislature (who STILL can't seem to give us transit funding), and our lovely Mayor.
14. Where did most of your money go? the house, selling the other house, buying stuff for the new house, did I mention the house? Oh yeah and some travel...
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? I got really excited about the holidays this year, maybe because we had several good snowfalls in early December. I was singing carols and thinking about baking cookies for weeks. .. oh yeah and I got really excited about the house
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? ummmmm... several different songs for different reasons:
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer? happier, slightly thinner, and poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? practicing fiddle
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? watching reality TV
20. How did you spend Christmas? we went to Indiana to hang out with my Dad, Step Mom, Sis, and college friends.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007? still very much in love with Nick, yay!
22. What was your favorite TV program? ummm... well we did watch Tell Me You Love Me (on HBO) regularly, but I also had my crappy reality TV staples including Bridzillas (and the other dozen or so WE network wedding shows), True Life on MTV, You Are What You Eat and How Clean Is Your House on BBC America, Gardening By the Yard, any house selling or buying show... that's probably about it.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No
24. What was the best book you read? Ummm... well I really enjoyed David Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable; its a really funny quick read. I also enjoyed two Michael Pollan books, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, both of which I read twice.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Postal Service and Death Cab
26. What did you want and get? a house with a yard for the dogs, nearby shops and restaurants, and near transit.
27. What did you want and not get? a million dollars?
28. What was your favorite film of this year? Once, and then Juno (a not-so-close but still really good second; I just liked Once a LOT)
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 27 this year and I have no idea what I did. lol!
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? I'm actually really happy and feel really lucky to have what I have and be where I am in life right now
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Um, well, most of the clothes buying I did was for work and that consisted of what was on sale at Marshalls or Old Navy. I still am wearing the same two pairs of blue jeans that my mom (yep, that's right!) bought me two years ago. lol!
32. What kept you sane? Nick, friends, information, time
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? like, as in , have a crush on? Well, I was pretty obsessed with Glen Hansard (from the Once movie)
34. What political issue stirred you the most? Dude, HEALTHCARE! And that reminds me that I need to add Sicko to the best movies answer. It is completely insane that people die because they are poor (which is basically what things boil down to in our current insurance-ruled healthcare system.)
35. Who did you miss? most everyone, since almost no one lives close enough to see them very often
36. Who was the best new person you met? ummm.. I guess I need to meet some new people.. lol!
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. I realized this year (and its probably a function of my age) that my life is happening now, and that I need to think about what I want to accomplish in my life and then I need to start doing that. When I was young, I spent so much time waiting on my life to start, but now I need to realize that the starting gun has sounded and that this is ineed a timed race.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. Dude, that's hard. I hate to end this survey with a "thud" but, I really can't think of a good answer to this question. :)
Thanks for reading. :)
I could give you a few bullet points about what I've been up to in the last month and a half, but I think that would be less than entertaining, so instead I think I'll do the next laziest thing and steal a new years resolution survey from VBGirl. Here goes:
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? bought a house, sold another one
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Honestly, I can't remember what my resolutions were from last year, which may be why I have a HUGE list for this year....
- clean out the litter box every other day
- walk/run on the treadmill three times a week
- practice fiddle four times a week
- be more patient with the dogs (yell at them less)
- get us on a budget, and stick to it
- continue with the diet
- save more money
- give more money away
- spend more time with existing friends and maybe even make some additional ones
- put away my laundry the same day that they come out of the dryer
- have two days out of the week when we don't turn the TV on
- set a daily schedule for myself (this will help me stick to the other resolutions like practicing fiddle and treadmilling) and stick to it.
- be more focused at work and stop "info snacking" while on the job (I'm at work right now.. oops haha!)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes- new niece YAY
4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes
5. What countries did you visit? None other than this one
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? Focus and motivation
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 29th, the day we closed on our house
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? starting and sticking to a diet (I've lost almost 10 pounds yay)
9. What was your biggest failure? money managment
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? no, yay
11. What was the best thing you bought? the house, the house, I love our house!!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Nick, who totally rocks and does nice things for me very single day. :)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? George W, the majority of the US Congress, the Illinois legislature (who STILL can't seem to give us transit funding), and our lovely Mayor.
14. Where did most of your money go? the house, selling the other house, buying stuff for the new house, did I mention the house? Oh yeah and some travel...
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? I got really excited about the holidays this year, maybe because we had several good snowfalls in early December. I was singing carols and thinking about baking cookies for weeks. .. oh yeah and I got really excited about the house
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? ummmmm... several different songs for different reasons:
- Falling Slowly- the theme song from the movie Once which I saw twice and totally fell in love with. We also saw Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in concert, TWICE! yay
- a few songs by The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutee, since I seem to be obsessed with them since September and listen to them a LOT.
- Britney's first single "Gimme More", obviously because it will remind me of all the entertainment news drama that's happened with her this year.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer? happier, slightly thinner, and poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? practicing fiddle
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? watching reality TV
20. How did you spend Christmas? we went to Indiana to hang out with my Dad, Step Mom, Sis, and college friends.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007? still very much in love with Nick, yay!
22. What was your favorite TV program? ummm... well we did watch Tell Me You Love Me (on HBO) regularly, but I also had my crappy reality TV staples including Bridzillas (and the other dozen or so WE network wedding shows), True Life on MTV, You Are What You Eat and How Clean Is Your House on BBC America, Gardening By the Yard, any house selling or buying show... that's probably about it.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No
24. What was the best book you read? Ummm... well I really enjoyed David Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable; its a really funny quick read. I also enjoyed two Michael Pollan books, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, both of which I read twice.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Postal Service and Death Cab
26. What did you want and get? a house with a yard for the dogs, nearby shops and restaurants, and near transit.
27. What did you want and not get? a million dollars?
28. What was your favorite film of this year? Once, and then Juno (a not-so-close but still really good second; I just liked Once a LOT)
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 27 this year and I have no idea what I did. lol!
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? I'm actually really happy and feel really lucky to have what I have and be where I am in life right now
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Um, well, most of the clothes buying I did was for work and that consisted of what was on sale at Marshalls or Old Navy. I still am wearing the same two pairs of blue jeans that my mom (yep, that's right!) bought me two years ago. lol!
32. What kept you sane? Nick, friends, information, time
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? like, as in , have a crush on? Well, I was pretty obsessed with Glen Hansard (from the Once movie)
34. What political issue stirred you the most? Dude, HEALTHCARE! And that reminds me that I need to add Sicko to the best movies answer. It is completely insane that people die because they are poor (which is basically what things boil down to in our current insurance-ruled healthcare system.)
35. Who did you miss? most everyone, since almost no one lives close enough to see them very often
36. Who was the best new person you met? ummm.. I guess I need to meet some new people.. lol!
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. I realized this year (and its probably a function of my age) that my life is happening now, and that I need to think about what I want to accomplish in my life and then I need to start doing that. When I was young, I spent so much time waiting on my life to start, but now I need to realize that the starting gun has sounded and that this is ineed a timed race.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. Dude, that's hard. I hate to end this survey with a "thud" but, I really can't think of a good answer to this question. :)
Thanks for reading. :)
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