Yippee Skippy!!

I got my first blog comment today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Que the Pointer Sisters!

"I'm sooo excited! And I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it!"

Ok. Breathe. Time to work.

Mhaaaawah....

It's Tuesday, which means yesterday was Monday. Not the most shocking revelation, eh? Well, every Monday for the last...I don't know? Two years? My best friend Andrea has been coming over after work. Originally, the plan was to work out and then I would make dinner, she brought the wine. I LOVE to cook and am a fair to middlin' cook. We stuck to this plan for a long time. You may be asking yourself, dinner...wine...exercise, what's the point? Don't they cancel each other out?! Well, sure enough...before long we were opening the bottle of wine when she arrived and ordering take out from the mexican dive down the street. Every once in a while, I would still turn out a tasty dinner. Remember, it's Monday night and we were tired!

Monday nights were just about sacred to me, and I hope, to her. They were something I looked forward to all day on Monday. It's nice to have something to look forward to after work on a Monday. Last Saturday the bitch up and moved! She left town for good. As previously mentioned, she is my best friend so this wasn't exactly a surprise to me. The surprise was how much I missed her.

I boo-hooed a little when we said our goodbyes, but not too much because we promised we weren't going to cry and, we aren't crying kind of girls. We've been friends for 15 years, almost half our lives (holy cow), it's not like we weren't going to see each other again. We both have several very strong long distance and long lasting friendships, so we know it can be done and have no doubts that we will do it.

None the less, yesterday sucked.

I heart...new to me techie things!

I am in love with two tech things right now! The first is "readability." I was introduced to this by David Pogue in his great ideas of 2009 article. This is great! When you really want to focus on content on a website, you click this little button on your broswer bar and next thing you know, you are looking at an "e-reader" version of the page! The article is translated into a nice white background with a lovely grey/black sans serif font. They have a few different "views" you can choose from, this is the one I liked. Here's the link if you're interested in checking it out: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

The second thing that I absolutely love is "Adium." Found out about this little gem of an im client aggregator from LifeHacker's blog. I have been looking for a way to put all of my im conversations in one program so that I'm not (1) logging into every darn one each time because my friends cannot all agree to use on free email service (or skype...who isn't using skype yet?!) and (2) it's just cleaner. You don't have so much crap crudding up your screen and RAM. Bonus! It pulls in Facebook chat too! Here's a link to download Adium (pronounced Stadium). http://adium.im/