in with the new

Funny Gmail Sidebar Item

This was on the sidebar of my Gmail pane. There was nothing about "Schwetty Balls" in the email string!

Neat Link

Here's a flickr utility that lets you spell out a name or word using pictures of letters. If you don't like a letter, click it until you find one you like!

Found via nested.

Recipe Weblog

I've started a recipe weblog. I want a place to keep my recipes where I can get to them at any time. Enjoy them, and feel free to share some of your own!!!

Belated Blogoversary to Me!

I started posting in this weblog on July 31 last year! Compared to all the established online journallers out there, I'm still a newbie at this. But it's fun to have my own space here on the internet. (Besides my website, of course.)

It hasn't morphed into anything spectacularly cool, but I'm ok with that. I got to record our apartment selling, house buying, NYC living experience, blackout 2003, pictures, trips, puppy, triathlon training... My friends and family get to keep up on things I do and see, and that's what matters most to me.

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Exactly one year ago today, I wrote an entry about packing up our NJ apartment. It was a Sunday, and we were doing the final packing before the movers came to put our stuff in storage. It was also the day we moved our things into our NY apartment. It took 2 trips, and went late into the night.

Advertising tricks

PBS has a site up to inform the youth of America that they are being scammed by ad agencies. I've written about evil, EVIL marketing geniuses before.

You can make your own ad. Here's mine...

thanks, Newyorkish!

If you can make it there...

Here is a list of public restrooms in New York City. I've already added a few. It's important to know where to go when you have to!

New York not your city? There are also guides for Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco, Vancouver and Washington, DC!

found via NewYorkish via Anil.

A Wardrobe Malfunction Cupcake!

Now you can have your own wardrobe malfunction at home. And eat it, too!

Found via NewYorkish via Jennifer.

Thank you!

Gawker

Gawker is my most favoritest website in the world. I sing praises to Gawker. It's a site that wraps up gossip highlights, media hot topics and links me to a lot of other neat, cool sites that I didn't know about before. My second favorite thing about Gawker is Gawker Stalker. It's a big post of random sightings of famous people in NYC by anonymous Gawker readers. Sometimes they're catty. My favorite Gawker item is the blind items. They take a Page Six blind item and people write in with (kind of educated) guesses on the who/what/where. Since I NEVER know who Page Six is talking about, this rules!

PS, Check out Gawker's shiny, new, tan LA sibling, Defamer.

PPS, Happy Friendsday. TWO HOURS of Ross whining tomorrow night. Yay! Whatever. I hope Chandler stops pussy-footing around the gay jokes (there's at least one in every episode) and he comes out of the closet already.

What Decade?

Swiped from Curly Girl...

what decade does your personality live in?
quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

I knew my personality would be focused on the 90s before I started the quiz. It's when I discovered music. It's when I grew up. It's when I went to college, moved out of my parents' house and started working full time. I figured out what I wanted and didn't want from relationships. I met and started dating my husband then. That's when became my own person.

Crimson Room Revealed

Here's how to get out of the Crimson Room that I linked to last month. I'll Spoiler Code it, in case you really didn't want to see it. Click and drag with the mouse if you want to see how to get out!

Get the ring from the bowl on the dresser.
Take the CD from the top left dresser drawer.
Get the memo from the top right dresser drawer. Read it.
There's a URL. Go to it. Remember the number (1994) on that page for later.
There's a cassette tape under the dresser.
There's a key under the pillow.
While the pillow's up, there's a metal stick behind the mattress.
There is a battery at the foot of the bed. (that one is tricky to get to.)
There is a small silver key on the window sill.
Open and close the curtain a few times, and a ring will fall from it.
Use the gold key to open the left bottom dresser drawer. There's a cord in there.
Use the silver key to open the right bottom dresser drawer. There's a small box in there.
Connect the power cord to the stereo.
Get a key from the stereo's CD player.

Select the small red box.
Put the metal rod and the 2 rings on it.
Put the battery in it.
Play the tape.
AFTER the dancing is finished, click exactly where the dancing man tells you to.
A safe will be revealed.
Use the number from the URL and the key from the CD player to open the safe.
There's a screwdriver in there.
Use the screwdriver to jimmy th door knob off and escape!
Hang on to the CD, you'll need it for the next adventure, whenever that will be!