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Apr 3 2012

Each day in April I will be blogging and I’ll be using the topics from Sarai’s Blog Topic List! Other awesome Snark members are also taking part in this. For day 3 I chose #19 on the list, which is “Best *insert browser* add-ons and why”

I started using Google Chrome about the time it came out. Previously I was using Firefox but kept having problems with it to the point where I just removed it from my computer entirely. Since I’ve been using Chrome I’ve been downloading so many addons and extensions to make run, feel, and look the way I want it to. I have one favorite, that I can not live without. It’s called Speed Dial.

Basically you can add thumbnails which contain your favorite links right on your home location of your browser. I LOVE this addon. Instead of housing some of my favorite links into bookmarks I just use this addon. While trying to get the version of Speed Dial on my macbook pro to work I found an even better version of Speed Dial, called Speed Dial 2 Which is simply amazing. I really love how customizable this one in, and think I’ll spend most of the day getting it to look pretty

Tags: addons, extensions, google chrome, sarai's blog challenge | 3 Comments »

Apr 2 2012

Categories: Entertainment, Sarai's List Blogathon 2012

Each day in April I will be blogging and I’ll be using the topics from Sarai’s Blog Topic List! Other awesome Snark members are also taking part in this. For day 2 I chose #4 on the list, which is “Books/Movies that changed your life or stood out to you”

Now instead of picking a book or a movie, I’m going to change it a little and choose a show. Anyone who knows me should not be shocked by this. I was in junior high at the time (so I was about 13/14) and two of my best friends were spending the night at my house. I remember we were channel surfing and trying to find something to watch when we came across a specific show which both friends told me they loved. So we watched it.

I sat there watching this show and having never seen the show before, I was mesmerized. Terrified of course because I have never watched anything like this before, but I loved it. I remember my Dad ended up calling that night to chat with me for a bit and I went to take the call in my mother’s room since my friend’s were watching the TV show still. I also remember the light in the hallway (which is a rather large hallway) went out. So naturally, like any 13ish year old I ran to my moms room so fast. You know, just in case. After that day I began watching this show every week on Tuesday night until it finished in 2003, which was the year before I graduated high school. What show is this?

Image from Hulu.com. Chose this picture because Spike is yummy.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course! I used to relate to the show and it’s characters SO MUCH. For one hour each week nothing else mattered. I sat there happily in the living room watching this show and any worry or fear I had vanished. Buffy is still a show that I treasure to this day, it’s even what got me into the whole Sci-Fi and vampire thing (Twilight = a big ew no thanks but I do love me some True Blood!). To this day I still sometimes pop in one of the DVDs and watch the show, and still to this day it affects me just as it did back then.

Tags: blog challenge, buffy, buffy the vampire slayer, sarai's blogging challenge | 1 Comment »

Apr 1 2012

Categories: Friends & Family, Life, Sarai's List Blogathon 2012

Today is April Fool’s Day (don’t worry I won’t put any lame “omg my site is closing!11″ entry or something :P) which means it’s Day 1 of the blog challenge! Each day in April I will be blogging and I’ll be using the topics from Sarai’s Blog Topic List! Other awesome Snark members are also taking part in this. For day 1 I chose #35 on the list, which is “What’s your earliest memory?”

One of my earliest memories is sorta a scary one, but at the time I wasn’t scared I more-so annoyed. I was around 3 and was big enough to sleep in a “big kid bed”. I remember at the time something kept interrupting my sleep to the point where I didn’t want to stay in my own bed anymore. I’d sometimes sleep in my parents bed but I also slept in my sister’s bed (she’s 10 years older than I am, so she would have been about 13 or so). I remember laying in her bed with her and seeing these two large and round black shadows in her window. I told her, she told our parents, and the police were called.

At that age I didn’t understand what was happening, but basically our neighbor’s boyfriend (at least that’s what my family thinks) was peeking into my window at night. The shadowy circles that I was seeing was him putting his hands around his eyes to see better. Of course at that age I was just annoyed that someone was at my window because he woke me up, but at my age now it could have turned into something really serious.

My family and I still talk about it sometimes and one thing my sister told me was that one night I wanted to sleep in her bed and she told me no. So I told her “Okay … I’m sure that mean guy won’t look inside your window anyways” which caused her to freak out and let me sleep in her bed I may have not understood what was going on, but I guess I understood enough to know that my sister was freaked out haha.

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