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If you would be so kind, could you please tell me how YOU spell collectible/collectable.  Don't look it up, just tell me which you use when spelling this word, or if you use them interchangeably. 
Thanks!

Hello! Hallo! Hola! Bon Jour! こんにちは!  привет! ahoj! hej! γεια σου!

I have been wanting to create a permanent Guest Book Log for some time now and here it is!
Whether you are a long-time reader, a personal friend, family member, lurker, admirer, Google visitor, etc, I would love for you to just drop a line and say hi in the comments section of this page (just click on "comments") and please tell me where you are from.  Please don't be shy!

Things with the Twin Cities Restaurant Blog have really started taking off lately! I am just a few weeks away from having all of my school stuff finished, so I will be able to devote more time to promoting that site and writing restaurant reviews.  In the meantime, I am desperately needing to get my cards made up. (Like by this Thursday!!!)  Thats where needing your help comes into play….
I cannot decide whether to go with black or white background.  I know white is more professional, but I don’t mind being different.  I want the cards to give to people, to leave on tables after I finish dining, and also to send to restaurants in hopes of getting a free meal here and there.
Do you think I should go with black (printed on a glossy paper or plastic)

 or white?

Also, the cards will be two-sided….BUT I do not have a catchy phrase or any ideas about what to say on the back.  The only suggestion I have gotten so far is “Eating is my business and business is good”.  I would love other ideas if anyone is inclined to help a sister out!!

If anyone has a connection to FAST business-card printing, let me know!

Also- I made the cards in CS3 and on my end the resolution looks crystal clear, but after I uploaded the image to a business card site, my resolution looks really crappy?? This is so dang frustrating! If anyone has any tips for what I may be doing wrong, please let me know.

I am curious to know who out there had to go through an internship or clinical practice placement?

If so:

• Was it before or after you went to college and started your career?? 
• In what area was your degree?
• Did you have to find your own placement?
• How long was your internship?
• Was it paid or unpaid? 
• Did you get a stipend?
• Did you have to pay tuition?
• Did your internship play a big part in helping you find a job?

I know I have mentioned this before, but I am currently doing a 4-week clinical practice as a state requirement to add the additional two endorsements to my teaching license. (Nevermind that I already did student teaching full-time for an entire school year 10 years ago and have taught for 9 full years under contract).  It has been a good experience so far (although I can honestly say I havent learned anything new), but it really stinks that I am paying tuition to work for free.  $300 per week plus another $100 for gas and lunch. Its BS!!!!

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel…..I have all of next week off and then just two weeks to go until my real summer vacation starts :)

Many of you who read this blog also have your own blogs.  Many of the blogs that I read are on a personal level (meaning that it encompasses many aspects of a person’s daily life), but there are also special interest blogs that I enjoy reading.  (Photography, food/cooking related, scrapbooking/challenges, techy-stuff, education, travel etc). 

Besides sweetsauer.com (this is my personal blog), many of you know that I also have a couple of special interest blogs:

• Twin Cities Restaurant Blog- This is where I showcase different restaurants that I visit
• Tales of an Inner-City Teacher- This is where I write about funny and interesting things that happen (or have happened in the past) in my career as an educator in the inner-city.  Going to use bits and pieces of this to write my memoirs.
• I also have a private weight-loss blog where I try to post progress reports, celebrations, food journaling, etc.

Blogging is time consuming, but if it weren’t, I would probably have even more of them! Maybe a book review blog, a blog just to highlight my scrappies…..I could probably think of even more. 

Who else has a special interest or secondary blog?  What is the theme?

If time weren’t an issue, what kind of special interest blog would you like to start?

Anyone who knows me knows that I wear fun, funky jewelry every single day.  I am especially partial to necklaces.  Unfortunately none of my big, funky necklaces fit in my large jewelry chest, so this is my current mode of storage: 20-some necklaces hung over the knobs on my closet

I have searched high and low for the perfect way to organize them, but I haven’t found anything yet.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

Have any of you studied genetics? I think it is pretty cool how it works.  Dominant and recessive genes, etc.

I started thinking about eye color and genetics the other day and made some interesting observations about my family

My paternal grandfather had blue eyes, My paternal grandmother had brown eyes.

Of their 7 children 4 have brown eyes, 3 have blue (one is my dad)

My maternal grandfather (Gramp) has blue eyes, my maternal grandma (Gram) has hazel.

Of their 8 children, 1 has brown eyes, 4 have greenish/hazel, 3 have blue (my mom has blue eyes with a ring of yellow in the center, makes them look teal)

Brian and I have blue eyes, Jeff has green.

Anyone care to share their family history of eye color?  It would be nice to know I still have readers here……hits and comments have dropped dramatically since I put the password up

A colleague of mine told me yesterday about something disturbing that was being reported on the radio.  This is how the story went from the way it was told to me: an anonymous woman had started a blog and detailed how nothing important had happened during her lifetime and that if something major didn’t happen in the next 90 days, she was going to commit suicide because she had nothing to live for.  She even started calling herself 90 Day Jane. She said she wasn’t depressed in any way, that this wasn’t a cry for help; that she was going to live a normal life until her 90 days were up. She was even asking for ideas on how to do "the deed".

It made me sick to hear about this.  Why wouldn’t it??!!!  My colleague and I were speculating quite a bit about the topic….. could the woman possibly go through with a suicide after publicly announcing it on her blog? Couldn’t her IP be tracked down so that she could be stopped? It sounded like a horrible movie plot to me.  I sat and thought about what it would be like if one of my friends or family committed suicide out of nowhere and how I would feel if that person had kept a public blog about her intentions but I never knew about it.

I had no intentions of reading this woman’s blog because I do not want to be a person who feeds into that kind of sensationalized drama.  Don’t you know that curiosity got the better of me?  I found the 90 Day Jane blog and was so glad that when I did, I discovered that "Jane" had written the blog as a HOAX, as a project for some college class.  Thankfully she never had any intentions of killing herself.

Did anyone else hear about this girl and her blog?? Does this whole thing disturb anyone else??? Whether she had sincere intentions or not, it still seems like a cry for help to me.