Anyone remember the show from the mid 90′s: My So-Called Life with Claire Danes and Jared Leto????!!!
ABC.com now has some of the old episodes available to watch online!
Fun stuff! Jared was so dreamy back then…..I still love his music even though he isn’t as hot as he used to be. He is one hell of a musician though……. 30 Seconds to Mars is still one of my favorite bands!
Just thought I’d share for those of you who loved this show back then like I did!
Its been literally months since I have written any restaurant reviews for the Twin Cities Restaurant Blog, but I decided it needed a new look for 2008.
Even though I haven’t added any reviews recently, the TCRB is still receiving a ton of hits from various search engines.
Hopefully the site will grow even bigger this year and maybe I will even start to reap the rewards!
Go check it out!
Many of you who have followed my blog over the years know that my younger brother Jeff is also a blogger. In fact, he has actually been blogging for longer than anyone I know (like 6 years now), but his posts have been sporadic over the past year or so because he isn’t sure if it is worth it to write so much if he doesn’t have an audience.
I know some of you have read several of his blog posts in the past and have wished he would write more often, so I wanted to point out that he recently went to Europe and has written several posts about his adventures.
Go read his blog and leave him some comments, he isn’t feeling as loved as he should after spending so many hours writing about his trip!! Feel free to tell him I sent you there, or that you are a friend or dotcomrade of mine. As soon as he sees this post, he will be expecting you. Don’t disappoint….I can guarantee you won’t be disappointed with his stories! He is a funny clever guy and also SINGLE, good looking and extremely successful. Badly in need of a girlfriend to spoil. LOL
Jeff has also initiated a rating system for each of his posts, please show him how much you enjoy his posts so that he keeps writing!! And don’t forget to add him to your Bloglines or Google Reader subscriptions!
http://www.jeffsauer.com/blog/
Happy Friday ya’ll!
Firefox!!!!
I am all about it after recently switching from my long-time friend, Internet Explorer. It seems faster all-around…and who doesn’t love that? I was easily able to import all of my bookmarks from IE, which makes life soooooooo much easier!
Two months ago I also switched from Bloglines to Google Reader (by Nicole’s recommendation) and I love it sooooooooooo much better! (Of course I am a Google addict…gmail, videos, maps, images….all of it!) You can create folders and organize the blogs you read to make things so much easier and more organized. I have folders for books, photography, photoshop-related, funny mommies, food and holidays, Thoughts for Thursday girls, Hollywood, Scrapjazz girls, cool scrapping chicks, scrap challenges, video, etc. Its great to have them organized like that. And there is no wait time….when someone posts, it shows up in Google reader within minutes, unlike bloglines that takes 30-60 minutes sometimes!! I recommend that those of you use Bloglines make the switch….and you can easily export and import all your subscriptions from bloglines to google reader, so no worries!
One awesome thing about Firefox is that there is a "subscribe" icon (its an orange symbol) right on the address bar if the page/site you are currently visiting has a feed. If you are on a blog you enjoy, just click that orange button and it automatically adds it to whichever RSS feeder you set it to (mine is obviously google reader).
I have found that some pages/sites appear or are formatted a little different when using Firefox than Internet explorer, but I am going to get the hang of it.
So who uses Firefox and who is going to jump on the bandwagon and give it a try??
What about Google Reader? or Gmail for that matter? I LOVE it. Let me know if you want an invite, or you can set one up when you create an account for Google reader.
What other fabulous things should I know about Firefox for those of you tried-and-true users??
I wanted to share the coolest blog I have seen in a long time!
These video montages are so amazingly emotional. Wow!!!!
I saw this on Nicole’s blog and had to steal it! Just click below the map where it says "Sign Guestbook" and then add a pic of yourself and your location. I hope to see many of you :)
So, its been a busy couple of days, despite that I haven’t felt that good ever since last Sunday when I ate too many grilled meats and spent the day in the hot, hot sun. I have temporarily sworn off most solid meats since then….just kind of grosses me out. I’ve definitely OD’d on BBQ and I don’t know if I’ll even be able to eat it again until next summer. Seriously!
Went out with Lanee and Rog on Wednesday night. They are just so cute and are some of my dearest friends. Love these guys, they are always willing to be spontaneous with us and I hang with ‘em often.
I plan to write a review for the restaurant we went to, Rudy’s Red Eye Grill, as soon as I can get to it. ETA: Here is my review of Rudy’s. We have been to quite a few new places or places I haven’t reviewed yet and I am lagging behind a little bit. Go check out Twin Cities Restaurant Blog and read some of the newer ones I have on the site. I’d even love to get a comment or two….so far I think I have a total of five comments. thats pretty pathetic, I have to say. So show some love! J/k, but for the record, most of my traffic is generated from search engines, as TCRB is often #1 in the search findings. This is especially true for the restaurants who do not have their own websites. I need to start hitting up these restaurants for a free meal for that cheap advertising! Does anyone here use Google Adsense on their blogs/sites?
Here are Lanee and I posing with one of the Lucy Statues that are displayed around St Paul (Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Linus statues are also all over town). This one is outside Rudy’s.
You remember how sweet I thought my cats were yesterday?! Well I vacuumed my sofa for the 2nd time this week and told them all they are NOT allowed on my sofa anymore, because I am sick to death of having to vacuum every other day. So this is what I see an hour later…
Little shits, they listen real well, don’t they?!
Does anyone know what kind of plant is pictured here? I saw it earlier when I was out to lunch so I thought I’d take a little pic of it.(Turned out kind of cool). Many of the suburbs around here have signs such as these as you enter the city limits. Is it like that where any of you live also? Just curious…
I have all sorts of things to blog about, but I am kind of lazy at the moment. How about a couple of pictures?
A few recent ones of the kitties…
Phoenix and Isis snuggling in the desk chair (they’re always snuggling, but this is the first time i’ve seen them in this spot!)
Phoenix sunbathing in front of the patio door, as he does every morning
I also wanted to give a shout-out to my SIL Michelle who just started a blog. I made this cute little banner for it.
Right now I am reading a book that intriques and scares the crap outta me all at the same time. Its called Decipher by Stel Pavlou Its too complex of a story to describe, but you can read the reviews by clicking the link above. I know its fiction but talk of the end of the world and these catastrophic events that might cause it seem like they could be very real. I also do not doubt that ancient civilations knew much more about these things than we do. I do not normally read this type of book, but I can’t find myself putting it down. Gotta get it finished in time for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this Saturday!
Peace out, peoples.
Okay, if you haven’t jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, I dare you to go do it NOW!!!!
They have added some new features within the past few days that are pretty sweet!
*iLike which allows you to keep track of which concerts you are attending and also alerts you of when your favorite artists are on tour (and also alerts you as to who else is attending that concert)
*Slideshows of your uploaded photo albums (from Rockyou)
*Widgets (choose from a variety of music, media, video, games, humor and clocks)
*Marketplace to buy/sell items (similar to e-bay, Craigslist)
*Event planning (similar to e-vite)
*Birthday reminders
*Groups to join for common interests
Its very easy to find friends who are already on Facebook, just type in your e-mail and the password and it will do it for you :)
Hope to see you there!
I haven’t had a ton of time to really explore it all yet, but so far I am loving the changes!! It is now much easier to see all the photos that your friends add and easier to navigate.
Too bad my school district just blocked Facebook on our network, so I can no longer access it at lunch or after work :(
So happy to see many of my Scrapjazz friends have recently joined too!
Waiting for the rest of you……go register if you haven’t already!
Do any of you remember this post last October when I told you guys about the Hometown Invasion Tour? I have faithfully been following Bugsy’s (aka Justin Sailor) journey as he makes his way around the country, staying with various hosts and visiting Small Town America. He has thus far made it to over 25 states and is about half-way home. This week he made it to Tennessee and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that he was staying with Krystyn, one of my blogging buddies who had heard about his adventures from my original post!! How cool is that?? Bugs even gave me a shout-out in this post on his blog!!
I have visited 21 states (those in red) in my lifetime and would love to see all 50. Anyone want to host me?? Its obvious which sections I need to see!
Pathetically, I have only been to two other countries outside the U.S.: The Bahamas and Mexico…but I have been to Mexico 20 times!
I know I’ve gotten at least two people to confess that I got them hooked on Weffriddles. Any one else care to ‘fess up? I have worked my way up to level 39 with just a few minutes I have here and there…its like a drug. I love the challenge and sense of accomplishment after figuring out a difficult level. Very clever computer puzzles!
So……. awhile back I heard about a riddle/puzzle website called Weffriddles. Being that I love solving riddles and most types of puzzles, I thought this was a site I would love. The riddles are set up in levels and you must first accomplish one level before moving on to another level. Each level becomes increasingly difficult. I went to the opening screen and this is what I saw, a list of the rules. (I know this extremely hard to read and I don’t expect you to, I just wanted you to see what it looked like!)
Great, I’ve read the rules, now I how do I get to level one? There was a link at the bottom that says "Weffriddles forums" so I went there to figure out how to get to level 1. I discovered that the rules screen was actually level 1 and I hadn’t even realized. So I read all the extra "clues" that some of the people who had already passed that level gave, and I tried all sorts of stuff, but none of the answers I tried led me anywhere!! I gave up after about 5 minutes because I didn’t really have time that day to sit and figure it out. I went back to the site yesterday and tried working on that puzzle for 45 minutes before I actually figured it out. It was much easier than I realized, I just had not been doing the right thing. Once I realized the format, I was able to breeze through levels 2-9 in less than 30 minutes. I showed the site to a friend later last night and although she had not done any of the previous levels, together we solved levels 12 & 13, but became very stumped on 14. I was too tired to think anymore and went to bed. The challenge was not too much for me, as I was back at it first thing this morning!! I am now on level 16 and looking forward to continuing with the challenges.
This site is fun, but is also very challenging. Knowledge of computer skills is a very good thing if you’re going to try this game. Each time you pass a level, there is a deep sense of accomplishment! I recommend giving it a try when you have some time. It is encouraged that you read the forums for additinal hints (no spoilers, though!) and take notes for each level that you pass…it may help you solve future riddles.
Good luck. If you start banging your head against the computer after spending 45 minutes on level 1 like I did, please feel free to e-mail me and I will help you out with that first one!
Jeff, you will probably be a super-genius at this game!
I have a new obsession: Facebook.com
For those of you who are not "in the know", Facebook is an online social-networking service. It is similar to MySpace, but not nearly as flashy and MUCH more secure. You cannot look at a person’s profile unless you both confirm that you know each other or that you want to be "friends". I love it because you can start your own "groups" and invite specific people to be a part of that group. You can also upload pictures to these groups, its a nice way for many people to share them all in one spot. Each group has a message board as well. I have recently reconnected with several of my cousins on both sides of the family, which I think is pretty cool! I sent out an invitation to many of my friends, but so far there are only a few who have taken the plunge, so I thought I would tell everyone about it here. I am hoping that more friends from high school and college join so I can keep up with them a little better….even though I have this blog, I can’t think of any of my real-life friends who blog (besides Michelle). It isn’t fair that ya’ll know so much about me without it being reciprocated! Ha ha. Okay…so everybody better go create a FREE membership now!! LOL. Once you sign up, do a search for me and then add me to your friends. If I like you enough (kidding!), I will confirm it and we can start chatting :)
Blogshares. I know mentioned this site before about 6 months ago, but if you haven’t heard of it, I thought I’d tell ya’ll about Blogshares. It is a fantasy stock market for blogs. If you are a blogger who uses Blogger.com, chances are that your blog is already indexed…it may even be worth something if others have purchased shares :) If you have a blog through typepad or another service, you must register your blog.
Once you sign up to play the game, you are given a certain amount of $ to start buying shares of various blogs. Each blog is given a value based on incoming and outgoing links and has 5000 shares available. The price of the stock goes up (or down) every time shares are bought or sold. Most shares start at$0 .75 or something like that. If you were lucky (or rich enough), you could own shares in Mi Vida Ocupada, but all of my stock is sold. I had purchased almost all of my own shares over time and then I accidentally sold them all a few weeks ago, majorly raising the price of my stock. Each share in my blog is now worth $1,128.28. Ridiculous!! I am not too serious about this game because I don’t know how to do anything other than buy/sell shares, but it is fun!! Give it a try :)
eXTReMe Tracking. Get the stats on who visits your blog and where they are from! I just signed up for it less than 24 hrs ago, but I already know how many unique visitors have been here today. I am very curious to know who my visitors are from the Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Lebanon, and Iran? Hi!
Another feature is that it keeps track of what browsers people are using when they visit. For example, 44.83% of you are still using Internet Explorer 6!! I highly recommend upgrading to IE7 like 37.93% of the visitors to this site. And 24% of visitors are here between 1-3pm. Pretty neat, huh?
How Many of Me? This site uses U.S Census Bureau statistics on first and last names that are in common use in the USA. Type in your first and last name and find out how many other people in the country statistically have the same name as you. According to the statistics, there are 4 other people named Kristi Sauer. 8 people named Kristen Sauer. It is really weird to know there are others with my name out there!! Dopplegangers. LOL. I have typed in several names of people I know and had fun playing around, but some uncommon names are not listed at all, so I am not sure how accurate this really is. (PS I first saw this on Sarah’s blog a few months ago but never got around to sharing it here)
Hopefully that provided some additional entertainment for those of you who are at work right now. lol!
Thanks for reading, have a great day ;)For those of you who really like watching and learning about animals, you have to check out the San Diego Zoo’s website!
This site has all sorts of cool information…
Did you know that a group of porcupines is called a prickle?
Have you ever heard of a Frugivore? It is an animal that only eats fruit!
So many cool things that my students and I were learning about this morning. I found this SDZ scavenger hunt for us to do, so we took a virtual field trip to the zoo and we had a lot of fun learning!
Check out any of the live cameras to see the pandas, polar bears, elephants and apes.
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Other stuff of importance:
**Got my hair cut & foiled last night. Bye-bye to the blond. Got more layers too, have no idea what to do with my hair now!!! Yikes, going to take a few hair experiments before I decide I like it and post a pic for ya’ll
**Read an excellent post this morning at www.trueprincestories.com about how offensive the "N" word is and yet how commonly it is used with our younger culture. The word has always really bothered me and it bothers me more now because I don’t think a lot of kids really understand the connotations of the word. Read it and tell Hucky what you think! He is a former body-guard to Prince
**Have any of you ever heard of Weblo.com ? Full explanation here.
Short version: Basically, it is a virtual copy of the real world. It is the latest rage because people can purchase domain names, properties, cities, and even countries. They are cyber copies – or virtual versions – of any real estate from the real world. At Weblo.com, all of these assets are for sale and you may buy, sell or auction them. You can even manage celebrities! I just set up a profile last night and deposited $25 into my account to get started. I am now managing both Oscar de La Hoya’s and Lenny Kravitz’s celebrity fan sites.(They need a lot of work!) Too bad someone else got Prince! I am also the new mayor of Hugo, MN (my town of residence). This would be pretty sweet to buy stuff now and sit on it until it the whole idea takes off! I could actually make real money on it someday! What domain names should I try to buy? Go check it out!!
**A Congratulations to my friend Leah who got engaged last weekend!!
**Happy Birthday to Mr. Daniel Boone today!!!!!!! (My cousin in AZ)
After a week-long attempt, I am happy to announce that I have successfully merged my typepad blog with the domain name www.sweetsauer.com. You can get to this blog with that address, sweetsauer.com (no www), as well as at sweetsauer.typepad.com. You might want to update your bookmarks or links if you link to this blog, but you do not have to…the old way still works.
I bought the domain name back in January of 2004 and it took me until March of ’05 to launch my site. I was great about updating it until I discovered blogging a few months later. Typepad was so much easier to use and I loved the concept of stacked posts. At that point, the sweetsauer.com site fell to the back-burner.
If any of you have a domain name and a Typepad blog (not sure if you can map a domain through blogger or not?), it is pretty easy to set up domain mapping. Just a thought :)
Hey- Did any of you notice the little butterfly icon next to my url in the address bar? If not, push Ctrl + F5 now to clear your image cache. Or bookmark me to your favorites :) I got directions for how to make it here at Typepad. I created the image in Photoshop and then went to this website to turn it into a .ico file. Pretty easy to do and I always like new, fun ways to personalize this blog.
Another feature that I have added to the sidebar is a Google Search, specifically for this site. That way you can search for a specific topic, post, etc without having to read through the Archives. Give it a whirl and let me know how it works! ****Please note that this site was just indexed with Google and it may take a couple of days before the search works correctly!****
Who has heard about the HownTown Invasion Tour?????? I highly suggest you click on the link, but to make a long story short, there is a recent college grad named Justin Sailor from MI, who decided that he was going to take a year off to travel before starting his career. His goal was to visit all 50 states, staying with a host family at each stop to save money. He has recently made his dream a reality and has a blog highlighting all of his stops. I think this is such a cool, cool idea!! If only I had thought of it first!! LOL. I actually heard about the story in my local newspaper after Justin made his way to White Bear Lake last week. He even visited our new elemtary school in Hugo! I plan to follow him as he makes his way around the country. So far his route has been (MI, WI, IA, MN, SD, ND) He has a link on his blog where people can leave suggestions of places for him to visit, and he is also still looking for host families. Check out his site!!!!! He is also an aspiring photographer has pics from each of his stops:)
Other stuff:
Spent most of the weekend scrappin and taking it easy. Had a nice time at Sarah’s with Shannon, Gina and Gina’s daughter Kayla on Saturday morning . I love that a few of my friends like to scrap now too! They don’t obsess about it like the rest of us do(LOL) but they have fun :)
Finished Lanee’s book….I think I did 34 pages. New world record for me!! I had not planned to do that much, but Lanee kept handing me cute pics and I couldn’t say no! LOL. I plan to give them the album on Thursday at the Groom’s dinner. That way they will have it to set out at the wedding. I will post a slideshow of the layouts sometime shortly after that!
Thinking about getting a referral to a ears, throat, nose doc. I am sick of my sinus problems, think I need a specialist. My left ear is all out of whack now too.
Ordered some books from Amazon. Thanks for the recommendations, Rolana and Ashley. Can’t wait to get new books, I have been in withdrawal!
Went to a kick-ass rock show the other night at the Rock Nightclub. Got to see Ra, a really awesome band! The stupid lights were in my eyes all night and the music was deafening, but it rocked.
This reminds me…Happy Birthday, Alexandra!!! Birthday love to you soon! Muah!!!
Have a great week everyone!!
Just got on my computer for the first time in almost 3 days!
Too tired to post all my fabulous pics from the past couple of days, but we’ll start with a few from Georgia’s (Jeff & Toni’s little girl) 4th birthday party on Saturday afternoon…
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And here is one from Sunday afternoon. My parents had our family up to the lake, along with my mom’s cousin Vicki, her husband Eric, and their three girls, Nicolet, Gabriella and Isabelle. Here are the girls with Annika!
I just discovered the coolest Program in the WORLD…….Google Earth!!! For those of you who do not know about it, it is a virtual 3-D earth that is composed of pictures taken from a satellite. You can pinpoint any location in the World (by giving an address or city and state or country) and zoom down to that location to see an aerial view. I found my house, my parents’, family in AZ, the schools I work at, etc. It gives you the exact coordinates of each location and you can "mark" specific locations so that you can go back and find them at a later time. The only drawbacks I have found is that you can’t zoom super close to any spot without losing some resolution, and the pictures were taken like 2-3 years ago, so it does not show what the earth looks like currently. New Orleans looks pre-Katrina. Also, you can print or e-mail images, but you cannot save them as jpg files, which is a bummer. I was about to show ya’ll the view of my neighborhood! It is overall a very cool program! Here you can download it for free as a program. Try it out and let me know what you think and where you travel to…….so far I have seen the pyramids in Egypt, The Statue of Liberty, Paris France and Barcelona Spain. It is also great for directions and other points of Interest. Have fun!
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