Little known fact #3

It is both crippling and liberating telling someone something you have never spoken of to anyone and never will speak of.

It is also crippling and liberating ending your sentences with prepositions.

Word.

Also....

I just wasted probably 40 minutes creating the playlist below and then blogging about it when I should have been writing. That's how I do things...

Another also....there are more songs on the playlist than that but I decided I didn't need to type out the forty Dave Matthews Band songs and the twenty O.A.R. songs I added. You're welcome.

Coffeshop Play List

I can't write without music. It inspires me, motivates me and keeps me distracted enough (and by that, I mean my attention stays on the page instead of wandering to other things nearby...)

Here's what I'm listening to right now:

#27 - Dave Matthews Band

Set Fire to the Rain - Adele

Colors - Amos Lee

Every Subway Car - Bare Naked Ladies

Stuttering - Ben's Brother

Piano Man - Billy Joel

Calling You - Blue October

Glycerine - Bush

20 Years - The Civil Wars

Swallowed by the Sea - Coldplay

Lonelily - Damien Rice

Dodo - Dave Matthews

Kill the King - Dave Matthew Band

Different Names for the Same Thing - Death Cab for Cutie

Bennie and the Jets - Elton John

She Is - The Fray

Something Else - Gary Jules

Airstream Driver - Gomez

Don't Explain - Herbie Hancock (with Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan)

Chicago - Ingram Hill

City Beneath the Sea - Harry Connick Jr.

Wonderful World - James Morrison

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Perfectly Lonely - John Mayer

Industry - Jon McLaughlin

Sunshine - Keane

Modern Love - Matt Nathanson

Back 2 Good - Matchbox Twenty

Boys with Girlfriends - Meiko

Dream a little Dream - Michael Buble

Starlight - Muse

More Time - Needtobreathe

Come Away with Me - Norah Jones

King of the Thing - O.A.R.

The never ending search through my starred tutorials on Google Reader....

...Or, why Pinterest is better.

I used to be a die hard Reader junkie. I got all my next and best ideas for the feeds I had pouring into my reader. Then, Google stopped allowing me to share articles. It's no secret that I am strongly opposed to the strong arm tactics Google is using to try and force me into their Google+ social platform. To that, I say no. I don't have to, down want to, and Google can't make me.

Yes, I know I sound like a six year old.

Rather than let this become a rant as to why I hate what Google has done to its users (and I mainly mean me), The Point: Google Reader is inefficient. Pinterest is efficient.

Reader has no organization to it whatsoever. I can star something I like but there is no way to further organize it in order make it easier to find (and make) later. Pinterest, on the other hand, allows you to organize it and gives you a nice visual to go with it.

So as I've been fruitlessly searching my reader for this top, if I see something that I truly want to access again, I've been pinning it.

Slowly, I am bringing myself one step closer to Google independence...

PS: this was the tutorial: Joyful Ruffle Neck Top. I decided to try and do a search instead of sifting through my hundreds of articles. On the second search, four links down, there it was.

Happy Friend-mas!

Tonight, I celebrate Christmas with some of my friends...hence forth, it shall be called Friend-mas. I have about 20 pounds of meat crock-potting upstairs and I'm wearing my new handmade blue dress (future post coming). It should be a good night!

Plus we have enough liquor to fight an army of zombies with Molotov cocktails (or drink ourselves into a stupor and not care that zombies are coming for us.) not that I'm expecting zombies....but isn't that the point? You never EXPECT zombies (or the Spanish Inquisition....)

The phone dilemma...

After several months of procrastination and putting up with a failing cell phone, the time has come when I need to make a decision.

Do I get an iPhone or stick with a Droid?

I've been resistant to the iPhone simply because it's what EVERYONE is doing and I've never really thought of myself as a lemming. However, Android OS is owned by Google who, for the past year, has essentially done everything it could to piss me (and probably others) off with it's high-handed assumptions that I want to use Google+. As a result of this assumption, I have stopped using Reader, will likely be forced to stop using Chat and no doubt other Google products will follow. I have stopped using products I love simply because I don't want to funnel everything through a lackluster social platform.

Android OS (and there for Droid) lives and breathes Google.

So the question is, how far to I take my anger with Google? Do I stop using Android based phones simply because it is so integrated with Google? I still use Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar and Google Docs (well....and Blogger). But how long will it be before the next Android upgrade forces me to use all G+ all the time?

That said, is Apple really any different? Is it because with Apple there has never been any doubt that you were buying into an exclusive product/lifestyle? Sure, I can get Apps for other things like Gmail etc. but it is entirely reliant on Apple saying, 'Okay, you can buy/have that."

Is my anger with Google off base? Maybe.

What I do know is that I am no closer to making a decision on which corporation I'm going to sell my soul to  . Though, I suppose Google already owns a part of me.


UPDATE: I have made a decision. I choose Apple.

And the damn sock gnomes....

...have struck a wicked blow to my sock force. Left socks are missing right gloves have joined them.....casualties everywhere.

Not sure I'm going to be able to recover from this nasty battle with the little klepto bastards.