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a me day

Published: July 22, 2009 / Updated: July 22, 2009 Crystal medium

usually when i have a day off work, i pack it with family time, friend time, church time, six flags or all of the above.

but today, oh glorious today! everyone in my life was busy, so i did stuff for me. and it was nice.

i walked an extra mile around the path near my house i love so much. and i changed up my walking playlist on my crackberry to include Razzel Dazzel and Gold Digger.

i ate plain watermelon for breakfast, i didn’t blow dry my hair after my shower, and i did my laundry.

also, i organized my closet. something i haven’t actually done since i moved in.

for a before image in your head, picture: clothes, shopping bags, random pieces of paper and footie nylons.

for after see here:

look at all the pretty shoes on the top shelf and the pretty folded clothes on the bottom. so nice.

i know, this will never last because it makes no logical sense to have a t-shirt pile that i have to flip through to get at the one in the middle because we all know im too lazy to ever keep that straight.

but i don’t have a dresser (see: journalist, salary), so this is the best i can do.

and for now im loving laying on my bed staring at the beautiful organization of it all.

up next: clean out my car.

not a fan of “bing.” yet.

Published: July 18, 2009 / Updated: July 18, 2009 Crystal medium

i try SO hard to stay right there on the cutting edge of technology. i want to be right next to the scissors and the twitters people. for realz.

but alas, i just CANNOT get into Bing, microsoft’s latest search “decision” engine. below are my list of gripes:

1. it makes me think of Chandler Bing from Friends. seriously. and that has nothing to do with search.

2. when you “bing” sevenlayerburritos, my site doesn’t even come up on the first page. LAME. that’s the whole point of having my url. and for that matter, when you bing “crystal lindell” my blog doesn’t come up. that’s crap.

3. it’s too dark. google is so bright and white and clean. bing, while pretty, has way too much clutter on it. i mean, ya, i do like the home page pictures with the cool little search suggestions. but the way the “bing” header is placed in a picture on the top of search results, it just looks like too much. call me picky. fine. whatever.

4. i spent a week two days trying all my searches in bing and google to compare. i even went through the trouble of adding bing to my browser’s search engine bar. all i ended up doing was annoying the crap out of myself and causing twice as much work so i could find out that google is fine. great actually. google is just great.

5. im told i would like the hover feature of the search results, where a section of the web page listed pops up when i scroll over it. but i just think it makes even more clutter. a small synopsis works just dandy for me.

6. bing is supposed to be good for shopping. i searched for wedding invitations on it (NOT for me) and the results were the exact same as google. plus, i never shop online. so ya.

7. im just used to google. and bing doesn’t give me super secret search results i can’t get on google, which makes me think there’s no point in switching.

8. ah man. i don’t want to be the girl resisting change over here. but seriously.

9. also, when i tell people to bing something, they look at me like im crazy. or trying to0 hard to sound cool. when i tell people to google something, i sound totally normal.

in conclusion: i won’t be binging things anytime soon. unless they randomly start posting unlisted numbers. because then i’d be all up on that.

a pretty blank day

July 15, 2009 Crystal daily photo, humor, medium

don’t get me wrong, some shyte happened today and whatnot, it’s just that none is the kind of thing i can post here.

i mean there was the thing with that one guy and then the other thing with the other guy.

oh! oh!

AND that one thing with that one girl.

sigh.

ya. can’t write about any of that here.

i swear, it’s almost enough to make me wish that i didn’t go around telling people about my blog all the time.

ha.

ya right. like THAT’S ever going to happen.

in other news, i did change my earrings today for the first time since getting them pierced. i went with a lovely little blue flower that i got as part of a three-pack on sale for $2.65.

seriously.

im cheap like that.

here’s a pic in case you’re sitting there on the very edge of your seat cushion wanting to know what they look like (and yes, i really am that pale):