It’s My Imagination

What’s Your Style?

April 30, 2008 on 6:00 pm | In My Imagination | 2 Comments

Yesterday, I knew I had to go to the dealership to drop my car of for some routine maintenance, so I thought I should put on some of my better clothes for the outing. I’m usually just in my jeans are denim capris now that I don’t work outside the home any longer, but I wanted to look a bit nicer.

So, I stood in my closet yesterday morning looking through all the clothes that I used to wear to work. I worked in an elementary school and so I dressed comfortably, but at the same time always wanted to look like I was dressed for work, not the playground. I decided to go with a pair of Dockers and a short sleeved linen blouse. It felt a bit strange to no longer be in denim, but I also felt that I was dressed appropriately. I put on my new backless canvas sneakers and headed out the door.

The funny thing about yesterday was that all day, I felt like I was Meg Ryan in  Sleepless in Seattle, just the way I was dressed in Dockers and canvas sneakers. It was the strangest feeling, but at least I associated my outfit with Meg Ryan, someone who has been known to set trends both in fashion and hairstyle. I do have a decent imagination!

With my imagination and the way I was dressed, maybe I should create my own T.V. commercial and enter the Dockers contest. I think it could be a lot of fun and my daughter and I get a kick out of making videos, so we could do it together.

What about you? Why not create your own commercial and enter the contest?

Tags: Dockers Contest, fashion trend

New Camera

April 30, 2008 on 3:38 pm | In Some of This Some of That | 2 Comments

I got a new HP digital camera for Christmas that I was really enjoying.  Unfortunately, 2 months after receiving it, a small plastic lever that holds the batteries and memory card in place snapped off.  My husband had not purchased an extended warranty, but because it was so new, we took it back to Best Buy anyway.

Best Buy was very nice about it and wound up sending the camera for repair back to HP.  That was about 6 weeks ago.  I finally remembered to call them today and discovered that the camera was apparently not repairable, so they are giving me a brand new camera!  I just have to take back all the accessories that came with it and the box it came in.  I guess it’s a good thing that I always keep boxes.

Now, I just have to find time, hopefully tomorrow, to drive out to Best Buy and get my new camera.  I’m glad I’ll have it in time for my nieces nursing graduation next week. 

Tags: digital camera

What’s Your Rank?

April 30, 2008 on 1:25 pm | In Blogging | 2 Comments

It’s happening again, everybody is full of anticipation. Everyone wants to know if their blogs will be affected and will it be positive? Or, will their blog get spanked. Of course, if those blog owners are like me, it can’t get any lower, after all, it’s a big fat zero now, so, until they start passing out negative numbers, zero is as low as it can go.

What am I talking about? If you haven’t guessed it by now, you must be really new to blogging and haven’t experienced the Google spank before. That’s correct, Google can reach out and spank down your sites page rank when ever it so chooses, without providing any justification whatsoever. In fact, the last time Google did a smack down, bloggers of all types spent weeks, if not months, trying to figure out what they had done wrong. Some even went so far as to beg and plead with Google to rethink their slapping policy and begged for the page rank to be reinstated. Some blogs had page rank reinstated after their pleas were heard, others were basically ignored by the Google masters.

I chose to move on with my blogging life and let the big G do as it pleased. I neither begged nor pleaded and didn’t change my blogging ways. I continued with my goals of increasing my readership and writing quality content. If “G” doesn’t like what I do, so be it, it’s a big internet world out there.

In the mean time, Izea, a company that works FOR bloggers, not against them, worked diligently on created Real Rank, a new blog ranking system for any and all who choose to participate. One of the biggest difference’s between Izea’s Real Rank and Google’s page rank is that Real Rank ranks blogs ONLY against other blogs, not against every other website. Really, do I need to be told that this little old blog of mine is not anywhere close to being as poplular as say, Amazon.com? I don’t think so. I do like to know however, I compare to other blogs, that’s what is important to me.

As Izea say, “blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an extrapolation of estimates”.

So, if you prefer to know how your blog is ranked in comparison with other blogs using real traffic data and no some complicated algorithm that Google itself can’t explain, click to get your own Izea Ranks and get in the game!

Tags: Izea Ranks, Real Rank

Wordless Wednesday

April 30, 2008 on 1:00 pm | In Some of This Some of That | 2 Comments

Sorry this isn’t wordless, but this is how I’ve felt the last two days. Yesterday I was just out of sorts, nothing seemed to go smoothly. Today, I set off to make things better.

I wound up taking my brand new serger machine back to the store and they couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t perform so they’re sending it in for servicing. It could be 4-6 weeks.

On another repair note, my brand new camera that I received as a Christmas gift went in for repair in March. I finally called on it today (it was supposed to take 2 weeks, it’s bee 6) and they said, “oh! we’re giving you a brand new camera, just come in and get it”. Okay, great, but why couldn’t they tell me that weeks ago?!

Tags: Wordless Wednesday