- Sudoku... I've always loved these puzzles, never knew they had a name. I was taking a survey tonight (oh yeah, add that to the list) and it asked me how I spent my time on the internet. It was a multiple choice question, and I didn't recognize Sudoku, so I looked it up. I knew better. An hour later, I've gotten quite good at the easy level.
- Surveys... Speaking of... I am a member of, like, 50 survey outfits. They send me daily e-mails (have I mentioned that I LOVE getting e-mails? so much so that I'll sign up for newsletters, survey companies, and other such madness just so I'll get more e-mail? if you've heard me complain about the junk mail I get, please tell me to shove it!). Anyway, I try to keep up with them, but sometimes they send me so many and I might just not feel like taking a survey today. So, they build up on me. Then I feel guilty if I miss one. Like that one survey, if I had taken it and entered into the sweepstakes drawing (the reward) would've been THE TIME I would've won. I won't even give you the link b/c I know y'all are too smart to get involved.
- Throw Paper!... This one is very important to me because I received it from my boss. It is a company-condoned waste of time. :-) Okay, don't anyone tell her I told you that please! It's kind of addicting because it counts your "baskets". It is devastating, though, when you're on 30-something and you miss. The folks over at "Throw Paper" really know how to bring you down by throwing a kicking misdirected wind/fan blow at ya. If you're gonna try it at work, let me warn you about the sound at the beginning.
- Read other people's blogs. My faves include my sister's (natch!) at http://unckisses.blogspot.com, my godson's (and his parents') at http://zachsosnoff.blogspot.com/, and a fellow alum's at http://jackssportshumor.blogspot.com/. I don't know Jack, but I happened to be perusing the GAA website (for you non-Tar Heels, that's the General Alumni Association) and found a mention of his blog. I wasn't busy (no one else was online... boo, hiss), so I checked it out & found it quite amusing. And one last one for you - http://mirandahuiden.onderwaterfoto.net/. This is the blog of my friend Miranda who was our HR rep in our Holland office. She left us to go to Pakistan... she's great b/c she actually does the things the rest of us think we'd like to someday... like help our fellow man, volunteer for charitywork, etc. But you probably can't read it unless you know Dutch. And my friends in Amsterdam tell me Dutch is really not the most popular second language, so I'm assuming most of you don't (know Dutch, that is). But you can pop it into a free translator program on the web (do a quick search on Google... but you can't use Google's... they don't do English to Dutch... hmm, maybe my friends in Amsterdam are right). Anyway, so although you can't read it, you'll probably enjoy a few of the pics.
- Peruse your GAA website... It doesn't have to be Carolina's. Although, of course, Carolina's is the best. We have lots of updates on classmates on the UNC alumni site, including an alumni directory that just kicks butt. By the way... if any of you fellow alums out there don't mind... can someone PLEASE add me to their MyContacts list (besides my husband and my sister)???? I really would appreciate it. Would make me feel oh-so-loved. I've got all y'all on there! What's up? Don't you ever take advantage of your ultra-expensive GAA membership??? Get with the program, people! And you call yourselves Tar Heels.
- While you're thinking of the Heels, go ahead and check out today's features on Tarheelblue.com. Great web site. I always thoroughly enjoy Adam Lucas' articles. He's great. And speaking of sports web sites, Jon showed me one today that really impressed me. He says that Paul says that whoever he got it from says that it's a recruiting site. Who knows?! But I thought the design was pretty darn good. Anyway, it's a Duck thing: http://www.oregongridiron.com/.
- Play some games at MSN.com. You haven't lived until you've played Zuma for hours. A friend of mine once called this "shooting rocks out of a frog". Oh, but it's so much more, mr. posture man... it's soooo much more. My other favorite game for a while (during the same time period as Zuma happened) was Spider Solitaire. And then there's Bounce Out. When we were playing a game at one of Jon's colleagues houses a while back, we were asked to name a unique talent we possessed (then the other team had to match the talent with the player). Anyway, one of Jon's students said that she is the Bounce Out champion on Yahoo! I bet I could take her; I'm pretty sure I was the champ for a while on iwin.com.
- Okay, so this one's not really one that you need to go back & visit over and over again (like some of my addictive time-wasters), but it's a list all you Southerners should take a gander at. If your speakers are on, turn 'em down or off... the pickin' is enough to startle all your co-workers - http://www.geocities.com/vhf415/sayings.html. Jon really gets a kick out of this list. For a while after we found it, he pointed out every single one I said in regular conversation (and now that we're back living in the South, he was busy pointing day & night). He especially enjoys "might could" and "used to could".
- Wow... I guess the last thing I could add to this silly little list is... post on your blog. Look at the time! Geez... I've got to get to bed. I'll NEVER be able to get up in the morning (yeah, I know Mom, what else is new?). Hope this wasn't too much of a waste of your time (reading this here list). Take it easy and please come back to visit soon.
Much luv, hugs & kisses... XOXOXOX... from me (& Cooper)
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