Although if I were given the choice, I still might choose dogs, but after careful consideration, or going to the pet store and seeing all the dogs and cats, I’d probably choose neither. As much I want a pet, dogs are loud¹ (and quite frankly, they scare me). If I were to get a cat I would get freaked out by its little habits (like jumping, and even by the fact that it has nine lives).

Or maybe I’m just one of those freaky fish people?

¹ I think I might be well suited for an English Bulldog though. They seem quiet enough and I like the idea of a hair less dog!

• I fried crab (bought fresh and alive from the market)
• I tried vlogging.
• I did the big red trick
• I have re-commissioned my library card.
• I finally watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (checks off of to-do list of 3 months)
• I have given into the ‘Flock’ craze, but than deleted it because I got confused/overwhelmed.
• I blared the same song on repeat for 2 hours.
• I checked my LJ friends list after 2 weeks, the horror.

*cue applause*

I waited for about two hours on the porch (a good distance from the alley) we have for the Opossum to show up. When the little thing showed up it ran as soon as it took the fruit. It was grey, and mini. Its teeth and its tail were so cute!

I expected myself to be either incredibly busy with my ‘adventure’, or coding a new layout. I’m currently doing neither. My plans for this ‘adventure’ fell through, and I’m currently stuck in a little home, wheezing while complaining “its cold” and coughing my way through the day. While on my death bed, I’ve been contemplating the shiny new layout that is well overdue.

My mind is foggy, my nosed is stuffy, and my voice is distorted. My days are numbered I tell you! I walk around like a pool of bacteria attracting germs each second. Must wash hands more often! I don’t like taking pills, I’m very perceptible to choking, and it just doesn’t look that appetizing.

Spring Break: croak.

But since I’m just so pissed off about forgetting my own site’s birthday, I’ll link you to an awesome-er entry: Rachael. In the next few weeks this site is going under thorough renovation. I’ll be fiddling with the organization, the page contents, and you might possibly see a new layout. Bye!

Originally when I started blogging, I just wanted to be proud of myself, and be able to show that I’ve made my mark/influence in the world (I don’t necessarily think I’ve done that, but that was a long time ago). Now I just want to prove that I can better myself (don’t know if I do that anymore).

What little form of comfort do you find in web-designing or blogging that makes it worth it?

I was tagged by Aisling (not of my own free will, but thats how it goes right? :)).

1. List five vices you have, with a description if you want to.
2. Tag five bloggers for this meme.
3. Link back to the blogger who tagged you, and this post if you want to be nice!

I already did number 3, now onto number 1. This is actually quite easy! Alrighty 5 vices (btw I had to look this up):

Stubbornness & Ingnorance
I am sometimes stubborn as a nail for things that I’m passionate about and things that I think are morally wrong. I don’t have a really big sense of justice in me, but I really like to set things right (refer to the next paragraph). In a way, I’m sorta rooting for the world, maybe today’s generation isn’t doomed.

Perfection
I’m 100% nit-picky and I just need to have things in order, in some way. I’m not exactly a neat-freak nor do I have OCD. I just hate not knowing where things are, losing things just freak me out. I don’t like leaving things out or things that are uneven either.

Regret & Tactlessness & Rashness
For some odd reason, I don’t think about the inconsiderate things I do until after I do them (its not like I do this often), but I seem to regret a lot of the stupid things I do. I envy people who live without a care in the world; without care of their actions. Usually the things I do that I end up regretting are in the spur of the moment.

Procrastination
I’m a procrastinator at heart, and that sad thing is, that it probably won’t change (don’t get me wrong, I’m not proud of this fact). But these are one of those things that I will never articulate a reason for or understand in the slightest. Though from Snark, I hear its pretty popular among these blocks.

Judgement
For my attempt at a New Year’s Resolution, I failed miserably at being un-judgmental. On a topic on judging people about how they look, this was my reply and attempt to sorta justify judgement:

We all do, even if our intentions aren’t to. It’s inevitable. Us, judging people, are like precautionary instincts.

Regardless, is judging people really that bad? Our instincts/tactics don’t cloud our impression of a person that much, that we don’t actually give them a chance. It’s just a first impression, people never live up to standards anyways. To judge or not to judge?

If you hate me after you read this, take me back? I’m truly not only these traits, I’m really not that bad (I just listed all the bad things about me, if I listed all the good ones, than the good would outweigh all the bad ones).

I tag the following: Kaylee, Amber, Jess, Ellie, and Rilla.

• Run a Food Blog
• Make Pancakes, & Waffles
• Visit Europe: Scotland, England, France, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Ireland, Germany
• Learn to Properly Pixel (and make replacement WP smilies)
• Nurture Plants
• Figure out Javascript
• Re-learn Chinese
• Finish/Catch-Up on Book Series
• Face Fear of Fire (stove & oven) and Heights
• Raise a Pet
• Meet a Celebrity
• Get Involved in Politics
• Fix Annoying Habits
• Inspire Somebody
• Watch A Clockwork Orange
• Blog More Often

PS. Totally random, but my sister who is how learning to drive, has a teacher who recommends to practice in the cemetery (wtf?, morbid).

• Cafe Milano
• Ladybug
• George

Each of these seem perfectly innocent, and not bizarre at all. Well Cafe Milano was a little shack (in fact it was so little it reminded me of the little booths on the side of the highway collecting money) in an empty parking lot, offering coffee (at least that’s what the little picure displayed). Bizarre.

To explain the second one, it takes me back to my youth, the origin of my fear of bees, ladybugs, spiders, and dogs (actually all insects). They fly, they’re orange, red, and sometimes yellow. Its odd that the male ladybugs are still considered ladybugs. But none the less I have indeed found one directly under my desk today, indoors. The thing flew, and jumped, and rolled over (basically a dog that can fly), and it was orange (the one from my childhood was orange). My friend picked it up with a piece of paper, and lost it. Now it will haunt me of its liveliness in my sleep.

My intolerance for red handed thieves have been put to the test today. I caught (yes, caught) a very mischievous George, stealing my lead. You know what’s really annoying? He denied it, and yes I caught him. And you know what’s funny? We didn’t have the same size lead, he gave it back, still claiming it was his. RAWR.

I deem this day, a very unlucky day.
[/end drama]

Have you ever noticed something appalling/shocking, odd, or scary things in the last 48 hours?

In the midst of writing stories (for school), sketching up a new layout (my first try went down the rabbit hole), reading, procrastinating about ‘Life’, and summing up decent and whole-hearted comments, I found myself within a distance between life, the WWW, and fiction. I’ve just been distracted lately, and amongst all these things I am in a rut in the blogoverse.

To think I can’t find a thing to write about in this jumble of diversions is simply sad. The thing of question, where has my inspiration gone (where o where hath thou my inspiration goneth)? Through a hole of incipid thoughts: “As I’m swimming through the stereo, I’m writing you a symphony of sound” (Jack’s Mannequin - The Mixed Tape), I have felt lost without you.

I miss you, come back soon?

Missing You More Everyday,
Tiffany

I will test out 12 URL Shorteners, and evaluate them. In order to test them out I will be using a link to The List of The Longest Things in the World (a 74 char domain). Each site has different features, and by their features they will be organized in categories: simple & complicated.

Simple

urlTea
urlTea generated a simple and very short link: http://urltea.com/2pt8 (22 char). urlTea also offers a customizable link description, example: http://urltea.com/2pt8?testlink. With urlTea there is no excess muss and fuss. Very consise.
10/10

Jmp2
Jmp2 generated: http://jmp2.net/cOs (19 char). Jmp2 takes the prize for the shortest in the simple category. Their special feature is ‘hiding’ the URL example: http://jmp2.net/cOu. Jmp2 has ads but it has a really short and aesthetically pleasing URL.
10/10

TinyURL
TinyURL generated: http://tinyurl.com/k64qs
(24 char). TinyURL also has a preview option to display the link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/k64qs. Compared to urlTea with no ads and a more pleasing URL, I’m going to side with urlTea.
9/10

mikloz.dk
mikloz.dk generated: http://miklos.dk/!fj6UNT (23 char). This has no additional features, and is very simple. Its URL is a very odd looking, and not memorable.
8/10

Complicated

Xil.in
Xil.in generated http://xil.in/1093 (18 char). Xil.in takes the cake for shortest URL in both categories. This also has custom keywords: http://xil.in/longest.
10/10

Plexp!
Plexp! generated: http://plexp.com/343 (20 char). Like most of the ones that fit under the complicated category, this also has custom keyword: http://plexp.com/longest.
9/10

lilurl
lilurl generated: http://lilurl.us/1PD (21 char). lilurl has two features listed above: masking, and keywords. Simple, and a short URL.
9/10

doiop
doiop generated: http://doiop.com/4dk55k (23 char). Unlike memurl you can choose the keyword you want: http://doiop.com/longest this ensures that you remember it.
9/10

notlong
notlong generated: http://oibeif.notlong.com (24 char). Notice its a subdomain rather than a folder. notlong also has a stats features, and a custom keyword feature: http://longestlist.notlong.com.
9/10

PegNo
PegNo generated: http://peqno.com/qp3g3 (23 char). This includes custom keywords aswell, nothing really sets this apart from the rest in the category.
8/10

dwarfURL
dwarfURL generated: http://dwarfurl.com/39198 (25 char). This one has to be one of my favorites, it has a password feature to view stats: . I love the features, although the URL is a bit long.
8/10

memurl
memurl generated: http://memurl.com/fumoke (25 char). Not that short, but the URL is memorable. The nifty feature is that the URL uses random/generated features, this means you can look-up the URL by typing in its keyword: http://memurl.com/keyword-info/fumoke.
8/10

And because I care I included a picture (corresponding with this entry):

For those who despise or dislike Valentine’s Day, why? For those who are optimists (can someone find me a blog +pro blog entry for V-Day?) and true romantics, why? And for those who are a hybrid (like me, we don’t hate nor love Valentine’s Day), what will you be doing on this Thursday?

Mondays, hang-overs from the weekend, a day with no impossible end, are the new Valentine’s Day, and that is exactly how I treat it. The day looms and bears dread upon everybody (thus how I feel today). The romance, nor being a singleton is what scares me, but the negative emotions. Disappointment, and overwhelming sense of feeling despair kicking everyone in the shins.

People love the fact they can dress up and impress their significant others, we rely on these little details that prove Valentine’s isn’t all that bad. People love being able to express their feelings to each other with no bounds (chocolates, poems, letters, flowers, teddy-bears, and heart-felt words).

Let’s hope for a Valentine’s miracle this year!