Friday, August 28, 2009

Dating & Courting & Why & Why Not

(Old post from my drafts)

I was at a friend's birthday party when her dad turned to me and asked, "Gal when are you gonna start datin'?"

My dad answered for me. (Doncha hate it when people do that? Grrr.)

"No, she is not going to date. She is going to wait and marry the person she is going to marry." He beamed happily at everyone in the room.

And me? I said nothing till a few weeks later. (It was not a good time.)

But I am so not doing that. I mean how does that even work?

A friend once told me, "I don't think you should date unless you are planning to marry the person."

I'm like, "How do you know you want to marry the person unless you date them first."

I do have some guidelines. I don't think you should date just anyone, or do just anything. My definition of dating might be your definition of courting.

But if I felt obligated to wait until I was planning to marry someone I would be too terrified to ever be in a relationship at all.

Conner's lobster crab bisque


The best! I get this stuff anytime I get the chance!

I have a date tonight

"You have a hot date tonight?" My dad just asked me (I stayed late today after work and am riding home with him)

"No, not really",
 
"You wanna go on a date with your old dad? I mean unless you had something planned..."

So yeah and I am posting a blog. It's very rude to text while on a date. I think its a little different when you're with your dad though. What do you think?

~Esther~

Thursday, August 27, 2009

How To Set Up Mobile Blogging & Limitations

So have been playing with mobile blogging and have figured out a few things of interest as well as a little info to make things easier. You could also check out Blogger Mobile for info


For SMS and MMS you'll 1st need to verify your cell phone number with blogger, and set mobile blogging up in the blogger settings. SMS and MMS both recognize your cell number, so that posting only works from aproved number/s.


To enable SMS send a text saying 'REGISTER' to the number 256447 (BLOGGR) then go to Blogger Mobile and verify which blog you're registering the cell with. After that you can send texts to 256-447, and they will post directly to your blog.

You can't sent pictures to this number--only text. You can also only send 160 charactors. If you send more than 160 you will receive the automatic text saying, "Sucess! Your post made it to your blog..." --BUT you will end up with 2 or 3 ...or 7 posts that are a garbled mix of numbers, letters, and symbols, not the blog you sent.

To enable MMS send a text from your cell to go@blogger.com. Then use the claim code they send to link your cell with your existing blog. After that is set up you can send a picture message or a text message to go@blogger.com and it will post to your acount. The subject line of your picture message will become the title of the post.

MMS is my favorite way; You can send up to 9 pictures, but only the subject line, and the message in the 1st text box you send will make it to blogger. Don't bother with notes under each picture; they will be eaten in cyberspace. If you send a text message to go@blogger.com the message will go through, but 160 characters is the maximum allowed, You can, however send many more characters in a picture message--It looks like you can send 1000, but per verizon's FAQ's site 400 is the max-- I've not tested more than 250 yet. (If you send more than 160characters in a picture message there will be verizon advertisements at the bottom of your post. Ugh)

I chose to also use the email feature because it gives the option of saving a message to drafts. I already have the option of posting without delay when I send a message to go@blogger.com. I love having the choice of saving a post for later.

To enable E-mail posting (AKA mail2Blogger)

1st go to Blogger Settings.


Choose the Email and Mobile link.


Choose your 'secret word' for the email posting
 (You'll want to choose a strong secret word especially if you set blogger to publish emails immediately)


Then enable the option, choosing save-as-draft or publish-immediately..



As with Go2Blogger the subject line of your picture message will become the title of the post.

(So far there are always advertisements on the bottom of these email blogs, but it's easy to remove them if you are editing the blog anyway)

Jessie, if you want to text a blog, and have a title for your blog as you mentioned. Just send a picture message with your blog title in the subject line to either go@blogger.com or to your blogger-secret-email address. You can leave the picture out if you don't have one; it'll still work and you'll have a title.

Michele; You'll probably need to use email and SMS since your iphone doesn't support picture messaging. It must be awful to not have picture messaging.... La la la verizon rocks.

-Happiness

3 Ways to Mobile Blog

Am learning to send info from my cell phone to my blog lately. So far I've found 3 ways, and now that I'm starting to undestand the limitations and how to work around them I really enjoy mobile blogging.

I've listed the 3 types below:

SMS (Short Message Service) AKA text message (no pictures.)

MMS (Multimedia Message Service) Aka Picture message; You can send pics, and/or text, and/or sound this way. For mobile blogging you will be sending an email via MMS from your preapproved cell phone number to go@blogger.com.
(Incidentally texting a picture or sound to a friend's cell also uses MMS).

Email (Electronic Mail) If this posting option is enabled you can email from your cell to your blog, or from any email acount, or any cell phone to your blog. (This can be scary because anyone can email to your blog if they know your mail2blogger email address. I've set this up to save-as-draft just to be safer.)

About those limitations though...

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Candy 4 mixer time



All stacked up on the mixer table
Kristi above... Me below












 

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Every-time I run mixer we talk about how we would like to have candy.

La la la candy high.

I love these girls

-Happiness

Monday, August 24, 2009

Blogger 2 drafts



Leah cracking up with laughter at walmart. Plus Cherries for sale; with b'day cards on the right & magazines on the left.
Strange Florida Walmart...

I Love S.O.S. (Dressing room graffiti)



From the walls; I had to snap a pic or two.


~Esther~

Edit: So hey, I sent this via mobile blogging. It worked ok, though I had to separate the pics, as it overlapped them slightly.


-Happiness (for now)

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Sorry

I’m told that it’s best to tell someone you’re sorry when you mess up. But what if you already know the person would rather not hear it, do you still apologize?

Does Apologizing to someone who resents hearing the apology negate the purpose of apologizing?

I was once told, “Esther, I wish you would quit apologizing to me. You know you are doing this for yourself right? This isn’t helping me at all.” (This was said very shut-up-and-go-away Esther-you-are-bothering-me way.)

I have since tried extra hard to avoid conflict with said person in an effort not to mess up. Because I think they were at least partially right. It is sort of engrained in me; I can’t forgive myself properly without working things through.

So:
It’s been several years.
I have (perhaps royally) misspoken and offended/hurt this person again.

Wasn't intentional and I’m not sure—but the offense taken was maybe exaggerated by the 3rd party. Still is very troubling, and I Know That I Could've Worded Things Better.

Usually it’s best for me to talk things out, but in this case if I am just annoying them... Rather than talk things out I might be better off to shut up and pretend no one told me they had taken offence at my words.

So

Sad.

Friday, August 21, 2009

"Mobile Blogging Stinks"

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Yeah when I saw my blog this morning there was 7 posts that consisted of the above numbers letters & Symbols.

Ugh.

Friday on the way home from work I typed out a blog on my cell and sent it to one of 3 addresses from which it should've be sent to my blog.

I even received a reply from Google, "Sucess! Your post made it to your blog littlegalbiggrin.blogspot.com..."

Weird. I had played around with this sending things to my blog to see if everything worked, and it seemed to, but I had only sent short messages and pictures.

Perhaps my blog was too long. I'll mess with it a little more before deleting my Send-to-blogger contacts from my cell.

Ugh.

-NonHappiness

Monday, August 10, 2009

Questions

What to Do


Where to Go


What to Say


Blood*, tears, and heartbreak. Things I'd rather not know.


Stay, or leave, or halfway in between (Is that even possible?)

I'm not depressed, or losing my mind--Just sad. I ate today, yesterday, and the day before, and so on. Just so you know.


*metaphorical blood of course. Don't freak out. (I am N8's Sister after all--we can be overly dramatic at times).

Yeah, Uh...