Thumper’s heart is twitterpating, so can yours.

So, yeah, Twitter.  I’m not a fan.  I find it confusing and silly.

But there are a few things that are okay about it. FOR EXAMPLE: since I have become a twitterpater, BRETT MICHAELS has been hospitalized.  I am deeply saddened by  this as he is one of my all time fav hotties, as well as the first person that I added on Twitter.  So, Twitter has helped keep me up to day on how he is doing.  Please pray for him—not a joke! 

Secondly, my other skanky l0ve—-JEREMY SHOCKEY—-can also be found on Twitter.  Which is really cool considering that Jeremy updates his regulary, and I was able to see that he took a horse and buggy ride the other day through New Orleans.  O to be a horse. 

Other than that, I really haven’t found anything that cool about Twitter.  Maybe I am just having a case of the mean reds, but I think I will just continue to update my Fbook statuses like normal.  As much as I would love to say Twitter is the new thing, I just don’t think it will ever be Facebook.  Sorry, Ellen.

Love. Peace. and Tweets.  Lynn

BTW: Why aren’t they called twits?  Then everyone could have little-twits.

I’m like Chingy, I’m only one call away

So, a friend asked last night to hold my hand at dinner… I won’t say names, but lets call her Niko Starchick.  I thought she was just wanting to have a moment, but in fact she wanted to see if my hand was still hot from the mad texting I was doing at the table.  Ouch, burn, zing-zang.  If this lets you know anything about me, its that my phone is either right with me or lost…. or oddly enough in a body of water.  As Popeye would say, I yam what I yam–a cellphone addict.  Its ok, my Jack (my g-sauce/grandmother) is too.

While I might be an extreme case, as I don’t even know the time of day without my phone or iPod, I feel that I am not alone.  And when I think about it, on my BlackBerry, actually making phone calls is the last thing I do.  So what do I do???

First and foremost, I use my phone for text messaging.  I would say on the average day I send between 50-100 texts a day.  Now, typing this, that number seems absurd, and it might be, but its true.  I also BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) which is a more digitally formatted style of texting.  On this, you can see when your text was delivered and read.  So, if a certain someone is just ignoring you–they are just ignoring you.  You can also set your status to ‘Busy’ so people like me don’t feel the cold breeze that that little ‘R’ and no response sometimes sends.  I can also send pictures to my BBM friends, which I cannot do on text, because my mom’s cheap.

Email is another great aspect of my BlackBerry.  I get to see all those lovely emails that the GSC sends pronto.  It really comes in handy when teachers email you too.  Heck, I can even respond when the mood strikes.

Other than text and email, I use my BlackBerry as a radio.  Although  I do not have many apps, one I do use is Pandora-which everyone should know about from last class.  If my heart desired, I could even download one of the songs onto my phone.  I also, Google like a madwoman and check Facebook from time to time.  Google comes in handy.  For instance, at lunch today, we couldnt think of that movie that Brit Murphy and Michael Douglas were in where Brit is a crazy girl.  My friend Niko Starchick, the ever helpful kind, Googled, and found out it was Don’t Say a Word–talk about a clutch app.

I hope my little tangent has been helpful to my readers as to what I am doing when my phone is in my hand besides checking the time. 

Oh, I almost forgot–sometimes I call people, and occasionally I’ve been known to answer.  Nothing ticks me off more than a voicemail.  So, please….just shoot me a text!

Bring out your dead….

So, nowadays…. as in past Monty Python and the Holy Grail…. you don’t get your news on the street.   I mean I’m sure you can, lets say if you’re in New Orleans and you want your palm read or see tha poor fellow passing out Guideons on Bourbon, but for the most part, you get your news online.

Now, as an English major, this kind of bothers me, because I am a fan of print.  However, with the advent of the Amazon Kindle, my print only philosophy is changing, and so is how I get my news.

Social Media Releases are a great way to get news.  For me personally, I get them via Facebook.  The way I get my social media releases is by joining groups.  For example, I follow Dan Mullen, Mississippi State’s new head football coach (no relation, I know it sucks), and usually every week or so I get an update from this group in the form of a SMR on my newsfeed. 

Other SMR I get I subscribe to.  As I have said before in previous blogs, I am a  big fan of Google Alerts.   However, I not only get releases from Google every morning, I get them from Auburn University–and I am sure ya’ll do too.  Also, William-Sonoma, because of a gift certificate I got my aunt and uncle at Chrismas, sends me news releases daily.  In turn, I guess what I am trying to say, is that social news releases are available from about every avenue of human contact, whether you simply give  your email address or are and avid follower of a group/subscriber like me.

I do, you do, we all scream for YouTube

YOUTUBE, enough said, well not enough for me to get credit for this blog .  But who doesn’t love YouTube, I mean seriously?  First of all, not only can you watch Scarlet takes a tumble, David after the dentist, or my personal favorite Nobody’s Perfect dance (shoutout to AU soccer camp), but what people may not know is that YouTube is one of the best search engines out today!

For example, say you are getting ready for a hot date on the town and you want to bee-bop around to your favorite tunes, but you’re too cheap to DL them on iTunes and too scared of LimeWire, all you have to do is YouTube the videos and BOOM, free music 2 seconds later.

Or, you have been having the worst sinus/ear trouble of your life, and you aren’t so sure about holistic medicine.  Well check it out!  YouTube allows you to look up Nedi-pot videos and ear-candling so you can literally see what you are getting into.

And finally, say you’ve had an instrument for a couple of years and you wanna learn how to play, how to play better, or just get some tabs.  You can find instructional videos, tabs, and all lyrics on YouTube.  Hey–it worked for that under-age cutie Justin Beiber; so look it up today, and see what YouTube can do for you!!

Podcasts……..

For all those hottie’s with bodies who own podies out there, this weeks blog is for you…………..

First of all, I had no idea until Dr. Youngblood’s enthralling lecture what a podcast was.  I mean yeah, I had heard about them, but I wasn’t a fan… I needed convincing.  However, after listening to a few of these delightful puppies, podcasts are growing on me.

So far, my favorite podcasts have been of the comedy sort.  For giggles check out comedy.podcast. 

Also, NPR has a wide selection of podcasts for listeners.  All you have to do on their site is search for your ideal listening station.

Going in that direction, you can make your own podcast on PodBean.

And the thread goes on…

Sometimes books are so good that people literally can’t wait to read them… So, they write the endings themselves.  You know what I’m talking about; you’ve probably done it at some point too.  And the great thing about the internet is that their are communities developed just for these wannabe authors.

Goodreads is one of these communities.  During the big, initial Twilight buzz.. for those of us who read it before Eclipse came out and before Summit Entertainment got a hold of the film rights, Goodreads was circulating with the latest news on the movies and books, and even a few conspiracy theories and possible story lines. 

The same is true for TrueBlood, or as I like to call it… that show with Alexander Skarsgard based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris—a Mississippi native whoop whoop!  You can go to the HBO website and get involved in some of the book, character, or show related forums.

And as a last resort, theres always the coveted Amazon.  I personally think Amazon is the best site on the internet, but I am quite partial–I’m a prime customer, you can tell your friends.  Anyways, on Amazon not only can you wrote your on review of a book, but you can enter discussion boards, aka forums, on your fav book, product, movie, or anything else that they sell.  And your threads in the discussion boards really help customers, like me, who may not have heard of the author or book before decide to buy the book or not.  There have been a lot of times that I’ve bought book based on the number of reviews and the stars that the customers have put beside said views. 

So do yourself a favor, and when wondering what to read or what will happen next, check out a forum, it just might have the answer or atleast a spoiler!

Facebook Stalker

There are certain questions that every young person should ask themselves in regard to social media.

1) How much time do you spend on your sites?

2) How much time do you put into your site?

3) How much time do you put into snooping around on others?

For me, #3 is the reason that I get on Facebook.  I might have been class favorite in 4th grade, but I don’t think that I am sooo popular that I have to update my profile everyday—in fact, I never do.  I am pretty sure that my facebook page has been the same for the last two years, with the exception of my school and quote.  However, some of my friends view facebook as a journal….and who doesn’t want to read someones journal???

My favorite thing to do, an judge me if you wan to, is to look at relationship statuses.  I mean, if it’s not on facebook, is it even real??? And everybody and their mama can tell when someone breaks up… You might as well explain the why, when, and where of your break up in your status.

Now, status updates are another interesting facet of facebook.  Now, I’ve only had one… and I am pretty sure that was because I was retarded on the last night of my undergraduate… I think it read something like, screw school, vampires are awesome, and my bar tab sucks.  I dunno, perhaps I didn’t sound like an eighteen-year-old, but I am just being honest.  However, a few people have awesome status updates that are pertinent to everyone else.  AND I HAVE NOTICED that about once a day, someone from Auburn puts WDE on their facebook.  Maybe I should start saying Go State, but then we’d have to be good at something…..

Anyway as you can see facebook is a way to keep people in touch, when a phone call or text message is too dificult, and for fbook stalkers like me, it enables us to see who’s dating who and doing what. 

AND IF my posts has made you paranoid, I am pretty sure that you can download an app to see who’s interested in your life.

Consider yourself warned…

There are three things that I woke up to this morning:  1) the rustling of the angry/sleepy dachshund lying next to me, 2) the realization that my beloved Miss. State blew another clutch game, and 3) a text on my phone that read Google Alert.

Now being a dog lover and a MSU bulldog, I am very use to the first two occurrences; however, I feel that they should be addressed. 

If you can not tell by the title of my blog, I’m kind of obsessed with my little weiner.  She is my pride and joy and literally the reason I get out of bed in the morning–Scarlet will not wait to go outside!  She’s been doing much better since her depressed episode, I am happy to report.

Now as for Mississippi State….I could kill my alma mater.  FIRST OF ALL, there is no need for Rick’s kids to be directly behind the bench.  I mean, they are cute and all, but it’s a basketball game not daddy day care! WAKE UP STANSBURY!  Secondly, he needs to go.  But third and foremost… what is Mississippi State thinking? We had a seven point lead on the number two team in the nation.  We know how their coach coaches from our experiences with him at Memphis.  Get it together bulldogs; it’s an embarrassment when we are on the bubble for the NCAA tournament.  And now I feel soooooo much better, after that tangent.

Moving on…

After both my dogs angrily awoke me with movement and memories, I would just like to say I was so happy to check on my Google Alert.  I get Google Alert’s at 6:00 a.m. everyday telling me the whereabouts of one hot-to-trot Swedish stud named Alexander Skarsgard.  Alexander Skarsgard plays Eric Northman on HBO’s True Blood.  Wonder how hot he is?? Here’s a pic….

hot-tee

As you can see, there are obvious reasons why I am obsessed with Alexander Skarsgard, besides that I love his character in Charlaine Harris’ fabulous series The Southern Vampire Mysteries.   But the great thing about it is, I don’t have to go without info on Alex.  On the Google website, which just about everyone goes to everyday, you can request daily information on your favorite celebrities, sports teams, or just anything that your little heart desires to Google.  More importantly, Google is a great example of and RSS feed. 

So for the cyber stalker in you, try Google Alerts, and never go without!

I thought that blogging was going to be a different experience than it is.  I really like using wordpress as it allows you to infuse quizzes and pictures into your blogs.  Before when I have tried to blog, I have never been able to successfully navigate the page.

Blogs like Perez Hilton’s have always interested, and when I have been on the internet looking for blogs, these are usually the types of blogs that I pay attention to. 

Perez’s blog speaks to me because I am very interested in celebrity gossip, especially anything that has to do with Johnny Depp, George Clooney, or Alexander Skarsgard.  I do love Brad Pitt, but I tire of hearing the rumors that he and Angie are splitting up.  They’re not people–GET OVER IT.  I also love Perez’s blog because he inserts funny doodles into his pics.

Other than celebrity blogs, I don’t ready too many.  However, I do, when purchasing books on Amazon, pay special attention to the customer reviews.  Although these aren’t blogs in the traditional sense, I find that they are a slice of persons opinion that can be viewed in blog format.  I gues these are a type of mini-blogs.

If life is a box of chocolates… I should have opted for no nuts.

My dream is for the world to one day be ruled by little black and tan dachshunds wearing green berets.  However, a discovery this week keeps my dream in its infancy.  My dog, my life, my child—Scarlet—has finally gone off her rocker.  For the past three days she has been marching around the house, green-fuzzy-bunny in mouth, whining.  She refuses to go outside… and has finally destroyed my blinds.  I can only assume that her genius is corrupting her, but I am sure that she will snap out of it.  Like any concerned parent, at the onslaught of her symptoms, I googled it.  I soon found out that Scarlet could be suffering from anxiety (which she did prior to this incident), have a serious underlying health issue (I don’t think this is it, as I have pushed and prodded without a growl in response, and she is just fine to jump off the bed and tear up my blinds), or I have a serious underlying illness according to Yahoo! Answers and she is trying to tell me (I refuse to believe that my dog, though a genius, can sniff out cancer).   Either way dream 1 is on hold.

I also want to become a best selling fiction author.  I love paranormal fiction, especially anything to do with vampires.  And no, my interest was not sparked by Twilight… I was reading vamp books before that Mormon was formin’ Edward… God bless her though, I do love those books. 

And besides ruling the world via my doggie and writing fiction…I DESPERATELY want to have A LOT of kids.  At least four, but I would like six (definitely boys, maybe  1 girl).  And I want to get married, preferably before I have kids…or my parents won’t pay for the wedding.