Rogue Idea

well i was on facebook lately and i dont have a lot of those applications added but today i tried to take this ‘what accent do you have’ quiz and i notice that the ads have button images on them that are links, that look like the facebook buttons for applications and everything else.  some of them even just say ‘continue’.  so like me, i was adding an application, there was a small ‘continue’ button inside the box and then a slightly bigger one underneath it that was part of the ad.  tricky!

yesterday morning i brought baby arisu to the doctor.  turns out she has some bacteria in her system so they gave her some antibiotics and some liquid medicine to help with the diarrhea, it worked instantly and last nigiht she slept all night, which means i got to sleep all night, thank god!  problem is arisu will NOT take her medicine without struggling.  they gave mea little syringe thing (no needle, just a flat cut tip to squirt the liquid out) to administer the liquid. i can stick it in her mouth and shoot it in but the antiobiotic is this huge pill (the size of those big orb weavers i used to torture in the backyard ).  well she wont eat anything or drink anything or touch anything tht has touched one of those pills.  she can smell it and avoids it at all costs. i tried to put it in the back of her throat but she snapped at me and bit my hand last night.  AND even though it was wayyyy back there, she somehow spit it back out.

i’ve tried a couple of treats and peanut butter, cheeses, etc.  she just eats everything around it and spits the pill out.  and she doesnt even like peanut butter so that didnt help at all.  this morning i had to hold her and use the little squirt thing to mix the pill with water and squirt it in.  she hates the taste but its for her own good even though i hate forcing her.  i wish i could give her a treat afterward but theres not really much to give her since shes gotta eat really plain foods.  ahh its raining like crazy again now. i’m so sick of this weather!  well, i better do my laundry now before everyone else gets home and tries to do theirs.

after today i will finally have gotten all my books for my classes.  i’m waiting at the library right now for my friend so i can get his own music book from him and also his little keyboard (for my music for children class).   Still missing a recorder for that class though, no idea where to get it from since classmates said in class today that they haven’t been able to find a place that sells them.  I will probably try to stop by the mall today and see if they have any in target since i will  be going to petsmart to buy arisu her food.  Thankfully i saved 70 dollars today by buying from my friend his old stuff, and also another 50 from my b&n gift card to get my anthropology book.  So now that i have all my texts i guess i will be doing a crap load of reading from now on.  today was the last day that i am going to go out to eat with my friends cause i have decided i spend way too much and will not spend anymore.  i only went today cause it was one of their birthdays though.  I hope i get to sleep tonight since i havent slept much in the past 2 days cause of arisu.  Last night she threwup a little (better than the night before she threwup multiple times and a LOT each time), and she needed to go potty like 3 times.  I’m hoping that upping her puppy food back to a higher level will help her adjust more easily.  I also hope shes doing okay today and will be okay tonight so that i can sleep.  at least tomorrow i dont have to be here till 10 am so i have a little time in the morning to spend with her and make sure shes okay.  Tomorrow i am finalllleeeee getting my organic stuff back from my friends.

i know im really ‘annoyed’ sometimes by others using my books cause they always mess them up.  but i guess sometimes i just cant help but to say yes cause they always help me out too with things in class.  for the most part i have only been lending books that were already in a not so great shape or books that i dont care too much about.   since the first week i have been getting endless text messages about old exams and text books.  i’m not gonna lie i benefit quite a bit from being in this ‘network’ of sharing with my friends, but sometimes i’m a bit overwhelmed with everyone asking me for stuff all at once.  Okay well i’m going to read and then hopefully get out of here soon so i can go buy arisu’s food and get some sleep.  maybe if i go to sleep early,  i will get to sleep some before she wakes up with a tummy ache =(

well, lately my laptop has been … ‘progressing’ with its ‘disease’.  i have no idea when or if my laptop will turn on or off.  It also lies to me about the battery percentage and dies when it gets close to 100%.  i really wnt to fix it but frankie already told me hed get me a new computer so im thinking ill just wait for that, and fix the laptop later when i have a little more money or by then i can get a new one.  i just need something that will stay on at this point because i cant get anything done when its dying every 5 minutes or i have to keep one hand on the power cord to plug it in over and over again.

anyways its almost end of january but i have made four HUGE goals for this year, in hopes that i can make them all.  however, itll take a lot of effort and work to get them all completed.  so hopefully i will have some drive to get things done this time and not just forget about it or not wanna do it anymore (which is ‘code phrase’ for being a ‘quitter’).

well i guess i will make this a short post and go get ready for tomorrow. gotta get up early and i might have to wake up in the middle of the night again for arisu.  im currently switching her to adult food and i guess i did a step too fast, she threw up a lot last night and went to potty outside almost every two hours 3, 5, and 7 AM.  so im extremely tired from being up all day without that sleep.  she was doing much better throughout the day though so im sure shes fine but i will switch the foods more slowly ( i started at 75% puppy, 25% new adult food) with 10% new adult food and 90% old puppy food.  i gotta go to petsmart to get the food though tomorrow since for some crazy reason they had like…NOTHING inthe store today.  ahh well okay i am going to go now.

Well I decided to pick up one of my ‘great ideas’ that I never finished from a long time ago and work on it throughout this semester. I’ve been thinking about using a website optimization firm to get a head start on things. It’ll just be for the design to be better and ‘ready’ for search engines. I was looking at this website to get a price range for it. They can optimize the website so that my site has a better chance of being up at the top of searches which means I could get more website traffic from the beginning. The custom designs cost a whole lot more than the stock ones but I can’t find the price for just optimization right now on that website. I will probably shop around some more later on for a website optimization firm to hire for my website project. I still have time though since I probably won’t be done with everything for a few more months. I thought this would help though since I want the website to have a good start once I launch it (and hopefully I’ll even finish it this time!) but first I have to find my old files which hopefully I’ve saved before I reformatted before.

well we finally went over to amy’s place so she could teach us how to play.  it was very similar to bai tu sac though so i got the hang of it pretty fast but gordon wasn’t picking up so fast.  anyways it was pretty fun we played that and watched some football for a while and then played speed scrabble.  and that somehow took up like 7 to 8 hours. well i wouldve been home earlier except gordon wanted to leave us to go pick up stickers (i know) so that took like an hour.  well anyways this is my last week of no school! =(  so i will try to make the most of this week by laying around as much as i can and doing nothing =)

So the first good thing about this website on printing services I found is that they have instant pricing on the side when you select your product and you can see the minimum you have to order. They have this on most printing sites but normally they make you wait till the end when you’re done selecting everything to show you the price. They also have a lot of different products you can print from stationary to brochure printing. I was sort of looking for bookmarks but they don’t have those, they just have door hangers, folders and posters but the minimum order is too big for me. They offer cheap brochure printing though, it’s a little over a dollar per brochure depending on how many colors, etc you want. I’ll probably show my friend this to see if she’s interested in printing out a few of the smaller size posters to put around or maybe get some brochures but I don’t really know what she has in mind to use yet. If not she could still use some stationary items to write quotes on for meeting customers so it has her contact info and logo on top of the paper.

Well yesterday I went with Gordon to help Chau move to Dallas for grad school.  It felt weird leaving cause it’s like we were leaving her in some strange place.  First of all we left early in the morning at 7:30 and then got there a little before noon.  Then we moved all the stuff into her apartment and then went to eat some Sonic.  Afterwards we ditched them to go buy her a microwave and look at some Asian market places that my cousin told me about,and we also stopped by Walmart.  I wrote down all the addresses for her since I know she probably won’t be used to shopping at Kroger for foods.  Good thing the Asian places are nearby though so it’s not far for her and the place is a really big and has everything.  So after driving around a bit we came back to the apartment to find them not finished with the table or the futon.  Then they left and I gave her the directions and addresses for the Asian market and Walmart while we stayed back and finished the table and the futon.  Chau’s bf had to banging on that thing for like an hour without any results somehow.  We then took Chau to Walmart to show her since she couldn’t find it after the Asian place.  Then we went to Nana’s!  It was in the Hilton Anatole on the top floor and verrrrrrrrrry nice. And the service was awesome!  lol.  I had a filet of steak with apple martini and lemon tiramisu and gordon had a scottish salmon.  Both were VERY good!!!!!!  so after spending well over 100 dollars on a dinner for two at a fancy place that was the best i’ve ever had, we went back and said bye to chau and picked up her mom to drive her home. we didnt leave until 9:30 and got back finally at 1:30.  Then i had to drive back from bellaire so i got home at 2.  Anyways it was a long day but very exciting and next time i will dress SUPER nice when goign to a restaurant like that so tey can put us by the window ! =)

Well after talking to Viv about her new business I was searching for resources online for her to get a website and set everything up. She’s debating whether or not to hire an answering service company to take some customer calls since she’s pretty much a one person company right now. Anyways I looked around found an answering service, MAP Communications that looks to be pretty good. They do everything from phones or online chat and emails for your website and you can even get a free trial for a week with them to try it out first and you can give a customized script to them. Even though I think for a small business hiring answering services is a big overkill, I showed her the link to the website anyways to give her some ideas on what type of stuff is available and so she can get a quote later on if she wants to. Their business is in VA and its pretty much a all in one phone/message type of service. They can take care of stuff like getting you a toll free number too to advertise which would be good for her since she doesn’t have an office yet and probably doesn’t want to give out her phone number.