Yeah, so I know Web 2.0 is like Soooo 2006. In case you haven’t noticed my blog is no longer on the bleeding edge of social networking technologies. For awhile there in college, I had to have the latest blog software, with the coolest bloggy toolness and ring a things. Those days are apparently over as after staring at XML all day I would rather sit and cut things out of paper or watch TV than hack away at my website.
Anyway, just to prove to myself that I’m not growing old and getting left behind in the blog technology-ness of it all, I added my del.icio.us links and twitter to the side bar on the right. I’m trendy yet again! Woohoo.
I’ve actually been using del.icio.us for about a year and a half. For those of you who might not know, it’s basically a site where you can keep track of all your bookmarks. Handy if you use a lot of different computers and want to be able to access your bookmarks from any of them.
Twitter is a more recent addition. At first I thought it was kind of stupid to post what you’re doing at a given moment, but then I remembered what great fun it was to check AIM away messages in college. (BTW does anyone actually use AIM anymore?) So, I’m thinking that is where I can put a random thought when I have one but don’t have the time to write up a blog entry. (You don’t even have to go to the twitter site to do it, you can just send the twitter ID a message from google chat! so tricky!)
So… over there on the right… see it?? Good. On that note, I leave you with a hilarious Dilbert comic about Web 2.0. Is it sad that I am beginning to find Dilbert funnier and funnier every day?
My next webby goal is to actually make my own wordpress site template, but that might be a long time coming!
I can’t believe that it’s just occurred to me to write about the southern phenomenon of chicken for breakfast. Back in the days when I was a Northerner, I had never heard of such a thing. In fact, I’m pretty sure the idea of a breakfast meat besides pork (in the form of bacon or sausage) would have made my tummy turn.
Now, though… I CRAVE chicken biscuits. Preferably Bojangles. Most definitely with a packet of Texas Pete hot sauce on top (another NC specialty). With a large sweet tea. Even though Bojangles probably originated this phenomenon, you can get a chicken biscuit locally at fast food chains such as McDonalds and Wendy’s. Bet you won’t find that on the menus up North! And they don’t know what they’re missing!
Like biscuits? Like chicken? Then you’ll like a chicken biscuit. Just don’t come running to me when you’re craving one at 4am before Bojangles opens… 
It’s worth the wait (which, unbelievably, I have done once before dropping Oak off for an early flight the airport! That almost made waking up so early tolerable!).
On that note, I will head to bed and dream of chicken biscuits. Unfortunately I’ve already had my quota for the week so it’s back to healthy granola tomorrow morning. Oh, bother.
Man, sorry for the lack of April updates. I promise I’m still alive and kicking – just lacking the motivation to update my site. Sigh! Lately we’ve been visiting lots and lots of ANIMALS! Woohoo!
Two weekends ago we had a trip to the North Carolina Zoo. It was a gratifying experience, especially after the “safari” in India where we saw no animals at all. At least this way we saw everything! They’ve added a new “grasslands” experience where you can actually get even closer to the elephants (they’ve got quite a pasture!). My favorite were the meercats, especially after watching so much Meercat Manor. They are soo much smaller than they appear on TV. haha. The other amusing part of our trip were the baboons. I’m pretty sure some parents probably had to discuss the birds and the bees after their kids saw the baboons.
This past weekend, I arranged a NextStep (IBM new hire group) outing to the Duke Lemur Center. It was quite interesting. Duke has the largest research center for lemurs and the largest population of lemurs in captivity in the world. We only saw a portion of the lemurs, but they were very cute. We learned in the summer you can also do an enclosure tour where you see the lemurs that are let out into the Duke Forest. Very neato!
After the lemur center we went out and saw farm animals on the Piedmont farm tour – including hens, happy pigs, and the pampered cows at Chapel Hill creamery.
More photos and information soon!
UPDATE: Zoo pictures!
UPDATE: Farm tour pictures!
I’m much happier with this thirty-minute Thursday. Another challenge from Lain – I actually skipped one week because I was lacking in bling and buttons, and didn’t want to go shopping for new supplies for it (imagine that!). So, this week we were challenged to use:
-A sports photo (you may stretch the definition of “sports” as widely as you like)
-Something with a scalloped edge (you know I love my scallops)
-Some kind of sticker
I did take some creative license with the “sport” part of it.. I’ve had these pictures of Nirav and Oak duking it out in Wii boxing for awhile now. It was really pretty humorous, because as the fight went on, they got closer and closer to the TV. Please, don’t hurt our beautiful plasma. That would be great, thank you! I forget who won in the end, but I do remember us playing several hours of Wii tennis shortly after this (waaaay less exhausting!).
OK, that’s probably something that happens very rarely in Carrie-land, but that was the case this weekend. All these amazing sales and 50% off coupons at the craft stores and did I use them?? No. Well, that is until I was able to drag myself up enough to go with Oak to run some errands that we’ve been meaning to run for like a month… A quick stop at Michaels and I got a new file thingy for my patterned papers, and amazingly enough, I found a new pair of jeans at Express for $15! Holy moly. I wasn’t in very much of a shopping mood but they were on sale so I had to try them on. So apparently, in addition to their “editor” pant, the “eva curvy” jeans are also friendly to my figure. This other pair I tried on (I think they were “Eva skinny” or something) had tons of extra room in the back of the waist. Jeans are so weird. That’s why when I try them on, I go to stores that have only one brand (old navy, Express, Limited) and just try every style. It’s impossible to find jeans in a place that has multiple brands like JCPenney or something. I don’t have that much energy!
So, anyway, I’ve decided the pollen(TM) and the blah weather are partially to blame for my sickness. I’m mostly better now other than pumping the sinus medication to keep my headache away. We had our annual pilgrimage to the Angus Barn last night for Nixon’s birthday, which was excellent. I’ve got a half a slice of chocolate cheesecake waiting in the fridge when I get home tonight.. yum!
