New Blog

As some of you know, I recently got a new puppy.  Like most people that have something new, I talk about her a lot.  Instead of boring you with her antics and random puppy stories, I've started a new blog to track our adventure.  If you're ever in the mood for a funny puppy story, or want to laugh at me as I try to figure out how to take care of a dog without losing my mind, check out Puppy Adventures.  Hope to see you there (and back here!). 

Updated Blog

A while back, Blogger made changes to their blog site, giving you a lot more options for your blog design.  Today I decided to try out some of the changes....and I don't like the result.  Here's the problem, I don't really have time to mess with it right now, and I can't figure out how to get it back to how it was before.  Oh well.  I'm hoping to get it back to something decent (or at least something I like) soon, but bear with me in the meantime.

Cake Wrecks

I'm definitely not the most creative person, so I love when I come across creative blogs.  And if they feature cake, even better! 

Cake Wrecks is one of my favorite blogs of the moment.  Their tag line is "When Profession Cakes Go Horribly, Hilariously Wrong."  Basically people send in photos of cake they've ordered that bakeries have managed to mangle.  A classic example: Someone calls the bakery and makes the following request, "Please write 'Happy Birthday' and underneath that 'Jane' all in red."  However, what they get is a cake reading, "Happy Brithday & under neat that Jane all in read."

I think if I were to receive one of these cake wrecks, I would laugh.  But unfortunately there are plenty of wrecks wedding cakes too.  While I still laugh at those, I can imagine the bride and groom were not as understanding.

Earlier this week, they had a "lawyer" themed post -- it was like you were reading a commercial for a personal injury attorney.  Since I'm a soon-to-be lawyerly type, I thought it would be appropriate to mention it in my little blog.  If you're interested, click here to check it out.

New Adventure

I realize today that I haven't had many visitors in the past week and was a little sad, until I also realized that I hadn't really written much in the past week either.  I think those two things might be related.  The last week or so has been very hectic for me.  I started classes last Monday, got a puppy on Friday, and am starting a new job today.  Needless to say, blog writing has taken a temporary backseat.

So far classes have been manageable.  I wasn't too happy with my schedule originally; I have a lot of breaks between classes and I'm used to going straight through.  But during that first week, I've already decided that I really like my schedule, mainly because it allows me to read during the day before class as opposed to staying up late trying to get all the reading for the next day done at one time. 

So far the puppy has been mostly manageable.  She's a quick learner but I think I have my work cut out for me.  My brothers both have dogs, and I've wanted one for a long time.  I talked to my brother about it first, and he gave me some honest opinions and advice.  Luckily I can call him with dumb questions.

And so far I have no idea how the job is going to go.  More on that later.

Blog Visitors

One of the things I like about writing this blog is seeing how many people actually read it.  And the truth is, not that many.  I have a couple of followers, and a couple of people who read it on a regular basis.  A while back, I sent a mass email to friends and family to let them know about the blog.  I got a ton of hits from that email, and some have continued to read it since then, but most have not.  This could be because they forgot about it, they have better things to do, or they simply don't care.  I'm going to assume it's the first one. 

And for those of you who don't know, there's a lot of information that shows up on my end of the blog, like where people are visiting from.  I never know who is actually reading it, but I can guess.  For example, if I see Germany (or Italy or Holland), I know it's the Islas.  Other than that, there are too many people that could be visiting from Texas or California or Arizona to actually know who it is.  All the visits show up on a world map, and even if I don't know who's visiting, it's still pretty cool to see all the little pushpins appear and gradually grow.

The reason I'm mentioning all this is today I hit a milestone -- somebody did a Google search and ended up on my little blog!  This is actually more funny than exciting though.  They apparently searched for "blog" and "cross-dressing" and ended up on my post from a few days ago.  Something tells me that wasn't exactly what they were looking for.  ;)