Day off!! And it is beautiful out. :o

Do to list:
-Unpack (from NYC trip lol)
-Laundry
-Clean Car/Get car wash
-Go to bank (deposit federal tax return)
-Go to store
-Frame some things
-Driving range with dad (yay golf!)
-Watch Psych Finale (omgwtf)
-Job Hunt! Job Hunt!/Apartment Hunt!
-Work on moodtheme/web layouts

We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience.

We've updated the global navigation menu:

Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where:

• Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile.
• You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style.
• Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal.
• Under Communities, you'll find links to manage your communities, accept community invites, and create new communities.
• Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio.
• Under Shop, you'll find links to upgrade or give a paid account, buy virtual gifts, purchase LiveJournal merchandise (like T-shirts), and view your payment history.

LiveJournal Mobile update:

We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements.

Other important changes:

• You can lock comments to prevent further commenting on a post, while leaving existing comments visible.
• We replaced the "Tell a friend" link with a new "Share This" widget that lets you share LiveJournal posts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
• We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions).
• You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page.
• You'll now see the 10 most recent vgifts on your profile page. To remove vgifts, left-click on the vgift and choose whether you want to remove the vgift from your profile or delete it entirely.
• We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts.

We've got your fix:

• UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place.
• Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes.
• Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit.
• We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags.
• We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8.

Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week!

I do not want to work today. I go in at 11. I feel like shit, and I look like crap. ): My face is just covered in zits, it hasn't been this bad since I was, like, 13. And my hair is all crazy frizzy but I put a lot of product in it so it's frizzy but looks icky all at once.
Plus my uterus is still total suck and my head hurts and my throat hurts. ):
uggggg. ): AND I think I wrote my schedule down wrong and I actually work 11-6:30, not 11-5:30.
And I'm totally stressing out about the "one new email" alert on my Gmail-toolbar. ):

At least I finally get a day off on Wednesday. I haven't had a day off since NYCtrip.

My uncle's best friend died and I'm trying to figure what the ethical issues would be of telling Kohl's I can't come in Friday/Sunday to go to the funeral on Saturday but maybe just use that to go to Buffalo and see Amy. I didn't really know the guy too much but, like, Kohl's can't really say "no, you can't go to a funeral!"



Yesterday was Mark's birthday. So we hung out all night. He has a guy staying with him visiting UVM so he hung out too. I think he leaves tomorrow. But we hung out, watched Lost, went out to eat (aka I ate they sat there because they just ate) went back to Mark's and played UNO.
Funtimes.

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ARRRRG *punch uterus* Yeah, let's just go and be totally painful on my 9hour work day slash night I have plans.
jfc so bad this month. )<

Edit: ah, thank god the internet exists. Maybe more specifically LOLcats.
http://bestlolcat.untitled1.us/top100.html
Giggles feel better-ish.

I've been playing phone tag super bad with a place that I was supposed to interview at yesterday but it was postponed.
I work to 2:30today so hopefully I can finally catch the guy. But since I work freakin' 8days in a row I won't be able to go in until next Wednesday and I'm worried that's too late! Or maybe they can take me today? They can't just be like "well, maybe we shouldn't even bother!" can they?
)'''':


But I also wanted to go shopping after work because I get 30% off this weekend. I need new sneakers and some picture frames and maybe more nice/springy work clothes.

Get Your Cyborg Name

We're finishing up a few odds and ends before our next major release. Our mighty Ops guys continue to slay spambots and balance load times on a highwire without a safety net (which is kind of tough dressed in full ninja gear). Down on solid ground, we're celebrating this week's virtual birthday party with a warm toast to pants. If you can rearrange the letters of your favorite city, state, and/or country (feel free to combine these elements) to spell one of Frank's favorite treats (e.g., pants, wire, paper, etc.), he'll send you over a can of whipped cream to top it all off (provided you return the empty can for his midnight snack)! And, with that, let the word scrambling commence!

Stuff you should know:

We're still working on the delayed/missing notifications issue. Sorry, we're frustrated too. We'll keep you posted. Last week, we became aware that a recently-implemented script was overwriting affiliate referral fees for some of our users. Once we confirmed this, our Ops team quickly removed the script. Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way. While we plan to stick to a weekly news schedule, if we have a release in between regular newsletters, we'll post here to keep you informed. You can also check lj_releases for current release information.

To our paid users, we send squirrels in love!

If you have a paid or permanent account, you can send five free Squirrels in love vgifts through Monday, March 15th at 4pm, PST! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 squirrels displayed until they've scurried off to their new homes. Please send only one vgift at a time. In other words, you'll need to complete check-out and start a new order for each vgift you send. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select 'Do not disable' from the drop-down menu. Have fun!

Help is on the way!

We're pleased to announce the winner of our first charitable vgift poll, Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides critical medical care to under-served populations around the world. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds we raise from the sale of this vgift (we'll cover credit card fees). We invite you to start recommending nonprofits for our next fundraising drive at ljnewscontests. We'll take suggestions through the month and post a poll in the news during the first week of April to let you choose the recipient. We thank you, again, for your passion and generosity.

We've crowned a header

Congratulations to ohterlus for submitting the winning header, which will go live next week and keep us leafy through mid-April! You can submit designs for our next header contest at ljnewscontests now until March 31st. We'll post a poll in the news to let you decide which header will sit at the top of LiveJournal from mid-April to mid-May. All artistic interpretations are welcome. The winner will get a $25 LiveJournal gift certificate. All other contributors will receive $5 gift certificates. Our heartfelt appreciation for sharing your talent and creativity!

For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut!

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This here is Ria's photos from the trip.

Here's mine

DunDunDAH

:D

I look like a dork. Well, I always do. But also he made fun of me. ): Because I'm tall. And he's not. ):
So I'm, like, bending down and he's stretching up. XD
(expect to see this photo EVERYWHERE)

Between being totally exhausted and work and job interviews and getting sick I haven't even turned my computer on since I left for NYC. I haven't touched my friendslist yet, might take me awhile.

But! I'm not dead.



Andbest weekend ever
I'm going to upload pictures ASAP s2g.

But here's a slight recap:

RiaTime, TimesSquare, Sanrio Store, ToysRUs, Central Park, NHL store!, Extinction, OMGJAMESRODAY(madefunofme), Natural History Museum, DINOSAURS, NBC Store (yayPsychMerch!) OMFG SABRES VS RANGERS AT MSG, Stripper billboard, going to bed before midnight (hahawesuck).

The weather was BEAUTIFUL. T-shirt weather practically. And all in all I spent about $500. I might use the rest of my $900 budget to go to Amy.

I already turned off and stored away my laptop (obviously not bringing it). So I'm on my parents iMac, and holyshoot my parents are old, the font is HUGE.


Gonna leave in a couple hours. :p 9hour train ride fail. But NYC+Ria+JamesRoday win.
A reminder to check my Tumblr and Twitter for mobile updates.

OMFG I'm going to see James Roday LIVE tomorrow!!!!!