My Love brought me home a dozen red roses yesterday to cheer me up. He's such a sweetheart. He said he knew I was having a bad day and wanted to help cheer me up. Aw...
Sore Throat
This morning I woke up with the worst sore throat. My nose runs almost all the time (allergy stuff) but my throat never hurts unless I'm really sick. It's still hurting. All day, having to answer the phone and stuff with my throat scratchy, swollen and my voice weak and cracked. It sucks. It really hurts and I don't know why. It's a little red if you look at it but it doesn't look anywhere near as raw as it feels.
Gmail
After hearing everyone talk about the Gmail thingy and seeing how so many people were curious about it and everytime I logged into blogger it offered me the chance to sign up, I thought I would. So I now have memoryanddream@gmail.com as an email address just for the hell of it. I sent myself some emails back and forth just to test it out. First off, at the moment anyway, it's fast. Like instant more like. The emails sent and arrived on both sides immediately. I'm sure once it's out of beta and there's tons of people using it, it won't be that way. The whole "converation" thing is odd, different but kinda neat. Each reply defaults as a small tabbed sort of view with a preview of the first sentence or so. But you can expand it so you can see ALL the replies. It's threaded like a message board.
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Like I said, odd, but actually might be helpful for on-going conversations with people. I don't really need another email address but eh, thought I'd be one of the "few" to try it out. So far, there were no ads (except on the welcome email where it pointed out where the adds would be). I wonder if it's because I purposely mentioned things like "poop" and "kitties" and "cheese" just to see what it would come up with. Either that or they really are looking into the privacy concerns and legal threats being brought up against them. Eh. No biggie. I mean there's no reason to think that hotmail or yahoo isn't keeping track of your emails; google's just the first to admit they're scanning them for ad purposes. If you're really all that worried about it, wait until you get home to talk to the person rather then use email. Or if you must use email, then write it out in a passworded word file or other passworded attachment and poof, no more worry.
Lightning Strikes
Watched the first game of Round Two tonight. Lightning started off their second round best-of-seven series with a HUGE win of 4-0 against Montreal. Whoo hoo! Good job Bolts! ;) It was a really good game to watch too. They really outplayed the Canadians - something I love to see.
Um, well, that's my update for now. Nothing much else to say. Thanks to everyone for their kind words of support yesterday. It's really appreciated. Take care all.
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
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