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You'll notice the pink ribbon to the right of this post. This is a great site where all you have to do is visit the page and the sponsers who advertise there will donate money to support funding mammograms for women who can't afford them. Also, on this page you will find links to click to support feeding hungry children, providing healthcare and books for children, helping to protect the rainforest and a page to help feed and care for animals in shelters. It's all free, you don't pay anything, they just count the number of clicks they get everyday and the sponsers pay. You can click everyday. Please check it out by clicking on my pink ribbon - it takes less than 5 seconds.

You can see I'm having way too much fun with this...

Scrapblog

As you can see from below - I accomplished my scrapblog. This was kind of fun actually. I know it said to use the images that we gathered from Photobucket, but I decided to use some of my wedding photos, because even though we just celebrated out 2nd anniversary, we haven't gotten our wedding photos from our photographer. The photos in this "album" were taken by my brother and my cousin's wife.

Scrapblog Album

Only in my dreams...

Thing #27 Photobucket

Ok, I did the photobucket thing. It's pretty much like Flickr - but I found searching and browsing for things a little better. I did a Harry Potter search and put some images in my album. It's kind of interesting that when I did a Harry Potter search in Flickr, I got a bunch of pictures that people had posted. When I did the Harry Potter search in Photobucket the images were more of things that people had uploaded - like movie stills or goofy little sayings - very few pictures. I was also a little surprised at how vulgar some of the images I found were - it was a little disturbing in some cases. The find stuff option was ok - I'd rather do a search though.

Thing #26

I did the Widgets "yourminis" thing a while ago, but never posted about it. Too clustered and distracting for me. I just wasn't getting the point. I set up the desktop with all the little buttons and such - but then I just couldn't figure out what to do with it, and then, I just didn't care. Nor do I care now, so I'm thinking this isn't something of use to me, so it's time to move on.

Too cute for words!

This is a recent photo of Drayden. This was actually taken with a cell phone. Pretty good image. Already a Michigan fan. Gotta love it!

I LOVE BANNED BOOKS!

Silly me, I've been so caught up in other library things (you all know what I'm talking about), that I completely forgot that it is Banned Books Week! That special time of year when a young reader's fancy turns to those prized novels (and picture books) that scare so many that they feel they have a right to keep perfect strangers from reading it. So I ask all of you to celebrate with me this year. Pick up your favorite banned book and be seen reading it. Let the world know that you will not be curtailed by others fanaticism. To get you started here are the "10 Most Challenged Books of 2006" courtesy of the American Library Association:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
2. Gossip Girls series by Cecily von Ziegesar
3. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
7. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

...silly me, thinking those penguins should take care of that egg rather than letting it die...

All right, I'm off to go pick up one of the Harry Potters and read it again. Supposedly I should be able to actually learn how to do witchcraft just by reading the book. Since I've read them about 30 times all together, why can't I make something float? I have a wand and everything. "Wingardium leviosa" - nothing - my computer monitor is still firmly on my desk, sigh... that would have been so cool.

(I suppose I have to include this disclaimer - these opinions are my own and do not reflect the place I work. If you're offended, take it out on me and no one else.)

"Oh, I am just a student, Sir and I only want to learn.
But it's hard to read through the rising smoke from the books that you'd like to burn"
--Phil Ochs, "I'm Gonna Say it Now"