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1. Getting brownie cookies and having them with milk
2. Getting some cleaning done
3. Watching Lewis Black's Red, White, and Screwed
4. Comfort from Michael
5. Journaling and writing down story ideas again

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: blah

( Good Photo of Bunny )

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: okay

1. Having good email contact with Amber
2. Going to the pet expo
3. Getting to see many different creatures and pet some of them
4. Buying a big giraffe "pillow"
5. Watching a really good episode of Millennium that wasn't depressing
6. Finally finding my ballet book!

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: exhausted

Vandana Shiva to speak on food security, peak oil and climate change on March 27 << Shiva has been singled out by Time magazine as an environmental "hero." Her lecture will draw connections between three of the world's most serious issues: food insecurity, peak oil usage and climate change. She calls for small, sustainable, bio-diverse farms in an effort to evade the environmental and economic problems associated with industrial agriculture. She proposes solutions based on principles of self-organization, community and environmental justice, in opposition to trends of globalization, fossil-fuel dependence and corporate power. >>

Court says no oil money for Anna Nicole's heirs << Smith married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall in 1994 when she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Houston and he was 89. >>

Nigerian rebels attack oil plant << A previously unknown militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Concil, which in recent weeks claims to have struck several oil installations, warned it wanted to reduce oil exports from the world's eight largest exporter to "zero". >>

1. A free vet appointment for Bunny
2. Bunny being in good health, aside from a virus
3. Reading The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith
4. Watching Heathcliff, the old cartoon
5. Working on my query letter for my novel(s)
6. Finally scrapbooking again

Current Location: Living room futon
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Heathcliff

1. Reading an online blog I really like
2.Watching the Care Bears II: The Next Generation movie
3. Having a good psychiatrist appointment
4. Painting the borders on my painting
5. My mother buying me groceries

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: good
Current Music: Care Bears the Movie II

1. The physical tests were done very quickly and weren't too bad
2. Watching The Little Mermaid
3. Feeling much better, physically and mentally, today
4. Bunny being more sociable
5. Watching My Sister's Keeper

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Tori Amos - Barons of Suburbia

Current Mood: embarrassed

Ben sings ' ring arounda rosie, popsicles are cozy, ashes ashes- all fall down!'

1. Waking up eventually
2. Having a non-angry response to my anger
3. Started reading Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli
4. A new episode of Lost
5. Bunny adjusting well to the house and cats

Current Location: Living room futon
Current Mood: sad

feedback

We've updated the global navigation menu:

• 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:

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.

( Pictures of Bunny )

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: stressed
Current Music: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Court of Miracles

1. Going to a jewelry workshop thing (I especially like the bracelet)
2. Seeing April and Phil again
3. Spending time with Michael and watching another episode of Hime-chan's Ribbon
4. Getting several emails from friends (I have to do a better job of responding later...)
5. Finished reading Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede

Current Location: Living room futon
Current Mood: blah

1. Watching the movie Silk
2. Visiting April and Phil, with Michael
3. My mother helping me out with buying a few things from the store
4. Having a good doctor's appointment and not needing to do a pap smear
5. Finding a less expensive (but good) veterinarian

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: sad

1. Anxiety being pretty manageable
2. Getting a new, sweet cat named Bunny!
3. Seeing the new Alice in Wonderland
4. Finishing my painting
5. Watching an episode of Millennium

Current Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Mood: tired

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:

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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