Life's Important Questions

I may be alone on this, but I highly doubt it.

Every night I climb into bed, plug my phone in, and proceed to carry on text conversations for at least a good thirty minutes.

But you know that point when you hit the wall and start dozing off, that's what I'm curious about.

Do you sign off or do you just let the conversations hang? Maybe not even at night, maybe during the day - when you are carrying on a conversation...

Are there certain people who you text goodbye to? Are there certain people you just simply don't want to end the conversation with? Do you accidentally fall asleep before you have a chance to say you're going to bed?

C'mon people, these are important life questions!

Me - I will tell certain people that I'm callin it a night. Mostly those who I know will keep texting, a lot of the others I just let them hang. Is that rude?!

 

FBO

Yep.... yesterday this dude and I became FBO. You know, Facebook official. The end-all-be-all of singledom. Because we all know nothing's official until it's Facebook official ;)

(I had a mouth full of smores in this picture, lovely huh!?)

Hey if we have been calling each other boyfriend/girlfriend for a few weeks now in real life, might as well take it to the interwebs right?!

So What Wednesday

It's my favorite blog day of the week!

So What Wednesday

Link up with Life After I "Dew" if you wanna dish too!

So what if I deleted every SO WHAT I had written up because this is worthy of its very own post....


So what if this is the funniest word verification EVER!

Relive your glory days!

I'm a 90's kid... most of you were probably 90s kids. I may be biased but I'm pretty sure we had the best possible childhood through all the decades. Do you not agree!?

So imagine my excitement when I came across Things 90s Kids Realize

Their fictional 'statuses' were cracking me up...

And they have excerpts that cover everything from Fresh Prince to Double Dare, "da bomb" to MarioKart ("If you and your friends have had a few drinks and aren’t sure who is in the best condition to drive home, battle it out on Rainbow Road."), and in all honesty it's just flatout hilarious... I highly suggest you check it out you'll probably be laughing all day like I was!

(No affiliation - I just like to share giggles!)

I'm all over the place!

After a bit of gentle nudging (read: "do it you freakin loser") I jumped aboard the twitter train...

Now someone teach me how to use this dang thing! Hehe

@misschels_indy

Google Me

Katie over at Loves of Life did a post yesterday talking about analytics and what brings people to her site, so I decided to pull mine up and see what ya'll are googling to get here...

SEARCH WORDS
"hellomisschelsea paint" (apparently you all like my paint choices... you can my swatch list for the cottage here)
"hellomisschelsea craigslist" (I have found some bargains!)
"chocovine kroger" (No explanation needed. Chocolate + wine. If you haven't tried it - go)
"handbag bingo" (Can't wait to play again next year!)
"mixers for rangtang" (love my job)
"butt to butt" (awkward - definitely from this post about the yellow chair though)
"Chopped my hair" (yes, yes I did)
"doubledare costume" (probably my favorite costume I've ever worn)
"lane chair marshalls" (snooping on my pretty recliner?)
"redvelvetelvis@gmail.com" (personal fav... no idea why it sent them to my blog though)
"absolut raspberri mixers" (I'm sensing a trend)
"adam and chelsea broke up" (I wasn't aware we were dating... I hope he's not heartbroken)
"baby scarf chelsea" (sounds like a toy)
"chelsea loves milk" (also awkward)
"chocovine mixers" (I don't need AA- honest! It's my job!)
"godzirra baseball" (hahah I love it)
"hello miss chelsea sectional" (aw ya'll love my couch too!)
"miss chelsea hair products" (I think I need a full post on this soon... I have a wide variety!)
"sherwin williams universal khaki"(aka my living room color)
"to buy a pair of santas footprints" (wait...wha?)


VISITOR MAP
Then I went over to see where you all are clickin over from and was really surprised!
Most of you are in the US, and I've got the usual Canadian and UK'ers... the rest of the top 10 shocked me though!
4. Germany
5. Brazil
6. Australia
7. Netherlands
8. Czech Republic (my heritage!)
9. India
10. New Zealand

I want to hear from all you worldly folks! I am intrigued!

Have you looked at your Analytics lately? It gave me a pretty good laugh!
Remember, Chelsea loves milk -

Picture uploader issues?

I've seen a lot of people complain about Blogger and not being able to upload their pictures, so I thought I'd offer a bit of advice...

I do all my posting through a different version of Blogger, it's actually where they test out new features before they're released and the good ol' Blogger is updated.

All you do is type in draft.blogger.com and go about posting as usual! That will take you to your dashboard, just like if you go to blogger.com. You can access all the same features (and occasionally see what's coming out next!)

I personally find it WAY easier to upload photos, and to move them around within your post.

Hope this helps!

iPhone humor

Anyone with an iPhone can relate to the perils of AutoCorrect.

Mine personally chooses to change Budweiser to Bedwetter (meh, can't blame it), Chris to Chrysler (because really, I only date failing auto tycoons) and occasional roulette to Rolex (perhaps it predicts the future?)

I stumbled across the site, Damn You AutoCorrect, this morning. And haven't stopped laughing since!

Hello Mr. President

Spam mail makes me giggle.

Sorry Billy, I don't even like soccer!

Astro-twits

It seems like everybody tweets (twits? twitters?) these days... I haven't hopped on that wagon'o'bands yet... however ever since I stumbled across photos like this,I have been highly considering it. Just so I can follow these fellas as they tweet from hundreds of miles above us. [Photo from American Astronaut, Douglas H. Wheelcock, better known as @Astro_Wheels)

How baffling is it to think that we can stay connected with astronauts while they're floating through space? They can easily send down pictures of something most of us will never experience in our lives?!

Technology is a beautiful thing!

In the presence of greatness : AutoTunes

I feel like I come up with genius ideas at least once a day. I mean that in the most non-stuck-up way. Actually, I take that back, they really are genius... if you could peek inside my mind one day you would probably feel compelled to bow to my greatness

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Are you ever driving down the highway in your car obsessively surfing through your 19 programmed radio stations just HOPING that one SoulDecision song is on. And then you rifle through your cd's because you are just POSITIVE that you burnt it to that Spring Break '02 mix which you can't seem to locate in the backseat passenger side door. Then finally, as your pulling into your driveway... disappointed and defeated, you pull up the ringtone on your phone just so you can feel that slightest bit of accomplishment.

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That's where my jukebox radio comes into play! It's like magic. Access to any song you have stuck in your head, right at your finger tips (in a road-safe, hands-free manner of course). It's possible on a computer, why not in your car?! It'd be even more glorious if you had the option to either buy the song (where it would get stored in your car's database so you can replay "Faded" over and over and over so you can enjoy it again later) or just listen to it once.

Go ahead and think on that one for a bit. Let it marinate. You can come back later and tell me what a great idea it is.

Do you Kaboodle?

I discovered Kaboodle a few years ago. (It's Kaboodle with a 'K', not to be confused with Caboodle, the plastic cases we wielded as children full of Barbie makeup and friendship bracelets!)

Aside from being incredibly fun to say, it's also a super useful site for internet-shopping-basket-filler-uppers-but-never-click-purchasers such as myself. I may be alone, but half the time I add something to a shopping cart just because I like it, even though I can't/don't want to/shouldn't purchase it right then. That's all fine and dandy except then you have to create a log-in for that particular site and remember your password in 2 weeks when you've found enough quarters in the laundry to click BUY. And, well friends, I'm just not that dedicated/organized.

That's where Kaboodle comes in, you simply sign-up for an account there and then add the "Add To Kaboodle" button to your web browser favorites.

(Don't worry, they give you really simple instructions and it's super easy to get all set-up!)

Then when you're on Steve Madden's site and see shoes that you NEED for a wedding next month, just click your "Add to Kaboodle" button.
I'm sure in no time you will have multiple pages of goodies like I do!

You can create multiple lists (I even "Add to Kaboodle" certain sites I like, if I want to remember a specific travel site or something for example) and check out what everyone else is Kaboodling too. I am not getting reimbursed or anything, I just love this site and thought I would share it with you all!

As an added bonus, it has an extra space when you are "adding" something where you can insert what size/color you want, update the description and price! It ends up looking like this

PS I use this for birthday and Christmas lists every year - you can send out a link in an email and it makes shopping incredibly easy for your loved ones, plus you will get what you want instead of another ugly sweater!
I imagine it would work really well as a shower/wedding registry also, it has a place where you can insert a number requested, and I think how many have been purchased.

Snap, Crackle, Crash

Last night as we were packing up ChrisChris' condo (more on this later!) I decided I wanted to take some last minute pictures of the place... we did have a lot of memories there after all! I get out my good ol Cybershot and start snapping away. 'Jeesh,' I think, 'It's really dark in here or something, I can't even see anything on the camera screen!'

Lo and behold, not only does it not hold a charge, it's completely jacked. The photo's look like a mix between a blazing fire and some sort of ghost-energy meter. I guess I've now made up my mind between getting a new battery or buying a new camera!

This, my dear amigas, is where I need your assistance...
What kind camera do you use? I preferably want a point-and-shoot, as much as I would love a DSLR or something it doesn't make sense right now, I don't have the time or money!
Getting another Sony would probably be my smartest route, since that's what my past 2 cameras have been, therefore I already have a couple memory cards. But I'm open to anything right now!

Along with telling me what camera you use, can you include:
How it charges (my most recent Cybershot had to be sat on a dock and then plugged into the wall which I thought was a pain)
How you get the photos onto your computer (camera cord, card reader, I even heard there's fancy cameras that can send them wirelessly?)

and anything else you want to mention.... how is the battery life, any special features, cool colors etc.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I really really really appreciate it! I'm one of those people who researches online before I buy but we are going out of town this weekend and I would love to be able to bring a new camera with me then!