Cheerio Fizzbo

Oh come all ye faithful!! 

SO I’ve done it. I made the switch. And much faster than I thought I would (as in today, MONDAY instead of my anticipated reveal…Friday). I am now the proud owner of a BLOGGER blog. Drum roll please…

http://pleasecarrieon.blogspot.com/

TA DA!!! 

I am kinda sad to be saying goodbye to Fizzbo-blog, but at the same time I’m excited to take things in a different direction. I’ll continue with my postings about Fizzie, but expect a heaping spoonful of randomness on the side. Actually, make that  a massive bowl-full of randomness on the side. 

Oh and if I end up hating Blogger, prepare yourselves for another switcheroo

And now, please Carrie On!

The final COUNTDOWN

One week of work left until…

• Tristan’s 21st Birthday
• Durham Bulls game
• A week of VACATION at the beach in Duck, NC
• Reading 3 whole books
• Seeing my Uncle Ted (too bad he brings the Chicago rain with him where ever he goes )
• Boarding my lil kitties (SAD!)
• Praying that my plants don’t all die while I am gone
• Eating out at restaurants practically every night
• Swimming laps in the pool
• Sipping coffee in the AM while overlooking the ocean
• Sleeping in
• Saying goodbye to my pasty skin
• Competitive card games with the whole fam
• And RELAXATION

I seriously can’t wait for my whole WEEK off!!! I realized the other day that I haven’t taken a whole week off of work since my European extravaganza in September 2007. That is nuts!! Now that I am full time, I am required to take a consecutive week and I am more than happy to oblige Seriously I can’t believe I have worked at least some portion of every week since Sept 2007. This girl needs a BREAK! In the mean time I’m off to do some major damage control in my work inbox. I am NOT looking forward to the 400 emails I will certainly find upon my return.

Bliss

Oh and p.s. I have some AWESOME posting coming your way in the next few days. While at home in NC this weekend I was able to look through my Granddad’s old baby books and photo albums. My great-grandmother even made a nice family tree! I can’t wait to post pictures of these amazing finds. There are even pictures of my great-great-great-great-great (I think?) grandparents. My Granddad’s great-great grandparents. Wowzers. Anywho, be on the lookout!

p.s.s. I hope to have the new blog up and running by the end of the week I have made BOTH a new Blogger and a new WordPress blog. So we will see which one I end up going with.

Hump Day Haiku

Today’s topic: My cats and their odd habits.

You cry by the door

My psychotic indoor cats.

Just go eat some butter.

To Blogger or not to Blogger?

So I’ve been fiddling around wtih Blogger for what seems like HOURS (probably more like days now that I think about it…) and I just can’t seem to find a template that I like. I have zero skillz in the HTML field so its not like I can just up and make some schmancy new template. I am REALLY tempted to move to Blogger (I even got a schweet url) since I want to be able to use Google Analytics. I feel like I stalk my WordPress dashboard just about as much as I stalk my Google reader, but it is just not telling me the things I want to know. I can see how many people have viewed my blog per day, and if they clicked anything, and if there are any links to my blog floating around out there, but that is basically it. Call me selfish and whiney but I want MORE MORE MORE! At the same time, I do appreciate the look of WordPress and I feel like it is just a more sophisticated tool to begin with. Bottom line: a simple, been-there-done-that looking blog with awesome tracking capabilities or a more sophisticated template with I’m-still-clueless-about-who-views-my-stream-of-consciousness-thoughts tracking capabilities. 

Maybe I should just invest in some publishing software and go totally nuts nutz. 

Oh the decisions a girl has to make these days!!

Frazzle rock

No, I’m not jamming out to Fraggle Rock toons (p.s. awesome show).

Actually, I am feeling totally frazzled from the Grande non-fat two Equal latte that I am currently consuming. Caffeine doesn’t usually get to me (i.e. I could drink 2 shots of espresso and fall asleep five minutes later) so I am totally confused as to why I feel so weird?!?! Lately I’ve been drinking about 3 lattes a week (am I addicted?) and tend to think that I like the idea of a warm beverage in the morning more than I care about “needing” caffeine.  I started out as a tea fiend (Grande Earl Grey with room for milk) then transitioned to a Chai fanatic (Grande non-fat chai) then got TOTALLY chai-ed out (i.e. I can’t drink it anymore) and now I am a total latte-aholic. Maybe my body just isn’t used to the two shots of espresso I am now downing several times a week. Tea and Chai have a lot less caffeine right?! Bottom line is, I think I need a new drink. Maybe something that will make me feel a lot less frazzled. Help!!

p.s. Blogger site is still under construction so I’ll continue to post here in the mean time.

p.s.s. If I switch drinks @ Starbucks I think I’ll give the baristas a heart attack. They know me as grande-non-fat-two-equal-latte girl… yikes.