The Kari AnnAlysis

Archive for July, 2009

Although this is a chick flick/chick read, they both made me uneasy.

I was in a single stage when I read the book, but it made me feel like I’d never find a relationship. Every reason it gave for a guy not calling you or liking you was something that I had been through, MANY TIMES.

I’d taken my time in watching the movie. It wasn’t necessarily a movie I wanted to watch with Michael. I try to watch the chick flicks before I go to work and watch action/fun movies with him.

Last night, there was nothing else to watch, so we checked it out.

Again, I felt completely uneasy after watching it.

Ben and Jen’s relationship was the only one that didn’t make me feel uncomfortable.

A married man cheating is not something you like to see, especially when you’re getting ready to get married. Michael reassured me the guys in the movie were douche bags, but seeing how naive the girl was and seeing how easy it was for the guy to cheat. Mahhhh!

All paranoid notes aside, I thought the movie was pretty cute. There were a lot of stars in the movie, which always makes for a must watch.

I thought it was well-written. Although I haven’t had all of the relationship experiences in the movie, the way it was written made it easy for me to relate to.

I give He’s Just Not That Into You 3 popcorns:

But I am going to set out this warning: If you are uneasy about your relationship or if you are a paranoid person, don’t watch this movie. It will not help!!!! I think there are more exceptions than rules, but the movie doesn’t agree!

Oh, and never let your husband/boyfriend go to yoga;)

1. So we all know how dangerous it is to play on your phone while driving. Twitter doesn’t help that cause much. I know I spend a little too much time on Twitter, lately jamming to MJ has helped me steer clear. But now there’s a site that will let you Tweet, hands off. It’s called TwitterFone. You sign up and when you want to Tweet, you call and record your Tweet and it’ll be updated. You can also listen to others Tweets, reply or DM them. Seems like a cool concept, let me know if you try it and like it.. or not.

2. TweetLateris a site that takes Twitter to the next level for you. And it gives you a couple of options. You can do the free route or the professional route that will cost you some cash. Some of the things you can do on here is schedule a tweet to send later (I’d like to think I wouldn’t use this, but I always forget to do a 10pm news tease. I could use it when I’m thinking about it), you can track the number of clicks you get on links, follow and unfollow new and old friends and you can use all of this on many accounts. That’s just the free stuff. For the pay to play options, you can … well, there’s really nothing on there I think I would use. It’s a lot to do with Auto DMs and filtering and blah, blah, blah. But I’m sure its good for some.

3. I know I added a Twitter poll like site before, but here’s another one. It’s call twtpoll. I have never really seen use for a poll, I may start adding them and doing some stories about them on our nightly Twitter segment, but when I looked at the most popular ones, I see how they can be used. Yahoo! News did one about Sarah Palin. I guess I never thought big names would use these. Pretty cool.

4. Twitterholic has potential if you like numbers, and you can get it to work. I’ve tried it a couple of times in the last week, and nada. I got it to work back in March, but since then, it’s been a bust. It tells you where you rank on Twitter by followers. We all know @aplusk is first blah,blah… but the first page shows you the top 100 users. When you put in your name, it’ll tell you how many followers/followings you have, where you rank worldwide and where you rank in your area (or the city/state you put in your location). I am pretty sure this one also tells you when you started. I always forget this date, but would like to check it out so I can find out how many Tweets  I average (I’m a dork).

5. So I’m still not 100% sure what Twidroidis. From the shots on the website, I think it’s a mobile app for TMobile. It looks like a nice app. It looks clean and has one feature I WOULD LOVE! The follow/unfollow feature would be GREAT on my bb. I don’t get on Twitter.com that often, I do most of it through my phone. I see people I want to unfollow, but always forget. I make a list of them in my note pad, but then don’t feel like looking them up later. I don’t have TMobile, but would check this out if I did.

I know you like to do your own thing … and like most women, you don’t like to be told what to do. So just like I did with my friend Snow, I am going to ask a favor of you.

You have been a pretty pissed off this summer. I understand, but it’s about time to snap out of your spell. And what a better time to do it than the 4th of July?

There are times when I know you like to be habitual, like that it’s rained EVERY 4th of July since Michael and I met. Yes, I know that the rain brought us together, but would it kill you to keep it dry for one year?

We have plans to go out on the river and celebrate our anniversary with friends, so if you could find it in the goodness of your heart, we’d appreciate the dryness of the day.

PS: If you to want to rain until Saturday, that is ok… get it out of your system.

Add your pictures on Twitter this way:

1. The most popular way to add pictures is Twitpic. When I upload pictures from my computer, this is always the site I use. It was the one I was first told about and I’m a creature of habit.  You don’t have to make an account, you just sign in with your Twitter name and password and it updates your time line. The site is cool because when you pop it up, it shows a map of where people are adding pictures and you can see what the pics are. It also tells you how many people have looked at your pictures. I’m all about numbers, so this works well for me.

But it you want to check out other options, here are some choices:

2. Twitgoois a site I just recently found. It is very simple. You sign in with your Twitter name just like Twitpic and voila, you can add a pic and a message.

3. When it comes to adding pictures from your cell phone, most Twitter applications you download will be able to add your photos from your phone. I have a tried a couple of different ways on my phone, but the one I’m using now is called Snap2Twitter. Every time you take a picture, it gives you the option to send it to Twitter. The only problem is if you decide to use one later, you can’t use this application. If that is the case, I just text it to Twitpic. I can’t find a site for Snap2Twitter, I found it in the Blackberry Apps store though.

4. I wanted to try to find all of these sites on my own, but I found a site that has done it for me. So, instead of adding the dozens of picture sites, here’s a list, and check out the site for other Twitter options. There are a lot of sites on this WordPress blog about Twitter Apps, so it may be overwhelming, but I still have some in mind, so I’ll keep doing these posts with the sites I like.

I don’t know what it is about Janet Evanovich, but I love her! It may be her creative writing, it may be the way I feel like I’m in the stories, or it may just be the craziness that makes my life look simple.

I liked this book because it brought all of my favorite characters back together. The Mooner is back in this book and Grandma Mazur, whom I love! And it brought a couple of new characters that I became fans of. Who doesn’t love a psychic (Gary) and a graffiti paintin, Internet gamin teen (Zook)?

This book was pretty action-packed, as most are. I liked the story line… but unlike other books, I couldn’t figure it out. This is one you’ll never guess the killer. I promise you that.

This is the 17th Stephanie Plum book I’ve read, and all of them never fail to surprise me. They are all very well written and each of them are completely different. I was worried when I started the series that they would overlap too much, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised that Evanovich can think of so many story lines. Very impressive.

I liked that Stephanie took part in security for a celebrity, but I didn’t like how the celebrity stayed around. She got on my nerves.

I try not to go into too many details in these, in case you want to read the book, but I always write things down while I read. One of things I wrote down this time is when one of the male characters punches a woman in the face. I’m not saying it would be funny if a man punched me in the face, but for some reason, I laughed out loud at this. I don’t think it’s right for men to hit women, but this cracked me up.

I also wrote down “change in text” … not sure what that meant, I’ll keep thinking and if I remember, I’ll come back.

I give this book 4 bookmarks.

It’ll be a while before I read the next couple of Plum novels. They are both in hard-back right now and I am more of a paper-back fan. I’ll change it up a little until then:)