Mother's Day: May 9, 2010

We all know Mother's Day is coming up, and I'm sure some of you are scrambling for the perfect present for your wonderful mothers. Well, look no further because I've got two websites with great gift ideas! I have two links below, one is with gifts that kids can make for mothers, and the other is a website where you can buy customized gifts for your mother.

KID FRIENDLY Gift Ideas

Customized Gifts

Five Stars

I recently took a trip to the movie theater and saw the movie How To Train Your Dragon. I must say, this is a wonderful movie filled with everything from adorable to menacing dragons. I loved the characters and their attitudes, I really reccomend you see this in 3D. This is a Wonderful movie for the whole family, or an outing with friends.

My favorite character personally, I can't decide. However, I did enjoy the changes in attitude that Hiccup and Toothless go through together. You will definitly enjoy this movie. So go out and have fun! Happy April! ☺

Song of the Month: April

Since I really want to remember to post, I'm going to start doing the song of the month! This month it was between "Need You Now" -Lady Antebelum and "Kissin' U" -Miranda Cosgrove. It was a hard decision, but I have decided that the song of the month will be: *Insert drum roll here*




"Kissin' U" by Miranda Cosgrove!!!!! Yay!!! *Insert round of applause here* Here's the link to the music video, enjoy. (If you would like to listen to "Need You Now" it is below in the little playlist)







And Happy Spring!!!!!!!!!!

The New Youtube

Alrighty, I'm back! Again......... Anyways today I bring you news of the NEW and IMPROVED Youtube! Apparently this new layout is supposed to be better for us. Now, in ways, I agree with this, and in ways I don't. First of all take a look at this picture of the new layout:



So, as you can see, our Youtube has changed. The name of the poster of the video is now located above the video, along with other videos of the poster and the subscribe button. Also, if you look at the little blue box, they have a tour for you, to keep you from getting confused. That's one of the things I like, I may hate tutorials, but I have to say the tour made me less confused. :D So, moving on. The description of the video is now located under the video, and the Embed button went along with it. Now, getting to what I don't get is the new rating system. If u look closely at the picture, you can see that there are no more stars, instead there are "like" and "dislike" buttons. If you take the tour, they will explain that the "star" rating system wasn't working well for some reason, so they changed it to "like" or "dislike". I prefer stars, but oh well. What I do like about this "like" and "dislike" system is that, once you press the "like" button, youtube saves the video for you. No, it doesn't save to your favorites, but if you take the tour or look at the above picture, you'll also see that there is now a "Save to" button. This button allows you to save the video to either you favorites, a playlist, or you can create a playlist to save it to.

Going onto the commenting part of youtube............



This section wasn't changed as drastically. As you can see, the comments still look the same, and you can still reply and rate the comment. However, what they did change is that now, at the top of the comments there are the highest rated comments, and then under that come the video responses. Then, you finally see the rest of the comments. I don't really have any comments on this, I'm not really sure where I stand. But, also, now instead of having a little box at the side you can scroll through to see the related videos, youtube has just listed them out for you. Now the only thing you have to scroll is the WHOLE page to see the rest of the videos. You can probably tell how I feel about this. :D

So, what do you think about this new Youtube? "Like" or "Dislike"? Hopefully I'll post again soon, but until then, PeAcE and HaPpInNeSs: Erica. ♥♥☺☻☺♥♥

Merry Halloween!

Hihi! It's me Erica and I just wanted to say Merry Hallwoeen to everyone! A bit late, but oh well! Did everyone have fun trick-or-treating, because I know I did! You definatly know you're having fun when you're yelling, "Trick-or-Treat!", "Merry Halloween!", and "Happy Christmas!" in everyone's face when they come to the door. And I can't forget the "Thank you for donating to the save Count Olaf foundation!" everytime we walked away! Ahhhhhhh, good times. Especially considering I was an angel! I just can't wait for Halloween next year! In honor of the Halloween spirit still annoying me on November the first, here is a craft from a website I found through Google! I DO NOT OWN THIS CRAFT!!!!



YAY! I'll try and post again soon,
Erica!
"Shadows of a thousand years
rise again unseen, voices whisper
in the trees,
'Tonight is Halloween!'"
-Dexter Kozen