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Teehee… a plethora of new WP plugins to play with since I’ve become much more familiar with WP over the last 6 months:

Alright, here’s just an intro post, but thinking about reviving this blog again. This time, with more Facebook integration, if I can find the right plug-ins and get them to work correctly!

Updated WordPress to 3.0.1 (yay updates), updated the theme (yay, rounded corners), cleaned up some old plug-ins/comments/pages that weren’t doing anything…

Also… seeing if these blog posts will still go automatically to my Facebook (lol… maybe Facebook forgot about me)

And then testing out this nifty new plug-in that moves Facebook notes comments back onto my WordPress blog (integrates WordPress comments with Facebook comments) — Anybody want to test it out for me? =)

And eventually one day… figuring out how to use Facebook to post/host my photos that I put into my blog posts. That would save me significant hassle because the WordPress media uploader is extremely slow and clunky and half the reason I stopped blogging here to begin with!

So I know I haven’t posted in a while… and I didn’t do the Best of 2009 like I promised Kristan, but a late late late post is better than no post, right?

I went to watch Avatar in 3D IMAX this weekend and it was one of the best movie experiences I have had all year. It’s not really the plot or the story… it’s all pretty straightforward. It was feeling like you’re living in another world, and never wanting the movie to end.

When we came out of the theater on Friday night, a fresh layer of snow had fallen. Our first “real” snow since it actually stuck to the ground this time.

There was a thin layer of snow on my balcony, so I built a mini-snowman:

Now my new moose has a friend =D

Who wouldn’t want to see this movie!?
The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It

It’s migration season… or, hmm, it seems like these geese have been flying by my house (and landing in the lake behind my house) for the past 2 months now. And it’s definitely <40C outside now, so I wonder why they are still here. Regardless, these geese are quite oblivious to us. Or they really, really trust us:

I came home that day and heard this gnawing sound nearby. I couldn’t figure out what it was, and then…

(Sorry the video is so shaky… my camera is set to 3x zoom and it’s COLD. I’m cold, and the squirrel is cold, too. He’s shivering.)

It’s definitely fall now… yup.

(that Kristan may not find that amusing… lol)

The pharm prof likes to put a lot of detailed tables of drugs and their receptors, drug pathways and chemistries, etc. on his lecture slides. He spends a grand 5s on each slide, and ends each one with “you don’t have to remember any of that.” So last week… he shows this slide:

and says, “now, what do we have to learn from this table?”

And someone from the back of the room yells out, “NOTHING.”

“That’s right! Next slide.”

=P

And fyi, I’m totally failing this class… =(

It was a good weekend… rented a car and ran a bunch of errands. In particular, I went to watch Surrogates with Franke, Frost, and Franke’s roomies. On Saturday, I took a brief tour through the condo community garage sale (people were selling things in their garages… all you had to do was walk house-to-house to pick up cheap items). I picked out these 2 bears for just $1! I left them in Franke’s car because they look like good decoration.

Next, went to the Subaru dealer and test-drove the Impreza. (fun!) They were giving away free laundry detergent. “The Outback puts the stains in. Outback detergent takes it out!” (Note how small the bottles are… those are my keys next to them.)

I had Big Boy for the first time. (I had the “breakfast brunch buffet” on Saturday/Sundays!) On weekdays (and afternoons on weekends), they have burgers and a soup/salad bar combo.

And one more of the bears, because they were just too cute! They’re telling each other secrets =)