Wedding Wednesday

First something non-wedding related:

Well it happened. 

Google Reader is no longer there for me. 

I opened my Gmail on three different browsers and clicked on "More" and then on "Even More"...

...and, well, it is no more.

I thought I had until July. I thought I had more time!

Sigh. This is very upsetting. Seriously, has this happened to anyone else yet? 

What's the deal, Google?!?! What did I ever do to you?????

AND THEN!

Andrew didn't believe me.

We looked together.

We clicked on "Bookmarks." Nothing. So we clicked on "More" again and BOOM! 

My Reader was back!!!!!! Crisis averted!!!!

Maybe this visual will help. If not, let me know and I'll walk you through it. 

Please pass on the info so it doesn't happen to friends!

AND THEN (AGAIN!)

Andrew looked at the image I created and said, "You know, you could just type in 'google.com/reader.'"

Oh.

That works too.

OK so onto wedding stuff!

Look at what The Knot is sharing with us now: even more reasons to despise the wedding industry (aka the most expensive cities to marry)

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I could seriously vomit. Really? Really? Gross.

I blame Pinterest.

...now excuse me while I go look for more wedding inspiration. On Pinterest. 

Ugh.

Fun with Google

My co-worker said today that Google added a feature to its Image Search. You can drag and drop an image from your desktop into the search bar (or just upload one) and hit the camera image. Then images populate that look similar! Pretty interesting, especially if you can't find that cake recipe or the exact polka dot top you want. What would I use it for? Obviously I would upload a picture of myself to see if Google thinks I look like a celebrity. Here are some visuals to help you out (because I know you want to do it too!)

Here's the photo I submitted:

Here is what Google thinks I look like:

I love that I look like a weird child in a tiara or like a child about to stuff her face with cake. I'd say it's pretty accurate. Try it today!

30 for 30 Photos: Day 23

Happy sunny Sunday! Day 23 of the 30 Day Photo Challenge is to post a picture of my favorite book. This is so tough! I will break this into categories, so I apologize for the length of the post, but please enjoy my trip down memory lane.

First, my favorite book as a kid was The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear. I was also a big Berenstein Bears fan. Yes, I like bears. Anyway, this story is about a mouse trying to keep his enormous strawberry from the bear. Adorable, fun pictures, and bears: what more could you ask for as a little tot? :)

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My favorite book as a tween was, hands down, Piano Lessons Can Be Murder in the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine. Did any of you read any of the Goosebump books? I scoured every Scholastic Book Fair for the latest and greatest, and this one was by far my favorite.

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In high school I never had time to read for fun, and it was rare that I enjoyed anything I had to read for school. I did (and still do) fancy history, though, and any novels we had to read for English that involved history, particularly about the effects of war on both soldiers and families, interested me. I loved the absurdity and wit in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. I know the satiric anti-war sentiment can be controversial, but I appreciate the art of the book, especially from Vonnegut's perspective as a previous POW. I read some of the reviews as I searched for an image on Amazon and the Life review coined it perfectly: “Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears.”

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Like high school I rarely read for pleasure in college. I always read over breaks, though, and I found my favorite author during this time in Adriana Trigiani. She writes sophisticated "chick lit," always in the voice of a strong Italian-American woman. Trigiani's descriptive writing style not only transforms your surroundings and envelops you into the setting, her writing is also conversational. In all of Trigiani's books I feel like I'm in the room chatting with her protagonist. In Lucia, Lucia, Trigiani writes about a seamstress in Greenwich Village. It's an incredible story, like all of her literary achievements. As I said in previous posts, I'm currently reading Brava Valentine by Trigiani - so good!

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In college I was also inspired by Jane Green's book Jemima J. to lose weight. This is a fun book, blatantly criticizing stereotypes and artfully documenting the trials of being overweight, the difficulty of losing weight, the transition to having a new body and new perception of you by others, and finally, acceptance of yourself as you are. I have read other Green books but this in my opinion is one of the books with the most depth to it with the guise of fitting into "chick lit."

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In grad school I have read an insane amount of every form of literature. It's really difficult to pin down one favorite from the past two years, but I think the quickest, most entertaining read was What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis. Sure Jarvis has his share of name-dropping, but what he lacks in tact he gains in empowering consumers by confirming the importance of their opinions and experiences. By outlining Google's open business model, I have learned a different aspect of marketing techniques. His opinions and entrepreneurial vignettes support my belief that the Internet creates collaborative communities and harnesses power in more ways that we can imagine - and yet we have fun using our imaginations to lasso all possible ideas.

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Finally, I managed to read two of the three books in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series over Christmas break. While difficult to read at times, Stieg Larsson sure knew how to write suspense novels. These are longer than the Twilight series and maybe even Harry Potter (HUGE fan of both of these, too!), but I quickly finished both and certainly plan to read the third book post-graduation!

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Have a lovely day and see you tomorrow!