Stuff I Like: Running Off The Reese’s

Whooops, apparently I forgot to provide y’all with a post last weekend.  My bad.  I’m sure you are all completely heart broken.  :)

Well, never fear.  I have faith you will forgive me after you check out this week’s link to something I like (unless of course you’ve already discovered the hilarious Cely…then nevermind…feel free to hate me).

If you have not checked out Running off the Reese’s go do it NOW.  I discovered this gal via someone else’s blog a few months back and honestly it’s the one blog I make sure I read every day.  (Sorry, real life friends!)

Things I like:

• her super cute Frenchie
• the sarcasm
• Snickers love
• her weekends on a houseboat
• her intense hatred for Texas weather
• she’s uses Picnik too!

For you running peeps Cely offers all kinds of insight and opinions on training for a marathon.  I’m not a runner but I still love reading everything she has to say.  It’s especially awesome that she struggles with every run but is pushing her way through training and is determined as all hell.  It’s not all happy sunshine and lollipops.

I love that she highlights all of her posts with awesome pop culture photos, references and personal comments.  It seriously keeps me up to date on everything to do with shirtless True Blood men, drunken Lindsay Lohan, and those uber-Royals the Middleton sisters.

And if none of that convinces you then just know this one thing… on Mondays she does posts that include nothing but pictures of hot famous guys. Magnificent Men of Monday - How else would you start your week?

Note: all photos on this post totally stolen from RotR…I’m sure she won’t mind.  much.  She gives the sources on her blog so I’m being lazy and not giving them here.

Stuff I Like: Picnik

Well apparently my idea to post something a little different for Saturdays actually worked out last weekend.  Glad so many of you came out of the woodwork to comment on my True Blood post.  :)  Don’t worry I know it was because of the Alcide photo, not because you really love me.

But don’t be getting your hopes up that every week will involve a shirtless man.  I can’t be selling myself out like that you know.

Oh wait.  I guess I can.  You are welcome.

But honestly, this post isn’t about shirtless Ryan Reynolds.  I swear.  It’s about Picnik.com…which I’m pretty sure I might have been the last to know about.  Here I was just posting my own pictures with no edits, no collages, no text and all along I could have been making things super extra cool.

My Mom was actually the one that clued me in to Picnik’s free uses but it wasn’t until I emailed Elizabeth to ask how she was making her coolio collages that I realized I should be using the premium paid version. 

Seriously.  It’s $25 for a whole year and you get all kinds of awesome extras.  So far I’ve mainly used it for fiddling with collages…which I am loving for posts where I have tons of pics to show you guys but don’t want to drag it on forever.  It’s so nice to just take an extra couple of minutes to combine a set of photos together!

Of course, there are a whole bunch more options available too.  Like adding special effects, picture frames, or even cutesy stickers.  You can also actually edit your photos in Picnik (although I’ve usually already edited mine before uploading).  Mostly I like to add shading, vignetting, or interesting effects.

But every now and then it’s fun to act like a teenager too.

Because I know you all love it.

Stuff I Like: True Blood

I realize that I’m hardly ever around to post on the weekends anymore.  Mostly you can chalk that up to the fact that sun has shown up around here so I try to be outside and not chained to a computer.  Oh and the fact that the new man in my life has a bigass TV and a hot tub.  Oh and he’s kind of fun to hang around with too. :)

So while I’m off drinking too much micro brewed beer with him I thought I’d try to start a new tradition of Saturday posts highlighting random fun stuff I’m into right now.

And while I should probably start with something new and interesting that you all haven’t seen a zillion times, I just can’t pass up this opportunity to say:  isn’t True Blood Season 4 just too bloody awesome?!  (pun intended…mwahaha)

Alcide.  You are welcome.

The gentler, kinder Eric.  Swoon.

My favourite since the beginning, Pam.  Absolute best.one.liners.EVER.

And let’s not forget Lafayette.  Hooker.

• Do you watch? 
• Who’s your fave? 
• Who do you hate? 
• Are you loving Season 4?