Greatest invention ever.

Or, How I Waste My Time and Life, part 2.

Short and simple: Pinterest. If you haven't heard of this website yet.. now you have. It's fantastic. It's still in it's beta version, but I'm already loving it. And if you have heard of it.. well, you can skip this post but still leave me some comment lovin'.

Or McLovin. Whatevs.

It's basically a website/network that acts as a storage place for pictures of ideas, books, recipes, etc of all the things you have thus far been right-clicking and saving onto your hard drive or clogging up your bookmarks bar with. You can separate the pictures that you "pin" onto different boards and create an extended profile of yourself, your likes and dislikes, favorite places, inspirations, favorite books and movies.. all in picture form. When you go back to click on one of the photos that you pinned, it directs you back to the original website that you took the picture from. This is great for sourcing things if you blog, but also a good way to organize anything in your life. You can also see other people's pins and repin something to one of your boards if you want to. The best part is that it's so super easy.. they have a "bookmarklet" that you install into your internet browser bar to help you pin things.

First, you find a site and a picture you want to pin and click on the "Pin It" bookmarklet (seen circled below) you downloaded in your browser bar.

My choice was Style Me Pretty.. there's a shocker.

When you click on the bookmarklet, a screen pops up with all the pictures on the current page of the site you are on. You find the one you want, and click on the "pin this" button that shows up when you hover on the picture, like the second picture in on the top row, below.

After you click "pin this", the following screen pops up. You can pick which of your boards you want your pin to go to, and write a brief description.

You can then choose to see your pin on your Pinterest page, or resume browsing the web. Here's what my profile looks like so far:

I have a ton of stuff I want for my apartment/future house on "the nest" board I created, and even more in my wedding inspiration board. Scot wants one just to put tattoo ideas on. Hey, whatever works, right?!

Moral of story: this site kicks major ass. Since it's still in the beta version, it's invite only.. I put my name on a waiting list and got invited about a week later. If you want a piece of this awesomeness and don't want to wait, let me know! I have six invites that I've yet to give to anyone!
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Also: K-bomb introduced me to Tumblr. I have a very bad feeling that it will become another staple(like I really need another blog), and I sure do hope they have a Droid app for it. I'm thinking pictures. Tons of pictures (and with my new camera, at that!!).

I do declare.

I've been feeling rather uninspired this past week. I have realized that it is much easier for me to come up with posts and topics when I am using it as a procrastination tool; example, constant posts last week because I really didn't want to study for my NCE. But now that's over.. yep, drawing a blank. At least for this week; I think my brain shut down a little after the test.

So please forgive me for the time being but join me as I reach a new level in my relationship with Scot. We have taken the big leap.. into domestic partnership! (Cue applause.) We decided that since I'm changing jobs soon to one that will probably not offer good health insurance, if any, that we should add me to Scot's plan. In order to do so (and since we aren't getting married for 18+ months), we have to fill out this fun little form:

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I mostly get a kick out of being able to choose from the terms fiancé or domestic partner, and criteria #5.

But I guess it has to be said.

On that note, happy October and happy weekend, all!