Did you know Hilary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie and Madonna? – well they are very distant cousins hehe
Scientists have engineered mighty mice – this article is kind of scary. there’s a video too.
yum taco – california taco truck locator
World’s best bottom contest
Twins born during daylight savings time – hah, i never thought about this happening and which baby is born first
World’s tallest dog meets the world’s smallest dog – so cute!

This is such a great and helpful post! Simple Dollar has written up very detailed instructions, complete with pictures, about how he makes his homemade bread. As a single person, I often times will buy a loaf of bread and unless I eat bread for every meal the whole week (no fun in that!), I usually end up wasting the bread because it ends up going bad. Reasons why it’s great to make your own bread:

1. It’s cheaper
2. You can control the portion size so less goes to waste
3. You can experiment with adding different spices….mmm garlic bread!
4. There’s no preservatives or harmful additives in homemade bread

The only reason I can see why not to make your own bread is the time it takes to make it. Maybe on a lazy Sunday afternoon I can try this recipe and have bread for the rest of the week! Simple Dollar’s post makes it seem like it’s not too difficult!

There’s a new website called Comeks that lets you install avatars on your mobile phone. Check it out, it’s so cute!!

You can modify the mood and the background:

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on my phone. :( But, it has most normal phones so most likely yours will be on there! The avatars cost nothing to add but if you want your friends to see it, they need to install the program on their phone too (otherwise it just looks like a normal text msg). It’s free, but of course you will still need to pay for the text message itself.

errrrr…questionable logo

intel got some flack over this “racist”? ad haha

The name of this store is Megaflicks haha

If you shop a lot on Amazon, you really should make use of this website, Refund Please. Basically, Amazon has a 30 day price guarantee. In other words, if the price goes down within 30 days from the day you bought your item, they will refund the difference. If you input what you bought onto this website, they will track the price for you for 30 days and email you if the price drops. Currently, they only support Amazon but they are working on adding more stores in the future.

It only takes a few minutes to input your data and it’s a quick way to save a few bucks or maybe more. Their largest credit refunded was $3860.00!!

Refund Please – Helping you get a price drop refund

Have a lot of leftover halloween candy? Squidboo has a bunch of recipes you can make with them like apple candy bar salad, butterfinger layer cake, candy bar cake, and more. They also have suggestions on other things you can do with your leftover candy.

For halloween, I decided to go trick or treating at the last minute. I think I might have been the oldest person out in that neighborhood that night haha.

My top 3 favorite halloween candy I got this year:
1. Fruit Flavored Tootsie Rolls. I don’t know what it is about these, but I love them haha
2. Full size candy bars/candies. This year I got a full size bag of sour skittles. score!
3. Gummy fast food. You know the gummy hamburgers, french fries, etc? Even better, this year I got a SOUR, gummy hamburger. My fave!!

Top 3 least favorite:
1. A bag of peanuts. This is about as bad as getting an apple for halloween!
2. Smarties. Not enough flavor for me and way too many people give these out.
3. Regular, chocolate tootsie rolls. OMG, these are the most common and cheapest candies you can get. Why even bother giving these out??? Sorry if I offend anyone who likes these but there is nothing special about Tootsie Rolls. They are just small pieces of non-special chocolate!

At least I did not get any CANDY CORN. My all time least favorite candy of all time haha.

I always wondered how Seal got with supermodel Heidi Klum – hilarious! I should have known
8 year old calls 911 on his drunk mom who is driving him – isn’t it odd that her name is Paulette Lynn Spears…could she be related to Britney?! hehe
Modern low income housing in NY – I wish they had something like this in LA!
The Hills is scripted says Lauren’s date – if you watch the Hills this is a must read!
The internet is my other BF – recent survey says 1 in 4 americans say the internet could be a stand in for their SO haha
10 illegal questions that can’t be asked during an interview

One of my favorite food sites, Just Hungry, has started her very own bento site: Just Bento!! It’s a really helpful bento tutorial site since it has step by step, detailed instructions on creating bento boxes, great for anyone wishing to start.

In case you don’t know, I’ve been obsessing over bento boxes lately. I’ve made a couple so far and it’s so fun! I’m such a dork hehe. Anyways, I saw a really useful post on Just Bento that I wanted to share with anybody else who wants to start making bento boxes. It’s a tutorial on how to freeze rice. This is helpful for me since a lot of the times I’m too lazy to make rice for my lunches since it’s just for one person. I’ve often times resorted to the frozen rice from Trader Joe’s (which is really good but costly!). Now I can freeze my own rice to pack in my lunches. I’ll try to post some of my bento boxes in the future if I’m able to create any cool ones hehe.

Other bento websites I am loving:
Lunchinabox – great pictures and recipes!
Bentotv – this is a video tutorial site. the girl in the video is so funny. i have no idea why but she’s addicting to watch. her voice and manner is kind of eerie but her tutorials are nice and short. She has some goodies in her archive.

I noticed on Crave they have an article about the top 10 games you can dl on your Wii. The only game I’ve dled so far is old school bomberman which is such a fun game to play with a group of people. I’ll have to check some of these out. I forget to make use of the wide variety of games they have to dl for relatively cheap ($5-$10). Here is their top 10:

1. Super Mario 64 (N64)
2. Super Mario World (SNES)
3. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES)
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
5. Super Metroid (SNES)
6. Paper Mario (N64)
7 Gunstar Heroes (GEN)
8. Star Fox 64 (N64)
9. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (GEN)
10. Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos (NES)

My favorite type of frosting is of the cream cheese variety so when I saw this recipe on Slashfood touted as being “the last cream cheese frosting recipe you’ll ever need“, I knew I would have to bookmark it for future cupcake usage. The recipe is surprisingly simple:

Beat 8 oz. cold cream cheese (not rock solid, but it means you can use it straight out of the refrigerator) with 5 Tbsp. softened butter and 2 tsp. vanilla until combined. Gradually add 2 c. powdered sugar that has been sifted after measuring. Continue to add more sifted powdered sugar until you reach a consistency and sweetness that fits your taste.

Maybe this will give me a reason to whip up some halloween cupcakes tonight like these cute vampire ones:

Happy Halloween everybody!!