This video is sooo cute. It’s animations drawn about people’s first crushes:

Boy is allergic to all but 5 foods – Wow, this would be my worst nightmare!
Proof of purchase – a blog where each post is written on a receipt, then scanned in. looks like he might be from oklahoma!!
Arthur Frommer answers your travel questions – “Every American should at some point in their lives go to China, participate in an African safari, and visit ancient Egypt”
Artists build and live in a secret apartment in the mall – you can see pics and video here
Most spectacular sights in Google Sky – really awesome images
Really good list of credit card mile promotions – the first one gives you a free ticket!
New York Magazine does a taste test for best gum – I like orbit myself
You can hug a panda in China! – another reason to visit China

I have to talk about this old, but great show. I just recently got into it after a few people kept telling me I would love it. They were right! I can’t believe I missed out on this when it aired in 1999-2000, but that was probably because I was in college then and hardly ever watched tv. This show is pretty much near my top all time tv shows. The first couple of episodes were hard for me to get into but with each episode I started growing more attached to the characters and now I looooove them! I’m almost done with the whole season, I’ve been trying not to watch it too fast because I don’t want it to end. For such an awesome tv show, it was very short lived! (There are only 6 discs)

The show mainly focuses around a brother (Sam) and sister (Lindsay). Sam is a total geek and has two very geeky/quirky sidekick friends who are the best characters ever! Lindsay is your typical honor roll, proper girl but suddenly decides to start hanging out with the school “freaks”. Basically, the show is about them growing up and trying to fit in in a high school setting.

In case you don’t know, the creator of Freaks and Geeks is none other than Judd Apatow whose films include Knocked up, Superbad, etc. Though the show is not as vulgar and immature as his movies (which I loved hehe), there are moments of dialogue that are very reminiscent of his movies. Plus, a lot of the people in his movies appear in the show including Seth Rogan, Jason Segal, and Martin Starr.

I just found out that Martin Starr was in Knocked Up yesterday. I couldn’t believe how much he has changed!!! Check this out, here he is as a geek in Freaks and Geeks:

and here he is now in Knocked Up (the beard guy!)

The show also had a lot of now famous actors in it including James Franco and cameos by Jason Schwartzman among others!

Anyways, I highly recommend this tv show if you at any time ever felt like you didn’t fit in, especially in high school!

PS: I saw that this show made it on Time’s Top 100 TV Shows Of All Time list!

I’ve been trying out the Abs Diet for the past week (I’ll post my results and reviews about the diet in a later post) and one of the hardest parts of the diet for me is not being able to drink sugary drinks. I love fruit juice, coke, lemonade, etc. I hate water! So as always, I started looking for alternatives and I found out about cucumber water! Sounds like a simple way to spruce up your water. Here are a few recipes. I will try them later this week when I have time to go to the store to pick up some cucumbers:

Super simple recipe for Cucumber Water

Refreshing Cucumber and Lemon Water Recipe

Nintendo is giving away non-slip jackets for your wiimotes. I guess they heard too many people complaining about them flying out of their hands. I remember playing the wii with my little nephew and it flew out of his hand. Luckily it went straight up and not straight at the tv. Others weren’t so lucky:

Just go to the website and enter in your info. You’ll need your serial number.

I love flipbooks and this sub restaurant takes the cake with the coolest flipbook animation video i’ve ever seen. all of the scenes were printed on tshirts. i wonder what they did with all of the tshirts?

Check out the “making of” video on their website. It’s so cool!!

For anyone who visited my website over the weekend, you might have discovered that girlrobot had a facelift! I cleaned up a lot of the ads and unnecessary clutter that was on my website. I hope you like it! I think I’ve retired the robot logo for now until I come up with something “cuter”. As for my banner, it was just a random image I found…is it too girly? When I am less lazy I will try making a more original banner.

As for the content, I hope to start writing more original and useful posts, maybe once a week. I’ve been so extremely busy, it’s been hard to find time to put in as much as I would like to on this blog. I’ve also started a personal blog since I missed writing more about things going on in my life. I have some big news which I will share on there as well. It will probably be a few days/weeks before I unveil that though. As for the past year, I can’t believe that I’ve been so consistent with updating. For anyone who’s followed me through my websites in the past, you know I lose interest quickly or can go weeks/months without updating!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the new layout. Please tell me if you find anything wrong/broken or have suggestions you’d like to make. As always, my contact link is up top and I answer all of my emails. Also, if you’d like to do a link exchange either email me or automatically add me and when I catch it on my incoming links I will add you back. Thanks for everyone who’s visited, left a comment, linked me, or sent me email in the past year. I love getting to know fellow bloggers!! Here’s to another year of blogging :)

Restaurant credit card roulette – I’m a gambler but I’m not sure if I’d be risky enough to play this!
17 year old millionaire – people like this really amaze and inspire me
famous last words by famous people – cool list
7 train eating tour in ny – this sounds like so much fun! wish they had one here
farmers market locator – i looove farmer’s market. especially eating lunch there on a lazy weekend afternoon
Top 10 worst pick up lines – “Are you a parking ticket because you have FINE written all over you!”
It’s free museum day this saturday!

Today’s WikiHow is a really useful one as our mailbox is probably 70% junk mail!

How To Get Rid Of Junk Mail

Here is one I didn’t know you could do. Checks are the most annoying thing I get in my mailbox considering I never use them and it’s such an easy way to get identity theft:

Call your credit card companies and ask them to stop sending you cash advance checks. Even if they come (conveniently) with your bill each month, cash advances usually start accruing interest immediately, so it’s not a good idea to use them. If you do receive them and don’t plan to use them, you should destroy them.

If you’re a gamer or know someone who is, then you/they are undoubtedly playing Halo 3 as I type. Halo 3 is the final version of the series that was released yesterday. I passed by a Gamestop and saw a line of people waiting to get their hands on the game hours before it was to be released at midnight even though they were guaranteed a copy because they preordered it. Not a minute wasted!

Anyways, if you’re looking for the perfect gift for your hardcore gamer friend….get them these super cool Halo USB drives made by Mimoco:

They’re currently available for preorder and will ship Oct 18th.

I love Mimoco…they make the coolest USB drives ever.