I don’t know anything about getting a hotel in France, but I imagine it’s much like getting one in America. There are websites where you can book online, and that’s how I prefer to do it anyway. I’m a little scared about all the price differences and such, it seems like there’s a real learning curve your first time out of the states. The only time I have ever gone to another country is Canada.

I think if I were to go to France I would have to get my hotel in Paris. Although, the Nice hotels do seem to be a bit cheaper. I took French for 5 years in school but I’d be lucky to remember anything about the country itself. That kind of bothers me, too, because all through school I was learning how to speak this language and learning nothing about the country, its culture, or its people.

Have you ever been to France? Was it amazing?

OnlineCasinoBluebook.com is a great site to help you find the top casino websites. They list their top 10, including information on payout % and the bonus that they offer. The top website they show offers a $888 bonus! Wow. Usually, though, the top casino sites will offer around $100. That’s a lot to help you get going.

The thing I like about Online Casino Bluebook is their lists. They don’t just show the top rated and their reviews, but they also have links for different types of casinos. They have a link right at the top for No Deposit Casino, which I prefer. I don’t like playing on websites where you have to put the money in first to play.

Before you play, check out the Online Casino Bluebook for ratings and reviews.

We may end up with a new wordpress template soon, too. Deaf Musician is holding a contest for a custom Wordpress Theme and we’ve entered. Not only have we entered, but we’ve been recognized as a possible winner. Yay. I’m very excited.

More coming soon!

Do you have Wordpress 2.3? Did you try the beta?
What do you think of it?

Each time Wordpress gets a bit better, I get a little scared. Things always seem to happen to mess up my blog. One time I upgraded and the visual editor stopped working in IE. Another time it added all sorts of random characters into the posts and I had to go edit all of them. I’m looking for some reassurance that this one won’t break my Wordpress.

Oh, and today’s my birthday. *dances + twirls*

I was going to make and release layouts, but that doesn’t work out so well. I don’t think I want to do it that way. I think I want to limit it to MySpace layouts and Wordpress themes. I have another site where I’m going to put the regular layouts and stuff. I have too many sites, don’t I?

So Jenny is working on helping me put the old Dreamer layout into Wordpress. Once that’s ready it will be released into circulation. From then on, all the layouts released here will be Wordpress Themes and the layout versions of them will be released over at Lala Land. I can’t wait to open my project sites. Very soon!

Today’s my wedding anniversary so I won’t be working hard today, but I will get this all in order in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out!

So I went searching around for some boredom busters. Something I can do on the computer that isn’t working and isn’t blog related, since I do those so much. I found a site that has a lot of computer games. Some of them are pretty cool, too. I like simple games that kill time and stretch my mind, so I opted to check out the Bud Redhead game, since it said it was like Mario Bros. I have a Windows PC (because I don’t like the mac mouse) but they have mac games as well.

My absolutely favorite, though, are RPG games. You all know how much I love Final Fantasy, but they’ve gotten too complex lately. Or, maybe not even complex, but they’re straying from the original RPG style and I don’t like it. So I think I may check out their RPG game, it definitely looks interesting.

You all know about the new online boutique, Tobi. Quite a few blogs have articles about the company and their wonderful velvet apparel, their stylish site, and their live customer chat. But you know me, dare to be different. I spent about a half hour searching this site and Google for an affiliate program. I can tell this company is going to be big and I wanted to get in on it. I didn’t find anything, but what I did find was a discount page that does include some of  their velvet clothes.

If you’re not into velvet clothing, they do have a great selection of other clothes. It seems like all you ever see around is people talking about the velvet, like it’s going out of style. Was it ever in style? Tobi is bringing back the 80’s and some of the clothes are just ‘wow’. Some make me want to throw eggs at the person wearing them.

Shop at Tobi, but choose wisely.

My friend Amanda and I decided to create a mailing list for people who use the same site promotion methods we do. The purpose behind this mailing list is to let others know you’re looking for comments, Stumble, Digg, and Sk*rt. No one is required to do any of this, but it’s about helping eachother and making new friends.

The list is set up with Yahoo! Groups for a specific reason. We chose this because of the ‘daily digest’ option, so you can get them all in one email if you prefer. This isn’t how I prefer to do it, but I know some who do. And I know some people don’t want to sign up with Yahoo! just to join the list, so simply comment here and request and invitation, I will add you to the list without needing to join Yahoo!.

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In Canada they have DirectAlert, it’s a medical alert bracelet service created for children, seniors, and people with medical conditions. My mother doesn’t have a medical condition and she’s not quite a senior yet, but she does live alone and no one would happen by to realize there’s a problem.

Dialing 911 is any easy solution to a problem, but what if you can’t find the phone. Cordless phones are terrible for disappearing. This bracelet will make a 911 call for you by simply pressing a button. Then you can communicate with Direct Alert (if you’re concious) until help comes, whether it be an ambulance or a family member. If you don’t answer, they send someone immediately.

I’m considering this for my mother, because I’d like to be notified if something happened to her and I personally don’t think she would call me. She has a thing about not wanting to burden me or something. She doesn’t like to call when there’s a problem, though that’s exactly what she needs to do.

Thoof offers no explanation of their personalized news service, leaving you to assume or to join and try and figure it out on your own. But through the wonderment of ‘cookies’, signing up may not even be necessary. The sign up is a simple text form asking for your email address, to which I assume you’ll have to confirm. Then what? I don’t know, I don’t like handing out my email address willy-nilly. I want more. I want to know what I’m getting myself into before the barrage of spam comes.

Handy is their FAQ, however, not as friendly as an ‘About Us’ page. The FAQ explains what they do and why, if you’re interested in reading about a site through a bulleted system. Not I.

To me, this site is like a bit of a mix between Digg and Stumble. Very clever. To make it in today’s blog world you need to be inventive. Or if all else fails, innovative.