I hope you enjoy these oldie, but goodies!
I am heading out to lunch with ma girlfriends and then spending the rest of the day with my lovin’ spouselet.

Here is to a great 2010.
I am so ready for you baby!

5. Friday Favorites-Restaurants

4. Sunday Scribbling-Art

3. Winter Blitz 2009

2. Chantel Hobbs

1. The 14 year old

And from looking at google analytics over the past year, there are some things I am gonna be changing and improving for next!  Funny the number one post on my blog is about my beautiful son…Think I can talk about him every day with out him disowning me forever?

Also, 2 of the top five are weekly participation meme’s.  For web traffic, if that is your motivation, it appears those are a good thing…

Until next year!

On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

Matthew 2:11 (NIV)

Tonight @Gloria we sponsored our second child from Compassion International.

Before we left the house tonight the spouselet and I talked about it.  We.were.not. sponsoring a third child until the commitment that he (the spouselet) had with another organization expired or our other compassion kid graduated the program.

But then Shaun started talking.  I have a spot in my heart for starving children in third world countries.  I also have an awesome spouse who recognizes my passion and said “raise your hand” so, I did and we got Mario’s packet.  My grandmother, my mother, my niece and my sister (for her son) also picked up kids to sponsor.

I am so proud of my family this evening.

Now, I can put Mario’s picture right next to the 15 yr old and Vladimir who is also 15 (just 5 days older than my own kid).

Tonight, the spouselet and I went to see Gloria at CBC. I bought tickets as soon as I heard that Shaun Groves was going to be there because he is one of my favorite online people. I started following him back when Compassion went to Uganda…I am not even sure how I ran across him and Carlos and Heather but I did and since that time, my entire world view has changed.

So, I had to go…
And when I got there the spouselet talked me into doing the meet and greet. I only got those tickets because I wanted a good seat. See, I have a bit of the ADD and if I am not down front, my mind tends to wander and I totally miss important stuff. But the spouselet wanted to see what the whole meet and greet thing was about because he had never done one either…

So we walk through the hall and around the corner and there is Shaun Groves AND Travis Cottrell and I stick out my hand and say “Hello Shaun, My name is Molly and we are friends on facebook”.

Oh, yes I did.
Someone should have just shot me.
There is a reason I don’t do meet and greets!

And the spouselet, the one who wasn’t even sure he wanted to GO with me says “I don’t really know you guys, but I wanted to thank you for what you are about to do.”

Yeah, mister NEVER open his flippin’ trap is smoooooth and I, I am the idiot.

So, mortified, I ran away and bought his latest CD.  It is the least I could do.

And then we ran into my sister, my niece, my mother and my grandmother as well as one of my sisters friends, we almost took up an entire row.

So, the show starts and we are loving it. Really, if you ever get the opportunity to go to Gloria (like next year) it is a great thing. At intermission I went back to the CD table to get the Gloria CD, but they only sold them in packs with the other CD’s…

So, I got those too…and gave my niece the Shaun Groves one because she said that Miley Cyrus LOVES Shaun Groves.

Oh and I also got…..

and….

But more about him later.

I just got an email that is totally work related.  I am assuming they want me to do some kind of press release thingy for a group of sales associates that just finished this awesome training course.

And I will…
Eventually.

but first, I just had to share this:

someone in that class is not only super real estate smart, they have the same blackberry cover as I do.

And yes, I notice the littlest ole things.
Here is the original image:

From General CBMC Images

As soon as I get a list of the people in the picture AND who owns that cover…I will get the press release done!

I had this Barbie, the first time around (over 30 years ago).
My sister and I both got one for Christmas.  It was hard for us to tell them apart.

I was very tempted to buy this one for my niece earlier in the week when I was shopping.  But, she didn’t want Barbie, she wanted Kelly.

Did you know you could sell that dress (if you still have it) on ebay for about $20.00. Kinda makes me want steal all my Barbie crap back from my niece to pay for 15 yr old soccer stuff.  (not really)

And speaking of Barbie kids or Barbie kid sister…what the heck happened to Skipper? Looks like Stacie is the new cool little sister…whatever.

I loved Barbie when I was a kid, but I am getting a bit old for all this name changing business.

One more thing…since when did it become so flippin’ hard to FIND a Barbie? There were more collector editions (like the one above) in the toy departments than dolls kids are actually supposed to play with.

So, what was your favorite toy as a kid?
Were you a Barbie girl?

And this, takes the cake.

Yes, a basic set of information that looks like this:

Oh, heck no!

My picture and my name.  Heck, that is on google already so I really don’t mind that.
I do mind that it shows a segment of my friends.
I am also a little uncomfortable with it showing Celebrities and Public figures.
It isn’t anyone’s business what products, services and stores I like.

I had already stopped becoming fans of every business, group, product and public figure months ago, because I am not even sure I want my Friends and Networks to see that stuff.  So, if you sent me an invitation to your business and I didn’t join it, nothing personal.

It is a privacy thing.
Facebook Privacy Changes (part 1)

Facebook Privacy Changes (part 3)

In Facebook Privacy Changes (p1) I discovered my photos were compromised.  After that bit of unsettling news, I decided to check ALL my settings from top to bottom and everything in between.

Like I said, there went my morning.

These settings were not acceptable to me.  I do want everyone to be able to find me who are looking for me on facebook, that is the only way I would have been able to have coffee later this week with people from high school.  Some I have not seen in…well, a long, long time.

But, I don’t want everyone to know my current address, or my phone numbers or to even send me a message.

I also didn’t want applications that other people are using to have access to my information (those games and tests that compare me to you…)

See that “what your friends can share about you” after this morning, that is a big nothing.

Sorry folks.

and because I was feeling particularly violated after this ordeal…I deleted several applications I had previously given granted access.  Good Bye “family links”.  Goodbye “know it all trivia”.

After an hour of deleting and purging.

I felt much better.

To fix your application settings :

• Head to Settings
• Then to Application Settings (instead of privacy)
• Select Authorized from the drop down menu next to the word Show:
• Start deleting any application you no longer use
• After you have purged that list check through each of the remaining applications and adjust your sharing settings next to each one
• Also note that there is a photo and video  category in this menu as well
• Once this list is cleaned up proceed to “Granted Additional Permissions” and edit those items as well

I hope that helps clear up some of the mess that the changes have presented for several casual facebook users.
Frustrating!

Facebook Privacy Changes (part 1)

Facebook Privacy Changes (part 3)

This is at least a two parter, maybe more once I get going with it.

My day started simple enough, the only thing on my calendar was a blog post about a toy when I was a kid.
As I was checking my google reader at the office for my work related feeds (my personal feeds are on a different g-mail account so I don’t goof off in the office-most days) I ran across a blog post called “Is Facebook Really a Brand You Can Trust” and it got me thinkin’ about my privacy settings.

I had checked the basis when the “new” system was announced, but I didn’t dig deeper and I thought that I probably should…

and there went my morning.

See that last one, my wall photos were tagged for EVERYONE to see as were the folder where I shared images of my son and family.  Photos used to have one setting, now each folder has a different one.  Anyone on facebook at any time could see images of my family, my pets, OTHER peoples pets and children.

Oh, this was very bad!
But, luckily, also very easy to correct.

Here’s how:

• In the top blue banner next to your name is “settings” click that
• then click on Privacy settings from the drop down menu
• Then click on profile information
• While in this menu, I would verify all those settings are to locked down to your degree of comfort*
• scroll down to the Photo Albums and click on Edit Settings button
• change the settings on each album, there is now a custom option that would be great for sharing with just certian groups (more on that in a later post)

Oh and while you are on that Profile information screen, be sure you have this box checked IF you want people to be able to post comments on your wall (instead of only being able to reply to comments on your wall)

Now that I have those changes made, I feel better about the information I have on facebook.

Facebook Privacy Changes (part 2)

Facebook Privacy Changes (part 3)