Just Another Writer

I just spent the last few minutes making a glog over at Glogster. I thought I would end up spending longer, but it’s pretty fast. The account took about a minute to set up, and then the page is super-quick to build. You can find mine by clicking on http://bloggrrl.glogster.com/glog.

I found some people over there who are very, very gifted. It is crazy that something so simple to use can produce things like this:

Glog by enysek

And this:

Glog by rainbowtear

Wow.

You can put pictures, videos, text bubbles, audio, graphics and backgrounds in your Glog. There is something else very special that you can put in it. You can put links to your blog in your pictures!!! Click on my photo of the Froot Loops and you’ll see what I mean. Cool. Since it is more of a social networking site than a graphics site, you can share your Glog (with link!) with lots of friends. Soon, you should have some new friends on your blog. I can see how “Glogging” could be the perfect complement to blogging…

Here’s how you start out. First of all, you register. As I said, this does not take long. Thankfully, the people who made the registration page aren’t interested in your address and what kind of deodorant you wear. Notice how there are iPods to be won…

Then, immediately after the confirmation email, you’re ready to create your own Glog. It’s pretty self-explanatory, and fun to play with.

Once you finish making your Glog, you can choose to make it public. Then it’s fun to go and browse the categories. Here are some. If you look closely, you can see mine under “WTF”?

You also have the option of viewing the most recent Glogs, the most popular (you can rank them), tags and people. It’s a very interactive site, and it is so much easier to integrate video and images into a cohesive page than any other application I’ve found.

So, go play!

I know by now everyone has heard of trying to lower your “setpoint” when it comes to weight. This would definitely be a good thing. Now, how about tapping into the ability to raise your happiness setpoint? This is the claim made by The Sedona Method.

If you are familiar with The Secret, you are familiar with the work of
Hale Dwoskin, the person behind The Sedona Method. What is it? It is a tool for improving happiness, well-being and relationships. Historically, there have been conferences in Sedona, Arizona (a really gorgeous place) that taught people how to “release” and change their lives for the better. Now these seminars are available on a set of CD’s.

Here are some of the claims being made about The Sedona Method:

“…start making better decisions, be more in control of your life, have better relationships and, in general, have your life improve significantly.”

“The Sedona Method is simply a technique to let go of unwanted feelings, emotions and everything else that is holding you back.”

“…studies…reveal that individuals using The Sedona Method show significant reduction in heart rate and diastolic blood pressure.”

Along with improving your financial status,
The Sedona Method also promises that you can be free from anxiety and fear. That sounds like a good one to me, since I am a known stress case. Interestingly, one of the proponents of this method is Mariel Hemingway, who seems to be one of the few celebrities around who is not shaving her head, binge-drinking or making appearances half-naked.

If you want to sample The Sedona Method, you can do so and receive some freebies. You pay $6.95 for shipping and handling. This sounds like a good way to sample it if you are skeptical but interested. At any rate, the whole shebang is cheaper than years of therapy! Who couldn’t use a little more happiness in their lives?

I had an interesting experience yesterday. It turns out that most of the jaw pain has been caused by a wisdom tooth. The tooth lies mainly below the surface of my gums, so I was surprised when my family dentist said he could pull it out.

I went, sat in the chair, got numbed up, and then the dentist stuck his hand in my mouth for a few seconds. He then removed his fingers and took his gloves off. I thought, “Oh crap, he’s sending me to the oral surgeon after all.” Nope. He had already pulled it. I had thought he was just jacking around with that thing, that’s how painless it was. And no, I was not on anything–not even laughing gas! Today, I haven’t even taken a Tylenol. There is no bleeding. That guy is great!

All that time dreading the tooth pulling for nothing. But that’s okay.