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Well, everybody, the time has come. Here are the winners of my 2006 In Review Awards.

Winners are in bold and runner-ups are in itals. Third place (if applicable) is underlined.

Biggest Ally

• Cara (Second year!)
• Chelsea (Second year!)
• Ashley
• Steven
• Ryan [Keeping my blog alive!]
• My iPod

You’re On Thin Ice! Expanded to include teachers!

• Horner
• Myers
• My Clarinet

My Favorite Blogs of 2006

• tuckle rori (Second year!)
• Dooce
• Five Dollar Shake
• Binary Bonsai

Websites of 2006

• Lostpedia
  
• Wikipedia
• GKWC
• Facebook
• GMail
• YouTube [Third Place]

Best Movies of 2006

• Dreamgirls
• Mission: Impossible 3
• Madea’s Family Reunion
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Date Movie

Best Music of 2006

• Reba McEntire
• Alexz Johnson
• Los Lonely Boys
• The Fray
• Michael Bublé
• P!nk
• The Wedding Singer
• Dreamgirls Sndtrck.

Best TV Shows of 2006

• Lost, Season 2
• Lost, Season 3
• King of Queens
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• CNN
• Reba

Best Plays of 2006

• TYA Joseph..Dreamcoat
• UHL Joseph…Dreamcoat
• LR The Night of January 16th
• (Not too much to choose from, eh?)

Most Horrible-Ist Thing

• Blog-host-hopping
• My bout of depression
• Leaving Mayfield, MWTV, etc.

Best Thing of 2006

• New phone!
• New computer!
• Go liberals in government!
• Getting a job
• Long Reach
• Having awesome friends

So, folks, there you have it! My 2006 In Review awards!

I hope everybody had an awesome 2006, and here’s to an even better 2007!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yay!

Well everybody, it’s that time of year, and you know what that means! Time for my third annual YEAR IN REVIEW POST (yes, I said THIRD ANNUAL!)!

This year, things are going to run a bit differently, because the way I did things last year kind of pissed everybody off. I’ve removed “Biggest Mistakes” from my list, and “Biggest Enemies” has been replaced with “Bitch, You’re On Thin Ice!”. Some other categories have been switched around, also, because they just don’t fit with what’s happened this year.

I’m going to post the nominees today (December 30), and announce the winners on New Years Eve (that’s tomorrow, isn’t it?).

But, anyway, let’s begin with the nominees.

Biggest Ally

• Cara
• Chelsea
• Ashley
• Steven
• Ryan [Keeping my blog alive!]
• My iPod

You’re On Thin Ice! Expanded to include teachers!

• Horner
• Myers
• My Clarinet

My Favorite Blogs of 2006

• tuckle rori
• Dooce
  
• Five Dollar Shake
• Binary Bonsai

Websites of 2006

• Lostpedia
  
• Wikipedia
• GKWC
• Facebook
• GMail
• YouTube

Best Movies of 2006

• Dreamgirls
• Mission: Impossible 3
• Madea’s Family Reunion
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Date Movie

Best Music of 2006

• Reba McEntire
• Alexz Johnson
• Los Lonely Boys
• The Fray
• Michael Bublé
• P!nk
• The Wedding Singer
• Dreamgirls Sndtrck.

Best TV Shows of 2006

• Lost, Season 2
• Lost, Season 3
• King of Queens
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• CNN
• Reba

Best Plays of 2006

• TYA Joseph..Dreamcoat
• UHL Joseph…Dreamcoat
• LR The Night of January 16th
• (Not too much to choose from, eh?)

Most Horrible-Ist Thing

• Blog-host-hopping
• My bout of depression
• Leaving Mayfield, MWTV, etc.

Best Thing of 2006

• New phone!
• New computer!
• Go liberals in government!
• Getting a job
• Long Reach
• Having awesome friends

So, folks, there you have it! My 2006 In Review awards!

Check back tomorrow night for the winners!

Stop being a baby.

You are being such an arrogant jerk.

Get a life!

Click on “Rosie has some real problems” link.

Okay, here’s my real Christmas post.

Let’s start off with gifts, shall we? I got:

• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Photoshop Elements book by Scott Kelby (it rocks!)
• La Vie Boheme Sweatshirt
• “God Uses a Mac” T-shirt
• “If you need something, don’t heistate to ask someone else” T
• Blue Old Navy fleece
• Rent DVD
• Lost Season 2 DVD
• $45 in iTunes Music Store gift cards
• “Wacky Websites” Page-A-Day Calendar
• “Without You”, Anthony Rapp’s Memoir
• Subscription to Wired magazine!
• TICKETS TO WICKED IN FEBRUARY!

There’s probably more, but that’s all I can remember as of now.

Christmas Day was pretty fun. We opened presents at 8, and until 1 in the afternoon I fooled around with Photoshop and the book. I didn’t really make anything special; I was still learning.

Then, we went to my aunt’s house for Christmas dinner. That was pretty fun. I saw my three cousins again. They are crazy, lol, but I still love them. She gave my $45 in iTMS gift cards in exchange for teaching her how to use her new iPod/iTunes. That was a good trade-off.

Over the past few days, I’ve mainly been fooling around with Photoshop and working on a web design project (see below), which is almost finished. It looks very good and I’m proud of it!

My little iTMS binge has introduced my to a new band; Hellogoodbye. They have that “Here (In Your Arms)” song that’s getting airplay. I really liked it, so I bought a few of their remixes and other songs. I also bought a song from Plain White T’s (“Hate [I Really Don't Like You]“) and a couple of Reba songs (yes, maybe I am getting into country music. Shoot me!). I love music.

I hope everybody had an awesome holiday…I don’t want break to end. I have to start working on my Grease audition, which is next week. This is going to be a stressful few days until [next] Friday, when the cast list is posted. Wish me luck!

Hey everybody!

I just wanted to say happy holidays and let you know that, no, I haven’t died (at least not yet). I’ve been very busy on a new design project, but I’ll get back to you about how my holidays went after that project is finished…here’s a sneak preview:

Anyways, I’ll see you soon!

The unthinkable has happened: I’ve run out of space on my iPod!

I’ve just imported a bunch of old (and newer) music that I only had onto CD’s into iTunes, almost positive that it would all fit on my iPod.

Well it doesn’t!

I’ve just imported an additional 4GB of music…

I don’t want a new iPod (I’ll take my ghetto-retro green mini any day!), nor can I afford one! Help me!

(Yes, you do see Reba and Britney Spears. Britney is from Now and…well, I like Reba. Shoot me.)

Damn!

Well, frihost.net is not all that it has cracked up to be.

But, then again, what can you expect from a free web host?

All of my static HTML pages are working fine (albeit slow). My WordPress installation, however, could use some work. Every time I try to make substantial changes, the connection has to reset, which can get pretty annoying. There are major problems with the MySQL database (and I do not think they’re on my end). Most of my pages are showing MySQL errors that I cannot seem to fix. These errors often prohibit me from making changes. Some of my plugins are not working (namely WPVideo, which allows me to post YouTube videos), and the back-end is extremely slow. FTP is not working for me whatsoever, and DirectAdmin is extremely extremely (yes, twice) slow.

So, I guess I’ll be waiting until next month (when I’m going to have more money) and I’ll be registering with a paid host (most likely A Small Orange or Vasily’s company–the name has slipped my mind) with a domain name. Hopefully, I’ll finally be able to find blogging salvation.

In the past two years, I’ve moved from familyteen.net to sparkeh.com to meorrr.com to blogspot.com to wordpress.com back to sparkeh.com back to wordpress.com, with a short-lived existance on frih.net and back to wordpress.com. I have quite the history, don’t I?