Increase Your Chances of Finding a Lost Pet

I go wacky when I can't find one of my dogs for 1 minute (and he was on my bed, underneath my covers the whole time). I know I would be off the walls if I really, REALLY lost one. Aside from the basics that everyone knows (keep a tag on them, microchip them, check with the animal shelter, post lost dog signs, etc.) there are other things that you can do to increase your chances of finding your furbaby. I always feel so relieved when I hear about one of these stories ending happily, so here is me doing my piece to help make that happen for you.

• Animal Amber Alert - Using an animal amber alert at sites such as FindToto and Pet Amber Alert will send a personalized notification via telephone to all the homes and businesses in your area. Choose the number of people that you want alerted by choosing one of the plans (starting at $79.95 for 300 neighbors).
• Post it up on Facebook/Twitter - Make sure to post of picture!
• Newspaper - Check the Found section of the newspaper.

Did you ever find a lost pet of your own? If so, how did it happen?

Akinator, the Mind Reader

This is a little site that is just for fun. I won't normally talk/write about a site like this but I was kinda fascinated by this one. Its called Web Genius. Basically, think of a character (dead/alive, real/fake, human/animal). With this character in mind, answer some questions. The genie will guess who you're thinking about. If he doesn't guess correctly after 3 tries, you win. But the bastard guessed when I was thinking of Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez from the Sandlot on the first try! Pretty impressive.

Focusing on One Topic

So, I don't know if you've noticed but...my blog posts are kinda all over the place. When I started my blog, I couldn't decide on one subject so I decided to make my blog vague. This eventually began to annoy me. I finally decided no more of this bullshit! I did some summer cleaning. So here's how its gonna work, aight? I now have three blogs catering to three different topics:

Me So Vain - Make-up and Beauty
The Know - Life, sprinkled with a bit of animals, travel and....still pretty general
Miami Copywriter - Copywriting and Advertising

Now, you won't have to see things that are totally irrelevant to you.

Photo credit: CC by bitsandbobbins

Horoscopes are LIARS!

I would just like to say that horoscopes are bullshit. I always thought so but given the good news I was supposed to be expecting yesterday, I decided I would hope and believe and maybe it would be right this time. My horoscope (for Cancer) said that I was going to get some sort of increase in income yesterday in form of a new career venture (i.e. opening up my own company - which, by the way, I did 2 years ago). Being that I knew I would not be opening my own company yesterday, I decided that my income increase would come in the form a raise at my current job. Oh how I eagerly awaited to be called into the boss's office to be told the good news. Still waiting :/

Photo credits: CC by The Cleveland Kid

The Harsh Reality

I have no idea why anybody would sign up to do such a thing, but there is always someone who will. This site that I recently learned about called failin.gs is a place where people can set up a profile for themselves and invite friends to anonymously tell them how they really feel about their personalities. I, personally, can be pretty hard on myself (as my father says, “my own worst critic”), so I don’t need anyone to help pull my ass down to earth. Sorta how the Facebook status update bar asks “What’s on your mind?” the failin.gs homepage has its main, central question in large, bolded font: “What is wrong with me?” 

Seriously? Am I the only person who doesn’t get this? Although they describe it as a place to receive “constructive criticism” so we may improve, it feels like a place to butcher your self esteem. No thanks. I’d like a site that allows someone to pet me and tell me I’m the best. Now, don’t get it twisted, if someone I know creates a profile, I’ll participate in the “constructive criticism.” After all, if they sign up for this crap, they’re asking for it; I just won’t be the person with the profile.
What are your thoughts on failin.gs? Do you or anyone you know have a profile on failin.gs?