My mom loves chilli for when she's sick. It's healthy and it's spicyness is great for taking care of you when you're sick. In my opinion, even more so than chicken soup (vegetarian or otherwise :P). It's late, but I just started cooking up a batch of chilli an hour ago. I finally got to visit the grocery store. I picked up a bunch of bananas, a few pears, a couple of avocados and stuff to make chilli with. But I forgot the red kidney beans. Lucky for me, I have a can of white kidney beans… I'm sure it will do.

I think I made it a bit too spicy though. Initial tests are frightening. We'll see if I survive.

(alternate title: google vs yahoo! portals/ geek post, be warned!)

I just spent my lunch hour setting up my Google homepage. This was in preparation to start killing my pixiecrap(at)yahoo.com e-mail address, and start using my blackdaisies(at)gmail.com.

BD Friendly Tip of the Day: This means if you've added pixiecrap(at)yahoo.com to your e-mail contacts, pretty soon, I will no longer be using it. Please change your contacts to blackdaisies(at)gmail.com, tyvm!

A couple of years ago, I thought pixiecrap was a funny word and it amused probably only me. Don't ask, I'm odd that way. Nowadays, I'm kinda embarassed when I'm giving out my “real” e-mail. So I went back to using an e-mail that's more commonly associated with my web identity. I'm glad I parked “blackdaisies” at gmail when I could. They're not available through yahoo or hotmail.

However, that wasn't why I moved over to Google homepage. I'm an aggregator fiend. Yahoo was a decent service, and I love that you can customize the layout and colours. I was so proud of my customized Yahoo front page, and I'll miss that most on Google. However, Yahoo also comes laden down with humungous ads and other stuff that I didn't find necessary. As well, I didn't know how to get National Geographic's photo of the day to show up (minor detail, but I like pictures!).

One fun fact about me: I go through news sites and blogs like there's no tomorrow. I just don't have your basic news on the front page. I have Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, CNN, BBC, Time, MacLean, CBC, National Geographic, Discovery, CNET, Reuters … all that crap, and I'm adding new stuff all the time. I read the same news by different news sources because I like to get as many angles about current events as possible.

Google's layout is sterile and boring, but at least its ad-free and easy to read. I'm hoping there'll be a way for me to customize colours and stuff, but at least it's organized and I have all the same tools Yahoo provided me with.

Aaaand while i'm at the web-nerdy stuff, I might as well plug my Del.icio.us page. Social bookmarking is nifty!

Because I've been so low energy and sick with some retarded cold this week, the only thing I've accomplished was some minor rearranging of furniture in my living space, and getting my Draenei priest to level 30. A nice accomplishment for someone who's said she'd play WoW: The Burning Crusades casually </sarc>, but I haven't done anything else.

I've been needing to get to an art store to get a new sketchbook and art supplies. I've been stumped on what to do for a site redesign. I need to do grocery shopping so I can get some healthy food back in me to get me out of this funk. I need a fucking haircut. I've been so busy at work and trying to get other shit in order, when I come home, all i want to do is play.