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Bradley James for Jace!
Jan. 17th, 2011 09:16 am
Ughhhhh another day at the grind. At least traffic was great this morning since everyone else has MLK off but us.
Sooooooo confess: How many of you have a Keurig? I'd never heard of it until Thanksgiving when I was down in LA and using Jade's like, every day. I'll admit up front that I don't like that the K-cups aren't recyclable, seems super wasteful. :/ The convenience really can't be beat, though -- especially for what you get, a really decent cup of coffee. At first I thought it was instant coffee, and wanted to run away screaming, but it's not... it's real coffee, but vacuum sealed in the K-cups so you don't have freshness issues the way you do when you buy a bag of coffee (even whole beans that you grind yourself), and you don't have a pot of coffee sitting out, you just brew a fresh cup every time. I told myself I didn't need a Keurig... I have a really nice French press and a very decent espresso machine... yeah that lasted about a week. I got a REALLY good deal on one, though -- I used Craigslist for the first time ever and got a Keurig B60 plus a My K-cup (which you can use to put in your own ground coffee, sold separately) for $50. Keurig.com even let me register it as a gift, so I have the typical one-year warranty that comes with new machines (I don't know how old it actually is)! Plus they gave me the new member deal of 2 boxes of K-cups free! Mmmm coffeeeeeeee.
This is awesome -- the other day for SwagBucks, I got chosen to do a survey for Mortal Instruments!! (The other two possible choices for me were Hunger Games or Shiver, but I really wanted to be selected for MI.) OMG. Usually I HATE the surveys, as they're a waste of time for what you get (imho), but this was SO FUN. Probably the best survey I will ever take. It asked a bunch of questions about the MI universe, and then got to asking about the movie (!!!) which is in pre-production. It asked what scenes in particular I was looking forward to, what special effects I wanted to see, what I felt was critical to the story and had to be kept in, what actors I thought might make a good Jace (!!!!!!!!!!), etc. Teehee! On the latter, it first asked, open text box, what actor I thought would make a good Jace (both Jade -- who also got selected to take the MI survey -- and I said Bradley James). THEN they showed a bunch of actors THEY had selected, and had us rate them. OMG they were all AWFUL. I had to rate nearly all of them as "totally wrong for the part." Seriously. Has anyone who's READ the books tried to cast this movie?
There are various ways to get SwagBucks points, but today you might get search points for "Martin Luther King, Jr." (for obvious reasons). I saw someone on FB mention it, so I tried it, and it worked for me, too. Could be total coincidence but worth a try, right? Here is my referral link in case you want to sign up.
Oh and as you might have guessed: weekend goals, failed.
Sooooooo confess: How many of you have a Keurig? I'd never heard of it until Thanksgiving when I was down in LA and using Jade's like, every day. I'll admit up front that I don't like that the K-cups aren't recyclable, seems super wasteful. :/ The convenience really can't be beat, though -- especially for what you get, a really decent cup of coffee. At first I thought it was instant coffee, and wanted to run away screaming, but it's not... it's real coffee, but vacuum sealed in the K-cups so you don't have freshness issues the way you do when you buy a bag of coffee (even whole beans that you grind yourself), and you don't have a pot of coffee sitting out, you just brew a fresh cup every time. I told myself I didn't need a Keurig... I have a really nice French press and a very decent espresso machine... yeah that lasted about a week. I got a REALLY good deal on one, though -- I used Craigslist for the first time ever and got a Keurig B60 plus a My K-cup (which you can use to put in your own ground coffee, sold separately) for $50. Keurig.com even let me register it as a gift, so I have the typical one-year warranty that comes with new machines (I don't know how old it actually is)! Plus they gave me the new member deal of 2 boxes of K-cups free! Mmmm coffeeeeeeee.
This is awesome -- the other day for SwagBucks, I got chosen to do a survey for Mortal Instruments!! (The other two possible choices for me were Hunger Games or Shiver, but I really wanted to be selected for MI.) OMG. Usually I HATE the surveys, as they're a waste of time for what you get (imho), but this was SO FUN. Probably the best survey I will ever take. It asked a bunch of questions about the MI universe, and then got to asking about the movie (!!!) which is in pre-production. It asked what scenes in particular I was looking forward to, what special effects I wanted to see, what I felt was critical to the story and had to be kept in, what actors I thought might make a good Jace (!!!!!!!!!!), etc. Teehee! On the latter, it first asked, open text box, what actor I thought would make a good Jace (both Jade -- who also got selected to take the MI survey -- and I said Bradley James). THEN they showed a bunch of actors THEY had selected, and had us rate them. OMG they were all AWFUL. I had to rate nearly all of them as "totally wrong for the part." Seriously. Has anyone who's READ the books tried to cast this movie?
There are various ways to get SwagBucks points, but today you might get search points for "Martin Luther King, Jr." (for obvious reasons). I saw someone on FB mention it, so I tried it, and it worked for me, too. Could be total coincidence but worth a try, right? Here is my referral link in case you want to sign up.
Oh and as you might have guessed: weekend goals, failed.
