My dad joined facebook and my mom has talked about it. I told them "buyer beware" but it's not like I put anything up on there they'd be shocked at anyway.

My back hurts from my massage today. owie but good. hope it is not so owie on Saturday. Also, that it doesn't rain. I think hopes of that are pretty dashed though. Still will be fun.

You're actually getting emails, as in sent to your email address? Or just notifications?

Yeah! Notifications to my email. How else do you get notifications? You mean just on the board itself?

Amy, under settings, select the Account Settings. The Notifications tab lets you turn the notifications off and on for all the applications and messages.

I just couldn't find one specifically for that option, though.

Yeah, I only get mine on the board. Lemme go look.

Amy, go to: [link]

And then you'll see two long columns with radio buttons. These manage your email settings.

Under groups, I think you turn off "Replies to my discussion board post"

Yup, what Sue says, which is about halfway down the page on the link I posted. It's weird that it's under "groups", not intuitive at all.

You guys are very patient with someone who was being an incredible ditz. Thank you!

::hangs head in shame::

Dude, I had not idea where the Birthdays went for weeks! Navigating Facebook lately feels like trying to find your way around your house blindfolded after someone has rearranged the furniture.

Go here for the Facebook privacy settings walk-through.

I've been through that before; it doesn't talk about how to limit who sees your status updates.

Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile

The 4th item on the list is called "Status and links". If you click on the drop down list and chose customize, you can choose which friends can see your status, or which friends can't see it.

Man. I've been shredded by allergies all week, in addition to shorting myself of about 1-2 hours of sleep per night. After work today, I went to the gym and lifted weights, came home with a headache that wanted to become a migraine, took drugs, laid down at 7:30, and just woke up at 12:30. I'm eating a bowl of cereal and going back to bed.

At least a couple of times a summer, I'd get stuck somewhere with no shade and have to spend a day or so lying in a dark room wearing a soft t-shirt.

My whole childhood (defined as "the entire time I lived with my mom, including college"), I would get sunburned at least once a summer due to carelessness, and my mom would forbid me to go in the sun for 2 weeks. That ban usually lasted about 2 days.

Last summer, when we went to the beach for a week, even though I used sunblock in mass quantities, I still ended up with sun poisoning on my chest and arms by the end of the week. I wasn't sunburned, though; I think it was just 6 days of concentrated sun exposure that made my melanin-deprived skin freak out.

In less whiny news, I managed to score a pair of earrings because Steph mentioned that she'd managed to score a pendant from the seller: [link]

Oooh, I love those! I was amazed that the pendant I bought was still unsold, because I bought it on the last day of the sale. I figured that was a sign from the universe that I should buy it.

Okay. Back to bed now.