My bento box is being shipped from Japan this week! Hooray! 
I'm so excited! I was even able to find some Pocky (in chocolate and strawberry) to prepare for its arrival. Now if only I could find a Japanese market somewhere, or at least some place with decent oriental food choices. Walmart just has the canned stuff. If anyone has suggestions, let me know!
I just started using Notepad++ last week and I must say, it's probably the best text editor I've ever used. I went on a rampage to find a new one ever since I had someone make a negative comment to me about using Dreamweaver. Honestly, I have no idea what is so bad about using that program. It's not like I care about the rest of its bloated features aside from what I like. All I appreciated about it was that it had colored text, find & replace, a file browser, and FTP all-in-one. I'd rather not go on about my opinions on this program, I've already done that before. But enough ranting! 
I would recommend Notepad++ to anyone, with the file browser plugin, of course.
Another neato program I came across recently is Launchy! Cute name, I think! It is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows. Once it's installed, you just press ALT and Spacebar and up pops a cute little rectangle, like a large text box. You type stuff in there and it will find things for you on your computer, on other websites, on Google, hell you can even check the weather! 
There are also cool themes being developed for it too, so you can match it with however your desktop is set up. Quite cool! Here's what it looks like for me:
I'm not usually one that gets random programs to do little things or be tiny background helpers. I can't even use widgets because I rarely see my desktop! There is always something on it, from design programs to games, my computer never sleeeeeps! I actually was turning off my computer last night, shutting down all of my programs, when my wallpaper practically scared me to death! I had forgotten I'd changed it to a very pretty phoenix that is extremely colorful. But all that aside, I've already used Launchy several times when I'm feeling too lazy to click more buttons then I'd like. So try it out!
Other little newsy things. I've added lots of new links with unique descriptions, especially the dailies section. I stalked people's websites until I found out interesting things about them. So if you are one of my dailies, go see!
This week I was also accepted into New Millennium and Despair so hurrah! And I also must plug Perfection, we need more amazing web designers! Please consider applying if you have a 1337 website, but make sure you follow the guidelines before you submit. The gallery only accepts personal websites and blogs. Not portfolios, I can't stress this enough, lol. You can have a portfolio as a section of your site but that is all. The majority of it should be personal content. Also, another community, Snark is shaping up to be a very fun forum to be involved in, so join that too if you like!
Whew. Lots to blog about. Maybe I should start posting more often!
One last thing before I go...Dad is coming home. Not for good yet, he'll be on leave for my university graduation in May. But still...I'm glad for my family, especially my mom. I can't imagine what she has to face every day being so far away from him. I thought I could empathize with her more because of my own long distance relationship, but for her it's so much harder because this time, Dad doesn't have access to email or a phone as often as he did when he went to Uzbekistan back in 2002. I can understand a teeny bit, but never fully.
I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I also hope I didn't get to text-y in this post! Imagine what it would have been like without pictures...could you have handled the madness??
And GRATS on Perfection, I was rooting for you all the way, woohoo! 
And yeah I was wondering about the comments thing. I still like it so far though! 
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@Mallory: Oh sweet, thanks!
I’ll definitely have to check both of those places out. I was so worried because I googled for a long time trying to find places nearby and couldn’t come up with anything. 
Hooray, now I can! 
@Caitlin: Yay, you’re welcome! Hehe, I’ve never been much of a lunchbox person myself either, but I know that if I get something super cute like this it may encourage me to want to use it more! Especially how I’ve seen so many websites and blogs now that are dedicated to showing off cute bento pictures every day!
And thanks about my dad, my mom definitely deserves a lot of credit, I don’t think she realizes she does…
@Lexi: Thanks! And yeaaah, I will take pics!
And I’ll put it next to something comparable too, hehe! LOL about Joey that’s hilarious! 
Silly boys that don’t like to try things! 
@Perry: Hmm, Notepad2 is interesting. Do you know if it has a file browser plugin? That’s what really hooked me onto the other one. And oooh, I’ll have to go check those launcher things out! I didn’t really know that this kind of program existed, they’re fun!
@Cristina: Yay, glad you like it!
Hehe, I’m not fully sure yet if I’ll continue to use Launchy but for now its really fun, hehe! I’ll email you in a sec…and YAY for warm fuzzies! 
@Arien: Yaaaay! OMG TAKE PICTURES!!!