BEDA #20 - Shipping options

Hi guys. 10 more days left . . . BEDA actually looks like it's going by pretty quickly.

I want to talk about a situation which I faced yesterday. I was on fredflare.com after I saw mouth-dropping items on Teen Vogue, such as this:

I want that "80's Cube Clock" so bad, and there are gorgeous things on that website as well. Like these:

Lomography Camera

EFFING HAMBURGER PHONE

A HAMBURGER PHONE ?! Who doesn't want that ?!

I shop online regularly, always on Amazon. But on fredflare.com, there was a catch: no. international. shipping.

F$#%!!!

I hate it when it happens, but they were actually quite helpful, because they gave us international shoppers an option:www.myus.com. Basically, in 24 hours time they give you a real american address and so the shipping would cost way less, plus it would arrive within one to four days. I'm thinking on joining this, since it's pretty cheap and since I've wanted to buy some other things on the Internet which come from America, but don't ship internationally, it's awesome.

Well, I'm off to see more Skins. And Desperate Housewives. And Dr. Who.

I tell ya, I blame TV SERIES for my procrastination.

"I'm going to study Span-- HEY I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT SKINS EPISODES YET!"

Something like that.

I have started working on the Portable Tissue Paper Hat project, it's going great :) And I also decided to make a video for one of my best friends. Her birthday is two weeks away from mine, and I already have some ideas. I think she's gonna love it :)

My blogs have sucked so much this last week. I apologize. See you tomorrow, hopefully with an interesting topic x

- Lo

BEDA #14 - International Friends

Lets roll, dear Bloggers, it's the 14th BEDA blog. Two weeks, already? Wow.

I want to talk about the friendships we all - maybe not everyone - have very far away from our hometown. It can be in a different state, but I prefer to talk about people who live outside our own country.

A friend of mine from Belgium who was an exchange student here in Portugal came here and surprised me. She's leaving tomorrow though, which sucks. But I spent all day with her and it made me smile so much. I was able to post a photo on Dailybooth with her and I could tweet that I was with her. I felt so good to have a foreign friend.

I think this happens because I want to get to know people from different countries and know their culture and actually missseeing someone and having a very good time when I finally get to see them. I think it makes the friendship last in a certain way. If it's meeting a Nerdfighter, meeting someone while they're on holiday in your hometown or just someone you have known for a long time on the Internet - always guaranteeing that they're real and safe, of course - it'll make you smile and you get to actually see them and have fun with them. If you're lucky, you can go visit them in their hometown, even if it's just for a weekend.

This is why I absolutely think that this BEDA thing MJ started, and now the BEDA buddy, is exactly what people need: meet people from different countries, different cultures and make friends! I've swaped comments with some people here on the Ning which I think are absolutely amazing and I'd love to talk to them after BEDA is over. That's what needs to happen, BEDers! Make friends with BEDA. AND NOT ONLY IN APRIL. Let's call it... MFOBEDABTTTAAAW = Make Friends On Blog Every Day in April But Talk To Them After April As Well. That's probably too long. Anyway, you get the picture.

The basic message I want to get out there: Make friends. Trade emails. Meet them after awhile. And finally, put a smile on your face when they're with you on a Dailybooth photo :)

See you tomorrow, bloggers xx

- Lo