Ta-DAAAAAA
I am soooo thrilled to unveil my new template!!!
When I saw
these templates, I really liked
this one, especially when I had the inspiration of how to change the background. So here it is, folks!
I had mentioned how disgusted I was that my old template had gotten some sort of bug, and was all out-of-date, not to mention the same as 20-bajillion other Blogger users. Then I realized I was in the next round of
Michelle's Treasure Hunt, it was the scurry-around-and-pick-up-because-company-is-on-the-way clean, but now, I'm very ready for company.
Welcome, welcome...smiles, everyone, smiles...(sheesh, I'm sleepy)
Compulsing the weekend away
I've spent most of the day working on my new template.
I really hate when something seems like it should have an easy way, but I can't figure it out, so I have to do it the hard way. But I can't let it go until I've got it finished.
First, the free template wouldn't download right, I don't know what the issue was. But the site had a preview of each template as well as the download, so I figured I could just use the 'view sorce' data and paste it in. That was fine, for the most part, but the preview was just a mock-up, so I had to replace all the fake information with my Blogger information. (I do need to add that Blogger had some good help about their tags, and what means what)
Plus, I was having trouble with the drawing program I was using (and the stupid double-clicky mouse), and I had to re-do the basic design five freaking times before I got it right.
So now, I'm super excited about how well it's looking. And here's a tip to anyone playing with making a new Blogger template: Make a new blog just for testing. You can make all your changes there and then copy the finished template into your regular blog. I've got it almost ready, then I'll add some of my links there on the test page before moving it over.
We're counting down to the big reveal!!
Working on Changes
I am sooooo sick of Blogger templates, and mostly sooooo sick of not having learned how to make the template myself. It's not that I can't learn it, it's just that I sit down at the computer to work on finding free templates and/or working on making one, and I get all caught up in the surfing. ;p I'm sure that happens to the best of us. That's why we blog, right??
Anyway, I don't know how the template looks to others, but for me, it looks terrible the last couple days, some bug/glitch. And I haven't changed browsers or anything. ??? So that's prompted me to really, I mean
really get down to it and fix this thing! I've found several useful sites, and I'm going to start with one of the templates
here to start, and I'm making a background inspired by one of my
ceramic projects...
So be patient with me this next week or so, as I try to make something very technicolor!
BE/BC
I've read several blog posts talking about signing up for
BlogExplosion and/or
Blog Clicker. I've been using BE for a couple months, and BC for a few weeks, and so I wanted to post my 'obligatory post' as one blogger put it. ;p
But
Shelly says it best in
this post, so thanks, Shelly, I don't have to re-write it all.
The only thing I'd add is, that for those of us who
can't surf without use a tabbed browser, with BE, you have to actually have that window open to click down the seconds, but BC seems to count you even if you're not looking at that exact tab. Which I kinda like.
Either way, I really like the concept. No, I don't leave comments on every blog I look at. No, I don't stay longer than 30 seconds on some blogs. But others, I check out, bookmark, and quote. I've personally gotten bookmarked by others 1% of the 'visits' surfing my way. I think that's about right.
Blog On, Cats.
Tuesday Quote
Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow.
--Unknown
Long Monday
Why do some Monday's seem ten times longer than others? Well, it's over now, that's the best thing I can say.
On the work front: I do have to admit (only because I gritched about the situation so much) that the situation with my co-worker that is difficult to get along with is actually getting better. Yes, she still is very passive/aggressive (she'll still say "we need to do this-or-that" when she is trying to tell me to do it), and yes, she still thinks she is always right, but she tells everyone what they're doing wrong, not just me (heck, she even tells our bosses what they do wront). But I do have to admit, that most of her irritation doesn't seem to be directed at me specifically anymore. Our work situation is rather strange right now, there's too many people complaining about too many things, sorry folks, change is inevidable, so now it's kind of more like US vs. THEM, so she's more focused on what THEY are doing wrong. So it's odd, but it's a little easier to deal with. Just wanted to give credit where credit was due, since I had complained so much.
After a rough day at work, when it was shower time, I forgot that I had just put laundry into the washer when I got into the shower. Too hot, then freezing cold all of a sudden. Great.
Hope your Monday was better than mine.
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Today's Quote
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain
Michelle Needlehands
Watching
Edward Scissorhands with the kids, and surfing
Blog Explosion yesterday afternoon, somewhere around landing upon
this blog, I remembered the scarf I had been trying to crochet in my teaching-myself-to-crochet project. And I remembered something else fantastic: I already
know how to knit. I could just knit the scarf. Why was I all about having to learn to crochet anyway? (I think it's that tempting beading crocheting which would take years of crocheting practice to get good enough to try) Maybe we'll try that another time, but as far as getting my hands into the yarn and actually making something, knitting is the thing.
I realized I did need to remind myself how to cast on, and I found
this animated teaching tool, and all was well to start.
I'm not completely sure if I'm 'knitting' or 'perling' but I'm doing it, and the stitches are basically even. I may have a scarf before the snow melts. But that's more a reflection on how long the snow will last than it is on my knitting skills. ;p
Snow Day Happenings
Made potato soup, brownies, and bread (in my new
bread maker). We took turns scooping, so none of us had to do it all, and took some pictures for my new meme.
I wanted to do something monthly this year. (The saving up all the pennies I found last year was so beyond lame!) I thought about taking some pictures on the first day of each month. A 'day in the life' kind of photo meme. Realizing that I am ever the good-intentioned-procrastinator, and thinking to take advantage of this being '05, I bring you:
Take Five. A photo meme of five photos taken on the fifth of each month in the year 5, just for fun.
Anyone photo minded is willing to play along and take pictures of their own.
Here's the
direct link to January's Take 5.
Sticky Pixels
This
Mario Mosiac (found @
Boing Boing) is very cool. It reminds me that the video game pixel pictures can be made into anything relatively square, like...hhmmmm.....
BEADS! I could brick stitch Link. That would be awesome. Now I just need to find where folks get these pixel pictures to use as the basis.
Yay!
Snow day tomorrow!
I had already decided, as non-essential staff, I would take a vacation day if the kids were out of school.
Yay, sleeping late, hot chocolate, maybe some fresh bread...
What?
OK, back to work, and all the fun that it holds. Including the crap talk radio playing before I even walk in the door, and being told why what I just did was wrong several times.
But this one is so far beyond my scope of understanding...
A couple extra folks were in our office, and one made the typical work joke about having so much work to do, they needed to clone themself. *polite laughter*
So I, in my best small-talk receptionist mode, mention the story in the newspaper a while back where some lady actually cloned her cat. For a small fee of $50,000. We all chatted about the silliness of that.
Here's Ms. PAAR's paraphrased contribution to the conversation:
"Yeah, and they have to go out and save this animal or that animal, and then they kill babies"
Needless to say, that propmtly ended the chatting.
