Oh, Hai

Ξ December 9th, 2008 | → 7 Comments | ∇ Bloggity Business |

My mommy haz the plague. U can haz cofee and read moar blog?

U can readz about spiders.

Mebbe U do some laudriez?

Kthanksbai!

The Countdown Begins

Ξ July 29th, 2008 | → 16 Comments | ∇ Bloggity Business, Deployment |

You know how my husband just got back from a six-month deployment?

Well, he’s leaving again sometime around October 1.

We still have plenty of time, you might think.

It’s two months.

Nine weeks.

And then he’ll be in Iraq.

The past few years have been unexpectedly full of deployments for us.  By the time he gets back from this one, sometime next spring, he’ll have completed three deployments in less than four years.

So I may be gone from the blog more often than normal for a while.  Yesterday I had intended to host a giveaway for the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival, but due to some airline delays my husband ended up with a day off yesterday.  We took the kids to a nearby water park and all turned pink and happy.

And I don’t mind missing the giveaway.  I’ll have one of my own one of these days, but over the next several weeks, I’ll be looking to spend as much time with my husband and family as possible.

Which, given his busy schedule may not be all that much, but still.  I’ll be trying to stay off Twitter as much as possible outside of the kids naptimes, and if I have a choice between time with Isaac or writing a blog post, he’s going to win.

I’ll still be around, just quieter.

And I’m sure I’ll be back regularly once he’s gone.

I’ll need the support.

How Do You Feel About Scrapbooking?

Ξ June 30th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Bloggity Business |

I’ve been taking a couple online scrapbooking classes lately, and have been undecided about whether to post about them in a regular post, or to keep the posts separate on the Scrapbooking page.

So I decided I’d just see what ya’ll prefer. There wouldn’t be a flood of posts, but it is a change from my normal posting topics.

No suspicious bodily fluids at all.

What do you think? If you’re reading in a feedreader, you might want to click over so you can vote in the poll I put up.

A Few Technical Difficulties

Ξ June 11th, 2008 | → 4 Comments | ∇ Bloggity Business |

Just when I thought I was understanding my blog and how it works, bang, and I break it.

Ok, so it was actually “cut”, “paste” and I break it, but “bang” just has so much more impact, don’t you think?

If you subscribe in a reader you probably didn’t notice anything, but I assure you, there were warnings across the top of every page that there was some fault in some line and yada yada everything was wonky and now I have to redesign my sidebars because all the text widgets disappeared.

Fun stuff.  Good times.

Maybe tomorrow  I can accidentally delete every singe email in my entire account.  It’s been a while since I’ve had that much fun.

Your Best Post

Ξ June 10th, 2008 | → 13 Comments | ∇ Bloggity Business, Win Cool Stuff |

I’ve been trying to catch up on responding to your comments and visiting your blogs lately, but it’s slow going.  I will be around to say hi to everyone, but I thought this might be fun-

Next Monday I will put up a Mr Linky, and ya’ll can link up to either your favorite post you have written OR a recent post you wrote that you’d love for people to read and comment on.

And, so that you’ll have something to keep you cool while you read people’s posts, on Friday I’ll give one random blogger from the Mr Linky a $15 Cold Stone Creamery gift card.  And if there’s no Cold Stone in your area we will pity you. And then I will send you a gift card to the eatery of your choice.

Hmm…maybe I need to name this and make a button.

Because you all know how much I love to make buttons, right?

Ok, so here it is

And the small version

*I’ve checked and quadruple checked (actually more than quadruple checked, but I can’t think what the proper word for that is right now) the code and I know I have it right, yet I still can’t get it to work so that you can just cut and paste the graphics! But you can click them and it will take you to flickr where you can click on the “All Sizes” button and then download the size you like and use it.

Now I’m excited! And I used up all my blogging time making those buttons and searching for the html to make those scroll bars (which are no longer there because the stinkin’ html isn’t working right). Start looking for your best post to link to!