YES!!!

This is my new "signature" that goes along with my new header!!  Yippie!!  (It isn't quite what I wanted, but I'm still working on it.)

Finally, finally, finally!  After much, much, much trauma and almost loosing everything I now have a cool header and a new love of pirates with pink bananas.

Signature

Did it finally work?!?!?!  At least one of them?

Mile Stone Year!

This year:

• 6 year old graduated Kindergarden

• 11 year old, turns 12 and goes into Young Women's

• 14 year old goes into High School

• 17 year old, turned 18

• 10 year old scores!  She gets to go on our "Mile Stone Year" dinner

Finally!!

I finally made some changes that aren't terrible!  It took me a few tries and I had to replace entire HTML codes twice and change my background as many times.  Then I made a new header and signature.  What do you think?  Please let me know if it was worth all of my time.

OK, so I just looked at the signature and it isn't great.  I'll work on that later.  For now, its 2:44 a.m. and I'm tired!  I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.  The kids are out of school, the house is a MESS, and most importantly I HAVE to work on my resume blog!  I just might come out of hiding for a day or so.  I'll need opinions and maybe even a job or two!  
 

Hair Cut

My bangs were hanging over my glasses and I couldn't see without having hair poking me in the eyes when I don't have my glasses on.  And there are only a few things worse than having flat bangs because they are too heavy right?

So I decided to go get them trimmed.  The gal who has been doing my hair for over a year quit!!!  So, thinking like an insane woman, which isn't really very different than a normal day, I had her "trim" my bangs.  STUPID!!!  I should know better.  Now I have, "did you cut your own bangs" bangs!  It should only take about 2 weeks to get them to where I actually wanted them trimmed in the first place.  Oh well, nothing I can do about it now except berate myself every time I look in the mirror over the next two weeks.

Of course I could just stop looking in the mirror, but then I would have "did you look at yourself in the mirror when you left the house" hair.  Live with my choices and learn.  HA!  I didn't learn the last time, or the time before that, or the time before that, I had someone other than "my" gal do it.  And you should see the times I cut them!  Actually, I think I could have done a better job this time.

Clear the Air

I want to make sure that you all know that just because I'm having major computer issues, besides the one with the blog, my house is not clean!  I wish it was, but I can't be two places at once.  If I could do that I'd find a way to double it and be in 4 places at once. 

1) Work on the computer
2) Work on the computer
3) Clean the house
4) Spend more time with the kids just cuddling and playing together (This would be the real me!)

Of course, when I get a "real" job that pays money I'll probably be gone 10 hours a day.  If I get the job I want I'll be gone about 12 hours a day because there is a 1.5 hour travel time each way.  It pays well, has excellent benefits, and room to move up.  I'll take whatever I can get right now.

zzz...Ka-boom!

I haven't had any time to do anything on this blog at all since I "ruined" the background and the widgets.  Sometime, in the early hours of the morning.  Right after I'm done applying for jobs, trying to learn new software and programing, doing other personal legal stuff, updating the resume for the 1 billionth time, at about 5:30 a.m. I'll spend some time working on it.  I'm living on about 2-3 hours of sleep again so it may not look much better when I finally do get around to changing it.

I've decided I'm going to start a business applying for jobs for people.  I would gladly pay a portion of my first paycheck to have someone do all of this work.  I've entered my personal information (the real stuff), employment history, skills, references, and completed so many of those tests that ask you about drugs and stealing that I just might explode!!!  I better get a job soon or I'll explode poor and my children will have nothing.

The problems I'm having are the same as everyone else I guess, especially mom's looking for work.  I've been home too long so I must not have any skills or have not kept up with technology.  And/or I made too much money before I decided to stay home.  I'm studying several things to try to not only make sure I have the skills, but to be able to put on my resume that I have them.

I have excellent references and connections so I'm hoping to get something soon.  Very soon!  I'm out of money, gas, food, and am just running on empty all together.  Thank heaven's I have such great family and friends!  Without them I would for sure be living on the street.

Technical Problems

Sorry readers.  

Problem with the template.  

Learning HTML 
and having trama.  

Stay tuned for a new look 
and new links.

Contacts

I remember the first time I tried on contacts.  I tried for over 45 minutes to get those things in.  After the first 15 minutes the guy said, "Oh, sorry, there's a tear in the middle".  Well!  I mean!  By the time I left I was amazed at how well I could see through such blood shot eyes.  It took me several times to get "used" to putting them in and taking them out.  But, with time, a lot of pain, time on the floor looking for it just so I could have closure and throw it away (thank heaven's for disposable), tears, and money, money, money I don't have too much trouble.  I found the best frames ever and now like using both contacts and glasses.

My son got his first contacts!  He's 18 and has been waiting for as long as we can remember to have them.  I took him in when he was 16 and they said his prescription was too high and they didn't make them.  Then when he was 17 they said they made them.  But they didn't come in disposable.  Also, they were $100.00 each.  What if something happened right? So, when he had his exam this month we were told they made disposable now!  Whoohoo!  He said, "sign me up" and we had them order a trial pair.  They have to be ordered especially so it took about 2 weeks to get them.

He's seen me put mine in and take them out, so he thought it would be a piece of cake.  Little did he know.  His prescription is so high that the contacts are pretty thick.  Also, he has astigmatism so they are not regular shaped.  The lady who was showing him how to put them in had him, what I think, doing it the hardest way.  There was no way he would get them in like that without being a contortionist. And she didn't have very much solution in the tray, and it kept dropping on the floor and all over the place because it is shaped so weird.

After he tried for about 15 minutes she came over and put them in for him!  Can you believe it?  She practically crammed them in.  Then she said he needed to take them out before he left so they knew he would be able to.  Well, he hadn't put them in really so how did they expect him to take them out?  By now he was afraid to touch his eyes.

After being there for over an hour I had to leave.  I had an appointment I couldn't miss so I told him that if he wanted to stay I could come get him later (about 1 hour later turns out) or I could have my friend pick him up and take him home when he was done.  He said he just wanted to come with me.  So, we all decided I would take him home and he could keep trying to get them out.  She said that if he didn't get them out he could sleep in them and come back the next morning.  I can't sleep in mine so I thought that was kinda funny. 

I went to my appointment and when I came home he had very blood shot eyes and was practically crying with pain.  I think she put them in wrong side out and that they were dry.  There are days I still feel that way so I know how he feels. Right?  NOT!  After we both tried and tried to get them out we finally, at 10:30 at night, called the optomitrist.  Good thing he lives in our neighborhood.  He came over a few minutes later and with great effort, got them out.  It was horrible to watch!  I don't know how my son didn't scream in pain!  He had to told my son's head back on the chair, open his eye with one hand and "grab!" the contact with the other one.

He said he was surprised at how tightly they were in there and encourage my son not to give up on contacts.  It wasn't the same guy we had seen before.  He was super nice and very helpful and kind to come out at that hour.  And he didn't make us go to the office.

It breaks my heart that he had to go through that.  He is such a good kid and really wanted contacts for so long.  Today, his eyes are still pretty red, but he assures me "they feel great!  Especially after last night". I'm not sure how soon, if ever, he'll try contacts again.

Do a search for "contact lens cartoons" and you will find the funniest cartoons!

 

Showing the House and Boiling Water

For the past few days we have been under orders from the City not to drink the water.  We have had to boil water to drink.  Which, by the way, is Nasty!!  We were also careful to use the tap water to wash dishes unless we ran it through the dishwasher with high temperature water.

On Wednesday while driving by the store the thought came to my mind to go get a FEW cases of bottle water.  I though, "I know you're thirsty, but give me a break."  Then while driving back by after getting the kids I had the very exact same thought.  Later that night I felt really stupid!  Why didn't I listen?  So we had only boiled water that night and the next morning.

Yesterday morning my daughter and I were in another City and stopped and got some water.  Then today we were in another City and got some more.  Now we have 6 cases of water.  I was so proud!  We were blessed to find the cases because I guess there are other City's with similar problems right now.

We had people coming to look at the house today.  Because of the water thing we had some dishes on the counter that we hadn't washed because the dishwasher was full.  We wrote a note for the "lookers" about the situation.  Turns out they really liked the note and it actually helped with the viewing.  Cool!  (I wouldn't recommend leaving dishes out.  But I do recommend honesty.)

When we got home from SIL's* house tonight we had a message on the phone that said the tap water was fine to drink now.  Can you believe it?  At first I was a little annoyed then I realized that having bottled water is really, really important.  I don't always get it because of the expense.  We have a water purifier and thought we would be fine.  But then I realized that I learned something and now I have 6 cases of water for my storage, not just the two large barrels out in the back.

Most importantly I learned once again to listen to those little thoughts or you may regret it later. 


*See previous post.

Crashed family party

All morning we worked in the yard (which looks amazing and pictures will come soon) and got the house cleaned up. The kids were great and helped tons. Especially my 6 year old who was helping "because she wanted to go" to the store, library, and my sister-in-laws (SIL) house. After the store I wanted to go home, but all of the kids wanted to go to "SIL's" house. So, since they were so good at the library and the store I said we would go for an hour. After all, we had called earlier and asked if she minded if we could come for a while.

We love going to her house! Every time we go we have tons of fun. She and her family are pretty terrific. We are very blessed to have them in our family and especially having them so close.  Bonus...my brother was home.  He works away from home a lot so we don't see him very often.  But today he was home.

Anyway, when we got there we found her there with her brothers and her sister and their spouses. They were having a family dinner. They had all brought something to share. We felt a little weird because they aren't "technically" our family and we had "crashed the party" so we were going to leave. They convinces us to stay and I'm glad they did.

While we were there the subject of school and scholarships came up. I was very interested and during our conversation one of the sister-in-laws (SIL2) took me over to the computer and showed me where and what to do to apply for scholarships. It was amazing! She gave me tons of information and offered to help in any way she could. Her and her husband had just finished the process and were applying all over the place. So she knows what she's talking about.

Long story short...family rocks! Even family of family of family...whatever. And when invited to stay, when prompted to go, and when you are/feel loved, you are blessed! We are blessed.

Scholarship applications here I come!!!! (Fun times! Well, we'll see anyway.)

What to learn...

I've always loved being a Property Manager and working in Real Estate. I thought that I would have a Property Management company myself and be able to work my own hours. But, in the last year or so I've been thinking that being a programmer & developer would be awesome. The only skills I have in this area are the few I have learned while trying to get this blog to working and what I've learned from a few books.

I'm positive a degree will help me be able to support my family. Working in computers is where the money is. And it looks so interesting.

Just to change a font is awesome! One little space or punctuation out of line and the entire thing won't work. It's like a puzzle or a treasure hunt. When you finally figure it out it is so rewarding. And usually looks or works fabulously too.

You may have noticed that the navigation links have changed, been moved, disappeared, not worked, etc. Also I'm having some trouble with my pictures to be the way I want. Oh, and the web links, fonts, colors, and spacing need work. I'm sure there are more, but those are the one's I have been spending time on. Once I get those working the way I want them to I'm going to figure out how to do pull-down menu's! I's going to be awesome.

There hasn't been any content lately because I've been doing the back end stuff. The last entry was entered after I finally restore my navigation bar that had decided to go into hiding. I had to recreate them, which was fine because it helped me remember some things and more importantly learn some new things. (I was on two other computers this week to see how it was working on those screens. They need some work.)

I am going to build my own site from scratch. I've gotten some books and am going to start soon. It will take a while I'm sure because I only get to be on the computer for a little while at a time. And that is usually interrupted time. First thing, I have to find a name for the site, what to put in it, how to get it up and running for little to no cost.

The other awesome thing about this profession is the creativity. I'll have to learn CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and more of these programs to make everything I do look amazing. I learned some about Photoshop when I was working 10 years ago, but I'm sure it's different now. I can't afford any of these programs so I'm using Paint.net. It's free. That's what I can afford for now.

I'll have to learn as much as I can about using HTML, javascript, XHTML, PHP, mySQL and other programing languages. The more I know these things the better chance I have of getting a job.

For now, the blog is my "testing grounds". Watch for changes. They may be slow coming but they will be there. I'll just have to keep staying up until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning to have enough quiet time to work on it. When I start school I'm not sure what will happen, but I can't wait to find out!

I Did It!!!!!

I applied for college yesterday!!!

I've always wanted to go to college and planned on going when my children were all in school. But, life throws us curve balls sometimes and we have to change our game plan. The good thing about the situation I'm in is that I can get scholarships and loans easier than other students. I fact that I have practically no money coming in and I've been out of the job market for 10 years will actually help me this time.

I've been looking for a job since October. When I was working I was a professional and made more money 10 years ago than what people are paying now for the same job. So, stay at home mom, may want too much money, and probably hasn't kept up with technology are all factors I'm trying to figure out. Add having the economy the way it is and it's a recipe for disaster.

So I'm going to college!!!!

Good Morning!

It's 2:16 a.m. and two good things have already happened today. It is Monday right? I'm confused. Aren't Monday's supposed to be "bad"? I mean, my almost always are. But today... 2 hours and 16 minutes in... I'm having a pretty good day.

I don't want to go to sleep in case sleep makes the good stuff go away! haha! I'm going, going, gone baby!

HTML

I have come to the realization that if I'm going to find a good paying job that will support my family I'm going to have to go to school and learn programing and design skills.  I have an appointment with a school that helps mom's like me do just that.  They actually find the scholarships for you.  The don't send you off with a packet and the name of a website.

I've worked on this page and learned some code by myself.  Tonight however, I haven't had any luck!  I accidentally deleted my navigation links.  I forgot how I did them so I had to spend time working on that and making them exactly like I wanted.  It took some work, but I think it looks pretty good.  So, I said to myself.  "Self.  I bet you could figure out how to make the buttons glow or highlight or change when you hover over them."

"HA!"  Is what I should've told myself.  I've spent the last 3 hours studying two books and using the Internet to try and figure this out.  I doesn't look that hard.  All of the code I found is very similar.  I just can't get it to work.  I'm trying to use images from paint.net for the hovering.  The images are now at photobucket.com.  All I have is the code that directs the link to the page with your image on it.  I could probably make some text highlight but that isn't nearly as cool.

I think now, at 1:36 a.m., I'm going to turn in.  I might just have to get some help with this one.  Once they show me how I'll know it and won't have to worry about it.  Then I want to learn to do pull down menus! Wouldn't that be awesome!?! 

The final project?  Complete an actual real full on website. (First I have to find something to put on it and something to use it for.)

I have to get up at 7:00 a.m.  Only 5 hrs and 20 mintues to sleep.  If I can sleep that is.  I'm tired right now, but that may change while walking upstairs.  Oh Please!  Please let me sleep!

*Take note....this message may have been a little distorted by the fact that I'm so tired.*

? What ?

How is it possible to remember something and forget it at the same time?

Well, I don't know but I'm a pro at it....I think...

Clicking Through

When I don't have anything to do. hahaha!!! Well, OK, when I have stuff to do but I'm trying to avoid it. And/or when I'm trying to look busy so kids so they won't bother me...hahaha!!! (I crack myself up today.) uhem. ummm. Wait.  Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah. Today, while I'm avoiding painting, I was clicking through some blogs. I like to click the "Next Blog" link until I find something I like then click on something they like... and I always come across something I like too. Mostly mom and women stuff, which is awesome! I love finding out that  I'm not the only crazy woman out there. hahaha!!! No offense to those of us who know we aren't crazy. I know I'm not. I'm just told I am so often that I'm starting to believe it. - Boy my brain is wandering. Good thing I'm not painting it would be a disaster.

Long story, made longer by rambling,  I just wanted to let you know what I found today.  I came across a blog called Work, Wife, Mom...Life.  It's very interesting. You should check it out. I have a link on my side bar. I also found quite a few other sites I like. Including this one.

Hey Jo, while yer up....

I immediately liked it because it said she was writing "Random bits and pieces of me" which is pretty much what I do, except not nearly as well.

"Koodo's Hey Joe!  Love your site!"

Yesterday

Yesterday was a stressful day. But not in the typical "stressful day" kind of way. See, I've been sick for about a week now. I've been so tired and feeling frumpy.

We're trying to sell our house. So when the Realtor calls I have to start stuffing things under beds and into drawers because my kids aren't pulling their weight. I sat here, while I was working on my budget, (if you can call it that since I don't have any money) thinking about how important it is for me to clean out the "dumping grounds." I'm still thinking about it right now. See how much thinking about something makes it get done more quickly? haha!

And remember that desktop calendar? Well it's great! I spent a lot of time yesterday entering my schedule and to-do list. One of the things on the to-do list of course is to clean out the dumping grounds.

I was also supposed to mow the lawn, schedule Dr. appointments, drop off and pick up my medication, clean everywhere outside of the dumping grounds, and take care of the kids. I didn't get any of those things done. That means they have to be added to today's schedule.

I DID however, take my son to get his eye exam ($70), drop off my prescription, take my daughter to a gymnastics evaluation (which took 2 hours), and most importantly I got onto FrogBlog.com, read other people's blogs, finished the so call budget, made an entry into my blog, and learned some HTML code. I guess I got the most important things done.

Oh! Oh! AND I ate 4 Red Vines, a lot(!) of Reece's Pieces, 4 bowls of cereal, a Wendy's Hamburger, and fries, AND had 3 64oz cups of Coke! It's amazing I could even sleep last night. I'm on the right track today. I've only had 1 bowl of cereal and a few Reece's Pieces. It's time to get them out of the office.

Today I've already scheduled the Dr. appointment, applied for a job, cleaned up my desk (I can see the desk! Whoot!), updated my resume (again), picked up my prescription, taken my daughter to get her "lunch" for the field trip (it had to be a special one), and dealt with the X. So today has been productive so far. I'm heading out to mow the lawn after I apply for this other job I just heard about. Wish me luck!

Single Mom's and Mother's Day

What do single mom's do for Mother's Day?  In particular, mom's that have small children, and no family, and only married friends.  Do you take yourself out for dinner?  And watch all of the couples chatting lovingly.  Do you buy yourself flowers?  I don't think I could enjoy them as much if I bought them for myself.  Do you try to find a date?  haha!!!  What do you do if you don't have any money?

What I'm going to do:

- Stay at home
- Watch On Demand Survivor and Biggest Loser
- Eat Popcorn
- Drink Coke
- Eat Reece's Pecies
- Drink chocolate milk
- Eat a bag of Cheezit's
- Drink ....
- Eat ...

You get the general idea.  Should be fun!

Other Blogs

I've been looking at some other blogs.  If you can believe it I found a link that has links, and some have even more links, that actually have sites that are interesting.  Some anyway.  Very few actually.

The following is my personal preferences.  This is just me rambling thoughtlessly.  Don't be offended if you are one of the few that have blogs like these.  K?  OK?  Really?  Are you sure you don't mind?  Well OK then...here we go.

It drives me crazy when I open a site and immediately music starts...and my kids had the speakers up all the way..and it's not something I would listen to or that doesn't go with the moode I'm in.  I don't mind blogs having music, I just think that you should be given the option right at the top to listen or not to listen.  That is the question.

Also, when I go to a site that is all ads with very little content I find it very distracting and I click out immediately.  I don't even go to any of the links.  Sad, but true.  I realize that those ads generate income, but if I can't even concentrate on one thing, maybe two, then I click out.  Sorry guys.

The sites that have links, with links, with links.... are not my choice either.  I click out of those quickly too.  Again, same with the generating income, but there has to be another way.  Yesterday I was looking for a calendar for my computer desktop.  I spent 20 minutes looking.  I found some pages that were full of links at the top but if you scrolled down a little it actually had what they "thought" you were looking for.

(I gave up and my son did the searching for me...see my previous post.)

I read on one persons blog about how they "re-blog."  I didn't know you could do that.  What she meant to say was that she took her previous entries and re-entered them, or copied them, or did both and made changes.  I think it would be easier to create a link and suggest/encourage my very few readers to enjoy the past with me.

For example...uhm...This page is thrilling!  Check it out!

Thrilling!

After you went there you would come back to this page and say, "What? Thrilling?"  Then I would say, "Yep.  When I looked back at my history I didn't even know it was there.  Ha!  Learned something new everyday." (All comments are welcome.)

While laughing loudly I would then say...ummm...try this one instead it's "spillicious!" You would hesitate.  But the curiosity would drive you nuts all day until you finally came back to check out what's there.  You know you will.  Come on.  Everyone's doing it!  (Viscous Smile)

Spillicious!

Because I didn't think I could get you twice I actually put something interesting, or at least interesting to me, in the link.  I hope you enjoyed my "re-blog!"

One thing I won't do is put pictures of my family up.  This is my site for selfish reasons.  The name I use here isn't real.  The pictures of me as a child and of me in High School are real.  If you can identify me by looking at those pictures, you must already know I'm crazy.

I will, however, put pictures of my favorite things up.  Some which are, the color green, frogs, kokopeli, Coke, and random insane thoughts.  I also like to use some clipart in my entries for a little more interest.

Check out my links page to find some of the more interesting sites I came across today.

Have a thrilling, spillious day!!

Searching

Have you ever searched for something on the Internet and NOT been able to find what you were looking for, or at least something close to it?  Explain this to me.  There are billions of things out there.  And I can't find anything close to what I'm looking for half the time.  (Or at least it seems that way.)  I'm a bad searcher!

Today I wanted a calendar to put on my desktop so I can get a view of the month without having to click somewhere else.  I wouldn't mind if it had a To Do option also. These are some of the searches I did:

• desktop calendar
• desktop onscreen calendar
• google desktop calendar (which I found but was ugly)
• google calendar desktop application (still ugly)
• free download desktop calendar software
• 2010 desktop calendar
• desktop calendar frog theme computer screen  (I started to get silly)

Did I do the wrong search or something?  Did I use the wrong keywords?

Needless to say I didn't find anything.  I found printable calendars, 2009 calendars, by the month calendars, create your own ugly computer generated calendars, and best of all I found sites that have lists of other sites that didn't have what I wanted and/or they wanted me to download something I've never seen!


***

GEEZ!!!  My son just came home.  I asked him to find something that may work for me.  He found one exactly like what I imagined AND downloaded it in 7!!!!  MINS!!!!  "You're welcome mom," he said to me as he walks away laughing smugly.  "I love you mom," he says as he walks into his office next to mine and then starts to tell me about some of the other sites he found and all of the add ones you can have.  He's still laughing a little under his breath.  I can feel his goofy smile as he wonders what the heck is wrong with my mom!?!  LOL!  (I have a great son!  He is 18 and still loves his mommy!  I love that!!!  Even though he is smarter than me...about somethings that is.)

Just in case you were wondering he searched for "desktop calendar apps".  There are many, many links, but the first one is the one he downloaded.  Here's a link to their site:

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

Koodo's to Rainlendar!!!  I sent them a note thanking them.

P.S.  I got my son a Dr. Pepper from the gas station for all of his time consuming help.

Rain and Umbrella's

Come on.  Seriously.  Why do people duck when it rains?  Do they think they won't get as wet?  Do they think it will evaporate before it gets to them?  Do they think they can doge the drops?  I admit it.  I've done it too.  I only do it because everyone else is doing it.  Peer pressure!  I can't take the pain...I mean the rain!  The rain!

Some people even duck when they're under an umbrella.  Now that I don't understand.  I get that sometimes we duck because we are cold or the wind is blowing.  But in general have you ever noticed that we duck? -- Like I said, I,m a ducker.  But I'm trying to quit.

And why does it always rain when you have somewhere important to go, have to go anywhere in the first place, or you have to wear nice clothes, and why especially on good hair days?  It's ridiculous!  I can understand putting your hand or something else over your head, especially bangs, to keep your hair from getting wet.  Do that and add ducking and you will definitely avoid the rain.

What good is an umbrella when you're in a crowd with other people with umbrella's?  If you're the one on the bottom you're good to go.  If not, then everyone else's rain falls on you more than if you didn't have an umbrella.  Well, it falls on your feet anyway.  And instead of coming down small drops it comes down in large gushes. Second hand rain can drench you for sure!  And there might be dust coming off the umbrella.  Yuck!  This is one time being on the bottom is good.

In the movies when you see a crowd of people with umbrella's the umbrella's are always black.  Why is that?  Don't you find that strange?  Conformity?  Peer pressure?

What if you're with a friend and they have an umbrella and you don't and the umbrella is too small for both of you.  Do you huddle together?  Does one of you walk far enough away that the umbrella doesn't drip on you?  Is there such a thing as umbrella educate?

Can you really fly away while holding an umbrella?  Will it turn inside out if the wind blows hard enough?  Why is it always either broken or lost when you need it?  Should you take the kind you can fold into your purse or the kind you can use as a walking stick?

I like the umbrellas that are clear on the top.  It's hard enough to hold an umbrella when you're walking toward the wind.  To be able to see is another story.  I think they only make those for children.  Too bad.  I guess I'll take my black one.  Or maybe I'll take my red one just to prove I'm not a conformist.  Even better, to show my true self, I'm going to take the clear one my daughter has.  The one with the little frogs on it so everyone knows I love frogs!  And it's too small for anyone else to walk with me.  I will stand out for sure!  Next time it rains we will all have little clear umbrellas.  I will set the standard!  Then I think I'll start using black again.

And for Heaven's sake, 
Why does a  frog need
an umbrella?

8 HOURS!!!

Yep, that's right!  I slept for 8 HOURS last night!  Never mind that I'm sick and my throat hurts and my nose is stuffy, and I coughed all night.  I slept, slept!!!  Me!!!  8 Hours!!!  As my son would say....

"WHOOT"!

I have tons to do today.  I'm sure I can make it because I am I slept for 8 hours!!!


Was that a little too much?

Nope!  

I slept for 8 hours!!!
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New Look!

I'm sure you cannot guess how many hours I have put into changing the look of my page.  I wanted it to be cute, but not flowery or girly.  I really like the "grunge" backgrounds, but went with this one instead.  The problems that took me the longest still haven't been resolved.  Like putting on a cool header.  The one I have I made and pasted it.  Also, I wanted to have a button navigation bar instead of a list.  I made and found some cool ones, I just couldn't figure out how to link them.  I would really like to know how to make texts and images that have an invisible background.  When you look at my header you'll see the white space around the picture.  There's also some space around the clock.  And I haven't been able to figure out how to do text without the background either.

It's been a learning experience that's for sure.  I've done tons of research and even learned a little HTML in the process.  I am far, far, far, from being a web designer.  I can't decide which colors, patters, or shapes go together.  Oh well.  I'm done for now.

Any suggestions, directions, ideas, complaints, complements, applause, or any other thoughts you may have...should be well thought out before sending.  My heart is very tender.  After loosing so much sleep and staring at a computer for so long I just might break at any moment.

I had several ideas for some posts that would entertain, but can't even remember what they are now.  I'm going to bed!  Yesterday I went to bed at 3:00 a.m. and slept until about 7:00 a.m. when  I had to get the kids off to school.  Tonight I'll make it by 2:30 a.m. since I still have to do the night-time routine.  Tomorrow I hope to sleep in until at least 8:00 a.m.!  Won't that be lovely!?!