*2Flower* To You...

Saturday, March 27, 2004

Prayers Please

Scott and the kids took the dogs with them today up to the state park -- basically up in the Ozarks -- about 25 miles from our home. And they lost Obi. I am devastated. Please pray for Obi and our family. I know it sounds silly, but it hurts so bad. He is such a sweet dog.

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Friday, March 26, 2004

Look on the dark side...

No one ever says that -- it's as if the bright one is the only side. I will note the dark side today because:

got shatnered by the 100 Things About Me List -- at some point they dropped me without letting me know, and they aren't excepting new memberships -- no way to contact or complain that I can find

stayed up 'til 3 a.m.

have to take Brother Stevens around today, but I want to sleep

seriously overcast outside -- and has been all week

I feel bloated this morning

I've tried every thing to eliminate the tables and still get three columns with CSS -- it works for me on other pages, but Blogger WILL NOT DO IT -- at least not without putting my right column on the dark side of the moon

my page loads too slowly

So when I get back, I seriously want to see that some commentage has commenced!

P.S. I moved and updated my About Me page -- go look. Now.

Update: I'm back from a mentally exhausting trip into town with Brother Stevens, but I managed to be civil throughout the entire ordeal. Now I'm going to take a nap before I flip out. I'm just cranky. See, the deal is that last night I stayed up thinking I could sleep in this morning-- completely forgetting that I was supposed to take Brother Stevens into town. I need to remind myself next time I'm this tired that Brother Stevens -- bless his little old heart -- will be fine if I don't take him one day. He has other people to help him. Apparently, judging by what I wrote earlier, I should not be allowed out in public when I'm that tired. It's truly a miracle that I didn't crash into something -- either accidentally or intentionally. But I will be back to my usual, less psychotic self after I get some rest.

So I'm really sorry for the earlier rant, and thank you so much for the nice comments and kind words.

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Misc.

I'm alive.

I had to take Jason to the doctor today. Our shed is full of wasps, and he keeps his moped out there. He got stung a couple of days ago, but his hand waited to swell up. It was really big this morning, so he took off work and I drove him to the doctor. Now he's taking steroids, antibiotics, and Benedryl. Thankfully, the swelling is going down now, but he is going to have to be really careful in the future. While I was at Wal-Mart, I also bought a can of wasp killer spray for the shed.

I was feeling yucky when we got home, so I had to have a nap. I've been working on some webpage updates tonight. I'm trying to move everything I had on angelcities to 250free. I've used the free version for awhile, but now I have a Platinum account there that Scott got for my birthday. It doesn't have a lot of great features, except no ads and lots of bandwidth and storage.

Did I ever tell you how I got rid of my blog*spot ads? No, I didn't do anything I shouldn't, but I also didn't have to pay. One day about a month ago weird stuff was going on with my graphics -- bad stuff. Anyway, to make a really long story short, I wrote to Blogger and they gave me ad-free blog*spot -- at least for this blog. So if you ever notice anything scary going on with your images, especially if they are being replaced by pr0n, it's worth it to complain.

And speaking of complaining, I'm not done yet. I keep getting spam. You know the stuff. Anyway, I think it has to do with LOL's (little old ladies) that like to forward every chain message to everyone they know. I hate that. My MIL gets viruses frequently, and I'm sure she has sent my email address to everyone in the world. She means well, and I appreciate the sentiment. But I hate forwarded messages. Of course, I used to do the same thing back when I first got online -- back before I knew better. But she won't be told anything. Scott has to go fix her computer every other week and reactivate her email account. It gets suspended every time she sends out another virus. ::sigh::

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Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Wictory Wednesday

"Hey God, I'm over here!"
I'm slow again, but it's still Wednesday for almost a whole 'nother hour.

Guess what? I'm going to vote for George W. Bush. I think he has done a wonderful job, especially in light of all that has happened since he has been in office. But you know, whether you agree with John Freakin' Kerry or not, you have to be pretty impressed that he went to church. In ski clothes. 11 minutes late.

If you would like to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign, please do. Get involved. Here is where you click to find out more about Wictory Wednesday if you're interested in joining. The other Wictory Wednesday bloggers are listed over in my right column, which seems quite appropriate.

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Did you know I'm a Googlewhack?

I didn't either until a guy emailed me and told me. I was a little taken aback, to say the least. I wasn't sure if I was being insulted, complimented, or what. Anyway, a little googling of my own, and I was pretty sure that it wasn't a bad thing.

Here is what a Googlewhack is according to Wikipedia:

A Googlewhack is a query consisting of two words (with no quote marks) entered into Google's search page that returns a single result. Googlewhacking is the pastime of finding such a result. A person attempting to find 'Googlewhacks' is known as a Googlewhacker.

The game first appeared on the web as part of Steve White's blog in August of 2002. The first person to coin the term "Google whacking" appears to be Gary Stock. A person finding a googlewhack can log it at googlewhack.com.

There are a few rules:
No quotes in the search term.

The words must be in dictionary.com

The found page must be a real article and not a list of words.
A problem/dilemma arises when a person finds a "googlewhack" and subsequently reports it somewhere on the web, as the "googlewhack" will no longer count as a googlewhack as the page where its reported will get "indexed" by google, rendering the googlewhack obsolete.

Some fans of the craze have gone so far as create tools that will automatically find googlewhacks, though some consider the tools an example of unsportsmanly behaviour.

Example: As of March 14, 2003, the search "Hottentot Antigony" produced only one result: [1]

So I'm assuming it's a cool thing to have a site with a Googlewhack.

Anyway, I didn't know it at the time, but I had noticed an unusual search for in my sitemeter referrals. ;) But if I post it, it will then cease to be a Googlewhack.

Update: I got a reply from Heath who found the Googlewhack. He wished me congratulations on being truly 1 in 3 billion. I think he deserves the praise, as he is the one who found the Googlewhack. Thank you for giving me something to blog about, Heath!

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Tuesday Twosome

1. "pop" or "soda"? soda, which stands for COKE.

2. chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate, please! Gimme Gimmie Gimmie!

3. potato or rice? I like potatoes a little better, but I like both.

4. coffee or tea? Neither for religious reasons, although I can drink herbal teas. I really like hot chocolate.

5. cell phone or email? Email, since I don't have a cell phone anymore -- too expensive. But I don't do a lot of emailing.

I found this meme via ~pisces peach~

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Resistance is futile

37.5 %

My weblog owns 37.5 % of me.
Does your weblog own you?
via drowning at 2 feet sea level

I think it may own a little bit more of me than this, but it's not quite up to 50% yet. Soon, I will be completely in its power.

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Monday, March 22, 2004

Offline Journaling

I started an offline journal last night. I thought that while blogging is a great idea, and I've been at it for over 6 months now, it doesn't really fill my need to keep a journal. I love to write, and I need to write more. Even if I felt I could write everything here, you would fall asleep. Scott

has been keeping an offline journal since January 1st, so I thought I would start as well. Anything I think is interesting I will cut & paste in here. Here is some of what I wrote last night:

Oh yeah, a weird thing happened tonight. Piglet was in the living room gnawing on something big and brown (scary when stuff like that happens!). Ian noticed, and we were all very confused. Guess what it was? It was a hewge piece - like almost half of a king size Snickers bar -- and I know my chocolate. So we all wondered where in the heck it came from. Guess what? We still haven't figured it out. No one is missing a King-sized Snickers bar. And we don't have neighbors anywhere nearby. Life can be such a mystery. What a sad waste of chocolate.

I bought a betta fish with the money my grandma King sent for my birthday a few days ago. He is really beautiful. He was the most purple one they had at the pet store. His body is purplish, and he has blue iridescent and dark red plumage. I have been trying to think of what to name him for a few days now, and I've decided to call him Little Jerry Seinfeld. What do you think? Dumb, is what it is, but you've got to love it. I've decided that I'm always going to have a fish from now on - it's even better than a lava lamp.

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Results of the Mental-O-Matic

Major Depressive Narcolepsy, with Lethargia with Borderline tendencies, Chocolate-dependent with uncomplicated agoraphobia, and PTSD.
via ColoradoPsycho.com

yeah. whatever.

I'm getting shrink-wrapped next Monday. I wonder if my doctor could use this.

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Monday Madness

1. What was your favorite TV show as a child? Little House on the Prairie, but I never got to watch it during the football season when my dad was home (he worked rotating shifts), because he had to watch Monday Night Football. It was always in the same time slot.

2. What show did you hate? Monday Night Football.

3. What show did your family gather around the TV to watch? Donny & Marie

4. What show is currently your favorite? Law & Order: Criminal Intent

5. What show do you hate now? It's hard to pick just one, because I hate game shows, talk shows, "reality shows" (except Clean Sweep), and soap operas. OK, I hate almost everything, but let's go with The Price Is Right, because the music hasn't changed -- ever. Not to mention Bob Barker -- isn't he like 200 years old now? If that show (usually at my MIL's) is on I want to run for the hills. Okay, just thinking about it gets the music stuck in my head. Great.

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Sunday, March 21, 2004

Wow!

I lived there 3 years and loved it. Cool!

You are a Bavarian.

What's your Inner European?
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snagged at Pam's

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Hiberating Beast

Yep, that's me. I hibernate as often as I can. I'm getting ready to go do that right after lunch.

Nggghhaahhh!
Grrr arrr Rum and Monkey.
via Better Living Through Blogging

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