I’ve been trying to learn how to use the latest edition of WordPress for the blog. All I can say is, either I am doing it all wrong (which is totally possible) or the program is a piece of crap! (Which I am hoping because then it would be WordPress’s fault and not mine!)
My biggest problem is inserting my Flickr pictures into the posts. Previously, I could add them, center them and life was good. But now, the program takes over, and my pictures wind up with lots of entry problems.
I seem to spend a lot more time than I ever have setting up the page the way I want. Nice and neat, with my pictures nicely centered.
Does anyone else use Word Press? What’s the easiest way to add pictures from another account, like Flickr?
Here is a picture from Savannah taken last summer, that I am trying to embed, in the center of the page. Let’s just see if I can!
On the draft page it looks correct, but on the web-site it comes out wrong. Eeeeeek!
It’s been a quiet week since I came down with my first cold of the winter. I have slept a lot, gone through more tissues than I care to count and drank so much juice, I felt like I would float away. But here are 5 things that actually felt good during my recovery.
Naps. Naps are good! I took a one hour nap each day and it was just enough to make me feel a little stronger and a little better each day.
Tea. Honestly, is there anything that a good cup of tea can’t cure? I think not! I just love tea.
Kleenex plus lotion. These tissues are treated with a drop of lotion, so that my nose has stayed perfectly unchapped and not red at all! This was an accidental buy, but I will keep a box in the house all the time to have on hand for colds.
It’s been frozen and icy and I have felt no reason to go out in this weather. Best part, I do not feel like I have missed anything!
I just need to take the next few days to finish recovering from this cold, because on Tuesday I go to see my Neurosurgeon for my first post operative visit. I can hardly wait!
I was looking at old puppy pictures this week, remembering when Greta had her first litter. Arnie and Anneliese were her first babies in that litter, and our relationship with them is unlike any other we have had with our dogs.
Arnie is on the bottom with the blue collar, and Anneliese is on top to the right in the green collar. The yellow collar was Anita, and the pink was Angelika and the perky red collar was Anja. All are still living good lives, except Anja. She escaped her owner and was hit by a car the first year. Too bad. She was a sweet puppy.
A year ago, I bought 4 boxes of tissues that were treated with lotion. I was furious because they make a real mess when you try to clean your glasses.
But today, I am so happy to have these boxes. Why? Because I woke with a really bad head cold. I must have blown my nose a gazillion times today and thanks to the Kleenex, my nose is not all raw and sore.
I really have been pretty healthy now for a bit. I have not had a cold in a long while. I really detest them though. All that nose blowing and still being stuffed up!
Ah well, I am drinking gallons of water and juice and hopefully by tomorrow I will be feeling better.
My week started out quite happily. After actually pulling off the surprise baby shower with my daughter’s friends and family, I arrived back home on Sunday afternoon. I was still filled with adrenaline from all the plotting and planning, and Lili was a somewhat naughty girl Sunday night, barking and keeping me awake, so when I woke on Monday morning I was feeling really tired.
I made hubby his three meals, and did two loads of laundry, changed the sheets, and about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, while watching it snow, I just hit the exhaustion wall and wanted nothing more than to watch a movie, snuggle the dackels and cuddle under the blanket with them.
The shower was wonderful and Mandy was surprised. She’d been told she was going to a Patriot’s football party!
Matt did his part, which was getting her to Sara’s house, despite the bad weather conditions. And I was so happy because, all but one person made it to the shower! That meant so much to Mandy, and to me as well.
Here we are the mighty conspirators. We sure do love Mandy and wanted more than anything to celebrate her baby boy!
I loved how we decorated and how it all came together. We’d been planning this, since Mandy found out that her baby was a boy and all was well. There were many kids at this event and I think they had just as much fun as we did. They watched (and helped) the presents get opened, and they played and ran about, but always in a nice way. What great kids everyone has!
Now Mandy’s baby boy, has plenty of diapers, real manly sort of onesie baby outfits, and the bassinet and swing to keep him happy.
The cake was made by my sister, Melodie. Not only did it look adorable, but it was the best, moistest, chocolate cake that I have ever had! She is so skilled as a baker and a designer!
There was not one piece left at the end of the shower! I did manage to save one piece of the cake for Sara’s husband, who had been so wonderful helping us get ready for the shower! My sister also crocheted a beautiful blanket for the baby. She’s made one for Savannah, way back for her crib and now baby boy will have this beauty.
So now we all sit back and wait for the little lad to make his arrival, sometime at the end of February, or beginning of March!
Yesterday we had a Sprinkle Baby Shower for my daughter, Mandy.
The food was planned, cooked, and laid out, despite waking up to ice, rain, ice and then snow, all but one guest made the trip to Nashua for the surprise party.
We played wonderfully silly Baby Shower games, the kids played like crazy and the guys watched the Patriots Football playoff game in the man cave below.
Toward the end of the shower, most of us ladies were also cheering the game on! I love the Patriots, and really enjoy watching the playoffs.
My daughter is a bigger fan than I, and never misses a game!
The shower was so much fun as we were buying little boy things for his first year.
I am spending the night with Mandy and Matt and Savannah, as the roads are just, as we say in New England, “wicked icy”.
I called Hubby to check in and apparently it is worse further north, where I live.
Savannah Rose, my granddaughter. A pictures, a smile, a story. Almost anything to do with Savi, just makes life worth living.
2. Lots of these kinds of lists out there, but one found here says the fifteen most colorful places on earth are:
Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy~Burano, Italy~Havana, Cuba~Rio de Janiero, Brazil~Chefchaouen, Morocco~Balat, Istanbul, Turkey~Menton, France~Jodhpur, India~La Baca, Buenos Aires, Argentina~Guanajuato, Mexico~Capetown, South Africa~Valparaiso, Chile~Wroclaw, Poland~San Francisco, California~and Pelourhino, Salvador, Brazil.
Of those listed which would you most like to see up close and in person? Of all the places you’ve seen or traveled in your own life, what would you say was one of the most colorful?
I have been to a few of the above. But for me the most colorful, beautiful, was the Grand Canyon! It is too spectacular for anyone to miss!
3.”Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” Jack Canfield In general, would you agree or disagree with that statement? Why?
Disagree. It is only true if you allow fear to rule your life. I chose long ago to go fearlessly into the world!
4. Imagine you’re stranded on a desert island and dessert appears…what do you hope it is? Do you ever struggle to remember which spelling is desert and which is dessert?
Sometimes! Let’s see, dessert, on a desert island? Well, it would have to be ice cold ice cream!
5. What song almost always makes you cry?
6. January is National Soup Month. Everything from soup to nuts, in the soup, thick as pea soup, souped up…which saying most recently applies to your life in some way? Explain.
Thick as pea soup. Why, you ask? Well, when I came home after my surgery, I ate a lot of pea soup! If went down really easily!
7. Write a two word note to your younger self. What does it say?
Be Kind
8. Insert your own random thought here.
The office is coming along. I imagine it will take me a couple of weeks to actually get it pulled all together. But my goodness, it is coming right along!
Ever since I was a little girl, I have spent my life in turtlenecks. For those who may not know this slang word for a usually cotton shirt, that has a neck on it, that snuggles and cuddles you neck, and keeps it warm.
Heck, I even had summer turtlenecks, that had the neck piece, but short sleeves. Yes, I love that style and my closet is currently full of them.
Flash forward to 2016 and the surgery, which put titanium pins and a small plate in the throat area. I’m still not sure I can even imagine what this looks like, but when I go on the 26th of this month, I will get pictures of my xrays.
Meanwhile, back to the turtlenecks. I cannot wear them! I feel like someone is literally choking me! I have several of them which are very loose, and I can’t even wear them. So, I will taken these shirts and store them for a while in another closet and perhaps order some cheap scoop and v-neck shirts.
The scoop and V-necks are about the only thing that is comfortable, but it sure does leave my neck chilly!
