Old business

Oh my stars and garters I think I finally got the redesign to work. If you are only reading the feed, go look! Validate me! Tell me I'm pretty! And let me know if you see any bugs. For those of you who are css idiots like myself, I highly recommend creating a tester blog and trying everything out in there before you publish your real site. Just don't forget to move the files into the right folder. And my apologies to anyone clicking around in the last couple hours. I was going to wait to upload everything until the weekend when the Internet is dead, but I'll have you know that BOTH of my bosses are in FRANCE for the next three weeks and GOD I AM BORED ALREADY.

I reinstated the "books I'm reading" thing on the sidebar because I've been turned on to a whole bunch of reading and writing blogs and my reading list is growing. Just in time for the new library branch opening up near me! The books currently on the sidebar are dull as dirt, but it's a start. They're placeholders for all the books YOU are going to tell me I should read. Ante up people!

In other news, I've convinced my friend Sean to write the first of what will hopefully be many guest posts. Hopefully he'll see this and think, "Oh snap! I better write something quick before Maggie sends me a 47th reminder!"

There's a new about page. It says the same crap. Only different.

The flamingos? Are a church fundraising idea. You pay $20 to have the church youth secretly deposit a flock of flamingos in your friend's yard for a few days. The genius part is that the flamingo recipient will want to retaliate and, therefore, the youth can count on at least another $20. We've responded in kind, and passed the favor on to some flamingo newbies as well.

Phillip's anniversary gift? SHOES. And not cool shoes, not shoes the Manolo would look and at squeal "super fantastic!", but TENNIS shoes. Oh how I embarrass me. In my defense, he's been wanting new tennis shoes since forever and, hello, I had to find something made out of leather! (Because I am a dork who thinks the traditional anniversary gift ideas are kinda neat.)

Also, the parents are flying in this evening. That means a very full weekend of listening to the parents kvetch about the morons who run whatever airline they are flying, what annoying people they had to sit next to, how the plane was batted around the atmosphere like God's badminton birdie and how they are never going to get on another plane as long as they both shall live, amen. Also, I am very excited to see them! I know some people prefer to have their parents as far away as possible, but I really miss mine. Sigh.

And finally, is it okay to leave for your lunch break at 10:45 am? GAH.

Comments

[lee]

looks nice! you may want to run your designs through the w3 validator to look for errors though. it helps to get your page 100% compliant.

i got to work at 10a, missing the end of the germany-argentina match, and now i'm taking off for a couple hours to watch the italy-ukraine game. go world cup irresponsibility!

[yoonie]

Your redesigned site looks fabulous! I'm glad you reinstated "The Nightstand"! And I love the bar at the bottom of the page with the flamingo! You are indeed "super fantastic"!!!!

More suggestions for The Nightstand:
Truth and Beauty by Ann Pachett
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (Phillip would like it too)
The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (the best piece of emo writing I've read in a long time)

That's it for now. When I think of more, I'll pass along more titles. I fully expect you to reciprocate! I need to add to my reading list.

[maggie]

ha ha lee. when i said "validate" me, i didn't mean LITERALLY. HEH HEH.

[orangepaas]

The flamingoes thing is a hilarious idea for a youth group...Nice.

[Antonia]

the site looks really sweet! well done on your hard work!

& at least the shoes are practical and it was something he wanted! I'm all for practical gifts!

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