Everything is so cluttered. And it’s not just my house (though, lord in heaven, the clutter in this house threatens to eat us all). My mind is filled with useless clutter. So, since I have to start somewhere and it’s unlikely I’m going to be starting with the house itself anytime soon, I’m starting with my mind.
How to you de-clutter your mind? You spit out the random snippets of things that are dancing around in there, clamoring for your attention in a blog post, that’s how. Now you know.
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Thanks for everyone’s questions about WordPress! Keep them coming! I’m not sure when I’m going to start the series, but I’m thinking it’ll be sometime this week. So stay tuned! I’m seeing a lot of the same sorts of questions so that tells me what you all REALLY want to know. Which is good! And I’ve got some great ideas. Hopefully, I can help some people out. And if I lure just a few people away from the vile clutches of Blogger, then I will consider it a raging success.
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Liam is feeling unwell today. He was unwell yesterday too. Runny nose, slight fever. General crankiness (beyond the normal “I’m 2 years old and a little shit”, at least). Poor guy. He was very upset this morning when we couldn’t find his dolphin. Because heaven forbid the child should have to drink his morning milk without dolphin in hand. I’m hoping he starts feeling better before he a) infects me and or b) infects Evie. I do not want Evie to get sick and I can’t afford to feel under the weather right now. Plus this is a particularly sucktastic week for Kile at work so he can’t afford for me (or him) to be sick right now either. Sick, sick, go away!!
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Evie is sleeping in our bed pretty much full time now. I know I had mentioned putting her in her crib a bit before, but we’re kind of moving away from that. At least for now, we are. Liam was 10 months before he slept in his crib and until then he had slept in our bed for naps and bedtime. Since Evie is just shy of 5 months old, I figure we’re sort of jumping the gun anyhow. She has already been taking naps in our bed, though admittedly, she often draws me in with her for at least 20 minutes or so. I took a cue from what we did with Liam and the past several nights have been taking her up to bed when Kile’s putting Liam down and start nursing her. Kile comes in when he’s done with Liam and reads a story to Evie while she finishes up and then it’s off to dreamland she goes!
So far, it has worked great. She’ll wake up maybe once before I go to bed, and it’s usually shortly after she goes down so I figure she’ll stop doing that fairly soon. It sure has been strange to have the evenings entirely kid-free around here. Nice, but weird.
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Hey, I’m doing my own ads! I toyed with BlogAds (again… I had run them once upon a time but… meh) and for the last week I tried Performancing ads. Which was well and good until I got an email from a sweet gal telling me that she had been trying to purchase ad space on my blog with the Performancing ads and kept erroring out. Well, shoot, that’s not going to do! So I found a WordPress plugin and am serving up my own ads now. Middle-man be darned!
So this fabulous gal and her WAY cute products are now my very first advertisers! Check out the link under the BlogHer ads in the righthand sidebar. Click away and let her know that you think she rocks too (cuz she so totally does).
And if you’re interested in advertising, check out my new advertising page for details. Look at me, trying to be all legitimate and stuff!
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It’s less than two weeks until I get my iPhone. The waiting is TORTURE.
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How awesome are the Olympics this year? I barely remember the Olympics in Athens or the one in Sydney. I guess I’ve been a) busy and b) uninterested. I think Twitter has really helped the Olympics be awesome this time around, as have all the blogs. Getting to be excited about it with a bunch of other people at the same time what makes it fun, right? GO PHELPS. That man could probably get away with murder right about now. Golden boy, indeed! Shoot, all the American athletes have been amazing this year. The gymnasts just blow my mind, for example. I’ve even enjoyed watching the athletes from the other countries. There have been ome great stories this year and I love watching the human spirit at work! Good examples of this: the women’s marathon and the runners from Jamaica. I’m going to miss these things when they’re done.
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Good gravy I’m tired today. Trying not to rely on the Rockstar too much this week but I think I’ll have to make an exception today.
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I stop and realize where I was at one year ago today and I can’t believe it’s been a whole year and that everything last year really happened (well, maybe not the positive pregnancy test part because I do have a wee, adorable baby to cuddle this year because of that!). Last August was a nightmare. I wouldn’t say this August is a dream or anything, though. I wish I could just go ahead and get this funk behind me once and for all. The thyroid pills help, but I still have more “off” days than “on” days
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Okay, time to move on with the day. I think I’ll go get some Rockstar and give my ass a proverbial kick. Do Mondays always suck this much?