One day I was surfing through iStock Photo and I saw this image.  I just fell in love with it and just HAD to use it for a new skin. Tonight, after about 4 nights of working on it, and getting advice/tips from a few of my fellow Blexers, and you know who you are, I finished.  I had a little trouble porting the skin, but in the end it’s worked out. The new skin is called “Art Deco Pink” and it’s #21. Oh - yeah - at resolutions smaller than 1024 by 768 it may look bad.  (Course I’ve not checked it, so I don’t know.) If the skin looks really bad on your computer, or if it looks really good and you just wanna share it, please comment.  As you can see from the image it’s really more of an image driver design. And this one, THIS ONE, I did nearly all my myself! :) I’m just really proud of myself.  There was a lot of cursing of pixels too! I know the bottom looks weird, but I since the image is curved I can’t match it up exactly. I did my best though ;) Hopefully the hearts border will make it less noticeable. (Sometimes it’s worse than others though, that’s for sure.) I’ve worked hard on this skin, and while it’s not perfect, it’s by FAR the most complex layout I’ve ever done.  We loves it. But we loves all the skins when we first do them.

How about you?

Oh. and I fixed the missing image in my atom feed.  And updated it.  You like? 

If fighting with Kaos about breakfast is any indication, today is going to be a trying day. 

I am, though, nearly finished with a new skin I’ve been working on.  I think it’s turning out well.

Right now I am very thirsty. Instead of drinking plain ole water, or milk or something worse like Soda - I am drinking iced tea. It’s Tetley ice tea, very lighty sweetened. Ooh it’s so good.  This is probably my fourth glass of iced tea. Ever. Man, it’s so good. I steeped it for like 4 and 1/2 minutes and sprinkled the pitcher with sugar. Yumm.

Battle of the Blog Battles take for fucking ever at this time of night! God damn!  (There should be some sort of time thingy - along with the vote count. That may help.) Man I’ve been staring at “8 votes left” for like 1/2 an hour. Fuck it. I’m going to bed!

I’ve booked my tickets for my trip home in Sept. See - My Grandmother (my mom’s mom) is turning 85 so we’re having a big ole (SUPRISE) party for her. I got tickets for 137, round trip! :) I fly out on the 1st, and fly back on the 7th. I am very excited! :) Lots of family to see too, coming in from all over. France, Denver, Mobile. Everywhere! :) Can’t Wait! :) (I haven’t seen my family, even my immediate family since Xmas.) The babies will be driving before I know it, man!

The very first strip club I was even in was called Erotic City. It’s a shitty one in Kansas City, right on the border with Independence. It’s a horrible strip club. Tiny, expensive, ad the girls are ugly. Nasty. I was hanging out with my cousin and her cousin on the other side - well her best friend had just died. So we were doing all this stuff to make this girl laugh and keep her mind off stuff. It work ok. I think what worked the best was alcohol. :)

I’ve such a geek. I’ve created an RSS feed just for the blogathon 05 category posts.  That way if anyone wanting to follow just the ‘thon posts, they can go right ahead! :) Subscribe to my Thon Feed

I also went an added a ‘thon include to the side bar. Now the 2005 Blogathon info is posted in it’s own little section right up at the top. I will linking sponsors and keeping track of my progress in that little include. I will try and not it in an entry in this category too. 

I now have 4 sponsors and I am up to $25.  Only $125 more to go. Won’t you sponsor me too.

So I made 8 buttons with the button maker.

I used the colors from Jenny‘s new design on the Blogathon site! :)

Please right click and save as. Please DO NOT hotlink these images.

I officially signed up today for the Blogathon 2005 today.  I didn’t post about my involvement with the project this year until I could actually sign up, and since I did that this morning, and I’ve set a goal of $150 (which is $50 more than last year), I figured I needed to start to ask for pledges! :) This year I am going to blog for Amnesty International. I’ve not yet decided on a concrete theme, but I may ask for user submitted topics/and or photos.  At least if I sue one of the themes I was thinking about last week.  So. What I need from you?!? A pledge. the minimum pledge is 1.00. I am aiming for $150 by the end of the ‘Thon. (Right under countdown to the ‘Thon in the “navigation” side bar there will be a running total of pledges.) The way it works is you pledge the money on the Blogathon site, and then when the even is over you send your money directly to Amnesty International. (They do offer a way to pay by mail if you don’t want to give your CC details online.) No CC info is required to sponsor, since we don’t need any of that info.  Make Your Pledge Here!

As for why I chose to blog for Amnesty International.  I have no concrete reason for choosing Amnesty International other than just wanting to pick a charity that does a great deal of good, and that is also not specifically political.

Please let me know if you have any comments, questions, concerns about my participation in the 2005 Thon. Or any you have about Sponsoring me! :)

Let me set the scene. I’m at the computing BLEX’in and snacking. Hubby is flipping thru the channels on the tv.  Now, for the setup. I heard some dialouge on the tv that sounded like Shakespeare and I turned to look. I watched for a few seconds and then asked hubby if it was Shakespeare.  He laughed and said no.  I listened a little more and I was sure it was Shakespeare. I asked hubby again, and again he said No. I turned away again and something else caught my ear a few seconds later. It was something about a father and his daughter and her following some guy like a slave.  I was again sure it was fucking Shakespeare. I asked AGAIN, and hubby laughed at me.  Then showed the guide desc. He was fucking watching Conan the Barbarian. Yeah. The one from 1982. With Gov Arnie.  Hubby laughed, I laughed. I made fun of the movie and for him for watching it. Teasingly. Cutesy like I do.  :) Hubby said to me :

Honey, what’s that say about you if you were so sure it was Shakespeare? I am still giggly about it too.

Updated to add :
In my defense I hadn;t SEEN arnie yet when I was still thinking it was Shakespeare. Just one old white guy and an oldly dressed daughter. I didn’t think Arnie was doing Shakespeare! :)

This is a companion post to these two posts.
The original post - beging for the comments to total 54.
The original ”it’s over post.”

I had though about listing the comments out on the original “it’s over post” but decided to give them their own entry. So this is it! :) I really wanted to take the time to thank everyone! :) It was really very cool how yall all didn’t even seem to care how silly I was being! :) Thank you SO much! :) Ironically - in a very Alanis way - this started a week ago today! :)

The first comment was left GreekGoddess! :)
Benjamin Solah was the next to leave a comment.
With John Sparks coming in for the third comment.
Ms. Pants rounded us out with a 4th comment.
The 5th comment was made by Potter System.
Heather gave the 6th comment.
With Illo giving me the magic 7th comment.

Presentstorm gave the 8th comment.
The 9th comment was left by Suzi.
The next two comments were left by yours truly. I tried to be clever.
The 12th comment was left by Jay-B.
The magical 13th comment was left by PureMood.
Phil left the 14th comment.

My Monkey left the 15th comment. Oh how I love my monkey. 

....Pause.....
I will continue this entry at a later time. I must do something else now. And by something else I mean lay down where it’s finally quiet and wait for the pain killers to kick in. This better not be a migraine.
....Play.....

The 16th comment was left by Carolyn
I left the 17th and 18th comments. Look at me go. I’m up to 4 now.
::miss m:: made the 19th comment.
I made the 20thcomment.
With puremood making a second comment to make the 21st on the entry.
GreekGoddess made the 22nd comment, a haiku at that.
The 23rd comment was left by none other than Ms. Pants!

NinaKaye was the one to make the 24th comment.
And Faith made the 25th comment!
The 26th comment was left by Lushy.
Cakehead left the 27th comment, but linked to google so I cannot give a proper link.
The 28th comment was left by redsaid.
Don made the 29th comment.
The 30th comment was left by Julie, a gal with no URL.

....Pause.....
I’m off to break and maybe watch some teevee.  There’s nothing on, but whatever. :)

So our complex is going some renovations to the outsides of our apts. They’re replacing columns and apparently staircases.  They’ve been banging with hammers and using saws right outside our window since about 7:30 this morning.  I’ve been a little under the weather the lat couple of days, and being woken up at 7:30 am with hammers and saws - not really pleasant on ANY day let alone one where I just want to keep sleeping.  I though I’d move to the couch, but yeah - that didn’t help so much. The noise is just as loud down here.  I guess I’m up.  I can’t understand how my husband is still sleeping up there.  Of course now that I have fully committed to being awake - it seems they’ve taken a break. I understand it’s best to do things in the morning down here, but it would have been nice to have some notice that there would be men outside out bedroom making a helluva racket in the early am.  Oi.  There were out yesterday banging on stuff in the FRONT of the apt while I was trying to nap. I just can’t win. I think they are replacing the stairs back there.  I guess they needed that. Or whatever. :)

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