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New Black Template 2007-05-30 17:48:45 Well, as you can see, I’ve changed the template. I thought something Moon (aka Luna) related was in order. I think I like it. Let me know what you think.
Now I have a Sammy boy wanting Dinner, as well as the rest of the major huge pack. I better get to it! Read more:Black
, New Black
New CamCorder! 2007-05-29 10:53:57 Well, yesterday I went and bought a Sony CamCorder. It burns right to the Minidisc DVDs. I’m excited. I wrote some more about it on my other blog….
It’s mostly going to be a dog training tool. My friends and I at agility (did I just say my friends? wow) have been taping each other a lot lately. One of my friends has a camcorder that records to tape, but we’ve been recording over ourselves too much. This DVD recorder won’t do that. Or at least I can set it not to do that. So that’ll be sweet.
And this way I can really edit videos the way I want to. Since I’ve been downloading videos and burning to DVD, and ripping and burning, I’m learning about video. And since I’m a control freak and I like to do things Just So, this will allow me to do that.
But hey, if they are my videos of my dogs, then I should be allowed to be a control freak shouldn’t I? LOL
Sure sure. Anyway it’s a Sony Handycam with a 40x Optical Zoom.
Too Tired 2007-05-28 19:06:14 Ugh… ran agility all weekend, home now and very tired. Watching the end of Pirates of the Caribbean. More about agility on my other blog.
Was fun. Lots of work. The weather was pretty nice, though. And sometimes my ankle gets disjointed or something. Usually I can pop it back in, but this weekend I couldn’t. So it is quite sore. I have ice on it now. Not fun.
The Party’s Over 2007-06-02 22:54:53 Well, my party is over. It lasted about four hours, which I think is a pretty good long party. It was fun. I was nervous. But now I’m even more nervous. After the fact I get totally anxiety, thinking how did I do? Was I a dork, a nerd, a jerk? I tried to be very social. I was able to flip the switch and relax and be social.
So I think it went well. My Mom and Dad did a ton of work and I really appreciate it. They throw a great party. And my sister helped a ton, too, which I also appreciate!
It was fun, and I am dead tired. Gonna watch SG1 that I recorded then get to bed. Read more:Party
Party Tomorrow 2007-06-01 21:25:08 Well, tomorrow is my 40th birthday party. I’m nervous! I haven’t had a birthday party since I was about ten. And my SA is going to kick in. But the Zoloft will help. My husband says I’ve seemed much more relaxed lately, so that is a good thing.
I’m inviting over 40 people. Wow! I didn’t know I knew so many. That includes my family and my husband’s family. And my coworkers and agility friends. I really am so excited that I know so many great people!
I’ve been manic today. Totally flying. Having 3 cups of caffeinated coffee at lunch didn’t help. Usually I drink decaf but I wanted to try their good stuff. So I’ve been buzzing all afternoon. I think I’m calming down now. I was so chatty at lunch it was just weird. Ugh.
Well I have a therapy appointment tomorrow morning, then going over to my parents around noon to help set up the last minute things. Should be fun! I’m nervous as hell! Read more:Party
Selling and Shopping Online 2007-06-01 16:23:09 I often wonder what I could sell to raise money for collie rescue. I can knit, but that’s about all I can do that is creative. So many people make dog toys… I guess I could learn and try to sell them online, and then use some shopping cart software to sell them with.
I could knit collars, but I think they’d be too springy for dogs. And not very secure. Well, anyway, when I do find something I can sell online to raise money, I’ll need some Shopping
cart software to make it easy.
Ashop Commerce makes some great shopping cart software, they are a leading provider and they host the software themselves. It’s a great service and it’s so easy to set up! I want to get this ecommerce software, even before I have something to sell!
Didn’t Sleep Well 2007-06-01 10:11:11 Well, tried the trazodone stuff (is that spelled right?). And it didn’t seem to work all that great with me. I slept okay… I was drowzy when I went to bed. But I didn’t seem to sleep much deeper than I have been lately.
And my dreams are so LOUD. I swear I dream all night long. I fall asleep dreaming, and I dream all night and wake up dreaming. I wonder if I’m getting any REM sleep or not. Maybe I should go to a sleep center.
I enjoy dreaming, don’t get me wrong. But sometimes it makes me restless. I love sleeping, too. One of my favorite things.
Last night I dreamed that I had a friend with a small child, who decided to marry a gay man. That gay man was, I believe, John Barrowman. LOL. Nice to have him in one of my dreams. He is so nice to look at, awake or asleep. I just remember thinking I wanted to be married to him. Even though he’s gay.
Dang this Zoloft. I love how it kills my appetite. But I don’t like how it makes sleep more diffic Read more:Sleep
Hope to Sleep 2007-05-31 20:43:42 Well, as you may know, and I’ve mentioned it before, I have a secret. And why these things in life are so difficult to admit to, or talk about, I don’t know. It’s silly, really. But lately I’ve started taking Zoloft for anxiety.
There, I said it. Ugh. And you know? It’s really helping. I don’t like that I’m kinda fuzzy all the time. But I do like that I’m not stressing all the time. I can sit and relax, which is nice. And it’s cut my appetite way down, which is nice. But that’s why I’m eating so many chocolate chips. I just don’t care about much now, it seems. So I don’t eat much, and when I do, it’s just stuff I really like. Yeah I know I know, I’ll get back to eating better in a few days. After my party. At least I think I will.
Anyway, the Zoloft is making it so I am not sleeping well. I am having a nasty time falling asleep, and then a nasty time waking up. So the doc gave me some Trazo Read more:Sleep
Movie of Me 2007-05-31 20:36:08 Today at work we had a firedrill. Yes yes yes… we don’t leave the building fast. Usually it’s someone who has burned their toast and set off the alarm. No idea what it was today.
Well, actually, it was an opportunity to use my new camcorder! LOL. My friend, Mark, taped me a little bit since I haven’t been in any of the movies yet. So this is me. It’s about a minute long. Not too long.. but you can’t hear me very well.
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Comment Email Responder Plugin 2007-05-31 15:26:50 Well… I was really wanting to get this plugin, the CommentEmail
Responder, installed and working. Because it is such a neat idea to be able to reply to comments not only by email, but also on the comment itself. And then have an email sent to the commenter.
So I was looking at it a little bit. I installed it on all three of my blogs. On two it was working great. But on this blog, Luna Tail, I didn’t see the little icon I was supposed to be seeing when I viewed comments.
So off to PHP land I went and looked at the code. The code contains an if statement that looks to see if the user is level 10. If so, it displays the envelope. If not, it falls out of the if statement.
I displayed some of the variables, and I found that my admin login ID did not display a 10. I went and created a new user, and gave her admin status, and logged in through IE and guess what? New user had a 10.
So off to the database I went. There is an entry in the usermeta table called wp_user_level. My Read more:Plugin
Smorty 2007-05-31 15:13:11 I signed up, this week, for a new site that gives me opportunities to blog for money! Sweet, huh. More money for the collies. It’s called Smorty and it is a blog advertising company.
They have opportunities that you can sign up for and write about. And for each blog post, you get a bit of money from them. Each post doesn’t give too much, but it actually really adds up pretty fast. So if you have a blog, and you want to get paid for blogging, you might want to check out Smorty and advertise on blogs.
And hey, they have a cool name, don’t you think? lol. Smorty is a great company. I just started blogging for them, they just barely approved this blog for opportunities. So I’m going to work for them and see how it goes!
Our House Video 2007-05-31 09:57:50 Remember that CamCorder I said I bought? He he.. well, that just means ya’ll are in trouble, now. Because I also have a YouTube account.
Check out our house. It’s short, just a couple of seconds. Too much fun!
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Eyes are Important 2007-06-05 16:06:33 Ever since I was a wee tot I’ve had eye troubles. I wore glasses as a kid, and when I was old enough, Jr High/High School, I started wearing contacts. I started with hard contacts. And I HATED touching my eyes. I hated the feel of them in my eyes (yes I could feel them, still can). I would put my finger out in front of my eyes when I was walking so I didn’t have to move my eyeballs. I hated the eye doctor more than the dentist.
In my older years… mid 30s probably, I started thinking about Lazik. So I went into the eye doc. They put me in soft contacts for a while so my corneas would go back to ‘normal’. Well, after about 2 years of ever-changing eyes, I finally had an optometrist look at my images and ask me, “Has anyone ever told you, you have Keratoconus?” I was like.. uh, no, what’s that?
Grrrr. He said I should see an Ophthalmologist. They are MDs, where Optometrists are not. So I went in. Sure enough, I have Keratoconus. It&r
How Will I Die Quiz 2007-06-05 14:51:50
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Zoloft for Life? 2007-06-05 07:21:17 I don’t know how many readers I have, yet, that suffer from anxiety like I do. Mainly social anxiety, but also generalized anxiety. I also have PTSD, about driving, but I’ve got that one mostly under control. I think. I can’t drive in the weather anymore, but it’s probably not good to drive in the snow storms anyway.
So, my therapist has actually told me that I probably need to be on Zoloft for the rest of my life. Because, basically, my brain is wonky. Ugh.
Well, I don’t want to be on it for the rest of my life. First off, I can’t sleep all that well anymore. However, I love not having an appetite. And as a matter of fact, when I’d get really anxious at home doing house work, I would feel a nagging hunger. At least it felt like hunger, but eating didn’t really get rid of it. Sitting down and relaxing pretty much did, though.
I don’t really believe in medication. In almost the next breath, my therapist said that so many meds
Must Clean Basement! 2007-06-04 11:57:49 Good crap. I really have to get off the computer and clean my basement more. I have junk everywhere. My anxiety keeps me from cleaning. I hate cleaning the house. My therapist said I should probably look into hiring a maid. The only thing about that is the dogs. We used to have a made, before my Husband changed jobs. And it was super nice. But then our income went down and we decided to clean the house once a month.
That lasted for about 8 months. Now, we are messy. A maid to clean the bathrooms and the sinks would be super nice, and I’m going to look into that again and see what I can do with the dogs when they come. I used to take them to the dog park.
One of the things I have nasty anxiety about, and can procrastinate forever, is cleaning house. See, I’m here blogging and not cleaning. I love to have a clean, straight house. But I hate doing it. And I don’t live with my Mom anymore… hrmph. The anxiety really bubbles to the surface when I think of cleani Read more:Clean
, Basement
Video from my Party 2007-06-03 22:00:11 Woo Hoo Hoo! This is a short 9 second video of me from my birthday party. Isn’t it cute? Check it out.
Thank you very much J for getting me the great tripod! Read more:Party
MasterSeek 2007-06-03 21:56:05 Occasionally I will post about, or review, different sites on the internet that are interesting or helpful. If you are looking for a way to search all over the world, on the internet, for different companies and places, one of the best ways to do so is with masterseek. You can find business opportunities and sales partners, too!
You can even showcase your own products and company. And getting access to the search results is free!
Day of Rest 2007-06-03 18:25:47 Today is a day of rest… well, it’s going by very fast. I’m glad my party is over. It was stressful. Today I goofed off with the Husband in the morning, then we went over to my Mom and Dad’s and picked up all the chairs and tables and took them back to my SIL’s house.
Then we came home and I took a nap. Now I’m up again.. it’s 5:30 PM and the dogs aren’t even bugging me for dinner yet. I wonder why. I’ll be feeding them soon.
Anyway… slow day. Tomorrow I hope to have a not-leave-the-house day. Next weekend, agility.
Cooking the Food 2007-06-08 22:28:50 Didn’t I just say I am tired of food? Yes yes, I think I did, and perhaps I am repeating myself. But I thought I’d come on again and say that sometimes when I get something new, it inspires me to do something with that new thing.
And so shopping helps me to get more inspiration. LOL. So why not look for new cookware? I don’t know why not. My husband doesn’t know why I don’t. I really get tired of the old, worn out pots and pans we have, and new ones would be nice.
Anyway, I really need a new recipe, too. Usually I look for vegan or vegetarian food that makes a ton at once, so I don’t have to cook much. I’ve had an eggplant lasagna, with no pasta, that I enjoy but I’m kinda tired of. And my sister (she is great!) gives me the best recipes, including some bran/brownie mix muffins, and some zucchini no pasta lasagna.
But I’m kinda tired of both. So I need some mostly vegetable casserole something to make. *sigh* I guess if I actual
I’m tired of Food 2007-06-08 22:10:54 Another thing that I don’t really care about anymore (because of this), is eating.
I have no appetite. And I have no desire, whatsoever, to cook or eat food. When I’m hungry I will stick something in my mouth so the hunger goes away, but that’s it. When I want something to stimulate my mouth, I eat Chocolate Chips. However, I shouldn’t eat so many. And when I do before bed, it makes it hard to sleep.
I think I’m developing a pretty bad sugar addiction. Not a good thing. It’s hard for me to resist the chocolate chips now. Hrmph.
But I’m sick of cooking and eating. We have to eat three times a day, at least, every single day. That involves preparing, cooking, looking for recipes, finding different things to eat. What a pain in the rear.
When are they going to develop energy packs we can stick on the back of our necks to power us? They can give us just the exact number of calories we need to function and stay fit. Wouldn’t that be nice Read more:tired
Lowest Unique Bid Wins the Prize 2007-06-08 22:08:17 Okay, I get it. I found out about this website called Bid4Prizes that gives away Free gifts to the person with the lowest unique bid.
Hmm.. I didn’t really understand what that meant, and so I went and watched the video they have on their website. Now I understand! So the person with the lowest bid does win the prize. So for example, if you bid $1.32, and two people bid $1.02, and one person bid $23.43, you would win. Because even though someone bid higher than you, that is irrelevant. And the two people who bid lower than you were not unique. So you won, for having the lowest unique bid.
It looks like fun. You can check out their Sweepstake section, and look around. You get 20 points each day to bid on things, so that really is a lot of points and a lot of chances to win things. You can also win a Cash prize for joining up and participating in the fun.
It is very user friendly, and easily playable by everyone. You can win HDTV’s, Designer Bags, Applie I-Phone’s
ViralTags Link Building 2007-06-08 20:01:46 And I found another great way to build links! If you’d like to participate please feel free. Copy and paste this code into your own blog. And please let me know about it by commenting on this thread.
This was started by Founders Cafe and we can add our choice of anchor text, too.
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Instructions:
1.) Copy and paste everything within the broken lines but provide your own unique introductory paragraph.
2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice and your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.
3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.
4.) Encourage and inv Read more:Building
Viralink to Increase PR 2007-06-07 21:38:57 I’m very interested in getting PR on this blog during the next PR update. So I’m trying everything I can. I found a post on Digital Nomads about Viralink, a new way to increase PR. And so I’m jumping on the bandwagon of this on. And I’d love for more readers to participate!
So if you are interested in gaining PR and backlinks, join in the fun!
———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———
Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog or website and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same! You also may want to change or edit the first few paragraphs, and the last paragraph to suit your blogging style.
Viralink
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When I receive a ping back
4400 Is Coming Back! 2007-06-07 21:17:51 I love TV. I watch a lot of it. Well, when I’m not reading blogs lately. Been reading more than watching. But that’s no surprise, really, since regular TV season is basically over. I’ve been watching Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, they are still new, but other than that… not much.
So just sitting here reading blogs in front of the TV and the USA Network is on, and I see a commercial that The 4400 will be back on June 17th. I just set up my DVR to record it, as I’ll be in Blackfoot, Idaho, doing agility that weekend. And then I’ll have something to look forward to when I come back.
I loved the first season. The second season was okay. We’ll see how this season is. I think it’s the 3rd… I lose track. With only 13 episodes a year, I forget a lot of it. I prefer the shows that have 24 or 26 episodes a year. Not sure why USA network has so few episodes. Dead Zone and Monk are the same way.
About 40 2007-06-07 19:27:04 I turned forty on May 26, 2007. The thing that surprises me most is how fast time is going by, now. I actually don’t mind being forty. I look at it this way… I’ve now been an adult for as long as I was a kid. So I’ve had say in my life, about what I want, how I’m going to get it, and what types of relationships I’m going to have, for twenty years.
Actually, I didn’t really get smart about any of those things until my early to mid thirties. So even though I wasn’t a child anymore, I acted out child behaviors that served me when I was young. They didn’t serve me as an adult but I kept rolling them out over and over again in an insane attempt to get different results from doing the same things.
In my mid thirties I finally started figuring myself out. And now that I’m 40, I’m doing what I love. And I’m glad my life has turned out the way it has. I love my husband, respect my friends, and adore my dogs.
So, I&rs
Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch 2007-06-06 18:09:17 Lawsuit against Ortho
Evra Birth ControlPatch
hits close to Home
I heard about a law firm seeking women to provide information about their experiences with the
Ortho Evra Birth Control
Patch. There is a class action lawsuit building and they are trying to identify anyone that is eligible for follow up treatments and possibly a cash settlement for damages. Some women are suffering from blood clots and there has even been one woman that died as a result of the patch. There are women all around the country that have tried this patch and now we are starting to learn that it may not have been as safe as it was promoted to be or that some doctors have prescribed its use in ways that weren’t tested.
When I read about this lawsuit it made me think of my own experiences and struggles and how much the system, including pharmaceutical companies and doctors, in a little bit of desperation, pushes you to try anything.
My Background with Birth Control Solutions to fight PMS
Since I was in my m
Internet Explorer is Evil 2007-06-06 15:41:49 Well, no wonder this blog is so slow. Grrr…! I finally looked at this blog, Luna Tail, in Inernet Explorer
. Hrmph. Teaches me to not look in IE for a week after I put up a new skin.
It’s a complete and utter MESS. So now I have to see about improving my CSS skills. Because I’m not really all that good in CSS.. any help is appreciated!
I love FireFox, and it looks great in FF…
Update: I think I fixed it. If anyone sees anything fishy, let me know. It was a conflict between the PHP Widget Plugin and the Top Commentators Plugin. An end /div tag was getting inserted when viewing through IE for some reason. I commented it out, seems okay now. Hrmph. Read more:Internet
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Communicating with Men 2007-06-06 10:44:13 I think it is very interesting how different men are from women. For all of us being human, still, we can communicate very differently.
My Husband is the Most Wonderful Husband in the World. I love him to pieces and we get along really well. When we first got together, we had a weird issue. When he would leave the house, he had no thought to tell me he was leaving, or to say a quick goodbye.
Well, after.. err… four years of marriage and about 6 years of living together, finally I got him to, most of the time, say goodbye. And I don’t take it personally anymore. I know he’s not mad or snubbing me, he just forgets.
So it’s funny today. This morning when he went off to work he said goodbye, and I said goodbye, I’m working from home today. He says okay he’s coming home at 9:10ish to get Chase to take him to the vet… so it surprised me when I heard the door open upstairs, Chase runs up and out, door closes, and off the Husband goes. Not a wo Read more:Communicating
Getting a Maid Service 2007-06-12 08:16:07 I made a decision yesterday, and since then, I am happy and I feel much more light hearted. I’m going to get a maid service!
We had one a year or so ago.. well, maybe longer ago that that even. And it was super nice. Probably was 2 or 3 years ago. Just having someone come in to dust, vacuum, clean the bathrooms…. it was nice. Then we got poor and had to stop it.
But I’m getting a raise in July. And it’s going to be much easier on my mind to have a maid. And you know, it’s not that we are that horribly dirty. I just clutter things up, and having a maid come in forces me to declutter. I declutter and straighting so they can come clean.
I hope they will clean the walls… how does dog hair get on the freakin’ walls? Goodness. Maybe each month they can clean the walls in one room. That would make me feel so much better. We will probably only do monthly cleanings.
I have some emails out to different cleaning places, hopefully they will reply Read more:Service
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