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My Body is Happy 2007-06-11 20:58:57 I finally cooked today. Made a zucchini no-pasta lasagna. It’s very healthy. The recipe is from my sister. She’s always giving me great recipes to try from her Weight Watcher info. And I appreciate it all!
And now, as I sit here and eat this… my body is thanking me for it. I can tell. I feel better. I’ve been eating less-than-healthy things for a few weeks now, time to get back into healthier meals.
When I go to Idaho this weekend I won’t have much healthy to eat, will mostly be restaurants. But when I get back I will eat healthy again. It does feel better. Read more:Happy
DVD+RW 2007-06-11 20:39:36 Yeah Yeah I know, I should look into the technology before I buy it. But alas, I bought the DVD CamCorder, and now I’m trying to understand what types of minidisc DVDs are the best to buy.
I’m drawn to Wikipedia, which is a great site I always forget about. And I’ve seen different types of DVDs listed…
DVD+RW media can thus be treated like a large floppy disk, in contrast to DVD-RW which must be erased before re-writing can take place.
Ah ha! Good thing to know. So I would prefer to have a DVD+RW, so I can record and delete at will. And, what luck do I have! That is what I bought when I bought the camera. So that’s a good thing. The minidisc I am looking at as I write this is a Sony, DVD+RW 1.4GB Which, at high quality in my camera, records about 20 minutes of video.
20 minutes is not much. Wikipedia also says:
which hold up to about 4.7GB per disc (interpreted as approximately 4.7 × 109 bytes; actually 2295104 sectors of 2048 bytes each) and a
Shy Dating 2007-06-11 14:12:13 It seems that after school is over, it’s really hard to meet people. And especially for me, since I have social anxiety and general anxiety, it’s really hard to meet people! Though I’ve been getting better with my dog activities and things.
There’s a new free dating site out called Just Say Hi. And it’s completely free. Which is odd. Most of the dating sites are pay dating sites. And I’m not willing to sign up for pay sites. Why would I want to sign up for a dating site, you ask? Well, often I’m just looking for friends to chat with. Not even dating. Just Say Hi might be a really good place to do that.
So if you are shy and are looking for a friend and you want to Just Say Hi, check them out. Read more:Dating
Mondays 2007-06-11 08:02:08 Ah, another Monday. And I am at work today. I’ll be going to Blackfoot Idaho for agility this coming weekend. I hope that Levi isn’t too stressed. I have been trialing him a lot lately.
Anyway, I started a new blog, too. It’s a dream diary. I got the idea from Tina Silva’s new Dream Diary, Dream Teddy. I thought it was such a great idea I had to copy her! I’m even using one of her templates she designed and I love it.
So today I have to work, and get some things done, so I can take Thursday and Friday off. Read more:Mondays
Done Early 2007-06-10 16:44:20 Yay I was done early with Agility today! It was nice. I haven’t posted my videos on Tip Tail yet but I’ll get to it. I got home and took a three hour nap. Man that was nice. I love napping. I love to sleep in, and I won’t be able to for a couple more weeks.
I’m going to Blackfoot on Wednesday. Fortunately they have internet access so I should be able to blog as I go. But, if I’m too tired I might not do very much.
Sometime my husband and I will take a vacation without the dogs. Maybe we’ll get a Disney vacation home. That would be something nice to have! Read more:Early
Tired 2007-06-14 21:36:18 Ugh.. the trial today went way too long. I’m in Idaho… Blackfoot, doing agility with Levi. Check out my other blog for more information on today. I’m now sitting in the hotel room, eating pizza, and trying to be a vegetable.
I might be going to bed very soon. Cool I have web access.
I haven’t had much anxiety today. I think the Zoloft is really helping me a lot. I’ve been really chatty today, much unlike me. I hope tomorrow is a good day, too. It was much too windy.
Madeline 2007-06-13 10:35:36 At the agility trial last weekend I had some help. It was super nice to have someone film for me! I need a personal assistant at the trials. Someone who can exercise the dogs, potty the dogs, bring me food, and video me and others. That would be so nice! LOL.
Anyway, this is Madeline. It’s a short 21 second video. I asked her if she wanted to be an actress and she said yes. She’ll be 12 in October.
Disputing Irrational Thoughts 2007-06-18 22:19:36 Okay, so I’m supposed to dispute my irrational thoughts. The books say it, the therapist says it…. I’m sure it’s said more than that. I don’t do it as much as I should. But today I have to. I’m heavily into PMS mode, though the Zoloft and the Agnus Castus are keeping it bearable, still I can feel it. 28 days is tomorrow, so hopefully in a couple of days my emotional stability will be better.
But right now, we just left Sammy in a new home. Hopefully it will work out. Not sure yet. This is a trial. Maybe we shouldn’t do trials but I’m not sure yet and we did really like the family. Their other dog might be a problem.
Anyway, back to this anxiety crap.
I don’t have my book on me so I’m going from memory here.
What is the situation that caused the anxiety?
Leaving Sammy in a home, talking to the people, feeling like an idiot, and having my brain go stupid and not introducing them right (my fault).
Is there any rational suppo Read more:Irrational
Back Home 2007-06-18 11:34:44 I am back home. Today is my day off work, thank goodness I get to sit and relax. I’m catching up on emails and blogs and things. Chase is laying upside down next to me on the couch. He is tired too… Levi is beat.
For more info on the trip visit my other blog, Tip Tail, as most of my info is posted there!
Things I have the Power to Stop 2007-06-22 09:38:35 Alright already! With being on meds, you’d think I would now have a tool that would help me straighten up my life a little bit and even out some kinks. So I’m going to try. And here is a list of things that I want… I have the power, to change.
I was telling my therapist, last session, that it doesn’t really matter who’s fault it is for screwing me up (people or genetics), because it’s my responsibility to fix myself. She reworded that for me.. she said, I have the POWER to fix myself. I liked that much better.
So here are some things I want to change about myself:
Stop Cracking Knuckles - I’ve done this since I was in my early teens and I really want to stop, cut I don’t know how.
Stop picking - yeah, I pick scabs and things, and my cuticles, and I want to stop that too.
Stop fidgeting - I fidget a lot, I want to just sit still.
Eat Better - my eating has really gone downhill in the last couple months. I’m up to 158 pounds, my lo
Summer Solstice 2007-06-21 09:38:43 It’s today. Happy first day of summer. Today is the SummerSolstice
. Again, Wikipedia has a good page about the Solstices and Equinoxes.
I love the summer. I hate being cold. I do like the long dark nights of the winter, but this is summer, and I’m enjoying the long bright days. It’s been hot here, upper 90s, even up into the 100s, but I don’t mind. The dogs don’t like it very much, but I like the heat. I’m a hot weather woman. I love to get out of the shower and not dry my hair, just let it dry in the heat of the summer. And I love living in the desert. Dry heat is so much better than humid!
88×31 2007-06-20 17:50:40 I made new images for all 4 of my blogs. 88×31 for plug boards. Now I have to go to find some more plug boards.
First Cleaning Estimate 2007-06-20 14:19:19 The first person came over today to give me a cleaning estimate on the house. They would clean 1 bedroom, the living room, kitchen, 1.5 bathrooms, hallway. Not really that much. Okay okay we are slobs (I am a slob, but my husband isn’t much better).
They were from The Cleaning
Authority. A friend I work with uses them and likes them a lot. They are, however, a bit pricey. Our house is only 1300 Square feet. They want $110 for a once a month cleaning, and $85 for a every other week cleaning. Hrmph. Maidpro, when I used them a couple years ago, was only $60 for once a month.
Though we do have more house now that we fixed up our basement. And we do have the dogs… more dogs now, which I understand makes the house messier.
I have someone coming from Merry Maids on Friday, so we’ll see what they say. An I might get Maidpro back out here, too.
Any other services I can look into? Maybe I should look in the phone book.
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Getting an Estimate! 2007-06-19 22:24:30 Tomorrow at 1pm (working from home I’ll be taking a break or lunch at that time) I’m going to have someone come by and give us an estimate for a maid service. Yay!
Maybe I’ll have the kitchen de-cluttered a little bit by then, but I probably won’t have time. I so hate to clean. I’m going to have to save up my pennies to pay for this. I’ll put it in my budget. I’m so sick of a messy house. The dogs don’t make our house messy, I do. My husband doesn’t, either. I’m the biggest slob! Ugh!
So I’m nervous, and excited. I hope I can be firm and tell them what I really want.
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More on Zoloft for Life 2007-06-19 16:54:05 I’ve been thinking the last couple of weeks about this Zoloft that I started taking. I’ve been one of those who live in denial that meds can really help… rather I’ve wanted to believe that cognitive therapy is a solution, and that we can really get better by learning to think better and understand ourselves and work things out.
My thought was… how can so many people be mentally ill and need medication to help normalize them? So many people…? Okay now it sounds kinda dumb when I write it. But I countered myself a few days ago, thinking… how can it be that so many people have cancer, or so many people have diabetes…? I mean, they can’t get better with therapy. They need meds. So maybe there are so many people who have mental weirdness and need medication to help. And maybe I am one of those people.
The Zoloft has helped tremendously. When my husband and I were driving home from dropping Sammy off last night, I told him that I
Wordpress Post Titles 2007-06-25 21:04:18 Oooo yes yes yes I like this new skin. The comment email responder doesn’t work right in Firefox yet… but I’m working on it (with help thanks!). And I’m not sure about the brown background, does it match? Or should I change it to another color?
Anyway… I was reading today about how to optimize post titles in wordpress.
There is a box called Post Slug when you are writing a post. And that actually changes the URL of the post. Which I may just do on this post… though I wonder how it will affect pingbacks? Will it disable the link or will it fix it?
Let’s try it out!
EDIT: well, I have to change it BEFORE I post a pingback link, or else it’s just like changing the URL.
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Weekend is Over 2007-06-25 20:30:02 Booo, the weekend is over. That just isn’t any fun. Next weekend I’m going to St George, Utah, for flyball with Chase. Should be fun. Will be our first flyball tourney. I hope Chase’s box turn holds up. I hear it can fall apart and be difficult in the stress.
Today was a good day. Got my laundry folded finally.. I had a ton. Only about 5 bins worth. Did dog training in the morning, and the dentist at noon, then grocery shopped, came home and did laundry and cleaned up some more.
The weekend after next I should be home again to relax. Then after that will be another agility trial. Three days. We’ll see how that goes too! Busy day today, but I think I got a lot done.
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Okay I Lied 2007-06-24 22:25:15 Still goofing off. I thought I would post where I got this theme from… It’s called Simply Vic. It’s a very nice theme. I did make some changes to it.. I widened the middle text part, adjusted the images, and changed the background. I’d lost the right menu bar for a while, but was able to get it back.
Anyway, the only thing remaining that I don’t like is that the post topics are flash… why are they flash? When I right-click to copy the link location, or open in a new tab in Firefox, I cannot do that. It just tells me it’s flash.
I don’t know much about flash, and I’d like to change it to HTML… if anyone can help me I’d appreciate it!
One More Thing 2007-06-24 19:34:56 One more thing before I put the laptop away for the night… another great site I’ve been checking out. Head in Knots, and I absolutely love the layout with the flowers. See, if I was creative, I would do something like that! Probably with dogs though… somehow.
It’s so happy and springy. Just what I love at this time of year.
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Too Tired 2007-06-24 19:31:41 Well, I didn’t get as much linky love done as I would have liked to. I did end up straightening the kitchen, but my camera is all the way upstairs and I’m too lazy to go and get it to get another picture. Maybe later.
As you can see, I did change the template of this blog, though. I like it better. The dark one was okay… but blacks are just not my thing I guess. Even though this domain name is of the moon, I still like brights. And now I have a fun bright moon on the upper right corner. I still want to add a tail in, though.
Might be time to put the laptop down for a bit and watch some TV.
Girly Things 2007-06-24 14:47:37 Maybe I’m backwards, but the older I get, the more girly I get. I just bought some new PJs last night that are bright pink and flowery. For summer, and because they are girly. Maybe some women are more girly when they are young and get less girly as they grow older? I dunno.
Anyway, Girly
Things is a fun blog to check out. Her name is Angie and she lives in Florida. And she is getting back into her hobbies, one of which is candle making. How fun! I would love to learn how to make candles.
She has another blog called Plus 1 that also has a nice layout and structure and good content. And I really need to check out her post on selling online without fees! Since I sell, but mostly on ebay.
Zoo Feedings 2007-06-24 14:31:42 I have been so bored of food lately… though we have three eggplants growing in the backyard that look yummy, and the peas are also very good. However, sometimes I really do want a snack. I am looking at a very good food blog, called Feeding Time at the Zoo
and these mints sound delectable.
Being bored of food, I really should go find some interesting food to make, so I’m going to cruise around that blog and see what I can find and make. And I’m really into desserts at the moment!
Blogs by Lori 2007-06-24 13:57:29 Ho ho ho.. oh wait, it’s not Christmas so what am I saying? It’s summer, and I am looking for nice bright happy colors. Lori’s Scribblescratch has gorgeous colors on her blog. And I love the layout… hm… I’m thining this template is just too dang dark.
Sometimes she gets Bored with Life, as do I. Ugh. Right now I’m having fun blogging, it’s still new for me so it’s keeping me interested. But I do get bored of food, which I still am.
She also has Lori’s Xanga Blog, which looks fun and interesting, though I’m partial to wordpress blogs myself.
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PyroWinter and The She Geek 2007-06-24 13:11:30 When I first read the title of the blog PyroWinter I actually read Pro Writer. LOL. What the eyes do. Pyro Winter is a very cool blog name. She is even cleaning and organizing her room, like I have been with my kitchen today. Sounds like it’s coming along nicely! I cleaned my kitchen a bit then started blogging and now it’s hard to stop blogging (need that intervention lol).
The She Geek
, well, I’m a she, and a geek, lol so I can relate to that blog as well! I haven’t played The Sims 2 but I played The Sims wayback when and it was a lot of fun. If I start again, I wouldn’t stop either!
Freebees and Randomness 2007-06-24 12:50:17 Hi Jenn! Someone I just met recently has three blogs that are great. One, Free Goodz, gives great information about freebees and coupons and low cost things to help us all save money. And goodness knows, I need to save money.
Informal Critique is anything that tickles her fancy. And she even sells on ebay like me so I need to go read about her ebay experiences!
Everyday Randomness is her third blog, which is a new domain name for her. Very cool domain name, too. She supports pet insurance… which we don’t have, with all our animals it gets so expensive. But really I do wish we had some too.
Which day is it? 2007-06-28 16:03:12 I think I may start to put in what day of my cycle I’m on, in each blog post. When I remember. Which may not be often. When I do, I hope to link to this post so that people will know what the heck I’m talking about.
Today is day number 9. Still doing very well. As a woman I really have to know what day it is, because of how I feel, and I like to know when I’m getting my next period. I don’t like to be surprised. Fortunately I don’t need to know for birth control, as the husband has been snipped.
Almost Friday 2007-06-28 15:52:25 It’s almost Friday
… that’s what I call Thursday sometimes, Almost
Friday. I’m glad tomorrow is Friday, though I have to pack tomorrow night for going to St. George. As long as Chase’s pads are better. I am going to plan that they are, but I’ll call it Friday night. No sense in going if he can’t run, though.
I’m much recovered from my happenings from last night. Really I wasn’t so bad last night, either. I’m doing well. I have made some great friends and you know what? It’s cool to have a good support network.
I’m always wondering what breed Chase is exactly. He’s ILP’d with the AKC as a border collie. I wonder if there is anything else mixed in there. Maybe I could get one of those new DNA tests and find out, would be kinda fun.
Best Ads Ever 2007-06-28 14:35:42 I was just checking out different websites and I found this really cool new blog called Best Ads Ever. It’s too funny. It has ads posted as YouTube videos and some of them are quiet funny.
It looks like it’s a brand new blog, so I’m gonna have to keep checking it out.
I Did Good! 2007-06-27 21:51:30 So tonight at flyball practice I got yelled at. Ugh. And I knew it was coming, because the person who did the yelling does it quite often at others. And with Chase’s pads being torn and broken, he couldn’t practice.
But you know what? I think I did well. I didn’t yell back. I was nice. However, I did feel like I had to leave. I went so I could help out, but I figured it wasn’t worth it. I don’t like to be spoken to like that. Though I understand the speaker may not be aware, or really understand, what she is doing. And I like her anyway.
So I did step away, and the tears came. But they were really weird tears. Because inside I really felt okay. I knew myself, knew how I felt, knew what I had to do to take care of myself… I talked to some of the other girls, off to the side, who had already been yelled at, and commiserated with them a bit. I could laugh about it even while the tears were running out my eyes.
I’ve learned a lot over th
Sage RSS Feed Reader for Firefox 2007-06-27 18:07:29 I was looking for a better way to read my RSS feeds with Firefox
. I love Firefox. This website is optimized for Firefox, as are all my sites and blogs.
Anyway, I was using Bloglines and I think I will keep that for my Do Follow RSS Feeds. But for quick feeds that I want to look at every day, I’m going to now use Sage.
It is light, and opens a left menu just like bookmarks or history. Very clean and very nice. And I love how the posts are displayed in my browser window.
Yup yup, I like it!
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