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A while back I posted about having to make some decisions. While part of the decisions as usual still hangs in the air one I have pretty much made up my mind on.

It’s a topic we’ve broached before and one I had made a decision on. And ya know what I ended up with the same ( Read more... )

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I’ve been writing again, and I needed some simple descriptions. I looked on the internet for some random character description generators, and I did find a few, but most of them added things I really didn’t want. I just wanted a basic description not clothes or attitude or ( Read more... )

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I’m always sad when my parents leave or when I leave my parents. I miss having them around. Even on Long Island we could go up for a weekend and not be too much trouble, now we only get to see them once a year, twice at most. The only thing that truly helps is the fact ( Read more... )

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My parents are visiting. Though you won’t get any tales from that unless something really really good happens that needs it’s own post. Like this one.

However one story is not funny and the other is funny in the context it was given.

My mom accidentally washed her cat. ( Read more... )

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Today WebAppers linked to a very interesting css file called Holmes.css. Basically it’s an inspector for your HTML to tell you what’s wrong with it visually. A great idea. And I’ll probably throw it try it out on my own webpage and see how horridly bad it’s coded since I ( Read more... )

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I know you all don’t notice but I’ve been avoiding journaling for a little bit now. Now I can share the bad with the good.

Shea was laid of mid-April. We had no income and we had no prospects for jobs. Everything was not hiring. Shea told me he’d never seen it this bad ( Read more... )

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As the title states, my parents are coming! yay!

I talk to them every week and they see the girls on the web cam every week, but there is nothing better than sharing the joys of the girls with them even if it’s only for a short while. They will arrive about 1pm on May 5th ( Read more... )

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I’ve been trying to think of some kind of easy to make snack foods that would cover my savory crunch wants. I’ve been trying to think of cracker type breads to make. Today I did a cracker search and came up with with a recipe for Cheddar Crackers. I followed the recipe to ( Read more... )

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Shea is applying for a new job. It’s located near where he currently works about an hour away from us. But this new job has a few pluses:

1. They have a van that will take him to and from work.
2. They have health, dental, vision and Rx insurance
3. They have paid vacation

The only ( Read more... )

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I’ve had a keen desire to make something - rather to code something, I didn’t have an inspiration but I knew I could code up a base template for WordPress. So I started from scratch. I think I have 3 iterations of various from scratch themes, but this one was truly from ( Read more... )