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I lost an old friend yesterday. Her name was Rockie, and she was an amazing cat.

I had her for 13 years – since she was the tiniest kitten you could imagine. A rescue found on the side of a field with her father and the rest of her litter. She was the runt, and the last one left. We grew up together and I loved her dearly. (more…)

The first floor renovations on our house are nearly done! We’ve almost finished the minimum needed in order to meet our goal – host Thanksgiving. We’ll still have a bit of work to do on the front section of the first floor, but that’s functional-enough and not really necessary at the moment. I doubt we’ll have time to move forward with that remaining portion – and if we did, it’d just be opening a big can of worms (re: would make a big mess). (more…)

I need to speed up my blogging. Maybe I’m tweeting too much and don’t have the stamina for a full length blog post. Or maybe it’s because I haven’t had time or the need at work to write up involved how-tos lately? I could just be frazzled from the busy summer and wedding planning.

It’s taking me too long to get around to returning to my drafts, and collecting the steps and/or details to finish my blog posts. My drafts are building up! I really just need to buckle down and finish them. At least I have the forethought to start the drafts with notes as I think of them so I can return to them later

I’m going to try to start blogging more often. It won’t be every day, but definitely more frequently than once every six months.

I stopped for a while because Twitter was covering my micro-blogging needs and I wasn’t up for writing long posts. But I’ve started accumulating a number of How-Tos that I want to finish writing up. I also think it’ll be a nice distraction from working and planning the wedding.

I’m still slowly working on fixing the remaining bugs on the site. I’ve made some progress over the past few weeks, but there are still a few out there – like the pagination. I’m still really eager to theme the forum too. I’m hoping that DreamWeaver CS5 helps remove any excuses that I have for procrastinating, because it REALLy does make working with CMSes and forums a lot faster and easier.

Keep checking back!

Sure, we love our toys and gadgets – but we’re tired of all the junk and clutter. Today we started paring down. Sorting. Recycling. Junking. Donating. Selling.

We don’t need two large screen TVs or quite so many DVDs. We’ve already donated 6 bags of old clothes that have been piling up in our closets for the last few years. Boxes have been piling up in our basement that we really should go through one of these days. And what are we doing with all of these now-ancient computer books on our shelves?