Archive for February, 2006
Disturbing trend in Valentine's etiquette
Before Valentine’s Day my girls are given a list of students in their class for the sole purpose of addressing Valentines. I admit this can be a beating when you have two daughters with limited writing skills and attention span. We have worked out a deal where I address the names and they sign and seal. I looked over the Valentine’s they received and noticed a disturbing trend. Some of them were not address specifically to my girls!!! The “TO:” line was left blank with just the classmates name in the FROM line. GAH! Bad ettiquette in Kindergarten and Pre-K? What is the world coming to?
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I was just informed….
I was just informed that we could get pancakes at McDonalds and I would not even have to make them! We could drive through and pick them up on our way to school. And they would already be made and they came with sausage! Do you think that was a hint?
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gluttony
For the last two weeks I have been eating way to much. I know part of it is influenced by my depression and stress. And I feel worse because of it. During the whole time I have been telling myself I can stop and will stop when I am ready. I think I am to that point. I need to get back on track and get to Weight Watchers. It worked for me in the past and I know I can do it. But I have to choose to do it. And the choices down the wrong path are so much easier to make.
I am going to make a deal with myself.
1st: I am making my goal obtainable. My goal last time was not reasonable and I gave up. It is going to be the top weight amount for my hieght set by Weight Watchers. Oh, sure, I could try to get where I really want to be, but with my age, bone structure and will power, it’s not gonna happen.
2nd: Once I obtain my goal weight, I will allow myself to eat my “bad” favorites once a month. And only once a month.
3rd: Once I obtain my goal weight, I will allow myself to get fake nails. If I ever go over, then no nails.
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(vw bug on Feb 27, 2006 7:30 AM) Good luck! Let me know if it works. I am now working on just losing 5 pounds. I don’t care if it takes me 3 months to do it. If I lose 5 pounds, I get to get my nails done. And if I keep it off for a month, I get to get my hair permed. Then I have to figure out what my goal will be for the next 5 pounds. If your way works, I may switch!
(Becky on Feb 28, 2006 12:22 AM) I wish we lived closer, so we could go with each other. I need to go myself and it’s hard to do it all alone.
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More Blog Design Help
The latest entry talks about formatting the sidebars with CSS. Check it out!
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Losing Sucks
Our team lost by only 2 points. Both groups did a great job on their presentations and we were faulting for missing a major item that we did not interpret the same as everyone else. Bleh! Now I just need to stop dreaming about the simulation and the “people” who were in it.
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(vw bug on Feb 24, 2006 6:34 PM) Sorry to hear this…
Formatting the sidebars with CSS
The last entry talked about formating items in the main code area. But if you want to apply the same formatting to each section, you can do this with CSS. More on CSS here.
First decide what you want to be the same for each section. For this entry, we are going to go with the following. A blue dashed border, with some space on the inside of the box, and the text centered.
There are many ways that you can use CSS, so if you have figured out a different way, it is not wrong. It's just not the way I am showing you. You can do this probably over 10 different ways. Well, maybe on that many, but various ways. I like to use
In the CSS section or on your style sheet, we want to add the code below. You will not use the parts in paranthesis. On Blogger, your CSS section is towards the top of your template and is between style type=”text/css”> and .
#section (you can use anything your want here after the #, you could #hubbabubba or #amyrocks)
{ (this marks the beginning of where you are putting your settings.)
border: medium dashed blue; (more on border properties here)
padding: 3px;
text-align: center;
} (this marks the end of where you are putting your settings.)
Then within the code of your main page you would put this:
This section
is for testing!
Or any other code…
Look at the bottom of my sidebar? Neat, huh?
You would put the
around the section that you wanted to have a blue border, centered text and padding on the inside. This is also where you can get creative. Say you only want a border on the top? Put border-top: medium dashed blue; . This is where you try different things to see how they look.
This will also help you when you want to change up your blog design. What if you don't want blue to be one of your design colors? Just go into the CSS part and change it in one place.
Blog Design Series Table of Contents here.
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Quick Status on Management Training
Worked late tonight on a presentation we are giving to THREE VP’s. This will be the last of our graded excercises and if my team wins this, then we win for the whole week!
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(vw bug on Feb 24, 2006 6:32 PM) Good luck
Pot Roast Recipe Modified
This week’s Carnival of Recipes is here. Below is my recipe for next week.
This recipe meets my requirements for easy and NO measureing. You can find it on several different websites and I don’t know where I originally found it.
Soda/Cola/Pop* Crock Pot Roast (*whatever you call it!)
1 can a soda/cola/pop
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 package of onion soup mix
roast
You cook it low 8 hours, high 4 – 6 hours. Voila! Yum!
The first time I tried with my “own” onion soup mix with seasoning I had on hand. Today I tried it with Campbell’s French Onion Soup instead of the cream of mushroom and it was also yummy! I seasoned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
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1st Day of Management Training
I was a little late today since there was still ice on the streets. And Oldest got sick last night. I now have a bathroom rug, sheets, two spots on the carpet, and a bucket to clean.
I reinforced several things I knew today:
I use a positive management style vs. a negative authorative one.
I like people.
I like white chocolate chip cookies.
I learned some things, but not really blog fodder.
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