Una Chica

Okay, I'm going to get my act together and start organizing my blogs and services. Some of them might even have to go! The more I surf around to them, I think how time-consuming it is and I don't even do it as often as I should. As a matter of fact, I'm shamefully behind in some most of them! Do I want them? Sure, I guess so. Do I need them? eh. We'll see.

gabbiee's Word Usage

1. to (86) 26. have (15) 51. had (9) 76. from (6) 2. the (82) 27. is (15) 52. last (9) 77. 3 (6) 3. and (70) 28. not (15) 53. them (9) 78. here (6) 4. i (59) 29. one (14) 54. over (9) 79. well (6) 5. my (55) 30. but (14) 55. we're (8) 80. their (6) 6. a (50) 31. up (13) 56. were (8) 81. take (6) 7. of (49) 32. out (13) 57. some (8) 82. has (6) 8. birthday (45) 33. you're (12) 58. got (8) 83. anniversary (6) 9. on (33) 34. i've (12) 59. fun (8) 84. going (5) 10. it (33) 35. he (11) 60. there (7) 85. can (5) 11. in (30) 36. or (11) 61. could (7) 86. people (5) 12. was (23) 37. all (11) 62. family (7) 87. mom (5) 13. that (22) 38. new (11) 63. about (7) 88. morning (5) 14. for (22) 39. if (11) 64. i'll (7) 89. he's (5) 15. at (21) 40. more (11) 65. chris (7) 90. getting (5) 16. with (20) 41. see (11) 66. now (7) 91. just (5) 17. me (18) 42. movie (10) 67. how (7) 92. back (5) 18. we (18) 43. are (10) 68. been (7) 93. it's (5) 19. as (17) 44. her (10) 69. first (7) 94. him (5) 20. be (17) 45. go (9) 70. shut (6) 95. progress (5) 21. so (17) 46. they (9) 71. would (6) 96. again (5) 22. i'm (16) 47. she (9) 72. no (6) 97. still (5) 23. you (16) 48. our (9) 73. get (6) 98. will (5) 24. this (16) 49. home (9) 74. call (6) 99. into (5) 25. then (16) 50. d (9) 75. today (6) 100. friends (5)

Username: Word Count by Hutta.

I'm so stoked. I installed a new browser today called Flock and it rocks. I'm still playing with it and I'm posting this entry from within it's blissful confines.

D. played his first football game today. We're the Rams! We played the Bears and beat them 14-6! Go Rams!

Had to restore my desktop pc yesterday back to an earlier date. It was having major issues every time I tried to shut it down. It is doing great now. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I've uploaded lots of new pictures of the Renton family reunion in July to my Ringo account, so if you're a family member, email me if you're not on my friends list and I'll add you! If you're a family member from the Pixler side, I'll be posting those photos from the reunion in June in the next couple of days. Again, if you're not on my friends list at Ringo, email me and I'll getcha added!

I've also been very busy updating my flickr photos. Finally got all of the ones from Disney World in March added and I've been adding several a day from my digital camera cds. So stop by and take a peek. If you're family, but you're not one of my contacts there at flickr, you will need to be added to be able to see shots of the boys. I've had to set privacy levels on photos including them. Sorry, but it was done out of necessity (same with Ringo!).

Chris and the boys are at a car show here in town today. Being boys. Looking at toys. Having fun. I would've gone, but it was too freakin' hot at the football game before 10am this morning. I had to come home to the a.c. Will be updating my other blogs today.

Several new shows on tv this fall I'm looking forward to seeing. I've watched the first 2 eps of Men in Trees and it is looking to be a great show.

Read my take on it here: New Series - Men in Trees and Men in Trees

Other shows I've got set up in my DVR and I'm looking forward to watching include:
Jericho on CBS // Heroes on NBC // Standoff on FOX (2 eps in my DVR now) // Brothers & Sisters on ABC // Six Degrees on ABC // Smith on CBS

technorati tags:what's on tv?, blogging, every day schtuff

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I am so bored with my website. I really would like to do a whole new layout. I haven't created a new one in about 2 1/2 years, so I'm stumped with what I want to do. Plus, there are so many new techniques out since I've tinkered with it. The last couple of layouts were made by other people with the exception of my Smiling one, which was pretty basic. I miss messing with my websites. I've got a hankerin to get back into it, but it seems so overwhelming for some silly reason. I'll have to toy with the idea some over the weekend. If I have time, that is. We are going to Cape Girardeau this weekend so it will be movie night tomorrow and the spa on Saturday (hopefully). I've never been to the spa before and I'm not sure what kind of notice you have to give to get an appointment, but I'm going to call first thing in the morning to find out. It'll be so fun!

I've been working on my goals over at 43 Things and I've come to the conclusion that I cannot put all of my lofty goals on my list at one time. If I do that, they'd be up there forever because of the time and money it would take to achieve them. I've noticed that alot of people have a ton of completed lofty goals in a fairly small time frame and it seems like that would be impossibe. I speak mainly of travel, but my opinion is not limited to this area. For this phenomenon to be possible, I am under the impression these people are either:
1/ they were born rich
2/ they have a sugar daddy/momma
3/ they are wastrels living off friends for the duration of their travels
4/ they won the lottery
5/ they had a wonderfully fantastic dream that they confused with reality
OR
6/ they are LYING

For myself, I will stick to my reasonable, attainable goals that I can accomplish daily and work on one lofty goal within a bigger time span. Maybe a year. Possibly a few goals within said time line. But to do several would quite simply be impossible.

Hot diggity! I am so darn excited. My connection to my blog from within flickr finally works! I have tried to get it set up a zillion times over the past year and a half and it hated me! WoooHooo. I'm doing the happy dance! Check out my flickr page here. If ya want =D

I am getting bored with this blog design. I'm trying to decide whether I want to redesign the site, try BlogBarter! again, or pay someone else to do it. Maybe a bright color theme this time. I so love colors!

On another note, flicker is really starting to drive me insane. No matter what I do, I cannot get it to post to my LiveJournal. I get a failed message every damn time.

I wish I had my own domain. I am so lazy. I have been putting it off forever. Then there's the small, but very important fact that I don't know a single frickin thing about Movable Type to be able to run my own blog on my own server. But truly, tell me. Wouldn't that be so cool? Having all of that control over my site? To be able to install and run different things? scripts and such. I want to be able to skin my site. I want to be able to have full functionality all across the board. I want my own site. now. yesterday. But again, I'm so lazy! :(

Well, I jumped right in the schtuff now. I've posted to BlogBarter!. I'm ready to take the plunge and run my own personalized blog with more functionality. The only thing is, it sure seems daunting. Which is why I've joined the exchange. I've looked around and I've been unable to find any help sites on doing this. So, while I wait to see where this goes, I'll keep posting to my LJ for now. I'll probably be using this one as a mirror site once I get up and running, but I'm not sure yet.

Anyone know anything about MT? Or setting up and running your own domain? This girl doesn't. I've only tinkered with html and some css up til now and I'm ready to move on. To get with the program. I'll post updates on the process here.

Photo Bucket is down < up > again. arghh yay.

I love to comment in blogs. I love to leave feedback. But, I also get very shy about leaving comments in somebody's blog the first few times I visit them. I feel weird. Like I'm intruding or something. I mean, you stumble upon this really great site for the first time. You read a post or two and you start thinking to yourself, 'wow. this person is so cool'. Or funny. Or knowledgeable. Or whatever. Right. Anyway, while I might really like the site, I tend to not reply/comment. It's a really annoying habit. Here I am thinking, I don't know this person. This person does not know me. Why would they want to hear what I have to say? And it's annoying because I know they won't know me unless I comment. Right? Right.

Even when I do comment, I feel funny about it. Like what I said doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things. Or, once again, I start thinking I was intrusive. How dare I comment on that person's blog? Wishing I could take it back.

I think about my own comments here in this blog. I've got 6 so far and I've been actively posting to my journal for about 2 months now. I've had it for quite some time. (Date created: 2000-07-06 19:58:00 ) In the past, I would post to my journal and then clean house. Throw out the old garbage. Why, I don't know. Then there would be times, I'd just totally go months w/o posting at all. Life getting in my way. One excuse or another at any given time. So I didn't really take care of and nurture my online journal as I should have.

But now that I am using it on a daily basis and I've got 6 comments, I have been curious about how relationships are built in the blogging world. I think maybe a turnoff for some people when it comes to posting in my journal is the way LiveJournal has the commenting feature set up. If you're not a LJ user, you can post anonymously. I don't think anyone is going to set up an account (for a journal they, in all likelihood, will not use - especially if they've already got their own blog hosted elsewhere), so that leaves only anonymous postings in LJ comments. That sucks. Now, that might not be why I don't get any comments on most of my posts. There is the very real possibility that it is not interesting to most people. I'm a realist. I'm just me. Nothing fascinating about me. I post here in my journal because I like to talk to myself. There are other reasons I keep an online blog as well. But that's just it. It's mine. It's here for me. If other people read it, great. Fine. No problemo. But they don't have to comment, right? Right.

I was just curious about how blogging relationships begin. As we all live all over the globe, we have to start somewhere. We aren't exactly going to run into each other on the next street over on a nice spring day, are we? Nope. So, that is why I must overcome my silly shy routine when I visit someone's blog. I must comment. I must. Must. must. must. :D

I must talk back more than I already do!

edit: I just stumbled onto a good blog. While clicking through the archives, I satisfied a little curiosity. I went back to her oldest entries. In the first 8 months, she had 3 comments. Nowadays (3 years later), she has somewhere between 5-19 comments. Just an observation.
Learning how to set up my own site w/ Moveable Type and all the goodies probably wouldn't hurt, though. Not that I want them just so people can leave comments. Just seems more reasonable. A friend commented on one of my entries and she couldn't figure out why it didn't show up. She hadn't ticked the 'annonymous' box. So, not being a LJ user, it didn't take and she had to do it again while reminding herself to tick that nasty box. If she hadn't told me it was her comment, I wouldn't have known. That's annoying.
Course, people could always sign their name under their comments to let me know who they are if they are posting anonymously. I don't see a lot of anonymous posters doing that on LJ, but it would help. At least, it would work until I figure out the other stuff!

I've been working on a new layout for a few days now, as time has permitted. I've finally tweaked it and I think I'm happy with it. I'll leave it alone for a few days and see if it sticks around! :D

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LJ Word Count (Beta!) by hutta

Welp, I've been playing with the my customized theme/layer for component for a couple of hours now. I was happy with it until I scewed a few things. I've set the theme to 'Bluetiful' for now until I can tweak my custimizations. Maybe tomorrow. :-/

I'm finished moving the newer entries from my website. Now I've got to re-post my old entries I saved.
work, work, work.

I'm starting to move things around a bit tonight. I'm working on getting all the old entries moved from my web site to my LJ. I'll also be adding all my old entries from my LJ that I saved from a while ago. So it'll probably be a bit messy around here for the next day or so. :D

browsing is so much more fun. who woulda thunk it? (o-kay o-kay, I always have fun browsing, but now... well, it's definitely more interesting!)

I'm still too nervous to post comments on anyone else's blog, though. I've enjoyed perusing some pretty terrific ones, but I feel sorta invasive when I think of just 'butting' into another person's space like that. Nobody I know blogs. *sigh*

I've finally done it. I have been wanting to really get started on my very own blog for some time now, but I always find a really good excuse not to do it. Let's see... there are time constraints, of course. Who doesn't have those??? Then, I have to take into consideration that none of my friends are either online (huh?) or they don't know how to work with websites and/or html. So, this always worried me. Who in the world would I be writing a blog for anyway? ME??? I already know all about my boring life! (haha) But here I am, finally doing it. It's kinda nerve-wracking starting it out. I kept thinking about which service I would end up using and what kind of layout and what would I write? I finally decided to just write the code out on my own and skip using one of the HOT and way-cool programs available for the time being. The way I figure it, I'll give this thing a trial run and see how it works out for me. Will I even keep up with it? Will seeing my very borrrrring life laid out in plain black & white scare me away from it altogether? Or can I make it work? I guess we'll see. I've seen some pretty lame ones out there and they seem to be working. hahahahaha

I've finally started another blog on my site. Not your typical blog, but I'm having fun with it. To check it out, click here

edit :: I've merged all of my entries into this blog for now

It's been forever since I posted here on my LJ. I don't know why, but I just haven't stuck with it for some reason. I plan on starting in again though. knock on wood. After running into some snags with it, I've deleted all of my old entries and I'm starting all over again.