Archive for August, 2007

What a Wonderful Weekend!

We started off our day by being lazy and lounging around the house enjoying our Saturday off. Then around 2 we packed everyone up and went swimming at the Kids Club. While we were swimming and goofing off, one of my wedding bands almost slipped off. I need to get these sauntered together! We’ve been [...]

LOL Diabetes

Today I saw a new site posted on The Diabetes Blog called LOL Diabetes. From the about section:
If they can have I Can Has a Cheezburger, chock full of LOL Cats, why can’t we have LOL Diabetes? For a disease that requires daily management, laughter can make as much a difference as insulin. Welcome [...]

Update on Mortgage = Scary

I called Jack after my little panic attack this afternoon over the scary mortgage stuff and reading a bunch of articles about the crazy real estate market going on right now. He has a lot of co-workers who know a lot about this stuff. One of them got on the speaker phone and listened to [...]

Mortgage = Scary

The terms of the loan on this house are fuzzy. Remember when I said we’d do better this time and learn from the mistakes we made on the last house? Well, I don’t think that happened.
Our mortgage person talked in circles and didn’t give us a lot of information that we could understand. She talked [...]

I went ahead and ‘followed’

I decided to go ahead and install the “do follow” plugin. For now this shouldn’t hurt anything right? I moderate my comments so I don’t let spammers get in. And my spam karma blocks most spam anyway.
Technorati Tags: plugin, Wordpress plugin, blog comments, backlinks, SEO, [...]

do follow no follow I follow

Now that I’m paying more attention to my blogs and actually working on building a successful one here at SpacyTracie, I’ve been learning a LOT. One of the things I’ve learned recently is when you leave a comment on a WordPress blog, a “no follow” tag is automatically inserted so that the link is not [...]

Home Heating

When we were looking to purchase our home, one of the major requirements was that it had a fireplace or woodstove. Our old house had a woodstove and ceiling heat. This was not sufficient especially since we had aluminum windows and the house overall was drafty. We ended up using convection heaters in some rooms. [...]