July 6th, 2008 by Kateastrophe

AH HA! I forgot to add the Mr. Linky CODE to my new template. There’s the problem.

So now it works.

You’re welcome. Anyone who cares . . .

July 5th, 2008 by Kateastrophe

OK, so new look and feel . . . AND A BLOGROLL!!

It took a while but I think I got everyone. I think.

Couple of business things

• IF you feel I missed you and would like a spot on my blogroll (I’m sure I missed a lot of people, it needed some serious updating) just email me or leave me a comment and lemme know. I’ll add you in a snap.
• IF you don’t want to be on the blogroll (I left quite a few out on purpose because I know they’d rather stay private) again, just lemme know. I don’t want anyone to feel their privacy is being threatened. I’ll keep reading, I swear!
• Let me know what you think of the new look! I had a different, sort of cooler one, but it didn’t allow me to use widgets to run my sidebar and heaven knows I’m not in the mood to learn the code to do THAT myself!!

I’ve been getting quite a few spam comments with nasty things in them.  Sorry if you see them pop up on my sidebar.  I just installed a new plug-in that will HOPEFULLY help prevent that kind of crap.  If not, I’ll search for something else to ward them off.  I’m trying not to install one of those word verifyer things.  I sort of hate them but it might become necessary.  We’ll see.

So there you have it. I might be changing it up a little bit here and there, now that I remember how to do it. I’m also dabbling in designing my own header. I’ve gotten as far as fancy fonts, so it might take another hundred years or so for me to figure out how to do anything else, but we’ll see!

I’ll be back later today to put up the Mr. Linky for Soap Opera Sunday.

Hope you all had a great 4th of July!

July 3rd, 2008 by Kateastrophe

Well, I officially feel old. We just had the ten year reunion for the Timpview High School Class of ‘98.

I must say, we had an amazing class. I’ve heard teachers and faculty say that we may have been the best class to ever come out of the high school. While we still had cliques and groups and all the normal high school crap, we had it in much lesser doses. We, for the most part, were all friends. There wasn’t a single person I was dreading seeing or running into. We won state titles in Football, Girl’s Basketball, Girl’s Volleyball, Drama, Choir, and probably a bunch of other stuff. The football players were in choir. The cheerleaders took AP classes and excelled at math. The drama geeks dated the student counsel. We were something special.

We had three different activities . . . there was a girl’s breakfast on Friday, a family picnic on Saturday afternoon and then the adults only dinner/dancing/mingling on Saturday night. While it was a lot to fit into two days, I was very sad when it ended.

Here are some pictures from the weekend. I didn’t take nearly enough (and some of the ones I took are sooo bad) but at least it’s something!!!

My old pal Ricky and his darling son Brandon. Yes, Ricky is flipping me off and yes, Brandon is sucking on his finger. Typical Ricky.

Julia’s son Cache, showing me his hot dog, made special by Hannah (in the next picture, in her custom dog slingin’ attire and bus) of Franks Franks! (and if any of you live in Utah, you have GOT to go get you some of their hot dogs.  SO GOOD!  I ate two and hung my head in gluttonous shame)

Me in the dress. And um, I’ve apparently replaced my calves with elephant legs (courtesy of the two hot dogs I ate for lunch). Ahem. But the dress? Me lovey.

My girls and I. We stuck together that night for the most part, just as we’ve done for the last 14 years. (FOURTEEN YEARS?!?!?! And hi, don’t I have a lovely double chin? That’s what I get for taking ONE picture of us)

And finally, the highlight of the evening, our former school mascot can still do the CENTER SPLITS ten years later. Ahhh good times. I love the guy in the background (Mark Bohn for anyone that cares) and his look of sheer joy.

I seriously didn’t take nearly enough pictures. I had so much fun seeing everyone again and I wish I had pictures of everyone!

Any chance we could organize and 11 year reunion? I’m sort of pathetic but if we organized it? I would totally show up.

July 2nd, 2008 by Kateastrophe

So, I check blogs sporadically through the day at work.  I’m sure I’m not the only one.  I don’t take a lot of time, and I use the Google Reader plug-in for iGoogle so that I have updates on my home page.  I usually pop over and comment on most of the blogs.  Until recently.

My work instigated some firewall that won’t allow me to comment on anything but Wordpress and sometimes that won’t even work.  IT’S DRIVING ME CRAZY.  I love getting and leaving comments and I hate thinking that people aren’t getting comments from me because of stupidness, but that’s what’s happening.

I would normally just comment from home, but lately?  I have ZERO desire to be on the computer at home.  I sit here in front of the thing 8-9 hours a day and I’m burned out by the time I get to the house.  I need to plant my butt in front of the TV clean and work out and do all the important things I should do at home.

Now this issue, mixed with the blogroll issue I mentioned yesterday, is making me out to be a HORRIBLE blog friend.  I’m not, I swear.  If you’ve ever left me a comment, there’s a 99.9% chance I added you to my blogroll and my reader and that I read EVERY SINGLE post you write.  I swear I do.

I guess I just wanted to publicly announce my love and affection for all of you and let you know I AM reading . . . just not commenting for the moment.  Sigh.

July 1st, 2008 by Kateastrophe

Well I’m back in the real life . . . not loving it so much, but what can you do. A girl’s gotta pay the bills, right?\

The ten year reunion? A million times better than I ever expected it could be. I went to school with some of the world’s neatest people, who grew up into some of the world’s coolest adults with some of the world’s CUTEST kids. Also, the dress I FINALLY found at the midnight hour? A-MAZING. It’s my new favorite thing ever. I felt SO good that night, which made it all the more enjoyable. I will see what I can do about posting some pictures. I took a lot of other people and only a couple of myself and my girlfriends, but what can ya do?

The new boss is still as cool as I thought he was. We’re digging in this week and getting started on a new website, new messaging, new collateral, new press information . . . basically NEW EVERYTHING. I have my work cut out for me. Luckily, I like the general giving the marching orders, so I’ll march happily.

It’s hot here. Really, really hot. I’m not surprised or anything, I’ve just been lucky to have missed most of the really hot days so far this year. Now I’m sort of immersed in hotness. It’s a little bit uncomfortable. We were thinking of getting the hell out of here for the 4th but I’ve been gone SO much, all I really want to do is hang out at our house and catch up on some sleep, so we’re staying in the hot and having an indoor BBQ. Without fireworks. Or something similar that in no way resembles the 4th of July holiday festivities I grew up with. And now I’ve successfully made myself homesick. There’s nothing like the 4th of July in Provo, Utah. NOTHING. Sigh.

I can’t get my blogroll to work on this Wordpress template. I recently realized how LAME I am for not having a blogroll, so I am going to work on a post with ALL the blogs I read (there are zillions) and then I’ll post THAT post as a page. Sorry to all of you who I read and I don’t currently give linky love to. I’ll fix it, I swear. It’s just going to take a while because there are A LOT of you.

And now that I’ve let my brain explode all over the computer screen (you’re welcome) I am off to do, like, work stuff. Unless I can find something else to distract me . . . hmmmmmm

**Edited to add:  I just realized it’s my psuedo half birthday!!! (Since there’s not a June 31st you see.)  That also means it’s Miss Molly’s half birthday as well!  Happy Half Birthday to us, birthday twin!  Yaaaaay!