Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

Those of you who know me at all know that I’m someone who likes change and having many, many choices. This is especially true with my blogs. Though I love WordPress, I think that I’m going to move to my Blogger Blog, http://lifeisbusynothings.blogspot.com. I want to move because I like to play with the template more than I can here at WordPress, and I can add more widgets there. Also, I can follow and be followed by friends at Blogger.

Fireside Nothings: January 25, 2009

Listened to: Vegetable Car from the album “Simple Times” by Joshua Radin

I have many things that I’ve wanted to blog about the, and I feel that I must do it now because tomorrow we’re supposed to be blessed with ice, a lot of ice, to the point where we may not have luxuries such as electricity or cable and cable Internet in a few days. So I must blog now if I’m to do it at all. Hopefully, just hopefully this preventative measure will be for not.

Bart

I want to say a hearty thank you to everyone who has been praying for Bart the past few days. His colonoscopy went well, or at least it went as well as can be expected considering the type of procedure that it is. Thankfully, there was nothing cancerous down there, but they did find two spots of inflammation from which they took biopsies. We’re actually hoping that they come back posiive ( I think) because that would mean Bart has inflammatory bowel disease, which is somewhat more treatable than just irritable bowel syndrome.

It was rather interesting to be the person responsible for Bart after his procedure. He would probably be a funny drunk if either of us ever wished to take up drinking as a past-time. Oh, the things that he said to me ranged from despite the fact that he didn’t have “ovarians,” he felt he needed to impart to his doctor that there was a family history of ovarian cancer. Of course he almost forgot about the grandfather who actually did have colon cancer and the uncle who died of liver cancer. it certainly made for an interesting day, Thursday, that’s for sure.

Blogging

At Bart’s suggestion, I started a blog for Lucy, Lucy’s ‘Splanations. This is only further proof, I think, that we need to have a baby. God’s still teaching us patience in that arena, though, and in the meantime I think it’s fun. I wish that I had started it when we got her because there have been so many fun incidents in the past year that would have made fun reading. Also, pets are with us such a short period of time that we should cherish the time we do have with them and keep record of it. I wish I had kept if not a blog because it was the eighties and nineties, but a journal of my adventures growing up with my lab-chow, Jetta.

Also, I’ve been working at converting WordPress export files into Blogger ones so that I can cross post to my Blogger Blog. I started my first blog, almost four years ago at Bllogger. Then they changed Blogger to where I didn’t like it. Also, I’m always wanting to try new things. I’ve moved to Vox, then here to WordPress. Somehow, though ecto blogging software, I managed to copy all of my vox posts here, and now I’m wanting to do the same, but with the comments to Blogger. I don’t know which I’ll keep, possibly both, if for no other reason that between the two I should be able to keep and move my entire blog when and if I want the change. Don’t get me wrong, I love WordPress, but Blogger has improved a great deal, and I can actually edit my template there more. If I do a complete move, it won’t be for some time. Getting posts converted to Blogger takes quite a bit of time and effort, but I’ve made a good start.

Writing

Also, I’ve been creating a website for my own fan fictions, starting with Once of Ingleside. Along with just posting my works there, I’m editing them (which they badly need) and revising them just enough to clean them up a great deal. I still want to finish my own WWII fic based on Anne Blythe’s grandchildren, but I’ve spent so much time away from them that I need to go back and get to know them again. There’s nothing that I hate more than for characters to change so completely because their creators have lost all touch with them. Also, I’ve fallen into that trap of having rather too many characters. I may have to not feature some quite so much in one series of fictions and let each or a few maybe have their own individual stories, not unlike Cath’s Cecilia and Bertha stories and Louise’s concurrent Jane and Meggie stories.

Life in General

Again, we’re under a Winter Ice Warning, so I don’ know how much blogging will be done in the next few days. So, I just want to say that I’ll be happy if I can just sit here on the couch with the fire burning to my right, Lucy in my lap, and a good book in my hand. There’s just something nice about that. Oh, and I guess that it’ll be nice to have Bart here too. I couldn’t do without him.

Random Thoughts and Observations – July 31, 2008 Edition

I’ve been reminded lately, as I am every year when the temperatures hover around a certain point, that I suffer from insomnia in the summer.  Even though we keep the air conditioner set to a relatively low setting and have the ceiling fan running, it’s just uncomfortable.  When I’m hot, my legs ache and become restless, my arms become very restless, and I often have a headache.  The mold spore count hasn’t been below 20,000 in ages, and that always causes dry, scratchy eyes, ticklish throat, and major sinus pressure.  Sadly, it’s not just me having these problems, Bart and Lucy both had their own insomnia issues.  We make each other miserable and keep the others awake.  We’re all just as much to blame as the others.  Of course the icing to the cake is that Lucy has started waking up growling and barking at random times of the night after the incident earlier in the week.

Oh, I’ve not posted about that yet, have I?  Well, it’s pretty funny, if you don’t mind that it’s keeping us from sleeping.  Bart had to go take pictures and lighting measurements at a parking garage that the local city government says is too bright.  This had to be done after dark, so he was gone from like 8 PM until midnight one night this week.  Well, Lucy and I didn’t wait up for him and went to bed around 10:30, like we try to do most nights.  Both of us were asleep in the bed when Bart started opening the front door.  Lucy jumped up, with fierce growls and barks from deep within, she went to go take care of the intruder.  Well, Bart was carrying his tripod, so he looked especially menacing, even though we both by that point were assuring her that all was well.  She ended up in the living room, on her spot on the couch, still growling and barking.  It was then that we noticed that her little, puppy eyes couldn’t stay open despite her perceived need to protect the house.  A while later, the three of us were in bed, just getting to sleep when suddenly Lucy started barking and growling.  She was obviously reliving the excitement in her dreams.  This happened again last night.  I’m hoping that it won’t be a recurring event every night.

On other thoughts, I love having a stat-counter for this blog.  It’s fun seeing who reads this blog, what parts they read, and such.  The use of tags and categories makes this a fun, invaluable, and interesting tool to have.  I couldn’t imagine having a blog where I can’t keep up with whom has been reading it and what posts attract the most viewers.  As always, please leave any and all comments.  I love feedback from everyone.

Now, just for fun, here’s a list of things I’ve been particularly enjoying of late:

• As always, my iPod Touch, thought with the 2.0 software, it’s even better.  I’m making great use of the new applications.
• Last.fm and Pandora.  I’ve lately become addicted to these.
• The book, “Fallen Founder,” a biography of Aaron Burr.
• WordPress.  I’m enjoying this much more than Vox or Blogger.
• The knowledge that football season is drawing near.  I can’t wait.
• Working with awesome people.  I know that I’m ready to be a mom and stay at home, but it’s not because I don’t like the people I work with.