I always have my heart set on something ridiculously expensive. But this is it now that I got rational and gave up my Dolce & Gabbana glasses. At $150 this gadget is half the price of my D&G glasses and 10 times as useful (seeing as I wear contacts most of my waking hours).
This is the SmartShopper, and it hangs on your refrigerator and takes your wonderful recorded shopping list and transfers it to paper like a breeze. Must. Have. This. Found at girly heaven PopGadget.
Well, I spent a total of about 10 leisurely hours upgrading to WP 2.1 and messing with a new template. Other than 2 or 3 hours of trying to figure out how to get my blogroll to display properly (I can’t for the life of me get the 1. Bookmarks out of it - I have played with every parameter of the new tag except for the right one, obviously), 2.1 went off without a hitch. I am not keen on the new blogroll tags and the fact that you don’t have much control over the blogroll within admin like you used to (unless I am not seeing it!)l but it’s probably just having to teach an old dog a new trick that is making me resistant.
This theme is kinda business-y for a fun lovin’ gal like me, but I like it, the coding is very nicely done (thanks Brian!), it doesn’t look too cluttered (love keeping some of that cluttery stuff in the footer) and everything works as expected, which never happens for me. I even managed to tweak the b5media blogroll so it looks normal sized instead of giant. And it works. And, most importantly I didn’t have to ask for help. w00t!
I keep thinking I want to get a custom theme, but if I can’t even figure out the basics of what I want, how on earth will I ever be happy with one someone else does? I searched through about 15 Googlepages of designers last night and just didn’t see any one of them that did much for me. I don’t want it to be too boring, or too techy or too girly or too - I don’t know what the word it - swirly maybe. If I see another theme that looks like it has cutouts, I will scream. I love Chris Pearson’s Cutline, but I just keep seeing it over and over and over again - its a great template though - maybe next time I get in a switcheroo mood I will try some customizations and see what happens. I even tried to clear my mind of the bazillion templates I had been looking at and try to imagine what I wanted my blog to look like, and I couldn’t even do that. I think I would drive a designer insane at this point. I am driving myself crazy. I have looked at every 2 column, 3 column, widgetized template with pink, black and gray that exists. And all the non widgetized ones too.
Now to replace that CJ up there with something that is more me. I will surely think of something more suitable soon enough…
Tonight’s low carb feast, from Giada De Laurentiis:
6 (3-ounce) chicken cutlets, pounded to evenly flatten
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 paper-thin slices prosciutto
1 (10-ounce) box frozen chopped spinach, thawed
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
1 (14-ounce) can low-salt chicken broth
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
I know this blog is boring as hell. Especially lately. But, I guess thats life when you have too much to do, and not enough time to do it. Anyway, am giving a new blog editor a try, so here we go. 
Marshall - this is for you, I know you will appreciate it. Don’t miss our little Angelina in there.
I have successfully ignored this once, but I will be nice and comply this time. Thanks, Glen. ::groan:: lol
Five things you don’t know about me:
1. I am a hobby taxidermist. I wish I had time to work on all the animals in my freezer, there are some beautiful ones in there.
2. I hate to take showers - I am a bath girl. I do bathe, though. 
3. I am a headbanger at heart. My all time favorite band is Motley Crue.
4. I think I will likely be a crazy cat lady when I’m old. I keep way too many of them around now (…she says as she knocks a couple off her lap so she can type).
5. I love shock value, but I keep it close to home these days. I don’t like shocking you as much as my mother, my children and my hubby.
I tag Hsien (heh - you can’t ignore MEEEEEEEEE can you - especially when you know all this stuff about me already?) Shannon, SP, Elke, and Suzzann .
w00t!
Can I really blog from my Treo? Guess we will see…
This is one recipe I need to keep track of - I think I can swing this and it looks and sounds incredibly yummy:
Stef’s Lion’s Heads in Coconut Sauce
If you aren’t a regular reader of Stef’s Noodles and Rice, and you love to cook, or love to eat, then you definitely should be. She is an amazing cook and a beautiful photographer as well. Her pictures and recipes never fail to make me absolutely drool, and heaven forbid I visit there when I am hungry. Maddening!
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