If you are a stu­dent, pay­ing for a course, please for the love of all that is holy in this world open the book. Open it at least once, even if just to look at the pic­tures. The pic­tures are bright & col­or­ful. Even if your instruc­tor is not. You paid for the book, open it.

And as a side note: what­ever you do, don’t tell your instruc­tor that “I had a cool party to go to so that’s why I missed class” or any­thing else along these lines. Instead read the book, go to class for lec­ture and pre­pare your­self. If you don’t show up because you’d rather party don’t tell your instruc­tor because I hate to break it to you she or he does NOT care. Unless they are invited to said party, keep it to your­self. It will make every­one happier.

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I wanted to answer the fol­low­ing ques­tion that was asked when I wrote about my blog Makeover in a sep­a­rate post. My rea­son is that I thought it was a ques­tion that many peo­ple might have when perus­ing the blo­gos­phere & one I had pre­vi­ously before find­ing out how peo­ple cre­ated a “You Might Also Like” sec­tion under their posts. Also, I love that Coryanne at house­wifeb­liss used the word snazzy. I think Mad Men is amaz­ing as well, not just because my gor­geous best friend was once on the show. (Although, I do think she should end up with a reoc­cur­ring role!)

Alright here’s the question:

Coryanne:
02/12/2010 at 2:08 pm (Edit)

Sepia is always more flat­ter­ing than colour! I have all my pics 1960’d in pic­nic now — we all look so healthy. And I did notice all the changes, try­ing to fig­ure out myself how to do every­thing, but I am sure that your hubby is right. By the way, how do you do that snazzy ‘you might also like’.…

not sure why I keep using snazzy, per­haps I have been watch­ing to much madmen

Ok, now for the answer…I use LinkWithin to get the “You Might Also Like” if you are on Blog­ger you can cre­ate a wid­get (LinkWithin takes you through the steps) and on Word­Press there is a Plu­gin designed for this you can add it from the Plu­g­ins sec­tion of your Word­press dashboard.

Now, go add this to your blog. It’s easy & doesn’t cre­ate a bunch of clutter.

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As you may have noticed I’ve been unable to restrain myself when it has come to play­ing with the lay­out here on my blog. I couldn’t help it. I’m try­ing to be bet­ter, I swear, and not make you all want to jab pen­cils in your eyes when you come here. So I’m going to back away from mak­ing too many more changes for a bit.

How­ever, I did have a real rea­son for mak­ing the changes besides seem­ing like I lacked an abil­ity to com­mit to a lay­out. My rea­son was want­ing some­thing more orga­nized, cleaner, & eas­ier for me to nav­i­gate behind the “scenes” on the back-end of the blog. It’s not as sexy as it sounds. Really it’s so I can write & keep up the blog with­out want­ing to jab pen­cils in my own eyes.

Or for that mat­ter Hubby’s eyes because he dare ask me what was tak­ing me so long to get a footer that I liked?

What? What do you mean SO LONG? Don’t you know how impor­tant a footer is? How could you not know this?

His response may have been some­thing like…No one even cares about the bot­tom of a blog.

WHAT! How could he not see the impor­tance of the bot­tom of the blog? How could he mock me & not sup­port me? By dar­ing to ask a totally rea­son­able ques­tion & point out the obvi­ous. NO ONE really does care about the bot­tom it turns out. EXCEPT me of course, which is why I spent a day on it.

Any­way, my point (I’m sure I had one) is that now that I’ve fin­ished the major por­tion of this ini­tial redesign and even if there will be a few tiny changes & maybe a new header in a month (I’m toy­ing with a monthly header idea or just keep­ing the same one FOREVER) I promise that in gen­eral there will be no more mas­sive changes.

At least I think I promise that, unless I cause the entire thing to implode, make a mil­lion more changes & then well…PENCILS FOR EVERYONE’S EYES!!!

I’m also think­ing that in the mean­time, I’m going to makeover all my pho­tos. I find that in “olden” days a total lack of makeup is less fright­en­ing. (note I wrote “less” not com­pletely unfright­en­ing).

(pic­ture cour­tesy of Mr. J)

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