• I hurt myself from yawning too big.  I think I overstretched the tendon that connects my jaws or something.  I know.  I’m now in competition with Sammy Sosa for lamest injuries.  I wonder if Workers Comp covers that kind of thing.  It was the boredom brought on by my job that forced me to yawn, after all.
• I dreamed that I had an affair.  With J.  No idea who I was actually married to in the dream.  But J’s conscience got the best of him at the last second and he backed out on me.  So I woke up guilty, bummed, grumpy, and horny.  I hate dreams.
• After 4 years, my dog has just discovered that he has a penis.  He has been licking it for 48 hours straight.  It’s driving us crazy, especially since he sleeps in our room and he’s decided that licking himself is more fun than sleeping.
• Don’t buy hair dye that costs less than $10.  Especially if you use white towels and don’t want to see it bleeding onto your towel 4 days after you’ve colored your hair.  Just saying.
• Also, don’t believe the stuff on the box of cheap hair dye that says it comes with highlights and lowlights and multi-faceted color that doesn’t damage your hair.  Bollocks.
• Tomorrow we close on the house we’re selling.
• Tomorrow we’re supposed to close on the house we’re buying.
• Yesterday we found out that the house didn’t appraise for near what we had agreed to pay for it, so now our financing is messed up.
• The appraiser totally discounted the sunroom, which would have made up the difference in the appraisal price.  He refused to count it as part of the square footage of the house (as a previous appraiser had done) because it didn’t have duct work or something.  But since nobody else in the neighborhood has a sunroom, he couldn’t find “comps” so he just didn’t give it any value at all.
• Because, you know, if nobody else has one then it must have been free to install.
• Apparently if you can’t find one just like it then it’s easier just to pretend it doesn’t exist at all than to do some more research and assign a value based on an educated guess.
• Lazy ass.
• So we’ve asked the relocation company to lower the price on the house because it doesn’t make much sense to pay more than a house is actually worth.
• But it’s a relocation company and it will probably take them a week to get back to us because when you have 150 middlemen, things don’t move too quickly.
• And we don’t know what they’re going to say.
• So we don’t know if or when we’ll be closing.
• Annoying, since we’re supposed to move out of our house in 2 days.
• Regardless, we have to disassemble and pack up our computer tonight or tomorrow, so I’ll probably be offline for a few days.
• Bummer dude.

At approximately noon yesterday, I became a single mother.

At least until the end of the weekend. J is off to Minnesota to visit some friends, so it’s just the girls this weekend. Enter multiple binging sessions of pizza, cookies and Veggie Tales. Well, minus the pizza and the cookies because they are SO not on my diet. Ok, maybe some pizza and cookies. I’m not that good.

[queue random change of subject]

I hate Google Images. I get tons of hits to my site through them and it irks me because I don’t want that kind of traffic. I don’t want people getting to my site who are only here to steal my pictures. My Rome pics seem to be the most popular, but I don’t want that kind of surfer browsing through all my pictures of LB either.

So in case anyone else is having this same problem, I found and modified this bit of code, and then inserted it into my header. And voila! No more hits from Google Images.

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
var camefrom = document.referrer;

var findit = “images.google”;
if (camefrom.indexOf(findit) > -1 )
{ window.location=”http://www.google.com”; }
</script>

It basically checks the referrer of any visitor to my site and if it’s someone coming from Google Images, they get redirected back to the Google.com home page. I would love to give credit to the creator of this spiffy little code, but I found it on some random forum site, and (as is my unfortunate habit) accidentally closed the browser window too soon.

Stupid WordPress problem (the problem is stupid, not WP…I heart WP) has been plaguing me for a few months now and I was really hoping the upgrade to the latest version would help, but it didn’t, but I FIXED IT!

I found the answer and I FIXED IT!

And no, I’m not going to tell you what it was because then you’ll be like, “Oh, was that all?” instead of what you should be thinking, which is “Wow, you must be some kind of WordPress GURU!”

That is really what you’re thinking, isn’t it? Because come on, y’all, I FIXED IT!

So I finally got around to changing the look around here, since Winter in Texas ended in, like, November.

I don’t know how long this theme will last though, as it’s an official hat-tip to my new health program… which I also don’t know how long will last.

In general, I’m a lot better at starting a process than finishing it. For instance, this morning I needed to bring a piece of paper to work with me. I brought it downstairs, made it to the kitchen counter with it, but managed to get in the car without taking it with me.

A lot of my projects go the same way, which is why I probably should never be in business for myself.

And diets. I’ve developed a singular talent at abandoning diets without even realizing it.

I’ve been pretty diligent over the past 2 weeks about getting some exercise and watching my calorie intake, and so far I’ve lost 4 pounds. That’s actually a lot for me.

So now J and I have started this new program. It’s a cleansing/weight-loss/ health program - one of those “2 shakes, some pills and a sensible meal” per day things that we’re embarking on in the attempt to shed a few pounds and be generally healthier.

It’s a 30 day program but we’re only doing it for 15 days because we could only afford one kit for the 2 of us and that’s how the math works out.

And after tasting one of those “shakes” this morning…I’m not sure I can handle more than 15 days anyway.

Ok, the internet is seriously screwing around with me tonight in both FireFox and Opera and I’m not even going to try Internet Explorer.  So I’m going to try posting this one more time and hopefully it will make it to the page without totally disappearing or going haywire with glitches.
Some of you logged in registered users may have noticed that I’ve started posting about work again.  I took a hiatus from that because of confidentiality reasons, but now that I have the ability to semi-moderate who reads that stuff (thanks to Protected Posts capabilities) I’m feeling a little more relaxed about sharing things (such as the previous protected post) that I wouldn’t normally tell the whole world about.
So promise me you can keep a secret