I haven't really been up to all that much. Oldest sister IM'd me last night after I was in bed. LMAO, 11pm is early bedtime for me. Hubby was watching a Bond movie and I heard chimes. I asked him if it was in the movie, he says yes. I was confused a bit. 3 chimes. Damn, that's my IM. It's on all the time for precisely that reason. The only time I let it make sounds is if someone actually clickies and says something. Brandon had his eye surgery yesterday. He's fine, his eye is bloody and nose was trickling a bit. She says there are no visible incisions. His post-op is sometime today. She said he was using his eye all day. He's never been able to use it. Write these words down girls...'strabismus extropia(or estropia)' as it's hereditary. Your pediatrician needs to know that. From what I read before she had the right words, the kids have the greatest chance to have it before age 2 or 3 I think. Need to look it up at webMD again. Our mother and Uncle Steve had it and so does Chris and now Brandon. My eyes do that too, it's just not noticeable. Brandon's eye didn't move because 'the inner eye muscle was too short and wouldn't allow it to move'. She also had an interview this morning, cross your fingers there have been many. I gave her dalyna's new e-mail that you have been sending mail from and jesse jay's e-mail. Apparently mouse had her baby at some point already, it's a girl. 3 of them now. I don't have her e-mail address since I had to wipe my hard drive. I also told her about her present. Still haven't mailed it. I scanned it. It's a set. I don't have it in the post itself as it's too big and won't show properly, just clicky the link. There's a rainbow line because the scanner has PMS. I told her I'd e-mail a picture. Now if I can just get around to mailing it! Her favorite color is blue, if you didn't know that already. The regular and not any real shade of it.

I've also been working on 2 blogs. Sweetpea's has the most done to it. Dragon pics are easily found. I can't do the proper work on the banners and a header until I get access to the proper programs. I will get that new cd drive soon. I'm tired of not having a good program. Dalyna's hasn't changed much from what I've done with it. I'm having trouble finding good dolphin pics that are free for use on the web and small enough to be on a button. A lot of the time, translating from a good larger picture does not translate well at all to a 60px-40px size. I think I have some links I'm supposed to add to those sites. Ah, well I do need to teach them how, I just don't want sweetpea messing around in the CSS template again until I teach her. That one was a mess. She was doing her posts in the TEMPLATE! I guess she didn't see 'Create New Post'. LMAO, got that fixed up now. I'd like to get some nice smallish fairies too. Gonna take a bit of searching, which I no longer have the patience for. I'm also thinking about reworking my lines, banners, and buttons. I did them all myself. No one's allowed to take those, they won't work for any site but mine anyway. I did some cheating-ish shortcuts for them. They blend on my page, but won't on anyone elses. I think the thing I'm most proud of is my bars. They are all set to be an exact measurement. If ya'll are curious, and have firefox, right click on one and use view image (it might be picture) and you'll see what I mean. They aren't very impressive on a white background, but they are on mine :) I made my animated header and e-mail button. I have the e-mail on a slower animation, so you'll have to actually watch it. There's a little cheating on the animations too. I made them 'tween' between the first and last frame too, otherwise the animation stops abruptly and starts again. The way I did it, it's not at all noticeable. I did figure out that one on my own.
All this is, of course, Se7en's fault. To see where I got my 'inspiration' from go vistit Blogs Gone Wild. There how's that for the search thingy?! He's creating faster than I can keep up. Maybe we'll get to peek at some of the new ones before they're done. I think I asked him quite a few questions before I was done with my page. A Veracious, who's been visiting lately, had his blog done by Se7en. His is a lighthouse with 2 background images. I had to stare at his source code for a bit to figure it out. There's a z= code that levels the images. If you need them too. Just like if you were making a picture in a program that had, say, a few different layers of text on it. You 'order' the stuff or send to back, send to front. That's what the z thingy does. So the banner, with the top of the lighthouse, is still a background image, but it's layered on top of the other image, which is the tower of the lighthouse. Very ingenious I'd have never thought of that. I didn't know you could have more than 1 background image. Oh yeah, and the RA's site was done by him too. Back when he was figuring things out. Her's is lighthouse stuff too. She comes by fairly often, so I mention her too. In fact many of the blogs I have on my RSS were designed by se7en, that's how I found them. When he finishes a batch of them, he posts them so we can all go see.

Ending on an important note...
go visit over at Blackfive's for news about our soldiers and what is really going on in Iraq. There you'll find a lot of information. Soldiers, their family's, etc send him news and whatnot for those of us here. You'll find many milblogs there. Some are soldiers, some are their families, and there's atleast one journalist who's embedded with what they call the 'deuce 4'. He writes what he sees, you won't find anything like it on your tv. For those who can afford to, there are many links to help our soldiers. They can always use care packages and whatever else you can give them. I've seen a few post some appreciated letters from school children. Now, as always, play nicely. If you don't like what you see, there is that pretty little x button in the top right corner of your browser. If you can't say something nice, don't say it at all!

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