My mind is wandering, so here are some bullets for you…
- Blue pointed out some more glitches in this template to me yesterday. If anyone else sees anything, can you let me know? Also, Blue, if your comments are still not showing, please let me know. I want to know where the hell they are going. I disabled commentluv to see if that was the problem for some reason. Also, Tug, thanks for your suggestion about the search box. I am still taking suggestions on how to take that out. I tried removing the search.php page, but that didn’t work. I’d be happy just to move it somewhere else but I can’t find where it is in either the header or sidebar pages.
- Aside from the template, I have a serious need to have someone whom I could possibly hire to update my blogs (or tell me in terms that I understand how to do it myself) to the newest version of WordPress. I went through every single step and it still says that I am at the older version. I don’t get it.
- I just figured out why people hate Americans. I heard on the news that someone is going to buy a frosted flake in the shape of Illinois for more than $180,000 on eBay. Seriously. We are in a recession (no arguments please, we either are currently or will be soon), people are losing their homes and someone is going to spend $180,000+ on a frosted flake? I suppose it may not be an American who is going to purchase it, but it was an American who put it up on eBay instead of putting it in her mouth. I have lots of corn or frosted flakes. I’m sure I could find one that looks like something. $180,000 would go a long way towards paying of my mortgage or getting me out of debt.
- Isabelle is staying over night tonight (well really last night by the time you read this. Usually her Mom works on Monday night (at a bar), but she took it off so she could celebrate St. Patrick’s day. It’s a really big holiday in our household. It is much revered. Let me see if I can remember what it is even about…Irish people,
cloversshamrocks, St. Patrick and something about snakes. So, yeah. Why she felt she needed to take the night off of work for it, I’m not sure. Ohh yeah, it’s an excuse to get drunk.Oh well, Isabelle is safe and sound here. And funny. She told me tonight that she wasn’t going to wake me if she needed to go potty. She was just going to go. Because, according to her, she’s been practicing how to be a big gril (sic) and she can go potty in the night by herself.
- My cousin’s daughter is here for the second night. Emily doesn’t get to see her often but they are quite close, keeping in touch via MySpace and texting and IMing, etc. Emily also had a friend over who knows my cousin’s daughter through those mediums, too, but has never met her F2F. Isabelle was playing with the 3 of them and told them she wanted to play hide-n-seek. She looked at me and said Allie wanted to play, too. I told her that I have a hard time finding Allie when we play hide-n-seek. She said, “Yeah. ‘Maginary. Allie’s ‘maginary.” One of her “friends”. Her Mom freaks out that she still has them, but everything I have read says it’s fine and eventually they will just go away. It shows a creative brain. Sorta like her mother.
- Finally–I’m going to therapy today. First back-to-therapy visit. I’m not looking forward to it. I just don’t want to go. It goes back to guilt at not being happy. I feel like I am wasting his time. Or time that someone else who needs it much more than I could be using. I had a bad mental health day yesterday, though, so it’s probably a good thing I am going back.
- Oh, one more thing. What the hell happened to my smilies? And my comment quicktags (you know the buttons that put in code for you), too? How do I get those back? Anyone?
Think happy therapy thoughts,
Shell
Do you know Nobody? He comments on my blog and fabs, he is absolutely amazing at all this wordpress stuff. His link is in my blogroll!
Nobody IS a genius.
Remember what I said. Make sure you tell the therapist those feelings. You should WANT to go to therapy.
Wowzers on the new template!
Nobody set me on the trail of a great plugin that will automatically update (and make a back up before doing it). The name and link is on my PlugIn page
It works great!
You may feel better about going to therapy after go go the first time. You most certainly DO matter, and you DO deserve the therapist’s time as much as anybody.
I don’t use WordPress, but I have a book. I’ll email you what it says about removing plugins.
pee ess: the frosted flake is up to 200,500.00
thats just SICK
My son had an imaginary friend that he said was a ghost. He stayed with us for 3 years and even visited sometimes when we moved!
I’ve got a box of corn flakes in the cupboard. I’m going to dig through it right now and find an Elvis flake! That’s my ticket outta here! (kidding!)
What the hell is the deal with the Frosted Flake or Corn Flake or whatever they are calling it? I am a sinister bitch who would find it funny if the thing got crushed in transit
Se7en at BlogsGoneWild.net is wonderful with WordPress–he’s the guy I beg for help when I need it.
Good luck with the blog – I think Nobody IS the way to go! I can look again, too -see if I missed something. You DO deserve the therapist’s time…TAKE.IT. For YOU. Much luck Shelli.
I would tell you that I had imaginary friends, & look how good I turned out, but I don’t want to scare you.
Did you check the header, sidebar ect… pages for the search bar? It might be in those files as well!
I doubt that frosted flake will sell for anything once Ebay shifts through all the fake bids and what not.
I’m pretty good with WordPress if you need help. Just email me your issues and I’ll answer them as best I can.
P.S. To remove the searchbox remove this section from your header.php file…
form method=”get” ID=”searchform” action=”…
-stuff inbetween-
/form
I removed some of the actual code so it shows in your comments, but I think you can get the idea.
Also, the smilies may be gone if you disabled them in your options page but is more likely a plugin issue.
http://shellis-sentiments.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php
Good heavens, I go away for a couple days and you have a make over. I hope it is a symbol for the makeover you are working on with the therapist.
No worries about Belle’s ‘maginary friend after you read this story:
My best friend in junior high had an imaginary friend named Herman; he was an aardvark. On a trip to Disneyland she tells her Dad, frantically, “pull over, stop the car”. He does; she opens the door; closes door. “What was that all about?” asks Dad. “Herman had to leave.” That was the last we ever heard of Herman. Mind you, my friend was about 14 at the time!!!!
I’ve been all wrapped up in my own head and haven’t been visiting anyone.
I love your new template.
It’s FANTASTIC.
Bravo on the return to therapy.
Blue–Thank you. I checked him out on yours and everyone else’s recommendation. You rock!
Fab–Thanks. I did tell him that. I can’t remember what he said, but he obviously thinks I am crazy/worth the time because he wants to see me at least weekly.
Pan had a “friend” for about a year, when we moved, Bubber (yes, Bubber) didn’t move with us. Pan is a very smart, creative little man – I’d say that there is nothing wrong with having imaginary friends – sometimes we all need an imaginary friend.
Dutchy–Thank you. That plugin rocks the house. I did it and it was so awesome. I am talking about you in tomorrow’s post.
Suzi–Thank you. I try to remember that I matter too, even if sometimes my problems don’t seem as big as other people’s.
Blue–I can NOT believe that! It’s just ridiculous.
Lisa–Did you know who the ghost was? I mean was it someone who had died in your family or just someone totally made up by him?
Hilly–I don’t get it. That would totally be funny if that happened. You can buy a house for that kind of money and a pretty nice one, too.
Pand0ra–You have talked about Se7en before. I didn’t know that he was at BGW. Awesome. Why? I don’t know. I just think it’s awesome! Probably because I have heard you talk about him and I have heard about BGW and I never connected the two. I amuse easily.
Tug–I think in the article I read, it actually listed famous people who had imaginary friends. Or I might have dreamed that. Who knows. My brain needs blowing out with that egg shell thing again.
B–I got it! Thank you. I didn’t think of that with the fake bids and stuff on ebay. Maybe because I would never think to do that, I guess.
Archshrk–Thank you again for all your help today!
Peggy–Let’s hope so.
That is hilarious about your friend. All the things that I have seen is that they just sort of go away. I think she has them because they are the one constant in her life. You know, she lives here 3 days a week and she lives her Dad 2 days and her Mom 2 days. They are the one thing that she always has the same. I think that’s why they are sticking around so long. I’ll let you know if she still has them when she is 14. lol
Pup–Thank you and thank you. LOL I hope all is well.
FG–You are right! I am going to invent one for myself. He/she should be helpful when Chatterbox comes around. Maybe it will be a he so he can kick CB’s ass. LOL
He called his friend Waterhilsen, which was such a strange name for a 3 year old to come up with and definitely no one we knew! We had just moved across country and he didn’t know anyone, so I think he just got lonely and needed a friend.
Now I want to spend my entire food budget on cornflakes, and spend the rest of the month sorting through all the boxes.
Maybe I can find a flake in the shape of all 50 states, and can auction them off as a SET… I could make a fortune!
Oooh, and maybe I can also find some shaped like all the countries of Europe….
Here! Here’s one that looks like Australia!
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