this woman’s work

I got this theme because I like the tabs in my sister’s new theme up at the top in the sidebar. Problem is, if you have blogher ads, they want their ads above the fold at the top of the menu, which means that I had to put the tabs down at the bottom of the sidebar and the theme didn’t like that. I couldn’t get the tabs to play nice. So here I changed out my theme to get the tabs and then had to scrap it because of the tabs. Such is the blogging life.

But the sidebars are so much cleaner than my last theme that I’m going to leave them. And I like the social bookmarking bar at the bottom.

My archives seem to have gone missing and two different plugins haven’t fixed it so I put a drop-down menu (both categories and dated archives) over in the sidebar. And I put my About Me page back up (with a pic of the kids and Brett from a few years ago). I’d like to have a more recent one but my “no faces” criteria is making it tricky. And my camera won’t upload or something so I can’t get a new one at the moment. Eventually. Meanwhile looking at the Destin shores is not a bad thing.

I love wordpress themes. I wish I could play with them all the dang time.

I updated this site to 2.6 along with the Open Book Strategies site (and blog) and then three more blogs. All looks pretty darn good! But it didn’t fix this problem where I have to save a post before I can click “allow comments” and only THEN can I hit publish. Frustrating.

In other family tech news: Cable is officially gone and I’m mourning the loss of Mad Men. It’s really the only show I’ll miss. And I now have a cell phone, which I’m afraid of using. I did spend way too much time creating my own ringtone (because I didn’t like the ones it came with and I sure wasn’t paying for a new one) because even if I’m afraid of technology, I’m all about customizing it.

In other family non-tech news: The neighbors across the way were tossing a perfectly fine and super-comfortable couch so it’s now in our basement. We need to get tested for radon so that we can move the television down here. (I’m already working here — sure hope that radon test turns out ok. Our last house had no radon issues so there’s hope.) I hate having a television in the main living area and I think getting it out of the family room would go a long, long way to making me feel like this house is home. I’ve lived here for going on three years and still feel like we’re waiting to move someplace else.

In other family not-to-share news: We’re looking at some big structural changes around here in our continued effort to become if not independently wealthy at least independently solvent. I’m trying to wrap my head around them but am having trouble doing so ‘cuz I’m operating with a sleep deficit brought on by worrying insomnia.