Fibermania

Multiple Subjects for Today's Post

First: the sidebar buttons were made this way.
Select a picture and open it in a drawing program, and if you don't have one, Microsoft has Paint which is in Accessories. It is the easiest one to use. I used one of the drawing tools to write on the picture, like the little paintbrush. I used the mouse to move it to write the names. Then I resized the picture using the Stretch/Skew tab under Image. I put in like 25% to reduce it. Then I saved it as a jpeg or tiff.
Then I went into blogger and published it as a picture in the blog. When you post it and click on the picture, a url appears in the address menu at the top of the page.

click on this picture
This is what you need to use to put it in the sidebar.
Then you need to plug it into the html that makes the link.
If you view my website and look at the menu bar at the top of the page, under View and then the Source tab, you will find the correct code which you can then paste into the template under Sidebar.

Four Jobs You've Had: Waitress in a Country and Western Dive, production artist several places, Dog and Suds waitress, machine quilter at a bedspread factory


Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over: Casablanca, It's Wonderful Life, Love Actually, Animal House

Four Places You've Lived: Denver CO, Biloxi MS, Tampa FL, Chicago IL

TV Shows you love to Watch:L&O, even reruns, Gray's Anatomy, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars

Four Places You've Been on Vacation: Cancun MX, San Miguel de Allende MX, Key West FL, Three Lakes WI

Four Websites You Visit Every Day:Yarn Harlot, Tommy the Material Girl, Mason-Dixon Knitting, A Walk in the Woods

Four Of Your Favorite Foods: These are all things I don't eat: crunchy bread slathered with butter, coffee ice cream, pumpkin pie with cool whip, pizza from Uno or Due's in Chicago

Four Places You'd Rather Be: At Panera with the girlfriends, in Berkeley CA in a hot tub with Dave, in Napa with Dave, in Christchurch NZ with fthe girlfriends (there are things that they would love that Dave would not and vice versa)

Four Albums You Can't Live Without:I agree that this is majorly impossible to single out, but my faves are Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall, YoYo Ma, Iris Dement.

Four People You'll Pass This On To: Frieda, Tommy, Emily and Brooke
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OK. I got that off my plate. Now I am happy to announce that I have a working laptop again, O happy day. My dear brother spent hours, literally trying to fix everything and to use his words, Be MY HERO. He is my hero and eventually the unfixable was circumvented and I can now find most of my email addresses, by stealth or sneaky backdoor ways.
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Tommy mentioned journaling in her blog yesterday and I must comment. I like the idea of journaling but can't get with the hand writing part. It is too slow and when I change my thoughts, erasing makes a mess of the page and I don't like that .
Being honest is the most intriguing aspect of the idea, but I think being honest means complaining alot, which I did when I tried journaling before the computer. All that does is allow one to wallow in the annoying things and getting them out onto the page doesn't remove them, it amplifies them.
When I blog, I look for interesting things to describe or consider and that approach makes for a better start to the day.
Sometimes when I wake up at night, I mentally begin writing the blog for the next day. I have to first pick the topic and then the approach, or opening line. I can really amuse myself in this way and it has made those restless nights more bearable.

I have been a little too honest in this blog and it has gotten me in trouble. So I have learned to consider what the reader may think before I publish. This may seem less honest, but in fact, it is really just being more sensitive. One needn't point out that spinach in the teeth, out loud, when one can pass a note.