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Mar 16, 2009

NJROTC drill and parade

Over the weekend, I mentioned that The Teenager had an Annual Inspection and Parade with her NJROTC team a couple of weeks ago. My mom, Gman, Short Dude, Little Girl and I all went as did The Teenagers boyfriend. It sure brought back some memories for me!

There was lots of pomp and circumstance and the local Navy Band even played. The regional commander was present and performed the inspection and both the NJROTC armed and unarmed drill teams performed. And even though The Teenager is one of the taller people in our family, among her peers, she’s still one of the shortest. It was hard to see during parts of the ceremony.

I took quite a few pictures but didn’t really get any good shots of The Teenager because of where she was in the line but here’s a few for you . . .

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And just because I can, here’s one of one my cats – Stardust – sitting on my lap.

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Have a great day!

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Mar 16, 2009

Plugin test #2 – disregard again

By Annie Anderson ·

Just another plugin test.

I think this is probably the last one. Hopefully.

Thanks for your patience!

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Mar 16, 2009

A plugin test – disregard

By Annie Anderson ·

This post is simply to test the function of a new plugin I recently installed. You can simply disregard it.

Have a beautiful day!

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Mar 15, 2009

More March 2009 wallpapers

By Annie Anderson ·

Here’s a few more wallpapers for your computer desktop in the luck o’ the Irish flavor for March.

Same rules as always – feel free to use for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment.

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In the arena,

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~ Adrienne Cook

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.

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Mar 15, 2009

Get your Irish on!

By Annie Anderson ·

A couple of March 2009 wallpapers for your computer . . .

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A happy little Leprechaun with his pot o’ gold.

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And here’s the happy dude dancing through the fields.

Enjoy!

And remember – you’re free to use them for personal, non-commercial use only. If you’d like to use them commercially, please contact me for arrangements and terms.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

In the arena,

For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
~Author Unknown

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Mar 15, 2009

Additional changes and blog housekeeping

By Annie Anderson ·

Just wanted to note some additional changes and housekeeping that will be taking place in the next few days as I adjust things to the new theme.

There are some pictures on older posts which aren’t formatting properly so I’ll be updating those and adding captions where I can.

If you notice anything else broken or odd looking, please contact me and let me know.

This theme is meant to have only excerpts on the home page and although I’ve been seriously opposed to that (and basically still am), I’m going to give it a try and see what happens. It should NOT affect anything in the RSS feed, though, and if you read my blog in a reader, you should still get full posts. (THAT is one thing I will NEVER change! I hate excerpts in feeds!)

I’m also going to be adding a couple of new plugins that will allow more options. One of those is a header rotator. That way, each time a page is refreshed, you’ll get a different header. It keeps things fun and exciting! I plan to have the current header plus 3-4 more. So, not too many – just enough to add variety.

And you may find some colors changing over the course of the next few days. I installed a plugin yesterday that highlights my comments whenever I reply to comments on a post and right now, I’ve got it set to a light blue. While I like it, I’m not sure it’s the best fit. So, I’m going to play around with that color and possibly the page background color.

There are also some widgets that SHOULD be showing up in the right sidebar which aren’t. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why. But hopefully that issue will be resolved soon too.

On another note, look for a new Around the Web post this week as well as a new Reading List. I haven’t done either of those for quite some time and that’s got to change! They’re 2 of the most popular things on this blog and I enjoy writing them as well.

Let me see . . .

Oh! More posts coming up on recent events including The Teenagers NJROTC Annual Inspection and Parade that took place a few weeks ago (with pics!) plus some new wallpapers for March that I think you’ll like.

Okay, I think that’s it for now. I hope you’re having a wonderful day wherever you are. It’s overcast and windy here in Seattle but I’m feeling much better today – except I seem to have lost my voice – but for feeling better, I’m very thankful!

In the arena,

Things do not change; we change. ~ Henry David Thoreau