Category Archives: Blog Stuff

boom!

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In honor of my new co-author, I’ve started playing around with my theme to make it less girly, and a bit more Northwest-y. I’ve scrapped the daisies (although I really love that photo, so I may end up reusing them, I’m not sure), and instead I’ve put in the picture of the mountain that Angie liked – and god help me, I wish I knew what mountain that was. All I know is that it’s visible from the ferry dock in Anacortes. So, maybe Whistler? Mt. Baker? Do any of you locals recognize it? Help me out here. I’ve also changed my tagline, sort of the way Cat suggested, but with minor edits.

So, what’s the opinion on the new look? Do we like the mountain, or should we bring back the flowers?

new author

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Since Dave’s blog went away (tons o’ comment spam + never posting = why bother keeping it?), I set him up with an account here. So, you may now start seeing the occasional post from my darling husband. Of course, if he becomes a regular contributor on poobou.com, I’m going to have to change my little tagline, because my blog won’t be all about the nerdy southern girl anymore, but about her significant other as well. Hmm, how to sum up both of our lives in one quick, catchy phrase? That’ll be a challenge. Anyway, be on the lookout to see if he starts writing anything. Or, start leaving him nasty comments and emails telling him to get on the stick and start blogging.

I am an idiot

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So, I have a new boss at work – and for the record, this has absolutely nothing to do with that person I was complaining about last week – my old boss was a nice enough guy, and the new boss seems cool too. But, I have already made one HUGE mistake with my new boss. During our first meeting with each other, he was asking me how I got from a journalism degree into the IT field and then into this sort of IT/writing mix that I’m doing now. I mentioned how I really enjoy writing, but I sort of kept it just as a hobby for a few years, and that I’m glad to get back into it professionally. He asked me what type of stuff I write for fun, and I apparently lost my damn mind for a minute, because I just blurted out, “Oh, I have a blog.” I have no idea what the hell I was thinking.

Now, if he googles my married name, he’ll probably never find this website because there’s like 63 bajillion people in the world with my new last name. But if he happens to know my maiden name (which he might, I don’t know) and looks me up that way… um, hi! This site is the first thing that google brings up when you look for my old name. I mean, I suppose it’s fine if he reads this because I generally stick to that “don’t blog about work” policy, particularly since I started this job (I know I whined about my old job a LOT here), so it’s probably not that big a deal. And it’s not like I write anything too terribly graphic or personal here, either. Even the language stays relatively PG-13. So I’m probably overreacting by worrying about it. I just can’t believe that I admitted to having a blog so carelessly.

Oh, and I got my first bit of comment spam today! I feel so special. I deleted it, but I debated keeping it around just to make me feel important. Ha. Nerdy much?

pro wedding photos

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We got our professional wedding photos last week, and I had quite a time getting them online. We opted not to spend however-much-extra to get all of the photos on a CD-ROM, which in retrospect we probably should have done. First, I scanned about 120 photos, and then I realized after the fact that the scanner glass was smudged, so well over half of the photos (any of the ones that had a lot of black in them – so basically, all of them with Dave and the other guys in tuxes) looked crappy, like someone had taken them through a window. Then we tried using the attachment that scans the negatives (yes, we have a very fancy, hifalutin scanner), but it took forever to scan them and they all turned out grainy. THEN, on Sunday, I realized that the scanner has a paper feeder attachment that allows you to quickly scan entire batches of photos. Um, DUH! So I got a ton of them scanned, and they’re all now posted in our online wedding album. They’re the photos numbered 3 through 144. Enjoy!

how you found me

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Ok, I am totally loving WordPress and all of its cool little themes, and I think I’m sticking with this daisy thing for a while. And I’ve realized that during the process of going through all of my old blog posts and putting them into categories (see? I have categories now! Blogger didn’t have categories! How cool is that?) that I have an awful lot of links that don’t work. I really ought to fix those, and maybe I’ll get around to it someday. Like, when I’m not busy procrastinating about other things.

Anyway, with all of the updates happening on my blog this week, I thought I’d check my website statistics, which I try to do every so often. I noticed that my site has gotten a few hits this week from someone looking for my sister’s name, which I thought was sort of odd. Then I remembered that she has a first date tonight. I told her she should find out if her date has been e-stalking her, and apparently he has. So um, hi, my sister’s date! I don’t think you’ll find anything incriminating here (or anywhere, for that matter – she’s pretty good at covering her tracks), but if you want to read something nice about her, here you go.

As for other really weird phrases that brought people to my blog, I bring you now the top 10 list of my personal favorites:

1) itchy red bumps on chest
See?!?!! I KNEW it!! And even worse still…

2) bumps on my lower neck hairline that itch
Dude, seriously? I cannot help you. Get yourself to a dermatologist. Stat.

3) fast times at ridgemont high phoebe cates song when she gets out of the water song
Now, don’t even get me started on this guy’s syntax, or the fact that he uses “song” twice in his search phrase. And I tried to look this up myself, but honestly, I’ve seen the movie all the way from beginning to end a grand total of maybe once, so I have no idea what song is playing during that scene.

4) roaming gnome complaints
For people who really don’t like Travel0city commercials?

5) are dog ate neosporin pain relief
I think this person means “our”, not “are”. Although the spelling makes me think of a certain co-worker of Sally’s who shall remain nameless. Regardless, I think a phone call to your vet, or maybe even poison control, might be in order here.

6) vanna white
Why?

7) large teenie butts
This cracks me up, seeing as how the words large and teenie seem somewhat contradictory. And also because my cat Teenie has a rather large posterior herself. Which she loves to have scratched. Often. Actually, it seems as though lots of people who are clearly looking for porn put the word “teenie” in their search phrase. I have no idea why, and I’d honestly prefer to not think about it too long.

8) exploding sheep pictures
The hell? There are some seriously twisted people out there.

9) spilled eyebrow wax
Ouch.

10) nerdy southern geeks
Welcome to my website, friend.

flowers?

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I think I’m sort of digging the daisy theme (which, credit where its due, I got from here). The red theme had problems with fonts showing up too small in some browsers, and the blue one was pretty, but it just didn’t grab me as much as this one. I don’t know, is it too girly?