Not Everyone's Mama

I wanted something new, something shiny, something pretty, something, I don’t know, different.  I searched and searched for a WordPress magazine theme that used an image in it’s header (trust me, there aren’t many that look like what I had in my head) so I wouldn’t have to do too much coding.  I know HTML fairly well, but CSS, it confuses me just looking at it.

Found one.  Redid my header.  Installed it.  It didn’t look the way I wanted it to yet, so I spent a lot of time with my good friend Google looking up coding, how to remove borders around images (took me the longest because I kept missing the one section and it still had these borders.  Drove me crazy!), how to move things a touch, add things here, and I think I figured out that I can’t add HTML to a fading script, so if you want to check out the links in the bottom box on the front page, you’ve got to copy and paste.

Finally, it’s done.  Well, minus one of the top sections that is just a couple of pixels too high.  I need to figure out where that is in the stylesheet today.  That and I think I want to put a couple more boxes in for my posts because it looks awfully lonely with just 2 boxes on the front page.

Other that that, I love how it looks.

Besides the header, I think my favorite part is the part on the homepage that shows (right now) the blogs I read most often (check those out BTW! Love them!).  So nifty!  It would show more, but I need to figure out how to line it up better when I have a second line.

Now, I know more about coding a theme than I ever wanted to and less that I need to know to write a theme from hand.  I don’t think I really need to know that much.  Too much information might make me dangerous (as in might make me branch out into another hobby and Pato gets really tired of me finding new hobbies. He thinks the dishes should be my hobby.  Just kidding, he doesn’t really think that.)

I don’t think I’ll be redesigning my blog anytime soon again.  This round wore my brain out.

(And my categories are gone for the most part. I had to delete almost all of them or they were running down the page.  So, I’m adding tags now as I post, you can see them over on the right side in the tag cloud.)

I don’t remember if I shared what my little guy is doing.  I told you at 9 1/2 months he took his first steps.  At 10 months, he’s walking.  If there are 2 things close together (7 or 8 steps) he’ll walk from one to another to get where he needs to go.  If not, he’ll crawl.  Last night he was standing in the middle of the living room, just standing there.  I could see the wheels turning in that little head and knew he was going to try to do it without things near him to grab.  And he did.  He made it about 10 steps before falling on his butt.

Both of the girls started walking at 11 months, Jordan on his 1st birthday.  This is crazy to me that he is up walking already.

It also seems crazy that he’s going to be one in 2 months.  Time is flying by way too fast.  I miss him being an itty bitty little thing.  Ok, we all know Christiano, born at 8 lbs 15 oz, was never an itty bitty little thing, but I miss that newborn stage.  I’m up 15 times a night anyway with mr stopped sleeping through the night when he was sick last time.  If I got to sleep through the night ever, I could look back and reminisce on those sleepless nights and not miss it so much.  Oh well, he can’t not sleep through the night forever.  Someday I’ll get an uninterrupted night of sleep.

Pato is off this morning so I think we’re heading to Office Max and Best Buy to look at netbooks for the kids to replace the ones he took back.

That was funny.  Pato has a good grasp on the English language.  After almost 9 years here, he’s able to understand everything that is said to him in English (though, it’s just since he’s been with us – I say just as if almost 8 years is a short period off time – that he’s really tried learning.  He tells everyone that Jordan taught him English.)  Anyways, he doesn’t always get that there are certain ways that are better at explaining things in English when you are in public.

Mendards Lady:  Anything wrong with them?

Pato: Besides they suck?

Menards Lady: um, yes.  Anything wrong with them?

Pato: No, they just suck.

Mendards: Why?

Pato:  Because my kids can’t do anything on them.  They suck.

Ok honey. I know, I’m one to use the word sucks when I think something is horrible (I probably have some latent need to use it because it was a word that was on list of things you couldn’t say when I was growing up.), but I really try not to use the word in public to a cashier who is helping me.

He shrugs his shoulders as in oh well.  No skin off my nose.

And honestly, he doesn’t care.  That’s where Pato and I are different.  He doesn’t care what people think of him.  They either like him or they don’t.  I care too much.

It’s one of the things I love about him.  When someone upsets me, says something that hurts me, he dismisses them with a wave of his hand and says, va a la ….. la la la la la, can’t say the word he says.  It’s naughty and this is a family show here.  More or less he’s saying, they can go take a long walk off a short pier.  We don’t care what they think.

I love him.

I’ve rambled enough for today.

You have a wonderful day!

PS Did you know that Ricky Martin tweeted?  That Girl Blogs did.  I was kinda upset with myself for not knowing that because Ricky Martin was my first love, besides Joey McIntyre.  Love his music.  Live for his new cds.  How did I not know he tweeted?  Well, if you must follow him, like I must follow him, he’s @Ricky_Martin.  My life is complete now.

ETA – Changed Home Depot Lady to Menards lady to protect the innocent.  It wasn’t Home Depot that sold the “sucky” netbooks on Black Friday, it was Menard’s and I’d hate to trash my sister’s place of employment.  She’d be mad at me.  Home Depot rocks.  We love Home Depot.  Hope that made it better.

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