Tricia's Musings

Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto



You are here: Home / Archives for Great sites and products

Sick House

by

Chris came home from work yesterday with an upset stomach. He just felt off all evening. I had a feeling that he wouldn’t be feeling well today and as it turns out he went to work, but returned only two hours after he’d started.

It looks like he’s got the flu. He’s just crashed on the couch and our puppy is jumping on him like he’s a mini trampoline. Poor guy!

So far I don’t seem to have any symptoms, but my Crohn’s is acting up today (what else is new!) so I’m not feeling quite up to par either. I hope I don’t get the flu as that just makes my Crohn’s even worse.

This evening we’re supposed to go to our Intermediate dog training class at Petsmart, but at this point I don’t know if we’ll be going. I hate missing classes as it seems like a waste of money even though our dog trainer is more than happy to set aside some time after class to catch us up on what we’ve missed.

Anyone else have the flu running through their house?





Finding new themes for my blogs

by

The other night I spent the whole evening trying to find new WordPress blog themes for a few of my sites.

One of my sites has a really nice theme that I like, but when visitors using IE come by and try to leave a comment they have to scroll over a huge empty space to reach the comment area. I’m not sure why that theme does that. It looks great in all the other major browsers, but has that one problem in Internet explorer.

I’m supposed to be having a new theme made for this blog. It should be ready by mid April according to the designer. However, I’m planning on updating this blog to the latest version of WP and I’m not sure this clunky old theme will hold up. It’s not widgetized and the sidebars are composed of tables! See I said it was old and clunky. That’s probably one of the reasons this site loads so slowly at times too. So this site might have a temporary theme until the custom theme is ready.

Have you spent any time looking for new themes or templates for your blog?

I came across some amazing layouts and I also came across some terribly bad ones too! Some templates were set up for ads and I don’t know what the designer was thinking as there are so many spots for ads that you might as well plug that sucker in and light it up like the digital signage in any big cities downtown area!

I did find some beautiful themes though. Some are of the new magazine style and the rest are three column themes. I’ve always been partial to themes with two sidebars even though I know ones with single sidebars usually look much more organized and cleaner.

Perhaps over the next few days I’ll spend some time writing up a post or two about the great WordPress themes that I discovered on my blogging and tech blogs. I haven’t been writing in either of those blogs much this year and I think a few articles about blog design and WP themes might be just the thing to kick start those blogs again. I’ll let you know when those posts are up and if you’re interested in finding some great WP themes you can pop over for a visit.

Beautiful Chicago building

by

Grab the Photo Hunt code.
Photo Theme. Visit participants.

This weeks theme is Metal

In August of 2007 my husband and I drove to Chicago for a weekend visit with my brother-in-law. Given how long it takes to get to Chicago from Toronto we really only had one full day to see some of the great Chicago sites. I’d never been there before and I wanted to see as much as I could.

As we strolled downtown I noticed the Carson Pirie Scott department store.

DSC00889

The store had the most beautiful ornate metal filigree that I think I’ve ever seen on a building. It was just a gorgeous site to see.

DSC00894

Unfortunately the store was slated to close. I do hope that the city of Chicago managed to preserve this beautiful building.

I really enjoyed my visit to Chicago. I found that it’s quite a lot like Toronto and I hope to visit the great city again sometime soon, perhaps this summer. Of course if we drive that distance back and forth again I think we’ll either have to rent a vehicle or get a new car. I’m not sure ours will make that trip one more time! Oh that reminds me … I’ve to look up some rates for auto insurance online as I think it’s time to find better rates.

I wish I hadn’t woken up this morning …

by

My husband had an early shift at the hospital today. He was supposed to get up about about 5:15 in order to get ready for his shift. Lucky for him I woke up at about 6:20 a.m. and realized that he hadn’t gotten up yet!

As I was waking him up I realized that I was in horrible pain. The lower right side of my abdomen was just killing me. The was, and still is, similar to what I think a cross between appendicitis and a kidney stone feels like. Still … Chris had to get ready for work so as he went off to take a shower and shave I got his breakfast ready for him.

Aren’t I good wifey? In total pain and still taking care of my man. Uh huh – just a typical woman probably.

Chris went off to work and I settled on the couch with the puppy. Poor Midnight ended up spending more time in her crate today than out though since my pain continued all day. Lucky for me it did get a little bit better, but I had fevers at least four times so far today.

I spent most of the day on the couch watching TV, and surfing on the computer, browsing through a furniture catalog to get ideas for some posts on one of my other sites and trying on and off to sleep.

So I think I only had three hours sleep last night and so far only 10 minutes sleep during the day at about 3:30 – just before Chris came back home from work.

It’s a good thing I got up early for Chris sake, but bad for mine … I’d much rather have spent my day sleeping rather than in horrible pain.

Man I hate having Crohns.

I’m a post-a-holic – Stop me!

by

Oh my gosh. I think after this I’m going to turn off my laptop and not turn it back on again until sometime tomorrow.

I’ve done something like 22 or 24 posts today on many of my blogs and my fingers are about ready to fall off. My wrists too!

I’ve been in the kitchen for the last 45 minutes to an hour getting our late dinner ready. I made homemade spaghetti sauce and of course spaghetti. The sauce needs just a little longer to blend and then we’ll sit down for a very late meal.

It’s a good thing Chris has tomorrow off since he’s going to be up later than normal thanks to me being behind on dinner.

I’m just starving too!

So much for updating the WP version on all the Feverishthoughts blogs today huh? Tomorrow …

I have a fantastic post coming up for you. I’ll be auto-publishing it at 6 a.m. Try to remember to come back as it will be worth it. It’s something totally unbelievable!

Ok. I’m slowly backing away from the computer now …

Meta

Search this site

Tags

blog blogs camera Canada Chris computer crohns dinner dog Family flower flowers Food friends funny garden Gardening Green Thumb Sunday Health and Fitness Health Fitness and Beauty holiday home Home and Lifestyle house husband IBD Inflammatory bowel disease Internet Music neighbors pain photo photos plants puppy Shopping sick sleep spring Toronto TV Video visit website Wordless Wednesday