ok, so that one didn't do it

guess I'll try this blog color scheme... I've tried a few now, and I'm just not liking 'em. I may end up going back to my cool one that I "thought" I was getting tired of! ;-)

goin' girlie

wow - my new blog scheme is rather pink, don't ya think?! We'll see how long THIS lasts!

I haven't really been doing much recently. Work, watch t.v., cuddle with my boys... that's about it. Boring, boring. lol That's why not much for blog posts.

Well, I guess I shouldn't say life is all that boring. I'm actually in the planning stages for our next cruise. Or should I say next cruises. As in plural. As in more than one. :-) We already had our annual winter cruise booked, but then we saw that prices were dropping, and the price for the cruise right after ours was really good... and we couldn't resist! We're taking an 8 day and a 6 day cruise on Carnival Freedom, one right after the other. It's what they call back-to-back. Same ship, same cabin even!! We don't even have to move our stuff out of the cabin "between" cruises. The ports are different each week, one week is Eastern Caribbean and the other is Western Carib. So this is basically a 14 day cruise - omg!! I am SO excited, you just wouldn't believe. I love cruising so much, I wish I could just live on a cruise ship.

Anyway, most of the ports we've already been to, except Antigua and Tortola (we went to its neighbor Virgin Gorda). But there are so many things to see and do in most places that this is totally ok. Maybe this year we'll actually make it over to St John when we're at St Thomas! - that would basically make that a new port as well. Jamaica has a new tourist attraction that we think we'll do - if so I'll get my "new thing for the year" done and over early in the year again. When we were in the Caymans previously, our entire excursion was water-based, snorkeling and going to stingray city. So this time, we'll tour on land. ALWAYS love Key West - so no problem stopping there again - we can walk around, take the trolley.

so yay! I love to cruise and I have 14 days to look forward to.... :-D

let it snow,

let it snow, let it snow...

But not much, just a dusting please.

Can you believe?! - snow already?! Less than two weeks ago the temps were in the 70s; we actually had at least one high record day. And now... snow. I have a feeling it's going to be a rough winter.

who's that hottie?!

roflmao

This blondie ain't so blonde no mo'.
And dang, every time I try to go dark, it goes red too.
What up with that?!

go VOTE

The U.S. is a democracy... it is our right and responsibility to vote...

happy election day 2008!

blog followers

in general...

Something cool that blogger added a few months ago - it is possible to become a "follower" of someone else's blog. The absolutely best reason to me for this - blogger creates a Reading List of all the blogs that I follow - and any updates to any of those blogs are listed in my dashboard (look in the top right corner of your blogger Manage Posts screen when you're logged in). So I no longer have to go to every single blog I like to see if there were updates. I just goto my dashboard screen and see the list of who updated when, and I can click on a link right there to goto the new update.

For more info, see the blogger pages on Followers and on Reading List. This rocks!

I have to hand it to blogger. When I started using their service in 2005, it was very UN-user friendly. Adding a picture at the top or sidebar was tough - I literally had to learn to do it in html. Making any change was very manual, including things as minor as adding another item to a list in a sidebar, or even having something in the sidebar - again had to do it in html. UG horrible!! But now... omg... now it has become super easy to do these things. And I'm really loving this new feature.

yes, it's all about the small things in life. ;-)