Monthly Archives: June 2007

*sigh*

I say again…

*sigh*

I should have known better. I really should have. My mother-in-law is a dog person and never had an indoor cat before. When she started talking about getting either a cat or dog I persuaded her to get a cat because I knew I’d end up with the pet sooner or later and a dog will not fit into our family of cats. I just didn’t know it would be this soon.

Lilly White kitty bit holes in the Old Lady’s oxygen hose so many times we all felt it was better to let her (the cat, not the Old Lady!) come live with us. We all thought we were doing the best thing by getting her a cat but truth be told it was just too much for her.

Lilly has been with us for about a week now and is settling in pretty well. She is tolerated by 2 of our 3 cats and hopefully she and the other female will learn to get along with each other too.

Although I really didn’t want another cat I’m happy to welcome Lilly into the family. I guess 4 is not much more trouble than 3. I just have to clean the litter box more often. heh

Yep, I’m a “do-follow” blogger. That means I have removed the “no-follow” tags from your URL when you post comments. I welcome comments and as long as your comment is relevant I really don’t mind that most people comment just to get a back-link. I’m happy to help! :)

However, this does not mean that I have turned my blog into a Free For All Links page. This is personal blog, it is not an advertising site. If you use your web site title or business name instead of your name (or handle) then that’s pure ol’ spam. dang. I’m going to start deleting spam comments. For goodness sakes be kind enough to use your name or handle/alias when commenting. :)

Use a name or handle/alias to comment please. Comments with a business or website name are spam and will be deleted.

I already have the domain name picked out in my mind but I won’t say what it is because I don’t want to jinx it. The kind of blog I want to have won’t be for fancy recipes or the kind of cooking you learn at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (http://www.chic.edu/career.asp). Nope, the recipes I want to write about are some of my favorite short-cut recipes – the kinds of meals you can throw together in thirty minutes to an hour and make it look like you have been slaving away in the kitchen all day.

I was thinking about naming my cooking blog The Lazy Gourmet but I’ve decided to name it something different than that now. I really like the name Quickie Chef but that one has been done to death already. I’ll get to it one day – I have too many other irons in the fire right now and can’t take on another project. Some day I will have a cooking blog though. yeppers.

BlogFollow is a cool WordPress plugin I just found. In addition to being a “do follow” blogger I will now show a snippet from your blog at the bottom of your comment. All you have to do is input your normal URL and your feed will be determined automatically.

Feel free to try it out by commenting to this (or any other) post. If you like the plugin head on over to SiteAMonth and download it for your WordPress blog.

Added note: This plugin has been disabled. I gave it a good try but it made my comments page too cluttered and messy looking. I still think it is a good idea and if there ever is a way to modify the plugin with different options I might take another look at it.

One good thing about Saturday is that I don’t have to make the daily Old Lady call *evil grin* since my husband calls her instead. My husband is in the living room watching This Old House and procrastinating about calling her so even if I don’t make the call I have to yell “CALL YOUR MOTHER!”, hehe. He needs to get up off his butt and stop fantasizing about architectural classics and come back into the real world.

I keep hoping he will see something on This Old House that he might actually want to build. I don’t think we’ll be using many architectural classics here in the trailer but it is fun to dream. :)