Appearances

So what do you think? Raven realized we could host my blog on the server where he’s hosting his other stuff for just a small amount more, and since I am finding I am more into this as time goes on, rather than less, and committed to it and everything, he stayed up late last night moving everything over, and it necessitated a new theme, which is hopefully even a little more readable and eye-friendly. Trying out MarsEdit instead of ecto for composition, still not sure I like it any better. It’s a strange gift, being married to such easy fabulous tech support, since the computer skills I was so proud of before marriage have atrophied tremendously, but I’ve been saved such a multitude of headaches and he has found so many easy solutions for the...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 16, 2007 | 3 comments

Technical Difficulties…

I hate spending more time on how my blog looks than on what I have to say but I am irate that wordpress is destroying all of my paragraph breaks…  This has finally driven me to compose in ecto, but I’ve been lazy figuring out how to insert links with ecto. Final straw this morning was just going back in to add a tag on an old post and that edit including, against my will, the destruction of the carefully constructed paragraph breaks.   Going to have to call in tech support on this one, but if you’re reading this, I am doing my best!

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 15, 2007 | 3 comments

I could wait for you to find it on your own…

…but all of my writing energy went into my (sorry, a little derivative) list of fifty things you might not know about me, set up as a page off my really boring about page, and, dammit, that’s what you should read if you’re going to read something I’ve written today. If wordpress even lets me publish it. WordPress did unexpected server maintenance last night and has done funny things when I try to save this this morning. We’ll see. The exciting news is that I am typing this sitting on the new sleeper sofa that just got delivered, out in my studio, so now we are ready for people to come and stay with us. Of course, we’re still at only one bathroom. And there are six of us. So you might not want to stay for a really long...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Aug 25, 2007 | 0 comments

Sorry I disappointed you…

Regardless of my determination to disregard my blog stats, I do find the search terms entertaining, like these from the last twenty-four hours: hallmark breaking up cards 2 hire a potty rainer 1 pleasing my husband 1 chutes and ladders 1 glossy magazines are good for kids 1 and I can only imagine how disappointed these searchers must have been, because what I have to offer in any of those areas is so… limited. If, on the other hand, you want advice on firing your violin teacher, I’m your woman.

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Posted by Mara Collins on Aug 23, 2007 | 5 comments

Celebration

So enough gets said about how nothing happens in poor holday-less August. It’s strange, my kids still have two weeks of summer vacation, even though it feels like all of our friends have gone back to school. And I’m not in any rush to have them out of the house again, we’ve got our rhythms down and are happily co-existing, trying to balance the electronic media with page-time, trying to find things we all like to eat that are not peanut butter and jelly, carving out time at playgrounds after dinner when it isn’t so hot and I can sit and talk to my husband… I’ve even managed to put out of mind the encounter early in the summer with a classmate of my eight-year-old’s describing the binder with her summer studies in it, a...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Aug 21, 2007 | 1 comment

Blogging while playing scrabble…

it just isn’t happening. SO I think I should leave you with my favorite youtube video of the moment. I want a hurdy gurdy, I tell you. Except that the video of one being played badly (not this one, you’ll have to look for it yourself), oh, downright scary.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DwUqKbqIA4]

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Posted by Mara Collins on Jul 30, 2007 | 1 comment