From House Wife To Film Maker

Gasp!  Horror!! The “please excuse us while we change” sign that I had up to tell the world that I was working on my soon to be launched web site wasn’t up!  What happened?  Thought we checked that?  Well it’s fixed now.

Coldness is setting in so I bought a new blanket today.  At?  Where else Wal-mart.  It’s brilliant white.  I laundered it and when I opened the dryer it was like freshly falling Christmas snow.  I felt like a kid as I laughed, cupped my hands and scooped mountains of it from the lint catcher, gathered it from around the door, and chased it through the air.  Much funner than the real thing!  Too bad snow wasn’t like that.

Tags, located on side bars with random words scattered throughout.
Tags, the list of words that appear above my posts.
Tags, give search engines a way to find sites.

Well!  These seemingly boring, do nothing, I thought they were just there for search engines to use and wondered why they even needed to be on a site, do more than that.  Today I:
1) Learned: You can click on them to search the for information pertaining to the word on a web site/blog. Who knew?!
2) Put this together: They’re totally handy to scan when you’re checking out someone’s blog/web site. Besides reading a couple posts, scan the tags this will help you know if you’re interested in them because they tell you the topics they discuss.
3) Discovered: Tagul.com.  Tagul is very similar to Wordle but with distinct differences.  They’re designed to be used on blogs and web pages as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. And each word/tag is “clickable”so visitors can use it for navigation.  Meaning… we just upgraded our eye candy to practical:  click the word and bam, you get a list of posts related to the word!  This is where I learned that the tags in side bars are clickable!  And, it gets better… this site allows you to customize the clouds into shapes such as: hearts, triangles…and multiple fonts can be used in one cloud.  TOOOOOOO, FUN~

The kids had Veterans Day off today.  Sarah and Grace went shopping.  Zach and Ben slept till probably the time they would have gotten off the bus had they gone to school, and Dan and Cal came with me.  I was second choice for Dan as his plans with a friend fell through.  We went to the grocery store on the way home because Dan, my gotta have milk kid remembered, “Mom, you need milk.”  Right!  While in said store what does Dan’s eyes land on??  A mini cake in the shape of a hot cocoa mug with marshmallows on top.  What is Dan’s favorite thing?  Marshmellows.  NEVER let him hold the bag when the fam is making Smores.  Well, his eyes were googling, and his breath gasping, his fingers stabbing glass, other hand was tapping Caleb’s shoulder to get his attention, never taking his eyes off the case.  Two faces turned up to look at me and in unison they said, you guessed it, “Oh mom, please!”  With such delight the Devil himself couldn’t have said no.  I walked out of that store, muttering to myself and making a mental note: keep those boys out of the bakery section from now on!  And creating excuses… Dan loves marshmallows, and they both love hot cocoa, I never buy such wild extravaganzas, why, I’m making a memory, and this will be our celebration cake for my deciding not to move.

Yummm!

Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane,
-oh and that’s not all marshmallows, most is frosting.  And yeah it was as good as it looked!

Tags: child, children, cup of hot cocoa cake, kids, school day off, tags, Tagul

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