Metablogging: September 2003 Archives

martha stewart living easy chicken parmiagiana (uh, have you tried here?)

Greg Popcak brother (oh no, not this again)

rerum novarum shortened version (Owners, pay a just wage. Workers, save your money and don't get envious and greedy. How's that?)

clomid catholic teaching (It's permitted. More info in our links.)

in maryland is it illegal to spank a child (not yet.)

homeschooling three year old won't sit still (perhaps because he's three?)

lady elaine scary (Peony begs to differ)

popcak NFP (why not go here?)

linsday lohan lyrics

lindsay lohan homeschooled

sahm with friend jealousy

rhubarb crisp recipes (hope we could help)

lizzie maguire the movie spoilers

lizzie maguire shoes

puerto rican food pasteles banana cornmeal

what do jamaicans eat on a daily basis

hispanic and mouthwash

bulldog swimming tee shirts designs

lyrics "little voice inside my head" boys of summer

"veggie tales" eggplant

depressed overweight middle aged housewives (ummmm....should we be scared you found us?)

renting kids inflatable entertainment in St Louis

fancy older kids clothing dressy

rubbermaid composter

seamstresses that sew modest clothes

mothers manual Francis Coomes (hope we could help.)

Billy Joel excommunication

authentic pastele recipe

calories "deep fried oreo" (if you have to ask, perhaps you can't afford them?)

catholic homeschool blog (this is the place! Check out Ellyn's and MLynn's blogs, too)

granola (glad to be of assistance)

clifford the big red dog/ritter

michigan assistance programs for single parent

RC, our benefactor and guide, brought the archives over last night so now we're all moved in! We'll be indexing the archives as we have time.

The old site is still up, with comments and archive links, for any who are interested.

I am so loving stblogs.org (especially when I have to go back over to the old blog and see that it's still not loading correctly!) Stblogs.org truly is a neighborhood as well as a domain (and if that domain's a kingdom, I want to be Lady Elaine!)

Thanks to everyone who's helped us get the new place running.

I still want to figure out how to link the category at the end of each post to the archives, and I still need to bring the Blogger archives over. But otherwise I think I have our template more or less the way we want it. Any suggestions? Is the type big enough?

I think I have the idea behind CSS, but when I make my changes and rebuild I'm not always seeing the changes reflected on the blog. I'm having trouble with the index template -- when I was using Blogger that template used tables, but I don't get how the MT templates structure the page.

• I want to change the fonts on the banners: Lucida for the title and Palatino for the description. I've set the headline and the description using the stylesheets but nothing seems to be working.
• I want to stop the top box on the right from squashing into the calendars. I want it to be its own little discrete box.
• I want the posts to be over on their own side of the line instead of squooshing the sidebar.
• I want a box on the sidebar listing the categories.
• I want the category listed at the end of each post.

Later on I can go back and play with color schemes and so on. I wish I had more time to play, but between my mother-in-law's birthday and Hurricane Isabel, I simply don't have time to play.....

Thanks so much, RC, for setting this up for us!

Why can't I select and copy text from blogs using MT? It makes quoting these blogs inconvenient and printing particularly good posts impossible.

Well, I had intended to lay off the 'net for two weeks, but everyone can see I only made it for about a week before I started backsliding. It started when I was checking the net to see what the latest was on the Schiavo case.... so then I wanted to blog what I found.... then it was adding a link to our blog.... well, while I was viewing the page, why not see what some of the folks in St Blog's have been up to? So that's how my resolution crumbled.

I did get some of the things done that I wanted to do, including catching up with about three month's worth of filing (ugh). I also caught up with some of the reading that I wanted to do. (I have a bad habit of skimming three or four books at a time.) I finally got to see The Two Towers. (If Peter Jackson had to make a three-hour movie, couldn't he have filled it with events from the book instead of this made-up stuff? His treatment of Aragorn and Faramir makes me wonder if he, like so many others, was so distracted by battles and orcs and wizards that he completely missed the point of the books.) Later that weekend, I did get a chance to enjoy 30 minutes of solitude with a copy of Emma and a slice of homemade devil's food cake -- a superb literary and cultural experience.

Another reason I'd wanted to take a break was to get away from the testiness of a couple of weeks ago that seemed to be everywhere around St Blog's. A week away seemed to do the trick, and now blogging is fun again. I have a strong critical streak, and I have to work hard to keep it under control and avoid giving in to a carping, critical spirit. (My husband was only half-kidding this Sunday when he suggested that perhaps I should have a beer before we attended a particular Mass at a particular parish again. Leaving enough time to observe the Eucharistic fast, of course.)

And to our dear reader who exhorted me to have a beer during my time off: I did indeed, just for you. My husband got it for me.