December 2007
48 posts
1 tag
Dec 29th
vacation.
here in the snow! like 2 feet of it! so tired. the house is beautiful. 5 bedrooms and big. fun layout (reversed) and everybody has their own bathroom. pics or something funner to come soon-ish.
Dec 28th
Portland area gets a rare white Christmas →
“The National Weather Service says the chance of a white Christmas in Portland is less than 1 percent. The last time the city got measurable snowfall during the holiday was 1937.” it sorta makes me sad. snow not all that far away but not here! :( pretty much if i want snow for christmas i have to be somewhere else. but i’m going to the snow on vacation in a few days!! woohoo....
Dec 26th
Dec 25th
Queen E-lizabeth launches on YouTube →
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
WatchWatch
[fake-o commercial from saturday night live] testing out hulu. funness. [invites here. but hurry up…as of right now there are only 1900 left. thanks to dawn and jake for the link.]
Dec 20th
“We need parents to turn off the television and instill in our children a sense...”
– Barack Obama (via squashed & fuddmain)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
“The stuff in our life must be arranged, cleaned, moved … it takes up the space...”
– Zen Habits - Wake up
Dec 20th
sick
stomach flu-ish. uck. yuck. still need to get a few things accomplished today though. feeling a little bit better now than i was last night.
Dec 19th
Christmas card arrives 93 years late →
Dec 18th
“I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to...”
– Condescending Phrases (thanks cowboyo) terrible but hilarious!
Dec 18th
email & me (if it's pressing, just call please)
me: i kinda hate email. have i ever told you that?
my mom: no, i thought you loved email! you don't?
me: no, i kinda hate it. it's pretty much a necessity for me but i don't really like it. [example] if you want me to respond within, like, an hour, [or even a day] email is not the best way to reach me.
my mom: me too. that's why i stopped using my email. you should tell people you are only going to check it once a week.
me: or once a day.
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
Dec 17th
Dec 15th
re: comments
I like this approach and it is the better way to address “commenting” on the web, but, it sets the “usability” threshold very high. I love my content and I love my readers (all 10 of them) but the point of this personal broadcast is for who I am to be accessible to the widest range. Maybe, somewhere down the road, when teaching the “Internet” in schools is adjusted and it is common practice to...
Dec 15th
Dec 15th
tumblr Channel: Project 365
I’ve started a Project 365 tumblr channel… — sunluvr anybody want an invite?
Dec 14th
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my shiny teeth and me
i needed to use up flexible benefits money (pre-tax health care $ already taken out my pay check) by the end of the year so i made my hubby and me dentist appointments. i hadn’t been in like, uh, 4 years or something. i was sure they were gonna find a cavity and lecture me on flossing. no cavities!!! woohoo! oh yeah. told me my teeth were beautiful. ::grin:: and of course that i should...
Dec 14th
Ask the readers: Inexpensive gifts to improve your... →
love all the cheap gift ideas…
Dec 14th
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Me, online
I’m a work-from-home-mostly mom of an almost 7-year-old boy and a 2 year old little girl and a new baby girl born in June of 2011, married to my high school sweetheart, living & loving life. Ways to stalk me get in contact with me… » Email: chat [at] aleeshka.com » Twitter » Facebook (ask me) » Archive » RSS
Dec 11th
“i’m not geeky enough to be a true geek, but i’m definitely geekier...”
– me (today, while talking to a friend).
Dec 11th
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i decided to do a custom domain name
and it set me back like $10.19. :) funness. maybe i’ll get a hosting plan someday soon so i can actually do other things with it too.
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
Antisocial networking →
Adam Greenfield on the inherent badness of large scale social networking services. — thatguyben quite interesting. but the article writer really needs to change his background or font color or something. eh. i hate reading small white letters on black. or maybe that is just my pet-peeve.
Dec 10th
E! News - Scott Baio: No Longer 45...or Single →
Dec 10th
rss
i’ve always like the idea of rss and all that. had readers. desktop. online. but uhhh, never really used them. or at least never used them consistently. but i’ve actually been reading feeds since i started using flock. finally convient enough. or fun enough.
Dec 9th
2nd time this guy has tried to "get to know me"...
guy: hi
guy: r u there
me: do i know you?
guy: idon't no but if u like we can get to know each other
guy: oki
me: sorry. i'm married
guy: oki
guy: no problem
Dec 9th
Holiday Party Excuse Generator →
— sunluvr haha. :)
Dec 9th
p.s. -
going to a (family) christmas party in a little bit. excited for yummmmmy food. gotta remember to bring my camera. && we are doing the walk-through-bethlehem again. which is basically this church that re-creates the town of bethelem as it was when Jesus was born. you walk through it. there are camels and everything. they try to make it as authentic as possible. it is cool. but i’ve...
Dec 8th
153 mph wind speed
that’s what the wind speed ended up being - 153 mph. wow! ummm, i guess that is why so many people lost their roofs and their was so much damage. i just got a myspace message asking if we had a chainsaw and could help with an aquaintance’s aunt and uncle who had 4 huge trees down in their yard and 1 through their house. (answer is yes) last i heard, 13 people died in oregon and...
Dec 8th
Jack McClellan's USA Girl Love →
this is so disgusting - an open self-proclaimed pedophile. this guy is back in portland again according to the newspaper. he details local events involving young girls on his website. uck.
Dec 8th
confession
i’m in love with flock. ::sigh:: it’s so pretty. like a glamorous version of firefox. and i love all the built-in features and the fact that you can use FF plug-ins and grease monkey scripts still.
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
Study: Excessive Consumption of Sugary Drinks... →
Dec 7th
storm summary/so glad to be getting back to normal
[some of my pics here] it was a big storm (120 mph wind) but we are all okay. :) i can’t believe it but finally things are almost back to normal. we got power again today!!! woohoo. and our phones and cell phones started working again yesterday. i have never felt so disconnected. days without 911 working even or the ability to make or receive a phone call to/from [town 5 miles away] or...
Dec 6th
WatchWatch
night before the winds were 120 mph. this video is the morning after. winds weren’t quite as much but still big gusts 100+ mph for the rest of the day.
Dec 6th
Dec 6th
back (on generator)
friend: hi!!!!!!!!!!!!
friend: you have power and internet????
friend: i was worried about you
me: hey!!! no. no power but i have a generator now!!!
me: and the internet is up!
friend: oh???
me: and the phones finally work
friend: yay for internet
me: woohooo
friend: i knew it was bad cause you hadn't been online
Dec 6th
winds over 115 mph at my house →
“Pacific Ocean waves are expected to peak at 45 to 50 feet.” they closed the bar and anyone stupid enough to go out in the ocean during the storm will not be rescued by the coastguard. hopefully nobody is that stupid.  this is the beginning of crabbing season but everybody we know that is crabbing has come in cause of the storm. “Winds over coastal water and at exposed beaches...
Dec 2nd
Like A Hurricane →
“December starts off with a bang, as the National Weather Service in Portland issued its first-ever hurricane force wind warning today.” The Oregonian
Dec 2nd
Dec 2nd
getting my fix
getting my internet fix. another big storm is supposed to hit. tonight i think. but the strongest winds will be tomorrow. i thought we already had our big storm for the year but this one is supposed to have gusts of 100 mph so we’ll see if it’s as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be. they actually are using the term “hurricane force winds” this time which is...
Dec 1st