Tomorrow is the 24 Hours of flickr event. I’m looking forward to this because I’m sending the last of the sick kids off for the weekend. Actually - he is much better, so he’s going to spend the weekend with his Dad. I have learned a valuable lesson with this stomach bug. The bigger the kid? The better they are at caring for themselves. Which is a good thing. But also? The bigger the mess they make. And that’s all I’ll say about that.

So - LilZ is going off to his Dad’s for a relaxing weekend taking advantage of his Nana’s HUGE garden tub. I’m going to take the opportunity to get out of the DAMN HOUSE for the day. If the weather holds out, we’ll head to my favorite outdoor spot: the Botanical Gardens. This will be an awesome outing for a day that flickr commands us to document. (And I do everything flickr tells me to.) If the weather does not hold out, we’ll head to my favorite indoor spot: My bed. And I’ll nap all day. And I’ll make MrZ photograph me in my sleep.

Here’s hoping for sunshine.

Regardless - I’m going to document the day. I have always wanted to do this type of project, and there are several groups on flickr built around the “Day in the Life Of” concept - but I’ve never had the motivation. Now I do! Now I can take my fancy camera and show you exactly how true the current tagline of my blog is: “This level of boring can only be achieved by a true professional.”

If you decide to do the same, let me know. They only want one photo from the day submitted to the group, but I’m going to add all of my photos to a set. If you do the same, leave a link so I can see what a day in YOUR life looks like. If nothing else, this task forces you to look for beauty around you: every second of the day. You’ll be surprised where you’ll find it. It may be something as mundane as your favorite coffee cup or the bottle of hand lotion next to your sink. It may be something inspirational like the face of a loved one or a marvelous work of nature. Whatever it is - you should share it. I’m going to.

Remember how I re-set up my TV Blog under Wordpress to tinker around with it? Learn the ropes of the blogging tool the cool kids are using? Well, let’s just say I’m having way too much fun with the tinkering.

(That sounds waaaay kinkier than I intended.)

Look what I did over here. I coded it so that (a) the commenter boxes alternated in colors and (b) my comment boxes have their own color different from everyone else’s. So, if you want to ever find out what fantastic commentary I add to the discussion (like, “WHEEE!”) - it will be easy to find because I’m pink! And no one else is! Just me!

I don’t know if it’s necessarily that Wordpress is better or easier, but something about it is more fun than Movable Type. It may be that it’s new and I’m bored with MT, but for right now? I’m having loads of fun. And for the first time in years, I’m entertaining the thought of switching my main blog to WP.

I mean - my own personal color! How cool is that?

Well. It looks like all of the important entries from the server crash this weekend have been recovered as have their comments which is wonderful because I really hated to lose all of the birthday wishes you all left NikkiZ. And MrZ and LilZ hated to hear me bitching about losing them for the last 5 days. Luckily I did actually have a working backup to put into place. I didn’t think I did this weekend because I thought I had deleted it (because I’m an idiot) but I was happy to see I didn’t (because sometimes there’s a break in the idiocy) and was able to replace the missing entries and comments yesterday.

I also now have my TV blog back up and running on Wordpress now, instead of Movable Type. You will probably have to re-subscribe to the feeds if you don’t see it anymore. I am very excited about this change because I’ve only used Wordpress when making designs and am looking forward to tinkering around with it as a user. If you know any good/fun/geeky plugins I should be using, let me know! I’m a little embarrassed to be using the default design (no offense to its designer, of course) but I don’t have the time right now to get the old one converted from Movable Type to Wordpress. I just wanted the site up and running since there is important television to be discussed.

Also? All comments should be accepted immediately on this site now. No more waiting for approval. This also means I no longer have to read comments on my site linking to places swearing to help me with various aspects of my sex life.

MrZ called me and told me about something rockin’ awesome he discovered. He had an image somebody gave him. They wanted to know what font it used. After failing to find it by just scrolling through various fonts, he uploaded it to www.whatthefont.com and Voila! There it was.

(He is so sexy when he gets geeky.)

I told him about how I wanted to find out what font Aveeno used on their baby products.

“It’s the same font that Target uses on their candy aisle signs.”
(Yes, I’m a geek who sees the world in terms of fonts…shut up.)

Not only did he not mock me for reserving part of my memory for Cool Fonts I See And Covet, but he actually found the answer! He captured an image of an Aveeno product and uploaded it to that site. Guess what? The font is called Wendy and it’s so cute. EEK. That is what I wish my handwriting looked like. It just screams “12-year old girl with a crush on Ricky Schroeder” - don’t you think?

I have decided this is my new favorite website. I followed the “Not quite what you want?” link and found gobs and gobs of adorable fonts. Granted - they all cost money - but still! Cuteness isn’t free, people! If you need me, I’ll be in the Starlets section. Probably drooling on my keyboard.

Fonts are hott.

This is an entry that was lost during a server crash. I was able to recover the entry itself, but not the comments. I apologize if your words of wisdom or humor were lost.

I got the shakes. Bad. I blame it on years of stimulant use in various forms. Whatever the cause, I have a really hard time taking good macro photography because everything looks blurry. Well, that was one of many things on my mind when I went to Heather Champ’s digital photography session at BlogHer. Granted, her session went a little above my head because I am SUCH a beginner photographer, but one of the handy tips I learned was to try to make use of these bean-bag tripod thingies. Only, where would I find one?

AT my mom’s house, of course!

My brother had thrown one in a package of promotional goodies he sent her a while back. I immediately stole it from her and got a chance to play around with it yesterday. Look! Non-blurry macro! And, of course, in honor of amalah - a picture of NikkiZ with it on her head.