6 posts tagged “projects”

Life has been pretty busy for the last couple of weeks, and especially so for the last week.  Jo's grandmother passed away last Wednesday and her funeral was this past Saturday.  Naturally we were all sad but we were all lucky enough to get to say goodbyes and she was able to do the same since she was still in the right "state of mind" days before her passing.  We all know she was at peace and that is certainly helping with all of our healing.

I have been busy working on a couple of new projects, some that will not launch for a few weeks but one is already up and running - eyetakepictures.com which is my daily photoblog.  My primary goal for this blog is to take and post at least one picture everyday.  That may not seem difficult for most people but I have tried this in the past and it can turned into quite the task.  Here's hoping though.  I'm going to give it a try.

*clears throat*.. Can I get a drum roll please? Introducing Withsugarandspice.com!! I’ll be sharing my favorite recipes for many of my southern / home style dishes, as well as a variety of other dishes and desserts!

It’ll be complete with ingredient list, preparation instructions and photos from start to finish! I really hope you enjoy it! It’s going to be so much fun for me!

If you have a cooking or recipe blog and would like to do a link exchange, just leave a comment here!

So, the Calgary Flames are out of the playoffs. Yep, the Redwings won game 6 here in Calgary last night in double overtime (which was sudden death overtime). The game was pretty intense! I was really hoping we’d pull through with the win.. at least one more win but it just wasn’t meant to be! There’s always next year though!

It’s finally clearing up outside. I can barely see the mountains, so I’m hoping within a couple of hours it will be cleared up enough that I can walk over to the park and take some shots of them and hoping to take some of the city skyline at sunset and possibly at night! We shall see!

I bought the reseller. I originally went with a different reseller provider but realized I read the description incorrectly and there wasn’t as much space with it as I’d thought. So I went with Resellerzoom! I’ve read some great reviews on them, so I’m hoping things work out nicely! I purchased the domain for the group photography blog, it’s a domain me and Stacey had before called “photographygirls”(dot com). That is why it’s for “girls/women” only! Get it?! lol

I will also be moving this domain to that account, to give Nicole her space back.. I cannot thank you enough for hosting me the last couple of months. I haven’t had a single bit of downtime, to my knowledge! I couldn’t have asked for a better host! :]

I really need to figure out some ideas for 365 days. I’ve got a few brewing right now.. but it’s going to take some warmer weather to do them.. haha! If you have a flickr account, add me! herbrokentoy via flickr.

I’m going to scat now! Just wanted to give a quick update!

Edit; How neat! My 365 days photo for today - day 5 made it into “Explore” on flickr!!! I went to make my little “poster” thingie and noticed I had 3 other photos that made it into Explore and I didn’t even know it! haha!

I have the most horrible kink in my neck right now! It’s so bad, you can literally feel the knot and see the swelling! I’m also coming down with a bit of a cold, which is probably from going from warmer temperatures to much colder ones with rain and snow showers!

I didn’t sleep well at all last night! I was so stuffy and congested and for some reason, having some crazy dreams! The first dream was weird! It was like in real time, like I was in bed with Jo beside me and the cats sleeping between us. At some point, I tossed and turned so much that I was upside down on the bed. Like, my head at Jo’s feet! I kept getting short of breath during the dream and waking up to find my head, locked between Jo’s legs. LOL! How crazy! It happened several times throughout the dream before my mom appeared and rescued me from the mean grip of Jo’s legs! I did wake up once gasping for breath! It’s amazing how dreams have that kind of effect on a person! I know I’ve woken up from emotional dreams in the past, where I’d been crying and my eyes were filled with tears! Weird!

Tonight is game 4 between the Calgary Flames and the Detroit Red Wings! I hope the Flames play like they did Tuesday night! Like I said, it was an awesome game! I hope we come out with another win!

So, I purchased my reseller along with a photography blog domain, as Stacey mentioned I should! It’ll be for girls (or should I say women lol) only, which is mostly due to the name I purchased! If you’re interested in joining, let me know here or by emailing me at herbrokentoy [at] shaw.ca! I’m thinking of having no more than 7 people join for now, so besides me and Stacey, there’s 5 slots open!

I need to find a “working” plugin for flickr. The couple that I’ve tried just aren’t working, it’s driving me nuts! Guess I’ll keep looking and keep trying!

Go Flames, Go!!!!!!

Flames won game 3, 3 - 2!!! Man, talk about a good game! That first period was awesome! Heck, the whole game was just one huge adrenaline rush!!! My absolute favorite player, Jarome Iginla scored his first playoff goal! I felt like I was watching the team of 2004! When the Flames scored the first goal of the game, some of our neighbors were on their balconies cheering and you could hear people honking their horns! Finally!!!!!! I hope this has set the momentum for Thursday’s game, game 4! Yay, yay! I cannot wipe this smile off of my face!!

So, as mentioned, I had been thinking of doing the PPP thing. My blog was approved but now I’m having second thoughts, at least for this blog. I’m considering doing it from my livejournal, possibly (if that’s allowed?). I don’t know. I don’t really want to break SS.com from being a personal space and I feel like if I do the PPP thing, I’ll lose that personal blog feeling. I think that’s why I’m so frustrated today! I’ve noticed a lot of webmasters/webmistresses are, to me, losing sight of their personal blogs because they’re so crowded with PPP entries and I’ve noticed a huge lack in their personal interactions with other bloggers and those who comment on their sites. I don’t want to lose that, even though comments are becoming few and far between these days (which could be from my lack of updating because of my move or because they’re too involved in making money from their blogs, they no longer have time for the interactions). We’ll see how I feel in a few days.

I’m going to be purchasing a reseller account, hopefully tomorrow, and will begin my side project (blogging about my life here in Calgary). As per Stacey, I’m going to also attempt a group photography blog. As this is set up, I’ll get with anyone who may be interested in participating. I’m thinking of doing weekly themes, to keep it fresh and challenging!

There was something else I was going to blog about but I’ve lost my train of thought, I’m getting sleepy for some reason. That’s weird, considering I went to bed around 10:30pm (Mountain time) and woke up at 11am. Man, did I ever feel lazy this morning! All I wanted to do was laze around in bed all day! That didn’t happen though, since we had some errands to run and shopping to do!

It looks like we’re in for more snow over the next couple of days! Ick. I love to look at it and it, for the most part, doesn’t bother me but it’s a pest to drive in! Thankfully, the grocery shopping has been done for the next couple of weeks, errands have been run and really, we shouldn’t need to be “out and about” during the snowy/rainy weather!

I really need to get some pictures of the apartment and post them! I don’t have any yet but I do have a photo, courtesy of my 365 days photo for today! You can see my lovely floors!

I think that’s about it for now!

So, the other morning after Jo heads into work, I decided I would treat myself to Tim Horton’s. Made my regular order, which included my beloved Iced Capp. They ask me to pull to the window for my total and once it’s tallied, it pops onto the little outside display. The display showed $6.66!! How creepy! If I didn’t love my Iced Capp so much, I would’ve sped away! hahaha!

Speaking of ordering! Can you imagine the troubles I have when speaking to people and ordering! I have to repeat my orders at least 3 or 4 times before the person taking it realizes what I’m ordering!! And the other night we decided to order some individual pizzas, wings and bread sticks from Pizza 73 (which is so delicious by the way) and the guy taking my order just simply couldn’t understand me when I gave him my address! I said it 3 times, the last 2 times being loud and slow! Then he asked me to just spell it out, which I did! He repeated it back to me and I said “No (insert my giggle-fit), it’s blah blah blah!”.. so he read it back to me again, laughing a bit and I said “No, that still isn’t it! I’m sorry if I’m making this hard on you, I’m from Georgia and we speak in a much slower pace and have funny accents!”.. We laughed for a bit and eventually, we got it right! It’s often frustrating for me, so I can only imagine how it is for the person on the other end of the conversation! I cannot help that my accent seems so harsh up here! lol!

I’ve been toying with some ideas for a project I want to start! For myself. I’ve discussed doing it as a group thing at one point, with a few friends and I’ll eventually do that as well! For now, however, I am thinking of starting another blog which will, for the most part, pertain to my life in the city of Calgary (and surrounding locations like Banff, Lake Louise and Drumheller)! I’ll document events I may attend (concerts, hockey games and what not), document experiences at restaurants or resorts (like when Jo finally takes me to places like Banff), places I may venture out to like galleries or parks. Things like that! I’ll include photos with my posts, on most occasions! I plan on exploring this city for the next few months, just getting a feel of things and figured I should document the process! If it goes well and others become interested, I may turn it into a group thing, where users/members can document their own lives, in their own cities!

Yay, nay?

I’m also considering starting a home business! It’s something I’d been thinking about for quite awhile and even spoke to my mom about a few times! My lovely friend Jess runs a small candle business from her home and she is the biggest inspiration in my “idea” and “plan”. I’d like to start up something along the lines of doing gift baskets! Make my own candles, stationary (though I’ll have somethings to figure out with that), greeting cards (maybe post cards), possibly jewelery (this is a stretch, but it’s worth mentioning because it’s bouncing around in my thoughts) and also baked goods, if I can figure out the best way to keep those goods (cookies and candies) fresh. I suppose on the baked goods, it would just be based on the order and not premade (that wouldn’t work lol), so that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out! I have always enjoyed baking and over the last few months, I’ve gotten really good (so I’m told)!

On a completely different note, I started over on my 365 Days, which you can keep up with at my Flickr page! I hated that I had to quit in the latter part of last year but I knew that I’d eventually start back up! I figured it was about time I did just that! I’m hoping to get some inspiration from some of my pals that have been doing this since I began the first time! Hopefully I’ll get more creative with time!

We’re doing a “date” day tomorrow! Jo’s off from work and we’ve decided we’re going to do “dinner and a movie”, by feasting on Singapore Sam’s (which I love, even though I was told I was eating crab meat the first time I ate there.. only to find out it was Calamari!! aka, SQUID! ewww) and then we’re going to catch 300, if it’s still playing!

We have a few errands to run as well! We need to set up a separate bank account, that I can use with my paypal and what not, which will be completely separate (different bank as well) from our primary accounts! Then we have to run to a few stores to pick up a few things, like a new office chair! My behine is going to be so thankful to get into a much comfier chair! I’m hoping the weather is going to be nice too, I’d like to take a walk when we get back from doing everything! I’m thinking of brining my camera along for the walk and possibly get some shots of the mountains from our area!

I think for now though, I’m going to catch up on a few blogs and emails! Then I’m going to dry my hair and hit the sack!