- Do you ever feel like you’ve been busy, busy, busy all day long yet at the end of the day you look around only to find you’ve accomplished a whole lot of nothing? It seems I’ve been having lots of days like this lately.
- Wingnut had an especially rough time one night last week. Our yard isn’t very even so while walking around he tripped and fell, scraping his forehead on one of the pavers at the base of our deck stairs. Less than thirty minutes later he decided to dive down the deck stairs, scraping the side of his head on the pavers again plus getting a big bonk just above that. The scrapes have scabbed over and are healing nicely but the bruise is still pretty big and obvious. It was fun getting to explain all his owies to everyone at church on Sunday because they were so obvious everyone had to ask.
- For a little oversharing, I weaned Wingnut this weekend. It’s gone really well, actually. We only had two times (one at 6 am) when he cried because I wouldn’t feed him but eventually he gave in and sucked down his cup of milk. Now he happily accepts it without question. I’m still feeling a bit full but it’s getting better. In other TMI news I had my annual exam this morning. My OB is retiring in July so this was my last appointment with him. He’s very nice and I’m glad I got in before he closed up shop but it was still, you know, an annual exam with all the delightful fun that kind of appointment entails.
- When did one space after a period become acceptable? When I took typing classes it was always two spaces. Even in college, which wasn’t all that long ago, mind you, it was still two spaces. I know. I was an English major at the time. I recently read something Teeny typed up and was like, “Uh, so what’s with the single space after all the periods?” and she told me it was what she was taught in school. Wha?? When did that happen? I’ve noticed it has become the norm on things like facebook, twitter, and texts where you only have so many characters to work with but in everyday typing? Really? Is anybody else outraged by this? I also wonder if that’s the reason all my archives got all jacked up when I updated my version of WordPress a while ago. I had that weird A with a carat above it after almost every period and couldn’t figure out why and have yet to go back and fix the first two years because I’m too lazy so if you’re confused you can still check out an old post and see what I mean. Anyway, in case you couldn’t tell, this single space conspiracy is rather disturbing to me and I plan on forever continuing in my two-spaces ways.
- Wingnut has begun going through our indoor recycling can and tossing everything onto the floor. It’s awesome being constantly surrounded by trash. Thank goodness the real garbage can has a lid.
- I had to get Peanut some new sandals today because on her old ones the velcro stopped working. I know that sounds ridiculous but seriously. The grabby loops are all still grabby but it seems the softy loops have almost all broken through or something so they aren’t actually loops anymore so they no longer stay hooked to the grabby loops. Yes, I know this sounds like idiotic drivel but I found it kind of weird and annoying because Peanut’s sandals no longer stayed clasped which means they no longer stayed on her feet when she walked which means she got frustrated with them which resulted in her throwing herself in a loud, huffy, dramatic heap on the floor every few minutes. So yeah, we got Peanut some new sandals today.
- I’m going to the Casual Blogger Conference this weekend and am really excited about it. I couldn’t swing the money to go but knew they were giving away tickets all over the place several months ago and I got lucky enough to win one of them! I have no idea what I’m doing and I have a bunch of stuff I’m still trying to get through before it begins on Thursday night but I’m really looking forward to it.
- My sister, Teeny, is graduating from high school this week. It’s kind of freaking me out and making me feel old. And I’m not that old! As a graduation gift I got her a string of freshwater pearls like the ones I got for Mother’s Day. Pearls aren’t really her typical style but it’s such a classic piece I think every girl should have a string. I’m sure in the future she’ll have plenty of occasions to wear them. Yesterday she and my mom went shopping for a cedar chest and she texted me a picture of the one she chose. It’s beautiful and I think it’s cool to see the style she chose for her traditional graduation gift.
- I made homemade pizza for dinner tonight. There are very few homemade pizzas I like. And by “very few” I mean I only like mine and only this one crust recipe. Yeah, it’s a bit snobbish and I’m sure many people wouldn’t like mine (Teeny, for example, isn’t a fan but she’s also a picky eater) but I like it and ate basically half of one of the pizzas by myself tonight.
- My cousin, Aliese, compiled most of her favorite recipes into a blog so when she’s out and needs to get stuff for a recipe she can just look it up on her phone and see what she needs to pick up. I haven’t tried all the recipes on there but she has so she can stand behind them. If you’re looking for something new to make for dinner check it out. I’ve already made a list of a few new recipes I want to try.
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The second space disappeared with the advent of the online world. It does mess up your archives- electronic files don’t recognize it.
But you’re right- in keyboarding classes, they taught us two spaces. But that’s a thing of the past.
Glad Wingnut weaned so easily!
Have fun at the conference!
I think that first one is actually about me. I spent most of my day yesterday working around the house but when I finally went to bed, it was still a disaster zone. How does that happen?!
That single space thing surprises me! I understand it with txt & Twitter, but had no clue it was now being taught in school! Even in HTML classes I was taught to use two. My thumb can’t be taught to not put two spaces after each period! Weird.
I love your random posts.
I’ve NEVER been taught the whole 2 spaces after a period thing. What were my teachers thinking?!?!? 2 spaces does look nicer though. But if I were to do 2 spaces after each sentence then my thumbs would get too much of a workout and they’d probably get too buff and I wouldn’t like that.
I’m currently feeling frustrated about the spaces, now that you’ve brought it to my attention. I guess I’ll have to rebel and be old school with you, because I’m not about to change. Plus I feel that pretty much ALL of the changes that have been inflicted on the English language during my lifetime are degenerate.
1) I constantly feel busy and that things aren’t being accomplished.
2) Would you believe that in my grad school classes, we have now been told two spaces is no longer a requirement in APA formatting!?!?! Asinine, I say! I will forever use two spaces and there’s not a thing anyone can do about it.
3) I can totally understand the Velcro not working; happens to me all the time. Not with shoes, but with my carpet-ish wall at school. I use the hook-type Velcro dots on all my posters and such so that I don’t have to pull staples out of the wall. At the end of the year, after I’ve pulled them off, I have to give the wall a “hair cut” of sorts so that the Velcro will attach again the next year. Lame.
4) I can’t even believe that Teeny’s old enough to graduate. I still remember carrying her on my hip to come see you perform in Cinderella. I can’t think about getting old because it freaks me out and I don’t think a “mid-life-crisis” of sorts is exactly appropriate before I’m 30.
5) I agree that a string a pearls is classic and that every girl should have one!
6) Glad you’ve been able to find a few yummy things on the food blog (even though I totally stole some of them from you!!!).
I guess I thought I heard from somewhere that the Word programs (it was Word Perfect at the time I’m remembering from) Automatically made the space larger after a period when you pushed the space bar once. So it might be there still, we just don’t really know it
I’m in need of a good pizza crust recipe, you should post it!
It was good to see you again, HSF! Hope you had a fun time at the CBC.
I’m so behind on reading/commenting… LOVED teeny’s hair for prom… peanuts story about the rock chip brought a tear to my eye… I should print my blog someday… that jam looks YUMMY… wait wait wait, the crown is back? For good? Did I miss something? LOL… and yeah, how goes that gardening now?
LOVED meeting you dear and LOVE ur precious little card.