New Shabby Blog Background

Well Shabby blogs got a new server and I had to "update the code" for my background. While I was at it I thought I would try a new background. There are so many marvelous designs to choose from! I'm not sure this one is a keeper, but I'll try it for a week or so. It was much, much easier to apply the background this time than when I first did it a year or so ago. Now all you have to do is copy the code and paste it into the HTML/JavaScript box under "Add a Gadget"! The only hitch I experienced was that at first the new background would not appear. I had to first "remove" the old code in the HTML/JavaScript box. Try it, you'll like it! Shabby Blogs.

The woman who is Ms Shabby Blog writes quite hilariously. I would love to meet her. Here's an example of her writing-- just in case you have not become acquainted:

I don't see my background at ShabbyBlogs.com anymore! What gives?
You're sitting down, right? Take a deeeeeeep breath. Okay. Some of our very early designs have been...retired. Eeeek!

and

"Shabby Blogs has switched to a new server so you need to be a dear and update your code."

Two Colbert snippets

Okay, so I can't resist posting these hilarious clips from the Colbert Report. The first one is about a tea-partier who wants to re segregate schools in Wake County North Carolina (racial and economic re-segregation) so that the problems of poor schools will be more apparent. I kid you not: Disintegration

The second one is about Sarah Palin Fatigue. Does the media really have to play every clip of her comments? Super hilarious.

After Christmas Deals

We have a snowman Christmas decoration we put on our table each year. It is made of wood, and the arms are stretched straight out. On the arms, I hang candy canes. When the kids were younger they devoured the candy canes with great gusto, and every year after Christmas I would load up on the 25-cent & 50-cent after-Christmas boxes.

Do you know what happens to sugar after it sits for several years? It begins to liquify. And my kids assure me it is not particularly tasty either. So this year, I swore off buying after-Christmas candy canes. Plus, I boldly tossed out all the old boxes I could find. I did not quite hold to my resolution. How could I resist candy canes that have porcelain ornaments of the Toy Story characters? And for only 50-cents!

Also, I couldn't resist the 75%-off chocolate cupcake truffles (see pic above). I ate one of the "truffles" on my way home from the store. "Mmm," I thought. "Pretty good--I think." I wasn't really expecting 95-cent Walmart truffles to taste very good, so I thought I had better eat another one, just to make sure. This time it reminded me of something, but I couldn't quite place it. Then it hit me, Crisco! "Surely not!" So I ate one more just to check, and, well, it really wasn't that bad. And on it went. Anyway, they were only bite-sized.

Don't you love the little after-Christmas-clearance candle decoration above? The star caught fire shortly after I took that picture, and I am looking for some fire retardant paint.