Well, I am getting the hang of this WordPress thing. It’s not that different from Blogger…well in some ways it is. I’ve been working it out though.

I added some bling to my background! It was missing something. I also need to give credit for the kit I used. I think most of the things came from the same kit…and the writing for “as always…Heidi” is my own handwriting! I made a font out of it not too long ago…pretty cool, huh?

Last night…er, or early this morning I guess…I was determined to change the font size for my blog post titles as well as the page title…and then also the tabs at the top of the page…GOOD LORD! It took me forever to figure that out!

I was totally in the zone and needed to figure out how to do what I was trying to do before I could go to bed. Needless to say, i finally got it…and went to bed with the birds chirping! It will just mess me up for work next week. I did get some sleep during the day…but here I am again, tweaking away!

I think it’s just about done though.

Dreamhost was having a killer sale this past week! A WHOLE year of hosting for less than $10.00. HOW could someone pass that up? So i decided to take my blog off blogger and move it to my own domain and use WordPress.

I am working out the kinks, but I hope to have things up and running as I want them very soon.

I may also move Topaz’s blog here, but I’m not sure yet. Depends on how this move goes. All the archives are moved…and I will be putting a link at the blogger site today.

I’ve just been playing around with the settings. I don’t know CSS very well, but can generally flub my way through it.

I hope also, that I will blog a bit more. We’ll see about that.

So anyways…if you’re a follower of mine, please update your bookmarks to

http://www.peargirly.com/blog/

Thanks!

First, I’d like to show off my May desktop that I just made!! My birthday is in May (16!) and so I wanted to make it birthday themed. It’s hard to come by a nice birthday kit for some reason, but as I was searching through my scrappy kits…which, let me say I have WAY too many of…I found a CUTE birthday kit by Ellie Lash! I don’t even remember buying it! It’s perfect though.

 
I usually “feature” one or more of our animals in the desktops and this month I am featuring Malcolm, or Mooshy as he’s better known. It’s kind of a joke because he’s the cat that gives me the most trouble. I call him “Malcolm J” also…the J is for jackass. LOL And I usually don’t cut the animal out like I did here either, but I wanted to put a silly little hat on him!

Anyway, I think it turned out great! I love purple, and it can’t get much more purple than it is. All the main elements and papers are from a kit called “Birthday Joy” by Ellie Lash and the two wedding (anniversary) graphics are from a freebie kit called “Summer Wedding” by Bon Scrapatit Designs. The yellow flower and leaf are from a kit called “Wildflower” that I got on the My Scrapbook Art forum. I believe it was also a freebie for NSD.

I was really tempted to make a Twilight themed desktop with Flergs’ new kit, but my laptop desktop is of Edward Cullen already, and I thought my husband may not want to stare at Edward like I would heh, so I spared him an Edward background…for now. hehe

On to other things…

My husband was recently diagnosed with Lupus on top of everything else he has going on. In all honestly, nothing much will change…but it’s just yet another diagnosis to add to his long list.

He has not been having the greatest time with the diagnosis. I think it’s because we’ve been dealing with APS now for 4 years and this is something new. Plus for whatever reason even though Lupus and APS are similar…sister diseases even…Lupus, to me, is much scarier than APS. And it really probably isn’t. But Lupus has a huge spectrum, I don’t know…I guess it’s just another thing to deal with. Hard for me to explain.

It’s almost like, I know APS. I basically know what to expect with it. Lupus…I have no clue. Guess I’ll need to learn about it just like I did with the APS.

The other thing that is bothering me is the whole kid thing. We probably won’t have kids for sure now. I have Lupus on my side of the family. My dad’s sister had it. And now, Todd has it…the poor kids will be doomed! I don’t want to do that!! And no, I’m really not ok with that. It really bothers me. But, there are alternatives…like adoption and I actually think I’d like to foster and then adopt, or just adopt. Babies make me really nervous, so maybe we could find an older child who needs loving parents. Maybe in the future. Who knows…

The only good thing about this dx being added is that he may be able to get on some other meds that might help him. Plus, it will help when it’s time to review his disability. I just hope he gets used to it, or is able to cope with it all. He’s had a hard time with that overall. I know he tries though.

Ok enough of that Lupus stuff for now. I’m sure we will revisit this at another time.

I’m gonna wrap up with some pictures I took of our Crab Apple tree that’s out front. It’s so pretty with little white flowers on it! Plus, I was trying to practice my Macro skills! I think these ones turned out pretty well!

I like that you can see the tulips in the background of this one below…oh, and my car in the upper right! LOL

This next one is my favorite, I think! I love the shadowing and the way the sun hits the leaves! So pretty!

I may have to scrap some of these pretty pictures!

Spring has definitely sprung around here!! It’s been raining on and off, mostly on for the past week or so and our tulips have finally come up! Our little crabapple tree has little leaves and the beginnings of some white flowers as well.

It was super windy today, so this next one is a little blurrier than I’d like…but it’s still pretty!

Here’s our whole little front garden area…it needs some work and some bushes. We’ll be working on it soon!

And finally…just a fun picture of Alex who thinks that a warm Costco pizza box is the perfect spot to sit and wait while we dish out his foods!

I used actions on all of these pictures from Pioneer Woman. Right now she’s got a couple sets of actions for PhotoShop free on her blog. Click the link above and go to the end of the post for the links. They’re really wonderful! I like them a lot!

That’s all for tonight…just wanted to share some of the beautiful things popping up in our lives here!

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A little funny for Easter!! LOL

I was going to make my own graphic, but I found this one on Photobucket and I thought it was pretty cute, plus I was going to use this kit for my graphic anyways. Isn’t the bunrab just the cutest!!

Anyways, this is just a quick note to say Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates and who reads my blog.

I will write more next week and hopefully be posting some Eastery scrappy pages!

Hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow and a great week!

Last night my husband and I watched Marley & Me. We had seen it in the theatre when it was there and I read the book in 2006 when it came out. I love the story, the book is great and so is the movie. But at the same time, I hate it!! It’s SO stinking sad and my husband and I were BOTH bawling by the end credits! Not exactly what I want to be doing all of the time.

Funny thing is while I was reading the book, I couldn’t help but think of our own “Marley”, Topaz. A lot of the things that Marley did in the book/movie, Topaz has done or done something similar. My husband agrees, which just makes this movie all the more sadder for us. Actually, I’m sure a lot of people can relate to it with some dog that they’ve owned or known in their lives.

Watching that movie makes me think that our furry friends can’t be with us forever, and that we will one day have to say good bye to them. Because of Topaz’s epilepsy, his day could come sooner than we want, and actually our Onyx is already 8, so although she’s still active and acts like a puppy, she’s coming to the twilight of her life as well.

These animals come into our lives and bring us unconditional love and such joy. Everyday is different with them and they make normal boring situations funny and exciting. It’s never a dull moment at our house with this zoo running around, let me tell ya!

Anyway, I won’t be watching Marley & Me again anytime soon, but it’s a VERY good movie and more than just a “dog” movie. Definitely worth a watch!

So I just realized that I haven’t written about the release of Twilight on DVD!!!

Of course, I got it. We got our copy at Borders…the hubbs volunteered to venture out and brave the swarms of screaming girls at midnight to get me a copy. Then he hurried home so we could be up half the night watching it!

Because I’m a HUGE Twilight obsessed geek, I also pre-ordered it on iTunes so I could put the movie on my iPod and listen to it at work…hehe! AND…i got all the extras too!!! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Ugh, I make myself sick I’m so obsessed! LOL

So, I’ve watched the movie here at my desk at least 5 times and I’ve listened to it at work at least twice and watched the extras at work too…of course, on my lunch! haha I’m actually relistening to the books and am about halfway through Twilight. Whether I’ll move on to New Moon, I don’t know…I have a lot of other books to listen to.

Audible was having an AWESOME $4.95 sale not too long ago, so I bought a bunch of books. My iPod is now full of audiobookie goodness! Now to just listen to them all!

AND not ALL are even of the romantic/fantasy genre! Aren’t you proud of me? I do have a few that are of some substance! LOL I also have The Host by the same author who writes Twilight that I should actually listen to. It’s about aliens…

What else has been new in my world?

We had to start locking the Topaz up again when we leave the house. Last week he got into and ate an entire box of Quaker Raisins and Spice Oatmeal! Raisins!!! Ugh, scary stuff! Well, we took him to the vet and they induced vomiting and he wound up throwing all the raisins up. Thank God. He’s totally fine now. I swear, that dog has 9 lives! lol But, for his own safety and for our peace of mind…back to the cage he goes. He’s not thrilled about it, but it’s better this way all the way around!

He’s been seizure free for 44 days now too, which is a GREAT thing!! He bounced right back, which is awesome. Almost like the seizure never happened. And hey, if that’s how it’s gonna be, I’ll take it!

Hmm..what else…

Oh, I basically abandoned the 365 blog. I couldn’t keep up with it and I actually kept forgetting to take pictures and was spending more time “catching up” than I was actually enjoying the challenge. So I may try in May to take a photo a day the entire month…or rededicate myself to it starting in May. I want to learn how to use my camera better and spring is coming and there will be PLENTY of beautiful photo ops coming up!

And Scrapping…well, my PC wouldn’t really even let Photoshop work right for a long time, so scrapping was out of the picture. We’ve fixed that now though…so let the scrapping continue! LOL

I’ll try to update here more often as well!

Domokun cupcake army
Originally uploaded by debbiedoescakes

How cool are these cupcakey Domos????

I want them! NOW!! hehe

After all the drama with HP, my new wireless adapter came in the mail as fast as lightening! I guess they didn’t want to deal with me anymore! LOL

However, it came without instructions! Ugh! So I emailed HP again and they sent me a link with the how-to’s. I freaked out at first because I was reading the wrong page and thought I needed to take the keyboard off and some other things off to get to the adapter, but when I reread I found it was pretty simple.

So I popped the old one out, popped the new one in and have been connecting ever since!!

YEAH!!!!!

The old, bunk wireless adapter is on its way via Fedex to HP and the shiny new one is in my laptop and I just love that little blue WLAN adapter light shining up at me!