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I am editing my blog template today -:::
Updated: My friend Eric & I *geeked out* today and it was SOOO GREAT!! Where do I begin?!?!?
Well, first I left my house first thing this morning and headed down to his place, which in itself is incredible. He lives in this sweet little place in the woods!!!! It was like a breath of fresh air to me to be surrounded by that much green, lush, foresty goodness! And he lives smack dab in the middle of it all the time! Truly gorgeous and rejuvenating.
Eric's darling friend Chrisann was over when I arrived and joined us for breakfast at the famous Alice's Restaurant! We all had a very yummy meal in a cozy little cabin type feel of their back dining room.. eating off of what are barely sturdier than paper plates, with Classic Rock playing in the background, and a stream of bikers coming into dine. Awesome. I had the really yummy "Alice's Omelet" which I highly recommend - but next time, I'm definitely trying the Huevos, as Eric got it & it looks amazing.
I had a great time meeting Chrisann. Talk about no coincidences, turns out she spent several years of her life doing wall painting and murals for individuals and health institutions like the Ronald McDonald House, etc.. so we had a LOT to talk about!!! She gave me some great ideas, advice and some serious food for thought on the more psychological/spiritual side of imagery for children. Really neat.
On the way back to Eric's we stopped off to look at this amazing old Methuselah redwood tree [info]. How old? Oh, just 1800 YEARS OLD!!! How neat is that? It's HUGE.
There's a great story [link] behind the Methuselah trees around San Francisco and how they were used to rebuild the city after the fires long ago. Why this one was never cut down is a mystery, but it's beautiful and I was so glad Eric took us there today to see it. I took some photos today, but there's no way to capture how magnificent it is. Plus, today it was really foggy and just made for such a neat experience stepping into the damp woods to see this large, mossy, ancient grandfather of the forest. But I did have fun taking photos of the moss. Moss is so cool.
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So, finally after our relaxing breakfast and trek to see a big huge beautiful tree in the misty woods - we were ready to geek out!
See, Eric works at Blogger... and I, being the long time, loyal user of Blogger :) :) have needed some serious help fixing up my blog since they implemented a bunch of crafty new tags and features. Thanks CW!! I have for a long time had this hacked up php include thing happening on my blog... and really needed to get post pages working (which makes it so that when you want to use a permalink to one of my posts - which is the link on the time stamp fyi - it now goes to it's VERY OWN PAGE!!!)... and now on those post pages, you can see the titles of my last 10 posts and everything! VERY COOL!!!
And yes, ladies & gentleman.... a redesign is in the works!!! This has gotten me totally pumped and now I can hardly wait to get on the redesign. Of course all of a sudden I'm slammed and the next 2 days I will actually hardly be on IM I have to put my head down & finish something up for a Wednesday deadline.... but maybe I'll have some time near the end of the week. Anyway - LOTS of great things now work due to Eric helping me fix things up today. Now you can see the little orange beacon RSS thingy on the Firefox window, and the meta data is all goooood. It's all good!! woohooo!
Oh! And HUGE props to the BAM tech wizard David who was on IM and I knew he'd be able to help me figure out how to make all my old permalink url's forward to the new /archive/ directory. That kid is still in high school and absolutely SLAYS me with his coding ability. I was soooo grateful for his time today xoxoox Thank you David!!! David has no bio on BAM, or I'd link to it - he's the tech/coder behind the scenes... but him & Danny also have done a ton of work on a very cool thing called: Gerpok. Check it out.
OK - so to top it all off, I have to spill that Eric gave me a Valentine's gift!! Holy moly!! I was completely surprised, and totally delighted because it's the yummiest sweetie treat from this awesome new bakery called Gâteau et Ganache. And if there is a girl in your life (or guy) lucky enough to receive some sweets from you... I have to personally recommend their 2 very first products launched for this Valentine's Day: The Raspberry Sweethearts and the Strawberry Marshmallows. YUMM!!!! Eric had me blushing... what a total surprise. :) Thank you!!! xoxoxoxox
What a day. Ok... so now I must go to bed... but you can see more photos of the day here. Oh! And please let me know if you see any wierdness on the site... be my eyes, people! :)
