Go Pink for October! (Bullet Sunday #4)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Last year Dave from Blogography.com went Pink for October. That was the first I’ve heard of it and I thought this was a great idea. Since I wasn’t really keeping my blog up to date then, I did not participate.
This year I proudly sport a Pink for October graphic. You can get your own Pink for October graphic at the Pink for October Website
There are other ways you can support Breast Cancer Awareness such as:
- Make a Donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Buy and wear pink ribbon pins and jewelry, buy a T-Shirt (there’s also socks, hats, etc.) or just wear pink!
- Click to Give – all it takes is a simple click. The sponsors pay for mammograms. This is just too easy and you could help save someone’s life! Mammograms are one of the best early detection methods and not everyone can afford them.
- Put a magnet on your car
- Participate in the Boobie-Thon
Help spread the word!
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My Family has been on the News Twice this Week
That’s right. My family is famous! Ok, maybe not, but two members of my family were shown briefly on the news this week. Last Sunday my mom was on the news when KATU did a segment on the record turnout for the Portland Race for the Cure. As I mentioned, my mom and sister participated. And when the news crew panned the racers, there was my mom with her little pink ribbon sticker on her cheek.
Then last night we got a call that the girls’ cheerleading teams were invited to come cheer at a big game. This was somewhat last minute so we scrambled to get Melissa’s uniform ready and off we headed to the big stadium. The senior varsity cheerleading team for Kevin’s high school were there ready to teach the little girls some cheers. Then when it was game time they got to participate in everything the big girls normally do. From running out to the field to welcome the football team to cheerleading the whole first half. And let me tell you, it was freaking adorable to watch these girls cheer with the “pros”. 
It was an awesome opportunity for the younger/newer cheerleaders and I think Melissa had a blast.
KOIN did a segment on “HHS Spirit” and aired the girls doing a cheer during halftime. If you were watching the 11:00 Channel 6 News last night, you would have caught a couple glimpses of Melissa. If you didn’t catch her, here’s a small video I made earlier in the night:
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I Can Finally Shut Up About Wordpress Themes
Yes, that’s right. I’m going to shut the heck up! But… that’s because I finally found a theme I could work with and upload the little Halloween Theme I created all by myself. Well, I didn’t DRAW the images or anything. I’m not THAT talented. But I did manipulate the heck out of some images I’ve had forever. If you’re reading this via a reader, come check out my new Halloween Wordpress Theme!
I swore I’d never found something I could work with. But I finally did. This theme is based off of the Downtown Java theme created by Brian Gardner. He doesn’t know it but he’s my new hero. He even went Pink on his blog for Breast Cancer Awareness! How cool is that? (I should buy him a set of cufflinks or something).
It was simple to edit this theme to customize it to my own needs. The only thing that was missing was an archive template page. I managed to fix that by creating one myself. I did it by trial and error, and copying the code from the page template, then moving stuff around and breaking lots of stuff. (Don’t you love how techinical I am?) But it works and I can customize this theme in the future fairly simply.
Thank you Brian Gardner for creating a decent 3 column theme!
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Thursday Thirteen #7
- The current headache I have
- The person who won’t listen
- Teenagers, nuff said
- Creating my own header graphic for a Wordpress theme
- Getting everything just so only to find out the theme I’m using doesn’t support all I need
- Blogrush – the widget is way too wide making any 3 column themes I want to use impossible
- That it takes me ALL day to do my own graphics/themes
- After all my hard work, having nothing to show for it
- Dishes left on the table
- Dog farts… so nasty
- Not knowing more html/css…. I really need to learn this
- Waiting for Survivor China to start
- Kids that argue over silly things
I have a halloween theme I created all by myself (well, based off another template) all ready to go but I can’t make it work! I really wanted to kick off the Halloween Season with a Halloween Thursday Thirteen with my new theme, but it’s not going to happen tonight. Maybe next week.
Links to other Thursday Thirteens:
Briggie | Tina Kubala
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Who the heck is John Chow? And Why Would I Care?
I keep seeing this name pop up in my reader. People criticizing him, questioning his motives, or model after him. I’ve seen his name and blog show up on forums, too. Stuff like “well John Chow did ____” (fill in the blank) and people are all like “oooohhh”. The first time I read a blog about him, I figured the blog owner knew him or something. So I did some research… and I’m not getting it. Seriously, why is he such a big deal? His blog is ridiculous. There are so many ads and junk that my Norton anti virus had a cow. It’s so ad packed that I have no idea what the blog is about other than the title: “I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Money I Make Online”. It looks like a splog to me. I understand the criticism, but why would anyone want to model after him or track his moves? Anyone want to enlighten me?
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