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If You’ve Never Blogged…

There are 3 things to know:

1 – Bloggers have good work ethics and problem-solving brains

2 – They spend a lot of time alone; it’s a solitary endeavour, blogging

3 – It’s the invisible in-between stuff that is most frustrating

If ever you see two people finding out the other also blogs, and they exchange a sort of nod, this is what they’re nodding about.

What’s the invisible in-between stuff?

Kay, let’s post a slideshow.  I need one for my new professional photos, thanks Suzy.

First, I need some software to make one. Start researching what works best with WordPress.

Looks like, of all the internet, there’s two real contenders. So choose one, download then upload the plugin, learn it, insert the code.

You might break your own site:

Back and forth between the help file, Google searches and the software. We’re over an hour by now.

Now the photos are too giant and need resizing.

They won’t open in your budget Photoshop version, so find a workaround, which no way will support batch-editing that would be ‘catching a break’, so one by one here we go…

By now you’ll likely look and feel like this.

Oh what?  YouTube has stopped working?

Set the slideshow aside, this needs to be fixed right now… (go ‘Get Info’ on Safari in your Finder and choose 32-bit, restart Safari).

Back to the slideshow… check test refresh…. check test refresh….. check test refresh….

All to post photos and talk about …. yourself.

This is what’s behind the blogs you visit, so now you have a better idea of what it takes to post whatever it is you’re looking at.

The end.

PS – don’t forget… that’s great your post is done and looking good, but if no one sees it, what’s the point?  And and aaaaannnndddd………

PPS – I lost the edited draft of this post and had to write it twice. Oh irony.

This is a homeless shelter

I don’t know… I’m a pretty meticulous girl, and I would never get white furniture.
I bet if I showed this photo to people on the other side of the world, they wouldn’t believe me that it is what it is.

I'm a Great Toronto Tour Guide

A couple members of my cycling team were in town today.

If you were to come to town, I’d take you to California Sandwiches.

When I first moved here I was hooked, no, like 4 times a week for dinner, by the end there I could eat two. I gained at least 15 pounds… I’ve got some footage somewhere of me losing it a little, “I moved to Toronto and got f*cking huge, THAT’s how it all came to be”.

That footage is from an episode you’ve never seen, and that I’ve hidden somewhere on the internet; clues coming soon.

This season will be my 3rd year having a team, and 2nd as president.  I’ll post my cycling episode at the bottom.

Then I’ll take you wherever it is you’d like to go while pointing out interesting things along the way….  this corner is one of the busiest in North America (Bay & Front)… here’s where I did my best curb hop on my bike ever… this is one of the largest carrier houses in North America.

I’m a lot of fun to drive with.

Wouldn’t that be funny if that was actually my suitcase? That set of wheels is $5000.

Two things I saw and wanted:

Candy that’s good for you… JellyBelly’s with vitamins in them COME ON.

And that’s a Jetboil… I’ve had this idea where I can feed myself very nutrionally between one of those and a Magic Bullet.

I was telling the sales guy about my idea, but he said you’re not supposed to cook inside with them, the fumes will get to you. I hadn’t thought of that at all.  They run off butane.

Hope you had a good day, too!

Just a Minute – Have the Winter Blues Too?

I know it’s coming, and still I’m surprised every year when it does. I just figure since I know of it’s impending arrival, that “seasonal affected disorder”, shouldn’t my brain just be unaffected by now? Kick out those thoughts?

Click here and here to see a city in China like the one I’m talking about; I think they’ll help you feel better.

And my go-to line is, “it could be far worse… you could be living in Rwanda, a war-torn country, looking for a bug for dinner…”.

Spring is coming, it’s darkest before the dawn and all those cliches. Stay positive!

A BFF Visit

Suzy and I have been friends for 10+ years. Here we are in December.

If you are ever my guest I will pickup supplies that look like this, then arrange them in a pleasing fashion. No I won’t cook for you.

She’s a professional photographer, also all-self-taught, and I cannot wait till you see the slideshow I’m putting together of our shoot Saturday night that we so efficiently pumped out.

She got some great ones of Casie, too.

The three of us were walking home, Suzy’s lagging behind, “what are you doing back there?” and her reply, “posting to Tumblr” and I look back and her smirk said, “two big city bloggers huh, who’s winning right now…”

Ahaha YES lady, everything is a competition isn’t it?!  We used to have a regular one called, “Whose Fridge is Cleaner”.  I usually won, but have an unfair advantage.