I really don’t know what else to say about it.  It is laughable how long it took me seeing as it wasn’t all that complicated.  In my defense though it was my first ever crochet project, and it was with a bulky yarn that kept getting caught up on my hook.  Really frustrating, but sooooo worth it cause it is a super soft and drapably heavy blanket. I also changed the dimensions that were in the pattern, he’s a tall guy and the afghan seemed entirely too small for him.  So three years in the making here it is… Continue »

I LOVE to read!  A good book can seperate me from the rest of the world for weeks.  On top of that I love to share what I’m reading and talk with others about what they thought.  I have been looking for a way to easily display a list of the books I’m reading for a while now. There are plugins that can connect your WordPress blog to any number of social networking site.   I can display what music I’m listening to, articles from my friends blogs, everything I tweet, and plenty more.  The only thing I could not find was a plugin to import a list of books from Goodreads. For about a year now I’ve been telling myself I’m going to just do it myself, and I’ve finally done it.

WordPress Goodreads Bookshelf  Plugin

Bookshelf allows you to display a custom list of books from your Goodreads shelves anywhere on your site that PHP is allowed.   If you want to try it out read on…

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Does this means we have the makings of a little sidewalk artiste.

Just enjoying a snack so pretty under the rain clouds as they wait to burst.

So your riding in an airplane, and you decide to look out the window.  You know not to even try to get a better view of the world outside, and yet for some reason you insist on leaning in closer wishing you could just pop your head out and look around.  Everything below is moving by at a pace that is just slow enough to catch something of interest, but fast enough that it leaves your little tiny window much too fast.  Well I’ve had my glasses for one year now, and this is exactly how I feel every time I wear them.  I must say I can’t stand them. 

Don’t get me wrong it’s nice to be able to see clearly.  I just can’t stand the constant feeling that I am always looking through a window that is entirely too small to get the whole picture.  There are actually times I feel like I’m trying to lean closer so I can get a better view.  All of this makes my eyes tired, because after a year of wearing them my brain still hasn’t learned how to compensate.  I have never gotten use to the frames being in my view, and they are so uncomfortable.  When I cook they get foggy, and I am constantly having to clean them.  I can’t stand it when I get the tiniest bit of dust on them.  On top of all that, now whenever I meet someone else who wears glasses, if I notice that their glasses are dirty it drives me BONKERS.

I have to go in soon and get my eyes checked again (I guess I’m suppose to go in yearly now?).  Even though I can’t bear the idea of having to touch my eye all the time I will deffinately be looking into getting contacts this time.  I have been putting drops in my eyes constantly now so I am getting a little more used to having things near my eyes and I don’t freak out so bad (for some reason ever since I got glasses my eyes get irritated even easier).  My husband wants me to get Lasik, but I’m not sure if I’m there yet.  We can start by shoving a piece of plastic in my eye everyday first, if that works out then maybe I will consider Lasik.  In the future!  I just really hope this “airplane window” syndrome is not the same with contacts.