I need help with some stuff. Mootiful is kinda driving me mad. Yesterday I uploaded my 90th cow! (excluding things like 'moovies' cows etc) I still have another 50+ suggestions to draw along with the cafepress/html/javascript back end of them all :( I think mootiful needs to change but don't really know how. It's popularity is slowly growing, sales are increasing etc but it is still taking up way too much time considering the feebly small profit. It is definately more a hobby than a living. and at the moment I need to be making more of a living than just drawing cows. :( Not sure what to do with it...
Anyway... the phone line now works! yay! (3 days later!!!!) and so does the Internet. I spoke to someone t'other side of world and realised that i'd end up having to fix the issue myself when the technical woman had no idea what she was doing. I realised it was all looking grim when I was told by her to try visiting www.bbc.co.uk!!! eh?... how could that have possibly helped me? Anyway, following my coughing down the phone and resetting a few things means I now have a speed of 'extra nippy broadband'. Yay!
If any blog readers fancy helping out with tut cows, let me know. (understanding of html required) :)
In closing, I have been told by Cath that my blog is depressing and It sounds like I am being measured for my coffin (geddit? coffin - coughing?)
anyway. soz all :) normal service will resume shortly and i'll perk up soon :D
Monday 15 December 2008
cows etc...
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Saturday 13 December 2008
this week...
I have been feeling soo awful. I still don't really understand how bronchitis can make you sooo ill... anyway, I'm drooped on the sofa today, Cath is away for the weekend, the kids are out today. So I have just turned into an emotional wreck, disapointd in my inability to do anything more challenging than breathing (and I have lots of stuff i need to do). Yesterday my internet and phone account was supposed to be swithching to TalkTalk. All that has happened is the phoneline is today dead and wierldy my internet is still working fine ?? If I was able to I would be presently be shouting at TalkTalk, but how can you complain about a phone line that isn't working? I CAN'T CALL ANYONE!
As a result I am today an isolated, sickly, emotional runt of a creature. Longing for some company but unable to be any company... Meh...
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Friday 12 December 2008
this week...
... is dedicated to Corvonia, Amoxycilin, Vitamin C and the foot tappingly catchy film Hairspray:
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Wednesday 10 December 2008
yep...
it's bronchitis :(
a week of antibiotics should fix me up! :)
Until then I guess it's loose women!
i feel rough...
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The doctor is 'In'...
I have an appointment today with a Dr Fang! amazing! hopefully he can give me something as I am running out of body parts to cough up :(
I feel like I have been mauled by a thousand badgers :( I need sleep...
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Tuesday 9 December 2008
I still feel yuk...
...but I had a bath this evening and now feel more human :) I have no idea how much vitamin c I have consumed in the last 24 hours? lots I am sure.
Anyway appart from feeling as rough as a badgers bum we now have Sky back in the household! (even though there is nothing on to watch???). I have a new mobile! yay! (My motorola L6 was never the same after I sat on it and it bent like a banana :( ) Now I have a slinky sony ericson W580i :D and also changed my network from Orange to O2 and can now get calls when I am at home! :) When I see you all next ask me for the new number as it would cost a small fortune to text everybody.
Today alone we (Jon and I) sold three things on cafepress! so am well happy with that. we also broke the 100 fans mark on Facebook! My Dad is also helping cath and I paint the hallway (even though I am no use whatsoever feeling like this).
All in all a good day :D
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amazingly...
i'm ill :(
I couldn't possibly be ill in work time could I? nope... I wait until I am having a week off :(
argh!
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Saturday 6 December 2008
thats' stupid...
If you hate what I did with the title of this post then avoid my brothers blog at http://comeandmuse.blogspot.com/ - It will make you angry, but comment on his blog anyway as he is a humble traffic warden and will like the attention! :D
I'm going to visit him and Pippa today! yay! woohoo! yip yip!
Posted by starinajar at 9:35 am 1 comments
Thursday 4 December 2008
WOW...
Amazon now sell top 20 albums for £3! yes £3. and the advantage over iTunes is that you can use any mp3 player to play the tracks.
Go here to look!
Amazing! I'll never buy another cd again!
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Monday 1 December 2008
minus 4.5 degrees...
that's what it was when I got into the car this morning :( chilly! I have changed the blog theme into the winter version as I am pretty certain that we are now in winter :) yay! frosty crunchy grass, visible breath, red cheeks, stary nights and soon it is Christmas! woo hoo!
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Monday 24 November 2008
well worth a watch...
Last week my wife made me sit down and watch 'Outnumbered' A sitcom on BBC1. All I can say is that it is very funny, and if you dont laugh you are probably dead :D Watch it here!
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Labels: TV
Friday 21 November 2008
argh!...
courtesy? does it still exist? or is it now uncool to say 'thankyou'?
o.k. rant over :D
Posted by starinajar at 4:06 pm 2 comments
today...
I'm feeling quite low and antisocial :( my self esteem feels beaten up. no particular reason. I just feel like that from time to time. I need to do something that I can mark as an achievement, but as Jon is off ill I cant publish a new cow (camooflage) on lifeismootiful as I need him to do his usual text bits :(
This weekend I am planning on making sock pigs! I'll post up some pics on monday if I do. My Where's Wally stuff arived today too! cool! well done Vicky!
ttfn!
Posted by starinajar at 10:57 am 4 comments
Thursday 20 November 2008
beaver etiquette...
Thanks to Jon today for his gift to me of a beaver! (oddly holding a marshmallow on a stick). Since my gift to him of a wind-up beaver, he saw a need to return one (as is polite in such cases). He also has a beaver hand puppet on his desk! I can't really compete with that :( (thankfully to be honest)
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Sunday 16 November 2008
a lick of paint...
Hello blog readers! You may have (well I hope you have) noticed a bit of a change in the design! Us designers change our designs as often as we change our underwear (*Realises it has been several months since the last change* (Of design that is, NOT underwear)). Anyway, I am trying out a new thing that means the design should change depending in the time of day! Cool eh? well it should look like the following:
Autumn Day
Autumn Night
Winter Day
And Winter Night
There is a bug at the moment (As in it doesn't work) But i'll fix that soon! ttfn
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Labels: design
Monday 10 November 2008
umm... I'm not convinced...
This Friday is the money raising event Children in Need. A well established annual fundraising evening that provides much needed money for Children in the U.K. Their mascot is a bear called Pudsey!
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Friday 7 November 2008
Cake wrecks...
My fav blog I love looking at at the moment has to be Cake wrecks! It is inspiring and hillarious. All of the cakes are 'Professionaly' made ones:
From the amazing: (Garfield is amazing!)
To the astounding! like this Dalek cake...
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if at first...
If at first you don't succeed ask your wife to buy you an electric whisk for Christmas! The conversation went something like this:
Me: "Cath... For christmas can I have an electric mixer?"
Cath: "What about the one we already have?"
Me: "Eh?"
Cath: "Your sister bought you one for your last birthday."
Me: "She did? Oops."
Well, having then got the Mixer out of the cupboard I tried again with the cakes and success!
Pic coming soon!
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my latest creation...
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Labels: creations, sock animals
Tuesday 4 November 2008
today...
Having taken a bit of an emotional beating of late. I have decided to make small targets and goals to get myself going again.
Well tonight I made chocolate muffins. But not muffins as you think because I dont have a muffin tray :( and I had to use regular cake sized paper thingys. But they contained tasty chocolate :) ...
sadly they sunk :(
... but did taste good in a chocolate gooo way. Catherine adds squirty cream on hers! She describes them as "Moist, chocolatey, cake like" and has just realised and commented that they are also not muffins like I intended the to be.
Yay for melted chocolate, squirty cream, sugar rushes and a good reason to try again and make more!
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Friday 3 October 2008
Sunday 21 September 2008
dusting off the cobwebs...
I don't know if I have any readers of this blog anymore. I doubt it. Which is fair enough considering I haven't written anything for an age.
I never knew how exposed you became with a blog until one day it all dawned on me and I guess that is why I stopped blogging. The last poem here was posted just after my wife an I lost our second baby. Earlier this year we said a prayer for our third. (It is strange - the thought of saying a prayer when you question a God who can allow such things to happen, but I do not wish to travel that road here, that is a road I must travel on my own)...
... When I opened up Blogger I just fancied posting something and to be honest I thought that I would have wanted to ramble about more things... so much has happened in the last year; cows, sockmonkey's, design etc. But I have just read through things I previously wrote and don't really fancy it. Maybe another time
But you can't always choose your path in life. sometimes you just have to keep on walking though. I originally wrote this post (the bit in italics) a couple of months ago but never made it this far and just saved it as a draft. Today I guess I am feeling little more bold, have slightly more energy, and a small smile on my face. So with a loving wife at my side and good friends close at hand, I continue.
I'm not giving up.
Posted by starinajar at 5:20 pm 3 comments
Thursday 27 March 2008
I've not fallen off the planet...
This is where I am lurking at the moment...
Click here to drop on by for a visit!
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