Monthly Archives: August 2008

the playing card test

10 Sunday Aug 2008

Posted by in quizzes

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What Your Playing Cards Tell About Your Future


Right now you are facing some major difficulties, especially in the financial arena.

Your emotions are currently tied to changes in your home. You may be receiving a visitor soon or changing your address.

A close friend who you’ve lost contact is ready to reconnect with you. And this new relationship is likely to be romantic in nature.

The near future will involve an important message. This message will arrive via a letter, email, package, or gift.

Beware of petty arguments and quarrels. Don’t fight with your friends or family over trivial matters.

~ swiped from raincoaster ~

discovering the cosmos

09 Saturday Aug 2008

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, health & happiness, life stuff

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I’m coming to the end of my chemo-free week off the meds. My plan had been to do something special every day and make the most of it. And now here it is Saturday and it’s hard to remember anything I’ve done that was special in itself. But today while I was walking around with Peter drinking an icy cold granizado de limón I realised that just being able to do that was the special thing, just like how last night we went out for a scoop of Häagan Dazs ice cream (at the new HD shop that has recently opened just five minutes from my house). When I think about how next week it’ll be back to drinking 40º room temperature water I am sooooo enjoying every icy cold minute I can.

And so tonight I’m making frozen cosmopolitans . . . 🙂

watermarks

07 Thursday Aug 2008

Posted by in blogging, photos

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A couple of days ago I came across a kind of travel/lifestyle website and saw that someone had uploaded some photos from my tapas blog without crediting them or linking back. Which reminded me of something I’ve been thinking of doing for awhile now, which is to start watermarking my photos.

I’ve been looking around for some free (or cheap) watermarking tools or software. The one shown above is a free online watermark tool but, although I can watermark photos in batches with it, afterwards I have to copy each photo to my computer individually, which is a lot of work. Especially as I want to replace ALL the pics on my tapa blog with watermarked ones.

Any suggestions?

twittering

06 Wednesday Aug 2008

Posted by in internet, media

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Back in May 2007 //engtech somehow got me started on Twitter. So I set up my page there but never used it because I wasn’t sure what to do with it.

Then I recently noticed that other blog buddies Lori and raincoaster were also ‘twittering’ so I had another look at it today … and I still can’t figure it out. As in, what it’s for. Is there really any point to it?

Maybe I just need more friends on my list?

it’s sunny’s birthday!

05 Tuesday Aug 2008

Posted by in animals & pets, birthdays, love

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15 years old today

It’s hard to believe Sunny was ever that small (or that I was ever that thin!) but that’s me and my little sunny bunny in my apartment in Salamanca, not long after he was born. Of course these days he is 7 kilos of lurve that still loves sitting on my lap. He also walks like he’s got a bit of arthritis in his back legs, has to take daily meds for his kidneys and has trouble jumping up onto the bed. But he still has the biggest most beautiful blue eyes and remains my darling boy. It’s amazing to think we’ve spent a whole fifteen years together and I hope we’ll have several more to enjoy.

You can see a few pics of my ‘baby bear’ below. . .

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