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Custom plurk theme

Melissa — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:11:47 +0000

I’ve been wanting to make a custom theme for my plurk for quite some time and I’ve finally done it.

It isn’t ‘perfect’ but it’s different and it’s me so I like it. I especially like the big floating island that seems to appear to be coming out of my plurk timeline.

For those who are curious, here’s what it looks like (click images to view full size):

Background image:

Full design (on a 1024×768 resolution):

Comments and critiques are welcome. I’d love to have some feedback on this!

Leashes & Harnesses oh my my!

Melissa — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:05:42 +0000

I took Spook out on his leash earlier tonight (tech. last night). As expected he was freaked out and dying to go back inside the apartment.

He LITERALLY sprawled out flat in the grass, looked up and me and made the most pathetic little meow I’ve heard from him yet.

I think it’s going to take some practice to get him to like it. He’s just a wussy pussy. In fact, ‘wussy pussy’ is one of his nick names!

I also took Mello out on her leash. Unlike Spook she LOVES going out on the leash. We walked all the way around the apartment building with periodic stops for her to pounce on random, unsuspecting buggies.

There was one patch of crickets hanging around the light post that sits underneath my bedroom window. She went pounce crazy then, hopping and leaping and swatting every-which-a-way.

I love my kitties, and I hate that they can’t go outside so this is the alternative. Little harnesses with leashes. Mello has a pink one that has bones, kitties and paw prints on it and Spook has a black one that sports moons and stars.

Of course, they also have the balcony to hang out on, so that’s good at least. I love getting new stuff for them. As if they need it.. I’ve already built them a fort and they have their own toy box because I’ve gotten them shit-loads of toys and on top of that they love to steal my nieces toys.. socks, hair ties, q-tips, etc.

Damned lil thieves! *shakes fist*

Ah.. but I love them so! -^_^=

So many things have happened…

Melissa — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:12:04 +0000

Wow… I haven’t blogged in so long I don’t even know where to begin. So many things have happened and so much has changed that I’m not sure if I can fit it all into a single post. So I reckon I’ll just have to pick the most important events/happenings and call it a day.

1) My social anxiety is next to zilch thanks to a change of medication. Pristiq + Propranolol (beta blocker) = no social anxiety, which totally kicks ass because I’m having a great time living my life for the first time in 26 years.

2) Nanny had a stroke a little over a month ago. She’s still wheelchair bound but she’s determined and a fighter so I have all faith that she’ll recover with time.

So far her recovery has been speedy. She can pick up her left leg, move her left arm a little bit (she still has a long way to go with that) and her speech is near perfect when she has her teeth in.

As for what I’ve been doing… random shit. Mostly visiting Nanny, hanging out with friends, sun-bathing and swimming along with lots of job application filling out.

I’m so tired of seeing those forms but I want a job badly and need one at that but my social anxiety has made it harder to get hired as I’ve never had a job because of it… but that won’t stop me from trying!

Basically I’m just living my life, having fun and taking care of my Nanny who is THE most important person in my life. She pretty much raised me and she’s the ONLY one in my family that treats me like a human being instead of a verbal punching bag. I hate seeing her so distraught and… trapped. I wish that I could take her place but I can’t and that’s what kills me the most…

No matter how much I help and visit I can’t take away her sadness or fix her situation but I have to remind myself that she’s a fighter and she WILL pull through this.

So as you can see I’m still alive. Very much so. I’ll try to get my postings back on track but I make no guarantees as I never know when I’ll be on the computer long enough to actually type a post out. But I figured I’d at least let you know that I’m alive and well.

I miss you guys and I highly appreciate all of you who still support me. In times like this I can use all the support I can get, so thank you for sticking with me, even if I am a sucky blogger *hugs*

Still Breathing I’m still alive so don’t worry. I’m just not in...

Still Breathing

Melissa — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:23:18 +0000

I’m still alive so don’t worry. I’m just not in a good frame of mind. If it ever decides to co-operate with me again I’ll post the things I want to but for now you’ll just have to be happy knowing that I’m still breathing.

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Spook [Flickr]

comotized — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:56:06 PDT

comotized posted a photo:

i always wanted a black kitty and here she is!

Friends... or Enemys? [Flickr]

comotized — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:55:06 PDT

comotized posted a photo:

Spook and Mello in a stare-down contest.. they're friends now though :D

Busted [Flickr]

comotized — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:53:47 PDT

comotized posted a photo:

Mello caught playing with my niece's balloon

me [Flickr]

comotized — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:51:32 PDT

comotized posted a photo:

more handmade earrings.

me [Flickr]

comotized — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:50:41 PDT

comotized posted a photo:

taco face

me [Flickr]

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new haircut

Fiber One Yogurt Winners

Melissa — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:38:11 +0000

Congratulations to Mendifae, Jes and Alba Guevara!

You guys will all be receiving the Fit & Healthy Weight Management gift pack from Fiber One Yogurt!

An email will be sent out shortly to collect addresses for shipment.

Again, congratulations! I hope you enjoy your free yogurt and gift packs as much as I enjoy mine

Next Giveaway: Wanchai Ferry Frozen Entree & Chinese dinnerware set ~ stay tuned!

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Free Fiber One Yogurt & Gift Pack

Melissa — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:53:21 +0000

Yoplait’s Fiber One Yogurt is a creamy nonfat yogurt packing 50 calories, 5 grams of fiber and 0 grams of fat into each 4oz serving.

Each cup contains fiber equivalent to 20 percent of the recommended daily value and is a good source of calcium and vitamins A and D.

A perfect snack for dieters, people watching their weight, people who need extra fiber in their diet or anyone who loves yogurt but would prefer to lower the calorie count of their cups.

Fiber One Yogurt comes in Strawberry, Peach, Vanilla and Key Lime Pie flavors that have the same delicious taste you expect from Yoplait. You won’t even notice the difference!

If you’d like to try Fiber One Yogurt for yourself I have gift packs like the one pictured above to hand out to three lucky commenters.

The gift pack comes with an insulated two compartment lunch box, 22 ounce cup w/lid, divided bowl w/lid, a coupon for a free four pack of Fiber One yogurt and two multipurpose eating utensils (spoon, fork & knife all in one).

Alternatively you can click here for a free $1.00 coupon.

• Fiber One information, product & gift packs provided by: My BlogSpark. Winners will be contacted via email on August 29th.

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The quickest way to lose Plurk fans & friends

Melissa — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:06:33 +0000

The quickest and most efficient way to ditch most, if not all, of your plurk friends & fans is to…

*insert drumroll here*

*smack a cymbal here*

*stub your toe & poke your eye out here*

….

Use private plurks to tell us “good morning” or that your goldfish ‘fluffy’, may he rest in watery peace, has kicked the proverbial bucket and you *gasps* flushed him down the potty.

Unless it’s a secret or some juicy tidbit of breaking news that you only want your near and dear to read…

Don’t fucking spam my timeline with your bullshit non-private content filled, private plurks.

You’d think that this would be common sense but it’s a never-ending, new-age, plague that has us ‘normal’ plurkers ripping our hair out at the roots.. provided we have hair that is, I’m fully aware that bald plurkers exist, I shant exclude you.

Another quick way to lose your fans and friends on plurk.. or anywhere else for that matter, is to plurk, tweet, facebase, mybook, goggledegook the shortest, stupidest snippets you find around the web and expect us to give a damn.

We don’t care if you just ate a cracker. We don’t care if you have runny farts leaking out of your underpants to seep down to your ankles in a semi-opaque chocolaty smear. We don’t care that your spinach is green (no shit Sherlock!) and we do NOT care when, where or if you pluck out your nose hair.

Talking about eating a cracker is fine but you better put more than that. That godforsaken cracker better have teeth and bite back. If we’re lucky it’ll gnaw the tips of your fingers off so you can’t fucking type about it!

And for god’s sake, would you people realize that you don’t need to post a lolcat photo to us every 2.5 seconds?! They aren’t even that fucking funny! That goes for all images and videos. You think you’re sharing when in reality you’re just pissing the rest of us off because our fingers are getting too much of a workout muting your ass.

Mute, mute, mute. I am the mute-o-nator, hear me roar!… or at least read about it in this blog post.

Just in case you’re one of the superturds that pull these stunts, I’mma lay it out in a simple list for ya. Spell this shit out so maybe, just maybe you / they will take the hint and KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!

Superturd Breakdown:

Only use private plurks when a message needs to be private.
Don’t post useless snippets. ‘I just ate a cracker’ should be: ‘i just ate a ___ blank ___ cracker, it was delicious, have ya’ll tried them?!’
Don’t abuse the post button. Sharing is caring but it’s murder when you post photos & videos every 2.5 seconds.
Quit spamming our timelines!

*snickers* evil lil bastids….

[/end rant]

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New & old content – a few updates

Melissa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:47:14 +0000

You can’t see it by looking at the dates on the front page, but Comotized has been updated quite a few times recently.

Most of the updates were small edits such as code edits and spell checking but some are a tad bit more obvious with content moving from the linkware pages to the freebies pages.

Website icons are now direct downloadable again. It appears people have no idea what emailing is *cough*lazyasses*cough*.

A set of wordpress themes and color swatches have mysteriously landed on page 2 of said freebies section and vector illustrations have been squished and tidied up so you don’t have to scroll forever and a day to view them all. Just load the page & click, sooo much easier and they still save the same way so don’t worry about the squishy thumbnail appearance.

I’ve also started working on my quilting bee quilt so I can rejoin the bee but it appears the I’m myquilt admin retarded. The design is done but I have a ways to go before I can officially rejoin… Click the tiny bee in the footer to view the new design, it’s total bee*ownage baby!

I think those are all the updates that are ‘seeable’ but I piddle around so much I can’t be 100% sure. I can tell you that there are a few new illustrations to view and use such as happy cigarettes, hobo spiders, female monkeys and whatnot.. random stuff as per usual.

Next on my list is fixing up the blank buttons and blank banners. After that I have no idea what I’ll be fixing or creating but I’m sure I’ll get into something.

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Skillet white beans, spinach & tomatoes over linguine

Melissa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:47:13 +0000

An easy to make, healthy, high in calcium, great for the taste buds recipe for skillet cooked white beans, spinach and tomatoes over linguine noodles.

Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients:

2 tsp olive oil
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
2 cans diced tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano (do not drain)
» I use tomato paste because I hate diced tomatoes so don’t be afraid to alternate with the type of tomato product you like best!
1 can any white beans (I use Great Northern or Navy usually)
1 package fresh spinach
6 cups cooked linguine
6 Tablespoons Romano or Parmesan cheese (grated)

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet.
2. In a separate pan start boiling water for linguine and get linguine cooked while you continue.
3. Add garlic, saute for a minute or so.
4. Add tomatoes and beans and bring to a boil.
5. Cover with spinach, top with lid, reduce heat to low and simmer about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally.
6. Spoon tomato/beans/spinach mixture over linguine and sprinkle with cheese.

This makes 6 servings of 1 cup of pasta, 1 cup of sauce and 1 tablespoon of cheese.

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Feedburner: subscriber growth not what it seems

Melissa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:12:48 +0000

I, like so many others, was vastly overjoyed when I saw a nice jump in my feedburner subscriber count.

Sadly, it appears that these new subscribers are really just people who’ve followed us on friendfeed.

While I don’t discredit their subscription on friendfeed (every person counts!) it really isn’t valid to place them into our feedburner count as these people didn’t click an RSS button on our site/s to sign on for our feeds.

Not to mention friendfeed is more of a social network than anything and most users return follow anyone who follows them… I know I’m guilty of doing that so have no doubts that others do as well.

Hopefully google fixes this issue soon because it really is an issue.

I want to know how many people sign up for my RSS feed; not how many people sign up for my RSS feed AND how many people follow me on friendfriend mashed into a group pile.

I like my statistics simple, please revert and give me my correct numbers again. *shakes fist*

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