Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
by Tricia
I’m sitting in my living room watching TV and typing away on the laptop and I can hear a sound … it sounds like a motor it’s so regular … it’s my husband snoring!
It took me a while to figure out what the noise was, but that’s it. He’s snoring.
My husband has sleep apnea and he’s supposed to be wearing a cpap mask while he sleeps. He must have pulled it off again …
Sounds like there’s a bear upstairs. I’d better get him to put on his mask before he wakes up the dog!
by Tricia
Over the last few days I’ve spent a good portion of my time updating all of my blogs. All of the new ones – the hush hush ones – have been updated to WP 2.3.3. It was easy to do because I was able to use Fantasico in my web hosting C-Panel to do it.
Now I have to update all of the blogs on this domain! Argh … I’ve moved those blogs to new web hosts twice in the last year and the last time was a manual update so this time round all the blogs will have to be manual updated too. It’s ok to do one or two manually, but when you have seven or eight that need to be upgraded manually it’s a pain in the butt! By the time I’m done I’ll be the WordPress upgrading queen! (17 blogs later!)
I’d also been having trouble on all my blogs when I’d try to save or publish a new post. A few months ago I had some kind of conflict occur when I upgraded my bad behavior plugin and the Google Sitemaps plugin on the same day. Ever since then I’d always get an error message when I saved or published a post. The posts were published but I’d have to check to be sure. It was a pain! I didn’t realize it but it was also messing up the do follow tags on my sites too. So there was a conflict between three plugins!
Luckily I discovered that there was yet another new Bad Behavior plugin update as well as a new Google XML sitemaps plugin. I updated those two plugins and refreshed my permalinks and TADA everything works right again!
Now I just hope that I don’t have any problems with my wordpress themes when I upgrade the sites on Feverishthoughts.com to the most recent WP upgrade. I think all my blogs on this domain are using 2.2.1 so it’ll be a big upgrade. If you drop by and notice that one of my feverishthoughts blogs is sporting a new very plain bare bones theme then you’ll know something strange happened when I updated the platform. It will only be temporary.
Once all that is done I can get back to work on the new blogs. One is a home and garden blog that will discuss mostly home type topics (my gardening blog will go back to mainly gardening!) such as decor, interior decorating, great recipes, tips for around the home and so on. The other blog is a shopping blog where I’ll talk about fashion trends, cosmetics, new home decor designs – who knows I’m sure I’ll even talk about platform beds on one or both!
Working on those two sites has inspired me again. I’m full of ideas and of course every time I find something cool to write about I also want to go out and buy it. I’ll be unveiling these new blogs shortly and I really hope that you like them. I’m trying to keep it fun, interesting and of course full of helpful information.
Have any of you updated your sites recently? Did it go well?
Anyone start any new blogs too? What is your new blog about? Are you being re-inspired as well?
by Tricia
Last night there was a show on TV called Canine Confidential. It was all about pampered dogs, dog fashions, how entrepreneurs are cashing in on the dog craze, and how dogs are being used in services such as the army. It was pretty good. If you’re interested, visit the site above to learn more about the show.
Of course we also watched Survivor and Lost too.
I had taped the show and we watched it late in the evening. Our puppy was getting tired and she curled up with her head resting on my leg and watched most of the show. We catch her watching TV quite often – especially if there’s animals in the show! (she also likes cartoons and hockey.)
Every once in a while Midnight would walk up to the TV for a closer look and then she’d wander around the room, pace by the door … it was as if she was looking for all the dogs she saw on the screen. I wish we’d thought of pulling out the video camera because it was kind of funny.
Does your dog or cat watch TV? What kind of shows attract your pets attention?
by Tricia
I was just babbling on my other blog about how I need a holiday and soon! The weathers been so bad here this winter … I even think our snowy week managed to knock me out on Wednesday as I had a terrible migraine all day.
So … a holiday … Maybe we’ll take another trip to Las Vegas. We had a lot of fun when we were there last November. We’re a little short on funds this time round though so I’ll have to try to find a great deal or some cheap hotel Las Vegas if I can.
Ok I’m obviously still suffering from my migraine … they tend to make me talk funny and I guess type funny. I meant cheap Las Vegas hotels of course.
Do you have any suggestions for a hotel that won’t cost too much but that’s also nice and on the strip? We stayed in the Imperial Palace last time and I don’t want to stay there again.
by Tricia
I think my puppy is going to have to have a bare bones crate for a while.
She’s at the end of her teething and she’s gotten back into chewing everything in sight. Her chewing had slowed down for a while, but now she’s back to ripping things up again.
We have a bed for her in her crate but we’ve found that if we keep her in her crate for any period of time during the day she starts to bite her doggy bed so we remove it during the day. It goes back in at night as she doesn’t seem to bother it through the night but during the day’s a different story.
We also have a towel in her crate. It softens the noise of her pacing around in the crate or the noise she makes when she’s playing with her toy bones and other toys. Well, she’s in the crate now and she’s chewing like mad on her towel. I guess we’ll have to take that out all the time now too.
I feel bad for her. I want to make her more comfortable by giving her soft things to lie on when she’s in there but she keeps destroying things.
I sure hope she moves out of this chewing phase sometime soon!