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Blog changes and fake pups…
August 23, 2010 19:45

I have been working hard on social networking to get visitors to my blog, I have also gotten advice on how to improve my blog from some of them. I always take constructive criticism seriously and if I feel there are some valid points - I make changes! How else can you possibly grow and develop? I have also gotten a lot of positive feedback, which I sincerely appreciate and value :-)

Besides being back at my day job and working on implementing my blog changes, I have been dealing with a dog who thinks she is pregnant. Lisen always gets like this after every heat cycle, it lasts for two months, and now she is in the last phase of her "pregnancy".

Along with loss of appetite comes constant whining and digging around to make a perfect little place for her to have her pups. She looks so sad and confused, but I know it’s perfectly normal so I just let her be.

But still, sometimes I just can't resist those eyes and simply have to give her a cuddle!

/A.L

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Anxiety
August 16, 2010 22:11

Tomorrow is my first day back to work after my vacation, and I am not looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, I love the people I work with, but the actual job…sort of sick of it. It’s just boring and undiversified. It’s fine for when you want to go to work, work and get paid, but I feel like I want more now.

All summer I’ve been working countless hours with this blog, but it‘s fun! Time just flies by and I can't wait to get up in the morning and get right back to it. I love it! But I still have a lot to do before it’s even close to how I want it. I mean the layout is fine but I still have much more to add, plus work on promoting it, which takes a lot of time.

Anyway, I probably won’t get much sleep tonight. But it is what it is, hopefully not for much longer though…

Ten hours until I'm back in that chair surveycalling...yihaa!

/A.L

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Life and widgets
August 2, 2010 21:26

I just discovered a great TV-series, Life. I first saw it when I was in Gran Canaria, but when I was going to google it later at home I just could not remember the name...Then one day when I was flipping through the channels on the tube, there it was. Yay! I've added a clip from it here.

Now on to the widgets. I have finally managed to find a website, feedity.com, where you can get a RSS-Feed button and easily add it to your website. But I wonder how many people actually subscribe to blogs and websites, hm. I'm not a big subscriber, but then again I just started becoming more active online, so what do I know. Haha.I also added a share-button instead of the meebo-bar, which was a bit "in the way"
I felt. So now anyone can share me :-)

/A.L

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Websites and herbs
August 1, 2010 18:54

Today I have spent most of the day working on this website, adding pages, updating and changing a few things.

The one break I took was to eat. As I mentioned before, I now own a few plants for the first time in my life, and they are still alive :-) Today I picked some homegrown, organic, fresh parsley and added it to my dinner, yum!

/A.L

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Like it - click on it.
July 18, 2010 23:28

I finally figured out how to add a "like-button" from facebook, yay. And it turns out people have already "clicked on it", another yay!

Today I have mainly worked on adding "music" under "thumbs up" in the menu here on my site. That took a couple hours...but it was worth it :-)

So, with regards to the big "lose-weight plan", hm. Because my aunt and her husband has been visiting my mum for a few days we have not been taking our walks...and when I called today to try and get my mum to go with me tomorrow, all I got were more excuses, grrr! She says she will go on her own but I'm sceptic...I guess I'll find out on Friday, when "the big weigh-in" take place.

I also added one thing to my bracelet today and decided to call it my "vision-bracelet", I thought of "mind-bracelet" but nah. There is a thing called "vision board", which I have, so I figured it's the same thing but you have it on your wrist instead :-)

/A.L

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I must love to torture myself...
July 13, 2010 20:04

Yet again a tropical day in Sweden. And I, yet again, went on my morning walk in this stifling heat. With me was, as usual (forced by contract), my mum and her partner. Today we also had a guest starring on our "torturewalk", my sister, yay! However, considering todays experience, I don't think she will make a second appearance anytime soon...

We walked in the forests of Rödeby, and of course, as in any forest, there are animals and BUGS! So not only is it beyond hot, but while we are walking flies keep buzzing around us all the time! Two days ago I was about half a meter from stepping on a big black snake...But regarding those flies, I don't get why the have to fly as close to the face and ears as possible, grrr! However, on a good note, I did see a qute squirrel today :-)

I have worked all day with getting up some more pictures. Check out "Photoalbum" in the menu, lots of pix from Aussieland.

And here are some pictures from our walk, and buggfighting today.

Here we all are, walking different paces.

A disgusting fly on right under my nose, blah!

/A.L

Here is the qute squirrel, a bit blurry...

Behind me Madde is running from a bee, haha.

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Feels like I'm in Africa,
July 12, 2010 20:24

because it's so HOT! I know I'm gnagging about it, but it's just so hooot! According to the temp in my car, it was + 33C at 11 o'clock this morning... I was on my way home from my walk with my mum and her partner, third day today. It's going good, but (do I need to say) it's just so hooot!

Spain won the WC, they deserved it! A few tears fell when I saw how emotional Casillas got. I had placed a bet on them, but I thought they would finish during ordinary play time, so no money for me : (

I have been working hard at getting some more stuff up on this site. Check out "i" up in the menu or simply click here.

I'll be back with some pix tomorrow, bye 4 now!

/A.L

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Still under construction, but getting there.
July 4, 2010

I have dragged out my laptop to my balcony so I can enjoy the nice weather, +30 degrees Celsius right now, while working on my site

It takes a lot longer to get this site up, probably because I want to get everything right from the beginning. Even if that means spending a day on getting my banner perfect. But I thought I might as well write about how everything is coming along, on all levels.

Not much has happened today, I took my dog for a walk. Thought I'd be a good girl and get up early (which means 9 in the morning for me) so we could take a long walk before it got too hot outside. However it was already pretty hot at that time so we could not take the route I had planned, but we were out for 45 minutes, which is always something.

No WC-soccer today...I have actually placed a couple bets on the last games. I think it's quite fun to bet on the underdogs as the winners so I always choose the team with the highest odds. It's way too boring to do what the majority of people does...haha. So when Holland beat Brazil I was a happy camper :-).

By the way - Happy fourth of July to all Americanos!

Now back to work...

Me on my balcony today.

/A.L

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