The Wonders of Toast
Hey, now we’re getting somewhere with this whole design thing, right? I was up til the wee hours of the night (10:30) gmail chatting with Kedar and slapping up different colors and sizes and backgrounds and such. This is all pretty new to me, but I’m learning. We used this fantastic program, which opens up a sidebar on your website that contains all the style codes. You can edit and the changes you make will appear as you edit them so you can see if you like what’s going on. Once you’re all set, you simply copy the sidebar code and paste it in your blog’s template. Nothing actually gets changed until that point, so you really have the freedom to mess around.
Does everyone already know about this? It’s amazing! You put plain bread—any kind of bread at all, it doesn’t matter—right in there and it TOASTS IT! On BOTH sides! And it even dings when the “toast” is done.
If I could talk to my college self I would say, “College self: you don’t know what you want. Why not take a couple computer science classes and at least a beginning business course while you’re at it? I’m sure you can squeeze it in somewhere between advanced poetry and scuba diving. Your later self will completely appreciate the gesture, I promise. Also, while I have your attention, why not pluck your eyebrows a bit and lay off the glittery shirts?” Not that my college self would have listened. She would have written a bad short story about it and gone off to environmental science class to make fun of the visiting professor.
This weekend Tom, Jennie, Josh and I are headed to the crab cake eating competition in Baltimore to cover it all for Digest (Krista will be in China). There is talk of a party afterwards at a nearby university and while my initial reaction was one of excitement, this was quickly followed by one of gripping panic at possibly attending a college party while no longer in college. Remember those people?? I mean, it’s not a “Oh I heard you kids were having a party and I decided to stop by,” situation, but I think I’ll have to steel myself anyway. Luckily, these situations tend to involve Solo cups of beer, which have a way of helping.
You did NOT get to take scuba diving in college.
Did you?
I so did. It was awesome except that we were diving off the Puget Sound, which is silty and cold as freakin hell. But I got to see sea cucumbers. I also learned I am a terrible swimmer.
Liz, this looks so pretty!
Yay pretty blog!
Don't worry about missing computer science--95% of what you learned back then would be obsolete by now, no?
(And I confess--as scared as you were of corned beef smell, I'd be of crab cake smell...But have fun!!)
cute!!
And whatever program you linked to, I'm gonna try it out when I get home (from work, where I am now).
oh, on toast: every morning (at work) I make an AB&J (almond butter and apricot jam) sandwich. invariably, whenever the bread is in the toaster, people walk by and say "mmm, TOAST!"
Looking sharp, Liz! Great colors.
I'll have to look into this 'toast' you speak of.
I really like the new look!
Did you go to the deep fried asparagus eating contest? That one looked most intriguing. Talk about some smelly pee.
No, but didn't it look incredible! Erik "the Red" has a write up about it on his blog and there are some pics here and the winner's pics here.
How long do you think it would be smelly? Like a week?
Love the new site! And the bee! I think going to a crab cake competition would be about the quickest way of ruining crab cakes for me. I think just the stench hanging in the air would do it. Um, enjoy!
You look hot! I'm jealous!
DAMN, I was going to go to the asparagus festival but went to the Napa Valley instead! I could have been your correspondent!
Oh, I like this new color scheme a lot...classy.
And if only we could all go back to tell our college selves not to wear so many glittery shirts...and baggy pants. Our pants were so ill fitting.