Strange New Year

We’re getting strange start to the new year, what with the rush to hang Saddam, a national day of mourning for Ex-Prez Ford, and bombs exploding in Bangkok.  Does this bode ill for 2007?

This year’s model

Every December, along with the tree decorating & whatnot, I refresh our Door Wreath.  Last year it was heavy on pine boughs, rosemary sprigs, and raffia. 

This year, I went with ribbon:

I think it turned out rather nice.

You know what I love?

Finding gifts for my husband.  He’s both very easy to shop for and very difficult.  Easy because I know what he likes, and he’s easy to please.  Difficult because he manages to expend a lot of effort on finding unusual and unexpected gifts for me, but I have very little success in that for him.  Oh, I’ve managed it once or twice – like the antique silver cigarette case from Brighton, or the vintage leather front cardigan a few years ago, but overall, I just can’t keep up.  So it’s nice when I find something both unusual and *perfect*.  If you knew him, you’d know just how perfect.

Luckily he doesn’t read my blog.  Whew. 

A-ha

Well, obviously I figured out the blogroll.  First you put a  thingie in the whatsis, then you post in that category.  Voila!  Also, you can import blogrolls from Typepad, which is sweet.

New Blog for a New Year

So it’s not quite the New Year yet, but it’s close enough.

At my old blog (archive here), I lost my oomph.  And it got stale.  Finally, NaBloPoMo forced me to realize I was BORED and borING.  And that I wanted to move on.  BUT, I’m not totally ready to quit yet – so I’ve archived the old blog, and I’m starting (semi-)fresh here. 

WordPress Pro:  easy peasy import

WordPress Con:  how the hell do I build a blogroll?