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Girl Talk, and Poop

I must have looked especially haggard yesterday morning, because as soon as J woke up he announced, "I'll take over. Go sleep. NOW." (I love this man.) Knowing that the baby was in good hands with her doting father, I gathered the dog into my arms and snuggled up in bed. I took a wonderful 2-hour nap, and when I emerged from our bedroom refreshed and energized and ready to relieve J from baby duty, he assured me that everything was under control and that I should go "do my own thing." (Have I mentioned that I love him?) And so I did. Grocery shopping. Watching a couple of episodes of Veronica Mars on Netflix. Surfing the web. By the time the baby's bedtime rolled...

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Links Roundup: Super Bowl XLV Edition

With just an hour before kickoff, I figured that there has to be some Americans (like us, who are stuck home with the baby) who will not be attending a Super Bowl party tonight and will be enjoying the game at home instead. And I'm sure there are those who won't be watching the game at all. So this post is for us. Enjoy, and let's go Packers! Who's rooting for whom? Go see if you're in Steelers or Packers territory by inputting your zip code at this Super Bowl FanMap. Still not sure who to root for? Check out this Super Bowl Flowchart: Enjoy the commercials more than the game? Check out this Super Bowl commercial schedule, then make sure you haven't missed a single...

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WordPress for the Everyday Blogger:
Part 2 – Set the Bare Bones

Prelude Part 1: Setting Up Let's run through a checklist of things you should've done by now: installed WordPress in a web or local host imported content (whether from another blog or dummy content downloaded from the web) to your new blog chosen, downloaded, and installed a blank WP theme went through the PHP and CSS files in your blank theme to familiarize yourself with its setup If you have done these things, you should now have a blog that looks similar to this: Our new blog running the ET-Starter theme with the WP .XML Test Data Import dummy content Remember when I said in Part 1 of this series that one of the great things about the ET-Starter theme is that you can easily toggle between...

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