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All Moved

I’m all moved over to my new blog. Using Wordpress and the import of all my old Textpattern posts was so easy! I had a script that I downloaded a while ago that took all my posts and comments and created a file in MT export format. I just saved that file then used it to import. Everything came over as it should. I spent some time tweaking my template and voila! I’m just about done. A few more things I want to tweak, but otherwise, it’s done.

I still need transfer it over to the root from the subdirectory I was setting it up in, but I’ll get to that this weekend. And there are a few other things I want to add. I’ve also linked up the feeds to FeedBurner for both here and the knit blog.

So anyway. There you have it. I’m switched.

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Computer Girl

Amelia loves trying to click the keys on the keyboard. It’s a struggle to keep her away from the thing. We really need to start introducing her to the computer just so she knows it as a tool and not as a toy. It’s just difficult right now because she doesn’t quite understand enough to get it, but she sees us on the computer enough to be interested. She will click the touchpad and the keyboard keys endlessly as any toddler. Here she is trying to be a computer girl.

In other news, I’m in the process of trying to export my posts and comments from Textpattern, because at long last, I want to migrate everything over to Wordpress. I use WP for my knitting blog and I really like it. Ease of use although I don’t know much about templates. I’m just tired of having to mess with HTML and WP templates are easy if you download a pre-made one, and tweak it like I did for wifeKnits. I found a script that I tweaked, that will take my TXP posts/comments and create a movable type import format file. I’m hoping that will do the trick and I won’t lose all the comments that I’ve built up over the years like I did when I transferred all my knitting posts.

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Nursery Rhymes

My sister got Amelia a Baby Genius DVD and she loves it! She’s never sat that long and actually watched something on the television as long as she sat for this video. It’s wonderful. Songs, dance, kids, animation. She was even clapping and dancing some. When she remembered to. She was mesmerized by this. I will definitely be playing it more often. And possibly getting a few more of these Baby Genius DVDs.

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Tiring Weekend

We had a good weekend, but it was a bit tiring. We went to visit my sister in Atlanta. My parents were there too. For some reason, Amelia decided to be especially clingy to me the entire time, so it was very tiring.

But we bought a new 20" iMac and a Time Capsule to go with it. Pretty awesome. The best part was that my sister is officially a Mac user. She got her first Mac this weekend as well. Of course this means that she’ll be calling me for every little how to question. DH told her to ask her fiance, he switched a few months ago, so he’s somewhat familiar with Macs already.

We never made it to the movie, mainly because we just never found time for it. Isn’t that how it always is when you are visiting with family. It’s hard to get back into the swing of our routine after being away for a few days, but I’m sure we’ll settle back in pretty quickly.

Oh yeah. The hotel we stayed at was having a TimeGate convention going on…sci-fi convention for fans of Dr. Who and Stargate. The actor who plays Master Bra’tac was there. I missed him, but my husband saw him when we were checking in. People were dressed up in costume and one night, my husband got a photo of someone dressed up in a Storm Trooper outfit drinking a beer. There was also a Delorean parked outside the hotel. Pretty wild!

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Atlanta Getaway

Kind of weird to call going to Atlanta for the weekend a "getaway", but for us it is. We don’t usually go anywhere and never go out without the baby. She’s never stayed with a babysitter. We are going to Atlanta to visit my sister. My parents will be there as well and they haven’t seen their granddaughter since Christmas! They are so excited to see her, I know we’ll be coming home with more stuff than we went with. They’ve bought her clothes and shoes and who knows what else. But the exciting part is that DH and I plan to leave Amelia with her grandparents and have a "date".

For one, we have to take my laptop to the Apple store to get the battery replaced. It’s crap and I need a new one. So I’m crossing my fingers they replace it. Then we hope to catch dinner and/or a movie. He wants to see Indiana Jones, but to be honest, I don’t know that we’ll get to see it. He hates crowds and I know it’s going to be crowded, no matter which time slot we choose. It’s opening weekend in Atlanta! So I have a feeling he’s going to change his mind on that once he sees the mass of people. But we’ll see.

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Teacher Appreciation

I’ve been a little busy bee. I managed to knit 4 dishcloths, one for each of Amelia’s daycare teachers. See, it’s teacher appreciation week. And although we may not be the friendliest with each other, I still very much appreciate that they keep watch over my baby during those times when I can’t do it myself. Like when I’m working. Bah!

I also made them a thank you postcard. I worked up two digital scrapbook layouts in 4×6 size with a photo of Amelia, then wrote a little note on the back of each. I’ll have to get pics of the cards that I made. Pretty simple, but definitely unique.

I sure do hope they appreciate my gesture of thanks.

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Stuck and Miserable

I feel I must write a blog post today. For whatever reason, I am feeling blah. Maybe I just need a vacation. I true vacation, not just a day or two off here and there. But I’m really not enjoying my job.

I really wish I could somehow get another job of comparable pay and benefits that doesn’t involve computers except at a tool to aid me in my work. I don’t want to be a developer anymore. I don’t want to sit in front of a computer every day writing code. I’ve done it for almost 8 years now and I’m tired of it.

But herein lies the problem. I don’t have experience doing anything else. Sure, I worked at a public library for 6 months back in the day, but that’s not real experience to qualify me to be a librarian. There’s a job opening for an assistant manager at a local bookstore. If it didn’t mean a huge cut in pay and benefits, I’d apply. I’ve always dreamed of working in a bookstore or library.

We’ve talked about someday moving back to Florida, but the thought of doing that dreaded job search and knowing I can only look for another developer job just feels like a vise on my heart. I know what my husband feels every time he gets thisclose to quitting his job because he just can’t stand it. It sucks to be so miserable at your day job (where you spend more time than at home) and know that you just can’t up and quit and find something else because you have a family that depends on that income. I understand completely how he feels and I hate that we are both in that situation with seemingly no way to fix it.

We have way too much debt and daycare to just go for a change without thinking of the repercussions. And that makes things even worse. So I sit here trying to keep it together while I plug away at the same freaking project I’ve been working on for the past year or more trying to get something to work so I can move on and maybe at least tolerate my job.

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