Weekend in Review and family news

Well, work was quick on friday and I hit the gym. Got a good work out and then I hit the treadmill and ran/walked my best mile to date at just over 15 mins. Not sure what my goals will be with the running, ie how fast, but I'd love to see things down to a 10min mile. Not sure if I'll ever get back to my personal best of a 8:20 mile but we shall see. Time and training will tell. Got done with the gym and then headed to the grocery store. I got us nummies for dinner and the weekend and when I arrived home Storvarr was unloading his car. Which was great since I had a car full of stuff. That was nice. Got some lunch and relaxed. Mel got home and we all just chatted for a while and listened to it rain. Then Storvarr and I headed to kinko's and costco for the final stuff we needed for crown. Got home and I made dinner for ribeye and sweet potatoes. Had a nice evening and got things ready for crown and I headed to bed early. Mel and Storvarr played games until later.

Saturday was crown. It was a really nice site, though I had an issue with the grass...I was sneezy girl central. Mel fought well and though it wasn't his best showing he did good. The rest of the BTY folks had a tough list too so it seems to have just been that type of crown. Squire Thomas did really well and that was also good. I spent the rest of the tourney working on my A&S embroidery and chatting with the Hrafn girls and the auxiliaries. I put up a good sideboard and we all noshed well during the day. I'm happy about that too since there was something for everyone. Plus Asa made Cookies!!! I'm also very glad that Tym was able to get me a claritin which helped a bit with my allergies. By the time it was time for court we were all packed up and I went to court and then got pictures of Roland and Mina and Oliver for them. They looked good. I was so stuffed up I sounded pretty dumb. Mel and Storvarr were awesome and helped get people packed up. Headed home and was glad to get into AC in the car. The air filter worked great and I was much better by the time we got home. I showered immediately when we got home since pollen on my skin and hair would not be good for me and then we had sandwiches for dinner. We were in bed pretty early. I watched mel got from spunky to exhausted in about a 10 min period. The day had taken its toll on us and we were out before 10pm.

I didn't sleep good once 2am hit. Couldn't stay comfy and I slept pretty fitfully until about 730 or so. I got up started making phone calls. We told some folks at crown but the family hadn't been told yet. Mel and I will be expecting a baby in late march 2010. We've been waiting to see if I was going to be alright and if things were gonna stick. But I made it through the first trimester with a minimum of issues. Though my change in appetite and not wanting coffee for a month made things a bit strange. We are excited and as of yet haven't decided if we are going to find out what the baby will be. We just want healthy, 2 eyes, a nose, 10 fingers and toes kinda people. The parentals are thrilled. I caught my mom a breakfast with her friend Sue and my step sister gretchen. Mel's parents are uber excited as well. Mel's dad couldn't stop laughing he was so happy. I guess my mom lost complete track of what she and sue were hitting the stores for and they had a hard time staying on track. argent_lupin's comment was "No Shit!" and then to our nephew "you're gonna have a cousin!" Needless to say the families are happy. I still need to get a hold of my dad which is always an effort. After all of the family calls we headed to Ed and Candace's for breakfast. Had a really nice time and chatted and watched holly play. Got home and I worked on research. I was still pretty wiped from Saturday and my head was still a bit stuffy and achey from my allergies. I took a nap in bed to help with the headache and that did some good. Mel's mom called and chatted with me for about 2 hours and I ended the evening trying to finish the weaving but I stopped about midnight. Not quite done.

I slept really well on Sunday night. I managed to get comfy. Even though I haven't popped out yet my normal sleeping with my one leg pulled up to my chest doesn't really work. It puts too much pressure on where the podling is and its not pleasant. So sleepy has been interesting but I think I have a game plan for the time being. Monday we got up and had breakfast at joes. They were jumping. Got back and I got the weaving finished and washed up. Mel's section of twill shrunk a lot and my plain weave fulled up just a bit. But the red did run a smidge and now the bright white is now kinda pinky/cream. Not too bad actually, it toned it down from BRIGHT to nice. I spent the afternoon working on embroidery and research and then in the evening on the scroll for scribble. The scroll is coming along, though the smaller scale is making it go quicker in some respects. I do think that the only ink style is not the best for this medium and I need to switch to all paints for anything else but it looks good so far. I just need to wear my cheaters to see it. The girls were pretty squirrley at scribble and the giggles were really funny. I ended up working on embroidery after the scroll got to a stage I couldn't quite handle. I was tired from working on things all day. Mel and I ended up hitting bed a bit later than we should but we both slept good. I woke up with a butterfly snuggled up on my side and mel had obsidian curled up with him. So nice.

Well, that is all the news that is set to print. I'll probably filter baby stuff to a list of people who care. Not sure what I'll be posting about but expect travel log stuff for the next 2 weeks do to my travel schedule. Don't worry the company knows and as I get later in my pregnancy and traveling I get first class on flights which is pretty cool.

LJ Facebook/Twitter work around to get rid of the annoying boxes

Originally posted by beren_writes at LJ Facebook/Twitter work around to get rid of the annoying boxes

stolen from pombagira who pulled it from someone else who pulled it from yet another person :) Yes, this is signal boosting.

Passing this along from my flist.

Thanks to midniterose, here is how to stop the crossposting of comments/entries from LJ to sites like Facebook:

There is a way to disable everything. Here is what you have to do:

1. Go to your "Journal" menu, and select "Journal Style"
2. To the right, you'll see what theme you're using, with a link stating "Customize Your Theme". Click that link.
3. Scroll down a little ways, and you'll see that on the left side of your screen, you have multiple options to modify your theme. Click on the "Custom CSS" link, and it should load the options for doing Custom CSS.
4. From here, all you have to do is go to the "Custom Stylesheet", and put in that line.

.b-repost-item {display:none}

once you have it pasted in there, save changes.

Feel free to PASS THIS ON!!

ETA: This prevents the "repost to FB/Twitter" ticky boxes from being displayed when someone comments on one of your posts. It seems to work, UNLESS the person is viewing your page in their own journal style, in which case it might not work.

ETA2: Inserting the code below in your custom CSS box reportedly works for more kinds of journal styles, including custom ones (this courtesy of xnguard):

.b-repost-item, FORM#qrform > TABLE[style="border: 1px solid black;"]:last-child TD[style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;"]:first-child { display: none !important; }