{"id":998,"date":"2006-07-05T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/07\/i-hope-you-enjoyed-your-4th.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T09:02:00","slug":"i-hope-you-enjoyed-your-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/07\/i-hope-you-enjoyed-your-4th.html","title":{"rendered":"I hope you enjoyed your 4th!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone enjoyed their July 4th celebration.  I thought that it would be dead yesterday and we were way down in traffic but that didn&#8217;t stop me from getting requests to join the Blogging Chicks but I&#8217;ve taken a few days off from adding blogs.  I&#8217;m a little burnt out from the process.  It would be much easier to add women if they didn&#8217;t have problem adding the code to their blog &#8212; that is the time consuming part of the process.  I don&#8217;t mind helping but sometimes I have two or three at a time that I&#8217;m helping.  It can get time consuming and then that&#8217;s all I do.<br \/>\nSo, I took the day off and I worked on modifying a new template for the Blogging Chicks Blogroll Metablog.  I really like it and can&#8217;t wait to finish it.<br \/>\nI also cleaned the house and got ready for my mom and dad coming over.  They were bringing back my daughters.  I missed them and am happy to have them back.  We had cheeseburgers and shrimp, potato salad, corn on the cob and tiramisu.  I bar-b-qued the  cheeseburgers and shrimp with hickory chips and put a little garlic powder on each and some butter on the shrimp.  It was really good, I&#8217;ll have to remember to do that again.<br \/>\nBecause I was working on the template and not writing, I didn&#8217;t finish the Samson study in time to make the Christian Carnival.  Actually, it turned out that the Carnival deadline was at 9:00 not 12:00, so I wouldn&#8217;t have made it even if I hadn&#8217;t been working on the template since my parents didn&#8217;t leave until after eight.  Oh well, I did start it so I&#8217;m going to force myself to work on it the rest of the day so that I can publish it and submit it to the next Carnival early.  I&#8217;ll give you a heads up if it ever makes it over there.<br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t like our new summer schedule, I can&#8217;t sleep in the evening and I get up after eight.  I eat breakfast after nine and lunch around one and dinner after seven and then I stay up until two.  Very annoying.  Plus it&#8217;s hot all day and I spend most of my day in the family room with the air conditioner.  And now that the girls are home, I can&#8217;t even be in their because of the TV.  So, I guess I better drink plenty of water today because I&#8217;m going to be hot (and it doesn&#8217;t help having a heat producing laptop on your lap \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nWell, off to finish  modifying the template, I&#8217;ll let you know when I&#8217;m done.  I&#8217;m also working on the DC post.  I showed my parents the pictures from the trip and I can&#8217;t wait to post some of the pictures, they really are great.  I plan to post a couple of Sarah&#8217;s shots since her&#8217;s came out much better than mine.  She did a great job with the Hope Diamond and she did an excellent job with an opal tiara that I couldn&#8217;t get a good shot of.  My camera is supposed to be able to take pictures through glass but didn&#8217;t do such a great job in the Natural History Museum.  She was able to take much better pictures without that feature.  That&#8217;s not always the case, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone enjoyed their July 4th celebration. I thought that it would be dead yesterday and we were way down in traffic but that didn&#8217;t stop me from getting requests to join the Blogging Chicks but I&#8217;ve taken a few days off from adding blogs. I&#8217;m a little burnt out from the process. 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