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Berit wrote: "Today I'm taking my oldest son to college, he is only going to be a couple hours away, but I'm having very mixed feelings, proud of him, but a little well let's say emotional :-) :-( I'm all over t..."Big hugs to you Berit.
Hugs to you Berit, and congrats to your son!
Peggy wrote: "I needed a graphic designer to design the cover of my dissertation, and my sister said her boyfriend's brother (who I've met twice at birthdays) has his own design company, he wasn't too expensive,..."It's hard when you feel that you may hurt someone's feelings, but he's in the business and should be able to take the criticism. I'm sure he'd want you to be happy with the finished product.
Sandra wrote: "Thiscover always reminds me of you, Janice. :0)
"Hahaha! I'm sure it would remind my son of me too because he swore I had eyes in the back of my head. :)
LOL! I just clicked on the cover to see what it was. I think all kids think their Mom's have eyes in the back of their head.Berit - the adventure begins - buck up! You think going away to college is hard - wait until they want to get married. But I know, it is like that first day of kindergarten. You just won't see him in a couple of hours though. Hugs!
Peggy - what they all said before. Tell him. It is your money and you want your cover to be what you want, not what he thinks he heard you want. It is like working with programmers trying to design a tool for something you need, but they know nothing about the process. It is a lot of back and forth until it works and you are happy.
@Janice & Cherie, GR recommended it to me three times (I don't know why, I don't read dystopia) and I always think in showing it to you. This time I did. :)
I don't read much dystopia myself. I've been fortunate that the books I've read in the genre have been great.
Berit wrote: "Today I'm taking my oldest son to college, he is only going to be a couple hours away, but I'm having very mixed feelings, proud of him, but a little well let's say emotional :-) :-( I'm all over t..."That's a big transition for your family, I'm sure. Congratulations to him, and I envy him beginning his college experience. I've never been nostalgic about high school, but I do get nostalgic about college. I went to school 2000 miles away from my family before moving back to the West Coast to be closer to them.
I'm being taken out for lunch today for my birthday. Have no idea where we are going, it's a surprise! :)
Happy Birthday, Lisa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday, Lisa! Enjoy your day!
Happy birthday, Lisa! Enjoy your day. :)
I'm headed to my dad's today for the weekend so I may not be around too much this weekend. I'll check in on my iPad periodically.
Thanks everyone! I have had a really nice day. Can't wait to try out my new kindle! :D
Great gift Lisa! Did you have an ereader before?
Peggy wrote: "Great gift Lisa! Did you have an ereader before?"No, this is my first one. I am fast running out of space to put all my physical books so it's going to come in very handy :)
Perfect gift! I resisted an ereader for so long, but am thrilled everyday that I finally gave in and got one. I get all my magazines on it and even though I still buy physical books, I have room for so many more with the Nook.
Happy birthday, Lisa. Enjoy your Kindle...I'm a convert like Kandice!
Happy birthday, Lisa. Be sure to keep an eye on Kindle daily deals. You can pick up some great books cheap that way. You can find the page for it at Amazon.com: Kindle Daily Deals. (I can't seem to copy the link as a link, but that is the address.)
And for deals you can also subscribe to websites like bookbub and bookgorilla :)
Thanks all! I will check out all the deals and websites you mention :)
I've subscribed to bookbub for a long time but never heard of bookgorilla. Thanks Peggy!
Looks like gorillabooks is for Kindle only and I have a Nook. :*(
It has kobo too. And I found a way too change kindle files to epub files so I can use kindle deals too. Don't know about nook though.
Happy birthday Lisa .. Hope you have a wonderful time.~
Right now .. I hate braces -Like I loved them before and now I hate 'em! -
Two day ago niece gave me some hard seeds and said "Open!" I can't resist her cuteness when she asks for something -heart melting-
So I just took it and tried to open it and next second I heard "pok" sound .. Congratulations you just broke your braces !
I tried to call the hospital to come right away and fix it but no answer and Friday it was closed so I had to stay two nights with broken braces!
My teeth started to shift right away and I felt a gab was starting to form, on Friday's evening The gap was even bigger, and then my teeth started to hurt -again- :(
I just went this morning to fix it, now my teeth are hurting again cuz they're shifting again .. So annoying ..
Can't wait till my treatment is over ..
- I know I complain a lot about it, it's only cuz of the pain .. And I hate painkillers .. So .. -
That sounds like a nightmare CFDeeDee. I hope you feel better soon.
Oh no CFDeeDee :( hope the pain goes away a soon!
CFDeeDee, I'm so sorry about the pain you're in. I feel like any tooth-related pain is so hard to endure.
Teeth and ear pain are the worst!
Sorry to hear that you are in pain CFDeeDee. Tooth pain is no fun at all so I hope it settles down soon.
Thanks guys for the support *virtual hugs*
Someone shared this in booklikes and I thought is was great!
Lisa wrote: "I'm being taken out for lunch today for my birthday. Have no idea where we are going, it's a surprise! :)"Happy Belated Birthday, Lisa! :D
Lisa wrote: "Thanks everyone! I have had a really nice day. Can't wait to try out my new kindle! :D"Great gift, have fun!!
I am sitting in front of my laptop, drinking a glass of wine, (which is OK as it is past 4pm in the afternoon) and reading through as many of the recent posts as I can in this group! (I should really be reading, but hey..).
That's lovely Sandra, what a great idea.What is it again that they say Anna? It's 5pm somewhere in the world ;-)
I've been in a bit of a reading slump the past weeks. Hope it will be over soon!
A glass of wine sounds good.
Indeed Peggy!! This glass of wine is very good Janice!
I'm exhausted...but a good kind :) we took our dog to the beach today. He was a little scared of the waves, lol..they were larger than the last time we went! We walked up and down the beach..only about 3 miles..now we are on our way home :)
I've missed a bit this last week what with being away (although I've not really been away from home). We are back from our little jaunt today. I'm feeling really tired after a solid 9 days of boating. We had a great time though. And now to catch up on all the posts...Happy belated birthday Lisa - I hope you enjoy your kindle.
I picked some sloes and blackerries today so I can make the sloe gin I mentioned before. The blackberries are to add to a crumble. There are two bushes next to where we're moored which is full of damsons but they are a bit high up. I really want to pick some to add to the crumble. I might have to see what I can do tomorrow to get hold of them.
Sarah wrote: "I've missed a bit this last week what with being away (although I've not really been away from home). We are back from our little jaunt today. I'm feeling really tired after a solid 9 days of boati..."Do you sew? Even a little? We use a trick that my grandmother used for her trees- they were 30 or so years old when I was a kid and at least 30 feet tall. So some of the fruit was really high up. You bend a wire clothes hanger into roughly a circle, but with a nipple. (Bend part of the hanger outward.) Cut enough fabric to make a bag- just run the fabric around the hangar. But don't cover the nipple part. Then you push part of the fabric over the lip of the hanger and sew it onto itself. (Forms a loop of fabric. We used canvas or burlap, but you can use anything sturdy.) Sew the bottom and side of the fabric cylinder to make a pouch. Somehow secure it- either using the wire or the wire plus duct tape- to a pole. If the tree is really high, those telescoping paint ones are good. Our trees aren't that big, so we just take the mop head off its stick.
You approach the fruit from underneath and use the nipple part to grasp the branch. (The bag should be under the fruit.) If the fruit is ripe enough, it falls off the branch easily. You just kind of slide the wire nipple across the branch, behind the fruit until the fruit falls into the bag.
Oh, you make the nipple big enough to either fit over the fruit, or you bend the nipple at a 90 degree angle to the loop and put another bigger hole underneath it to fit the fruit through.
Great tip Bella! I'm not exactly sure where my sewing stuff is right now but I know where there are some coat hangers so I might be able to make something slightly less sophisticated than what you suggested! Unfortunately it is absolutely chucking it down here so I might have to leave it for today's crumble. But we'll be here all week so once the sun comes out again I'll be straight on it.
Love having snacks while being on the computer Anna, but I never had wine .. So dunno about that ! @Sarah: *looking with jealousy*
Its also cool that we don't have any kind of berries around here .. Or any other fruit :(
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Wooooob woooob I rocked my test today, it was online, 36 questions .. I scored 97% my teacher said that I only had 1 mistake, in which the question said something about "erupt" and I had no clue what that word means ! So I went like "hey that word sounds like "corrupt" so maybe it has the same meaning" -such an analysis- which appeared to be wrong XP
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Since he can't have his car on campus, will you have to go pick him up for him to come home on weekends and holidays?
@Peggy, hopefully the second attempt on your cover will be much more to your liking!