Jess - 2005-03-14 16:13:01
Do you say 'white rabbits' as the first words you utter on the 1st of the month? I do. I was travelling on an overnight coach on the night of 31 Jan/1 Feb this year, and said 'white rabbits' out loud just after midnight. No-one took any notice, thank goodness :) xx

karos - 2005-03-14 16:54:06
"Melanie has an overblown belief in her own significance." This made me laugh so long and hard, you just don't know. But do you know, that it's in the cutest and most non-judgmental way possible? Because it is. Lamecore is a great word. I do the salt thing. And avoiding cracks. Especially plumber's ones. I love the new header. You make me wonder more and more whether I am a dog person or not. I do love the creatures but not their ... neediness? Or their smell. Though my little boy upon spending enough time outside in sweaty pursuits is of similar odiferousness. But --d ogs remain needy while children grow (sadly sometimes) independent. However it is good to be needed. And my daughter begs me weekly for a dog. And a horse. I prefer a horse.

Charlie - 2005-03-14 19:35:21
love the new banner!

Stephanie - 2005-03-14 23:55:04
I SO love your new banner. But what I really admire is the serenity of that dog as she gazes lovingly up at the squirrel. I would pay money to have my dog gaze lovingly at anything except the food I'm eating. Spying squirrels in our yard takes her to the edge of insanity (and I suspect, by all her barking, my neighbors too).

paula - 2005-03-15 00:36:22
Wow! When the page loaded and I saw your new topper, I was taken aback! I had gotten used to the winter scene and what a treat (beautiful at that) to see the spring scene Lovely colors; very soft; I can feel the cool spring breeze; I love it!

lizardek - 2005-03-15 04:43:34
Look! Look what you did! Yesterday it was snowing again, big fat, floaty flakes! Today, AFTER THE BANNER CHANGE, the sun is out, the snow is melting, a breeze is blowing, and it's above freezing. I too now have a great big (although not overblown) belief in the significance of Melanie. It worked all the way over here in Sweden. Whew! Please don't ever go that long again. Also, I totally surfed all over the web last night looking up FCR breeders in our area. They're everywhere! AND, I got Anders to take a look, and he thinks they look like really nice dogs, too. He's checking out a dog club thingy at work that apparently allows people to dogsit for a few weeks to make sure no allergies threaten. Keep your magical wee fingers crossed!!!

lizardek - 2005-03-15 04:52:24
Also, I forgot to ask you...do you archive your headers anywhere on your website? And if not, why not? You should have them in your wee portfolioioio!

wee - 2005-03-15 08:40:00
I laughed when I saw your comment, Paula. When my husband looked at the banner last night, he did that embarrassing snort-laugh thing and said "Yeah, right. Like Finn (our dog) would just sit there looking all dewy eyed at a squirrel! She's be completely losng her mind trying to get at it and dismantle it!" Just a little reminder that you must not believe everything you see on the Web, I guess. Squirrel chasing is second only to bunny chasing in the vast list of "Things Finn Does Outside." (Also on the list: eating bunny poo, leaving poo of her own special variety (for me to scoop up and bag responsibly of course!) shredding sticks, burrowing after mice, running in dizzying circels, wagging her tail right off her rump...) I always portray her as being all serene and one with nature, but in reality, the minute she's out there, she gets BUSY leaping and sniffing and generally behaving like a big goofy motion blur. And Karos... my dog does not smell, thank you very much, even when she's wet. She actually smells most loverly, like clean baby heads. Well, most of the time. Occassionally she enjoys a good roll in owl barf or atop a dead thing or something. and finally... Lizardek, oh thank you! I don't know that it's such a great idea to further engorge my overblown belief in my own significance, but it makes me feel realllly goood nonetheless. And all powerful too, what with the ability to control the weather in Sweden and such like. And i keep planning to stick up a banner archive, and never do. I'll get on it though.

Jenny - 2005-03-15 08:40:59
oh~"lack of color" is on my favorite playlist~love love love that song~you have incredible taste indeed! i too have been changing my site look for the season i am lusting after~i think it will bring good luck, even if it IS only on my imaginative little world. PUHleeze spring, COME! man, overblown belief in your own significance? that's just harsh. if you don't beleive who will? :) so funny...

wee - 2005-03-15 08:43:25
O thank you Jenny. And ooops... the dog-squirrel comment was actually intended for Stephanie, not Paula. Sorry! Pleased to be enertaining both of you o my comments page nonetheless!!!

chlamygirl - 2005-03-15 08:59:22
well suyperstitious or not, i always love your new banners

frecklegirl - 2005-03-15 09:54:41
Beautiful new banner... I love the soft colors. Very calming and serene. Thanks, I needed something calming and serene this morning. ;)

otter - 2005-03-15 10:49:29
I think it was a computer malfunction. It obviously had no idea how significant a person it was messin' with.

bluepoppy - 2005-03-15 11:38:05
I don't know about that computer, but I know that I have a most well-proven knowledge that Melanie's significant contribution to my personal happiness is HUGE. And, new header YAY! Spring will now arrive.

breana - 2005-03-15 13:36:06
I am adding the word "lamecore" to my vocabulary. It's my new favorite word. Today I was all, "Hey guys! I bought ORGANIC apples this week!" and they were under-impressed. You have significantly impacted all my future conversations.

wee - 2005-03-15 13:45:56
O, you guys! You seem far more offended by that comment than i ever was. i thought it was funny... and well, kinda true myself. i'm actually kind of intrested in a half-arsed fashion in handwriting analysis and I've read a couple of book on the subject. I've since come to realize that it's the way I make my capitals so large that tipped off the "overblown significance" comment, which frankly is just a more obtuse way of saying conceited. Course, I read "conceited' as "confident" and then beam at the world all smug in my significance.

wee - 2005-03-15 14:08:23
and oh... as much as I'd like to think I have "significantly' altered modern language by introducing "lamecore" to the lexicon, I am in fact only an early adopter. "Lamecore" is a word that does certainly seems to attract attention and controversy. Another diarylander (http://sooner.diaryland.com) swiped it from some sixteeen year old's diary a while ago and they got all up in arms, claiming that it was their word and he had no right using it. So forever after that he would use the trademark logo after it ( Lamecore (TM) ). I thought that just made the whole thing more hilarious and "lamecore" just that much more desirable a word! so use it well, use it wantonly, but use it with the knowledge you could be upsetting an entire generation by adding it to your geratric vocabulary. Heee.

salmon - 2005-03-15 14:52:15
banner archive! that would be most special. sooner just might be the funniest person ever created. and superstition is basically the only religion i have left. i am a firm believer in the power of the jinx, thus much wood has been knocked my right knuckles.

Giao - 2005-03-16 11:27:38
Superstition is not a bad thing. I love your new banner. It is sublime.

violetismycolor - 2005-03-16 23:14:15
First of all, I don't think that you are 'lamecore' at all and I totally have that 'the whole universe revolves around my world' thing going alot of the time; though I try to get real most of the time. Secondly, I am pretty new age-y and so believe a lot of that woo woo stuff. Thirdly, I love, love, love your new banner...it is so awesome!

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