… is done. A whole three days, can you believe that? ;) Although now that so many people I know are off on summer vacation, I guess a three day work week is pretty busy. 

I have plenty to do. I’m transitioning into becoming a transaction coordinator for Amy B. In addition to writing, etc. I figure it’s going to be a lot like tracking down actor bios. ;) You know, “did you turn that in yet? We need it now.” I’ve done that a lot.

Meanwhile, Mom and Dad are coming in ONE WEEK. I’m sooo excited. And, by the way, I have no other bookings at the Hotel Helmick this summer. I’m waiting for another guest or two!! We plan great outings for visitors, and it’s nice to reuse them. ;)

I’m not sure if my Twilight-loving-crazies are aware, but there is a Twilight tour now.  You might want to think of checking it out, maybe you’ll see that dreamy Edward Cullen. Think about it.

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… Someone’s in my spot. Ruby?

(she’s not budging)

I’m going to have to go in for the snuggle. She HATES that!

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Yes, seriously! This is what’s great about the new blog–I can do it from my phone!

Tonight we watched Hancock–decent movie!

Busy week, with both of us working, I’ve been busy cleaning out some dark corners, too.

We got Amazon fresh again this week. So great. I wouldn’t stop shopping at my local grocery, but it’s really handy to do once a month or so.

I even got these flowers there.

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Donuts!

Originally uploaded by cortny.helmick

This is a picture I took at Top Pot this weekend. Look, a photo! Sent from my phone to flickr and blogged directly from flicker. It only took a whole day to get it working.

Those donuts were GOOD by the way. Not the same as Schmidts, but just as good…

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I’m having growing pains with my new blog. Ugh, photo editing is such a pain!! I can’t drag and drop or crop a photo within a blog post. For a designer, that’s annoying. There are no borders or spacing options really, or anything to make the photo look good. (I liked iWeb for this – automatic text wrapping, borders, etc.) 

There are a host of other reasons we decided to switch to wordpress blogs. The photo thing, turns out NOT to be one of them. 

I also don’t want to keep 5 different photo galleries. How annyoing. So, I have pictures of my trip and I have to put them on my blog, and on my Facebook, and they’re already in iPhoto, but all these things don’t work together. So you can upload plugins to work with the website. I found one for automatically synching my facebook photos with the blog. Perfect! 

Doesn’t work. Isn’t going to work again thanks to facebook updates. 

Decided to sign up for flickr since it has a link in iPhoto (unlike Picasa), plugins for facebook and the blog, and I can email photos to it. Still trying to adjust to it. Didn’t want to sign up for anything extra in the first place, but would at least like ONE THING that can work with everything else. (This is why I use a mac… iPhoto, iPhone, iWeb, E-mail – all works together!!) 

Still not working very well with the blog. So I have to keep trying other plug ins to see which of these “developers” actually came up with a plugin that actually works without downloading something else, tweaking it, installing other things. 

Notice there are no pictures in this post. Because I haven’t figured out the simplest way to do it yet! Stay tuned.

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