New Winter Theme...

...Lame title I know, but it's late/early and it's the best I could do after working on my blog header for 3 hours. I also made up some Winter signature tags for myself and made several Winter headers for my sister CECIL to choose from. I hope she likes at least one of them, but if not, next time she's here we'll go through my graphics and she can choose a couple for me to work on.

I finally (gasp!) got my awards page done and linked to a button in my sidebar. I want to send a special "Thank You!" to my dear friend, TAMMY@THE PINK MAGNOLIA for her help with linking my button. Tammy's blog is by invitation only, but if you'll click on the link and send her an email she might just send you an invitation view her blog. Thanks so much for your help with the code, Tammy!

For some reason the code that I used to link all my other buttons would NOT work for my awards page button. Even the html looked different for the photo sources on Blogger. I don't know what's different, but something is going on. I'm having a few other problems with my blog and I don't think it's just me, although I am perfectly capable of tearing up a steely ball with a Kleenex according to my Daddy.

Although I've made literally dozens of headers for my blog, Cecil's blog and KAREN'S BLOG, among others, the ones I've made over the last 2 weeks will not fit as they should. I've made them the same pixel width as all the others and they still hang over the border on the right side. That's why I still have a white background instead of the pale ice blue background I really wanted for my Winter theme. With the white background you really don't notice that the header is about ¼ inch further over than the left side. But I know and it's driving me nuts!

The thing that really bothers me is that I've linked those buttons and made dozens of those headers before with no problem fitting them in the past and now all at once the same codes aren't working and my headers won't fit. Wait - now it sounds like I've got engine problems. Just my luck, if a blog has an engine, mine will blow a head gasket!

Oh well, I've ranted and I've grumbled and I blew my blog up; moving on.....Jessica and Jason got me a gift card to Barnes*&*Noble for Christmas. The B&N in our mall has a Star*Bucks in it and before Christmas I had my eye on a pretty nesting teapot/cup set. If you haven't seen them, the cup is the bottom and the teapot sits on top of the cup, making the whole set look like a bigger teapot. If I wasn't so lazy I'd get my camera out and take picture of the one I bought with my B&N card. But I am lazy. And TARD tonight. I'll try to remember to take a picture and post later so y'all can see my purty teapot.

I LOVE my purty flowered-y teapot! I've always liked a cup of hot tea occasionally, especially when it's really cold outside or if I'm croupy and congested. The steam seems to help with my congestion and holding the hot cup and drinking the hot liquid is comforting to me. Even if I'm not sick it's comforting to drink a cup or 2 of tea, and my new teapot/cup holds about 2 generous cups of tea. Just right for 2 teabags and just the right amount for me if I'm craving a goodly amount of tea, or enough to share with a sister or a friend.

I like plain old tea, like Lip*ton or Nes*tea, but my favorites are Earl Grey and orange spice tea, such as Constant*Comment. I like lemon or some of the herb teas like chamomile or peppermint now and then, but Earl Grey is my all time favorite. With sugar, and lots of it. None of that unsweetened tea or milk in my tea, thank you very much!

Do you like hot tea, and if so, what flavors and kinds?For the last 3 days and nights it's been COLD here in Northeast Arkansas. It never made it above freezing in the daytime and the lows at night have been in the mid-teens. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I love Winter and cold weather. Being well insulated I suppose I'm better suited to cold weather than hot anyway, but I've always loved Winter even when I wasn't quite so....um...FAT.

I mention the cold weather because now that we've had 3 or 4 days of true cold weather we're now going to the other extreme. It's 22º Fahrenheit as I type this at 1:30 am on Friday morning. By this Sunday and Monday the highs are forecast to reach nearly 70ºF! Good grief, what a roller coaster ride! I despise the up and down temperatures. I wish it would get seasonably cold and just stay that way until Spring.

And I really do think the up and down temperatures have a lot to do with my allergies and me staying congested and sick so much for the last 3 or 4 months. I've never been sick so much in my entire life, I do believe. But praise the Lord, I am almost back to normal. All right, family, quit snickering. Normal for me, okay?I'll be back on Saturday sometime to do my first Sunday Dinner post of 2008. In the meantime, y'all have a wonderful Friday and a great first weekend of 2008, y'hear?