I finally changed the layout. It’s nothing fancy or dramatic. It’s simple. I tested it a bit, but really I kind of just threw it up here. As you can tell, I have no links to any of my pages yet. I’ll add them…sometime. I am not going to say “soon” because who knows if it will really be soon or not. :blush: The link to my Quilting Bee quilt is at the bottom of the page for those wondering. I hope this can be the first small step in resurrecting this site. *crosses fingers*

Thanks to Tracy for letting me the comments were messed up. I think they work now, but I will have to change the styling later.

And Bah Humbug – my Twitter clouds at the top are messed up on my laptop but not on the other two computers in my house.

Edit – I HAD a new layout, but since upgrading to the newest version of WP I am having issues with plugins and all sorts of madness I need to sort out. So, if you got to see it for the hour or two it was up, lucky you! I’ll have to fix it all now….sometime….

I just read the one and only review I have over at Rhiannon’s Review Club. It was from Brian, a fellow Quilting Bee member, who had nice things to say about my site but said he’d wish I would blog more often. (Wow, I’ve already used four links in this post. A record I think.) I have totally been neglecting my website, including my blog most of all.

At the beginning of the summer, I honestly had plans to work a lot more on Rainbow Stuff. I was working on a new layout and came up with a cool logo. I had planned to catch up on some of my favorite blogs that I have fallen behind in reading. I was also going to try to blog more often. What happened? Well, life happened I guess. When it became official that I would be teaching first grade this upcoming school year, I spent like two straight weeks at the school every day, all day working on my classroom. When not at school, I’m usually shopping for things for my classroom or working on stuff for school. If I’m not doing anything school related, I’m either playing Wii (especially Mario Kart. I so need to unlock Dry Browser!), doing Quilting Bee things, or… just doing nothing and trying to chill! School starts in a little over two weeks, and I feel like I haven’t even had a break. People who think teachers have it easy by having the summers off are sadly mistaken.

I do want to include a little eye candy for everyone out there who is kind enough to stumble upon my website and read this commemorative 200th blog post. The below picture is the picture of the calendar image I created for our school calendar page in the district calendar. It’s pretty much the same idea as the one I did last year. Instead of a corkboard feel I went with a chalkboard feel. It’s pretty good I think. (Apparently I don’t have a copy of the final calendar image on my computer at home. I’ll have to get it from school on Monday.)

The second first picture is of my classroom door at school without the fabulous curtains I made with my mom’s help. I did post some pictures on Flickr of my classroom. A LOT has been done in my classroom since I took those pictures, so on Monday I plan to take some new ones. And the third second picture is of Pouncy just because. She had her 18th birthday at the beginning of July (the 5th).

So, as I have mentioned twice now, I will be going to the school on Monday. Why? I have an interview at 10:30 on Monday. Not an interview for me though. I will actually get to be on the other side of the interviewing table for a change. Our first grade special education teacher got a job closer to where she lives (gas prices are a killer), so we need a new special ed. teacher. Since I am going to be working with this person, I was invited to come and take part in the interview. I think only one person is being interviewed, so it must be someone good or someone that someone else knows or something. I’m not sure. Anyway, I’m sort of excited that I get to take part in interviewing someone else for a change.

Let’s see, what else is going on? Well, tonight my dad is racing. It’ll be his second time racing this season and my first time getting to see him this season. Hopefully I can get those pictures I mentioned on Monday and post again then. I’m not making any promises, but I will certainly try. I hope everyone has a great rest of their weekend!