I’m sorry for the delay of posts. I had a very busy day yesterday, one which included a ten hour trip to the emergency room. However, I am okay! I also have some good news I’ll share with you all a bit later this weekend. I hope you are all doing well. The following is a list of things from a Facebook group entitled “You Know You Went to Baptist School When..” I grew up going to Christian schools of all denominations: Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, and just non-denominational schools. I’m sure not everyone will get this but it’s pretty funny and I had to post it here. It’s also for a good laugh, for those of you who were blessed enough not to attend a Baptist school.

-You can recite the pledge to the Christian flag & the Bible without hesitation

-You envy all Catholic school girl uniforms

-You roll your uniform skirt when you can, and avoid wearing it in public

-You usually only shave your knees cuz your shirt is long enough & your knee highs clearly cover your legs

-You break dress code as often as you can, & when you get caught you just “fix it” and then do it again the next day

-Your uniform shorts for sports teams are longer than the guys shorts

-Basketball is the primary sport

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While you were away, I was guest blogging. Head over to Hows Your Blog and visit my article. Thanks!

I was reading one of my favorite blogs when I saw there was a post about the “Top Ten Things I Learned About Co-Habitation.” Granted, I’ve always lived with others my entire life. However, the past year of living with my husband has taught me quite a lot about living with the young adult male. I’m so glad I found this list. I’ll touch basis on the ones that hit my co-habitation learning experience on the nail. Visit the article for the full list.

1.) The toilet paper usage formula. 1 sixteen pack of toilet paper will last a single person with one bathroom upwards of four months. 1 sixteen pack of toilet paper will last two people, with two bathrooms the blink of an eye. I can not count how many times I’ve had to do the awkward waddle over to the cabinet only to find that we were completely out of toilet paper. This may be the most irritating thing in the universe.

I’m the toilet paper abuser. I was just opening a new roll a few minutes ago. LOL I don’t think he’s quite accustomed to my toilet paper usage.

2) Meal times are weird when one person is indecisive and another one has a mutant ability to exist for days without food (coughtheboyforgetstoeatcough). If we haven’t decided what to have for dinner by six o’clock, it’s a free for all. Hence I’ve had meals made up of noodles and applesauce, cereal and cookies, and an entire jar of pickles.

My husband eats late at night, and eats in strange patterns. I don’t know if all men are like that, but I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I even have an occasional cookie here and there. It just seems like he never eats? Perhaps, I’m always asleep when he’s eating. We do eat together a lot more since we’ve been married though.

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It seems that it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts. The past few days, I’ve been saving a lot of links on designing and blogging. I’ve decided to share them here with my wonderful readers.

As I’ve said recently, I’m a huge fan of the letterpress effect in print and web that’s become so popular. Six Revisions did a wonderful post entitled “Beautiful Examples of Inset Typography in Web Design.” Very inspiring post!

Blogging actively, you sometimes wonder about creating a blog content strategy. The best question is how do you develop a blog content strategy? Conversation Agent discusses the details in their must-read article.

I’m a big fan of Fuel Your Creativity and all of their sister sites. The interviewed some of the top names in the design industry to discuss how designers work from client contact to design.

Your site’s loading time is a “make you or break you” type of thing. I have a 30-second rule. If your site doesn’t load at all in 30 seconds, I will probably leave. Here are some practical web design guides to reduce site load time.

I’m actively involving myself in developing Wordpress themes and I’m always looking for new ideas. Designer Daily released a list of “10 useful Wordpress theme hacks” and I thought it was great. Look forward to a new theme sometime next month here as well.

I don’t know if I’ve ever screenshot my bookmarks bar for you, but I have about four bookmarklets. I’m a bit obsessed! Hongkiat decided to feed into my addiction and release “100+ Useful Bookmarklets For Better Productivity.”

I’m in the process of re-designing Sevenality’s portfolio (expect a sneak-peek tomorrow). I needed inspiration and Vanedelay Design reached into my need by releasing “60+ Helpful Resources for Portfolio Design.” Great portfolio inspiration indeed!

As I’m working on Static-Romance’s newest design, I’m searching into finding the correct typefaces I want to use. Noupe released this amazing article, “7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design.” It goes into great detail about mixing fonts, which I love to do.

Freelancers are always looking for a way to gain more work. The Design Cubicle discusses some of the best pratices in the article “10 Ways To Gain More Design Work by Building Trust and Relationships.”

So you want a better blog? I think we all want to make our blogs the best we can. Here’s “58 ways to build a better blog.”

While we’re on the path to making building a better blog, we need to figure out what makes a good blog. 43 Folders discussed the points in a great article.

As more browsers are becoming HTML5 compatible, it’s the best time to get HTML5 into practice. Woork released an amazing HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet.

There’s never enough suggestions to help improve your blog. Here’s a wonderful article, “100 Ways To Improve Your Blog.”

I know there’s a lot of beginner designers who want to create their own wallpapers. Here’s a great tutorial “How to Design a Texture Based Wallpaper in Photoshop.“

If anybody knows me they know I’m a junkie for apps. My Blackberry and PC are full of applications to make things easier. I usually stray away from web applications. However, there are websites that offer services I just can’t ignore. I have place for them in my bookmarks. Some of them I use often while others are scarcely used. They are still very helpful and very friendly for the tech-savvy. For me, they’re really good for blogging, writing, and designing. Others are just for pure fun. The rest are to fulfill my complex of  needing to be organized at all times. I know most of my readers  are always searching for fun websites to help them complete their daily tasks. So here’s 15 wonderful websites for the tech-savvy.

1. Fotopedia

Fotopedia is a beautiful photo encyclopedia. It allows me to search for a term, then pulls up an article (like a regular encyclopedia) along with beautiful pictures relating to the article. If you register for the site, you can vote for the pictures relating to the article or even submit your own pictures to appear with the pictures selected for the article. It is a great way to share visual stimulation with information.

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