To my big sister, Melly, who was more like a mom:
You’re 46. I only say that because I just KNEW being so much younger than everyone would HAVE to pay off someday. Remember how sad and lonely I used to get for you when I was little and you lived so far away? I used to sit on my windowsill at night and look at the moon and wonder if you were looking at the same moon as me at the same time. It made me cry for you a little less. Sad, isn’t it? Even worse is when YOU would punish me and I would want YOU to comfort me. “I. Want. MELLY! SNIFF!!!! SOB!!!! WAH!!!!”. (I was a complex soul even at five)
I can’t believe you bought me tiny ladybug earrings on YOUR birthday. I promise when there is no more frost threat, your gift will be flowers and the labor involved in planting them.
Thanks for being there and for being the only soul in the universe that likes going fishing with me. Frankly, I feel that you owe your success as a fish-catching, flower picking WOW monk (Or cleric, or priest or whatever the hell it is that you are) to so many hours practicing the real-life version with Moi!
Happy Birthday, Melly.
**BTW-
If anyone can help me figure out what in THE hell is wrong with my photo spacing when I upload, I will like you. A lot.
Stumble it!
Filed under: 
In the imortal words of primary children everywhere…
Happy, happy birthday Melly dear.
Happy days will come to you all year.
If I had a wish then it would be,
A happy happy birthday to you from me!
Rock on Melanie!
yay! first! woohoo! happy birthday loralee’s sister! and i can to prove you’re the reason for california. i think it’s so sweet how much you love your sister. i’m doing my best to convince mine to stop using me as a way to meet up inconspicuously with her boyfriend.
after you insert the picture, try deleting all the space between the text and the picture url. just make sure you enter after the text and it hopefully will work. otherwise, i didn’t do it.
darn it! aunt amy beat me as i was typing.
How sweet! I always wanted a sister but suffer from OSS (Only Sister Syndrome) sandwiched between two brothers. It’s probably just as well; they would have eaten her. It’s a miracle I’m alive….
Ok, I promise not to be a post hog any more. This is like three posts in three days.
But Melly DOES rule. And I remembered to call her. :-)
Rhett,
You’re one of my favorite people on the planet. Post hog all the freak you want, dude.
P.S.
Does it ever bother you that you are OLDER than melly??? (TEE HEE HEE HEE)
Make sure there’s a break tag, or an enter after “moi!”, it’s reading it as part of that line, I think, and in your template it’s messing it up.
so, who do you like more, me or froyd?
Ug. I tried that, entering and seeing if there is anything unusual in the code (Not that I can see). I tried writing another post to draft and uploading photos and it did the same thing.
Pink-Hee. You have the same advice as a computer guru…That is cool! :) I wish it was the problem, though. Froydster and I go way back to January of 2006. To quote Monty Python “Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who”. HEE HEE.
I have no idea then, I’m sorry. Maybe try removing the link to the image?
1) Isolate with a new [div] before/after the pic.
2) Eliminate the trash code you’ve got lying around for no reason.
3) If that didn’t do anything, at least you have the pic divided from the rest of the post, so it will be easier to diagnose the problem.
Happy Birthday!!! And tis was wonderful to read…thanks for this amazing post…well have a great day filled with happiness and cheer!!!
I have no idea on the spacing.
Melly is a lovely 46-year-young woman!
Congrats.
Yes, indeed, Melly rules!
BTW, she’s a fish-catching, herb-gathering, dwarf priestess. The fact that I remember that distresses me beyond belief.
To The Brother…We’re still waiting for the blueberry cobbler invite. (How’s that for subtlety?)
Yay! Happy Birthday Melly!
I very much wish I could help you with your photo problem, but I have enough issues with my own.
The code (via “View Source” doesn’t seem to have anything weird with it, but looking at your page (and the fact that the ‘alt’ tags are showing up when rolling over the blank area above your images is a bit weird.
This may not work, but just an idea. I don’t think you really need the hyperlink to the image.
Try changing this code:
To look like this:
Now, in all honesty, it should work fine how it is (so says the code), but whatever.
You may also try setting the height and/or width of the image to see how that goes.
Good luck.
Meh. . . the code didn’t post. Grrrr.
Whatever. just remove the “a href” tag around the “img” tag. if you want to try it.
Hmmm.
I have tried every suggestion and nothing is working, so I am sending an email to Jessica to look at the template code to see if everything is ok. It is happening with all my photos (Url or from my computer files).
:(
Thanks for trying to help, guys!
happy bday melly
manny happy little sissin’ years, loralee!
Vx
Loralee,
I finally made my way over to your new blog. Anthony is a wiggle worm right now, so I will write more later. Happy birthday Melly!
You tried manually setting the width & height within the [img] tag?
My guess:
A) Pre-fab template woes.
B) Pic posting proggie (e.g. Picasa) is bending you over, as they do for many innocent bloggers.
I suggest you start the blog over, and code by hand yourself, so you know what’s actually going on in your own blog.
Jessica fixed it! YAY!
Alex: I tried that with my last page. I’m surprised I didn’t blow up the internet. :)
Hey buttface, I mean Alex:
Your guesses were wrong. But nice try coming from someone who centers their side column menus on the ever scab-like Blogger.
“Pre-fab”? I hand coded this template with my own two hands. I hard code, no WYSIWYG editors here. I also hand coded all of Loralee’s customizations for her.
Pic posting proggie? Picasa? Loralee is playing with the big leagues now, hosting her own pictures. It was a simple CSS issue. This template WAS valid XHTML and CSS before our esteemed Loralee started adding IP blockers and stuff to it, but we all knew that would happen.
I fully expect to do a little hand holding here and there when she breaks her template. I’m sure she’ll learn more about code as she continues. But ditching all of this? And having her hard code everything herself? Excuse me while I roll on the floor choking with laughter.
Also, I am bleeding all over a kotex. DON’T MESS WITH A KOTEX WEARING IDAHOAN WITH A GUN PERMIT.
That is all.
You have a gun permit, Kerfloppy? Suddenly I like you even more.
(Sorry for breaking my template. The cool thing is I keep checking my XHTML error thingy at the bottom of the page and I figured out how to get it down from 19 errors to like, 12. Plus, now that I am figuring out the Cpanel better I removed the IP blocker. Small steps.)
Okay, so I’m still an emotional wreck, but I’m sorry I made it sound like you’re some incompetent. All frustration was to be channeled at Alex, not you. And I don’t even know him. But frustration is best when channeled at strangers. Strangers on blogspot, especially.
Jessica,
Totally fine because I AM SOOOOOO incompetant in this area. I’m trying to learn though and you have just rocked the house and been so patient!!!
I am nearly impossible to offend.
I hope you had a happy birthday despite being hormonal and sad.
MWAHS and hugs (*Without invasion of personal space so it isn’t wierd. Grin)
Aw… I wish I had a close relationship with at least one of my siblings like you do. I know it’s something I’m going to regret later, but where to start now? That’s what I’m trying to figure out.