‘Tis the season for hot soup and cold fingers! Luckily, if we get the soup going, it’ll take care of the fingers, or feel free to slide them up under your SO’s sweatshirt. =)

This is the fastest chicken noodle soup recipe – besides just opening a can of Campbell’s! – you’ll ever find.

1 can chicken broth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 package frozen vegetables
1 cup leftover rotisserie chicken
handful of Reame’s frozen egg noodles
pepper

Literally toss it all except the noodles in a dutch oven, adding in another can full of water. Bring to a boil, add noodles, cook another 15-20 min. Done!

We’re going to follow this with another warmer-upper in the drinks department – Whipped Chocolate.

Hot chocolate mix
Hot water – but a little less than they recommend.
1/2 shot Smirnoff Marshmallow vodka
Whip cream

Prepare your hot chocolate, slip in the vodka and squirt whip cream over the top.

Can this get any easier?

=)

And here’s a little something in memory of my Grandma, who passed away on Friday.

Well well well! It’s about time we got some snow here! *shaking it off my paws* Good thing I’ve got the wood burner in the burrow, or it might be a little chilly! And Carrie made me a little quilt for my bed, so I’m snug as a rodent in a rug!

Today we’re going to talk about Blavatars. What on earth is a Blavatar? It’s the WordPress version of a Gravatar. So let’s dig in. (get it? dig? woodchuck?)

=)

Ok, right where you see the big blue W? Yup, that’s where our blavatar is going to go.

So first, lets pick out an image. I’m going to use this one. Mom took my picture last year on February 2nd. Don’t I look handsome?

Now it’s not too big, but it’s also not square. No problemo. WordPress is going to let us fix that.

Go to your dashboard, then Settings> General.

You’ll see this graphic.

Go ahead and click Browse, then navigate to the image you want to use. then upload.

The next screen will let you crop your graphic. Just move the white box around with your mouse.

Click crop image, and tada!! You have a blavatar!

It may take a moment or two to appear, but it will. It will also show up in the URL bar of browsers, and as a favicon on browser tabs. If someone creates a bookmark with your URL, it will show up there too!

Is that not cool? =)

Enjoy your new Blavatar!

=)

Oh and one more thing …..

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY A DAY EARLY!!! hehehehe

Sometimes I need outlets for creativity. Then you should write more, Carrie! (I can hear those words in my head, even if you didn’t actually say them out loud)

So, I design.

Sometimes it’s stupid stuff. A t-shirt with a goofy saying. An origami dollar bill. A tower made out of cheese.

And other times, I actually make things worthwhile. Jewelry, book covers. A tower made out of cheese.

=)

So, here’s what I’ve been up to lately.

Lord Midnight A book cover for Donna Cummings	A website for a small town near here.	The outside sign for our restaurant.

So, you’ve been thinking about moving to WordPress eh? You’ve played with Blogger and decide it’s time to move on, bigger and better things. Kind of like when you got stuck with all those Beta tapes when everyone else went VHS.

Well, no more. I’m sneaking from my burrow to share a quick tidbit or two. Thank goodness for warm weather in Iowa, or there’s no way you’d get him from in front of his fireplace!

So, first of all, go to WordPress.com and sign up. Ah ah ah! Before you starting whining- Woodie HOW do I sign up, read here…
WordPress for Non-Techies
Once you’re signed up, then go back to your blogger account, and click export blog from the Settings/Basic tab.
Save this file somewhere super duper important. No, not there. Not there either! Yes, there…that’ll do it.

Now go to your brand spanking new WordPress.com site you just opened up.
Go to Tools> Import and choose Blogger. (see how easy this is?)

Now on the next screen, it says Have a Blogger export file? Well, of course you do!

Remember where you hid it? Click the browse button, find it, then click Upload file and import.

On this next screen, make sure you tick this box.

And th-th-th-that’s all folks. =)

Now if you’re thinking of moving from Blogger to WordPress.org?

That’s a whole different bunch of pansies. Stay tuned for another episode of . . . dum dum dum!!!! Woodie knows WordPress!

=)

Winter tends to make people . . . crazy. Granted, this has been a very mild winter so far, but still . . . craziness abounds. Polar Bear swims, golfing on frozen lakes, saunas followed by a nice roll in the snow.

Yeah, we have lots of Norwegians around here, and yeah, they really do that. Honest. Ask the UPS guy.

One of the ways people go a little bonkers is to start wearing ummm…inappropriate winter apparel. Warm, yes…but….ugly.

See what I mean?

Even Christian Louboutin gets into the act with his line of hairy shoes….

and the ever popular lion foot – only 5,000 pounds.

There’s the ever popular coyote trapper hat – complete with feet and tail

the oddly sexy leopard hood and mitts (also available in skunk and cheshire cat)

and the… the….. hmmm…

and of course, you knew they made fur pants yes? although from the look on this models face, I’d have to say maybe they itch..

seriously, check out the rest of the fashions by Chanel, yes Chanel on that page. It’ll stay with you for a long long time.

Even the animals bring out their fun fur…

and some people still think winter sucks! imagine!

pics on Sodahead

everyone knows you can buy heated gloves and socks…but did you know you could buy a rechargeable heated jacket?

and if you’re hungry, go get the scoop shovel and make yourself some snow ice cream…yummmmmbrrrrr

try barstool racing for a little excitement!

no? not so much? well then if worst comes to worst, snuggle up in front of the fireplace with a great book…

and you’ll get through winter juuuuuust fine.

honest.

=)

carrie

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