So I have been working on the graphics for the blog. I added a third column, got the background from The Cutest Blog on the Block. Scrapbook stuff for the header from Digi Scrap Depot. I am using Paint.net to put everything together and it works just fine. There is just one thing I have not figured out yet. How do I make the background transparent? I tried everything but it never seems to work. Once I have it uploaded it has a white background but I want it transparent. Since I couldn’t get it transparent I simply copied the pink backround and used it as background for the header and the photo in the sidebar. It doesn’t look bad at all I just wished I knew how to get a transparent background in paint.net….

I have to get photoshop one of these days… paint.net is nice but it just isn’t photoshop…

Another thing that makes me go “GRRRRRR!!!” is to put a background in the post. I know how to put it in there but I don’t know of how to make it stretch itself. I want to get rid of the frame and have a paper background instead. It is not a problem to get one but it just doesn’t work the way I want it. I tried no-repeat and repeat but that doesn’t stretch it. I also put the bottom in there but that doesn’t work either…. GRRRRRRR!!!

I’ll figure it out eventually…

You probably noticed that the blog background and the layout changes from time to time. Well that is because I am trying to find the perfect background and layout. It’s been a while that I have blogged with Blogger and used my HTML skills. I’ve been with wordpress for so long but wordpress doesn’t allow you to change HTML. I like wordpress because of all the features that come along with it but I don’t like that you can’t change the CSS and HTML because I like playing around and change this or that. Hehe…

I have to admit that I am sort of a geek. Well, not a full time geek but I have my geekish minutes. One of my hobbies is fantasy roleplaying games. NO! Not THAT kind of roleplaying games. I am talking about Dungeons & Dragons, Palladium, Shadowrun, etc. (to all the haters out there… it’s just G.A.M.E.S. But if I am going to hell for gaming…I’ll bring marshmellows 😛)
However, I am with one of these gamer forums for over 6 years now. Know many of the oldsters personally and one of them just made me a goddess. Cool, huh? 🙂

Nelly is one of the Megaverse’s most “unique” Goddesses, with perhaps the most unique Portfolio ever.

You see, Nelly is the Patron Goddess of Hot Women Who Are Unaware Of Just How Hot They Are.

Statues erected in her honor frequently depict a buxom, lusty Goddess with an innocent looking face but a mischievous twinkle in her eye and a P.B. of at least 30, whose eyes are firmly affixed to the flagon of German Stout in her hand.

She is always depicted on a magnificent, six-legged war horse in long, flowing Robes, a Valkyrie’s Helmet……and U.S. Army Combat Boots.

Many, many, many suitors go to her Church…but unfortunately, what they give to her as lavish, expensive attempts to try to win her heart, she and her followers mistake for donations. :

SPECIAL NOTE: All Priestesses of Nelly have a blessing/spell called “Turn Water into Wine…” but for true-blue Germans, “water” refers to the weak alcoholic drinks that Americans dare to call “beer,” and by “wine,” they actually mean good German Beer -the best beer in the Megaverse, of course.

Here are some pictures from our Christmas Dinner. It was a hell a lot of work to prepare the whole thing but it was definitely worth it. I don’t even want to know how much money we have spend for the whole thing… it doesn’t matter anyway. We have had fun, no one had to spend Christmas on his/her own and all in all it was a great night. We had so much food that we had enough to share with the Ponds Guard that had Guard Duty that night and all the other leftovers went straight into the freezer LOL.