We’ve all been there, lured in by the promise that this plugin or that widget will take care of all that ails our WordPress site. When we shake ourselves back into reality we realize that we were promised rainbows and unicorns but instead have rain and horse droppings.

To that end, I have a few plugins that I have installed multiple times, provide a lot functionality, are easy to use, and actually make me happy to use them. Without further ado, here they are: (more…)

OK, I love sarcastic humor and because I love Twitter, twitter.threadless.com is a new favorite hangout of mine. The following tweets just struck me as funny and several are already on t-shirts. Consider this one big RT :

• @sween You say I’m coloring outside the lines. I say I’m making new lines.
• @MyFrappaccino When God gives you melons, you know you’re dyslexic.
• @Martiandrivein Twitter: Where it’s @
• @hannaheartbrake If guns kill people, then spoons make people fat.
• @leahclifford Can’t wait for the day I wake and all the trending topics on Twitter are zombie related. Because I’ll know what it means. And I’ll be ready.
• @Khanvict23 If you give a person a fish you feed them for a day, teach a person to use Twitter and they won’t bother you for weeks.
• @SdotFOSTER I’ve never seen anyone’s death certificate suggest the cause of death was breaking a chain letter…
• @miconian There are people I want to unfollow who aren’t even on Twitter.
• @moorsee Dance like nobody’s watching. Tweet like nobody’s following.
• @secretsquirrel Life would be easier if you could mark people as spam.
• @jdtatum No one has twittered in 6 minutes. I can only assume that all of my friends are dead.
• @cleversimon I’m with @stupid.
• @Tony_D Sadly, my day requires pants.
• @nintechno I wish I could CTRL+ALT+DEL people.
• @GaryJBusey I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by fleeing the scene of an accident.
• @Khanvict23 Wondering if its cool in China to get English words tattooed on their arms.
• @nodabear89 It’s not @you…it’s @me
• @IamMPB I’d damn you to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see you 5 days a week.
• @Skittle_Brains I always misread “Marital Status” as “Martial Status” on forms. Which confuses me even more when there isn’t a “Ninja” check box.
• @Nottabadword I’m consistent, just not all the time.

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I keep finding new sites with tons of fabulous freebies thanks to everyone on Twitter. Below is the beginnings of a list of those I find myself going to over and over. The folks who offer these put out unique, quality products. I’ll be adding more as I have time. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

• Vector4Free — Vector art
• Vecteezy — Vector art
• Colorburned — Vector art, Illustrator brushes, patterns and more
• Brusheezy — Photoshop brushes
• Colorburned — Photoshop brushes
• Bittbox — Hi-res Photoshop watercolor brushes
• Fresh eMedia — Photoshop brushes and more
• Flasheezy — Flash files, templates and more
• Fresheezy — WordPress templates and more
• WebAir Blog — 100+ WordPress templates
• Colorburned — Tutorials
• Fontfabric — ‘VAL’ font (this is a fun font to have in your arsenal)
• Bittbox — Stylized fonts
• Woork — “10 Delicious Free Fonts with commercial-use license”
• Bittbox — Textures

“whiskers on kittens…” Yes, these are a few of my favorite things:

• Lying on the dock, watching the fish float by, seeing the occasional loon bob up and down again – total serenity
• Good morning hugs from my kids even though they are closing in on the teen years
• Spending time with my husband and realizing why I love him all over again – every time
• Graphic design…good graphic design…design that appears simple but is the most difficult to attain
• Clever advertising…I still have an ad I clipped years ago of a dalmatian who’s spots are in the shape of high heels…still love that ad today
• The internet…questions answered at the speed of light
• Twitter…the latest technology that has actually kept my interest primarily because I have found so much good information via the tweets…follow quality people you get quality tweets…
• My daughter’s soccer team and the parents of those girls…even when they lose we all have a great time…
• Watching my son playing baseball…he has such a love for the game…love watching him crank out a double or triple…am proud of his sportsmanship and hustle…
• Computer Arts and Computer Arts Projects magazines…the best graphic design magazines…something for everyone including tons of inspiration

Dreary day…gonna rain…daughter has soccer tournament later today which figures…c’est la vie…just hoping the girls get it together and play well today and tomorrow – they’ve been struggling this week and seem to have forgotten some fundamentals like not bringing the ball up the sides…

Discovered, via Twitter, some great Firefox add-ons…been using StumbleUpon and loving it to discover new sites and also bookmark sites I want to use as a reference. I like that it is web-based because I can add from work and from home…easier than Twitter for bookmarking for my purposes anyway.

Until soccer time, the day is slated for long overdue domestic activity…vacuuming…dusting…general cleaning…I think I’ll need more coffee…