Aww, gracias!! *smile* I got lucky with that one actually... I found a site that gave me pretty much step by step instructions (but I lost the link...*sigh*) and it was in an HTML book I have too. And I stole the original pic from one of blogger's templates and put my own pics in the spaces. *smile* Gwennie (you've made me start calling her that now! *grin*) sent me the link a while ago to your blog and made me read something she wrote- it was muy cool. I totally agree with you in one of your ranty posts- you were talking about how kids are idiots not to pay attention in school. I thought I was the only one who thought that.


I agree about the layout, Anaita- it's muy irritating. *grin*


Vow of silence...*shrug* I don't have one. I just like the quote.


How bad exactly is a D? I know the system of it, but is it a catastrophe? Or just minor bad? I know she can't come on in the week- but she was saying how she probably wouldn't be allowed on for the rest of the year (school year, not 2001) and I was paranoid.


I am soo excited! I see HP in 25 hours exactly!!! (24 and a half minus the million commercials and trailers they always show.) *grin* I saw clips of it and it looks so fantastic! The chica playing Hermione cracks me up- have you seen the clip when they're just discovering the three-headed dog, and she opens the lock with her charm? When she says "Standard Book of Spells, Chapter 7" it just makes me laugh for some reason. *shrug*


Adios! *hugs* -Amber

 

The Damsel Distressed at 11/16/2001 01:31:00 PM

 
*grin* That pic has morphed into an image map before my eyes. I didn't even know how to do those things two hours ago! *grin* -Amber 

The Damsel Distressed at 11/15/2001 08:58:00 AM

 
Ask me about my vow of silence

Yay! My code worked- my blog is all blue and pretty now! I even made a pic (well, I used the blogger pic, but I changed it)! *smile* I love HTML. -Amber 

The Damsel Distressed at 11/15/2001 02:31:00 AM

 
I see what you're saying, but I just do not have it in my soul to agree with you. I just can't pity them. I don't hate them- I just find it hard to love, adore and admire them, BECAUSE I wasn't brought up to hate. I just can't justify what these people did for YEARS to myself by saying that... and it wasn't just a few of them either. I don't know how many there were, but for them to be able to beat women for not wearing a veil over their eyes I'd say there were a good few of them around.

I was reading an article in a newspaper over here a few weeks ago, that an Afghan friend of one of the reporters (at least I think that's who she was... I don't remember exactly *shrug*) had written, and she was an educated woman who had been to university who had been a teacher until the Taliban came into power- and one of the things she said just stuck in my mind. She said that she had an old dress that she used to go out dancing in hidden in the back of her closet and she used to touch it and imagine putting it on and dancing outside, freee, like she used to be able to.

That just touched me... I just find it inhuman what they were doing. It's like the Nazis all over again.

JMO though.

I love Shakira! I can't say I've heard more than 3 of her songs, but I like what I've heard. *grin*

You like HP too? *grin* He rocks!!!! I'm going to see the movie on Saturday- I am sooo excited! That groping thing is foul though... do I want to know why she just had a towel on on TV? ;-)

BTW, was Anaia's report bad? She mailed me on Monday and told me not to miss her too much- and now I'm paranoid she's banned from the computer. -Amber 

The Damsel Distressed at 11/14/2001 10:53:00 PM

 
Oy vey... what a few days we've had. Another plane down- and we got Kabul! *grin* I'm glad- and, while I know that killing is bad and I shouldn't say this- IMO the Taliban deserve whatever punishment the Northern Alliance troops feel like giving them. I saw news footage of Taliban guys being assaulted. I felt... I didn't really feel anything, actually. I mean, on a human level, I felt sorry, because you know it hurts them physically... but on the other hand, I saw the woman in Kabul without veils on their faces and the men shaving their beards, and how happy they were- and I thought that anyone who could be that... I don't know how to express it... that ASHAMED of what humans look like, of what we ARE... I had no pity for them.

*sigh* Now we just gotta get Osama Spaghetti, as my brother calls him.

Becca- cool. :-) Know what CD I really want? Shakira. Her single isn't out here- I don't know if it will come out- but I heard part of it and I love it.

I have nothing to say...*pout*

Anaia, I'm sending you good luck vibes for your report card. :-)

Bye -Amber
 

The Damsel Distressed at 11/13/2001 11:01:00 PM