Housekeeping Note

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Today is the day that my password protected post will publish..

It should be noted that Sephyroth guessed my password on the first try. Predictable, I am!

But unless you know me as well as Sephyroth does, or alternatively, you are psychic..

if you want to read the post today you’ll need to email me for the password

Send a quick email with the word password somewhere in it to snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com – Or use my Contact Form

Sephyroth is blogging again, and has posted a big update, if you want to drop on by.

The theme things which I wanted to fix have been fixed. If you can spot them, congratulations, because they were mostly tiny tweaks.

One other tiny note – I am going through old posts – they will fall into three categories – posts to delete, posts to keep and posts to update. I know there are dead links, videos which no longer work, and some negativity I want to remove from the WWW forevz.

Moving forward while looking back can be dangerous, I might trip over something. But I feel like it needs to be done, to move forward with the new improved 2015 Snoskred.

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Done, for now at least.

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So, we have a new theme! YAY! Welcome to Adaption, which changes depending on the way you are viewing the blog. If you do not see two sidebars – one on the left, one on the right, like the image above, then you are getting a smaller version of the theme.

We have a new title image too – unfortunately this theme does not allow for a large header image like we have been used to here at Life In The Country.

There are a few little changes still to be made, eg the comments area I want to make some changes and we’ve removed a lot of extra padding but will have to add some back in for the text of the posts I think, as my line breaks seem to have gone AWOL. But for the most part this is how it will stay and I’m deeply thrilled we achieved it in a few hours.

PS I love how meta this screenshot is, showing a screenshot of the old design and then the new design surrounding it. :)

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Testing Was A Fail

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A screenshot, for posterity.. :)

To those who were having issues – some could not see the password box, and some could see that and get the post but then the comments did not appear.. Twas not you, twas the theme.

Cue, working on a new theme. The site will go into maintenance mode for a little bit. The other half and I will work like crazed.. well, I’m not sure what but I know it will involve THE CRAZY here.

I am quite terrified given how horrendous it was to create the first theme. Then again, we know so much more about html and themes etc than we did back then. Plus, I really am not difficult to please. I want to take some of my favourite elements here, ad put them into a new design.

I’ll give you a headsup once we’re back online and fingers crossed, with a spiffy looking new theme. :)

If nobody hears from us for 24 hours, send help. And donuts. :)

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About To Test

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the password protect thingy here on the blog, tomorrow..

The password will be the same for the test post and for the upcoming post on Monday

If you will like the password, you can request it now – simply use the contact form here or email snoskred {at} gmail {dot} com – all you need to say in your email is “password” :) You can say more if you want, too! ;)

Please To Note –

I will be replying to emails with the password over the weekend – at the time this post is scheduled to post I will be fast asleep as the body clock has got a bit out of whack over the past month or so and I want to get it back on track.

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2015 Is Here

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My One Resolution For 2015 –

I want to write one thank you letter each week.

People are always quick to make a complaint when items purchased do not perform as expected but how many of us take the time to write positive notes to the companies who make the reliable products we use constantly?

I won’t be posting all the notes here as I write them – 52 letters of mine might be a bit boring for everyone to read. However I will take the time to keep you updated on who I have written and any replies I might receive – maybe once a month. If I do that as a thank you gratitude style link up, then anyone else reading who feels in the mood can join in too..

On The Blog In 2015

I’m not sure about the amount of time I’ll have to blog in 2015 so I’m not going to make any firm commitments – I will try to keep to my Mon – Wed – Fri schedule. I am not sure if I will keep doing Shoe Sundays but I do intend to spend some serious time in January writing posts here and on Rewatch Breaking Bad for the next few months, so I may well write and schedule Sundays for 3 months in advance and then see how I feel in March/April and how busy things will be.

Why Will Things Be Busy?

I’ve made the decision to go back to school this year. I’m not going to give you any of the details today – I will post a protected post next week for those who want to know more and the password will be available to anyone who emails me asking for it, as I will put in some details which I do not want made public.

What About This Blog?

I do want to keep the blog going and I will be making a very determined effort to write things ahead and schedule them out. That worked really well for me in November and if I can get some blog posts written and scheduled before school starts.. well, I know myself, and I know I’ll do a lot better if I don’t have the pressure of having to write something 3 or 4 times a week

What About A Blog Redesign?

This has been on the cards for a while now. The Other Half and I just have to find a spare weekend to sit down and make it happen. I still love the current design enormously and any new design will keep the same colours. However the base template is really old now, and I am wanting to move in another direction.

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I’m loving the Adaption theme which I am using over at Rewatch Breaking Bad. I’m hoping we can take that and bend it to suit my purpose. We’ll give it a good try, anyway. I am not sure when this will happen – I’d love to see it in the first 3 months of this year.

One Thing I Will Not Do

I will not allow the blog to go dark for a long time again. Blogging is important to me. The friends I have made via blogging are important to me. Even if I cut back to posting twice a week or take a couple of weeks off, I will make an effort to have something scheduled at least once a week, and I will try to make that something worth reading. :)

Over To You?

Is there anything you would like to see here? Any subject you would like me to write about? More recipes? More chickens? More links to things I am reading? Book or movie reviews? Food reviews?

Would you like me to do (or would you mind if I did) a week of Lite N Easy food posts – I still get a lot of traffic for those posts and I feel a bit like a 2015 update might be in order. Plus, I miss those Fishermans Pies.

You can’t get Fishermans Pies in the supermarkets at all – once upon a time you could. I even wrote a letter back in the day to the company that made them, saying how much I loved them. An actual letter, on paper! I’d eat those things for dinner every day of the week for an entire year, without complaint. Seriously they are that good. :)

I’d maybe try making Fishermans Pie myself though I am not much of a fan of cooking fish. I’d probably use leek and onions, a boneless form of fish – Check out Good Fish Bad Fish – Barramundi might work – and use my white sauce which I make for Chicken and Bacon pasta, then bake it with a cheesy potato mash on top..

I’d like to do some Jane Austen adaptation reviews this year. I am a huge Jane Austen fan and I know I have some readers who are also big fans.

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2014 Wrap Up

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Many people arrived here looking for images of Jeff Probst standing on the helicopter skid from the Survivor season 29 premiere.. and rightly so, seeing as these were my own screencaps which I took and these images cannot be found elsewhere on the web.

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But he was not just filmed standing there – he was filmed standing there WHILE the helicopter BANKED! Man I want to do that, it is at the top of my bucket list..

On this our last day of 2014, is that time of year for looking backwards, so let us take a look back at some of the most read posts here at Snoskred Life In The Country.

Top Five 2014 Posts

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Fake Lasagne

Costco Food Court Australia

Shoe Cleaning Station

NaBloPoMo Bundles – Final Edition

Popular posts from past years –

You can find some of the most popular posts over in the sidebar under Selected Snoskred but here are a couple not listed there yet which received thousands of hits this year –

The Much Awaited Miele Condenser Dryer Post..

Lite N Easy – Some thoughts & wrap-up

Popular Pages –

Who is WhoAboutLinkup

Funny Search Terms –

i need 5 million dollars – Don’t we all!
can i have a million dollars – Me first, kthx!
how do cows know when to come home – Signals from outer space
mccain combover – This is still being searched for!
hot feeling in leg – This has long been a popular search term

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Rewatch Breaking Bad

Over at my other blog Rewatch Breaking Bad, the most read post there was Pilot which was the first ever episode of Breaking Bad, and an excellent place to start a rewatch – or even a first viewing of the show – if you are a bit bored during the holiday season.

I formatted Rewatch Breaking Bad in a different manner to a normal blog in order to avoid people being spoiled – you have to click on the post in the sidebar to visit each post and the blog url takes you to a static page rather than the most recent post.

Since the first post went live on August 28, 2014 I have posted 30 episodes there – the most recent being season 3 episode 10, “Fly” which is one of my all time favourite episodes of Breaking Bad. There are 32 episodes left to post.

Search Terms For Rewatch Breaking Bad

the song when jesse pinkman was slinging dope – for the record, the Jesse slinging crystal montage appeared in episode 6 of season one “Crazy Handful Of Nothin'” is set to “It is Such a Good Night” (on youtube)

breaking bad skyler breaking bad skyler nakednaked – I do not believe that Skyler ever appeared naked in Breaking Bad. I know that Bryan Cranston certainly did appear naked at least once – and you can see a screenshot of that in this post – and in his tighty whities many many times.

A Big Thank You –

To all my readers. Thanks for hanging in there even when the blog went dark as life got busy on my end. Thanks for all your wonderful comments, your emails, your friendship.

If you read this blog and you’re not sure if I read your blog, please leave a comment with a link, or shoot me a private email because I want to read all the blogs of my readers.

What Is Next?

That is a blog post for tomorrow. :) I have some big plans for the blog, a possible blog redesign, a HUGE blogging resolution for 2015, and I’ll tell you what my future plans are work wise.

Over To You –

Leave a link to your 2014 wrap up post, if you wrote one – or leave a link to your blog with a quick hello, so that the readers of my blog can find their way over to your blog.

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