Eureka! I think I've got it!

My website is looking better all the time. 

For the banner, I still want to put the slogan I started with:

"Life is better with books and cats"

I'm a bit frustrated. The header consistently shows up at the bottom of the books, no matter how many times I reorder the four choices. 

Once I add a few tweaks, I'll be done for a while.

#learningmygooglewebpage

#reluctantwebdesigner

#googleblogger

A Busy Week for Tulip

🌷What hasn't Tulip gotten into?🌷

A camouflage mesh curtain separates one end of my house from the other. It closes with magnets. A few days ago, Tulip was actively trying to "free" one of the magnets. She succeeded.

Two office activities: 

• Anyone can see the daily detritus left behind from the half-eaten fabric and cardboard bins. The evidence ends up all over the carpet. Besides denuding these bins, Tulip has begun to eat the uneven pile carpet. Bad, Tulip!

• Wondering where my cat found a yellow piece of paper to chew, the answer was on the wall above the printer. NC Representative Wiley Nickel's address and phone number were written on a Post-It note there. 😿

I planned to add a picture of the mesh room divider and also a video I shot yesterday. I went to share them, but I can't find either file on my laptop. 

Google, this bums me out! 😽 Where do my "shared" images from my phone go? 

Meanwhile, I'll try to get by with cat emojis.

#Tulip

#cat_destruction

#PaperEater

Knock It Off

Yesterday, I was going to do two things at once: I put a bottle of Ensure on the counter, then turned around to take my morning meds. Then I heard something hit the floor. Forget the pills!

Tulip broke the bottle. The result was a large puddle of pricey chocolate milk.

This Ensured that Wednesday was off to a bad start. 

But don't take this literally, Tulip.

Knock it off! 

Found!

Nobody can accuse me of being a Suzie Homemaker. 

My house has needed vacuuming for WEEKS. Until today, I only swept the back hall as needed. (Stepping on litter pellets is akin to walking on Lego blocks.) Today, I girded myself to haul out the green Bissell Super-Sucker machine.

As expected, the machine unearthed the usual dust bunnies; no surprise there. But, wait -- there was so much more!

When in the living room, the one question I often ask myself  is, "Where are all these little bits of paper coming from?"  Of course, You-Know-Who is responsible. (And if you don't know, you haven't been paying attention).

It was surprising to find a folded News in Review and a packet of Post-It-Notes beneath my recliner. The newspaper was dated December 19, 2025. (It was there only a few weeks. Now, if it were from 2024 or earlier, I'd be worried about me). 

Beneath the companion recliner, I came across a jump drive. I can't remember when I last needed to handle one of those. Who knows how long it had been there? 

When I confronted Tulip about it, she ignored me. Right now she is curled up, sleeping behind me. She looks as innocent as the day is long.

Housework has done me in; I need a cat nap too.

AHA! Conquered (sort of) the Banner

And let me tell you, it was not easy. I created so many versions in Google "Word," Google Sheets, and tried converting the documents to JPEG and PDF formats. Some were twice as tall as I needed. So, after much trial and countless errors, I'm sort of done. . . for now. 

Today I borrowed a book from Smithfield Library..."Getting Started with WordPress."  Chapter 2 is about blogging with Google. I have trepidations about uploading the books from Amazon onto the website.

So my banner looks like this: 

Tomorrow I will tackle uploading images from other sites. My web changes show Merilee's Journey twice and doesn't contain the proper link. There is so much to learn!

I feel like a dunce! I went to the web with the intention of copying a picture of a dunce cap, but I'm not interested in paying for a vector or PNG image. When the dunce cap was created centuries ago, it was meant for really intelligent people to wear (according to Wikipedia). Dumb people rebelled, so the meaning changed to quite the opposite. The appearance of the cap changed as well, to more of the fool's cap. 

If my website looks weird...

It's because I am trying to teach myself how to make changes to things.

Technical Issues Part II

• When checking KDP Amazon today, the book is still not released due to unclear images. 

• In the future, if I ever do a book with a lot of pictures, I will insist upon text with the insertion of jpegs.

• My job this week is to learn all about Google's Blogger. Trying to do it myself is proving to be a challenge.