Kini's Place

About My Website

Kini’s Place is my personal weblog where I write about the things that affect my life, my family, and everything else I feel like. (Me! Me! Me!). It started primarily as a way to keep a diary or journal about the things that happen in our daily/weekly/monthly lives around here.

This website is powered by Wordpress and employs the following plug ins to help make my life easier:

  1. fArc lists my archives in a much more friendly manner.
  2. Dofollow disables “no follow” from comments.
  3. Comment Timeout is currently set to 14 days.
  4. Akismet because spam comments really suck.
  5. Commentluv to help spread the linky love.
  6. Popularity Contest because sometimes you just want to know!
  7. Sideblog to add little asides which are not enough for a “real” post.
  8. Twitter Tools to add tweets to my blog or tweet about my blog.
  9. Subscribe to Comments so you can keep up on really hot discussions.
  10. Flickr Photo Gallery to easily add your photos to my posts.

About the photographs on this website:

  • My photographs are captured primarily with my Canon Digital Rebel XT. Although, occasionally I do grab my husband’s point & shoot (but, I don’t remember what it is… an HP something or other?) and I am finding that I am using my iPhone 3G quite a bit as it takes really nice photos!
  • Currently, I use the lame lens that came in the kit when I purchased it. I aspire to someday get a kick-butt lens to shoot greater distances one of the following lenses:
    • Canon 50 mm 1.8 II
    • Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III USM (Brand New Christmas 2007. Thank you, honey!)
    • Canon EFS 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (came with the camera)
    • Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6 III (came with the film camera!)
  • Most of my photos are edited with Photoshop Elements and managed with the iPhoto software also utilizing iPhoto Library Manager since I have multiple libraries, not all of which are on my MacBook Pro, but rather on a separate hard drive even though my dear hubby upgraded my laptop hard drive so I’m not running out of space every other day.
  • I would LOVE to get my hands on a scintillating copy of Photoshop CS3 (or even CS2)! Alas, I am broke.
  • I would also LOVE also to get one of those image stabilization lenses for my camera, but those are super expensive.

To all my friends and family:If you find a photo on this site of yourself and you would rather
not have it there, please let me know! I will happily remove it for you!

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  • Asides:

      • Waiting for Beauty & the Beast to begin!!! Phoebe is loving the light up rose too! #
      • "...it's time to put on make up... it's to to dress up right... it's time to get things started..." #
      • The sunshine is misleading since the wind is so cold... #
      • wrote: : My Lilacs are Coming! http://bit.ly/b0F3wO #
      • Let's play We Rule on the iPhone! My gamername is 'kiniwoman'. http://bit.ly/d4seUk #
      • wrote: : Greening Up http://bit.ly/a6Ra0C #
      • "Seventy-six trombones led the big parade..." #
      • Waiting at the urgent care... #
      • Shipoopi! #
      • Exhausted. And sore. G'nite all. Happy dreams and restful slumbers!!!!! #
      • Our stellar day gave way to darkness and rain. Guess that's fine since we are inside for rehearsal the rest of the evening. #
      • Why is it that I've made a list of things that MUST get attended to today, and here I find myself working on things NOT on my list? #
      • Feeling really discouraged today. It's that kind of heavy feeling you can't seem to shake... :-/ #
      • The sun is shining this morning and despite the wind its really nice out. No one missed the bus. Hoping for a happier day. #
      • The sun has vacated the premises. Thinking I should take the lawn mower for a joy ride before rain comes... #
      • GO RED WINGS! They're up 7-1! Retribution, perhaps? #
      • Feels like it's been a long week and we are heading into a very busy weekend (and an even busier week ahead!)!! #
      • It is amazing how much the house shakes and resonates with the thunder. #
      • It's Monday morning. it's freezing (literally) out and my head is trying to kill me (it feels like). Yay. #
      • Cold rain. Yuck. #
      • Hoping my day ends WAY better than it has started. #
      • Why does morning come so early? #
      • I admit it, I LOVE thunderstorms! I do prefer them in the evening or wee hours of the morning, but I do hope for warm & sunny this weekend! #
      • On day 5 of nasty sinus/allergy headache pain-- so tired. #
      • It's only 9:30, yet it feels like past midnight! *yawn* #
      • A little bit if this. A little bit of that. #
      • This has already been a very long week. #
      • Wow! First graders in a bus are LOUD! #
      • Heading back to the school now. The weather is gorgeous out! #
      • Home from the field trip duties and now am about to take the lawn tractor for a "joy" ride. #
      • Despite all the sunscreen reapplied several times, my little one still got sunburned very much yesterday! :( #
      • All sorts of sounds outside. The rain, dripping, frogs, other things I can't identify...Nice way to go to sleep...pleasant slumbers to all! #
      • Really wishing I had a little more help. #
      • ...so hot... ugh. #
      • The mosquitoes are atrocious this morning!!!!!! #
      • Bordine's is a pretty neat place to be in during a thunderstorm. :D #
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