Do you use WordPress? What are you fav plugins?

I am always looking to improve, upgrade, or just add something fun. What WordPress add ons/plugins/whatever can you not live without?

I have a few WP installs, and between them all, I use

  • adsense now
  • advanced excerpt
  • akismet
  • category order
  • comment luv
  • count per day
  • hebrew date
  • kb countdown widget
  • lj cross poster
  • my page order
  • please link 2 me
  • quotes collection
  • sharethis
  • shockingly simple favicon
  • simple feed copyright
  • simple tags
  • time machine
  • tinyMCE advanced
  • twitter for wordpress
  • updated today banner
  • wordpress auto upgrade
  • wordtwit
  • wp-relative date
  • page mash
  • print me
  • wp auto suggest
  • limit posts
  • Blog Copyright (by BTE)
  • WPtouch iPhone Theme
  • no disposable email
  • cforms
  • phplist
  • popularity contest
  • role manager
  • vox crossposter
  • buddy press (and related plugins)
  • all in one seo pack
  • hackadelic sliding notes
  • simple tags
  • statpress reloaded
  • wpg2

I also have a wordpress mu insall, so I have a few related plugins there too. So… what can’t you live without? What can you live without? Share the link love!

Therapy

*Sitting at therapy – stewing :(
*Need to hit post
*Need to publish May news – late again
*had two kids here examine my tattoos and ears. Kids don’t bother me.
*moved moms day picnic to another park.
*did I mention I’m tired?
*need to bring fabric in from garage

I am so tired

My mother in law and her sister (aunt in law?) are in town. I think they are leaving tonight, but I’m not positive. They got in on Saturday, but we didn’t see Pam till 10PM b/c they crashed at the hotel (they drove down, we weren’t expecting them till past 10 anyway). We cleaned from 8AM – 3PM Saturday – big clean, not superficial it’s good enough for us clean.

Sunday we got up early as fuck, Michael got bagels, we ate with the boys before they went to Hebrew school, ate with Pam & Susie, picked up the boys from school, ate lunch, came home, decided not to go to the beach (it was very hot out), hit Target (whoohoo Target! totally warranted, my menfolk needed shoes), ordered pizza and came home to eat. We all hung out outback in between lunch & Target.

Today we went to the post, Michaels, then Festival. Picked up the boys, Michael is at the shop with the two of them so they can get some tattoos and I need to make dinner. Then we need to go *back* to Target so Pam can return something and so she can get something for the boys. We didn’t find anything for her to get them this morning. I say the don’t need more crap, but she gets them stuff and sees them so rarely… at least it’s stuff I don’t have to buy them lol Dor wants those Wolverine claws and Malachai wants a movie. Eshiva got jelly shoes last night (they’re still jellies, right?)

I just want to go to sleep. It takes a lot out of me to be in “company” mode, especially day after day. I crashed in the carpool lane at school and I’d like to go back to sleep.

Ok, my sexy beast of a man decided to get, well, beastly last night, so that didn’t help me in the sleep department (but it was much appreciated) but I still say company mode just drains me.

Mal is developing his own personality!

Meant to post this on April 7 – not sure why it got stuck in my drafts.

Michael mentioned yesterday that Malachai is finally developing a personality of his own. He brought up how it was sort of blunted before, you could interact with him, but there wasn’t anything about it that screamed, this is me, I am Malachai.

He loves Alice Cooper. He wants to dress up like him for Halloween. He loves scary movies and fast rides. I kind of attribute part of that to his sensory issues (if he needs BIG input physically it makes sense he’d love roller coasters and stuff, and if he needs it physically, why wouldn’t he need BIG input mentally too? So scary stuff = more input to his brain) but it’s giving him and Michael something way cool to bond over.

He said something yesterday and I can’t remember what it was (Michael told me I should have posted then and there lol Silly me for not doing it) but it was what brought on this conversation. He might be coming up on seven, but he is finally turning into… himself. It is giving me great joy to see it happen. Dorian had his own personality around 3 or 4, and Eshiva is loaded with personality, but Mal… he was just kind of rolling along. Now he pops up with little quips and stories and is fierce about what he likes and doesn’t like and what he does and doesn’t want to do and why (as opposed to being engrossed in one thing and woe be unto you if you tried to do something else).

It’s not all sunshine and roses, but this is just amazing to me.

<3

I haven’t blogged in a while. My blog is more like a journal for me anyway. This is worthy of blogging though.

Eshiva just came up to me with a picture of Erin that is in a red heart frame.

She told me “Mommy, this is my love”

I asked if she knew who that was (of course not) and I told her.

She said “I love her, can I put this on the piano?”

I said of course. She’s carrying it around telling everyone she loves her, this is part of my love too. She’s a part of my family.

Malachai is telling her that she (Erin) is dead, and two people in our family are dead.

Eshiva is telling him she isn’t dead, she is a part of our family. T

They are going back and forth. It’s cute.

<3

Eshiva is named for Erin (for those who don’t know). She died in 03, Shivie never knew her (obviously) – I don’t know that Malachai even remembers her.

She just came up to me to tell me Erin is dead, but we love her and she is still a part of our family and we have a picture of her when she was alive.