Citing sources in a blog

Dear my college history professors faithful readers,

As a history major I know the importance of citing my sources when I use someone else's work. And I'm definately that girl who clicks around the internet "saving as" and "copy" and "paste" ing a lot. What's the right protocoll for citing sources on the internet? Does anyone have a good way that they save a photo and cite it's source at the same time, so that when they go to use the  photo it's easy to give proper credit?

Help me out here!

Sincerely,
Courtney

Refocusing, Foundations

I swear, I’m trying not to let this blog become all Housebuilding ALL THE TIME. I do other things, really, I do. I work, I go for bike rides, I… pick out cabinets…

Can we also, just for a moment, acknowledge the following statement: What kind of nutjob agrees to build a house and plan a wedding in the same year? Oh….>>>>>this one<<<<<
We’ve agreed that as of right now, wedding planning takes a back seat to house decisions. Siding, finish work, etc. all take priority as they are so much more immediate. And, have I mentioned that I’m still more excited about the house than the wedding? Don’t get me wrong, I love DJ and the life we’ll build together… but I’m impatient and the house will be done so much more quickly! And yes, I’m thinking about asking my mom for my Legos when I’m in Clarkston next week in hopes I can build a scaled model of our house in Legos. What, that’d be weird, wouldn’t it?

Regarding wedding stuff though, we’ve narrowed it to two places, both about 400 miles apart. My parent’s lake place in Idaho in July of 2010 and the Livingston, MT Depot in September 2010. Both have their pros and cons. Harrison doesn’t have many hotel rooms, like 15 TOTAL, but anywhere in Montana in the fall is emotionally painful for my family. The Catbobs do have a bye the weekend of September 18, 2010 we could try to work around, and there IS a campground in Harrison, as well as 15 hotel rooms, one Bed and Breakfast and a handful of weekly vacation rentals… How many of my dear friends are willing to camp?

Regardless of the location, the wedding will be very low key and easy. My sister Gretchen is the only bridesmaid. DJ’s brother the only groomsmen. Keep it simple, small, and SHORT. We’re going to do what my friends Mark and Joslyn did in 2007; the 8 minute ceremony, and if you’re 10 minutes late you missed it!

But back to the immediate future (now where did I misplace my delorean?), they poured our foundation today! And it looks like they’ll start framing on Monday. Orange shirt guy in the photos said they had the house next door framed in 18 days… so when we get back from Oregon we’ll probably come home to a framed out house. Now who wants to come over and take a progress photo every day for me? I’ll be without 10 days of Housebuilding photos!

First the set the forms on top of the footers they poured yesterday.

Then a giant squid leg delivers the "mud" into the forms.

The pump truck is fed by the mixing truck.

And they've got all of these forms to fill...

The concrete is poured into the squid-armed pump truck.

Then the squid arm drops concrete! Or is it cement? I always get confused; is concrete an ingredient in cement or is the other way around?

The guy in the black shirt is holding a long vibrating hose that helps the material settle out and get rid of air pockets.

Not a Lake Recap

Grarhgh!

Hi! I’m back! How was your third week of July? Mine was awesome.

I spent about a half an hour today trying to compose a blog post in which I adequately conveyed to you how much I love being in Harrison, Idaho and overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene. Since I am mysteriously without the cord that connects my camera to my computer, I tried to elegantly… wait, no, adequately… well, um, just kinda express my connection to that place. I failed, miserably.

I mean, I took up blogging in order to try to hone my writing skills. Instead, I feel like most posts are more like a mental stream of consciousness recapping things I’ve done. While such posts are good for informing my friends and family what DJ and I are up to, and will definitely continue to be a regular item on this site, my foiled attempts to clearly communicate how much I love being at the lake highlight the lack of well, thoughtful posts. You know, I was all “I did this” and then “we did that” and then later noted that “it was awesome!” (I do love me some exclamation points). Uhh yeah, clearly that communicates how much I love that town.

I’m finding that writing well takes time for me. I have to read through it, check grammar, check syntax, check that I don’t sound retarded (I hope that I didn’t offend anyone with the retarded comment. It’s just that sometimes, despite all the words in the English language, there is no other way to say it. I like special needs people! See also: cannot seem to write eloquently. Gah!). I mean, if you’re going to take time out of your day to click over here, you at least deserve something interesting to read. Or, if I don’t have photos, well I suck.

But I guess that’s the heart of it. Writing well takes time. I don’t want to put anything out here on the internet that might someday come back to bite me in the ass, yet at the same time this whole blog this is a kind of active journal. So sometimes I might talk about things that make me squirm. Sometimes I need to talk about them to make me STOP squirming.

Whew. I’m glad we got that cleared up. I think I’ll keep that other post for once I have photos to go along with it. In the meantime, wanna know what’s on my mind?

Holy mother of god do I have a lot going on at work. The kind where you have to run to Joe’s parkway for candy. The kind where you have to go to the gym in the morning or else not make it into the gym at all.

Also: Busy! Alli visits this weekend. Gretchen visits this weekend. DJ’s mom visits the weekend after that. The weekend after that is Katie’s wedding, and bachelorette dinner at our house. The weekend after that Sarah from Cheney is visiting. The weekend after that I might not get out of bed, ever.