FlyLady Day 30

"Check your calendar for next month's events"  We should see what's coming up, plan for birthdays, etc.
This is a good idea.  I definitely want to implement it.  We've already sent a birthday card to Smelly Uncle Josh.  As far as month's events, though, we still have quite a bit of shopping to do.  Oy.  My aunt informed me last night that she wants "a surprise".  Helpful, no?

Smile, you're on Candid Camera!

Smile, you're on Candid Camera!,
originally uploaded by ucumari.

What is it about me and pictures of simians?

Attend the tale...

Barber,
originally uploaded by donster.

A meme I can get behind...

fromwombatgirl

( Which Tori Amos song am I? )

More internet-driven self-awareness

the Color-and-Me quiz (noisy, but the sound is entirely extraneous so just mute things and you'll be fine)

2006 Meme

First sentence of first post from each month...

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What does it say about how I write that many of these really need the subject line to even be complete sentence?

Mail Merge

I promised nenie I'd post my holiday letter mail-merge directions.  These are in Office2004 for the Mac, assuming that you have an excel spreadsheet of addresses that you want to turn into a stack of envelopes.

1. Make a new word doc
2. go to Tools -> Envelopes
3. Set your return address (don't forget your country if some of your letters are going internationally)
4. Down at the bottom of the window, select "data merge"
5. Choose "get data -> open data source"
   
6. Select the appropriate cell range (I do the whole worksheet)
7. From the "Merge Field" section, drag & drop the fields you want onto the envelope
8. In the "merge" section, set your query options (I have some addresses that are still missing, so I told it to merge all the fields where the Address1 field isn't blank)
9. Select "merge to new document"  (the second button from the left) or, if you're really brave, merge directly to the printer
10. Print

I take no responsibility if this doesn't work for you.