Domestic Geek

One of the things I really missed while being underemployed was getting Photoshop User and Layers magazines. At $10 a pop, those were one of the first things I cut from my budget. Well, Friday I splurged and got an issue of Layers. I'm hoping in the next month I can get my subscription going again. Anyway, there was an ad in there for a magazine I would love to get: Adobe® Illustrator® Techniques. Unfortunately, a yearly subscription to that publication is $80/yr. Out of my budget right now unless I can find it monthly at the newsstand. I love working in Illustrator and really miss learning new techniques. One of my goals is to become Adobe Illustrator certified.

Well, at least today is going better than yesterday.

We went to CompUsa to exchange the Animusic DVD. Wouldn't you know it...there were no more in stock. *sigh* Oh, well. At least they took it back. The good news is they had a manager's special on the iSight Accessory Kit. It has a magnetic stand (among other ones) that attaches the camera to the top of a cinema display. It normally retails for almost $30, but they were on sale for $2.97. Whee! Marcus and I each snagged one. Now my iSight is sitting happily atop my display, just like at the Apple Store. Now if only I had somebody to chat with.

They're having a Dumb Friend's League telethon on Fox31 today. I'm sad...that's where we got Skippy from. I really want another dog, but I'm going to be strong and not do it until we get out of this park. I am going to blog for them as my charity this year in the Blogathon. I was torn as to which charity to pick last year, but I went with Livestrong because I knew that Marcus would donate for that charity. I've thought about volunteering down there, but I don't think I could do it. Not being able to save every animal would kill me.

Man, yesterday stunk. It was just a series of frustrations.

I woke up to yet MORE SNOW yesterday morning. They said on the news it would snow again yesterday AFTERNOON and since dad and I were going to lunch yesterday, I figured that would be fine. Snow all you want after I get my father back safely to his abode. No such luck.

I have not gotten one single visit on my Thursday Thirteen post I made. WTF?

Marcus and I are still sick. He's way worse off than I am, though. The weekends are usually our time to try to tidy up and get chores done around the house. Not this weekend. Actually, I haven't done much house cleaning at all lately and it shows around here. I've been in such a depressed funk since Skippy's passing. I need to get my house organized.

Since I didn't feel like cleaning, I figured I'd find out what's making this site load so damn slowly and fix some of the CSS issues I'm having with my sidebar. I don't really want to make a new design while this one still has issues. I got nowhere with that. I'm going to have to recode my sidebar from scratch, I think. It annoyed the heck out of me.

Marcus is getting a pretty decent sized tax return this year, so while he was at CompUsa buying himself a new gaming mouse, he splurged and bought me a copy of that Animusic DVD that I was talking about last week. When I got home and opened it up, there was no DVD in the case. Grrrrr!

I missed recording Monk and Psych on Friday. I set the timer to get them last night and when I sat down to watch Psych, the front end was cut off. I set it again for today. We'll see how this works out.

I'm sure there was more, but I'll leave it at that. Except for lunch with Dad, I'd like "do over" for the whole rest of the day.