Domestic Geek

Current mood: thoughtful
I think I may have discovered one of the reasns I've been so unhappy lately. It came to me as a dream last night. I NEED to garden. In my dream, I was digging, tilling, planting, weeding, watering and reaping the fruits of my labor. I felt accomplished. I was happy. I can't have a garden here. There's no room, the landlord is anal about water consumption, and the damned cats would dig in it anyway. I love hanging out at nursuries and picking out plants. I can't go now—it makes me terribly sad.

Current mood: accomplished
Sorry the updates have been so sporadic lately. I was totally run down after almost no sleep at the beginning of the week trying to finish the portfolio. I was so wound up Tuesday night that I couldn't sleep then, either. Wednesday and Thursday I felt really sick and even puked several times at work. Whee. I felt better after 12 hours of sleep on Friday, though. I'm feeling much better now.

My portfolio case turned out awesome! I got so many compliments on it. People couldn't believe that I made it myself from scratch. I'll post some pictures later.

I was going to work on my web page for school last night, but Mike and Nina came over. I made dinner then Nina and I had a good long talk while the guys gamed. That was good. I haven't seen her in a while. I can't believe her due date is five weeks away. It seems like yesterday that she told me she was pregnant.

Well, we got extra time to work on our Zen Garden sites since we had that snow day. I still don't think I have enough CSS knowledge to do it right, but I'll keep trying regardless. I was at the book store today trying to find a CSS guide, but they didn't have one. I guess I'll have to get one on Amazon when I have some extra cash. (Extra cash, lol, that's a good one!) Did you know they have a chess board set up at Barnes & Noble? I had never noticed it before. There were a couple of guys playing. I thought that was pretty cool.

OK, break is over. Back to work on learning CSS.

Current mood: studious
Man, there is so much CSS stuff to learn. I think my brain is going to explode. The newest CSS Zen Garden design is a collaboration between David Shea and Eric Meyer. Turns out that the project is part of Eric's new book, "More Eric Meyer on CSS." While reading Eric's site, I read a post about how he believes that Frazz author Jef Mallett is actually reclusive Calvin and Hobbs creator Bill Watterson. Hmmm, it could be.

Had steak tonight at Chili's with Marcus, Mike & Nina. Yummay!

My portfolio case is almost ready to be painted! Yay!!! I'll get cracking on that first thing after work tomorrow. I'm just waiting for some wood filler to dry so I can sand it.

Per Laura's suggestion, I think I'm going to install MT Blacklist tomorrow. I had way too much spam in my comments this morning. That stuff so totally sucks.

Current mood: overwhelmed
I've got so much to do and so little time to do it all!!! I've got a little over two weeks to finish my darned portfolio. The presentations are on April 27th. We're also learning CSS in my web class and there is so much to learn that I can't keep it all in my head. Our teacher wants us to design and submit something to the CSS Zen Garden site. Wow, That's quite the challenge.

I guess the Pepsi iTunes giveaway is almost done. It's getting harder and harder to find bottles with winning caps. Of course, they have to be redeemed by the end of April, anyway. I think I've gotten about 55 songs so far from free caps now. Whoo hoo! I much prefer Coke, but if I'm going to spend the money on soda anwyay, I might as well get a free song out of it, right? I think after there are no more caps to be found, I need to get up soda drinking anyway.

I'm watching "The Pianist" right now. It's hard for me to imagine how any of the Jews survived Hitler. I can't even begin to understand how anybody would've seen such attrocities and still had a will to survive. I also can't understand how the Nazi soldiers could commit the acts that they did and live with themselves.

Does anybody know what happened to iMood?

Well, I guess I better get to bed so that I can get work done early tomorrow and spend the day working on portfolio stuff. G'night.

Current mood: accomplished
I love learning how to do stuff with CSS. I finally found the code I needed to make my calendar act like I want. It still needs a little tweaking, but I'll work on that later when I get a free moment (ha/ha). I need to do a redesign of this darned thing anyway. I wish I was an expert. If only every browser would support all the attributes. It sucks how you can make a sight look perfect in IE only to have it be totally broken in Safari or Netscape. I really hate that you can't color scrollbars in all browsers. That feature is so darned cool. *sigh* Does anybody know a difinitive guide for css stuff? The w3 site is a little confusing sometimes.

Oh, and I decided not to quit school or change my focus to multimedia. I can't with only six months left. Designing for the web is what I really want to do. Learning Maya and stuff would be cool and everything, but I can always learn it later.

Well, off to work.