Domestic Geek

A got a good giggle from this in my email today:

I'm not kidding...let me know if you need my address!

I had my Platt College graduation ceremony today. I officially have a degree in Web Design. Whoo Hoo!



I didn't go to bed Thursday night because I thought I had to have my final web project done in order to get my degree (have I mentioned before that I'm the Queen of Procrastination™?. I found out on Friday that I was graduating regardless. In fact, I graduated with honors! Oh, well. So be it. I got the project done and off my conscience.

My friend Dave took our little party to Chilis for lunch today. YUM! I had a raspberry margarita to celebrate.

Now I have to get my design business going. Marcus is trying to drum up business for me. I haven't been to the pizza place in the last two days and it has felt so damned good.

Found a link to a printable CSS Cheat Sheet. This is really cool. I'm going to go print it right now.

Here's an excellent tutorial for doing dropcaps with CSS.

Busy week. I've been wanting to take a few minutes to write here, but just couldn't find the time. The following is going to be a jumble of randomness from the week:

I'm starting to get my self-confidence back. I'm really starting to believe that I am going to be designing part-time soon and that the pizza job will be just an unpleasant memory. I think I can have my bills caught up by the middle of June and then I can start getting my software, my domain, PO Box, nice clothes, etc.

I really wanted to get my hair styled before graduation on Saturday. I haven't had my hair done in many, many years. Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do that, though. Wouldn't have been a problem if I had been hired two weeks earlier or if graduation was a couple of weeks later. *sigh* Oh, well. Maybe I can get it done Friday night when I get paid. We'll see.

Pizza job is getting unbearable. I keep having a hard time getting the front door lock open. Makes me feel really safe to be standing outside at 3 am fighting with a lock. I complained about it last Saturday and the manager said he had been having problems with it too. SO GET IT FIXED, YOU FREAKING MORON! Some days it turns easily and some days it takes 15 minutes of turning the key back and forth (and blistering my index finger) to get the tumblers to turn. I'm either going to get picked up by the cops or get assaulted by someone. I have a feeling that dumbass manager is spraying WD40 in it, which probably works for a day or two, but in the end makes the problem worse. It probably needs to be disassembled and greased with the right lubricant.

The sales are sucking bad, too. I need to quit comparing this year's sales to last year's. It just depresses me. I've lost an entire paycheck this year compared to last. *sigh* Good thing I've got other work now.

Since I was so bummed about the state of things at the pizza job on Thursday morning, I was just sitting on my butt in the office. I was listening to Rick Barber on KOA nad he was having his astrologer/psychic night. He had astrologist to the stars Maria Shaw on and I decided to do something I had never done before--call a radio show! All I gave her was my birth date and some of the things she told me were uncanny. We'll see if any of them are true. If nothing else, it made my evening interesting. One thing she said that I will mention here is that I'm going to have a blow up with someone who zaps my energy (my dumbass manager?) by Memorial Day if I don't learn to keep a bubble of white light around me.

OK, that's enough for now. I need to start marathon web coding. The queen of procrastination strikes again. I must get my final web project turned in this week so I can get my degree on Saturday. I won't poke my head in here until that's accomplished.

Have a great week!

Today my boss hands me a catalogue and tells me to pick out three shirts that I want (within reason--some of those shirts were really expensive). His wife has an embroidery business and embroiders the company logo on these shirts. I picked a black polo, a stone short sleeve button up shirt and a long sleeve denim-colored shirt. It's just one more perk of working there. My wardrobe is going to be huge! BTW, Dad and I had a blast at the race on Saturday. I discovered I love dragsters.