Domestic Geek

How can the weekend be over aleady? Man, I am so happy and excited about how my new design is shaping up that I don't even want to go to work today just to play with it. I have, however, discovered that I really suck (for now) at illustrating people. I need to practice that and get better. I can see it in my mind, I just can't quite transfer it to pixels. No worries.

OK, I understand people paying large sums of money to get something that is sold out of a store right before Christmas. But paying inflated prices on eBay for an iPhone when there is plenty in stock still and you can order them for retail directly from Apple's web site? That I don't get. People are dumb.

w00t! Just won a $5 Amazon gift certificate for searching on Blingo! I was really hoping for iTunes gift certs, but I'll take Amazon. There's tons of stuff I want on their site, too.

See, you really do get stuff by searching through those sites! Hey, become my Blingo and/or Winzy friend and sign up through my badges in my sidebar. Why not take the chance of getting some cool free stuff doing something you already do everyday anyway?

I give up. I've spent a good couple of weeks trying to tweak this theme I picked for my craft blog and I'm starting over. I'm going to take the time and learn to build a good theme from scratch and stop wasting time trying to fix something that has so many problems. That's the problem I've found with most Wordpress themes out there — the person making it only has the most rudimentary understanding of css, html, wordpress tags, etc. and he/she pieces together something and it kind of works. The problem comes in when someone like me tries to add stuff and their jacked up code causes me all sorts of frustrations. Especially when the theme says it is 2.0 compliant, yet I find deprecated tags in there. Grrr. Oh, well. It has been a great learning experience. So, it will still be a bit before it goes live. Sorry.

The good news is I finally had some inspiration for a theme for this site last Friday at work. I've been working on that and hopefully I'll have it ready to go by next weekend. I really didin't want to have my "Pink for October" theme in place when I do the Blogathon at the end of the month. Ooh, that reminds me that today is July 1st and registrations were supposed to open up for it. Watch the blog here for news about that soon and when you can start pledging support for me. Mark you calendars that the event is Saturday, July 28th.
Edit: Registrations not yet open, but they will be soon. I'm so excited I can't stand it!

Man, I've got to go to the store and get myself some lunch (we have no food in this house) and a couple of other things, but I don't want to go out. It's hot out and I just want to sit around and be lazy all day and soak my feet in ice water.

I'm reading the first 6 Harry Potter books in anticipation of the arrival of book 7. That reminds me: Note to self - make 10 day countdown HP graphics like you had last year.

I need more money coming in. Anybody reading this willing to pay to have graphics designed for your web site or any graphic design work done? I guess I'm going to have to start using that skill because I really don't want to have to work pizza or retail (mostly because I don't want to deal with people that won't speak English). It's hard enough dealing with customers that do speak Englsih, y'know?

OK, must get moving.