Something serious happened within my family and our living situation has changed drastically, so I won’t have access to the Internet/computer for I don’t know how long.
Don’t worry, though: No one has died, and that’s the important part! (Or at least I like to think so)
So yeah, just wanted to give a quick heads up :).
Sometimes I wonder if my youngest cousin (4) will grow up thinking that Morgan from Bananas In Pyjamas has anger management problems and B1 and B2 are are actually sarcastic bitter jerks.
I mention these two facts to her everytime the credits roll for each ten minute episode…
Now playing: Athlete - Wires
Edit: Dood. I just totally fixed it thanks to Amanda giving me a cool link. Hallelujah! But I still don’t take that letter back. IE is causing too much trouble! I will put the new theme up sooooon, so soon.
Dear IE,
A long time ago, I used to be satisfied with you. I used to believe that you were the best way to use the Internet. In fact, I had never known that other browsers existed: I was completely devoted to you.
However, as time passed, I realised that there were better browsers that were not as half as demanding as you. I realised that I was actually behind and did not have a good browsing experience. Although we parted on good terms, I was much happier with my new browser. It was (And is) wonderful. I thought that this was the end of all the pain you had caused me.
But this was not to be. You are a naturally jealous browser, and I soon discovered that you wanted to make my life as difficult as possible. If you could not make me happy, you reasoned, then I would have no choice but to be upset.
When I code layouts, I do try to consider your feelings and make them compatible for you. But lately, you have become very difficult. You throw tantrums while other browsers display my layouts in near perfection. I do not appreciate this. I am not sure I can bend over backwards for you much longer.
This is your final warning! I am, desperately, asking for your co-operation. This is not a difficult task. I am fairly easy to please. All I ask is that you either imitate a better browser (Preferably Firefox), or commit an Internet form of suicide. That is all. It is not hard, is it?
Yours truly,
Melinda.
… If you didn’t get it, I am designing something rather smashing and it looks just fine in every browser other than IE. I would dismiss this and carry on my merry way, but the change is drastic: The sidebar jumps to the bottom of the page, so it looks horrible and my site is hard to use. I… Can’t tell you how frustrating that is! Ugh. I like the theme very much, and I am trying everything but it isn’t working. I am this close to deciding to sod the whole thing and apologize profusely to IE users in advance… While at the same time strangling them for using such a craptastic browser.
About two weeks ago, I was riding in the car with my four year old cousin in my lap. It was late (About 12:00) and we had a wonderful view of the sky and the stars shining very brightly. I said, pointing at the stars while tickling her tummy, “Look at the stars! They’re very bright tonight,”. She agreed.
About thirty seconds later she came up with “Look at the stars so that you can dream of stars tonight, and the sky will be full of glitter,”.
… I found that surprisingly poetic. From a four year old? Impressive! I said “That was incredibly poetic. You don’t know what that means, but you’ll find out when you get older,”
She just made happy bubbles and looked at the stars some more.
Ugh, I completely suck, don’t I? But I’m back! To make a long, boring story short: Something that was bugging me about my FTP finally made me crack it, so I decided to investigate and, instead of prevailing over The Ebil FTP Demon I instead crashed and burned and my head exploded and I vomited at the same time. I summoned the help of Higher Powers (again!), and after a few clicks and emails my blog is back on track.
The annoying thing about this is that I completely get WordPress… It’s just the installation I don’t get. I read and re-read the codex many times and tried and tried and tried (and tried), but for some reason I always managed to royally screw up somewhere along the way. Confounding, isn’t it? The whole thing makes me feel dumber than Jessica Simpson after she questioned the difference between chicken and tuna.
So, the thing is, we moved house.
I know, right? It was really unexpected. Weelll. Okay. Maybe it wasn’t too unexpected, but it happened really quickly. I had always known that we were going to move house sometime, but when we did Dad and I had no idea what the mysterious house looked like because of our busy schedules. Fortunately, the house is lovely! I was really adamant about getting a room with a big window, just because I like to look outside and all, and I got my treasured window :D. Erm. We’ve been here about a month now, and it’s all going good. So, that explains the long absence and all.
In school news, our literature class (Not English, but I do that too) finished off an outcome that I was reeeeaally nervous about. It counted for 60% of our marks, so yay that we finished it. We had to “respond creatively” to a selection of texts- The Great Gatsby, Much Ado About Nothing, Judith Wright Collected Poems and Bypass. I chose to do Gatsby and I would explain what I’ve written, but it’s quite complicated if you haven’t actually read the book. I really love Literature. It’s like the psychology behind English.
I watched the film Requiem For A Dream. Wow, what a film. It isn’t a horror movie or anything, but it’s so striking and shocking. Not for the faint-hearted! It makes for some pretty tough viewing, especially the famed Black Arm scene. Luckily I watched it with a friend, whose circulation I probably cut off after grabbing his arm extraordinarily tight during the more intense scenes. Haha. If you plan on watching it, don’t watch at night, or alone, and bring many cute stuffed toys. I ended up pausing it and fetching my plush duck, Patrick, who seemed to handle it pretty well XD. And, also, the soundtrack is brilliant. It’s innovative, cold, and it totally suits the film. I must admit, I enjoyed looking at Jared Leto even though he was incredibly skinny (I read he had to shed a fifth of his body weight to play the part). I highly recommend watching it, just for the experience of feeling as though you’ve been shaken around a lot without actually moving. I want to watch π next, (It’s directed by the same person) but reading about it makes look worse than Dream. Oh well. It can’t be as bad as A Clockwork Orange.
I was planning to write more, but, again I’ve run out of time. Damn.
