I’ve moved.

I deleted all my silly comment rotation things, spruced up the few pages I have and whipped up categories into shape. Hooray for a fresh start!

Seeya!

MS Paint lolz.

I got the idea from Kaylee.

My brother saw me doing this and said “So, you are gonna study art, right?”

Speaking of bunnies, we once had a bunny who we thought was a boy but he gave birth to five things that resembled cottonballs and made soft squealing noises. They were so cute! But we had to give them away because we only had room for two buns :(.

Yesterday I bought Influence! When I first heard about it I brushed it off because I was never interested in the Olsen twins at all. But this book is hardly about them, and the people they conducted interviews with are people I like and find inspiring such as Peter Beard, Bob Colacello, Terry Richardson and Karl Lagerfeld. I kind of think Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are adorable now. Also, the book itself is quite beautiful. The way it’s put on the page, the polaroids, the typography etc. So, I was pleasantly surprised. I am happy I bought it.

I have an inkling of an idea about moving my blog to WordPress.com. I suppose when I first started back in ‘05 I was really concerned about getting traffic and all that, and I don’t care as much now. For the most part I just like to read blogs I like and write about my life and stuff all the rest. I wish I cared more about the amount of comments etc. I get, but I don’t. I have no idea how many people visit my blog because I don’t have a hit counter or anything like that, but I used to. So, I might do that. Sometime. When I can be bothered…!

This will most likely be my last post for the year so… Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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.

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