Yikers! It be gone, the music be gone, time to allocate some energy in this direction :>
Now I remember. I lost the theme while window shopping something else, then forgot how to log back in to fix it.
Thanks heavens for google search - now I know how to get back here again 
The sun is out here, and the high fog that rolls in through the Gate and around Mt. Tamalpais is burning off. The sun is out, did I say how good it feels? To go outside and feel its warmth on my skin. Happy.
Life is still good in the fast lane. My workspace layout is not working, not sure how to go about tackling that. There is so much wonderful stuff in here . . . and it needs to be boxed and sent to storage and worried about some other time. But not today. Today I get that Spry dropdown menu up and running and looking the way I like it. Works in every browser in the world but IE. So many peeps use Internet Explorer and they have no idea it is broken and old. Oh well.
Back to work, :D)
Life is starting to get exciting around here. Looks like I have the go-ahead on Tajus.com, the boy who remembers pi. We decided his younger brother, Goo-Goo (Rohan), can be on it also. Now to find just the right theme, that his mother will love, that his father will approve, and best of all, that pleases Tajus.
I got my page back up this week. And I got the form to work today. Well, work better. Formmail.pl came in a folder with the hosting, so that is what I used. I didn’t like the way, when the user clicked send, that they got dumped on some white page, saying what they sent, with no way back.
I googled and I searched friend’s pages with forms, and I viewed the page source of so many other forms and I finally found what looked like what I was missing. And it was.
Guess I should ’splain that I took some XHTML/CSS classes last year, and repeated them a lot, and then I quit my day job, and now I am a web site designer. Oh Lord what was I thinking . . . Freedom, pure Freedom.
CodeAvid.com is a simple start. And a work in progress. Right now I’m changing the drop-down menus in the nav bar, which is missing while I work on it, to spry. I hear that is more dependable and certainly more long lasting.
February and March have come and gone.
January’s Birthday Calendar suffered a major set-back. I threw it out cleaning up my office this last time. I do remember holding it in my hand and thinking “hmmm, an extra calendar . . . don’t need that!”. The only solution is a Birthday Book. Something too expensive to accidentally throw away. A single, central, obvious place to keep the B-Days counted. And it has to be beautiful. And maybe hold photos of the birthday peeps.
My March project, the 3-D life, went much better. I met a web designer at one of my coding classes and we meet now at least once a week to review our projects and talk about work. I feel so lucky to have found her. Not to mention, she understands divs. She has div-magic.
This post is short today. I haven’t blogged in awhile and was feeling overwhelmed at getting back to it again. How nice to be getting back on track.
First, looking back at January’s Intentions, it turned out the first month of the year is a sparse one among my friends and family, for occasions that is. Fortunately, there is a birthday in February to get the ball rolling.
The biggest challenge I can see so far is assembling the ‘gift’ and then getting it to the Post Office. One of the Brother-in-Law’s has a spiffy new job and we are sending him as many books on business and selling and self-promotion as we can afford to mail - did I ever mention we have a storage unit filled with around 6,000 plus books? This will reduce the load by at least 20 ;D
So, in honor of January’s Intention to honor family and friends, I marked up a calendar with every date that I could find. And, I hung the calendar where it can be seen instead of losing it. There are more dates to add, but this feels like a good first step.
For February, I want to focus on reconnecting with my 3-D life. It is time to look up old friends that I haven’t seen in awhile. February is a short month, I think I’ll stick it at that. Check in with Laguna Beach, and the women in the city that I haven’t seen in an age but still feel as close as a sister to.
I think it is still too soon to state my ambition to have a go over at csszengarden.com.
It seems like my New Year’s Eve Intentions didn’t quite hit the mark. For me at least. I like the list of stuff I came up with, but stuff it mostly is.
What do I really want this year?
I want Prosperity, Happiness, and Closeness with Family and Friends. I want to be able to find the Positive in every situation. And I want to be able to do what it takes to support a Sharp Mind, a Healthy Body, and a Loving and Supportive Spirit.
Prosperity, happiness, closeness with family and friends, a positive attitude, a sharp mind, a healthy body, and a loving and supportive spirit . . . that shouldn’t be so hard.
Each month, I will cement this intention by setting a goal. For January, my goal will be to start remembering important dates in my family, my extended family, and my friends. Birthdays, Anniversaries, Graduations, and special milestones. My goal is to set up a system so I will remember and honor their every special occasion. How hard can that be?
I know I can do this. I know I will LOVE doing this. I know I will BEYOND ENJOY this January task - Cheers and Happy New Years!
Hello 2008
This year I would like to make some resolutions. I think I might have set about to do so in past years, but I can’t remember anything specific. So this year, I’m putting them where they can’t be lost. I’m putting them where they can be ignored, but not forgotten. I’m blogging this year’s intentions.
This year, I intend to learn how to structure a two column, header footer, web page, and then write elegant style sheets for viewing on a monitor, for printing, and for viewing on a handheld.
This year, I intend to aquire a handheld, as in iPhone, to view those fiiiiinely styled pages.
This year, I plan to explore photoshop, to the point where I can get a better result than I do using iPhoto.
This year, I plan to volunteer - not decided where yet - as part of my ‘make a friend’ campaign.
This year, I plan to walk the Tennessee Valley trail 10 times, 5 with a new friend.
This year, I will finally commit to a digital SLR. And lens. Which lens? Which lens? Which lens?
This year, and this makes me nervous, I want to get a grip on time. A - grip - on - time. As in noticing where the minutes go. This year. And not forget the looking up at the sky, on a warm summer day. Looking, looking, looking.
GTD. This year I need GTD . . .
Oh, and steps. Average 7 thousand steps a day first half of year, average 10 thousand steps a day the second half of the year.
There must be more. This is New Year’s Eve. I’ll revisit this New Year’s Day and see how I feel about this list so far.
I took the Color Quiz that I read about over at Dr. Ragan’s Psychology of Clutter blog and here are my results. I only took the test once, and I have a feeling my color prefs might be different tomorrow. So here are the results of the Color Quiz test I took this morning.
Your Existing Situation:
Readily participates in things that provide excitement or stimulation. Wants to feel exhilarated.
My Take: Just because I like orange and yellow, doesn’t mean I want to sky dive. I do like to have fun, and I adore excitement, but you won’t find me at the end of no bungie. OK, I do like stuff that makes one jump around and laugh like crazy.
Your Stress Sources:
Wishes to be independent, unhampered, and free from any limitation or restriction, other than those which she imposes of herself or by her own choice and decision.
My Take: Yes, I plan to win the MegaMillions lottery on a BIG day.
Your Restrained Characteristics:
Feels she is receiving less than her share, but that she will have to conform and make the best of her situation.
My Take: If I were still trapped in an office cubicle, working for Corporate, this would probably ring true. I do have conformance issues. I live with a Vegan Veggie, bless his green little heart, and conforming to his lifestyle in a way that works for me without offending his sensibilities takes some doing, you know, like making my morning coffee next to the stove with the fan on so the nasty coffee fumes don’t get in his face :>
Your Desired Objective:
Hopes that ties of affection and good-fellowship will bring release and contentment. Her own need for approval makes her ready to be of help to others and in exchange she wants warmth and understanding. Open to new ideas and possibilities which she hopes will prove fruitful and interesting.
My Take: Does this equate to ‘I just love telling other people what to do and expect them to be nice about it?’ Actually, these days I work as a Personal Assistant so I think there is a tie-in there. As for Fruitful New Ideas . . . oh please, no, I hate new stuff, new stuff is constantly crashing in waves around me. Don’t get me started on why I am taking another class tonight on using Dreamweaver to generate code, and why CSS is next on the list, and Forms.
Your Actual Problem:
Feels restricted and prevented from progressing; seeking a solution which will remove these limitations.
My Take: I think we just got back to the MegaMillions lottery and how thrilled I was when Gov. Schwarzenegger got it California in on it.
So what do I think about all of this? I like these little quizes, but I hate giving up personal preferences to strangers who have figured out a way to market them. But, since I am using a blog, might be time to get over that ;>
I’m learning about the music that works best for me when I am here at this computer. I put every CD I own that doesn’t suck (the rest went up for trade over at lala ) onto my old, pre-click wheel iPod, set up the entire smash onto one playlist, and run that on random play in my office. I use the Bose ring player, set on a towel, and it sounds good enough. I have stuff like West End Girls and Bibo No Aozora (Ryuichi Sakamoto), the Divas Exotica CD and Trance Electronica (head banging variety) to keep me going.
And today, I am also checking out embedding links in a post. Working within the WordPress format, I assume this will work, but count on nothing. I also assume that if I link to another blog in a post, that blog will hear about it. Again, I’m not counting on it and think I will/should/might notify them?
Ah, Van Morrison’s Spanish Steps from the Poetic Champions Compose CD just came on. I love that music. Reminds me of life on a pink cloud when I lived in Laguna Beach throughout the 80’s. Always I dream of going home again, and lying on the beach in the wind in November, waiting for a break in the swells to swim out to the reef and then along the coast up to Aliso Pier and back. The reef makes a noise all of its own, and you follow it when swimming so you don’t have to keep looking up to see where you are. And, following the reef is a good idea in case the fog comes in unnoticed. If you are swimming to the pier, you just turn right, coming back from the pier, turn left and follow you ears. Sounds easy, but the first time it happens, the panic can turn you around in the water so fast. Fortunately, Pacific Coast Hwy makes enough noise, that if you can still yourself, you can make it back to shore, I did.
Yes, music works for me. Which reminds me, I checked in on a blog called scrimblings. This blogger has been putting up clips of her favorite musics, and now I am a Brown Eyed Girls fan too.
