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Surprise! What do you think? Not only did I completely overhaul the layout into something completely different (and more colorful, I’ll never go greyscale again), but I’ve done a lot of rearranging and rewriting. I’ve really been neglecting my site as of late, and I hate that! So I’ve got some plans, already have made some changes, and have some ready to go.
Anyhow, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve done this. In fact, before Enamored With Israel (which took me a ridiculously long time), it had been a year or two since I had really even touched a design project. For that reason, I would really like some feedback!
Happy New Year! And Happy New Blog, too!
Last year I made two New Year’s resolutions, and it was the first time I seriously attempted this. The first was personal, but I’d like to say that it was a partial success. In fact… not a bad job.
The second one I did share last year, and it was a wish to get my life moving again. Specifically, go to college. My first, knee-jerk reaction is that I failed on this completely, but the more I reflect back on it, the more I realized that I didn’t completely fail. No, I’m not in college. No, I’m not really any closer to going to college. No, I haven’t even taken another online class.
But it seems like the more that I push for it, the more I feel something pushing back. I know it sounds like a cop-out, but I’m starting to believe that I’m not supposed to be there just yet, for whatever reason. I’ve been focusing a lot on my job, and you know what? In the last year, I’ve gotten a major promotion and a three-dollar pay raise. For my first job, that’s not too bad. I’m management now, working full time. I have insurance.
This leads me up to next year’s resolutions.
So, six things. We’ll see how this goes, okay?
Does anybody want to beta a WordPress theme? Jessica is already, but I’d like another set of eyes and ears. To give you a heads up, the theme is pretty much based on the last theme I had on this site, Paisley. I’ve just about got it finished, so I’ll be distributing to betas within another day or so.
All you have to do is try the theme on your own site or on some other WordPress install, and tell me if I’m missing anything, if I need to change or fix something, or if it doesn’t even work.
Leave me a comment or contact me, and I’ll get the theme to you. Thanks!
I know, I know. But I put in at least 45 hours in at work the last two weeks, only getting maybe one day off, worked ten days in a row, and every time I came home, I fell asleep!
Spent a little bit of time tweaking my theme yesterday, but mostly what I did was upgrade to WordPress 2.5. I’m a sucker for new releases. For everyone else waiting to upgrade, the new admin sucks and just completely doesn’t feel right AT ALL, but fluency admin fixes it all. Mostly.
I’m most likely going to a funeral on Tuesday, and interestingly enough, it’s not for my own grandmother. A lady I’ve worked with for the past year and a half had her husband pass away on Friday, so a couple of us are going, mostly to support her. Now here’s my kind of random/shallow question: Do people still wear black to funerals? I’ve only been to two funerals in my life… one was too far back and I was too emotional to remember, and the other was kind of awkward and I wasn’t thinking about clothes at all. Would it be bad to wear like… blue?
Oh, stop laughing at me!
I’ve been getting this message from a million different directions recently… that life is too short for all the crap we’ve got going on. One of my closest friends could have died very recently in a car accident, and everything she’s been saying since has confirmed this. One little thing in your life could go slightly differently, and boom… you could be gone. Life is too short for all of the things we are and are not doing.
I feel like I need to make a lot of changes in my own life. A lot of changes. I feel resolute; I feel like this whole thing is so fleeting and I’m wasting my time with inactivity. I need to get up and go. I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, before you tell me that it’s not the new year just yet… I’m thinking more along the lines of “I want to check back on myself around New Year’s, and I want to see if I’ve actually done what I set out to do.”