September 2003
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Apparently I've decided that tonight is a no sleeping night. Why, I don't really know. It's just sort of become that. Because really I could go to sleep in a while I think, but then it would jack up my current sleeping shedule even more, so I think I've devised a plan. lol I'm going to stay up until I'm so tired I can't function. Then, at that point, depending on what time it is, I'll either take a nap or just go to sleep and then maybe my sleep schedule will be more so normal once more. lol I did it once a while back and it sort of worked. Heh.
But, I've been using my time, maybe not so wisely, but somewhat effciantly. lol First, I was trying to install a PHP script for questions, but gar to it because it wouldn't post the questions to the mySQL database, etc. I've a feeling that it's the database and the server this site's on and not the script, but I haven't decided to try it out on another one of my domains just yet. Perhaps later.
But, I did accomplish something that can be seen! I FINALLY got my Aaron concert pics up over at 4606.net. :D Yayness! lol There's 94 pictures up over there out of the 200+ that I originally took. lol And I still don't know how I took that many pictures. Looking back on it, it doesn't seem like I even had the time to do that, but apparently I did 'cause they're all on my hard drive. lmao
Other than that, I've also been downloading bits of the Backstreet Boys Yahoo! webcast back from the Black & Blue tour from Aceetha. She rocks because she has the whole thing and she's send it all to me. :D lol Ah... good memories. I swear though, every BSB concert I ever went to was always better than any clips I watched from other shows afterwards. Either I'm just special so they do better for me or it's just 'cause it was the concert that I actually went to so it meant more to me. Either way, I swear they were better, but it's still nice to watch the clips from the webcast. Especially their whole bit on changing. LMAO Too bad it's not from the second leg though when they were all dressed as old fat men. I think I could fall out of my chair laughing just thinking about it! Hahaha!
All right, off with me now. I think I need a bit of a break from the computer screen so it's some nice cold grape juice for me and then trying to plow further through Ender's Game. I went and got Loamhedge er... yesterday, but I can't start reading it until I'm finished with EG. It's just the way I am with books. Mom and I also went to Wal*Mart and she got me a little shelving unit for my bed-side and a new CD alarm clock radio since the one I'd gotten for myself a while back didn't work and when I went to exchange it they didn't have any more so I just got my money back. This one was cheeper though and I tested it and it works! lol I went to work as soon as we got back from that and it ended up being just Matt and me because Anthony just didn't show up. Don't know why, but whatever. lol It all worked out okay though. We didn't even get 20 people so we just took tickets at consessions. I think it almost works a bit better that way even. ;) lol But so yes... off I go. Ta ta!
Sunday, September 28, 2003
I totally forgot to mention earlier that I launched the fanlisting for "Hey You" by Aaron Carter the other day. :D No one's joined yet. :( How sad. Hope someone joins soon. *hint, hint* ;)
After I blogged earlier I was just getting motivated to do work that I need to get done when my mom asked me to come help with unloading the truck. lol So, I did. And low and behold, there were more boxes with "Holly" written on them so I got to bring them into my room. There's now just a path to the computer, my bed and a little bitty path over to the closet. lol Boxes are freakin' all over the place!!! lol I did find my Care Bears comforter and stuff though so that was good. :D I'll wash them tomorrow and then I can start using them on my bed. WEE! As soon as I get my room sorted out I do believe I'll take a few pics so you all can see because my room's cool. Or, at least, it will be soon. ;) lol
I did end up getting some productive stuff done though! *does a little jig* Yay! More will have to be done tomorrow. Which means I'd best get my butt off the computer here really soon and read the chapter in The Purpose Driven Life for today(even though I've already read that one, lol) and then read more of Ender's Game in the hopes to get it finished ASAP so I can start Loamhedge since I'm gonna go buy that tomorrow, provided all goes well. So, off I go now. G'night!
I'm hoping to get to bed at a decent time tonight so that I can get up before noon and go pick up a copy of Loamhedge from Barnes & Noble. I probably should have just ordered it off of Amazon a few days ago so it would arrive in the mailbox tomorrow, but egh, I didn't. lol Plus, one never knows, there could be an autographed copy like there was when I wen to get The Angel's Command when that came out. :D My other plans for tomorrow are to work on the still on-going paid site project as listed to the right in my to-do list. All going good and well(hoping and praying), I should be done some time this week. The sooner the better because then I can start working on other things and I'll feel good finally having accomplished it all and John will feel good having his site ready and going as well. Then of course there's work at the theatre tomorrow, but Tuesday's off. Gotta work on adding a few movies to the coming soon page for the theatre though. Blarg. Guess I should start that by tomorrow at the latest.
So let's see... last time I blogged was, *checks*, Thursday. Humm... Friday I had off of work so that was nice. Helped move more things then. Yesterday we moved more things and had Ben's dad(Ben from work) come over and help us move some of the larger items. He and my dad brought the couch and whatnot. It's nice to have the couch back. It's comfy. :D lol Then I went to work and worked both shows. I started reading Ender's Game before the first show started. I'm borrowing it from Brian K. So far I'm about half-way through the book and I don't really know what to say about it. I think it'll have to wait until I'm finished and have digested the whole big picture. It's keeping me into it though. I find I keep wanting to pick it up and continue reading and that's always a nice feature when reading a new book. :)
Today I got up early and went to church. Today was my projection day so I was there for both services making sure the lyrics and some Bible verses showed up on the screen when they were supposed to. As always, there were a few glitches, but I'm quick so it wasn't anything too bad. ;) lol Then I came home and tried to call some people, but no one was around so I went to Blimpie's and got a turkey sub, my regular there. I'm addicted and it's bad because bread and pasta are the majority of my diet and a lot of carbs and no exercise really isn't very good. Haha. I think I need to try and take a break, but man, those turkey subs are good.
After I got home with my food, I ate and then tried calling people again. I called Andrew to see if he'd be free for a movie with me and Autumn sometime soon. I was hoping maybe he'd be free today 'cause I wanted to go do something, but alas, all his free time was spent talking to me for an hour. Good thing I've got 500 weekend minutes since I had to call on my cell phone 'cause our phone's still not hooked up yet. lol Then I tried Autumn again and she was available that time so I talked to her for a half an hour. She couldn't do anything today either. :( Blarg. She said she had to clean her room. Rather doubtfull she ended up doing it though, but she was supposed to. ;) lmao So, hopefully a movie this coming weekend or during next week. I'm thinking The Rundown. It looks like it could be good. :)
Humm... mommy just got back from the old house and now she's ordering pizza. The stuff tastes oh-so-good, but man, more carbs! AHHH!!! lol I think I'll eat some anyway though. ;) Oh yeah, that's what else I did today. I went with mom, dad, Kenny and his wife over to the old house to get more things to bring over here. All I did was pull the last of my posters down from my walls and the door and closet doors. lol So now they're laying on a box right behind me waiting to go up here. There are boxes all over my room and I have no idea what's in half of them! lmao Not to mention, there's more of my stuff in the garage and I don't even know where in there it is. Moving is an adventure, that's for sure. Haha. All right, well, I'm off to try and be productive despite the distractions around me right now. TTFN!
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Hehehe. I just downloaded the clip of Nick and Aaron on Sesame Street from No-Kaos.net. lmao That was entertaining for sure. ;) And it took hardly any time to download it at all!!! I love cable. :D So yes, I'm at the new house and the cable's working and my computer's all setup and happy. Actually, the cable worked right away yesterday so mom and I brought my computer and desk over and setup everything. I had to go to work and then I picked up Autumn afterwards and we came here and installed all the drivers and software for cable on my computer. It took freakin' forever though! lol Sheesh! But ahhh... it was so worth it when it was done and all is so pretty and happy and fast-loading now. Thank you God for cable!
Autumn and I stayed at the old house last night while my parents stayed here and the new one. We didn't go to sleep until around 6 am. We hadn't meant it to be that way, but by the time we got home and watched Josie and the Pussycats, The Poseidon Adventure, two episodes of Saved By The Bell and talked for quite a while, that's sort of just what time it turned out to be. Oops. lol We slept pretty late and then we packed up more of my stuff and brought it over to the new house before I took her home. Then I had work and that went fine, pretty standard night and all. Then we brought my bed and my bookshelf and a few other things over to the new house along with the kitties. My poor sweet kitty babies. They were not happy. First we had to lock them in a room while we loaded up my bed and stuff, then we put them in the car and drove them over where they were promptly shut into another room so we could bring everything inside. They were not happy campers and poor Balf was quite scared. He hid under my bed for a long time while Angel checked out everything. lol That's the opposite of what it's normally like, usually Angie's the scared one and Balffers is all curious. But they both seem to be doing much better now so hopefully all's okay. :)
All right, well, it's already fairly late and I've got a headache, but there's stuff that has to be done before I can go to sleep. Blarg. lol That's just the way things go when you're trying to move and do everything else too though. It shouldn't take me too long at least. I just need to setup the page for the new movie starting at the theatre tomorrow. And I'd like to say that now that I have cable it'll go a lot faster, but it'll probably still take just as long. lmao TTFN!
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
I slept for a very long time again. Granted, I was up a bit late and all, but my total sleeping time was at least 12 hours. Do I really need THAT much sleep? I don't know, but that's what I've been doing off and on the past few days. And of course, I seem to dream most after I've been woken up by the phone ringing and then have fallen into this weird state of sleep and I dream very odd things. One of my dreams(yeah, I usually have a few), was about moving and we moved into the house that we were having built when it was done, but that wasn't the site it was supposed to be at, but apparently that was no problem. lol And then we had set up little archery targets(like mini ones) in the garage and were going to teach these little kids how to shoot, but my mom was doing it all wrong and when I tried to fix things she apparently just told the little kids to put the stuff away. I got mad and asked her why she did that and she said because she though it was just too hard for me to explain to the kids and it was taking too much toll on everyone. That was one of those where I woke up and I'm all like, "What the heck?" lol I've had some really whacked ones though. Stuff that I'll probably never tell anyone, period, because they're that just... odd. I don't know how to explain it. lol
After I finally got out of bed I took a shower and got ready and then mom and I went out to do errands. We had food at Pizza Hut(yum!) and then we went by the college bookstore so I could get my Russian books. It's a book with two tapes and I really want to open it up and start going through stuff, but you can't return it after the shrink wrap's been opened so I can't open it up till I'm in class and I know it's the right book, etc. Blarg. lol And you know what totally figures? Of all the book and tape sets to get for Russian I just happened to pick the one that has a bug in it! lmao It was a stupid bug that like, sat on the plastic holding right before they shrink wrapped it so it's stuck in there until I open it. It's dead. lol Figures I'd be the one to pick that one though. lol I noticed when we were half-way back to the car and I'm all like, "There's a bug in my book." Mom and I thought it was funny anyway. ;)
We then proceeded to go to what we thought was a Circuit City, but turned out to be a Best Buy. lol Oh well, we went in anyway. We need to get a network hub thing so that we can have both of our computers connected to the internet at the same time in the new house(we're getting a cable connection! Yay!). Only thing was that when we went there we got really confused. lol And then dad met us there so that he could help us figure things out, but we were still really confused so we decided we need to ask the cable guy tomorrow when he comes to install it at the new house and we might also ask some friends from church who have the same provider what they got. So confusing.
After that we were going to go by Office Max because that have floor mats for computer chairs to go on so that your carpet is protected on sale. Did that make sense? Haha. Anyway, turns out it's out of business now. lol So, we just went home. Oh, but we stopped at 7-11 'cause I wanted a slurpee. My mouth is probably still blue. *smiles* Can you see it? ;)
So at home I worked for a while on the site stuff I'll eventually get paid for. Yup, that was fun. It's not as bad as it originally felt though and things are coming along and I should be all finished within the next week and a half. I'm definately looking forward to that. :D I've still gotta get the new layout for the theatre site finished too. Gary hasn't e-mailed me back yet from some more of my questions. Blarg. I'm getting this unhappy feeling/vibe about that, it's not good. But then I decided I was tired of work stuff that's not fun so I made the layout for the "Hey You" fanlisting! Woo! I've got it coded, but I still need to add the content stuff and whatnot and I need to make codes. I think I'll ask Kriss if she'll make some for me. :D So maybe it'll be up tomorrow. Don't know 'cause I might hardly be home tomorrow. If all goes well tomorrow, we'll start moving into the new house. So I might not blog for a while because one, I'll be having to help move everything, and two, our new cable connection might not be up and running for a few more days. I hope that won't be the case, but one never knows. Hopefully everything will be figured out quickly too. Well, off I go now. I think I'll snatch up my cute kitty boy and take him out to the family room to watch TV for a while. ;) G'night.
Sunday, September 21, 2003
God's been very good to me today. :D My mom woke me up this morning before she left for first service at church, but of course, I didn't actually get out of bed until like 45 minutes later. lol Anyway, I took a shower and I was running a little late, but I still made it to second service on time so that was good. :) I had to sit by myself since my parents went to first service and had left when I got there, but it was okay. I didn't feel weird or uncomfortable or anything, that was nice. :) Well, I felt a little uncomfortable with singing, but it's not the first time, so that was no big. lol They sang one of my two favorite worship songs so that was nice. I didn't really get much out of the message, but there was something on the other page in my Bible that I read that was nice. :) "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe." - Philippians 2:14-15 Guess which part like like? lol It's the last bit about shining like stars in the universe. I like that. :)
After church I went over to John's house so that we could talk more about the website and getting it all finished. I had lunch with him and his wife Kimberly and one of their sons. Kimberly's so nice. lol She even fed me candy afterward and she's a chocolate lover which makes her even more cool. ;) Hehe. She let me try one of her new Reese(sp?) Peanut Butter Cups that have honey roasted peanut butter in them instead of the standard salty kind. They're like a limited time thing, but man, they were pretty tasty and you can taste the honey and... YUM! lol :D After that it was time to get down to work and that's when God was WAY good to me and helped me to de-stress about getting the whole thing done and He showed me ways to make it all easier on myself so now I don't have to freak out about it anymore. It was like this great set of moments where everything suddenly started to become clear and it was beautiful. I think God made me a bit of a better person today. :D Yayness, eh? ;) lol I think so anyway! So yes, now I'm not stressed or freaked out about that and I feel quite perky and that I can definately get it all done and do well on it. So I pray, and I could use some extra prayers too if anyone's willing, that my mood will stay positive and focused on God's goodness and love like it is right now because it's a lovely feeling. :)
I called Autumn when I got home and talked to her for a while. I'm going to be making her a temporary layout for her domain so that she can finally have it up now that she... sort of has the internet back. lol She has to get on it at night when her parents are asleep so they won't know. lol So, hopefully I can get that done in a few days or something. Nothing stunningly gorgeous, but something at least decent and nice looking for now. And after I got off the phone with her I did a chore and then here I am. :D lol Last night I did good though and I decided on a launch date for streeted.net and put up a little page about that there and I also wrote a frames tutorial for it. :) So I feel like I'm finally starting to get things accomplished. lol Well, off I go. I think I'll eat and then get some things done so I can still feel accomplished. ;)
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Well, I just finished Mattimeo a few minutes ago. And I would have been on to reading Martin the Warrior next because I could finish that one before Loamhedge is out too, but then I got books from Brian K. today so perhaps I'll start on one of those. He gave me Ender's Game and one of the Dragon Lance books to read. He was remarking yesterday at work about me reading Mattimeo and then we started talking about books and he reads fantasy stuff too so he said he'd lend me some stuff because he couldn't believe I'd never heard of some of the authors he was listing off. lol And then I told him if I like these books I may have to make him try the Redwall books again. ;) So, we'll see.
So yes, work. Yesterday we started S.W.A.T.. The first show we got 7 people and the second show I think we got the same, give or take a couple. lol It was pretty darn sad really. So, I got there today and I was all like, hey, we'll do better today guys, right? lol The first show we got 7 people again. And then Anthony was supposed to be working the first show and he never showed up and didn't call or anything! That kid, I tell you. ;) lol But then for the second show we got over 50 people so that was definately good. :D Only thing was that the two people who were supposed to show up for work then didn't either. lol We managed though and had some help from this girl who comes to talk to the guys all the time. She did soda and sold a few tickets so that helped us out at least.
I haven't been doing much else. Mostly work and sleeping lately. lol On Thursday I worked some on different web things for people. Unfortunately I still don't really get to work on my web things that need to be done. Blarg. lol I really need to get streeted.net open soon. I'm shooting for Kevin's b-day and I'm going to work really hard to get it done by then. Hopefully I should have some more time after the next few days. Ah, and I need to get my two fanlistings up that are waiting. And then of course there's all the other sites. Man, I really need to get my butt in gear! lol Well, I'm off for now. Must set about doing some work. TTFN!
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
My head hurts. And my knees are acting up yet again. It's my left knee that's just bad off, but for a while now my right knee's been rather mean to me. Nothing serious yet, just light pain and soreness, sometimes enough to cause a little favoring of that leg. And then today I did something to my left knee and it didn't sound nor feel good, but it seems to be all right now. Donno. And I think I might have a circulation problem in my feet. Don't know for sure, but they get freezing cold very easily when the rest of me is nice and warm. Well, save my knees 'cause they just like to freeze up sometimes. Ah, the joys of life, eh? ;) lol
I went and saw PotC again today. :) I got there and the guy who takes tickets hit on me again. lmao He said I was very pretty and then mumbled some stuff that I didn't really hear. Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered and all, but no. It's hard to explain and I don't want anyone taking it the wrong way so let's just not and pretend that I did. And I don't want anyone pestering me on this either because all it will do is make me pissed with you, aiight? Man, and everyone keeps trying to say there's a thing between me and Andrew. lol My Grandma asked my mom if there was and apparently my dad was talking to my mom and said something along the lines of are you SURE there's nothing between Holly and Andrew? Apparently I'm not allowed to know a guy and have him JUST be my friend. lol My mom telld me when people say these things and then she told me that she told my Grandma that she wouldn't mind if there was something between us. roflmao Andrew's a great guy, but I just don't see him like that.
Oh, and at the the movie today, I sat down and then decided I was too close so I moved back a few rows and then all of a sudden someone came up behind me and put their hands over my eyes! And they didn't even say anything so I'm all like, "ahh... I don't know who it is!" lol It was Ran! She was there with her boyfriend's mother and brother(no boyfriend though 'cause he's still overseas). So, I went and sat with them. That was so cool that they just happened to go to the same show as me. It was a God thing, I tell ya. ;) A very nice surprise though.
After the movie, mom called my cell phone to say that my bathroom at the new house had all the counters and stuff put in it so maybe I wanted to come by and see. So, I did. :) It looks pretty darn good and everything goes nicely together. Gotta do a bunch of touch-ups on the walls though with paint 'cause those construction people, I tell you, they can't leave ANYTHING clean! Oh, and most of the doors are in the house and the window sills are in and the wooden trim down by the floor along the walls. I'm not too thrilled with the way the trim looks with my wall colors, but what's a girl to do? So anyway, we should be moved in by the end of the month if all goes well.
Other than that, I went to work and Ben got a new cell phone. One of those new Nokia ones that's a picture phone and has the weird circle area for the buttons. Anyway, he was playing with the ring tones and he had Indiana Jones on there and I was all like WOO! lol He was gonna stick it on my phone until I told him that my phone's not that cool and can't have MIDIs as the ring tone. lol Oh well. He also had the pirate song from PotC. It was the bomb! lol
I came home and worked on the coming soon page I had to make up for S.W.A.T. which we're starting on Friday. I was supposed to have a new and improved layout to go with it, but my idea that was really cool in my head, looked like shmuck when I got it into Photoshop. lol I've got a few possible ideas for what to do now, so we'll see. But at least I got all the stuff up onto the current coming soon page template. It looks ugly, but has all the nessesary info so it's not terrible or anything. I had to upload it to one of my domains and send Gary the link so he can approve it before it actually goes onto the theatre site.
All right, it's time for me to figure out what to do now. I've got tomorrow off from physical work at the thatre, but I'm probably going to spend a lot of time on figuring out the layout and then I've got to do a whole bunch of stuff for the other paid site project. With the grace and good will of God, that should be done by this weekend. I can really only hope and pray though. And I still don't know what my work schedule is for the weekend and next week. Hope they upload it soon so I can schedule the rest of my life around it. Maybe I'll read. That'll make me happy. I finished Redwall the other day so now I'm working on Mattimeo which I need to finish before Loamhedge comes out on the 29th. Oh, and just for referance, I've already read all the books in the series that are out, I'm just reading them over again while I wait for the new one. I've been exhausting my book supply. There's a few books that I have which I started to read and then decided I wasn't really into them so I don't know if I'll ever try to read them again. lol I'm rather picky with the books I'll read. ;) Anyway, off I go! *wafts away*
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
My advice to you... NEVER, EVER watch Gangs of New York!!!! I do not even know what it is that my eyes have just seen! Holy cow that movie was... I don't think there are even words to describe it, but it was just WRONG! I rented it yesterday on the pretense that I'd heard from a history teacher a while back that it was a very good movie and was fairly historically accurate. Well, what ever of that movie was historically accurate, damn those people were stupid and sick! So NEVER, EVER watch Gangs of New York okay? Save your eyes 'cause don't I wish that I'd never watched it. YUCK! Egh!
Man, that whole bit has just defiled what would have been a completely happy and good entry here on my blog. I've a mind to delete it, but I want you all to know never to watch that movie. So, I will try and move on to the good, nice and happy things I'd originally planned on posting. So yesterday when I rented movies I also rented What A Girl Wants. I watched that last night and that was a cute movie. :) I liked it. So at least this particular movie renting experiance wasn't a total loss. All right, I must get my mind off of that movie.
Today I get to work, but it's payday so that makes it extra happy and nice. :) I need to finish the stuff for the theatre website layout tonight if I can. If not, it'll have to be done tomorrow, but I'd still like to go and see PotC so I must try to get it done tonight. It shouldn't be a problem at all either and I think it'll just take me a few hours or so. And I ought to try and make myself do some more work on the other site I'm getting paid for. It's almost completely done, but I still have to add pictures to all of the products which means I have to do a google search on every product and try and find pictures of them. lol What fun, eh?
And to end this entry on a very nice little note, I will share the news from Sunday that I didn't post before. :) You can call me Auntie Holly now. ;) lol Yay! lol I'm the "Aunt" of a little girl named Aowyn Elizabeth. :D Mom and I went and visted her and her parents yesterday at the hospital. They should all be home now resting more, I'm sure. Now, the reason I put quotes on the word Aunt up above is because I'm not actually Aowyn's Aunt. lol I'm her honorary Aunt and I feel quite special to be considered so. And so the girl(being me) who's got a bit of baby phobia is actually excited about this one. lol Now I must conquer my fears to hold the kid in a few days or something. ;) lmao Well, must be getting ready for work and whatnot now so I shall go. TTFN!
Sunday, September 14, 2003
I finished my room today at the new house. :) It was all done save for the lovely task of making the edges of my colors look better so that's what I finished up doing today. :) Now it doesn't look nearly as bad and in fact, it looks pretty darn good! lol See, when I painted with the cranberry color, a bunch of the paint bled through the paint tape at the edges so I had to do touch ups with the yellow. It took a while, but it looks all nice now so I'd say it was pretty well worth it. I also swept out the floor of my room and my bathroom. The floor stuff should be going in sometime near the end of this week. All the light fixtures are in already and the electricity works and that stuff. :) Our walk-through is two Wednesday from now and as long as that goes well, we can start moving in right after that. And then I probably get a cable connection to the internet! Woo! That excites me. ;)
Other than that, today I helped Ani figure out the bugs in her installation of PHPfanbase. And we did figure it out so it works now and that was good. :) And then I was going to help Sam with PHPfanbase stuff too because she was having problems putting multiple fanlisting into one database. But, we reasoned that it's just a problem with the host and she needs to move to a new host asap. ;) lmao Also, I installed a PHP tagboard over to the right so now you all can tag again! :D Hopefully there won't be any problems with this one like there was with the last one. lol I'm gonna pray for that I think. Hehe. :)
There's actually one other bit of news sort of thing partially from yesterday and also from today, but I'm not going to post about it yet. I'll probably post it later tonight or tomorrow, but I make no promises. It's pretty much a good thing. A little weird, but it's all good I guess. :) Well, now I must decide which of the many things I have that needs to be done I'm going to do right now! lol Decisions, decisions. ;) But, before I go real quick, I have questions!
Hey Hol.... do you miiiiiissssssssss me???? hehehe! *hugs hol and runs away*
lmao Ani, you dork! lol How could I miss you when I still talk to you on AIM all the time? ;) lol Nah, I miss ya. I especially missed you yesterday when I had a hankerin' to go see PotC again since it's still in some theatres. ;) lol But, alas, I didn't go see it. I think perhaps I'll take myself to see it tomorrow or Tuesday though. YAY! lol
What's better, Hol? LOTR or Harry Potter? What's better, the books or the movies? Which one has better actors?
Well, Sam, I don't know because I like them both a lot. lol And although there are a lot of similarities between LOTR and HP, to me they're in completely different corners. I don't think I can rightly compare them. As for if the books or movies are better, I'd have to go with movies. I've never read LOTR so that's why I have to go with the movies there. ;) lol But as for HP, I like some of the extra things in the books that they couldn't fit into the movies, but I sort of like the way they did the movies better than how the books are written. And the last part about the actors... shoot, I don't know! lol I way heart everyone in LOTR, but I way heart everyone in HP too and the guy who played Draco's dad is going to be Capt. Hook in the new Peter Pan movie which I'm fully pre-excited for. lol So... just take out of that what you will. ;) lol
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Well, all went well at work tonight with showing off my web skills if you want to call it that. ;) lol The guy currently doing the updates for the website(Gary) was quite impressed and said I'm definately capable of doing everything for the theater site. lol And then of course, Brian K. had to come into the office while I was showing this site and my personal site to Garry and Brian goes, "did you make that?" I'm all like "yeah." lol Then he asked me again if I really did make it and I said yeah again and Gary was all like, isn't it good and Brian rather enthusiastically agreed. I must say my cheeks grew quite warm with the enthusiasm of them both. lol Hope it didn't show though. ;) lol Anyway, I've got till Wednesday night to have a coming soon page created for our next movie. Which means I also get to play with the site layout and snazz it up a bit, hopefully. So, I've been praying to God to give me a good idea for a layout and the ability to actually make it. lol :D
Other than that, what I've done so today has been to work on that paid site project. Yeah, still working on that thing. It should hopefully be done really soon though and then I can finally be done with it and have some more time for my own website stuff. lol I found a script for a tagboard today too so I'm waiting to see about getting a mySQL database on this server right now. If I can't get it on here, I can just upload it to another domain and link to it from here. Either way, we're going to give it a shot again. :) Oh, and I'm still waiting for guestbook comments on this layout. ;) lol *hint, hint* But back to the tagboard, the site I got the script off has some good little PHP tutorials so as soon as I get the chance, I'm going to write my own script! :D I'm so excited! lol You should have heard me telling my mom earlier and she had no idea what I was talking about. ;) Hahaha. But anyway, I find the prospect of learning to write some PHP script really cool and it sounds like good fun to me! I've got an idea of what I want to write too so we'll see if I can make it all happen and get it to work. lol Okay, off I go. I don't know what I'm going to busy myself doing tonight now. I was gonna work on writing the script, but I do believe it will take me a while and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to start it just now. lol TTFN!
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Wee haw! New layout feat. my team! :D I was really lovin' that Nick layout so that's why it was up for so long, but then the other day I got an idea for a new layout and today I finally made it! lol It's all pretty with SG-1 and then my attempt at making the titles to my side stuff sound Air Force-ish. lol I don't think it really worked well, but oh well, I tried and I think my titles are COOL! Haha! Well now, this is awesome that I've put up two new layouts in the last two days because now I'll have some new stuff to show to the people at the theatre so they know they can trust me with their website. :) So, thank you God for that. :D
I don't think I've really got anything else to say, but I'm thinking about putting up a tag board again. I'm going to go find a script for it that I can upload to my server and then maybe I won't get freaky entries. lol Oh, and I'd really love it if you all would sign the guestbook and let me know what you think of this layout. The link's over there on the side. :) Well, off I go. Gotta get to work while I watch a movie. lol ;)
What's with me and my long breaks from blogging lately? I honestly don't know myself! lol I just keep doing other things and telling myself I'll blog later and taking quite a while to get around to it. lol Now let's see, what's been going on, eh? Well, Friday I worked and I watched Seabiscuit during the first showing. It was very good. Really long though and although I liked it and got quite into cheering Seabiscuit on, I don't think I can watch it again for quite some time. lol 'Cause see, I watched it on Saturday too since Autumn came over Friday night and then we went and painted at the new house for a while before coming home to make food and wait for Andrew to get here. He drove out here this time for our movie day so the three of us went to watch Seabiscuit again. He got here WAY late though so we barely sat down to eat when we all decided we'd take the food to go and run down to the theatre right then. lol Oh well, that seems to be the regular way of things when we go to see movies.
Sunday was church in the morning and then work again in the afternoon. I was hoping Ben, Brian J. and I were going to play Uno or another card game or something, but then these two girls came by that I don't feel real comfortable around so I went upstairs and read a whole bunch of Redwall. I'm trying to re-read all of those books right now 'cause most of them I haven't read for a good few years and it's nice to remind myself of what happened. lol And the new one comes out at the end of this month so I'll have to take a break from the older ones and read that one right away. :D Yay! lol
Monday I woke up early and gave Tammy a ride. We went and got hot chocolate and cider on the way to our destination as well so we talked and that was very nice. :) Then I went to work in the evening. And yesterday was pretty much the same thing except that we didn't have drinks in the morning before I dropped Tammy off. lol I had a very pleasant time at work last night though so that was good. :) I talked to Matt quite a bit more than usual since we were the only ones there for quite a while so that was nice. I like that I can talk to all the guys at work now. There's still a few of them I haven't talked to very much, but I'm working on it and I think they're all getting to like me a bit better too. lol They're all very nice guys. A little odd and they sometimes say things I don't really want to hear, but they're still very nice, good boys all the same. ;)
Last night when I got home from work I decided that I'd finish my layout that was in progress. Yes, I was making a layout and I hadn't told anyone about it yet either... that was amazing in itself! lmao And I hadn't told anyone that I was bringing this particular site I made the layout for back yet either so Kriss and Ani got to be all surprised when I was talking with them on AIM and finished everything and showed them. Actually, I showed my cousin Mike first too, but still. ;) lol Mike said I'm so talented and I should really get into that sort of thing for a living 'cause they make good bucks and I'm good at it already. lol I thanked him, but said I don't know about the whole doing it for a living thing. And it's sort of really God that made the pretty layout, not me. ;) Anyway, so are you interested in what it is that I've done now then? lol All righty, you can see by clicking here. :) Please sign the gbook over there and let me know what you think of the layout too if you don't mind.
So far today, I haven't done too much. I didn't get up until after noon so I haven't had a whole ton of time. lol I did some web stuff and then I watched a movie and ate with my mommy when she got home. Now I'm back on the comp for a little while again and then it's off to make dinner. Then I'll probably be back here yet again. lol I really need to get some things accomplished today on sites so please pray that God gives me the drive and desire to be very productive with the things I need to do. :) Well, off I go now to try and be productive. lol TTFN!
Thursday, September 4, 2003
Today I finished painting my bathroom at the new house. I got the second coat finished and everything. :) Tomorrow morning I either get to work on the computer room or put the second coat on the utility room. And Saturday will probably be spent touching up my room. Darn edges. lol Hopefully it won't take too terribly long and you won't be able to tell afterward that there were all sorts of boo-boos. lol That'd be nice so God willing, that's how it will be. :D
When I got home from that I rested for a bit and watched some TV with my mom and then it was back to my computer to work on lovely data entry... again. lol I got my catigory finished though! Well, sort of. Now I need to add the images to everything and that's going to take a while too. I've all ready got 11 hours in on working on this site. That's like more time I've spent on this one site than all the other ones I've been paid for combined! lol Oh, and it's pretty much confirmed now that I'll be maintaining the theatre website now. :) That one shouldn't be too bad. So now I just need to meet with the guy doing it now to run over a few things and get setup and then I need to figure out how much they're going to pay me for it. At first my boss was saying that I would just add the time to my regular time sheet and be paid only $7.50 an hour for it. I had to nicely ask her about that and then she realized that they'll have to figure something else out. lol
That's mostly been it today. I slept in for quite a while being that I was up good and late last night. I can't do that tonight or mom will not be happy with me in the morning. lol It looks like Kenny(my step-bro) will be coming to help us paint tomorrow morning. So hopefully with his help it will make it so that my mom and I don't have to do so much. :) And I think he's going to help on Saturday too and his wife might as well so that would be good 'cause then maybe I won't have to paint any more of the trim on the outside of the house! lol I don't like that stuff. Hehe. All righty, well, off I go now I guess. I'll be up for a while yet though because I'm only on BSB song number 20 out of the 60 that are on my playlist right now. lmao ;) We'll see how much I can get in before I have to go to sleep.
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
I know, I haven't posted in ages! lol What's wrong with me, eh? Well, I've been painting a LOT. lol Not the sort of painting where you make pictures, indoor walls. And normally, I don't mind that. I like to paint my own room so it feels more like it really is mine. But, I've been having a few problems with paint and I've got to paint my bathroom and the utility room too, plus then I'll have to help with anything else that needs painting and I'll probably have to help finish the outdoor stuff too. Blarg. Oh well, it must be done and mom and dad work more than me and can't do it all on their own, so I must help. The good news is that my room is done... sort of. lol I decided to paint it yellow and this sort of cranberry color and the cranberry paint wasn't very nice to me so now there's a lot of stuff that needs touching up. I knew there was going to be some stuff that would need fixing, but there's even more because the paint's not very good apparently. They had to give me a different kind that they picked for the cranberry color and bits of it peeled off the walls at the edges. Yeah, not good and I also had to put four coats on. lol It looks all right besides all of that though so that's good at least. I was gonna take a picture, but it's gonna have to wait until I move in probably.
As for other things I've been doing, it's mostly just been painting and work. I haven't had a whole lot of comptuer time so I haven't been working on the site I'm getting paid for. I finally got some of my own site stuff done though. Today I launched the fanlistings for Rigel and Galaxies. And then a few days ago I launched the Aaron and Nick fanlisting. :) And now I've got two new fanlistings that I've just been approved for as well. lol Gonna have to get the paid gig done before I do any more of my stuff though. I've managed to reserve tomorrow morning to work on it so hopefully I can get a good amount of stuff accomplished. It's not going to be fun, but I'll just blast music and it'll be all right. :D
Speaking of paid website stuff, I got a check in the mail today for $100! :D It's from some updating I did for one of my previous clients back near the beginning of summer. I e-mailed her a few times nicely asking when I was going to get paid, but she never e-mailed me back or anything. I was just thinking the other day that I should e-mail her again soon and then today there it was in the mail and when I opened up the envelope and saw the check I was all like, "Thank you God!" :) Woo! lol I was only expecting to get $50, but maybe she gave me more 'cause it took her so long to pay me, I don't know, but for whatever reason, that's okay with me. :D It's going straight into savings. Gotta start saving up for the next car insurance payment. Joy.
Oh, and some more website talk, it looks like I'll be doing the updating for the theatre site now. :) I haven't gotten all the details for it yet or confirmation that they're actually going to have me do it, but I'm pretty sure. That'll be nice. It shouldn't be too much work and it'll be sort of fun since it's got to do with stuff that I like. lol I mentioned to Ben and Brian J. tonight at work that I was probably going to be taking over the website duties and Ben said we need to make a section that's like meet the staff and have pictures and what everyone's favorite soda and candy and movie and stuff is. lol I was all like, well, if our boss doesn't have a problem with it, I'll create it and I won't charge for that. lol So, we'll see.
It's been a week since I've posted and I know I've done some things besides paint, work, and do site stuff, but I can't remember what they are. lol *shakes head* This poor brain of mine, it can't handle this busy schedule thing. I don't know how Andrew does it! lol He had practices for TWO musicals back in June or something, plus school and all the other stuff he wanted to do. That's just too much for me I think. Not that I want to be totally lazy or anything, but I like to have my chill time and whatnot. Well, I think I've posted enough and I really don't have anything else that I can remember to post. Off I go! G'night. :)
