January 2009 Archives

After spending five hours driving to OKC from Dallas yesterday, I didn't feel like I had a very productive day. We had our weekly meeting, which always seems to last longer when I'm there, and then the next thing I knew, the day was over. I met Allison for dinner (yum Musashi's, California rolls, fried rice and scallops), and then came home and got in bed.

Today started out much more productive--at 4:30 in the morning, in fact. I fell asleep with the TV on last night, and woke up dreaming about the fabulous Cricut machine that craft ladies were selling me in my sleep. And seriously, I mean they were SELLING it. I woke up thinking I needed a Cricut--the machine that practically makes the scrapbook page for you! I actually got online, found out that it would not, in fact, save me thousands, but rather cost me thousands, and is also on backorder. And unfortunately, doesn't exactly make the scrapbook pages for you.

On to reality. I then emailed a TON of people, but still feel like I'm trying to conquer the inbox from before December. By the time I got to work, I was feeling like the projects were under control. I sat down in my office, and couldn't think of a thing to do, so I started designing! I can't tell you the last time that happened--it felt so good for all of 10 minutes, and then someone needed some files built, some files approved, checks signed, spreadsheets okay'd. We are so getting things done, and THAT feels good too. I spent the evening straightening out stuff in Quickbooks. (Have I mentioned recently that I HATE Quickbooks?)

Now I'm watching Clean House. That Niecy Nash--take off yo blinfol an open yo eyes! What a hoot!

My apologies--comments are still broken. But I'm blogging!

What would I do without my blogs? I just learned that domino--dear, dear domino--is closing.

This is darling.

Just in case this whole Movable Type thing totally CRASHES and I can never post again, I would like to tell dear readers (found out I had 2!) that installing your own blog app can be infuriating. In the past two days, I've tried to blog three times, and to be quite frank, the text boxes only work about 10% of the time. One of those times being now, I thought I would alert you to the reasoning behind my lack of posting.

There is ice everywhere in TX and OK, and all I want are these: Cinnamon Sugar Puff Cupcakes and a Taco Bell bean burrito.

These evening naps are killing me. It makes no sense to fall asleep at 6 or 7, sleep for an hour, wake up, and then sit here wired until all hours.

In the blogging realm, I'm still having trouble with Movable Type. Can't get the comments to work, and half the time, the "new entry" button isn't working.

It is supposed to be really icy here tomorrow. Apparently, today was really icy up in OK. I'm looking forward to a day of home office catch up and organization.

Thrilling, I know.

So, progress on the blog was made. I WAY messed it up, and then had to reformat it back to this template. Much still needs to be done, but at least it's working for now. Minus the comments. Sorry, E, I still have to tackle that.

We had a really lovely night with my parents, aunt and uncle, and sister and bro-in-law last night. I meant to take photos, and completely forgot. Tonight, we're going to have dinner with the hubs family, and that will be fun, too.

My next challenge to myself is to start to add some photos to this blog. We'll see if I can come up with some for tomorrow.

And now I've gone and broke it.

I forget how far sleepless mornings get me sometimes. Blog has been upgraded from MT 3.13 to 4.whatever. Super easy--I take back my complaints about MT being hard to manage. Also, switched from drab blue template to dull white. At least white goes with, um, everything, and I can build on that from here. Also, teenage angst posts from my early twenties have been located and imported, just can't get them to publish.

I remember the last time I started out with a blog: it went from blogger, to a custom HTML blogger template, to MT, to a custom MT CSS template, until I shut it down. I remember liking the whole "ongoing project" feel to it--there really would never be an end to the changes and upgrades that could be made to a blog, and it was constantly improving on what had previously been built. Kind of like a scrapbook, except I actually have tried to go back and revamp my first scrapbook pages. Lesson learned: don't try to build on what was crap in the first place. Just leave it there as a sign of improvement.

Maybe I shouldn't publish those early twenties entries.

Morning soundtrack: Mamma Mia! I love Meryl Streep.

I'd have more time for this blogging thing, and more substance to add to these entries. Also, I'd know how to get away from this DRAB blue, which isn't my personality at all--blogs need at least a touch of froof, ya know? I'd figure out how to migrate off this old version of MovableType, which I used to think was cool, and now I just think is hard to manage and update, and I'd add back in the archives of all my old blogs, which would be, well, INTERESTING. Also, in a perfect world, my entries would show up in paragraph form in Bloglines. But, not a perfect world, so I'm just gonna have to live with it.

I did, however, manager to get the comments enabled (for all one of my dear readers, ha!).

I'm off to dinner with my best friend from second grade. How cool is it to have a connection that goes back that far? She got married a few months ago, and we are going to have take out at her new house. Fun!

Over n out.

I have been keeping up with a touching story lately: Harper Brown Stamps, a little girl with a pretty bad case of pneumonia, has an awesome mom, who loves the Lord, has an immense amount of faith, and is blogging about it over here. Pray for them.

What to say, where to start?

Semi productive day. I tackled the inbox, and projects associated with, which normally produces a feeling of accomplishment. Hubs and I watched Narnia: Prince Caspian this evening, which was much better than I expected. I hope they continue with the series. Facebook apparently went nuts today with all the inauguration stuff, and the stock market must have sensed it and decided to drop umpteen points. I'm not a big stock market follower, but I just want it to be steady, because it means people will spend money. And as the owner of a consumable products company, we need them to spend money.

It looks like, though, that we may be in for a doozy of a year. I can be the pessimist, I know, but as I tell the hubs, I'd rather be realistic than unprepared. All these people that are hopeful, are hopeful why? I'm not feeling it. We just inaugurated a guy who has very little experience, and some pretty unrealistic ideals (in my humble opinion). He wants to raise my taxes and pull jobs away from my friends. I don't get it.

Back to the grindstone tomorrow. I have a doctor's appointment in the morning and a full inbox again in the afternoon.

Every day, I read other people's blogs. It's a little voyeuristic, I'll admit. I'm astonished at what people are willing to share with the whole world sometimes, and I admire them for their strength. It takes a lot of courage to open yourself up for that much critique.

So, I'm just going to try. Not promising anything but effort. Substance may or may not be a byproduct of the effort. If you're lucky, I'll throw in a few pics as well.