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Afternoon TV = HORRIBLE

Friday, May 11th, 2007

There’s literally nothing on television anymore. Lately I’ve found myself with my iPod hooked into my ears because visually there’s nothing going on in the background. Sure, that 70’s show is on right now and while I do enjoy the show I’ve also seen these episodes about 300 times. Tonight is a full 6 hour block of the damn show and I’m pretty sure it’ll all be the same episodes that I was watching for the last week. It can seriously get annoying.

I’m working rather hard on a PSD for a clien, proving to them that I can handle corporate websites, it’s just hard to concentrate for some reason. If I went deaf for the rest of the day, maybe I could get some serious work done. We’re leaving at 8am tomorrow morning so I know that I have to get a lot done, very quickly.

Slow Day

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I wasn’t feeling well today so it kind of messed up my drive to really accomplish anything. I did, however, get a few new domains in order for a future launch. One is a weight loss blog and the other is a blog resource for both professional and standard journaling bloggers. I used to visit a site called blogideas.com, they only gave you a few random topics for blog entries in case you had writers block. I’m going a bit further with it though. I’m going to offer everything from blog topics to blog templates, blog resources and other common misconceptions about blogging that some may not understand.

I’ve hired Sean to help me out with things. I know he’s been programming a fairly large site so I got on his good side and asked him to help me program the database for this. I’m already designing things as far as the administration panel is concerned, the template for the site itself is already done. I’m sure I could do a bit of the programming but with the design business being so busy lately, I had to bring in outside help. I’ve been playing around, quite a bit, with the new Web 2.0 styles (larger lettering, 3d effects, etc) it’s turning out to look pretty nice. I hope to have everything launched by June. I figure giving myself a deadline will kick my ass into gear.

I should probably get going, Baby isn’t feeling well and I should go spend some time with him in front of the T.V. before we both wind up falling asleep. My eyes are already starting to close on me at the moment, I hate that feeling.

Six Days!

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Atlantic City is six days away and I’m nervous because I’m sure I won’t win as well as I did the last time but I get to spend some much needed time with my father so it’ll even itself out. I have to remind myself that I have to call him to bring a few books down with him that I left at the house. I can’t believe I actually moved 3 states away with out my damn cook books. What was I thinking?

I did fairly well today as far as dieting is concerned. I stuck to it as much as I could, I did chug down some lemonade but that was at a moment of complete weakness and the rush of sugar kind of made my head spin. I’ve been drinking crystal light for so long that I almost forgot what sugar tasted like. I won’t make that mistake again though, that’s for sure. I’m working on getting baby into this too but he’s so set in his ways that I don’t know if it’s going to work. I guess if I keep pushing him, something will happen.

A few very busy days of work coming up for me, I’m psyched about it because that means more money to play with in A.C., Yep…I’m addicted but not to the point of wiping my life savings. I’ll go up there with the $1,000 goal I gave myself and just enjoy everything I can. I just hope I hit to big pots the way I did the first time ::Crosses Fingers::

Slept In

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

I’m kicking myself right now because I slept way longer than originally anticipated. I know I didn’t get to sleep until after 4am but I figured waking up around noon would be a solid 8 hours. You can imagine my surprise when I woke up to see the clock stopped at 2:40PM. I kicked myself out of bed and I’ve been getting a lot done ever since.

I’m going to head outside soon to get the flowers watered, I’m also going to probably be making a trip over to Super Fresh to pick up some ground beef for the dogs ($1.99LB – for 90% lean that isn’t bad). Then I’m getting some hanging plants to put up on the porch to help complete the overall look that I’m shooting for on the front of the house. I also have some work to do but I’m side-tracked because my list has disappeared and I have no idea what’s even pending to be done. I’m going to have to write everything down and weed things out from there I guess.

Busy, Busy, Busy day.

Friday, May 4th, 2007

I have to say that I kicked some major ass today. I completed projects for about three clients and I’m in the process of finishing up a fourth. I like when things go well like this, I really do. I’m set as far as A.C. goes so I’m not too concerned there. I also know that with a constant flow of work coming in, I’ll be a lot better off. I’ve been up since 8am and while I’m tired, I know there’s still a lot of work for me to get done so I need to finish that before my head hits the pillow tonight.

Unfortunately I fell asleep so early last night that I didn’t get the chance to bring Bella for her nightly walk. I’m going to make it up to her, however. She’s been eating very well today and before Baby and I go to bed, we’re probably going to do about two miles and she can crap wherever she pleases.

Tomorrow is going to be another busy day for me. While I didn’t get a chance to clean out the fridge this week, I did clean up the kitchen. Tomorrow I’m stripping everything out of the fridge and getting rid of all the crap in there. There’s food in there that can be thrown out. I know there’s a bottle of soda in there that probably went flat a few weeks ago. There’s nothing MOLDY in there because we’re all good on throwing out bad food. It’s just the spring and the fridge, of all places, really deserves to have a good scrub down every month just because of all the bacteria that can form in there. The same goes for the fridge in the office because I don’t know if Baby has EVER cleaned it out and since I’m keeping my water and yogurt in there – it has to be done. I may even drag it outside and power-wash it with the hose…heh.

Exhausted

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I’ve accomplished about 90% of everything I set out to do today. I’m done with the template for Ranee, I’m done with the PHP to HTML convert. I’m almost done with the WordPress upgrades and I’m waiting patiently on an email. However, I’m unsure if I’ll be getting it tonight. It’s after 3am and it was my intension to only be up until 2am. Baby is up and getting his work done, our schedules really don’t mesh well together at all. I just hope that he gets to bed soon because I know he’s got his ear infection so naturally he’s not feeling well. Yea, I know he slept all day, but I also know that he needs the rest considering he’s got ooze coming out of his ear.

I’m unsure of what I’ll be doing tomorrow, after all the work is completed. I’m sure we’re going to the market to get some shopping done. There’s literally no food in the house. I think all that remains is a can of soup and I’m the only one who’d actually eat that lol. I’m itching for some kind of meat though. I think I’m going to pick up some turkey burgers or something tomorrow. I’m low on Special K bars and Crystal Light as well.

I would get myself a pitcher so I can use that instead of the “To-Go” packs and constantly having to refill bottles. The fridge is a bit small though. I think I may actually do a clean-out tomorrow – something spilled in there that hasn’t been touched, now there’s a solid block of sticky stuff sitting on the bottom underneath the drawers. I’m used to the drawers that slide out for convenience (then again I’m also used to a 20 year old fridge with metal racks) so this plastic shit is agitating to me…lol.

I also need to clean the kitchen. Okay, so I do know what I’m doing tomorrow. Cleaning the kitchen top to bottom. I haven’t swept in over a week and I know the floor needs to be washed as well considering it’s such a high traffic area. Guess I should get myself to bed so I can start on it early, right?

Thunderbird is officially closed now so emails won’t be responded to as quickly as they were today. I’ll get everything tomorrow. Anything business based goes to krissy@agn-solutions.net, everything else goes to girl@krissy.nu.

Night all!

Tonight’s Breakdown

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I have a whole list of things that I need to get done before my head hits the pillow tonight. I’m four hours away from doing my 24 hour run and while blogging has cut down because of the fact that the Tuesday prize has already been given away – I’m still working on everything I possibly can to get everything in order. I admit that I’ve been slacking on getting the template for Ranee coded, but I can say I’ll have that done tonight, I’m going to start coding everything over to WordPress as soon as I’m done posting.

I won a bid on GAF a few moments ago so that’s another thing I’m going to have to get started on afterwards. I’m converting a site over from PHP to HTML which to me makes no sense but it’s easier for the client to edit everything so that’s the route to take. I’m waiting on a write-up from another client and then hopefully after all has been said and done, I can get myself to sleep by midnight – 2am at the absolute latest.

Baby fell asleep a little while ago, he’s battling an ear infection at the moment so he’s hasn’t been in the most chipper of moods. This afternoon I took a break after I last posted to do some things around the house. I wound up taking a walk to the mailbox with Bella so she could get out and enjoy the sunlight.

It’s beautiful outside during the day here. There’s so many birds chirping and flowers blooming that sitting inside is starting to get to me. The problem is that Baby can only really concentrate at night when he’s working so it’s hard to get on a balanced schedule for him, he just winds up sleeping during the day. I’d like to be outside more during the day, it just sucks doing it alone when you want to spend time with him, you know? Maybe by the time things take off with him we’ll be able to sync up again. Something to look forward to.

Okay, so I’m going to get my ass in gear on everything I have to do. This way I can do my two-miles before I go to sleep. Bella seems to enjoy it, she marks her territory every 10 feet it seems, it’s kind of funny heh.

9 Hours down, 15 to go.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

If you haven’t already noticed, I’m working on 24 hours of blogging. This plays in part with the fact that I’ve been waiting for the super special post to show up on PPP. For the entire month of April they were giving away $1,000 every Tuesday. It’s different this month and I’m itching to see what it’s going to be. I know for sure that I’m not the only one doing this, based on the PPP Blog a few members have also done the same thing.?Ǭ† I could just really use the money right now, I fully intend to get myself into school with it so I’ll cross my fingers and hope to see that special post show up sometime over the course of the next 15 hours.

I do have a lot to get done today, work wise, so the blogging may stop for a while but we’ll see what my inbox looks like. I may have something with one of the other 6 blog sites I’m with show up SOMEWHERE…heh.

Winding Down

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

I was keeping up a really good pace with blogging over the course of the last week and for some reason, yesterday, it seemed to all catch up with me. I wound up having absolutely nothing to say so that’s where my lack of posting went for yesterday.

I did get a lot of work done though. I’m about 80% done with the template I made for Ranee, I’m almost done with two other client templates, I’m also converting a previous clients site over to a new extension so it’s just been a hassle.

Baby and I were at the beach on Saturday morning, it was foggy as a bitch and you couldn’t see anything past 30 feet in front of you along the boardwalk so that made it a fairly interesting morning. The sun kind of appeared out of no where, not really much of a ‘rise’. That didn’t matter too much though because even with the sun you couldn’t really see anything anyway – it only made it worse with how it bounced off the clouds. Got home around 8AM and then knocked out until about 1. Last night we both went to sleep around 6am and now he’s still sleeping and I’ve been up for a few hours doing some work.

I just have a busy couple of weeks ahead of me. I have clients who don’t care to answer their emails – which is typical when you’ve got pending bills that total over $600. Hopefully those will be coming in soon or it’s really going to fuck up my vacation. I can’t be bothered with email because I’m going out to have fun, not be concerned with whether or not clients are going to finally pay up for something…it’s absurd.

In any event, guess I should get some more work done before I take my next cig break.

Pampering

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My toes have finally dried so I just sealed them with a top-coat to help keep them from chipping too quickly. Later on I’m going to blow my hair out so I can see exactly how my hair turned out. I dyed it last week but I haven’t done anything but keep it in a pony tail, as long as the gray is gone – it really didn’t matter too much to me. It’s air drying at the moment to cut down on my time in the bathroom. There aren’t any windows in there so having the hair-dryer running can get really hot, even with the overhead exhaust on. It’ll be worth it in the end…I hope :heh:

Baby and I haven’t really done anything, together, in a little while. We’ve gone out and walked on the beach and all but it’s been a while since we’ve had a date night since we’re so eager to save our money up for the casino. With a few extra payments coming in for both of us, we’ve decided that tonight we’re going to go out for dinner and then tomorrow morning, around 5AM or so, we’re going to head to the beach. The storm will be moved over to the Atlantic Ocean by then and I’m sure there’s going to be a high surf advisory sometime in the near future because of it. Beach Erosion, as bad as it may sound, if you’re standing there watching the waves crash in – it’s both chaotic and relaxing. It’s hard to describe, but it’s a peaceful experience all the same.

The sky is turning black and the rumble of thunder over-head is telling me that I’ll have two scared dogs at my feet within the next few minutes. I’m going to unplug my laptop and probably disable the internet because I really need to get my ass in gear with that template for Ranee. I threw some things together last night, I just need to finalize the top 3 and send them off to her. I use less battery when my network is disabled so I think that’s the route I’m going to take.

Ut…big boom – time to go.

Slow start

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I didn’t wake up until after 12pm, but considering I got a decent amount of sleep I guess that doesn’t matter too much. I’ve been productive in my three hours though. I took a nice long shower, updated my toe nails because it’s been about two weeks and for some god-forsaken reason, when one nail chips they all follow. I think it’s because I’ve been wearing sandals so often so maybe the air is getting to them, I don’t know – I’m trying to find any excuse for why it’s happening but whatever.

I haven’t started any work yet, I know (SLACKER!) but I’ll get to it soon. I have some email to go through before I can open up Photoshop anyway. I’m going to have to reinstall Windows over the course of the next couple of days. I’ve been trying to avoid it but I can’t open a program without something stalling so I think it’s about time. I’m in the process of transferring everything over to my external hard drive so I can easily shift things around after the reinstall. The big issue is the fact that according to “My Computer”, I only have 15GB of disk-space left. I had Baby look at it and it makes no sense to him either consider the folders that normally contain the larger files are only really using about 20gb of space. There’s a 70gb hard drive in here (the 10gb is the backup/windows drive) so I hope I’ll be able to figure things out.

I’m still working on getting my graphics card, this is why you’ve seen so many paid posts out of me for the last couple of days. The card I want is about $120 and I really have no choice in the matter as far as performance goes. In the future I’m going to have a dual monitor setup so I’ll need something that can handle that. The mother board only handles PCI-Express so that’s another factor. In the end, however, I’m getting a 512 card and if I had over $1500 I’d shoot for the one gig card. There’s no real point in that though, for $1500 I can get myself an iMac and then use that for all of my heavier graphics needs.

In any event, back to work I go.

Storms, Boyfriend, Vacations, etc.

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

A pretty nasty storm came through here last night. In the mid-west there were a series of tornadoes touching down and part of that storm made it’s way over to the east coast and basically flooded the community. There aren’t any real drainage systems and since all of the roads in this complex are fucked up, it just leaves massive puddles everywhere.

I went outside long enough to watch the drenching rain and the lightening shoot off like fireworks. It kept me entertained for a while and baby reassured me that since we’re right on the water, storms like this are frequent in the summer. Being as I’m a nut for any and everything STORM based, this made me very giddy and content with my choice to stay down here perminantly.

Our 10-month was on Saturday, we didn’t do anything special for it considering we’re saving up for our trip but that’s not too big of a deal considering we spend every single day together, to the point that we get on eachothers nerves if we don’t separate. I can’t wait until this vacation thing is over so I can go back to working outside of the house to getting bills paid. It’d be stupid to get an outside job when I’d already have to request for time off in two weeks, it’s not worth it. So I’ll do what I have to do after we get back from Atlantic City and then go from there.

For now, I guess I should get back to work so I actually have the money for the casino, eh? LOL

Updating…somewhat

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I’m in the process of moving categories and entries around so if things happen to look messed up sometime over the next few hours, don’t contact me about it, I’m most likely working on it.

I’m working on setting up Category based template files because I’m involved with so many different Paid-to-Blog programs that it’s kind of unfair to have all of the PPP footers linked for the other sites. Nothing wrong with PPP, I’m making a butt-load of money off them, I just don’t think it’s fair to keep a static image there for a sponsored post that I’m not being paid for through them.

Things with Baby have calmed down a bit, we talked it out and I let him know that if he keeps the bull-shit to the level it’s been for the last couple of days, I’m packing. I don’t like giving ultimatums but I also don’t like living in an angry environment. While I’m a highly confrontational person, I don’t blow up for no reason at all.

I’m still in the dining room, I have been all day. A massive storm came through here tonight which stopped me from finishing up work I’d started this afternoon. It was a fairly fruitful day. I pulled in about $120 which isn’t bad for a 6 hour day. I’m bringing in about $400 tomorrow. Plus I think there’s still like $200 worth of PPP’s coming in sometime over the next two weeks so it’s safe to say I’ll have met my goal for Atlantic City alot sooner than I’d planned. Considering I’m going up on May 12th, I guess it worked out perfectly.

I’m still waiting on my Paypal Debit Card to show up because you can’t take more than $500 out of the bank each day (ATM wise) and since I don’t have a bank account down here yet, I can’t exactly take $1000 out on my WAMU account. So I’m splitting it up and doing the double withdrawals. Makes life easy.

In any event, it’s after 5AM and I really need to get myself to bed. My back is KILLING ME from sitting here. I can’t wait until my new chair shows up. ::swoons::

Abscent

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

It’s been a pretty busy couple of days, which of course would explain my absence. I just spent the last hour going through email, commenting back on sites and putting some final touches on my May template before I actually start coding it for WordPress. It’ll look a bit different than what I usually do. Visitors will notice the lack in banner ads because I shifted things around a bit. It’s not like you won’t be able to see them, but they won’t be so prominent on the page.

Right now I’m waiting for Baby to get back from the store, it reached about 90°F (32°C) today and since it was as warm as it was we decided a BBQ would probably be the best way to go. So the burgers are ready but I’m waiting on him to bring home some buns, cheese and hot dogs. I’m not a huge fan of burgers, I only really eat them when I’m in the mood for them. I don’t think tonight is going to be any different.

We’ve got the air conditioner on because there really was no other way to go about the rest of the day. It’s just too warm to even be comfortable sitting alone, let alone surrounded by heavy furniture that holds heat very well. Even now I’ve got my laptop propped up on the table so I don’t have to feel the fan on my legs, it’s pretty shitty but that’s going to change within the next few days. There’s supposed to be some big storm coming this way on Thursday so I guess we’ll find out just how much cooler it’s going to be. The weather report even says some shower activity tomorrow, but more lightening/thunder than anything – who knows.

For now I need to get back to what I was doing, I figured I’d update to get rid of that dumb A+ Certification post considering it’s been sitting up for so long.

Maybe sex DOES sell?

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

According to the 200+ messages that’s spammed my Inbox for the past couple of hours, I seriously need to consider purchasing Viagra. Based completely on the fact that I don’t have the right parts for Viagra to work, I took the “purchase” end of the deal and now I’m surfing the net for interesting products to keep me happy.

I’m in the process of ordering a new graphics card, I may even buy Bella a new bed. I’m also considering loading up on new towels for the bathroom because Baby insists on using black towels and there are little black lint balls all over the house (white rug, easy to see).

Long Layer, Hair cut.I dyed my hair today because the gray was just shining through and really pissing me off. It didn’t cover the gray as much as I would have liked it to but at least my roots match the rest of my hair again. I’m searching high and low for a stylist because I’m in desperate need of a hair-cut. Since the last tragedy with my hair is now growing out, I’m confident that in the right hands I can get my hair back to where I wanted it to be. I want nice long layers with a touch of highlights. It’s how I’ve had my hair for years and I know, for sure, that there’s got to be ONE person in this entire freaking state that can give my exactly what I’m looking for (image to the left).

So now I’m off to finish my shopping and then I’m going to bother the boyfriend to figure out what he wants to do for dinner tonight. Neither one of us ate today (too busy with other things) so it’d be nice to sit down with him for a little while without having to concern ourselves with work.

Cabin Fever…

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Is it possible to get cabin fever two nights in a row? Last night I kind of forced baby out of the house so we could go down to the beach. Sure, the waves and everything were great but I just really, really wanted to get out of the house. Now it’s a little after 11PM and although he’s busy working in the office, I kind of want to go bother him to see if he’d be interested in going back to the beach for a little while. Both of us seem to work better when we’ve spent some time on the beach. Based on the weather report, it’s still a bit cloudy outside but there also isn’t really any rain in the forecast for the next few hours so maybe I can use that as a selling point.

I just finished watching The Riches, god I love this show. OH! I almost forgot to mention – I was approved to run it’s fanlisting. So I need to get my butt in gear and get that setup. I don’t want to do the basic “About – Rules – Codes – Join – Members” crap, I think I’m going to go further with it and do like cast bios, photos, quizzes and other shit…just to keep it interesting. It’s going to take quite a bit of work but I can setup the basic site for now and then expand with it over time. I’ll be registering a domain for it in the future, I need to get $60 together to register k.nu because it expires in a few weeks. I guess I need to get my ass in gear on more work – eh? LOL