Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

Newer Entries »

Screw April…yay May!

Monday, May 1st, 2006

As of midnight it’s officially May. In keeping with the usual “new theme every month” routine, there’s a new template up. I thought it felt very spring-like without being a total eyesore, to me at least. I’m happy with how it came out though. I haven’t really experimented with colors this way before so I was glad to do it.

Work Related…
I’ve been kind of busy lately. I’m happy to announce that I’ve landed a very, very big client and I’ll be working with him for the next couple of weeks. I’m getting about $1800 from this project and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m to a point now where I have a whopping $52.54 in my bank account and there are quite a few bills to pay. Fortunately I’ve got the servers on credit for the month, so I’m going to wind up having to pay them off when I get the remaining 80% from this client. That’s not too big of a deal though, I’m not overly concerned. Tony knows I’m good for the money and that’s all that matters.

I’m just going to be VERY, VERY busy for the next couple of weeks. I don’t mind though, I kind of need that right now. April 27th 2006 would have been Joe’s 25th birthday. Unfortunately, since his death, I haven’t really done any work. I’ve done a few odd and end jobs, but other then that I haven’t really done any corporate based accounts (that’s where the real money is). Thankfully this client will get me out of my rut. All summer plans should now be full speed ahead.

Laptop Related…
I jumped the gun a few weeks ago and already purchased my wireless router. It only cost me like $5 so it was definitely not a dent in any sort of spending budget. The router originally was $69.99, it was on sale for $49.99 and I had about $50 in gift certificates to Circuit City. I basically just paid tax on it. So, I’ve got my router. In a few weeks (when I get my final check from this client) I’ll be heading to HP.com and putting my order through on the dv800z laptop. After configuration and tax, and before the $50 mail-in rebate, it’s going to run me $1,423; which is fine considering that’s $77 under budget. I’m still getting $50 back on it so then it’s really $127 under budget. I’ll then be heading to NewEgg.com and ordering my mouse and flash drive. My printer is a piece of shit, so I’ll be unable to network it so that I can print from the Laptop. The flash drive is easier than hooking up a USB/ZIP drive and transferring everything over. So I’ll just spend $15 on a 1-gb flash stick and the rest is history.

School Related…
I’m still waiting to hear something from school. I was finally emailed back about my essays. I sent the essays out on April 3rd, apparently they didn’t get there until April 11th, which I find to be a bit weird considering they were only sent upstate. I don’t know how long it takes for them to actually GRADE the essays and I’ll tell you that it’s ticking me off to no end that they haven’t even been looked at yet. I worked really, really hard on them and it’s kind of annoying that they’re taking their sweet time. I’m thinking that’s based on the fact that I’m paying for school monthly though. If I would have just given them the $550 up front, I’m sure that it would have been graded already. But since I have another 10 months left before it’s fully paid off, then obviously they can take all the time they want.

This doesn’t mean I’m not going to keep pushing it though. I’d like to get my degree ASAP damn it.

Miscellaneous…
Tax season has come and gone. Dad’s getting back about $5,000 and I owe money, but hey – that’s life! He’s made it a point to say that he’s going to be getting new couches for the living room. Many of you may (or may not) know that a little over a year ago I bought a big double seater wicker chair off Ebay. It was in my room for the first six months or so and then we started moving things around for Christmas and realized we needed another couch in there. So now, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m couch-less. At the time of my purchase, we only had a loveseat and a chair in the living room. The love-seat we’ve had for about 10 years and it was falling apart when we got it. So now, we’re going to head over to some close-out furniture store and pick up a nice new set for about $500. I kind of thought it was going to be an uncomfortable set considering the price, but once I sat down I was in HEAVEN, my back didn’t bother me AT ALL and that’s a very, very rare thing these days. So thankfully in a few weeks I’ll be able to get my couch back in here, this way I’m not stuck in my bed whenever I’m reading. Usually it’s comfortable but now I’m going on six months without any kind of comfort what so ever. :hmph:

So if you haven’t already picked up on it, I’m rather excited about May. March and April turned out to be some very shitty months, I’ll be glad to start picking up and moving on. I’m still very upset about Joe’s passing, but for the most part I know that he’s still here with me, and that’s helping me to wake up in the morning. I guess that’s all that matters.

Site Related
I’ve gotten myself back into a few comment sites. Despair, Exentrique and of course Xposure. Sofar I’m content with them, I’ve already been yelled at by a member or two because I report users who don’t comment, sorry for ya but I follow the rules…unlike you. I’ve wanted to get Provance back up and running for quite some time but am unable to afford the script. I’m really, really ticked off that Russ bought it and let it fucking die the way it did. I’d beat him for it, if he wasn’t MIA for crying out loud.

AcidGloss Related
After a very long down time AcidGlossNET is finally back up and running. My portfolio, as well as design site is all setup into one big site that I’m actually HAPPY with. I intend to add more to it over time, but it’s going to take a little while. I figure, in order to keep on top of things, I’ll just add sites as I create them. It makes things easier.

In any event, this post has gotten a little too long and I’m sure you’re growing bored of it, so I’m going to head off.

What do you guys think of the new theme? Is it colorful enough for you? haha

Posted in School, Sitely, Soul Mate, Work | 26 Comments »

Long time…no post?

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

It’s been such a long time since I actually had the drive to blog. There’s really not anything going on right now though. I’m still having trouble with Joe’s passing, so much that being alone at night is really starting to get to me. I’m always anxious about something and it’s truly a pain in the ass at this point. I guess I just need to take a vacation, who knows.

Last Saturday, my aunt talked me into going up to Mohegan Sun with her. The casino is HUGE! I easily got lost a few times LOL. I brought up my last $10 with me, and daddy (for some reason) gave me $50. I managed to blow through his $50 in about 10 minutes, damn slot machines. I did, however, turn my $10 into $600 after I got lucky on TWO very, very nice machines. The issue is though, I got greedy. So instead of cashing out and putting it all in my pocket – I kept going with ‘bet max’ and weaseled myself down to $200. I did cash out after that, I just don’t really remember what happened – money wise – because I only came home with $48. So in reality, I lost only $12, but considering Daddy didn’t want his money back – I’m up $38. That counts for something though, right?

I’ve been putting a few dollars aside lately, and I’d like to get a little nest egg together for my next trip up there. I’m not going to say that I’m ?¢‚ǨÀúhooked’; I just know that I had a very, very good time. It was nice to get off the island for a day or so. We left around 10 am; it was a 3 1/2 hour drive up (thanks to major traffic on the bridge). We were in there for about 14 hours, and then made it home around 7am. I wasn’t that tired though, considering I don’t usually go to sleep until 8-9am anyway. What kind of freaked me out was once I went to lay down I was KNOCKED OUT. That’s not an easy thing to do, at all.

I told daddy that once I graduated, I wanted to go back up there. I’ve been working my ass off all weekend on essays. I’m totally done with all of the multiple choice questions with the course, I’m just down to two completed essays to send in and I’m officially a graduate, I’m happy about it. Heather proof-read it for me, helping me fix my punctuation mainly. So now, although all of that is ‘perfect, I still feel as though the grade is going to be a bad one. At this point, as long as it’s over an 85 – I really could care less.

The next essay that I have to work on is a small auto-biographical one which should really only take me twenty minutes to complete, however, I can’t bring myself to write the last paragraph. The first two were fairly simple; describe where you grew up and who you grew up with, the members of your household, etc. The final paragraph is to write about your most recent memory, and I just can’t do it. Anytime I’ve gone to start, all I can see is Joe laid up in that coffin looking very unlike him because of all the fucking make-up. I’ll eventually get around to knocking it out though. It’s my goal to be finished with it by this evening, and although its 6pm now, that doesn’t mean evening for me, once the sun fully goes down then its evening. So I figure sometime over the course of the next few hours things will fall into place.

I’m still looking for as many jobs as I can find, website wise. I know once all the school stuff is out of the way I’ll be going up to the hospital and applying there. My issue would be that since I don’t have a car, if they went to put me at another hospital…I’d be screwed. I don’t work well on public transportation and there’s no way to get someone to drive me out to Syosset every day, especially if it’s a morning shift. Bad, bad bad.

So if you’re looking for a template, or a domain and hosting, just head over to AGn Solutions, and note that on all weblog based templates, just write down ‘k.nu’ in the subject of your email and I’ll instantly crop 50% off the price, so instead of a WordPress template costing $75-$100, it’ll cost $30-$50.

In any event, I’ve said all I could say. I have to get my mind in gear so I can go write the last paragraph of this essay.

Later all!

Posted in School, Soul Mate, Work | 4 Comments »

What the hell…

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

I don’t understand how I woke up this morning and knew all of Joe’s passwords and email accounts. Sean said that Joe was telling me everything but I’m just too confused for words at the moment. I got into his gmail account as though he sat here and typed it for me. The password just rolled off my fingers and went from there. I updated his myspace.com account. Not many people on his list are aware of his passing, I also believe that not many of them care.

I have to hand it to him though, even though he knew he was dying he still had his typical player energy going through him. About four girls lined up and the rest went from there. Quite the stinker ain’t he?

In any event, I have a big client to start working on. The freelancer shit might not die out just yet, I picked up a big client for a WordPress template and based on word of mouth – before I’d even STARTED working for this guy, he referred me to two more people. HOT SHIT!

Posted in Soul Mate, Work | 1 Comment »

I’m alive.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

I’m alive (sucks doesn’t it?). I’ve just been so busy with work and school that I can’t think straight. I worked on two big accounts for WordPress themes through GAF. Plus the Stein account and then Focused Pro through Source-1; I’m just BEAT. If I have to look at one more line of code I think I’m going to shoot myself.

It’s taking me a little while but I’m working on moving all of my listings around. So far I’ve got all of the fanlistings moved over to their new addresses and changed over to Enthusiast, which is quite the nifty of programs. I’m slowly working on my hatelistings but that’s because I slacked off on them and have about 600 members to approve (in total) so that’s taking me a while, but I hope to have it done before March. Then I can get my cliques, portals and rings moved over and all will be well again.

The only reason for doing it is because I’m completely wiping out acidgloss.net and starting fresh with my portfolio. Having all of those listings under one set program makes things easier, statistically at least, when I setup the collective section. For now, I’m taking it slow.

Olympus SP-350 Oddly enough I’m getting quite a few valid referrals for the Digital Camera offer even though I’ve been pushing the Notebook Offer. Either way it’s great, so thank you to everyone whom has completed an offer for me, it’s greatly appreciated. With the camera offer you don’t get the choice of money as a prize so I’m going to get the Olympus SP-350. It’s an 8 mega pixel digital camera, more then I’ll ever need but it’s free – so why not?

The stats are:

Olympus SP-350
   * Olympus SP-350 8.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera
   * 3x optical, 5x digital zoom
   * 2.5″ LCD display screen
   * 25MB XD memory card included

Not too shabby – right? I can’t wait to get it. I know for a fact that if anyone touches it I’ll rip their face off. I’ve had BAD LUCK with cameras in the past. I lent my webcam to someone – they broke it. I lent my digital cam to someone, now the flash doesn’t work. This one is going to be put in the safe until I need it. Hmph!

Now for non-internet related.

The weather this week has been horrible, well not horrible but uncomfortable. I like cold weather, but that’s because I know when it gets too cold I’m able to come inside and warm up. Well…our heat is broken so on those nights when it was -2° it was only 35° in the house. Usually I wouldn’t mind that, but when you’re trying to sleep it’s hell. Bella made her attempt at hogging the covers and even then wound up dragging a blanket under the bed with her. Which was probably only a little bit warmer considering the heat downstairs is working fine. It’s just OUR apartment though, it sounds as though the waters moving through the radiator, there’s just not enough pressure behind it for any good amount of heat to come through. It’s just my hope that it’s fixed eventually. I can only sleep with so many blankets before I feel like something?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s crushing me.

I’ve started with the room remodel. I did some poking around Home Depot the other night and picked up some color samples for the wall. I went through the carpet section to find a nice texture and so far I’m pretty happy with what I’ve chosen. I just need to get the money together and go pick it all up. I’ve already rearranged my room. I got sick of looking at the wall and really wanted to see the seasons change. It’s also nice to be able to look out the window without having to get up. I’m nosey like that. If all goes well everything should be complete within the next month or so. I’m pacing myself because although its something I really want to do, it’s not on the top of my priorities list because it’s not something that I NEED to do…you know?

In any event, it’s almost 2am and I have to be up at 8 so I’m going to head off…night everyone.

Posted in Bella, Randomage, Work | 8 Comments »

It’s Up!

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Okay, so after a couple days of tweaking and preparing, the new layout is up. It features Bella because she’s my valentine this year. She wakes up and licks my face just like any loser boyfriend in the past – so why not?

I went all out on this one though, shockingly enough. If you notice when you go through the navigation everything changes (depending on the category). This was intentional. I’ve been working on a lot of business sites lately and for some reason this particular setup is burned into my brain. So using it on a personal site is a tad bit different, but I like it either way. Hell, pink and grey always work well together; doesn’t it?

It’s Wednesday, and oddly enough my day off. I’ve been working my ass off for the last two weeks and am taking a much needed break. I almost didn’t even want to blog or put this template up. I had no reason to turn on my computer, but I promised so that’s why it’s up. I get to spend the next two days finishing up any and everything I can on a few clients sites and then I’m gone for the weekend.

My aunt’s going to the city for some big super bowl thing on Saturday so I’m staying at her house. I got my American Government module yesterday so I’m taking it with me to get all of my homework done. Having two days of absolute silence? There?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s no problem here! Yea, I’ll have to listen to my uncles TV on Sunday because he’s a sports fanatic and apparently the Super Bowl is a big deal, never was to me so I don’t give a shit. I’ve got the rest of the house to myself though, so I’ll work it out. I’m sure I’ll be stuck with either Figgy or Lacey on my lap. Gotta love cats that just won’t leave you alone!

I’ve been breaking down my to-do list for tax season and I’m set way behind because of the billing center at source-1. They send out all of the w2 forms at the same time, so of course I’ll probably have to wait until two weeks before taxes are freaking due, UNFAIR. I definitely know what I’m doing with whatever money I do get to keep this year.

  • Gut Room: Go through everything, throw out anything not needed.
  • Clean Closet: I’ve got clothes in there that I don’t wear and their just taking up space. A lot of moms shit is still in there too so being as she no longer lives here, hello local landfill.
  • Paint Room: I’m going to take down all shelving, posters and nick nacks and fill in the holes and paint everything pure white.
  • Paint Doors: I’m painting the closet doors black, or maybe just purchasing new ones because these doors are 20 years old and need an update…badly.
  • Purchase Rug: I’m going with either a grey with a black border, or grey with navy border. I currently have a rosey pink one that’s been in here for about 12 years and its just UGLY. It’s in decent condition – I just hate the colors.
  • Domestications.com will be my new best friend. I’m getting new pillows, sheets, a comforter, the works. Pillows need to be replaced once a year, and mine are about a month over due.
  • Bedroom Diagram Rearrange: I’m basically switching the setup I’ve got right now. As you can tell I’m just moving things around a bit, nothing too major at all. The reason behind this would be that I’m purchasing a new monitor. It’d be easier for me to have my desk next to the window if I can put a new monitor on it. I’ll give me more then half my desk space back and believe me I’d kill for that. I also love having fresh air during the day and unfortunately right now I’m facing a wall…not a window.

So yea – those are my plans. They don’t seem like much but trust me, they’re definitely worth it. I haven’t had a major overhaul in here in 12-13 years, I think its time, believe me.

In any event; It’s almost 2 pm which means I have to go veg out on the couch for an hour before dad gets home. I have to then head on down to the grocery store and do some shopping. There’s absolutely no food in the house and I’m getting sick of my sister bitching about it. For someone who fucked up her own car, then decided that she’s buying a brand new ford truck, you’d think she’d go out and get a job…HA. She’s convinced that dad is going to co-sign, and that she’s going to get the loan from the dealership. It’s funny considering she barely works one job and isn’t even on the books, has no bank account, and no previous credit what so ever. I can only imagine how quickly that credit check would work out.

Alrighty – I’m going now. Toodles!

Posted in Daily, Family, Sitely, Work | 7 Comments »

New stuff a brewin’

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

EuphoricMB After spending some time working on it, EuphoricMB is open for business. I opened it on the 23rd, but decided to wait a few days before announcing it. But yea, its open – go post will you? I’m currently holding a contest for all members, the most active referrals by March 31st gets you a free domain and hosting, so go post your hearts out and refer everyone you know.

So I’ve worked all my taxes out for AGn Solutions. I’m going to owe a little over $1,300 to the government. This is fine considering I assumed that much anyway. I’m still waiting on my W2 from Source-1 and I know I’ll owe maybe $600 – so yea no laptop for a few months.

I’m going to go full speed a head with redoing my room though. It’s time to do something completely for me around this house and damn it I’m going to abuse that. The new monitor, digital camera, rug, bedding, paint color on the walls and furniture will just make me a happy, happy person. Anyone want to come help me paint? I’ll cook for you.

I’m currently in the process of getting February’s theme completed. I have a ‘photo shoot’ (so to speak) with Bella tomorrow to get some great pictures of her to use on it. The theme and content are all completed but the images I used of her are a little out dated and she looks a bit scruffy. By looking at her pictures you’d think that she’s never been brushed before, but I do seriously brush her on a daily basis; she just rolls around a lot. BUT – I’ll have the new layout up on the first, so that’ll be when I next update my blog.

On Saturday the 4th I’ll be at my aunt’s house. She’s going to the city overnight for some big super bowl party and won’t be home until late Sunday evening, so I get to house sit. I really don’t mind it considering I’ll be occupied anyway. I should be getting my American Government module this week so I’ll have something to work on. With the way the weather’s been lately I’ll be able to hang out on the back porch and relax for a while too. According to the report it’s going to be about 50° so it makes perfect sense to hang out back there, doesn’t it?

Miranda has been keeping me company tonight. The boy went to bed early, Heather & Christie weren’t online and I needed someone to bother, so she won. YAY Miranda! Go give her a smooch.

On another note, Happy Birthday Ranee!! Go give her loads of comments and b-day wishes.

Bella’s being extra annoying to get me to go lay down with her so I’m going to shut down for the night. See you Wednesday!

Posted in Daily, School, Work | 12 Comments »

Still Sick.

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Have you ever wished that you could go back three days and stop yourself from blowing your nose that first time? Ever since I had that first blowing of the nose it just hasn’t stopped. I’ve gone through two boxes of tissues and even though they’re the extra soft aloe vera ones, my nose is still all ripped up.

I had a nose bleed last night, a pretty bad one too. I hadn’t had one like that in a while so of course I was freaking out. Apparently if you blow your nose too much that just tends to happen. How freaking unfair!

My throats feeling better but I’m still coughing. I can’t wait until I can breath out of my nose again. Up until Tuesday, I felt lucky that I didn’t have a runny nose, now of course this shit happens and its proof that I jinxed myself.

I had to complete another offer with my NB4F.com account because one of them was just taking WAY TOO LONG to go through. So I went with the AOL one. I don’t like AOL but I figured if there’s a three month free trial, might as well. So I registered my AIM name to be used on AOL and the rest is history. I think the ONLY change AOL made that was of any real use to anyone is the tabbed windows for IM’s. Considering I’m used to that on AIM since I use Dead AIM 4.5 with it, it’s a nice touch to have.

Linked screen names don’t work, but I guess that’s okay for now. I can still run AIM in the background for business shit.

My friend was feeling very generous this Christmas and got me A LOT of stuff. Macromedia Suite, Adobe Suite, Corel Suite, the works. I’m going to be heading over to his house in a couple of weeks to pick them up. I’ve already been playing with Swish MAX to pick up on some Flash and hopefully should have something to show for it within the next couple of weeks. For now, however, I have quite a bit of work to do with clients so that stuff will just have to be put off for a little while.

In any event, I have to go finish off another box of tissues, make myself some tea and swallow a bottle of dayquil so I can get some work done.

Later all!

Posted in Daily, Randomage, Work | 13 Comments »

New Year…Fresh Start

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I figured with the new year it was time to have a fresh start. A fresh layout, a fresh blog installation with WordPress 2.0, fresh content, new links, smaller sidebars, minimal advertising, the works.

I no longer wish to have multiple skins. If I get tired of a theme, I’ll change it. For now I wanted to stick to something as simple as possible and I’m thankful that this theme turned out exactly how I wanted it, even the colors, so that’s a plus.

I have alot of work to do on content, so that will be down for a little while. But for now I just wanted to get everything loaded and ready to go for the New Year, sure I’m about 4 days late but hey…I’ve been busy so pfft heh.

It was a rather busy day. I was working on four different sites and managed to get away long enough to get sick from dinner and take a much needed shower. Although none of my new years goals included quitting smoking, I haven’t had a cig in about 6 hours. Believe me when I say this is rare for me considering there’s a full pack sitting right in front of me.

My goal for tomorrow is to get my room cleaned up. With the holiday and the fact that I wasn’t feeling well, I slacked off on my room. I only did it because I was conserving the little energy I had to clean the rest of the house for dinner on Sunday (which went very well by the way).

I have a few loads of laundry, some dusting and then some vacuuming to do. It should take me no longer then a half hour but its just the fact that I have to get the energy to do it, you know?

I picked up a few big jobs this week, once I get paid I’m going to head down to Staples and get the chair I wanted for Christmas. The one I’m on now has been destroyed for the last 5 months and it just gets worse and worse. See, the arm is broken on the chair and that messes up the support for the back of the chair. So I’m leaning back very uncomfortably even when I try to sit up straight. A few months of doing this, plus an already bad back, just makes it difficult to get comfortable.

In any event, I have some more work to do on the content. Night all.

Posted in Sitely, Work | 2 Comments »

Newer Entries »