ME AND THE FAM

 

And my new favorite toy:  Poladroid

Which I inadvertantly managed to download in french.  Ces't la vie.

ARE THEY IN MY HEAD?

Seriously.  November Domino.  SO GREAT.  Back when House & Garden folded, I didn't think that any shelter mag would really take the place of instant inspiration for me, but Domino is really stepping it up lately, and with the new art direction this month, I'm weak with ideas...it's like they know exactly what's turning me one right now.

And I know that these have been ALL over the internet, but they are just so great:

Exhibit A:

Aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnndd B:

C is for CRAZY FABULOUS:

 

 And in conclusion:

SHAZAAM!  BRILLIANT!

ISN'T SHE PRETTY!

Say hello the latest addition to our little family:

She just got her new clothes today, courtesy of StudioJK at Etsy.  Isn't it great!  

I love her so much!  And I love B for getting her for me!  Best. Gift. Ever.

But now my roomates think that I will turn into a hermit and never leave the house.

Like I left the house so much before?  Seriously.  Come on now.  I'm not a partier, and never will be.  I just need some time to myself to shake off 6 months of stress at work and so I don't kill both of you with my bare hands.

So chill.

FREAKED OUT AGAIN!

So I'm going back and tagging all the old posts, and came across the one with the color quiz. And it's accurate as hell, again:

Your Existing Situation
Active, outgoing, and restless. Feels frustrated by the slowness with which events develop along the desired lines. This leads to irritability, changeability, and lack of persistence when pursuing a given objective.

Your Stress Sources
Wants freedom to follow her own convictions and principles, to achieve respect as an individual in her own right. Desires to avail herself of every possible opportunity without having to submit to limitations or restrictions.

Your Restrained Characteristics
Remains emotionally unattached even when involved in a close relationship.

Feels that she is receiving less than her share and that there is no one on whom she can rely for sympathy and understanding. Pent-up emotions and a certain egocentricity make her quick to take offense, but she realizes that she has to make the best of things as they are.

Your Desired Objective
Unwilling to participate and wishes to avoid all forms of stimulation. Has had to put up with too much of a tiring or exhausting nature and now desires protection and noninvolvement

Your Actual Problem
Fears that her independence will be threatened or severely restricted unless she protects herself from outside influence. Does not want to be bothered.

Your Actual Problem #2
The unsatisfied desire to be respected, to stand out from amongst her friends, is causing some anxiety. As a result, normal gregariousness is suppressed and she refuses to allow herself to become involved, or to participate with others in their ordinary activities.

Here's the original post to compare and contrast. Freakin' weird.

JUST AS I THOUGHT

So I had this blog totally finished. You can see it here.

Nice, right? Except when I went to put it up for real, WYSIW I GOT. DAMMIT.

I knew this would probably happen. But DAMMIT anyway.

Well, I can't look at this for any more minutes right now. I'm off to IKEA to buy these chairs for our dining room. Story of why I need to buy new dining chairs to follow...


STOOPID WIDGETS! STOOPID XML!

I'M NOT IN LOVE WITH IT YET.

Not by any means of measurement do I love this re-design. But. At least I did it.

So enjoy. Not like I'm gonna post more often or anything. Whose blog did you think this was, anyway?

THIS BLOG IS SOOOOOO 2007, HONEY

So I haven't been here in awhile, huh? (UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY, my people)

And I realize that this blog is looking a little tired.

I should get on that.

TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN' (BACK TO NORMAL)

Well. I'm posting this from my dining room. We've decided to join the future and go wireless. So now, when we've got peeps with wi-fi, we can hook 'em up. Oh, and like work on the internet in the dining room of all places. It's pretty awesome. We're regretting not doing it this way from the start.

We really did it because my sister Rach is now living with us. Which, when I originally said yes to her, I had horriffic flashbacks to when we both lived at home and REALLY didn't get along. shudder

But, you know what? It works. It's actually been sorta fun. It's nice to have another girl around on a constant basis. B just keeps muttering..."Oh God. There's two of them now..." with a look of horror on his face.

He'll get used to it.

In other news, I survived my first yearly corporate presentation at work, and now I can get on with my life. Hopefully things will get back to some semblance of normalacy and my life will consist of more than sleeping, driving and working in a constant 20 hour cycle.

I'm really behind on my custom orders for Etsy, and I feel like a total jerk. The past month has been a rollercoaster what with Rachel moving in and prepping for that damn presentation that I just haven't had the energy to do what I would have liked on these pieces.

I also came across an email (which I had just checked for the first time in like 3 weeks) for a call for entries for a SCAD affliated Small Works show here in O-Town. Due the end of October, and it's being held at a gallery that I've actually been to, so I'm going to try and get a couple more canvases done by then. I've gotten some good ones lined up so we'll see.

I've missed the entire summer. The leaves are already starting to change, and we're getting cooler mornings. And there's so much fun stuff to be done. I love this place in the fall.

Ahhh. It feels good to be back.

RANDOMNESS IS SOMETIMES CONSIDERED A PATTERN

It has been a LONG, long week. But now it's over and the shopping/eating/sleeping/magazine reading/tv watching can begin. Oh, and I may actually see Bri for more than 1 hour and 45 minutes at a time, which hasn't been happening alot lately.

I think my body has finally adapted to this schedule. It seems to be easier to function at 4:30 in the morning than it did 3 months ago. It's been pretty random lately, though. Sometimes I'll be home by 6 and asleep at 8. Or I'll get home at 7 and can't get to sleep til 10:30. But I still wake up at 4:30. Weird.

Other than work, not much else has been going on. Met up with some more internet buddies last weekend and had a fantastic time as per usual. (ps - Three-year-olds are adorable when they are as intelligent and well spoken as these guys' kids are. When was the last time you heard a kid that age use 'startled' in context? B just charmed the pants off of them. And I got a big heart sticker to take home with me. Cuties.)

Oh, what else. Finally got a new DVD player. Go Target for having the one we wanted in stock. The SATC marathon can resume. Now we just gotta work on getting that new big-ass LCD TV...

Started cooking dinner at home again after a bit of a lapse. I actually don't want to eat out anymore if I don't have to. So I guess that's a good thing? I'm sure it won't last long...

I've got a bunch of pics of stuff I've been lovin' to post, but that'll have to wait till later, 'cause B's Dad dropped off the 2 tapes of recordings of the new season of Deadwood that's begging to be watched. Three cheers for foul language and mealy-mouthed whores!

DEE-VA-MAH-DEEEE. PLAYER.

Sigh. Our DVD player played it's last while we were trying to watch the 3rd season of Sex and the City on Sunday night. I am crushed. Man, now we might actually have to watch...man I can hardly type it...VHS tapes.

What? No skip to chapter? No super slo-mo? I have to re-wind? I'm sorry that's just too much effort. And it's not like there's anything on TV right now. Darn it anyway.

So our borrowed discs and recent Netflix movies will be gathering dust until we can replace the poor thing.

Sigh.

HMMMM. INTERESTING.

Aries
March 21 - April 19

Aries is the first Sign of the Zodiac, and that's pretty much how those born under this Sign see themselves: first. Aries are the leaders of the pack, first in line to get things going. Whether or not everything gets done is another question altogether, for an Aries prefers to initiate rather than to complete. Do you have a project needing a kick-start? Call an Aries, by all means. The leadership displayed by Aries is most impressive, so don't be surprised if they can rally the troops against seemingly insurmountable odds -- they have that kind of personal magnetism. An Aries won't shy away from new ground, either. Those born under this Sign are often called the pioneers of the Zodiac, and it's their fearless trek into the unknown that often wins the day. Aries is a bundle of energy and dynamism, kind of like a Pied Piper, leading people along with its charm and charisma. The dawning of a new day -- and all of its possibilities -- is pure bliss to an Aries.

The symbol of Aries is the Ram, and that's both good and bad news. Impulsive Aries might be tempted to ram their ideas down everyone's throats without even bothering to ask if they want to know. It's these times when you may wish Aries's Sign's symbol were a more subdued creature, more lamb than ram perhaps. You're not likely to convince the Ram to soften up; these folks are blunt and to the point. Along with those qualities comes the sheer force of the Aries nature, a force that can actually accomplish a great deal. Much of Aries's drive to compete and to win comes from its Cardinal Quality. Cardinal Signs love to get things going, and Aries exemplifies this even better than Cancer, Libra or Capricorn.

Your Rising Sign - Aquarius Rising:

If your Rising Sign is Aquarius, you may seem aloof and self-introspective, maybe a bit outlandish. Though you seem detached, you also give the impression that you care very deeply for humanity -- just not necessarily individual humans! You'll likely attract friends easily thanks to this Aquarian influence, but be wary of the more negative traits of the Water Bearer. Sometimes you can come off as rude or thoughtless -- as well as willfully eccentric. Despite these characteristics, you'll still be wildly popular, due in large part to what people see as the innovative Aquarian brain power.

Your Moon is in Cancer

You respond very much to the emotional tone and atmosphere around you, and can be dominated by your fluctuating and unpredictable moods. You often appear irrational to others because you cannot always explain the reason or source of your feelings. Anyone who lives with you must accept your ups and downs and appreciate your need for times of withdrawal.


What is your Sign of Karma? - Leo

Because you undervalue yourself you are afraid that no one else will value you either. And yet this is what you desperately want. Popularity is your goal -- and yet your own inferior attitude continuously sabotages your achieving it. If feelings of jealousy and the inability to act spontaneously don't push people away than it is the cold and callous facade you've developed to protect your own vulnerability. Romance, creativity and children may be an issue in your life too. Your challenge is to connect to and find value with your own core self -- reaching through all of those outward layers you have developed in protection. If you are really able to value yourself you have the chance to recaptured a child-like sense of joy which may have been missing from your serious adult life. You are also very sympathetic and understand the unspoken feelings and needs of others. You take slights and rebuffs very personally and though you may forgive a transgression by a friend or loved one, you never forget it.
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Interesting. I got all of this stuff for free at Astrology.com

IMITATION IS THE MOST SINCERE FORM OF FLATTERY

Once again, Chef Briardee has discovered one of the coolest things on the internet. Namely, personal streaming radio capabilities.

I'm totally stealing the idea and will be puttin' my new mixes up here on my page for all of you to enjoy. Sha-zaam!

Me making mixes isn't anything new. I've been doing it for like 6 years now. At least those of the digital variety. (Cassettes never did it for me, it was just too much work, and you never get them edited as tight as you should. Which bugs the crap out of me.)

So I choose songs and make mixes that say something about how I'm feeling or what's going on in my/our world at the time. Lately, the mix titles are when my current mood has been presenting itself, not so much in the songs, but that comes and goes.

I like the songs to cross genres, constants being a song that I can sing along with and that I like a damn fine beat. (If it makes me shake my ass, it's all right with me.) Other weaknesses include, but are not limited to: string accompaniment, female vocals over hip-hop beats, brit-pop, songs sung in french, obscure remixes, songs sung acapella, and the entire trip-hop genre. Sometimes all at once. If a song makes me spontaneously burst into tears (see: Hide & Seek by Imogen Heap, Beautiful by India.Arie) you can pretty much guarantee that I will put it on a mix, if not build the entire album around it.

Most of the time, I just really (REALLY) like the songs. In the beginning, I used a lot of mainstream radio stuff, but that's TOTALLY started to blow chunks, so I like to dig a little deeper. Pandora has been a godsend, as has KCRW and Sirius. Sometimes I just start looking around iTunes, and one thing leads to another, leads to another, leads to another, and then I end up with a supremely deep cut off of an obscure album that is totally awesome.

But anyway, I ramble.

So here's my latest: Blessed Be. I'm especially identifying with the lyrics in The Woman Who by Lamya (Rach, it's Luh-MY-uh, not LAMB-YUH). So check it out under Audiophila' in the right sidebar.

Enjoy. You can be assured that I'll be listening to this in the car on the way to work for at LEAST the next few days...

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

It's been a long week. A long one, but a good one. Really good, in fact.

Without going into too much detail, this new job is pretty much perfect. The commute, not so much, but I think the work I'm doing will be making up for being on the road for at least 2 hours a day.

It's sorta like being back at school, which I loved, and I've realized that I really missed that. All the designers and materials people are in one big room, and the people that work there are pretty great. A good mix of young and old, of experienced and greenhorns. You get a great energy from everybody, which sorta fuels you. And since we work in the test facility, you get to see what you've designed being built. There's an instant gratification to it. Of course, I've been doing what the other materials people call 'The Fun Stuff', and they've warned me that it's not always as fun. But, whatever. I don't really care.

It has been a wake-up call as to how lax I've gotten in my design vocabulary and, really, my thought processes, too. I'm not nearly as sharp as when I left school. But, much like riding a bike, I've found that you never really lose it, it just sorta comes back. A little bit at a time, but it does come back. So cautious optimism is the mood I've chosen to go with. Which is cool.

Not so cool has been the driving. Don't know if you've heard, but we're in a bit of a drought, which means the land and everything on it makes for great tinder. A massive brush fire broke out the day before I got hired, but a little north of the road I need to drive on, so not too big of a deal to me. Just some smoke and such, but you could see the (pretty big) flames from the road. I figured that it would probably be down by the time I had to drive to work in 4 days.

The day before I started, another MASSIVE fire broke out north of where I work, which didn't affect me directly, but the wind that accompanied the new fire, was carrying smoke and heat farther south to where the old fire was smoldering. It turns out that after the brush had burned away, the 'muck' caught fire (kinda like a bog) and was building, and starting to flame up again.

So they decided to close the easier, faster route I need to take to work. I was 30 minutes late the first day, even though I left the house 2 hours before I had to be there. (Normally, it takes just under an hour.) The people there at work were totally cool, I called when I knew that I was for sure going to be late, and they just wanted to be sure that I was going to be safe. I found out that they were placing bets as to whether I would show up at all, or go half way, see the mess, and turn around and go home. Which never even occured to me.

Everybody on the road that first morning was FREAKING out, and the detour they had us on was WAY out of the way, and also under construction and through a very poorly laid out city with like 7,000 stop lights. Day 2 was a little less crazy, 'cause me and my good friend Google Maps found a different detour, which saved about 45 minutes. So I actually made it there on time. On Friday, they unexpectedly opened the road and I was 30 minutes early to work. Which didn't suck, so I'm thinking of leaving at the same time from now on. And can I just say that the SunPass is like the greatest freakin' invention ever! EVER! You don't even have to slow down to pay the toll! It's AWESOME! I heart SunPass!

Did I mention that I leave the house at 5:30 AM? And get up at 4:40 AM ish? It's been sorta rough. On Monday, I was in bed and asleep at 8:30 PM. I managed to make it to 9:30 PM the next night, and now I round if off to 10:00 PM. I haven't dozed off at work yet, but Wednesday was pretty rough. I think this week will be WAY better.

I have to try to get online more often. It's been like having a limb gone. I feel so cut off from the world. We have access at work, but I don't have the nerve yet. And I sit right in the middle of the room, so everybody can see what I'm doing at any given moment. Tried to check up during lunch, but don't have my links, so no go yet. I'm going to try and take Monday and Wednesday nights to catch up. Cause I miss the interweb sumpin' fierce.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

So Steph asked how I make my blog.

It's totally done by magic. (Shh. Don't tell.) I just found a little pouch in the back of the Apple store one day labeled 'Blog Dust' and all I do is pour a little into my hand, make a wish for something stylish and then blow it onto the screen. VOILA! A blog of my very own!

Magic. Really. Simple as that.

Actually, I code it all by hand. I could never get Dreamweaver to work for CSS.

Way back in September for my one year anniversary (blog-iversary?) I decided to do the major overhaul and I just spent an entire day (or 2, maybe 3, maybe 8, I'm not sure - it's all a little hazy) learning CSS as much as possible just by looking at blogger templates and the source code of blogs that I like the look of. This is also a good resource for learning what all the CSS code stands for.

CSS is not hard at all once you figure out what everything does. The first half of the template gives the ingredients to make up the blog - how the text and spacing should look, how to treat a link, how the header should look, etcetera. The second half of the template takes those ingredients and actually makes the blog - where to put the text, what graphic to call, where to put the Blogger code. Each ingredient on top should correspond with a direction on the bottom. The only thing that sucks is that I've never seen two blogs with the same 'ingredient' code. It seems that everybody does it differently. Which makes it a little hard to figure out at first.

I actually started out with one of the stock blogger templates (Scribe, by Todd Dominey), then hacked the shite out of it to get the container so I could have a plain background for the text and a pattern or gradient on the sides - which I haven't really used in awhile. (I made the patterns from scratch using the offset tool in Photoshop.) When it comes to the coding, you just gotta take one section at a time and not worry about how it looks till you're all done. The template code can smell your frustration, your fear...never let it beat you. I do tend to yell a LOT when making big changes though...

To get the three columns, which I could NOT figure out until B was looking over my shoulder and said 'hey, why don't you just do a this' I used a basic table. It's actually 5 columns, 3 for content and 2 for the spacing. You just figure out how wide you want the container to be (mine's 800px), then take off a few pixels to leave a border (mine's 790) and divide the table into percentages: mine is like, 25%, 5%, 50%, 5%, 25%. Which doesn't add up to 100%, but it works to get it in the container. Not totally reliable, but it does the job. I don't look at it on a PC very often, but I guess it works, right?

Right now, the container is still there, but I just have it the same color as the background. Same for Wonderful Time. The only problem I've had with the container, is that if you use the program Paparazzi (sorry, Mac only) to grab a picture of the site, it only grabs the container, not the patterns on the side. Which is really only a problem if you need to put the site in a portfolio or something...

Then it's just a matter of putting what you want in which column you want and then making the graphics themselves. All this takes is basic HTML tags. I'm anal to the extreme, so this part takes me awhile to get the breaks and spacing right. Also, making every.single.graphic. in web colors will make your life WAY easier when you go to do the link colors and container borders. I like to use this page to get the color codes.

Actually making the graphics takes the least amount of time out of everything. When you're done, as long as you name them the same each time, the code does all the work for you.

Also, all the content in the sidebar has to be changed by hand through the template, and doesn't get saved when you change it. Which sorta sucks. I've toyed with going to Typepad, which lets you categorize and archive things such as that, but that takes money! Blogger's free!

Anyway, I actually have a totally separate bigskystarlettest blog where I play with all the code beforehand. It makes life MUCH MUCH MUCH easier. Less 'OMIGOD I JUST @#$% up my BLOG now what the hell am I gonna do' and more 'oh, so that's what that does' and 'that looks awesome, lets do that'. I have a separate test folder on our server for the images so it doesn't change the real blog. Then, all I do is copy the entire template into the ACTUAL bigskystarlet blog when I end up with something I like.

This time I wanted to get away from having a wide header with content underneath as per usual, so I cleared everything out of the left sidebar and just put the graphic there instead. When I did Wonderful Time, I just put the content in the sidebar instead of in the center and changed the percentages on the table to make the columns the right size. Easy-peasy. Simple cut and paste.

Let me know if you need any help, I'd be glad to take a look at it if you get stuck!

WOW. IT DOESN'T GET MUCH MORE CLEAN CUT THAN THAT.

So I took a little color quiz today, as recommened by Alicia at Posie Gets Cozy in honor of color week by Mecozy.

It is shockingly accurate:

Your Existing Situation
Sensitive and understanding but under some strain; needs to unwind in the company of someone close to her.

Your Stress Sources
Is responsive to outside stimuli and wants to experience everything intensely, but is finding the existing situation extremely frustrating. Needs sympathetic understanding and a sense of security. Distressed by her apparently powerlessness to achieve her goals.

Your Restrained Characteristics
Unhappy at the resistance she feels whenever she tries to assert herself. Indignant and resentful because of these setbacks, but gives way apathetically and makes whatever adjustments are necessary so that she can have peace and quiet.

Able to achieve satisfaction through sexual activity.

Circumstances are forcing her to compromise, to restrain her demands and hopes, and to forgo for the time being some of the things she wants.

Your Desired Objective
Needs a change in her circumstances or in her relationships which will permit relief from stress. Seeking a solution which will open up new and better possibilities and allow hopes to be fulfilled.

Your Actual Problem
Intensely critical of the existing conditions which she feels are disorganized or insufficiently clear-cut. Is therefore seeking some solution which will clarify the situation and introduce a more acceptable degree of order and method.

Your Actual Problem #2
Agitation, unpredictability, and irritation accompanying depleted vitality and intolerance of further demands have all placed her in a position in which she feels menaced by her circumstances. Feeling powerless to remedy this by any action of her own, she is desperately hoping that some solution will provide a way of escape.

So go take it, and learn more today!

LIGHT AS A FEATHER

First off, I just want to thank everyone for the encouragement and the positive re-enforcement over my last post. This whole job search experience has just been way more emotional than I thought it would be. A big, giant, huge THANK YOU to you all.

On to different things, guess who has re-joined the 21st century! My sister, the long forgotten Rachel. Check our her blog at: watchmewin.blogspot.com. I just got it all pimped out for her. Since her screenname is "The Winner" you can see who got all the confidence in our family...

And above you'll see my latest embroidery, titled "Light as a Feather". I really love it. You can also see that my current obsession with that teal-y aqua color is still going strong. I drew the pattern from a vector image that I had made to use on one of our websites, but it just wasn't working for that, so I took it for this.

It will not, however, be in the store for a couple of weeks, as I received the Small Works pieces back from SCAD on Saturday. I'm going to work them back into the store by adding a new piece every other day, so that way I'll keep my exposure high. When you add something new, it pops you to the top of the category, so we're going to try that tactic and try to sell some more.

That's it my little birdies! I'm off to make some onion soup for dinner.

EXPANSION

There is such satisfaction from actually being able to pay a bill. (insert relieved sigh here)

Other things that satisfy are:
•planting seeds and remembering to water them for 5 days in a row so far
•getting free clip art through email every week from Dover books

I was so inspired by the above piece, I decided to re-do the old blog. The last re-do was a train wreck...this one, so fresh!

Anyway, my digs cronies have suggested that I start putting my embroideries on other stuff, like tees and hoodies. I thought cool! But then I'd be stuck with like 79 tees and hoodies that I don't wear or aren't my size.

So I'm thinking like tote bags or knit caps or something. I like the bag idea, because, well, I like bags. (Yes Trav, byags...)

Anybody got a good supplier? Or thoughts in general?

IT. WAS. AWESOME.

Oh, my God. It was SO COOL. Did I mention it was awesome? Finally, we know where all the cool people are. (They're at the Enzian watching PW on the big screen.) The theater even raffled off a free breakfast for 2 in honor of the opening scene. How cool is that?

There was applause during the opening titles and a general aww when Phil Hartman came on at the end. People were belly laughing at all the right spots, I could hear someone quoting Large Marge's monologue, and everyone even clapped along with 'deep in the heart of Tex-as'.

So awesome. Ahhh. My girlhood buddies (and my sister) will be glad to hear that I can still do Tina's voice and I even remembered some of her beginning monologue.

"Can you say A-D-O-B-E?"

The only thing that would have made it better was if all of you could have been there, too. (sigh)

Next month: Blazing Saddles. Then: Stand By Me in January. All for only $5 each. I love this town!

NUMBER 783 IN A SERIES

Random Thought No.1 : I could look at this site for days and days and days. So cool. I love ephemera.

Random Thought No. 2: Have you ever suffered from 'Blog Depression'?

Random Thought No. 3: "I love it. It's like faces of death, without all the gore." And what could B have been talking about when he uttered this little jem? SUPER SWEET 16 on MTV. Oh, God.

Random Thought No. 4: The spot in my brain that is usually filled with new design ideas needs to be refilled.

Random Thought No. 5: Well, I've totally dumped Safari on it's ass, and am now seriously involved with Firefox. HOLY CRAP this is so much better. You mean, pages actually load? And I get all the Blogger options? No java farts? Sweet nirvana.

ONE-YEAR CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE!

Well, it's been a year since I got hungry for that fateful cheese sammich.

I don't really know what to say. I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by. Just yesterday it seems I was puttering around our miniscule apartment in Skevannah, agonizing about what to write about. Now there's often too much to talk about. When I started posting last August, how could I have known that today I would be writing from an entirely different state on a brand new computer? That by itself ever so slightly blows my tiny little mind.

Thank you all for listening to me bitch about housework, and everything else. Thank you for letting me ramble on (and on and on) about finances. Thank you for obliging the (not so) odd rant. Thank you for indulging me my raves about food. I find it fitting that food's what started this whole thing.

Thanks for reading. I was shocked when I turned the comments on that people actually read it.

Hope you all enjoy the re-do around here. I did it last week and decided to wait for the big day to let 'er rip. (Oooh! Horsey!) Hopefully I'll be changing it more often from now on. (Sidenote: CSS is SO fun. I'm fairly BURSTING with enthusiasm for it.)

But that's all I've to say today. Just, "Thanks for Everything".

Raise your glasses! Here's to many more!