Viva Forever

Semester is basically over for me, no more classes but final assessments are looming. Argh stress. Anyway, I’ve been productive today! Here’s another quickish crochet project I finished:

It’s a cactus pincushion! I made it for my mother when she expressed she wanted a pin cushion as she’s starting a big embroidery project. The first picture is when it’s still not sewn together yet, but I took a picture to show how the unfortunate positioning of the pins that keep the top and bottom together meant that I was in a prime position to get pricked if I was to graze by it as I hold. This happened often. ¬_¬

Anyway, I’m sick of this layout already! I might recycle another layout that I had up before and liked and maybe close a site. See how productive I get when I’m supposed to be doing assessments?

Oh yeah, nearly forgot! The other day I had lunch with Eileen. It was pretty cool, we had pancakes and I basically bombarded her with questions about the US education system. GOD, EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY! I was flabbergasted to hear that college APPLICATIONS costs money! What the? :O

By now, all the pages that are supposed to be up on this blog are already up, all sections are more or less complete. I might put my old wallpapers up and maybe that review section. But my current biggest dilemma is this:

What do I put in my “About Me” section?!?! Argh I’m so incredibly stuck! Do I just… put stuff about my history? My growing up? My personality? My beliefs? My dreams? I mean *I* know all about me, how and what part of it should exist online?

This is harder than writing an essay. -_-

Tada! New layout! Ugh, this took me so long to do and 70% of that was just having to do the coding!! Originally it was supposed to be a painless adaptation of this pretty skin but I was quick to find out that the layout more or less falls apart in IE. So I had to do the whole thing from scratch and using bits of their CSS when it worked. It didn’t help that Wordpress and IE helped trip me up every step of the way.

NOTHING MUCH WORKS AT THE MOMENT. Only the recent posts and commentage works. Few of the pages are up properly, and for some reason I’m having pages repeat themselves over and over again in older posts and with some older pages. I have no idea why that happened and further investigation is needed. I noticed the problem after the wordpress update so I don’t know if it’s a script problem or a database problem. BLARGH. I’ll get to writing and updating pages soon, including more things about this layout. Here’s a clue, I used chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice-cream as inspiration. :P It’s debatable whether this layout or the more plain, older version is better but at least this one is (majoratively) created by me. And, yay the blog is back. :)

I do like the autosave feature in 2.1.2 of wordpress. Handy in case things go asplode. And with that, I go to bed.

Edit I updated the Post Levels plugin as well as updated my permalinks. I’m not sure which of these made it work, but I can tentatively say that the repeating entries problem is gone… I still need to make sure though. I can’t get the threaded comments to work at the moment. I thought that was a convenient script too. -_- Maybe I’ll try again some other time.

Don’t Click It - a fun and original site that raises awareness to how often we use our mouse to click on things. It made my wrists hurt a tiny bit (and go a little bit numb) after while from the very conscious feeling of not clicking on something. Very neat.

Does anyone actually clean behind their ears? I always forget that there’s a place that require cleaning behind the ears. I guess most of the time soapy shampoo water that trickle from my hair around and behind my ears is the only form of hygiene it gets.

The layout I was planning for my crafts blog has been remade to be the layout for this blog. I cannnot stand how generic and plain this current layout. I figure that given how much Uni work I have to do, I wouldn’t have much time working on crafts any time soon anyway. I’ll probably work on that in the holidays which would be sometime in April I think.

I’ve registered a new domain name. I’m still a little tingly because this is my second domain name in about 3 years. Don’t worries, I do not have the funds nor intention to be a domain-name whore. :P No telling what the name is till it’s finished. But it would be for the crafts site.

I don’t think I’ll be started the site though until I’ve finished knitting my (first) scarf. I’m really excited by how lovely the yarn is; it’s 50% mohair, 50% acrylic and literally silver in colour, not just grey. It has a slight texture to it that makes it look slightly shiny and metallic. Pictures when I’m done.

My Neverwinter Nights 2 fanlisting (first fanlisting!) has been completed and approved. Bah, don’t mind the layout, it’s pretty hideous. Seriously ran out of layout ideas though. :(

I watched Mulholland Drive a few days ago and it’s a really good movie, more so once I hit the internets and looked up how the seemingly confusing timing of the scenes fit together. It’s interesting how its twist is something you need to figure out rather it being in your face.

Anyone seen Pan’s Labyrinth yet? I’m a really really big wuss, can anyone tell me if it’s scary? If it is, what kind of scary? My wuss-meter pretty much explodes even with movies like Juon/The Grudge and The Ring, so if it’s anything like that I’d really rather not watch it. But the trailers make it look intriguingly fantastical so I am curious.