2:46 p.m.||||2002-07-31
Ok, obviously I am insane. If you came yesterday and I was all green and today you return to see me all orange and pink, you are right, I am going through decorating compulsion - I am really sorry. On the other hand I LOVE it when you change your templates...what happened to mine was I decided I needed to work with a few of the apps I have on my machine and wound up drawing like a madwoman some stuff in my photo editor, that was fun and productive, so I exported that into Frontpage and in two hours had a template I liked and a teensy bit of experience. My only problem today when I checked my work (which went live last night) was I forgot to put in the guestbook, and as this is an image map, adding another link wasn't as easy as I hoped. In the meantime, as I travelled many weird roads to keep the original drawing I started with, I changed the entire pallette. You know, the way you put images as backgrounds of cells doesn't cooperate with the tagging for mapping, so if there's a way to have a picture with an image map inside the very same cell we put our entries into, I'd like to see it!
I know it's overwhelming. It isn't ugly , is it? Hahah. I mean, eh, I dunno.
SO.
I haven't been sending love through signings lately and I'll tell you why. I'm feeling freaky and shy, alla sudden. I want you to know that I'm around and still involved and still just blown away by my faves on a regular basis, but that for some reason I am going through this indecisive/remorse thing and it has nothing to do with anything except that my stress-coping-skills- still do suck, but you love me anyway, I hope.
In other news:
- We took Josh out of daycare
- I quit the mailroom
- We're moving at the end of this month (Aug) to Dave's where a dishwasher and wonderful live-in sitter awaits
- My class starts days before we move
- My class has not been cancelled yet - please continue your class dance on my behalf
- My Grandma (Dad's mom) has Alzheimers, which was what her husband (Dad's dad) had, and what is afflicting Dave's Gramma also. I am saddened but not surprised, as well as surrounded by people in denial
- I went to my eye appointment as scheduled and will be getting my new, government funded specs in a week or so (tortoiseshellhipster specs, but of course)- really surprised I could find soem I liked
- It's just the link logos that bug me - I went through several phases of trying to save my images from the original design and lost some of the clarity - if you compare the ones on the left with the "book" one on the right (added later, obviously) you'll see what I mean. I forgive you if this is ugly to you, but I sorta dig it, and am very happy with my instincts as far as these applications go. It's also good to dig in and hand code where I need to - I haven't forgotten much, I guess. I am afraid of how much graphic design I might need down the road, though. I was such a snob at eighteen and dropped out of art school because I refused to get into advertising or graphic design - it went against my ethics, hahaha.