Monthly Archives: January 2007

And there goes my mind

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Back to WordPress Templates until I can get something done that is decent and not all wonky! My archives and everything from my previous attempt were just a horrible, horrible mess. I need a little person.. that I can create these awesome designs in Photoshop and then hand them over the document and they can code up a WordPress Template for me. We would listen to the same music and work very well as a team. We’d snack on fresh peaches in the summertime and laugh as we finish each other’s sentences.

Wait a minute… what was I talking about again?? Eh, who knows. Anyway, back to the templates for now.

My own layout for once

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I finally messed around with this thing long enough to get my own layout up! I feel a little bit of relief, even if it isn’t the greatest thing since sliced bread :) I still have some goals for it.. I want to get the Archives into a subpage and I would also like to get the links into a subpage, as well. However, I am no good at this PHP/Wordpress stuff so it is going to take a little research for me to get that done. Just give me time!

[EDIT] Ugh – all of the individual entry pages are messed up :( I’ve been on this computer for hours now and I can’t do it anymore. I’ll try to mess with it another time.

A thing of the past

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I spent a couple of hours going through old CDs I had made with backup files, mostly my website layouts. Some dating back to 1998. I can’t believe how many layouts I made back then. It got me thinking and I have spent so much time trying to learn all of these CMS programs and got pulled into the “blogging” world that I have completely stopped creating layouts. Why? Because I always had “about me” pages and “link” pages and “contact” pages and blogs these days are set up so that all information is on the main page. Not very many people use sub-pages anymore. Is it pure laziness or is that just the newest and greatest thing? I’m not so sure anymore.

I want to make my own layout for WordPress. I want to have all of my subpages and I want it to be like it used to be. And in order for me to get that deep into it, I am going to need to learn a little more about PHP and CSS. I love CSS and I love what it can do but I wont lie, when I look at some of these WordPress template stylesheets, I have small heart attacks. It’s overwhelming and I am not going to lie, sometimes I have no idea what it means. I know the basics and even probably some “advanced” things about CSS but I am nowhere near being a Super-CSS User. There is just so much! And where do I find the time to learn it all?? Between eating, sleeping, working, taking care of my dogs and most importantly, spending time with my boy… Where do I fit in LEARNING! Shoot… learning is a thing of the past, for me :(

Spaghetti Squash Pie & Train Man

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Italian Turkey and Spaghetti Squash PieFor lunch today I made Italian Turkey and Spaghetti Squash Pie. It was delicious! I accidentally put in 1 pound of Ground Turkey instead of 1/2 a pound so I was unable to fit it into a pie dish. Technically, it wasn’t a pie in our case. But it was close enough. It sure was yummy though. It’s a Weight Watchers recipe I got online and wow I can’t believe how tasty it is. I’ve used Spaghetti Squash in the past to make Spaghetti and it turned out okay, a little too saucy. Since then I have yet to experiment with it. I love it and I think it is a wonderful alternative to starchy pasta. A great low calorie, low fat alternative to pasta, definitely! The only change I made to the recipe was that I added about 1/4 Tsp. of Salt and Pepper to it.. Because it seemed to be lacking in salt as far as the other ingredients went. It turned out wonderful, not too salty at all. Oh and I used Fat Free Mozarella cheese for the topping. You could probably alter this in a LOT of ways but I think no matter how you do it, its gonna turn out yummy.

I’ve been cooking a lot more in the last couple of weeks. Trying to be less lazy in the kitchen and try new things. This week we are going to have Chicken Curry and Sweet ‘n Sour Meatballs (both rice dishes), Red Beans & Rice and Very Mom’s Potato Soup recipe :) I love the idea of me having all of our meals planned out for the week. If I cook 4 out of 5 days, that leaves plenty of leftovers for Gene’s lunches (I eat Lean Cuisine for lunch during the weekdays) and maybe even some for the weekend! Yay for cooking. My love for it is growing so quickly and I’m starting to really enjoy being in the kitchen, which is a complete 180° from what I used to be like.

Last night Gene and I watched Train Man, the live action tv series (first episode) not the movie. I liked it and thought it was pretty funny. Interested to see the rest of the series. A couple of weeks ago Gene and I went to B&N to sit around and read and he read the first book in the Manga series. So far, so good!

Traditional or Weddingmoon?

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I honestly can’t believe it but the local school district has closed school again, for the fourth day in a row. I am still in shock! This, I don’t think, ever happened when I was in school. Granted, the roads are pretty bad and they are just going to freeze again tonight but gees.. They’ve been out of school since LAST Friday! Lucky little kids :) I always wished for something like that when I was younger. Oh and we are predicted to get somewhere between 4-8 inches of snow this Saturday. And next Saturday there is another winter storm coming through, as well. It’s never ending! Gene did our grocery shopping yesterday (I can’t walk that long in Walmart due to my knee injury) and stocked us up on some good stuff.

As much as I hate to be stranded in the house with wretched road conditions out there, I have enjoyed the calmness of it all. Of going home, eating dinner, relaxing all evening, etc. I am usually a get-up-and-go type of gal but I’ve learned this week that it is ok to relax sometime and just enjoy the peace. However, in the same breath I am totally missing my nightly walks and the exercise I’m used to getting. Gene and I are probably going to sign up for a membership at the college gym but of course that plan got thrown off track when I busted up my knee. Probably in the next couple of weeks we will go get an account set up. It is only about $120 for a year membership for me to sign up and Gene will get at least a year, if not more free since he went to school there.

Tonight we had meatloaf sandwiches for dinner and then grabbed a VERY small low fat strawberry-banana shake from Shake ‘n Steak, then grabbed a few things from the grocery store (wheat french bread, grapes, light edy’s ice cream, and turkey pepperoni!) and came home. I cut up the bread into sandwich sized slices (we’re having sandwiches and chicken noodle soup tomorrow for dinner) and Gene packaged up our ground turkey for the freezer and now we are just sittin’ here relaxing and stuff.

Exciting, I know. I thought I would also update on the Wedding situation. I am pretty torn on what to do. I want to get married, like… right now! And after seeing how much a traditional wedding and ceremony is going to cost (upwards of about $10,000 after everything), I am really looking into eloping. I’ve been looking online into various places to elope.. places where we could elope and have our honeymoon, all in one. Namely, I’ve been looking at the Sandals weddingmoon packages.. No prices on the website but I hear they are more affordable than they used to be. But in all honesty, I don’t think Gene and I are “paradise” kind of people. We like to have fun and be silly and stuff like that. I think both of us would get kind of bored if we went somewhere tropical and sat on the beach for a week. And we are both so indecisive that it is becoming very hard to think of what we would want. Seattle sounds kind of cool but I am not sure of what all is there to look at, ya know? Decisions, decisions. All I know is that I really, really want to marry my boy.

Dislocations and G-mail

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Thought I would update on the knee injury.. I went to the doctor yesterday morning and the x-ray showed a dislocation so I hobbled back to the doctor’s office after I had the x-ray and the doctor proceeded to yank and bend and twist my knee in all kinds of horribly painful ways until we hear about 3 LOUD pop/cracking sounds and wham, it’s back in place. Still swollen and more sore today than the last previous days. Maybe that is a sign of it healing? I don’t know. If it’s not better in 2 weeks I have to go back for the dreaded MRI so they can make sure there were no tendons torn. Yippeee!

And one more thing, I don’t know how many people use web mail but g-mail is quite possibly the greatest thing in the world. No real “ads”, it loads fast, it notifies me immediately when I have new messages and all kinds of other features. Mostly, it is a SIMPLE web mail but very handy and featureful! I love it. So anyway, now that I am done selling you on g-mail, I suggest you use Firefox as your browser and then go download the Gmail Skins add-on for Firefox! It lets you skin your g-mail so that it can be a variety of colors instead of the plain ol’ boring blue.

Here comes the Doctor Bill, AGAIN

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Just when I get my MRI paid off from over the summer when I hurt my foot pretty bad, I have to injure myself AGAIN. It just never ends with me! Constantly getting hurt. I am just one accident after another. Just when I think things are going wonderfully I fall and hurt my knee. My KNEE! The joint that most people don’t have trouble with until they are well into their 50s or 60s. Me? Twenty four and having knee issues.

I was playing DDR with Gene when I think I must have twisted my knee wrong and I heard a series of about 3 really loud popping sounds. So loud that they pretty much took my breath away for a few seconds. I thought, as I was falling to the ground, that my leg from my knee down had become detatched from my body and was just lying on the DDR play pad. After I got down I realized it had popped again while I was falling and that it was still attached. However, that does NOT describe the shooting pain. So bad that it took me quite a while to actually start crying! Me. Taking a while to start crying. Does anyone understand what I’m saying here???

So I lived with this for the rest of Saturday night and all day Sunday and I finally got a doctor’s appointment this morning. However, we have to be there at 10 AM and decided we should leave at 9:30 so that gives us 30 minutes to drive the two miles distance to the office. The roads are AWFUL (from what I hear) and we are going to NEED that long to get there. All I can say is that I hope they find something on the x-ray because I do NOT want to have another MRI done. Things about an MRI That suck:

  • Laying in a small-ish tube can definitely bring up some old feelings of claustrophobia.
  • You have to lay there for an HOUR. Still. Not moving.
  • Staring at the ceiling for an hour is NOT cool.
  • The MRI Tech is usually some half-witty guy/girl that tries to make jokes to ease your discomfort that only in turn make you want to RUN out of their on your wounded knee. Ridiculous!
  • Did anyone ever tell you how expensive MRIs really cost?? Because its a lot. Upwards of a couple grand. Luckily my insurance covers a lot but on my last MRI I was stuck with a nearly $300 bill. They’re making ME pay $300 to lay in a tube for ONE HOUR staring at the CEILING listening to some guys horrible jokes??

That is the excitement that I have endured while “iced in” our home. Haven’t been able to go anywhere. We were stuck here ALL weekend. And Gene and I didn’t get sick of each other :) Well, duh because we are best friends and best friends LOVE to have weekend-long slumber parties. And that is pretty much what we did. Eek! Look at the time.. Gotta get to that doctor’s office. If they try to make me step up on that scale to weigh me I may have to whack (not in a mob-murder sort of way, more of a smackin’ your hoe kind of way) someone.