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Tomorrow is a new day

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I’m really enjoying this new WordPress theme. I go through these phases where I just despise everything I try. And as much as I’d love to design my own theme,  I never take the time to sit down and really mess with it. I’m no good when it comes to PHP and I have never really taken the time to try to learn it like I should. Not knowing PHP and trying to design a WordPress theme is just.. like.. well.. That’s plain ol’ insanity, people!

So I’m freezing my buns off. I’ve been sitting here at my computer, which is by an incredibly drafty window.. My toes and fingers are numb. I’ve pretty much told myself that tomorrow is a new day. Tomorrow my diet will begin hardcore. Tomorrow I will resist temptation. Tomorrow is a day to start over and feel free and happy.

Here is a dumb one for ya

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I’ve been blogging or writing in online journals for over 10 years now. And for some reason I am still always stumped when it comes to this one single subject.

Replying to comments.

What in the world do you do???

Do you reply to the persons comment via e-mail or do you just comment on your own page and reply that way, forum-style? I need to know!! I seriously hate that I never know what to do when I receive a comment on my blog and not sure how to respond to it. I know the choice is ultimately mine to make but I want to know what the general consensus is. What does everyone else do?

Wedding Nonsense Update!

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I wanted to post before the time switched over and it was technically tomorrow. It would be a shame if I failed at this Holidailies thing by the second day, wouldn’t it? I am really still bummed that I missed the NaBloPoMo deal this year.. I remember last year vowing that I would do it this year. But that seems to be the way everything goes these days. There just isn’t enough time in the day!

So last night when Gene and I got back from Grandma’s house, we hooked up the Karaoke machine and sang songs for about an hour or so. After that I was exhausted so I got on the computer for a little while and then went to bed. This morning we got up LATE! I think it was 10:30 before I dragged myself out of bed. Shame, shame. The Mysterious Red M came over and we took the mattress sitting in our garage to the dumpster with her good ol’ pickup truck. See, the previous owners left a cat-piss-covered mattress in our garage, promising to dispose of it for us and well, a promise is a promise so naturally it never actually happened. So we ate egg sandwiches afterwards and then went bridal gown shopping!

I just want to say that we picked out the bridesmaid dresses, ordered my sister’s and need to give Gene’s little sis the information so she can go get sized and order hers and the biggest news of all? I picked out my bridal gown and ORDERED IT! And it is in queue for alterations! And oh my gosh I can’t even believe I am typing this right now! I am seriously still in shock.  It’s so pretty and makes all of this getting married nonsense that much more real. So I printed most of my “Save The Date” cards. My plan is to buy one more pack of cards tomorrow evening and get the rest printed and then it’s off to the post office they go! I’ll have them all mailed out by Tuesday, I’m hoping.

Well time for beddybye. I am so sleepy right now and tomorrow it is back to work. I’ve got to be more productive this week because last week was a total blur. It was seriously one of the most stressful weeks I’ve had in a long time. Here is to a better week for all!

NaBloPloBlah vs. Holidailies vs. The Non-Official

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I was going to join Holidailies this year since I was unable to participate in the NaBloPloBlah. Unfortunately, I fell ill last night and was never able to sign up. I got up this morning and the website is dead! They apparently underestimated how much bandwidth and server load they’d need because it just aint workin’ today. So I ‘m going to do my own little non-official version of NaBloPloBlah/Holidailies and try to post as much as I humanly can this month.  And we’ll see if that can get me out of my little blogging funk that I’ve been in lately.

We’re actually all packed up and about to head out of town for the day to visit my Grandma who is very ill. I’ve got coloring books, crayons, card games (only the best… Uni, Skipbo, Phase 10), Nintendo DS Lite and the portable DVD player. I don’t think I mentioned this but they live in a TINY town in NE Oklahoma where there is about NOTHING to do. But no fear, they do actually have a Super Walmart now.. Which just proves the point that there are Walmarts EVERYWHERE.

Okie dokies, I am out. Mom is gonna be here really soon to pick us up. Gonna go say goodbye to the doggies and head out.

P.S. I am almost finished printing/making my “Save The Date” magnets/cards that I am mailing out to everyone for our wedding. They’ll be in the mail Monday morning. This is really happening!!!

Battle of the Archives: Complete

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Lynne is the greatest person in the world! Although she gave me some basic instructions, they were exactly what I needed. One, I needed someone to point out that I needed to put the code into the “code” section of the page not the WYSIWYG tab. But most of all, her little tidbit totally sparked some electricity which then caused a bright light bulb to turn on inside my head. I checked a few things and I got the archives working perfectly! Of course, there is an obnoxious “0″ at the bottom of my Archives page that links to the current November archives. I have no idea why that is there but it ALWAYS has been!

I haven’t posted because I’ve had house guests and also because I’ve been ill. I fell ill on Sunday and I was feeling better yesterday but today my stomach has gone back to it’s old ways. It has been very upset and even right now it feels like it is gurgling and churning… almost as if it will never end. Tonight we’re supposed to hit up an Indian buffet place but I’m not sure if it’s going to work out or not.. Time will only tell.. Send good thoughts for my tumtum!

Stupid. WordPress. Cry. Punch. Sniff.

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Things are undergoing some change around here on my webby-page. I am still fighting The Battle Of The Archives. I simply CANNOT get my Archives to work. I want it to list by Month, then list each date underneath with the post title.. and for some reason that has proven to be EXTREMELY difficult for me. I have absolutely no idea why. I wanted to use the fARC plug-in bu again I am having sooo many problems. Generally, I can either figure things out or google my way to the answer but I am really sick of messing with these archives. I have given up on several occasions when trying to figure out what the heck to do.

So I spent the last two hours messing with it and still have come to NO conclusions. It’s frustrating and making my left eye twitch worse than it has all week! Almost worse than WORK, which is pretty darn bad. So now I will take my frozen (Did I mention that it is 39° outside right now? It’s about 42° in the house…) butt to the bathroom and spend the next 45 minutes trying to convince myself that I wont die if I take my clothes off to get in the shower because it’s cold. Really Really Freakin’ Cold.

Bridezilla To Be

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I really want to start writing in this thing more regularly. I have this weird thing impounded into my brain that I can’t write in my blog unless I have the time to come up with a well thought out entry and use correct grammar and sentence structure. Which all of these things are pretty laughable considering I hardly ever use correct grammar or sentence structure but for some reason that is the way my head works. All I’m saying is that it is pretty darn sad that I write in my free livejournal about 99% more than I write on my blog that is hosted on the server that I actually pay cold hard cash for. Things need to change!

I really, really need to start working on our wedding. I realized there is only 4-5 months left before we get married and I have absolutely nothing done. I haven’t even tried on a single wedding gown. I haven’t found someone to marry us. I haven’t picked our bridesmaid dresses or tuxedos. I haven’t printed invitations. I haven’t done anything. As soon as our company leaves this next week, I am going to dive head first into the planning and getting things done. As excited as I am about the whole ceremony and sharing it with friends and family.. I am at this stressed-out point where I am almost wishing we could just magically get married one day and be done with it!

I can’t believe I’ll be a married woman in less than 6 months. This seriously blows my mind! That means in less than 6 months I can start begging Gene for babies ;)