I Reject Your Reality and Replace It With My Own

You know, I'm proud of myself for changing my layout (after a year and a half of the same one), but now I can't make up my mind on a new one. I decided I didn't want to look at black all day anymore, so I switched it over to this white layout, which I like, but don't love. It's the header text and weirdass newspaper print that's driving me nuts. I don't know if there is a way to take that off (and that horrid green line. Why couldn't it be dark gray? I think I'm more comfortable with monotones). I'll have to see what my LJ-fu can come up with. In other words, find someone else who has already written the code I need. :)

In other words, don't mind the mess. :)

Do you know what I have? A SHINY NEW LAYOUT!!!

All the credit goes to writing_light for designing such a rocking theme, and for holding my hand through the installation process. YOU ROCK, GIRL!!!!!! You can check out her other layouts [here]. She's amazing!! :)

ETA: You know what I don't have? The ablity to code anything correctly the first time. *facepalm* /ETA

Please ignore the layout mess, I just cannot make up my freakin' mind. When I talked to Tara earlier she thought I had finally figured out the rotating header code. HA! I wish. *puts head down because thinking is hard*

In other news, it has not stopped raining ALL. FREAKING. DAY. I hear there is this giant ball of fire that sometimes hangs out in the sky. I don't know what they're talking about because all we have is GLOOM and THUNDER. It's getting old people. O-L-D that spells stop raining.

1) I needed my music this morning. Holy, COW, did I need my music this morning. I can’t decide if it’s having days off of work that does it to me or what. I had my thirty seconds of the “I don’t want to get up, I want to stay in bed, I don’t want to do anything” feeling this morning, but then I got in the shower and was fine. I still felt off when I got to work, but then I remembered senor_coconut_1’s email from last night ("I'm listening to Hanson's This Time Around. Just thought you should know this.") and thought to myself, "Now, there's an idea." And even though this isn't a Hanson song, my iPod spit out "Drift Away" this morning too. Because Tim knows me, man. I swear.

( Snippet of the Drift Away lyrics... )
Yeah. That exactly. And now I'm feeling much better. :)

2) My horoscope today says I need to stop saying I’m going to do things and start doing them. Which I’m interpreting to mean I need to stop talking about my S2 Impala Meta and actually finish it.

3) *points up* Did you all see my new header? This is the first non-WInchester boys header I've ever had. But ladymango took that picture and I knew if I made it black and white and futzed with it a little, it could be one kickass header. I sort of miss my boys though. Maybe I'll change my default user pic. As much as I love Zac Hanson, I need my other boys somewhere.

4) So, I got spoiled at the New Years Eve party because Parker is a complete bitch. And I had made the decision if he brought up the girl who made the Barbie SPN show, then I would out myself. But there was no way I would volunteer that information up. *L* Anyway, I'll post the actually spoiler in the next post, even though it is just the ABSOLUTE SILLIEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD IN, LIKE, EVER. I was a little tipsy at the time, so I'm kinda blaming that on why I was laughing like a crazy person. ANYWAY. Also, Kripke? If you'd like to continue to steal my ideas, that's fine, just, you know, maybe use the hugging next time. *eye roll*

Would we like to start a pool on how many times I'm going to have to initial and date my strike out of the date today? It's almost 9:30 and I've already done it four times! *head desk*

Have a lovely day everyone!!

1) I did not get a whole hell of a lot done last night. Well, I got the living room and kitchen picked up and all the Christmas trash finally taken out, but beyond that – not so much. Cordy called (which once again shows our psychic connection since she was on my list of people to call) to remind me her breast reduction surgery is this afternoon at 2:00pm. Her new doctor thinks that her migraines are triggered by an overstressed nerve in her back which is caused by having too big of boobs. Why not try it, she’s done just about everything for her headaches, I say go for it. I was a little concerned about how she would handle the idea of them futzing with what God gave her, but she was really upbeat about it. So I bought her a gift card to Victoria’s Secret and a vase of flowers, and they should be delivered this afternoon. She’ll be in the hospital over New Years, which sucks, but I’m going down to see her next weekend for Christmas and Liz’s birthday.

2) I chatted with ladymango and senor_coconut_1 last night (not at the same time *L*) and that was a good time. ladymango finally has internet access after being in Vegas for a week (I asked her if she brought Plastic!Dean back a midget stripper and she just laughed. Is that a yes or a no?) so that was good. I missed my girl! And senor_coconut_1 is crocheting a Jayne hat from Firefly that I can’t wait to see. Ohhh, or her NaNo project. I’m a little bouncy at getting to read that too. I do love my friends. :)

3) Did you all enjoy the new layout while it lasted for an entire day? Yeah, well, say goodbye. After tweaking with the front page, getting the colors right, and moving the “mood” tag down below the entry, and putting spacers between the posts and loading a header – and not to mention stretching my itty-bitty CSS skills to the limit – I sat back and said, “THAT is what I’ve always wanted. It’s PERFECT.” And it was. Until I tried to answer comments. Not only do they indent on the wrong side (seriously – indenting on the right? That’s just WRONG) but after you reply to a comment it bumps you back up to the top of the page. Consider for a moment what a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE ASS THAT IS. I think I have it set up for 25 comments per page, but let’s say I’m answering comment number 7. It then bumps me up to the top of the page where I then get to scroll down and search for the point I left off at. And since we all know how crappy I am at replying to comments to begin with, what I really don’t need is another obstacle. So yes. This layout is pretty and if anyone needs the codes for moving the mood, or putting spacers in, or adding the pretty little blurb at the top, just ask. I think I’ll leave it up for another couple of hours, but then. *sigh* back to the old set up. THIS IS WHY I DON’T DO CHANGE. ETA: Ignore me!!  keepaofthecheez is BRILLIANT and she fixed my comments!! Looks like you get to stay after all new LJ page!!  /ETA.  

4) My horoscope was a big load of hooey today.  It told me to eat a lot of vegtables and go to bed early.  Just for that, I'm going to go get a Big Mac and stay up to 3:00am.

5) Anything else? *looks around* No, I think that’ll do me for this morning. My, I was more rambly then usual, wasn’t I. *L* Maybe it’s because it’s FRIDAY and I’m at WORK and I swear we should have gotten this day OFF. Monday, Smunday, I wanted Friday off. I like to start my merry making early.

Have a wonderful day!! Start ringing in that New Year any time you’d like!!

Don't mind the mess - I was struck with inspiration this morning when it occured to me I could add a header to the Bloggish layout (which I've always wanted to try). Still can't figure out how to change the colors without completely re-doing the CSS, but we'll see.

ETA: Ohhh, it looks like I'll start tagging things again. Joy.