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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Sunday, Amelia and I will be heading south to spend the entire week in Florida with my parents. I’m looking forward to this vacation so much. Sure, I’ll miss my husband, but will truly enjoy being away from home and work. I’ll have help watching Amelia so I won’t have to be on guard constantly. Which means relaxation and knitting. woohoo!
I was right. Teeth #5 and 6 are coming in. The two top front teeth are both coming in. One is coming in a little bit ahead of the other, but they will both be clearly poking through within the next week. It’s a time to rejoice because she’s finally getting more teeth. It’s about time! But it makes for a very cranky little girl and her moodiness is exhausting. At least I know there’s a reason and I can find a little more sympathy for her mood. I know it’s not just her being a difficult toddler.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I feel I must write a blog post today. For whatever reason, I am feeling blah. Maybe I just need a vacation. I true vacation, not just a day or two off here and there. But I’m really not enjoying my job.
I really wish I could somehow get another job of comparable pay and benefits that doesn’t involve computers except at a tool to aid me in my work. I don’t want to be a developer anymore. I don’t want to sit in front of a computer every day writing code. I’ve done it for almost 8 years now and I’m tired of it.
But herein lies the problem. I don’t have experience doing anything else. Sure, I worked at a public library for 6 months back in the day, but that’s not real experience to qualify me to be a librarian. There’s a job opening for an assistant manager at a local bookstore. If it didn’t mean a huge cut in pay and benefits, I’d apply. I’ve always dreamed of working in a bookstore or library.
We’ve talked about someday moving back to Florida, but the thought of doing that dreaded job search and knowing I can only look for another developer job just feels like a vise on my heart. I know what my husband feels every time he gets thisclose to quitting his job because he just can’t stand it. It sucks to be so miserable at your day job (where you spend more time than at home) and know that you just can’t up and quit and find something else because you have a family that depends on that income. I understand completely how he feels and I hate that we are both in that situation with seemingly no way to fix it.
We have way too much debt and daycare to just go for a change without thinking of the repercussions. And that makes things even worse. So I sit here trying to keep it together while I plug away at the same freaking project I’ve been working on for the past year or more trying to get something to work so I can move on and maybe at least tolerate my job.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
I’ve been browsing the internet and have found some gorgeous looking blogs. It makes me want to do another redesign of this site. I want it to look sophisticated and techy yet have that fun “mom” feel to it at the same time. How do I accomplish this with minimal frustration?
Another huge problem I have is that I spend so much time designing the layout, slicing it up, converting it to HTML and tweaking it here and there so that the end result looks at least somewhat similar to the Photoshop image, that by the time it goes live, I’m sick of looking at it. Granted, I don’t look at my site very often, but I’d like to have a layout that doesn’t turn me off once it goes live.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
I’m redesigning Amelia’s photo gallery website and I need a name for it. I had originally chosen “munchkin munchkin” but DH doesn’t like it. So I’m trying to come up with something else cute that will fit in with the fonts I chose. The name I chose lined up perfectly in the “logo”, but I can’t find any other name that would like as good. Any suggestions?
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
I’ve to move all the knitting, crochet, quilting content over to a new site located at: http://wifetalks.com/knits. I haven’t migrated over the comments but hopefully will be able to get that done this weekend with a little bit of sql coding. Cross your fingers. There actually isn’t a lot of comments :(, so it shouldn’t be too difficult.
Once those are transfered over, I will begin work on this site (the personal blog). It will get a redesign and all of the knit-related content will be removed. For now, the content still exists, but it will be hidden from your view.
Please change your bookmarks to the new knitting site if that is what you came here for.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
I’m contemplating pulling out my knitting content and making it into a separate blog again. I did that back when I first started knitting, and soon my regular blog wasn’t being updated as often because I was posting so much knit content.
When my knitting died off, I combined the two since I wasn’t posting much of anything at all. Now that I’m posting more knitting, I think it should be out on its own. The only thing is that I’m not posting as much non-knitting content anymore. So I think it would require a revamp of my main “blog” to be more of an “update” site (what’s been going on with my family, or whatever) rather than a blog.
That would require more time and effort to redo the site. Just not sure I have that much time, but I do feel that the knitting content should be separate, especially if ravelry members will be visiting looking for knitting content.
Still trying to figure out the best solution.
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
I started browsing some old blog reads from a few years back and got the bloggy bug. I sort of miss my old “fun and personal” blog. Where we had fun linky sort of stuff on the site. Lots of colors and images. So…
I’ve added some buttons in order to bring more color to the site. I think it was getting kind of bland with just text. Just a few to liven things up. It also helps make the site look a little more like a personal blog rather than something so impersonal. After all, this is my personal blog. The hard part is deciding when enough is enough.
Oh yeah. I also added the 100 things about me. As of yet there are only 60-something items, so it’s not finished. But have a lookie. 
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
I think I got the site working again. It’s officially running on Textpattern again. No pretty monthly archives as of yet, but I’m looking into it. Still a few quirks to straighten out, but for the most part everything is back up and running. I even opened up commenting again.
I hope to start posting more pictures of my project progress and more stuff in general. I think I’ve been slacking in content. But I did have my old posts from the last time I was using TXP (I didn’t delete the database), so I once again have the majority of the posts from when I started blogging back in ’02.
Let’s all cross our fingers that I don’t do some major renovating again anytime soon. Just maybe layout change once in a while. This overhaul thing is tiring. LOL!
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
I think I got the site working again. It’s officially running on Textpattern again. No pretty monthly archives as of yet, but I’m looking into it. Still a few quirks to straighten out, but for the most part everything is back up and running. I even opened up commenting again.
I hope to start posting more pictures of my project progress and more stuff in general. I think I’ve been slacking in content. But I did have my old posts from the last time I was using TXP (I didn’t delete the database), so I once again have the majority of the posts from when I started blogging back in ’02.
Let’s all cross our fingers that I don’t do some major renovating again anytime soon. Just maybe layout change once in a while. This overhaul thing is tiring. LOL!
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Just learned that Blogrolling is once again completely free. All extra features that were only available to gold contributors is now available for free. Woohoo!
This means I can go back to using it for my link management and I can keep multiple blogrolls for each category I use. No more rebuilding my site when I add a new link to the list.
As of right now, I limited it to 5 links from each of my 3 lists, pulled randomly. This is what I wanted to show using MTBlogroll but it never seemed to work. Oh well. This is better because it’s more dynamic and easier to maintain.
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