this thanksgiving i am grateful for
family
friends
a healthy and happy heart
a job that i (mostly) enjoy
having traveled to so many new places this year
helplessness blues
kashi strawberry fields cereal
*got spoiler alert!* arya still being alive as of 60%ish into a feast of crows (george r. r. martin, don't you dare kill her! don't you daaarrrrrrrrreeeee *shakes fist and glares up at the ceiling*)
i would list more but each line would get more ridiculous than the one before it and every other one would just be another food item i am currently craving. like string cheese. or more mashed potatoes. mmm, potatoes...my stomach says no but my heart says YES.
once again i am taking up the solemn, solemn vow to rekindle my creativity and start posting here again. i don't care who sees any of this, or who doesn't, because i feel that sort of apprehension about what an audience expects sets me back and makes me think things like "oh, that would be dumb to post", or "i know so-and-so might be reading this and don't want him/her to know how retarded i actually am" or most commonly, "i don't have anything to say today and therefore will not stretch my noggin to find something." i've come to realize more and more that if i don't write for myself, i won't write at all. which is not to say i am going to fill this blog up with complete and utter crap - just probably some crap - i will still try to maintain some semblance of quality control. but i will not care what others will think! (yes, easier said than done.)
i have started tinkering around with the css a little on here. i can't get the image of thundercat up top to "float" above the text and that little line that cuts across her exacerbates a twitch in my left eye. but at the very least, it is something that distinguishes my blog from the gabazillions out there with the same "simple" layout. css is sort of fascinating to me. i just started a few tutorials on it and have began to dapple here and there, nervously tweaking fonts and creating divs before resetting everything for fear of breaking allll the things. the gist of it is incredibly simple, but still to me it's fascinating to inspect every element of the webpages i love and uncover the ingredients that make up how they look. to a seasoned developer it's probably child's play, but to me it's kind of amazing, like having a digital easel at my fingertips.
in about ten minutes my best friend and her sister are going to pick me up. we're going to target - the one in Rio that i've known forever - to uh, buy DVDs and hopefully settlers of catan, haha. i sure as heck wasn't gonna wake up early and fight the crowds tomorrow morning so i figured a midnight escapade to target would be a reasonable compromise - i get to spend time with a friend and still maybe get to snap up season one of vampire diaries for $12.99? ha.
on that topic, i think i'm generally a happier person when there's a tv show in my life. not many, just one that i keep watching. for a while i was a snob about watching tv and deigned "arrested development" as the only shows suitable for my taste. but having recently watched the game of thrones series, i'm quickly realizing that there is a lot of well-made television out there, and that instead of equating everything on the silver screen to "real housewives of some place or another", i should really just do some research and find what's good. so far, my interest's been piqued in dexter, archer, the wire, and weeds. oh and vampire diaries, which isn't exactly intelligent television but would be a great time-killer 30,000 feet in the air. plus the girl in it is adorable. i want to her best friend forever.
family
friends
a healthy and happy heart
a job that i (mostly) enjoy
having traveled to so many new places this year
helplessness blues
kashi strawberry fields cereal
*got spoiler alert!* arya still being alive as of 60%ish into a feast of crows (george r. r. martin, don't you dare kill her! don't you daaarrrrrrrrreeeee *shakes fist and glares up at the ceiling*)
i would list more but each line would get more ridiculous than the one before it and every other one would just be another food item i am currently craving. like string cheese. or more mashed potatoes. mmm, potatoes...my stomach says no but my heart says YES.
once again i am taking up the solemn, solemn vow to rekindle my creativity and start posting here again. i don't care who sees any of this, or who doesn't, because i feel that sort of apprehension about what an audience expects sets me back and makes me think things like "oh, that would be dumb to post", or "i know so-and-so might be reading this and don't want him/her to know how retarded i actually am" or most commonly, "i don't have anything to say today and therefore will not stretch my noggin to find something." i've come to realize more and more that if i don't write for myself, i won't write at all. which is not to say i am going to fill this blog up with complete and utter crap - just probably some crap - i will still try to maintain some semblance of quality control. but i will not care what others will think! (yes, easier said than done.)
i have started tinkering around with the css a little on here. i can't get the image of thundercat up top to "float" above the text and that little line that cuts across her exacerbates a twitch in my left eye. but at the very least, it is something that distinguishes my blog from the gabazillions out there with the same "simple" layout. css is sort of fascinating to me. i just started a few tutorials on it and have began to dapple here and there, nervously tweaking fonts and creating divs before resetting everything for fear of breaking allll the things. the gist of it is incredibly simple, but still to me it's fascinating to inspect every element of the webpages i love and uncover the ingredients that make up how they look. to a seasoned developer it's probably child's play, but to me it's kind of amazing, like having a digital easel at my fingertips.
in about ten minutes my best friend and her sister are going to pick me up. we're going to target - the one in Rio that i've known forever - to uh, buy DVDs and hopefully settlers of catan, haha. i sure as heck wasn't gonna wake up early and fight the crowds tomorrow morning so i figured a midnight escapade to target would be a reasonable compromise - i get to spend time with a friend and still maybe get to snap up season one of vampire diaries for $12.99? ha.
on that topic, i think i'm generally a happier person when there's a tv show in my life. not many, just one that i keep watching. for a while i was a snob about watching tv and deigned "arrested development" as the only shows suitable for my taste. but having recently watched the game of thrones series, i'm quickly realizing that there is a lot of well-made television out there, and that instead of equating everything on the silver screen to "real housewives of some place or another", i should really just do some research and find what's good. so far, my interest's been piqued in dexter, archer, the wire, and weeds. oh and vampire diaries, which isn't exactly intelligent television but would be a great time-killer 30,000 feet in the air. plus the girl in it is adorable. i want to her best friend forever.
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