I threw up a temp archive page… By temp I mean I took the photoblog layout and changed a few colors and I KNOW IT’S LAZY but I wanted to get myself motivated. It should be fun to watch it grow and change. It’s is going to be my official ‘Learn how to code using CSS for the web nazi’s’ layout. Who know’s how much I’ll break in the process. FUN!

Are you excited yet? :nana:

In other news… Cassidy’s dad is a *insert mean word that can’t be used against me in court here*. You know how we picked her up two months ago at the end of my VOLUNTARILY given time with him? Well yeah, he hasn’t called here a single time to talk to her since then.

She asked to call him the other night and I tell her the same thing every time, ‘You may call him whenever you like. You know the #.’ Usually she says, ‘I’ll call him later’ and then doesn’t mention it again for awhile.

So Saturday she comes to find me and says, ‘Mom, I miss my dad.’ So I say… ‘call him.’ She did and left a message. They called back that evening and she was asking them to come get her so she can visit… he tells her he’s going to come get her for the weekend… and doesn’t ask to talk to me.

Um hello? You are not allowed to pick her up from school. I’ve been VERY specific with the day care instructor that myself, Ben and my mother are the ONLY people allowed to pick Cassidy up from school. And BESIDES, he didn’t think he should coordinate picking her up with me?? So now Cassidy is expecting her dad to pick her up on Friday. I told her last night, ‘Honey, daddy needs to talk to mommy so that mommy knows when he wants to come get you. So don’t get all excited till I’ve talked to him okay?’

She immediatley tries to call… last night at around 5 and leaves a message… and I have not heard anything back yet. So I can just see it now, I’m going to be the bad guy because he doens’t call, doesn’t come to get her..

Blah. Worthless. He better fucking call.

#1 - The photoblog is back up and running. You can check it by clicking the ‘Views’ button up there at the top of the page.

It’s all coded pretty in CSS so it should work NO MATTER WHAT BROWSER YOU HAVE!! I took a layout that I *kinda* liked and tweaked the shit out of it. That’s an understatement really, I pretty much changed everything. But whatever, it works. ON ALL THE BROWSERS!!!

#2 - I’m going to start working on a layout for an archive page. I really want it to fit within the frame of the main layout but I’ve been looking at blogs all over the WWW and it seems like if you have a frame layout, a seperate archive is the way to go. Meh.

I’m sure that will be CROSS BROWSER COMLIANT too. I just want a way for people to be able to view posts via catagory and date.

#3 - Why all the motivation? Well, frnakly I’m sick of the site being half done. I change layouts like I change underware (maybe even more :screwy:) and I’m tired of ‘coming soon’ signs and things being half done. I need to STICK with a layout already and work on content. The thing is, the way everything is coded now, I’ve made changing layouts really easy on myself because I use Edit Plus to do a Find->Replace All and BAM! Everything is ready to go.

#4 - I’ve set a date to come up with a name for a new domain. By the end of September, the name just HAS to be registered. Then I can just transfer everything over to it, put a nice little temproray redirect up and kick the name Stacy out of my life FOR F-IN GOOD. (Othen than the princess of course, but that’s a given). I just HAVE to get rid of this domain name. I hate it. It’s like an Albatross I just can’t get away from.

#5 - Anybody who suggests a name that I like and end up using will get some kind of special prize.. I don’t know what yet. But something cool. I just have total thought blockage when it comes to trying to figure out what I want myself to be ‘know as’ for what should be a very long time.

HELP!!!!

I added a new catagory: Conversations with Cassidy. Not that you can search by catagory… because I don’t have them listed anywhere. That will change soon. Anyway, this is a pretty self explanatory catagory. Most of the conversations are between Ben and Cassidy because when the two of them start… it’s just classic.

And here we go!!

Last night in the car on the way home from the grocery store:
Me: *as we pull a ‘Ben’ around a left turn* Oh Lord.
Ben and Cassidy: *chuckle*
Me: We have bread AND 2 litre’s in the back. The bread needs to make it home alive for Cassidy’s lunches.
Ben: She can have Pepsi sandwiches.
Me: *blank stare*
Cassidy: Good one Ben!
Me: OH… LORD!!!

Fist rain of the season. I love the rain. Well, I love it when it rains for ONE day, MAYBE two at a time.

Last year we had a rainy season that lasted for about two months… where it didn’t rain for a total of two days. That was a bit hard to take for this Bakersfield native who was used to seeing rain for 10 days out of the whole YEAR. Ben on the other hand, absolutley thrives in that rainy weather. He grew up in Washington where overcast sky’s and rain were normal all year round.

Anyway, it’s raining now and it sounds and smells lovely. I’m off to take a long hot bath becuase nothing is better on a cold rainy day than a long hot soak in the tub while listening to the drops hit the roof.

Hit F5. Because it’s fun.

Need to get the comments redone. I’ll get that done tonight.

Also working on a new layout for the photo blog so that should be done in the next day or two.