New and shiny things

Okay, I might have a thing for fluid layouts? And grey. And blue. I figured that I’d fill everyone’s screens up with all of this, just because I could. I still have things to iron out (the header image was clumsily made with a gradient and a picture of sunrise clouds I took last year … not sure if I like it entirely. *blink*). Thanks to Amanda, by the way, for a little PHP help that solved things just short of me ripping my hair out.

It’s two days and fifty minutes into the New Year, I’ve spent 50% of that time sleeping (I feel productive … no really, I do!), and I did this theme because I needed something to occupy time that wasn’t: 1) sleeping; 2) slow-progressing MSN conversations made thrice as slow by alcohol consumption on New Year’s Eve; or 3) repeatedly reading a forum thread about having blonde moments which, in addition to being good for a temporary lol, makes me feel somewhat better about myself.

Although, having said that, if you have any qualms with it, please let me know. IE 6 apparently doesn’t understand the max-width part of my CSS, and so renders this at 100% width anyway - although Firefox and Opera and everything else like me. *pat pat* Otherwise, things seem fine.

New Years Resolutions! You either love ‘em or hate ‘em, and personally I’m a bit of both. I almost never end up carrying through with them (but that isn’t only because I completely forget about them four days into January), but they’re fun to make at the time for the sake of feeling like an empowered individual. In 2008, I will:

1. Lead a more balanced life. Despite the fact that uni will probably overwhelm me for the first … semester or so. At this stage, 2008 lifestyle will prospectively consist of uni, dancing, tech-stuff, part-time work, and sleep. Must try and achieve moderation in all five areas, even if it ends up just being a pipe dream.
2. Eat healthier. I’ve been making this resolution repeatedly for the past four or so years, and yet I still impulsively rock up to McDonalds several times a week ordering a lovely diversity of artery-clogging shit that’s so. damn. bloody. easy. to eat. Probably why I’m unfit. Must change, damnit! Note: I do count Subway as healthy eating.
3. Learn to drive. Properly. And no, my father teaching me to drive does not qualify as proper learning. I’d rather find a decent instructor who doesn’t spend 75% of the time yelling at me because I “indicated a bit too early before turning around that corner”. Not that I’ll be driving that much anyway …

That pretty much covers it. I give myself a maximum of two weeks before at least one of them goes down the drain. But at least they look good written down … really … It’s two days into the New Year and so far I’ve managed to stick to all of them; yes, I’m going by the day here. Dancing classes don’t start up again until the end of January (still unfit here), and uni doesn’t start until the end of February, so until then I’m just going to cruise along until all the demanding stuff hits. Oh, and to answer Belinda and Chien Yee’s questions on my last entry - I do Irish dance. Ergo, my upper body is as weak as a kitten, but my legs and feet are nimble and strong. Cue heightened sense of self-esteem!

So, dear visitors - what did you get up to to ring in the New Year?

Posted on January 3rd, 2008   |   Filed under Life, Online & Website   |   16 Comments

Truthfully? Absolutely No Idea.

Yes, new theme. Called Lazy Days, no less. I stayed up all night coding it because, well, I’m cool like that. And I was a little sick of my last theme … I thought it about time that I tried my hand at fluid layouts, anyway. There’s a horrible feeling germinating in the pit of my stomach, to do with the fact that I probably have 7647837546 other glitches to iron out in this layout, but for now, it’ll do. Just poke me if you find anything wrong.

I’m still debating about whether I should stick a header between the navigation and the content - just to make things look less minimalistic - or whether I should just type up the blog name in a ridiculously large font, save it in Photoshop and have it as a branding mark … somewhere … come to think of it, where would I put the latter? Hrm. Well, IE 7 completely screws the search form, and there’s this large gap akin to a chasm between the content div and the footer. I shudder to think what it looks like in previous versions of IE.

In reference to the post title, I had no idea what I was doing when I started this at … oh, say, 3 o’clock this morning … and this is what I ended up with. Funny how I envisioned something at least remotely red, and it came out grey and blue. I was this close to retreating to the Themes codex and just sifting endlessly through those until I found something I liked, but then thought against it; I don’t deal well with templates. They give me rashes. On a slight tangent, the site is still very unfinished since I haven’t had an About page in … well, for as long as I can remember. So I’m going to spend the next few hours (read: days) re-constructing everything and writing up new-fangled jazz for the other sections. Meanwhile, the index page is just as minimal and pretty!

In other news, it’s just about three weeks until HSC results are released. You can smell the apprehension in the air! *twitches* Although from some corners it might be excitement, from others it may be a mix of both, and from a select few, it’s probably unexpected flatulence.

Posted on November 27th, 2007   |   Filed under General, Online & Website   |   14 Comments