| Written by Diana, on 06-09-2007 19:55 |
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I saw my therapist today and talked way too much about the template contest and my not sleeping last night in my fit of wired obsession. If I could find something to curb my hunger and supress my constant desire to stuff my face with ... anything edible, I'd be much thinner. I can't get that idea out of my head. If I had more money I'd have a constant stream of prescription grade appetite supressants with me at all times. At one time I could do that and it kept me very thin but I go a little nuts trying to do it on my own. My head can't wrap itself around the concept of being " me.
I've been searching around Joomla.org for ideas, cool extensions, tools for this site and work's site and I've come across a lot of cool things. I'll be implementing a few here which you'll see soon and I stumbled upon the most awesome template(s) as well. As much as I enjoy creating things, editing graphics, designing sites, it just never was my greatest talent. It's like I have an idea in my head that I just can't get out on screen. Usually I can't find [or create] the perfect graphics or the layout I imagine doesn't manifest itself when I start typing away. When I dislike my site it's because I didn't turn out exacly as I imagined it to. I have high expectations though. Nothing less than perfection will satisfy me. The other thing is that although I'm creating all these user-defined features for the template contest, I would never need all this for myself since I'm going to make it the color I want, with the columns I want, in the language of my choice. There's no need for all these extra features. I create the content and I want to be proud of the design which always leads me to one template designer or another but I'm never as happy with a template once I get it installed on my site. It just never flows quite the same with my content.
I subscribed to The New Criterion, which I've mentioned before, but just I received my first copy and it's quite a good read. If you don't like big words and sophisticated discussion, it's definitely not for you. Unfortunately, I have a fondness for the oddest topics. One of my favorites was A Tour of the Calculus. I haven't finished it because it was a college thing, when waiting two hours in the library between classes required an extensive list of time-wasting reading material. I enjoyed the books I read back then but I don't deal well with silence anymore. The television is always on so it makes it difficult to read, even though I only actually watch it about an hour a week (Weeds & Californication). For some reason I can't focus in silence. My thoughts are too loud, I need the background noise to drown them out.
We're evaluating this new software at work. It's a much more advanced system than what we currently have but it's buy the same company. We've looked at another software and both times we had live demos to try and my mother refused to test them. Now, when it's time to sign on the dotted line she decides she needs to look them over but our demo period has well passed. It made me SO ANGRY today when I found that out. I tried to convince her to at least sign on and look at it but she just refused. It's like she has to do it today but because it's a big decision she puts it off until tomorrow when it's too late. She's bothered and wants the software that's less user friendly for no good reason. she hasn't tested either and my father and I have. I know which one we should get, no questions but she wants to assume the company is lying so let's just go with the less user friendsly software that costs twice as much. Swallow your pride and take the better software.
I took my lizard out when I got home and after starting to crawl up my arm and out he decided he didn't want out. I picked him up and carried him out to a window so he could look out and after looking around for a couple minutes he practically ran back to my bedroom, his home. I figured he was hungr and I think I was right because he's eaten and now he wants out again. Well now I'm exhausted. All I want to do is crash right here.
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