settling in
So I’m still trying to settle into the new site – hanging my pictures on the walls, figuring out where exactly the furniture should go, and so on – but the boxes of all my old stuff still haven’t arrived. And by boxes, I mean files on a hard drive. My archives, to use a term that gives my collection of pet photos, lame status updates and rants about the weather a fancy name.
Since he had a problem with my totally inefficient plan of cutting and pasting HTML, post by post, The Boy Wonder is valiantly trying to figure out how to transfer all my old posts to the new site in one shot. And one shot (to the back of the head) is probably what I’m going to get if I nag him about it one more time.
In the meantime, please feel free to leave comments about what works and doesn’t work for you, both literally and figuratively. For example, on my desktop computer, the site’s colour scheme is a range of vibrant greens with a nice, sand-coloured sidebar. A sandbar, if you will. But when I looked at it on my laptop this morning, I was disappointed to discover the greens are flat and washed out and the warm sand colour a pale grey. Bleh. It makes me wonder what others see. Is it my laptop screen that’s off or is my desktop monitor overly bright? Should I quit worrying about it and go do some dishes? No. Should I go to bed? Yes.
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at last
After bugging The Boy Wonder for a couple years to re-do my blog, I finally got sick of waiting and decided to do it myself. Et voila! (I was going to write ‘Et viola!’ but worried you might not realize that’s a joke. It’s one of my pet peeves, as you can imagine. One of my 23,000 pet peeves.)
Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I started fooling around with designing a new site during my fourteen seconds of free time every day and, two months later (with a little bit of last-minute help from The BW), here it is. It’s still a work in progress – as am I – so please be gentle.
4 Responses to “at last”
Took a quick look, looks fantastic. Not too cluttered but enough to keep you busy for a few minutes. I’ve always liked that picture of you for some reason. It’s got that “average gal” look combined with “What the *%$^ are you looking at!” -Jc
Thanks, Jay. I’ll be adding more links and older posts as time allows.
hey Lori, it looks really good! You are definitely above average intelligence though. the only tabs I couldn’t open were ” Yo Ma” and “There she was, gone”. very happy to see you back.
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Your blog looks great. Nice colour too although it doesn’t sound like the colour you describe. On my screen it’s a turquoise green. Nice layout too. You should be proud of yourself. Robin is not the only artistic one in your family. For a while I thought you had given up on your blog especially since you must be extra extra busy now, adding teaching to your schedule. Good luck.