well, i've been playing around with wp on fictiti0us and i think i have a theme that i like. with that said, it's not perfect, and a lot of it is not editable. most themes have more options for editing, but this one is not very elaborate. not to mention the fact that i don't really know php... which makes it longer for me to figure if something is editable or not and where.
additionally, i haven't really figured out what to do with that domain. it used to have a purpose, but not so much anymore. we shall see...
anyway, i like the theme regardless so i'm leaving it up with its flaws. i promise (myself) that acerbity will have a more user-friendly theme, when i finally switch over.
i came to work @ about 9am and it was already too hot. i made the mistake of going out to get my lunch, instead of having it delivered. i will not leave my ACed sanctuary until the sun goes away in a little later.
it occurred to me, as i was going through some WP themes (trying to get an idea of what i'd like to use), that once upon a time you had to actually design a website in order to have where to put your blog... now, wordpress does it for you. and if you happen to know a little HTML, you can make modifications. however, you can also have a perfectly nice/pretty/impressive website without having the first clue about anything at all.
so i'm sitting here, looking through the themes, thinking that some of them look a lot like different layouts i created with images i cut up in photoshop, which i then put back together with tables and css, etc...
in the very beginning, my blog even had individual HTML pages that i linked to one another (and then to the main index). those are in my personal archives and will likely never see the light of day again. but isn't it just dandy, that WP allows me to import all of my greymatter archives?
lol. people have become sooooooooo lazy. i guess it leaves room to be creative in other areas...
ok, so my first instinct on friday was that i had gotten a heatstroke from being outside in the sun for too long. while i thought it was a little silly, because i was only out there for about an hour (mostly in the shade, too), i figured that the slight fever and shivers i had, lent themselves well to the symptoms i know. but an upset stomach? that lead me to think that perhaps i had eaten something that didn't agree with me. and since my fever/chills were gone the following day, i thought that maybe they were another symptom of what was going on in my stomach and not vice-versa. but as it turns out, and this i did not know, an upset stomach (and what it entails) is in fact one of the symptoms of a heatstroke.
so there you have it. the first day it gets a little too warm for my taste, and my body protests violently. at least my physical being is in-synch with my mind...
i don't know why, but my stomach has been bothering me seriously since last night. maybe it's cuz of something i ate... but even so, one would think that by now the pain (and everything else that's able to come out) would be gone. yet it continues.
last night i was also running a slight fever. so at first i thought i had managed to get a sunstroke from being outside for about an hour. however, that's all gone now but my stomach pains continue.
it turns out that me and another girl from my office have to be in gibraltar for a couple of days next month. so we decided to take a detour in london on our way there. well it's not really a detour... we're really just making our layover last longer than a few hours. instead of leaving on sunday and hopping from one airport to the next (long story), we're going to leave a couple of days earlier and spend the weekend there, staying with someone who works in our london office.
now, i absolutely hate the idea of being away from golan at all, let alone for five or six days... but it would be a little weird if i said that i wasn't totally excited about this, since i've never been to london.
last night was a lot of fun. our company had a purim party at some fancy place in the opera house. however, since i both don't remember the entire evening and have a massive hang over, the pictures will tell more than i can =D
it's been quite a while since i've had a hang over. and no, i don't miss it. thankfully, i have an understanding boss (well, he was there too) who didn't mind me coming in a little later than usual. of course, that only helped when i was still lying in bed. right now, i think i wanna go sit in the bathroom and wait for it to come up.
* we stayed in on thursday night cuz we needed a break from the weekend clubbing thing. * friday, golan and i were up at the crack of dawn and actually went out to have breakfast somewhere on shenkin. then, after having walked around for a while, we met up with mariana. at this point golan went home to sleep a little, and mariana and i went on a shopping spree =D * friday night, i was planning on going out, but was then too lazy to bother. * saturday, dik+idan had a small bbq with a few friends. we ate a lot and then went home to sleep cuz we were totally fat (no, seriously ;). * then it was time for golan to go to work.
this morning i gave golan a pair of levi's that i've had for several years. when i bought them i was all into the low/slouch/big look, so they were always kinda big on me. but ever since i've lost some weight, they're really just too big. they're actually large enough to come right off of me without being undone. so as i was looking for something to wear today, i found them and mentioned that i wanted to give them to mariana. but then i looked at golan and said that if they fit and they were to his liking, that i would give them to him instead. sure enough, they fit perfectly and look hot on him. hehe.
so yesterday, my monitor here at work suddenly decided that it no longer wants to be in focus. i checked the settings real quick (cuz with windows, who knows how shit happens without ever touching anything), saw that nothing had changed and i figured that before i declare the monitor dead, i should probably try a reboot. this seemed to work.
all was fine until about an hour ago, when things started losing focus again. the focus pretty much seemed to go in and out. another reboot helped, but not for long.
now the thing to do was check the connections... so i made sure, on one end, that everything was nice and tight. but i was too lazy to get under my desk and check the other end.
just before i was about announce it's death and ask to have a new monitor purchased for me, i had one of the IT guys come in to take a look. just.in.case... sure enough, he did what i was too lazy to do - got down under my desk and tightened the connection on the machine's end. that cleared everything up.
for the last year, i've been in what's called 'forebodence' by the school loans people. what this means is that i made arrangements to make monthly payments on my loan, that are an amount of my choosing. i arranged for this last year, when the dollar was high and i had no idea how i could afford more than $100 a month.
the reason i opted to pay the small amount, even though it hardly payed even half of the monthly interest, was to maintain my credit. which was excellent when i left nyc. i don't know if i'll ever want to move back, but it looks like we might have that in our plans for sometime in the future. so i needed to pay something, and not let the loans default.
but now - the dollar is relatively and steadily low, i have pretty much finished paying off everything i had in payments on my credit cards, and i have golan sharing my monthly expenses. this leads me to think that i can not only pay more than i did in the past year, but i might possibly be able to make payments just large enough to touch on some of the principal, too.
i might be able to pull that off and put some away =)
so the weekend was pretty good. laid back, mostly. except for the party on friday night, which was a lot of fun. unfortunately, i got rather tired relatively early. i think it was at about 1:30am or so. golan wanted to stay, and i kinda feel bad that i was simply falling asleep.
the following day, we slept well into the afternoon. when we woke up, we took a short walk to his father's stables. all i can say is "yay! horsey!" hehe.
the weather has been absolutely beautiful, which does two things... 1. it makes me happy and feeling all springy, and 2. it makes me a little too anxious, sitting here indoors.
.: two of golan's friends are joining us for five of our seven days in amsterdam next month! =D .: we kinda know what we're dressing as for purim. .: i think golan is even going to be able to attend a bit of the company party before going to work =) .: looking forward to tonight, actually. .: lots of stuff going on for us in pardes hana this weekend. .: this weather rules .: is it april yet?
last night was the first of golan's month's worth of night shifts at work. he got home this morning at around 6:30, and i was pretty much awake because i had fallen a sleep really early the night before. we hung out a little, and i set my alarm to go off with enough time for me to shower.
good plan, right?
i thought so too...
when i got up and hopped into the shower, i noticed that the water was not going down. and since we don't exactly have a bathtub, it's not like this water really has anywhere to go. last time this happened, i managed to somehow get the water to drain and have since forgotten about this. today, i was unable to do anything but call a plumber.
the guy who came is someone who has done work in my apartment before and i knew he was good and charged a fair price. and since opening a blocked pipe is not usually a long or complicated process, i figured that his relatively low estimate was going to be on the mark.
anyway, instead of being here for about twenty minutes (which should have been enough) - he ended up being here for about two hours trying to figure out why he can't get the water to drain even though the "snake" had gone all the way through. as it turns out, this apartment has its piping connected with my neighbor's apartment and the plumber had to go in there and grab the crap that was clogging MY drain from THEIR shower. thankfully, my neighbors were home and nice about the whole thing.
in all, it turned out to be slightly more expensive that we had originally thought, took a lot more time and scared the cat into hiding for most of the day.
on the bright side, my bathroom floor has now been scrubbed with bleach-infused cleaning stuff (@ my mom's recommendation) and i'm pretty sure that nothing like this will happen again for the rest of the time we are bound to this rental lease.
oh, and just for reference, this is what i had going on today:
i'm really kinda lazy updating this thing lately. you know, i suppose we all go through phases on this matter. i try to keep it up, at least occasionally, so people know i'm alive... and cuz, well, i like knowing that i'll later have something to look back on and remember where i was in my life at any given point.
you know.
anyway, thursday i started my evening at the sublime. the genders were playing and i promised tali (the drummer's sister) that i'd come meet her. it's been a while since i've seen her and even longer since i've had the pleasure of seeing the band play. it was a good show. it always is =)... then i moved on to the mosad, for our usual thursday night nonsense.
friday morning, golan and i got up at a relatively decent hour (not too late, not too early) and got our asses moving towards haifa. the plan was to go wall-climbing. the boys all had a lot of fun, but i was too lazy to climb up walls. i figure that next time i'll be out of excuses and have to do some climbing, too =D
the rest of the weekend was spent in pardess hanna being lazy.
and now, onto another week.
i seriously have just about zero patience for waiting till the end of april for our trip to amsterdam. i could use that vacation now. not to mention that we're going to have a fucking blast! =D
