Despite my rubbish blogging, you might be pleased ((Or probably indifferent)) to know that I have actually been working like a trooper ((title, geddit? I’m hilarious.)) on my website in the past few days. Since giving up on the idea of making a wordpress theme I’ve been making a new layout with div layers, and it’s pretty much done – I’m just adding some content now. Granted, it doesn’t work perfectly, but I’m pleased with it. It’s main flaw is compatibility, because I don’t know how to centre layouts in I.E. I won’t leave it up for long though, I don’t think – maybe just until the end of the summer, and then I’ll make one that’s aligned to the left of the page. Much easier. =)

Also, I think I’m going to have to give up on the wordpress theme for now and go back to good old html/css/php whatever layouts. They’re easier for me and, as said above, I’m lazy. And apparently I never stick to my goals. Rawr. I’m managing to stick to my writing goal at the moment, though! It’s the same structure as nanowrimo and although I am one hundred words behind, I have been writing everyday, which is good enough for me, considering one hundred words is nothing. In fact, I have already passed one hundred words in this blog post. Muahaha.

Today I planned to make a video with my puppets – Claude & Glinda. Unfortunately, however, the heavens have opened up and now my garden is… y’know… all soggy and stuff. Plus my mother told me that the time limit that says you’re not supposed to walk on new turf isn’t up, so I’d have had to wait a while anyway.

BORING BLOGS FTL.

So, my exams have started. Shockhorrorgasp. Last Thursday and Friday ((it lasts eight hours)) I sat my art exam, and this is what I came up with:

It is supposed to answer the question ‘What happens next?’ by looking at evolution, although I don’t know if it accurately portrays that.

I’ve been to see yet another show that my very talented friend was in, by the way. =D She played Ariel in Footloose this time, and I really enjoyed it. We got front row seats, so that was nice too. It was a really funny show, and all the cast were really good.

This seems like such a lazy blog post, but in my defence I only made it to explain the layout. I don’t suppose I even needed to do that, considering I don’t really try to advertise this place yet; I figure I should wait until I’ve added some content first. Still, there’s no rush. The reason, I think, that I abandoned all my other sites is due to the fact I made myself think I had to update every other day for it to be worth anything. I’m trying to be more selfish with it this time round. Haha.

So yeah, I’m going to go and watch Back to the Future III and finish my art evaluation. Toodle hoo, everyone. xx.

In the past few weeks I have been trying to create my own theme for the site, but nothing I’ve made so far really sticks out at me. :/ Plus, when I do decide on a header graphic I then need to actually learn how to code themes for wordpress, which might take a while, and I’ve had a lot of schoolwork lately. It well get done eventually though, I promise, and the same time that’s getting done I’ll finally try and figure out to use pages. I have tonnes and tonnes of icons and things you guys ((“you guys” – I have two regular readers, as far as I’m aware.)) can have, but it’s kind of hard to display them without knowing what you’re doing. =3

As for school. Ugh. I think after Easter things will cool down a bit. All of my english coursework has to be handed in by Friday, and my D&T is supposed to be handed in the first week back. After that I’ll just have to focus on art, which shall be fun. Muahaha. Gosh, I really can’t wait. I loathe D&T; I wanted to make a graphic product, but I was basically told that I wouldn’t get enough marks for it… So I was forced to make something textiles/resistant material related instead. I chose textiles, and am trying to make a puppet in the style of Jim Henson’s creation for the character Glinda the Good Witch. Sort of Wicked meets Avenue Q. <3 I suck so bad at sewing though.

Speaking of Wicked, I am going to see it very soon. I am very excited. I’m now the only one of my friends who has not seen it on stage, but we’ve organised a trip and… yeah. I get to see it. *squee* I might paint myself green for the occasion… because I already have green bodypaint… hmmm. *ponders*

We also went to see the Rocky Horror Show a few weeks ago; it was pretty cool, to be fair. I don’t know if I enjoyed it as much as my friends did, because although I enjoy the film I’m not a die-hard fan, but it was still a really fun show. Around half of my group dressed up, most of these just being Transylvanians, but my friend Emily, who played Belle in Beauty and the Beast, went in full Magenta garb. She looked awesome. I was a spoil sport, and not only did I not dress up ((I did have a party hat. xD)) but… I didn’t even dance to the Time Warp. ((This is the point where I back away from the gasps of horror.)) I know, I know… it’s like the iconic part of the show. But I have never in my life took part in one of those organised dance routines, and I never plan to, even if the dance ruotine in question is mocking the others.

Finally, the last thing I have been to see recently is Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I saw it in 3D, but I must say I really regret that because it cost four pounds extra, and it wasn’t even that… three dimensional. :/ I expected things to be flying off the screen and such, but there were only two or three parts in the entire film where that happened. The film itself was absolutely immense, but it would have been just as immense in 2D and seeing the 3D one turned out to be a colossal waste of money.

The main part of the film that I remember the most, quite sadly, is the part where the March Hare says “Spoon.” This comes from an inside joke involving a trip to the ice rink, where this conversation happened;

Someone: If the rink is closed we could always go to IKEA.

Emily: Oh! Oh! I LOVE IKEA! They sell…. SPOONS!

Since then, Emily has been known as the spoon lady, and therefore this one word in the film was very humorous to us. Hehe.

I do suggest, however, that everybody watch the Syfy Channel’s version of Alice in Wonderland, because I adore it, and that combined with Tim Burton’s film has turned me into quite the Alice/Hatter shipper. xD It just seems wrong, but adorable at the same time. Muahaha.

Now, I will bid you adieu, even if there’s only two of you reading, and go and… do some homework or something. :/ Ick.

- Jess. =3

But still, I did so, and dragged it back into the sidebar, clicked save, the usual. But it still wasn’t showing up on the main page. Baffled, I clicked the title on my website, leading me to the /blog section of the website, rather than the overall index page… and on there, my sidebar looked fine. I hovered over the links and noticed that I had miscoded them slightly, and so I went back and edited them, and saved again. They still didn’t show on the index page, and the codes were still messed up on the blog directory. But I clicked a random link in the archive calendar, and everything was fine on that page. :S

It was at this point that I went to bed, and now, the day after, my widgets still aren’t showing on the index page, all of my widgets are showing except for the links ((correctly coded or not)) on the blog directory, and everything is fine once you follow the archive link. I’ve tried deleting my cookies and that didn’t work, I’ve tried resaving all of the widgets and that didn’t work, I don’t know what else to do. I don’t think it’s a wordpress problem, because they would have received some sort of complaint and fixed it eons ago… So it must be something I’m doing, but I have no idea what it is.

Ah well, I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually.

Anyway, it snowed again. 2010 seems to be a year of blizzards so far. Last night the snow was really heavy, as well, it started snowing at around four in the afternoon, and by ten past the edges of the road were covered – I went to bed at around one in the morning, and it hadn’t slowed down at all. It took my dad two hours to get home from work when it usually only takes him quarter of an hour. It saddens me though, that those nutters who still tried to get to work this morning have caused the road to clear a little. The edges are still full, but there are two reasonably sized tracks down the middle where the average tyre marks have been. I know it’s being greedy to want so much time off school, especially when other people have exams, but I’m just so much happier sat in my house. xD

I think I’m going to go and build another snowman with my nieces later. I think I mentioned the one from last week that was more of a mound than a snowman. Today we plan to make one that rivals the likes of Arnold Snowmanegger down the road. We’re going the whole hog, although I have no idea what the snowman will be called. Hmm…

I also finished New Moan – the Twilight parody. It was pretty hilarious. Best names in the book go to Joe Cahontas, Wanda Mensional and Winona Arizona. I think I’m going to finish Frankenstein and Dorian Gray next, seeing as I have to write an essay on them, after all. xD