damned be…

Filed under: Me, Myself, and I, Rants — Samantha at 12:58 am on Tuesday, July 25, 2006

friend my ass… what friend gives you migraines and cramps!!!?!?!?!?!?! *$)#(@*@! you!

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don’t mess with me… i’m moody and armed with romantic comedies…

took some pictures…

Filed under: My Creative Side, Photography — Samantha at 6:35 pm on Sunday, July 23, 2006

So my dog went wild today over this huge animal (not yet identified as anything in particular) that looks like a seventeen pound squirrel. So I grabbed my handy dandy camera and tried to get a shot of this guy. Well, no luck on the animal, but on the way back in the house I did take some pictures of my flowerbed, most of which is dying in this heat, and got a single good picture. So without further adu, here it is…

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amazed the picture turned out!

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
I Love Trouble

modifications

Filed under: Coding/Graphic Work, Improvements to sites — Samantha at 12:48 am on Sunday, July 23, 2006

Well, I spent a good part of thursday/friday creating a credits page, only for it to really just suck. It was just bad… bad design, cheap easy graphics, and it didn’t even seem to work well in all browsers. So today, I decided to redo it, and redo it right. So, I did it right… it went from an ugly blue based page to a pale pink/maroon design which at least is on par with secondary pages. Unfortunately, because I am trying to support two, and possibly more, layouts right now, I didn’t want to just focus on one design and create each page to match. On the other hand, I didn’t want to have to create the same page multiple times, so at least for now, all the ajoining pages are independent of the theme on the site… I might go back and redo the fandom buttons page and spruce it up a bit since it too is a bit shoddy. I can definately be improved, and it is not my best work… you might be actually looking at my best work right now *G*.

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bored and listless

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
Head Over Heels

a wee treat

Filed under: Art/Graphic Design, Me, Myself, and I, My Creative Side, Photography — Samantha at 2:29 am on Tuesday, July 18, 2006

still have a touch of creativity in me, but not a whole lot… sleepiness and tiredness are setting in. But I did put together a little something, toying around with a simplistic elegant white based background with my photography flowers showering the scene. I don’t think it can work just yet, but I am pretty okay with how this turned out, a little icon for my blog (if I can get it down to avatar size, which I doubt)

(just to confirm, it is SM, not SH… it stands for Samantha’s Musings, not my name *g*)
anyways… *sigh*

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tired… bedtime!

insomniac?

Filed under: Coding/Graphic Work, Improvements to sites — Samantha at 8:48 am on Monday, July 17, 2006

its now 4:35 in the morning, and I’m still wide awake… at this point its more dangerous for my career to fall asleep (with which I will most likely sleep through my alarm and miss work entirely) than to stay up, suck down a couple of diet dr. peppers and start the morning with a caffeine high… I’ll sleep well Monday night though! I’ve also watched Persuasion twice now and I cannot watch it again (only because watching it three times in a row is just a little wierd, even for me…)

While keeping myself awake, I’ve solved another dilemma on the blog design!! On the sidebar, I had all links to a rollover icon system, but as you notice, I’m starting to put friends on the side, and i didn’t want rollover icons in front of graphic links (it just looked too strange, and you don’t need two graphics for a link…) I also didn’t like the link system that WordPress has for friends, as many of my friends are on multiple sites, and by linking each separately, it would take up about three times the space it already will take up once I complete it. Slowly I am beginning to get a really good grasp of the basic coding behind the WordPress scheme and the themes I’m working with… go me!

mehness… now I’m starting to feel tired… thank goodness i’m not due in till nearly nine!

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awake… but not for long…

*yawn*

Filed under: Coding/Graphic Work, Improvements to sites, Work — Samantha at 5:13 am on Monday, July 17, 2006

Well, I should have been in bed hours ago *three as a matter of fact* and I did absolutely nothing I needed to do *like laundry* but I do feel a great sense in accomplishment, even if it is as trivial as working on my blog. *sigh* I am really hoping that the work I am putting into this will put me back in the mood to blog as I used to. Not being on a community site does have its disadvantages. I am much less likely to be read here by random strangers than on LJ. But i have at least made some headway there. I have set up a syndication account on LJ for this blog, Samantha’s Musings on LJ. Friending this account will add everything I put up here onto your friends page. I have also mastered the use of avatars by pasting a simple line of code at the beginning of each code and choosing which one from a graphical display on my write post page, of which at least two hours were dedicated to making this. I wasn’t sure I actually was going to finish it tonight, but I did! Not that anyone else will ever see, but it is a big thing for me from the page I am viewing right now. I’ve also tweaked the last bit I can think of right off the bat, like linking the samanthahowe.net at the top of the menubar to the main page of my website and the ridding of empty space where i didn’t want it. I still have work to do on the sidebar, but in terms of graphic design, I am done, and pleased with it. *sigh* It is now one in the morning… thank goodness I don’t have to be at work until 8:45 (although I’m willing to bet I’ll be there by 8:15).
In terms of work, its been a bit trying this past week, as I was moved from one station to another. The benefit is that now I have a Teller Cash Dispenser at my station, which means that even though I have the highest accuracy in the bank, I don’t have to count down and double count money going out of my drawer as much (which when a customer asks for 50 one dollar bills, it really does help.) The downfall is that the TCD takes up about a third of the station, and so I lose a significant portion of space I was accustomed to, including two drawers and a cabinet, of which I now have none. So, I stayed late on Saturday while the bank was holding a homeownership workshop and rearranged my new station to accomodate the loss of 1/3 of my space and the need to move everything over. According to Laura (my next station neighbor) I am the only one who could have so thoroughly rearranged and organized the station, including completely rearranging the computer there as well. I am a wee bit proud of that as well.
Well, This is it for the evening, as I still have to take a shower before going to bed… but I will not disallow myself the chance to write again if the need arises

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accomplished, and sadly, not tired enough for the time…

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
Persuasion~Amanda Root

*sigh*

Filed under: Art/Graphic Design, Coding/Graphic Work, Improvements to sites, My Creative Side — Samantha at 9:48 pm on Sunday, July 16, 2006

Well, I did it… I changed the theme around so everyone can enjoy something! Behold the newest theme, Technicolor Checkers! It took me the better part of today *being Sunday* to conceive of it and put it together, and even then what I originally conceived ended out a bit differently… I am actually quite proud of the checkered background, as that took me nearly three hours to get it just right, and I did get a couple other variations that turned out well too. But over all I’m pleased with it… Even though now the two themes are both vibrant, one is much more laid back, and the other a little more seventies flowerchild. I have also succeeded in setting up a change theme element on the sidebar for those of you with a Macintosh to view the Pink Explosion, my original theme. This also makes it easier to add more themes in the future just by adding a link to each sidebar… The one thing I would still like to work on is setting up a more uniform sidebar page so that I can just update one rather than two (or three or more as I add themes…) but that might be a future endeavor…

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pleased indeed *g*

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
The Longest Yard~Adam Sandler, Chris Rock

bleh….

Filed under: Coding/Graphic Work, Improvements to sites, My Creative Side — Samantha at 11:36 am on Saturday, July 15, 2006

Well, about as soon as I finished my layout to my own particular happiness, I realized that the pretty pink only really works in the Apple Browser Safari. In Safari, it comes out exactly as I had built it in photoshop. But, it comes out more purpley in firefox, netscape, and IE. It is rather heartcrushing really, considering I had spent probably the best of my creative insight on creating this one and I’m immensely happy how it turned out in Safari. So now I am charged with the task of building a new layout that is identical in all browsers. But I don’t necessarily want to get rid of this current one, because it looks sooo wonderful!! (well, it looks wonderful to me and anyone else on a Mac) So I think I also want to figure out a way of having people choose which layout they want (I know it can be done, I just have to work it out myself) but alas, my muse has left me once more… I’m completely undecided on what I want to do for the layout. *cries*
anyhoo, I have to be off to work, in like six minutes, and I’m not dressed yet for it…

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crappy… in so many ways… /guttermind

What I am going deaf listening to::
Across the Stars (Love Theme from the Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars)