dear isobel

I finally got around to cleaning out my closet and getting rid of the stuff I wore to work at GGB five years ago. A lot of it was out of date and not exactly age appropriate. Sad that I dress better now that I’m a bit older than I did when I was younger. Now I just want to wash everything just so it’s fresh.

I made the painful move of posting closed notices on the Megan, Claire and Kim sites. I may keep the Megan and Kim domains only because I also have their fanlistings, but the fan sites are gone. I’m convering Scott and Linze back to regular fan sites.

I just deleted all the videos on my external hard drive for Becky, Claire, Kim and Megan (37 GBs!) I’m trying to make the process complete even though closing all of them was a really hard decision. I even deleted the Becky domain from my account, now that it’s been moved. First time since it’s been open I haven’t had it on my account. *sighs* Oh well.

Doesn’t it feel like there is never enough time for the things you want to do? I really need to prioritize my projects better. It’s not even my real life that’s annoying me (I try not to think about the mess my financial aid office has created with my student loans, it helps with the homicidal tendencies). I have a habit of taking on way too much at any given time. For example, here’s what I’m attempting to do this week:

1. Convert Megan Ward and Rebecca Herbst to WordPress.
2. Add transcripts & press archives to Megan Ward, Rebecca Herbst and Claire Coffee.
3. Finish new layouts for the Pepsi and North & South fanlistings so they can be moved to new collective and dying-dreams.net can be officially off my radar and ready to expire in two months.
4. Finish cleaning out my computer files so that everything is neatly organized in its own folders and that I only have what I actually use.
5. Move the rest of my pictures and videos to the external hard drive.
6. Defragment both external and internal hard drive, run a registry cleaner.
7. Work on fanlistings for John Adams and US Presidents.
8. Attempt really hard not to open a Kimberly McCullough fan site. (Bri, you will not tempt me!)

*sighs* Such issues. At least my last summer class is over Tuesday and I’ll have a month off before next semester starts (as long as the financial office stops screwing with me.)

So prioritizing right? I should do all the computer maintenance first because if I don’t keep my computer running in top shape, then I won’t have to worry about the rest of it anyway. Then I should do anything with a deadline — namely my two history fanlistings and then my last two d-d.net fanlistings so that I’m not forced to renew the domain again (I opened the new collective in 2006, and I’ve already wasted two renewals, grr). After that, I can focus on the fan sites. Right now, most of the updates are gallery related anyway so it’s not a big deal if I put off the WP conversion another week or so.

It makes sense when I type it out like that but working on the fan sites is always more fun than computer maintenance right? *sighs* I’m too good at procrastination.

I spent most of the day converting my Claire Coffee fan site to WordPress, including customizing the theme. I am so tired of looking at the computer screen. Gah.

But it turned out pretty well. I didn’t do all that much to the theme except change colors and images and a few things stylistically. I’m working my way up to my own themes, I promise.

I plan on converting both the Megan Ward and the Rebecca Herbst fan sites to WP eventually, though my Becky site will absolutely be last because it is huge and will take quite some time.

I’ve had this idea in my head for ages but I finally decided to give it ago. I’m really pleased with how this blog worked out as I’ve never customized a WordPress theme to this extent. I took the basic coding and css and rewrote it so it worked a little more. I still have to get it to validate but that’s another project for another day. But the layout used to be in a table, so I took it and put it into divs and then I played with it to make it widget ready. I’m so happy I was able to make that work.

It’s a blog for romance novels — for release dates, fanlistings, and reviews and whatever else I can think of to add to the site. There isn’t a lot there yet, it’s a work in progress but I’ll continue to add entries over the next few days.

RomanceFan.Org

Gah. I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old or I just enjoy my sleep a lot but my 8 AM Art Appreciation class is kicking my ass. I’m sooo tired all the time. Thank God it’ll be over in another week. I think my Computer Literacy class will be a bit easier for me in the morning. It will require a lot less thinking on my part.

I have my new laptop. Still getting everything caught up and reinstalled on the computer. It’s Windows Vista, which is different than XP in so many ways. I don’t have my old copy of Dreamweaver CS3 so I had to reinstall MX 2004. Hopefully I’ll be able to find my CS3 because I got used to that way that one worked. I’ve been working on a few projects, trying to streamline things but everything’s just been getting away from me. There are just not enough hours in the day to fit everything in.

The plan for this week (loosely) is the following:

SCHOOL

1. Museum Paper – Due June 12.

2. French Notes – Chapter 2

3. Get Comp Lit books from brother

WEBSITE

1. Move SATC FL from dd.net to much-ado.org

2. Update much-ado.org files so they’re more current. The ones I had backed up offline were a few months old.

3. Finish adding GH screencaps to R-H.com gallery

WRITING/WEBSITE

1. Finish Daughters 18

2. Update CG.com and overhaul so it functions as an archive. Try to figure out how to incorporation into my forums.

GENEALOGY

1. Update plugs in at blog — DONE

2. Are posts in blog up to date?

I’ll report back in a few days to see how that’s all going.