Note #1
If you consider “The Truth About Diamonds” or “Confessions of an Heiress” to be literature, you obviously have no idea what a book is. Please shoot yourself. thnx

Try reading “The Life of a Sewer Rat” it’s filled with less useless garbage (oh look…a pun).

Note #2
Just because you put an XHTML valid link on your website, doesn’t mean you’re valid. Try running your site through the validator you claim to have followed; You might be surprised. It’s one thing to actually claim real validation but it’s quite another to fake it. There are some on the ‘net who work hard to make sure that their site remains valid, and for good reason. They know that cross browser compatibility is important, obviously you don’t. You’re making us look bad, then again your blog and that cam of yours don’t make you look too good either, but I digress. If your index page is valid, that doesn’t mean your content pages are. Try running those through as well. Yea…ALL OF ‘EM DIPSHIT.

Note #3
The new theme will go up on Wednesday. Come back for that, and a better blog update in general.

I’m alive (sucks doesn’t it?). I’ve just been so busy with work and school that I can’t think straight. I worked on two big accounts for WordPress themes through GAF. Plus the Stein account and then Focused Pro through Source-1; I’m just BEAT. If I have to look at one more line of code I think I’m going to shoot myself.

It’s taking me a little while but I’m working on moving all of my listings around. So far I’ve got all of the fanlistings moved over to their new addresses and changed over to Enthusiast, which is quite the nifty of programs. I’m slowly working on my hatelistings but that’s because I slacked off on them and have about 600 members to approve (in total) so that’s taking me a while, but I hope to have it done before March. Then I can get my cliques, portals and rings moved over and all will be well again.

The only reason for doing it is because I’m completely wiping out acidgloss.net and starting fresh with my portfolio. Having all of those listings under one set program makes things easier, statistically at least, when I setup the collective section. For now, I’m taking it slow.

Oddly enough I’m getting quite a few valid referrals for the Digital Camera offer even though I’ve been pushing the Notebook Offer. Either way it’s great, so thank you to everyone whom has completed an offer for me, it’s greatly appreciated. With the camera offer you don’t get the choice of money as a prize so I’m going to get the Olympus SP-350. It’s an 8 mega pixel digital camera, more then I’ll ever need but it’s free – so why not?

The stats are:

Olympus SP-350
   * Olympus SP-350 8.0 Mega pixel Digital Camera
   * 3x optical, 5x digital zoom
   * 2.5″ LCD display screen
   * 25MB XD memory card included

Not too shabby – right? I can’t wait to get it. I know for a fact that if anyone touches it I’ll rip their face off. I’ve had BAD LUCK with cameras in the past. I lent my webcam to someone – they broke it. I lent my digital cam to someone, now the flash doesn’t work. This one is going to be put in the safe until I need it. Hmph!

Now for non-internet related.

The weather this week has been horrible, well not horrible but uncomfortable. I like cold weather, but that’s because I know when it gets too cold I’m able to come inside and warm up. Well…our heat is broken so on those nights when it was -2° it was only 35° in the house. Usually I wouldn’t mind that, but when you’re trying to sleep it’s hell. Bella made her attempt at hogging the covers and even then wound up dragging a blanket under the bed with her. Which was probably only a little bit warmer considering the heat downstairs is working fine. It’s just OUR apartment though, it sounds as though the waters moving through the radiator, there’s just not enough pressure behind it for any good amount of heat to come through. It’s just my hope that it’s fixed eventually. I can only sleep with so many blankets before I feel like something?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s crushing me.

I’ve started with the room remodel. I did some poking around Home Depot the other night and picked up some color samples for the wall. I went through the carpet section to find a nice texture and so far I’m pretty happy with what I’ve chosen. I just need to get the money together and go pick it all up. I’ve already rearranged my room. I got sick of looking at the wall and really wanted to see the seasons change. It’s also nice to be able to look out the window without having to get up. I’m nosey like that. If all goes well everything should be complete within the next month or so. I’m pacing myself because although its something I really want to do, it’s not on the top of my priorities list because it’s not something that I NEED to do…you know?

In any event, it’s almost 2am and I have to be up at 8 so I’m going to head off…night everyone.

The weather is just too annoying for words. We get a blizzard on Sunday and then by Tuesday its halfway melted because it was a 50° day. Sure, it cuts down on shovel time but damn, this summer is going to be HORRIBLE, I can tell already.

The month of March is fast approaching. I’ve been slowly getting the theme together. I went with shamrocks because I’m Irish and I have to show off that pride. I’ve been bothering Heather for the past couple of weeks with the dynamic navigation cause it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s been screwing with me. I wrote it so that when its on the focus page the nav voids that particular link. It’s working pretty well on most of the pages but I’m having issues with the exit pages. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually. There?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s no sidebar on this theme though, it’s very, very simple looking.

I’ll be getting another tattoo once all of the tax shit is taken care of. I figured I’d treat myself and drop $60 on something that was important to me. I found one on tattoojohnny.com that was close to what I wanted. I played around with it and came up with this one but I just don’t like its overall appearance. (Yes, I mask them over my own skin so I can get a general idea of how they’re going to look.) As you can tell, this one doesn’t look so great so I’ve asked Jay to design one for me. He designed his own and it looks AMAZING so I asked him to do it for me. I’m sure he’ll come up with something excellent considering he’s such an awesome artist.

My math module is completed. Considering I was always suckered into doing my sisters English homework (being as it seems to be her second language) I had her do the math. She did ok on the first test she took for me and got a 95. But then she managed to get a 75 then another 95. My average is still 92 but damn a 75 SUCKS, sucks the fatty. The next one I’m going to have to do is Science (again) but I don’t really mind because its an easier module then the previous one. It’s more about energy and sound this time. The previous one was Biology and Chemistry – two subjects I absolutely hate.

So I’ve got my priorities straight and have been working my ass off for the last couple of weeks getting things together. I’m almost done with the Stein account, I picked up a huge wordpress template creation from the freelancer site, and I’m slowly getting referrals together for the notebook offer.

They’ve changed their site around and they have new requirements for better prizes. Sure, I could wait on 7 people and get the $1050, but why not shoot for the $1800? So, instead of 7 referrals, I need 13. Sign up and complete an offer, I’ll give you $10 or a free domain/hosting for one year. Go with the AOL offer, because you’re credited in three days and since AOL’s first month is always free you can cancel after like, five minutes of being a completed referral. Call ‘em, say you don’t want AOL and your account with AOL is cancelled. No charges are made to your card, its like you didn’t even use it at all; nifty right?

I know how the break down of the money is going to work for the upcoming weeks. Any money I make from the stein account goes to my dad so I can finish paying off school. I’m keeping about $200 for myself so I can get my tattoo and do some shopping. I went through my closet and have like 800 pants and 6 shirts. I think it’s time to do some shirt shopping, don’t you? Then the $1800 from the notebook offer will also help out. I refuse to get a laptop through them because I can build one with the same stats as their ‘top available model’ for like $400 less then they think it is.

• Shirts
• Tattoo
• Laptop
• Pay for school
• Enroll in a new course, probably medical transcription or something of the like.
• Put the rest into savings, 7% interest can’t go wrong with that.

So yea, that’s my break down of money. If I could get all offers completed (minus the deductions of having to pay the $10 out), I can reach a total of $4700. That’s more then enough for me to do everything I need to do with work and school and then still have some money saved up to put towards a car, because it’s about damn time I went a head and did something like that. I figure in total I’d lose about $500 from paying off referrals but that’s really not so bad considering the amount of money I’d be getting anyway.

In any event, I’m tired and my boss just signed off so that means work is over for the day; time to go lay down.

So the Blizzard of 2006 (well…so far at least) came and went. I personally saw it as Armageddon, and I’ll explain why. Firstly, we got about two feet of snow (I’ve got pictures to prove it). The storm that came over was so powerful there was an eye lingering over my town and the towns to either side of me. There was plenty of thunder and lightning which I found to be very weird considering it was a snow storm, not rain. I always thought that the only way that lightning/thunder could happen would ever happen is when warm meets cold, so I was confused but then Dad cleared it up for me.

See, Glen Cove is right on the Long Island Sound, as are quite a few other towns (obviously) but we’re where the focus was. Being as January was so unseasonably warm, the temperature of the sound was higher then normal, so there’s our heat meets cold which resulted in huge bolts of lightening and thunder rumbling so loud it was though a big rig was driving through the building.

I guess I really can say my luck has changed this week, oddly enough. First the blizzard, which was more powerful then expected. Then the 100% on the first exam, and taking the second one today I also got 100%. Dad won $20 on a scratch off. I landed the WordPress job so that’s $200 for me, PLUS billing fucked up and I doubt I’m getting my 1099 tax form, so I can use that money to not only purchase my laptop but I’ll also be able to purchase a new monitor, paint for my room, as well as a new rug.

So yea, I’m content this weekend.

Now it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s time for the snow?¢‚Ǩ¬¶

I woke up this morning and saw this outside of my window. I know it doesn’t look like much here, but at this time there was 15″ of snow on the ground. There ARE bushes under there, but only about half of them are showing.

This is the corner of the deck, closest to the end apartment. The wind was so intense that they said although we were getting 15+ inches of snow, snow drifts we’re going to be up to five feet high. The only thing that stopped that from happening here was the fact that the wall is only four feet high.

This is Bella’s normal view of the street, if you look towards the middle you can see where the snow blower was and what kind of a ledge was left behind. It took me a while to dig her gate out of the snow this morning. She was stuck waiting inside for me so she didn’t run down the stairs. The gate is about 3 feet high, so there’s visual proof #3 on the snow accumulation.

I would have more but I was on a low battery to begin with. I figure that these three images would be more then enough to give you an idea of what went on here last night.

I lost Bella in a few snow banks. She managed to resurface herself after a few moments but I came very close to diving into a snow bank after her. Then I realized how much that would suck and just called her until she decided to pop her head out and find something else to do. I just gave her a bath about an hour ago because we were outside for a good half hour and after playing in the snow she was no longer a dog, but a big block of crisp ice, even through her clothes. Yes, she was wearing a sweater that covered her legs up and her chest so she wasn’t so cold. That doesn’t mean it worked considering the snow soaked right through the clothes and there went that bright idea.

In any event, I’m going to work on test #3 and hopefully have this whole module done by Wednesday. I figure the faster I can get through it, the faster I can head up to the hospital and get a job with medical insurance considering how bad my eyes have gotten lately. A full time job should clear that all up so hopefully I actually get something there.

Later all

The snow started falling at 4:44 pm (yes, I just happened to be outside on the phone when the first few flurries touched down.) By 9pm, there was roughly two inches on the ground and by midnight there were about 4 inches. Now there’s full on blizzard conditions here in Glen Cove. We’re expected to get a total of 15 inches before the storm subsides tomorrow evening. It’s actually kind of funny, two weeks ago I was talking to my aunt and I said “Is it wrong to wish for a blizzard?” then wham – we get hit with one. I’m amused by it.

I’d like to think I had something to do with it, but so would a certain elementary school here on the Island. The students in this one class were so upset about the fact that they weren’t getting any snow days (due to the nasty spring like weather we had for the month of January) that instead of doing a ‘rain dance’ they did a ‘snow dance’ sort of thing. It was more singing then anything, but it was on the news and I found it to be rather cute; which is strange considering I don’t like children.

On an even brighter note (yes, this day keeps getting better and better). I got my Math module today and sat down right away to do it. On test number one (even though I guessed on five of the answers) I got 100%.

My luck is through the roof! :nocks wood:

I hope I can win the lottery now.

Welp?¢‚Ǩ¬¶there go my chances.