I didn’t really want to update until Saturday when I put up the new theme, but I have exciting news that I believe just can’t wait.

For the past month and a half I’ve been waiting for Freepay to process my approval form for the Digitial Camera. I’ve logged in every day and haven’t seen the status change. BUT – TODAY it finally did.

I jumped up and down and instantly sent a screen shot to anyone who was online. Christie, Heather, Stacey, Tom, Stick Boy, and Sean. The one person I wanted to send it to was Jackie but she’s currently on her way to New Jersey for a wedding. I already knew my choice though, the Olympus SP-350 · 8 Megapixel camera. The reason is because it looks more like an SLR than the rest of the cameras to choose from. It’s also got better stats than the Fuji 9mpxl that was on the site. Not to mention, it’s just nice looking too.

It takes approximately 7-10 business days to process and then 3-5 to ship. I’m going to assume that I won’t have it until sometime after I’m at my aunts house, so that’s ok. It would have been nice to use her house as my first pictures but I’ll get over it.

Dad’s currently in Atlantic City, he left early Sunday morning and I’m going to assume that he’s on his way back up here now considering he has work tomorrow morning. When he called on Sunday he said he was up and very happy. When I called him on Monday to wish him a Happy Birthday he was down, which is typically how it happens for my family anyway. He saved enough to tell me that he was getting a new vanity for the bathroom this week.

I did my planting on Saturday, it was pouring but that didn’t make it any less fun. The kids helped me out, I do have a picture of the ‘after’ but I don’t have any pictures of the process. It was raining too hard to have anything electronic out here. Sure we were under the awning but it was windy so it would have gotten soaked anyway. Thankfully, with all the rain everything was watered so I’m pretty happy with that. They’re already starting to bud so hopefully in a few weeks I’ll see some flowers show up. I can’t wait.

BUT while we were planting dad noted that there needs to be some kind of gravel in the bottom to keep the soil from draining out of the holes. I figured “Okay…I’ll just use what’s left from the fish tank”. Unfortunately, that tank was thrown out, along with all of the gravel. Then I realized that since mom was such a pack rat, there was still some tile left over from when she redid the tile in the bathroom like 10 years ago. So I went into the bathroom, opened up the cabinet, found the tile and then saw it was covered in mold. I made Dad get it out so he could see just what kind of crap we’re dealing with in there. It then convinced him to get a new one. So, I’ll be going to Home Depot sometime soon to pick out the one I want.

On the 7th to the 14th, I’m going to be at my aunts house. I’ll have my laptop with me, so I can still work. She’s going to Vegas because one of her friends has a time share or something out there, I’m not sure what it is. I just know that the room is free for the week so her and some friends are hopping on that opportunity.

Normally when I’m house sitting I’d have Joe over, so it’s going to be a pretty rough week for me. I’m slowly beginning to get over his death, because I know he’s in a better place away from the doctors and all of the disease that over ran his body for many years, that doesn’t mean I still don’t miss him just the same. I just want to pick up the phone and call him to say “Come on over!” but I can’t anymore and reality is finally starting to kick in for me and I know that I have to let it go. It’s not easy, but over time I’d assume that I’ll be ok.

Work Related
I’m trying to pick up as many jobs as possible but it’s taking a little more time than I would have liked. No one has really shown total interest in the $30 deal. I’ve gotten a few emails about it, but no return emails about going through with it fully. I’m hoping something will pick up soon though, this way I have money set aside for the BBQ.

BBQ
At this point though, I’m not sure if it’s going to happen to the scale that I’d like it to so I haven’t said much about it. My goal is to have it sometime around the 22nd but depending on financial status it may be pushed to a week or two later. I do still want to have it, I’d love to see Christie and Heather in one big group setting but I guess I’ll just have to see what happens there.

Code Guru
I’ve had a very productive week though. I re-did a few of my cliques and I also put the final touches on my July theme. After doing some reading, thanks to the links Sean sent me. I was able to find out why my style sheets would validated but had warnings. I’ve managed to now master CSS2 so there are absolutely no warnings on any of my style sheets and that’s something I’m very happy about. I almost changed the theme to XHTML Strict so that I could be super elite but I realized that since I have to link my banner rotations in an I-frame (for some god forsaken reason) that the theme wouldn’t validate to strict so I guess I’ll just stick with Transitional. I’d prefer to have links target to a new window anyway.

In any event…my next update will most likely be on Saturday when I put up the new theme. I’ve re-entered myself into the blog rotations so I’ll be around to comment and what not.

Later gators.

Every couple of months I slash pricing to pick up some more business. I’m reinstating my $30 deal for web design and hosting.

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• Free Domain (.net./com/.org/.biz/.us/.info)
• Hosting for one year
• Template Design – For your blog / personal site
• Banner Design – 468×60, 200×40, 100×35, 88×31
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All together this is a $150 deal slashed down to $30, so you can’t go wrong.

If your at all interested, please send an email to krissy@agn-solutions.net with the subject “$30 Deal” for more information. Remember to include ’3DD’ as our coupon code.

Please note this is for personal sites only. If you’re looking for a business design, it will be the $60 deal. I design websites starting at $250-$5000+ for businesses, so you’re also getting a bargain here.

So I’m sitting here in the bathroom wondering why I set this weeks Mobile Meme in here. I could have come up with more creative places but I thought this one would be humorous. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right.

I hate this room because it used to be my sanctuary but now it’s nothing more than a huge hole in the wall with a toilet. The sink needs to be replaced, there are no walls in the shower, and I’m afraid to have anyone even use the place because I’m sure they’d be thinking “Ewe!” in reference to the rusty sink and half bath. I can’t wait until that big account comes through so I can finally do something in here.

I’d love to put up new walls, a new floor and definitely a new vanity. I want to get that “Tub Surround” stuff from Bath Fitter so that I don’t have to worry about scrubbing grout lines a few months down the road. There’s no storage in here so a nice cabinet with a vanity would look great and I can’t wait until I can put in a new floor. There’s peal-n-stick linoleum at Home Depot that would look wonderful in here. I’ve just been itching to do this for 4 years.

You see…I’ve been using my fathers shower because it’s the only one with walls at the moment. It’s cramped in there though. It’s just a small closet, in a small bathroom and my sister has so many hair products it’s unreal. I don’t understand how anyone could need that much stuff. I have shampoo, conditioner, body wash, a razor and loofa. It all fits perfectly on one small shelf so there’s hardly any room being taken up at all. That’s the same way this bathroom would look, especially considering there would be storage in here after I redo the place because then none of her makeup or any of that other useless stuff would be thrown around.

The sink is filled with hair care products and make-up. It’s hard to even wash your hands anymore because the faucet is so old that it’s hard to turn the handles. The over-flow hole in the sink has rusted through so when the water in the sink is turned on – you need to control the water flow to something on the low side so that you don’t get any water under the sink (through the hole).

We moved in here just as they created the apartments up here, so 17 years of using the sinks and showers would obviously have their toll taken on them over time. Some people, when they take good care of the bathroom, it can uphold itself for quite a few years. Unfortunately by the time my sister and I were in that mind set, the damage was already done.

The shower rusted out because of how careless the contractor was when he framed out the bathroom window. The window itself is inside of the shower and instead of tilting the ledge so that the water beads off, it was left flat so that the water is collected in it. After 15 years of this, the wall became rotted. With rot, comes mold…with mold comes drywall being destroyed and having to be taken out so that there wasn’t any toxic mold (black mold) being spewed into the air that 3 people breath in on a regular basis.

The pictures will basically show you everything I’ve had to deal with over the years. Having a contractor in here recently, the damage done plus any remodeling would run us in the ballpark of $3,000. This is why I’ve been saving any and all money that I can towards this project. I have about a thousand saved, but that’s only 1/3 of the bill. You can imagine how annoying it gets sharing a small bathroom with three people. Especially considering my fathers bathroom is in worse shape, we have tarps on the walls just so we can use the shower. It’s horrible, I can’t wait until things are fixed.

Hopefully the next time I have any pictures of my bathroom, it will be the finished product of my brand new bathroom. ::wishes::

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Unconcious Mutterings

1. Voice :: Recognition
2. Us :: Weekly
3. Passionately :: Limp
4. Humbly :: Greedy
5. Love songs :: Suck my ass
6. Dim :: Bad Reading Environment
7. Calendar :: Girls
8. Careless :: Mothers and their cameras
9. Block :: Party
10. Goal :: [[does funky dance]]

Sat-IF Day (hasn’t been updated since February but it’s a Saturday meme just the same. If you can’t pick up on sarcasm then obviously you shouldn’t be reading this.

If you could spend 24 hours with a celebrity:

1. Who would s/he be? Hitler
2. Where would you expect him/her to bring you? Back to his house for a little love making.
3. Where would you bring him/her to? The shower – scrub a dubb dubb
4. What would you like to do with him/her? Have you not picked up on this already? Jesus
5. What?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s the one thing you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d been always wanting to ask the celebrity? How’d he do it?
6. If s/he didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t treat you well, would s/he be your favorite celebrity? He didn’t treat anyone well – dipshit!
7. What would you give to him/her as a gift before saying goodbye so s/he?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d remember you? A hickey :w00t: