It took me a little while but I’ve got myself setup with WordPress 2.1 now. I originally had WordPress installed manually so I had to install WP2.1 via Fantastico and then move the database over. It took about a half hour to get everything straight but now I’m content with where it all is now. If any of you reading this are on my server, Fantastico now has version 2.1 for WordPress…Tony upgraded this morning for me.

It’s been a busy day. Baby made me breakfast and while I was cleaning up the mess he made in the kitchen…he finally got around to hanging up all his clothes. In about an hour I’ll head into his office and make him clean the rest of his room so we can hang up his pictures and what not. I have to pack tonight because I’m going home tomorrow, it’ll be a LONG drive. I’ll be back here in two weeks. I think I’m going to wind up leaving some shit here…it makes for lighter packing the next trip down.

Bella’s been extra obnoxious the last couple of days. Her new thing now is climbing into the book case and chilling out. She’s also grown acustomed to hopping up on the dinning room table and sitting there so she’s semi eye-level with everyone. Kind of absurd but that’s Bella…right?

I have some work to do so I’m going to head off. If any comments were lost in the last hour, I apologize. They may have written to the old database and not the new one. I was tempted to just remove WordPress all together and then start fresh but after the last year I really didn’t want to lose those archives of Joe…you know?

I’m off…later gators.

I’m not quite sure why but whenever I’m at the boyfriends house (and I’m supposed to be relaxing) I always find myself wanting to clean house. There’s a lot of things that need to be done around here. The Christmas lights are still hanging outside, the living room could use some straightening up, same goes for the dining room, kitchen, his bedroom and the bathroom. He claims that I want to do too much but what he doesn’t realize is my drive to constantly keep moving is based entirely on the fact that it’s what I do (excessively) at home.

I’m waiting, patiently, for the boyfriend to get out of his room so we can start cleaning house. He left a note for his mom that he wanted to pick up shelving and what not from Home Depot today but I assume she wasn’t overly interested considering the note was erased and the pad was put back on the fridge. This doesn’t mean we can’t start everything else though. I should probably go and get on his butt about it. I know he just woke up but it’s easier to start working earlier on in the day so that by the end of the day everything is spic-n-span and then you can just sit back and relax…you know?

For the past few days I’ve been in the mood for Chinese Food. Now, this is coming from someone who isn’t a huge fan of it…mainly because it’s the reason that I needed the root canal considering the broccoli broke my tooth. Last night the boyfriend sweetly attempted to humor me and brought me to this place named Confucius. This, unfortunately, didn’t work out very well. I’m a typical American Chinese Food eater. I’m not really into duck and I’m deathly allergic to sea food. We first noticed how nice the place was, we were seated, ordered some soda and then opened up the menu. This, unfortunately, is something we should have done FIRST. The menu had NOTHING on it of interest to either one of us and we also noticed that the cheapest dish on there was $20. I’m sorry but there’s no way in hell dinner is going to cost over $40 for us if we’re not even happy with the food…you know?

We left there and headed over to the mall because there was this Chinese Buffet there it was like $8.50 a person, drinks included, they also had a lot more of a selection so of course this was a much better choice. This was until we opened the door to the place and I was almost knocked on my ass. The smell of fish wasn’t just located at the buffet, it was soaked into the walls and there was no way in hell that I was going to be able to sit there and eat. So I put my Chinese Food craving to rest and we headed over to the safety…Friendly’s. He enjoyed Chicken Fingers, I enjoyed a Turkey Supermelt and then we finished the meal off with a Reeses Pieces Sundae…a weakness for both of us. All in all I can say it was a fairly decent night.

We headed over to Wal-mart because I was in the mood to do some shopping. I picked up a new shirt, a purse, socks and a watch. I was looking to get a pair of pants and a new pair of sneakers but unfortunately there was nothing of interest there for me. I still managed to spend around $80 either way so I guess I can’t say the trip was a total loss. I bought the boyfriend a case for his iPod because I know it’ll get scratched at some point in time so this is more of an?¢‚Ǩ¬¶avoidance. I also got his mom a new remote for the living room TV because the one that came with the TV is so damn small it’s easily lost in the couch (or under a dog). It also works with the DVD player in here so at least that solves some lazyness issues with the boyfriend?¢‚Ǩ¬¶heh.

Towards the end of my shopping spree I came across the seasonal isle which contained quite a bit of Valentine’s Day Gifts. There were bears, candy, romantic games, hot sauces (for whatever people use those for). Heart shaped picture frames, squeeky toys that say random things. I know that the holiday was created mainly by the candy or toy companies but it’s still nice to receive a special Valentine’s Day Gifts from the one you love, you know? I made it a point to drag him down the isle and pointed out a few things that won’t fly with me if he was interested in giving them. He says he’s gonna plan something special so I guess we’ll see what’s going to happen there. It’s only a month away.

In any event…he finally came out of his room so I’m going to ride his ass to get him to start helping me to take shit down and clean up. I figure while he’s outside taking the lights down I can work on getting the living room started and by the time he’s done…all that’s left is the dining room and the kitchen…nifty, eh?

Things have been going pretty well for the last few days. The new computer arrived (in full) on Thursday. XP was installed and the ram was put in. The monitor is an absolutely GORGEOUS quality which makes me very happy. I haven’t had the chance to actually use it though. The boyfriend set it up for me and he had to do some work. After laying down for a little while I decided it would be best just not to be on it so I figure when I get home next week I’ll sit down and play with it. I need to load my external drive into it and then get to work on getting everything important onto it and then getting a lot of shit off my laptop. I need to figure out how to link Outlook express but I figured I’ll just leave everything email based on the laptop and then just use the desktop for programs that take up a lot of space like the Adobe Suite and what not.

I took Bella with me this time. Every time I come down here I wind up missing her after a few days so thankfully she did very well in the car and now she’s actually doing well in a house she’s not used to. There were a couple of little accidents but nothing too serious to worry about. It was mainly excitement based accidents. She’s laying down by the window right now…snoring her head off.

It’s been uncomfortably warm the past few days (considering it’s January for crying out loud!). I can’t wait until a cold front comes through and I can go back to not dying before I go to bed. Last night the boyfriend and I had quite a bit of trouble falling asleep because I was just too warm to get comfortable and I’m sure it was driving him crazy that I was moving around so much. Bella plopped herself down in the window and since there was a light breeze I assume that she was OK for the night.

In any event, I think I’m going to finish up with my email checks and then lay down for a little while. I (for a change) got a full 8 hours of sleep last night but for some reason I’m actually pretty tired tonight. Considering Bella’s snoring her head off…I figure I can easily just roll over without having to worry about her pouncing all over me to play.

Later all.

I’ve been pretty busy for the last few days. I did want to update earlier but ehh…shit happens, right?

I’m waiting (almost too patiently at this point) for my computer to get here. I kind of went all out on this one and it didn’t even cost me very much at all. I decided that with all the issues I’m having with my laptop…HP just wasn’t worth it anymore. I got myself a custom build from company named CybertronPC. By default it doesn’t come with a lot, but that’s OK because I’ve purchased more ram for it. It came with an 80GB hard drive, which I know doesn’t seem like much but I have an 80GB external hard drive as well as a 120GB drive from my last computer that will all be loaded in so I’m damn sure I’ll be set for space…you know? Later on down the road I’ll upgrade the ram, I figure if it’s mainly going to be used for graphics, as well as be running all the time as a network based server…I’ll need maybe 2 gigs instead of 1 so that’ll be OK. With this computer comes a new keyboard and mouse but considering I’m extremely happy with my old keyboard I’ll just use that one. I bought a new mouse from Logitech because I prefer their company when it comes to input devices. I also bought myself a 17″ LCD so I can still have enough room on my desk for my laptop whenever I happen to be using that. Everything is going to be networked so I can still get to my files from no matter what computer I’m on. After this weekend there will be four in the house. My sister got one for Christmas, the one that’s in the living room and then my two. Talk about PC nerds…eh? In total everything only ran me about $620 and I get about $80 back as far as Mail-in Rebates are concerned so I guess it wasn’t such a bad deal…right? I got the computer, ram, new mouse, mouse pad and monitor – not a bad deal at all!

I’ve been really busy cleaning for the last few days. I realized a few days after I bought the new computer that my desk was over-grown with useless papers and books. I also cleaned out my dresser as well as my closet. I managed to throw out quite a bit of clothing which is perfectly fine because I really needed to do it. It’s nice having practically nothing in there but it reminds me that I have some shopping to do sometime over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be going through Delaware to get to Maryland so I’m sure I’ll take advantage on the No Sales Tax aspect of things…he-he.

Other than cleaning I’ve been finishing up some accounts, gotta make money somehow. I’ve also managed to get the new template for AGn-Solutions up and running. I’m in the process of working on a new one for AGN-Designs because it’s been a while since I’ve done anything there and I have quite a few templates to add to the portfolio anyway. Hopefully I’ll be able to get the Templates section up and running so I can finally start selling the pre-made’s that have been sitting on my computer for the last six months.

In any event, it’s getting kind of late and since I know I’ll be up very early on Friday I’m going to be changing my sleep schedule over so I’m going to get myself ready for bed and hopefully if everything works out OK I’ll be knocked out by 2am, tomorrow it’s my goal to be knocked out by midnight and the same goes for Thursday this way I can be ready to leave the house by maybe 11:30 (at the latest) on Friday morning. :: crosses fingers::

I’ll return comments when I get the chance. I know I’m pretty behind on them, sorry guys.

We’re currently three days into the New Year and I’ve been more productive than I thought I would be. I’m balancing four fairly large accounts right now, I’m hopelessly in love, I ordered myself a new computer, I bought a new 30GB video iPod, I have a new pet named Frankie (Blue/Green Beta Fish), and I just installed a new WordPress Plugin for my Administration Panel named “Spotmilk” that’s pretty awesome looking.

Life is going pretty good right now. Things on the relationship front are better than ever. We’re working on moving in together but haven’t quite decided where we’d like to be, location wise. I know once we’re both financially sound it’ll be easier to figure things out, that’ll happen soon enough. I’m working on a small business grant so I can go further with AGn Solutions, and get myself enrolled in school. It’ll be easier to decide where I’m going to live once school is factored in.

It’s been a fairly busy couple of weeks for me, as you can see.

Christmas was pretty fruitful. Dad bought me a new TV because the one I had was about 13 years-old and the people were randomly turning funky shades of green. He got me a 20″ LCD which is very, very nice. The only problem is the cable line to my room is shitty and since it’s an HDTV the quality of the channels is pretty funky looking. The boyfriend, however, bought me a DVD player and I’ve watched a few movies on it and the quality is GORGEOUS so I’m very happy.

I’m going away around the 15th with the boyfriend. I’m bringing Bella with me so who knows how long I’ll be away for. The only reason I come home from these vacations is because I miss her so much. My father is going to Atlantic City at the end of the month so I do believe I’ll be coming home before then. Who knows.

In any event, it’s getting late and I still have a few hours of work to put into a few accounts before I go to bed so I’ll sign off now.

Night all