I’m going through a pretty nasty case of designers-block. I was rather delayed in creating the July theme due to pure laziness and last night I started on it, only to wind up basically creating the same June template but in blue. To avoid this I’ve been surfing around Template Monster for at least some ideas to kick around in my head and after literally going through EVERY template in the entire database, I’ve still come up with nothing. I don’t like the idea of using a pre-made template, so I’m going to make it a point to try and avoid that. Even Photoshop is unappealing to me today, I need something to kick my creativity levels into high gear. Maybe instead of template monster I’ll just surf around Google and personal sites to see what I can come up with. I know I want a simple color scheme, but you can only do so many default WordPress looking templates before you go nuts with total boredom! However, now I’m just not in the mood to do much of anything and every paid-to-blog database that I’m involved with doesn’t have any available offers. So, I think I’ll just play Hexic or Sonic for a little while.

For quite some time now I’ve been interested in making my business a bit more interactive. I’ve worked with a company before that offers a web based survey solution for their clients. The clients can answer questions and the answers would then be polled through the survey for me to get some more input on where I’m going wrong, and what I’m doing right. A company named ISalient allows you to collect data from custom forms for information gathering, research and quantitative analysis.

I’ve worked with a free program named PHPSurveyor which can be found through cPanel’s Fantastico auto-install system and it really didn’t give me what I needed as far as connecting boss to employee with surveys. After poking around through the FAQ for ISalient, I’m confident that in the future, they’ll more than likely be the service to go through. It also doesn’t require me to install anything that I wouldn’t need on my server just for something that seems to be so small.

I currently have over 4,000 clients under my belt. This is a merge of domain and design based clients and I would personally like to create two separate databases for each of them. This way I can change the wording around on both to work for their respective categories. I thought of doing this for many years but never actually got around to it. Sure, I have the ability to submit a testimonial on both my design and hosting sites but since they aren’t a continuing database, it’d be nice to have something that kind of connects everything.

What I really think would be cool is if I had the ability to take both surveys and kind of merge them together with some kind of an overall rating of services. I know that I still have a lot to learn and I feel the best way to learn is through trial and error. I try to get myself on a schedule where I’m doing things in a timely manor but at the same time I’d like the ability to learn more about what I’m doing wrong, and especially on what I’m doing right so that profit margins can exceed the levels they’ve exceeded over the last few months. I’m sure over time I’ll be able to get everything accomplished, for now it’d just be a great idea to work with what I’ve got.

I’ve been keeping myself some what busy for the last few hours. I’m still not feeling that great but there’s not much that I can really do about that. Sure, I could just go back to sleep but at this point I’m averaging about 12 hours a night which makes no sense to me, really. I want to assume that it’s my body officially crashing due to all of the late-night-no-sleepers that I’ve been doing over the years, I just don’t know how to get myself to stop it.

Sean recently found something called like “Gotu Kola” that’s supposed to be a natural herbal supplement. He’s insisting that I take one because he supposedly feels better because of the product. Doing some research into it it’s been used for wound healing, better circulation, memory enhancement, cancer, vitality, general tonic, respiratory ailments, detoxifying the body, treatment of skin disorders (such as psoriasis and eczema), revitalizing connective tissue, burn and scar treatment, clearing skin infections, strengthening veins, blood purifier, high blood pressure, sedative, anti-stress, anti-anxiety, an aphrodisiac, immune booster, anabolic and adaptogen.

Basically it’s just an all-in-one herb that’ll make you feel better, I thought they called that Marijuana? None of the claims have been evaluated by the FDA but the research done by various institutes and universities conclude that more research on the herb wouldn’t be a bad idea. It’s been used for centuries (supposedly) and is still used today, for that reason there has to be SOME truth to the anecdotal claims made in behalf of this herb. It’s supposedly in the same class as apple cider vinegar – something Karen has been dipping into for her own health.

It’s listed as a dietary supplement at GNC, where Sean got it, and some nausea has been reported at high levels of intake. Either way I’m not fond of taking any over-the-counter pills to ‘help me out’. When I asked him for the bottle so I could get the spelling correct his eyes lit up before he asked if I was going to take one. I don’t see myself personally having anything to do with this product, or anything else that’s supposed to ‘fix me naturally’.

Would you actually take this product?

I recently came across a new site just for women entitled Get a Fab Life!, a site brought to you by herfablife.com. This site has everything you could ever want when it comes to women. To some it’s considered Your Personal Lifestyle Guide.

It’s the latest social lifestyle community for young urban hip and trendy women who are interested in the latest fashion styles, the newest restaurant, bar, spa, salon and retail store openings. They’re also interested in all of the upcoming events and concerts in your town. The site allows users to contribute content to the site, voice opinions and vote on content that they like or dislike. Originally I thought it was just a community forum that’s over-run with children the way all forums on the internet seem to be these days, but it’s really not. It’s kind of like a one-stop resource for everything that women are interested in. Right now it’s in the Beta stages but there are plenty of openings for freelance bloggers, aspiring writers, stay at home moms, and students to openly contribute content to their site. If there’s a new store opening in your town that you’re itching to write about, herfablife.com, your fav lifestyle guide, would more than likely be the best place to list it.

I was born and raised in New York, there are many places of interest outside of New York City but the big ‘trademark’ of New York is the material world of the city. There are shops throughout the entire state that can radiate tons of interest to outsiders looking for new places to go. I’d love to list them all, but they’d more than likely need a larger hard drive on the server if I ever wrote anything for them. On the flip side, however, being new to Delaware I’m always itching to find new resource, state wide, that would help me out as far as finding new stores. Sure, word of mouth is great and all from the locals, but I want more in depth information and I have no doubt in my mind that herfablife.com will give it to me once more members begin posting about their local areas.

If you’re at all interested in contributing to their database, head over to herfablife.com and sign up. If you know everything about your town, or even everything about where to go in your state, it’s more than likely going to be a great resource for you to use!

It’s been a pretty boring weekend so far. This past week I was unable to accomplish anything that I had to do, which explains my absence from posting over the last few days. Originally I started cleaning the house on Sunday to make sure everything was presentable by Tuesday evening considering I was expecting company on Wednesday. She never showed so that was somewhat of a waste, minus the fact that the house did still need some kind of a cleaning up anyway. I’m not sure what’s up with me lately but I’m in some kind of a funk where I have absolutely no energy to do anything. Getting out of bed seems like too much effort for me but even when I do finally get up with the state of mind screaming “something HAS to be accomplished today” nothing really happens from there.

Originally I thought I was just in a funk because my period was coming but I’m kind of working off others schedules at the moment, if that makes any sense. See, Karen works with a woman named Angie who is pretty easy to read when she’s got her period, she’s been working with her for so long that it seems like Karen gets her period whenever Angie does, since I’ve been living with Karen as long as I have, my schedule kind of shifted towards the end of the month. Last night she asked me if I was on the verge of getting mine since she was also cramping up, but I’m not. I know for sure I’m not pregnant, it’s just my schedule messing up again. I want to assume it’s stress related but that doesn’t really help me out. I keep seeing commercials for this birth control pill named YAS, it’s like the ‘powers that be’ are trying to send me a message through the television or something, but after doing some research into it I’m taken to information about a syndrome known as PMDD.

Apparently there’s multiple forms of PMS, PMDD being one of them. The symptoms include Irritability, Moodiness, Feeling Anxious, Bloating and Increased Appetite. Now, I’m not one of those “OOH, I have that!” kind of people. I know what my symptoms are and they COULD be corrected to PMS, but based on what I know of PMS, it doesn’t effect your life the way PMDD does, which it seems to be doing. My ‘swings’ have been severe enough to effect my work, daily life and relationship – Sean and I are kind of at each others throat the last few days and while he can be a hard person to get a long with at times, I know for the most part that it’s me triggering things between us.

The site recommends that I keep some kind of a body diary, this way I can track the symptoms and then decide from there if this is the route I should take. The issue is I don’t even know if I could afford this damn pill. Part of me just wants to get the tubes ripped out so I can deal with menopause NOW and just live the rest of my life period free but Sean wants children (even though I’m not too keen on them at this moment in time) but who knows what’s going to happen 10 years down the road. I’ve just got a whole series of emotions bothering me right now, nothing seems to relax me anymore – not even smoking, that’s just turning into a complete nuisance for me as well.

I don’t know…I doubt anything is actually even wrong with me – I may just be bored of life or something.