Lazy Me

I was too lazy to do anything here for April Fool’s Day. Gord wins by default, though his is pretty good. ^_^ Though I think my falling so hard for Tyler’s/Gord’s last year has ruined any hope I have for falling for anything for the next couple years. ^_~

In completely unrelated news, you can now have your online blog printed as a book. Because such a huge percentage of blogs are worth publishing, eh?

Current Mood: indifferent

Spring Forward…

Yay! It’s finally spring! Yesterday was, appropriately, nice and warm and we actually wore light jackets instead of heavy coats. At least until 5pm when the temperature plummeted again. Meanwhile, it’s currently -5C.
So much due at school this week. Eeep. Even the “holiday extension” we got for one of our major projects doesn’t help me, because it’s extended from a Thursday 4pm due date to a Monday 8:30am due date, and I’m running around doing family stuff the entire weekend. o_0 I’m just pretending there’s no extension, since I have to have it finished by Thursday anyway.

Also, someone please tell me this review of X-Men 2 was written as a joke or something, and the guy really isn’t a drooling moron who apparently watched a different movie from the rest of us (and gets the comics messed up, too). I’d post it here, with little side comments about what’s wrong, but I’m still holding out a bit of hope it’s some sort of humour. Right now all I can do is use one of its own lines: “There are so many things wrong with this movie review, it’s almost impossible to know where to start.”

Current Mood: bored

Creative Commons

Everyone’s been getting those Creative Commons licenses lately. Well, Gord, Ian, and Tyler so far that I know of. Gord and Ian I can see; Gord makes and takes images, and I and writes articles. I’m a little unsure about Tyler, which makes me think there’s more to CC than what I can tell. When Gord and Ian got theirs, I thought it was cool, but something I wouldn’t need for my Blog, since all I do is write stuff about my life, and if there’s someone out there trying to use my blog entries to make money, they’re either crazy or need it more than I do.
Then Tyler got one, and now I’m not so sure. He’s “just” got a blog like me, and frankly the coolest things on my blog are things not even made by me (like the “moon phase” thingy). I don’t even have a proper image for my header banner. And when I do, I’ll probably just pay someone on DeviantArt $20 to make one for me (which is why I don’t have one yet – I don’t have $20 to “waste” on something as non-essential as a blog image)

Anyway, the point of this post is “what am I missing” about a CC License? I mean, it’s free, so it’s not like it would be a big deal for me to get one, but I’m not sure I’d even “need” one.

Random Update on My Life

I got my hair cut this weekend. I went from a single-lengh a couple inches below the shoulders to a multi-layered cut a few inches above the shoulders. The longest layer just reaches my collar. I like it. ^_^ Easy to take care of, and way nicer looking than my old hair that was sort of just hanging there like a drowned rat. I guess. I’ve never seen a hanging drowned rat, so I can’t be sure.

In related news, some random girl in my bottany class on Monday noticed and said she liked my new haircut. That made my day, especially since I don’t have any clue who she is, and she probably don’t know my name either. ^_^

I was in Kincardine this weekend because my mom trated me to a full-body massage with her gift certificate to V-Spa (the reeeeeealy nice new-ish spa in Kincardine). Heavenly. Just heavenly. ^_________^

I managed to score a terrific deal from a webdesign company to redo both my layout and my osc code. JustTwoGirls.com. Hurrah for the barter system! More info on that later, though if anyone has any good suggestions for “inspiration” I’d love to hear it. ^_^ I’m supposed to come up with something to “inspire” the site, like a postcard, a pillowcase, a song, a colour, etc, or else pretty much give them small suggestions and free reign over the initial design. I’ll probably end up just doing that, though, since I can’t think of anything specific I want my site to resemble, just that I’d like it to be “spunky” and “cute” and “fresh”, that sort of thing.

I’m also starting to network with other DIY/Indie/craft sites, which is always good. ^_^ Gets my link out there for search engines, as well as people who are already in the market for handmade goods.

Since I’m going to be phasing out my “character” hats soon, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my main menu at the site. Right now there’s 3 menu options:
1. Critter Hats
2. Character Hats
——————-
3. View all Products

If I get rid of the character hats (except the Lain Cyberia one, since it’s not based on a character, but a hat that a character is wearing in only one image), I’ll only have one “real” menu option, and essentially it would contain the same things as the Critter hats link would, though the VAP link just gives a tabled list of products, the actual Critter category shows images of the hats.
It seems sort of silly to only have one category, but it seems sillier to make every single hat a “subcategory”, so that the menu would read something along the lines of:
Critter Hats
     Kitties
     Bunny
     Bear
     Panda
(etc)
—————
View All Products

I guess it could be good to link to every products from the main page, it just seems dumb for each “subcategory” to have only one products in it (well, 3 in the case of “Kitty”, but still).

Current Mood: busy