01
August
2008
Author: The Fool
The Fodder
How the hell are ya?? I am tired. Very tired. I haven’t been sleeping well at all. Not sure if it is the whole “My husband had to file for bankruptcy after his business failed and then went back to the company he despised and now just complains incessantly, while I am being chased by one of his vendors that he had promised me would be paid off before any others because he needed me to sign a personal guarantee for and now will be taken to court if I don’t come up with $2000, even though I don’t have any income to speak of” or if it is the whole “My son was just diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and is in what is considered the ‘Honeymoon Phase’ and will most likely be coming out of it right around the time school starts so I will not be there with him and what if his sugar tanks and what was that noise, is it him? Is he up? Is he ok? Why is he up in the middle of the night again? What does that mean? Was it even him? Am I driving him crazy by constantly asking him if he is ok?“ thing. Add to that a little “bounced a check while in the hospital with the boy because I wasn’t here to transfer funds and was a little too preoccupied to even think about it and now have to deal with fees on that” oh and by the way The Mr.needs gas for the truck… oh and then there’s the tenants who decided to go camping this week… won’t be home until Sunday… wonder when I will get the rent?? Ugh!
Calgon take me away! It is horrible to feel so exhausted that you know you can drift off any minute only to have a noise (the air conditioner kicking on or off or something outside the window) snap you away and send your heart racing. Sometimes it isn’t worth just laying there. It gets to be too frustrating and so I get up and do whatever I can quietly so as to not wake anyone up..or if I do tough it out I end up wide awake when The Mr.leaves for work and go through the same thing all over again… course I am a raving bitch the next day either way. The other nasty side-affect? I can completely space out and not even realize what is going on around me. The other night we went out to dinner and I was waiting for something and The Mr.and our son walked away a bit and after a few minutes I realized that my daughter was actually talking to me. I think I hurt her feeling pretty good, too. & That really sucks! I appoligized and she said it was ok, but I still didn’t seem to thrilled with me. Not that I can blame her. She has been forced to take a back seat over the last couple weeks because of everything with her brother. I hoping that The Mr.can get a day off next week so that I can take her to a movie and we can have some mom & daughter time. We haven’t done that in a real long time!!
One good thing to come out of the whole insomnia thing is the new design I am converting. It was written for Wordpress and that can be such a pain in the ass to convert to EE, but it actually hasn’t been too bad, even if I am up at 2am playing with it. You can get a sneak peak here. It is still a long way from finished, and I still have to build the other templates to go with it but I am liking how it is shaping up. Let me know what you think. There are still a few quirks to work out. Like the date disappearing from every post but the first. I am sure there is just a tag out of place somewhere. I haven’t checked other browser either, just FF. Don’t know if I will either, I guess that will depend on the insomia….
Ditto! It’s amazing how we can lose ourselves so quickly! I watch those movies and see where the mom just checks out or she’s claiming that she lost herself to the family.. and I say that will never happen to me, yet poof! It happens! With a blink of the eye!
Hope the kids are doing ok - and I’m sure that The Drama Queen knows that The Karate Kid is priority now but it won’t be forever. The Scouts go through this all the time with her and her braces and him with his ADD.
And whoa!? The new layout! With flickr! And I see wedding pictures?! How did I miss this?? I’ve been waiting to see them!! I’ll be back! Gotta go check your pixs out 
Hey you. (((hugs))) Wish I lived closer, so I could help you out, take a load off.
Nifty new layout! I see the theme came from Design Disease. I tried to use one of her themes last year, and I had to give up on it, because the navigation on the bottom of the front page disappeared in Firefox. Only that page and only that browser. Drove me batty!
@ Leigh Ann Thanks!
@ Susan It’s amazing isn’t it. I do have my moments when I do things just for me, but if something else comes up I will forfeit for them. And yeah all the wedding pics I took are on Flickr. I just uploaded straight from my camera for the family to see. I haven’t been playing with them much. I did a few here and there (that one pic on the new layout is one of them.)
@ SSG Thanks a bunch. But ya know I bet if you did live closer I wouldn’t let ya help anyway. Just who I am I guess. The design works fine for WP once I added some CSS to get rid of the horizontal scroll bar. (Which I guess was only visible on the 1024x768 screen) I think that is only in FF too. You can see it in their test page. I am trying to gut it now and then add the EE stuff. But the code isn’t very clean and I know I am missing something somewhere, but every time I start over I end up with the same result. So maybe it isn’t worth it, and maybe I should just keep the idea and bone up on my CSS and start from scratch.
Yes, she’s creative, but her code is really awful, in places. I feel your pain.
Bear in mind that in WP themes, many are coded to show the date only once per day. So if you have a day where you post three times, only the top post will have the date..the other two will not. Get my drift? But I don’t think that’s the issue here..
Gotcha! What I usually do is view source on the demo page so I can see all the code parsed and go from there. It has been so long since I have done anything like this that I was a little lost in the beginning, but like you know me I can’t let something like that go. I am happy enough with it to let it fly for now and I will keep dicking around with it until I figure it out. Knowing EE it is most likely a tag order thing.
You did a really good job with this! Recoding a theme is a big job, and there’s no guarantee it will turn out right.
Still gotta fix the date thing there.. not only does it disappear on the multiple entries, but it is also wrong… I don’t really care enough right now to mess with he Heh!
Hmm then again… I fixed it. I crack myself up!
Hmm maybe not so much… page breaks if I show more than 2 entries… oh well
Recoding a site for EE from WP? Good luck! The minute I went from Moveable Type to WordPress I stopped all CSS coding immediately! Love the new look!
page breaks if I show more than 2 entries
Yes, I had that issue, too, with her other theme. She does real “pretty” work, but she can’t code.
Glad you got the date fixed.
It is a common theme I am seeing with alot of my friends not being able to catch up on bills and overdraft bank fees. The sad truth is it’s probably only going to get worse. It’s a crappy way to be. I hope things start to look up for you.I had the same thought with the calgon the other night unfortunately it didn’t work.
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Oh my. I wish I could teleport you some tranquility!
Reminds me of something Jesus Christ said one time, he said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.“ Matthew 11:28
Your page is so pretty!