all hedge some blog

for you random Dutch word memory impaired people: this site is now mirrored on hedgeblog.net

note: it might not be working everywhere for a few days.

punk rock

Had fun venting my general frustrations by making a punk rock fairy halloween skin.

meme migration

Sorry about the lack o posts. I've been in this weird watching Upstairs Downstairs playing Kingdom of Loathing mild chest wall injury universe.

Yes, within days of boobiethon I've pulled a muscle or something over my right boob. And you just have no idea how often you use that muscle until you've injured it. Please pity me.

Also, I've decided that I don't want a separate meme journal anymore so I'll be integrating it back into this main mt journal over the weekend. Because I can :) The way I have it planned you might not have noticed it but if something is wonky we'll just blame it on that for now. I'll come up with something else to blame it on when that's done.

too lazy to post

but here's a picture I took of a lizard today. I've seen him on the south side of the house a lot. I've decided to name him Eddie.

random news

- my hair didn't turn blue and seems to be less tangly now
- Cody's grandfather is having a bad time again so we've been at the hospital - he fell out of his bed and broke his hip on monday which wouldn't be quite as bad if he wasn't due for dialysis the same day and has almost died on the table in surgery about four times this year. It looked kind of bad for a while but he seems to be doing ok now. This particular genetic string is just too damn stubborn to give up without a serious fight, it seems. Which explains where mr man gets this tendency. The Gibson Lovelace is considering setting up a separate waiting room for all the aunts, their spouses and kids, and whomever is trailing any of them at the moment. There are some interesting crafts being made there as well.
- I turned on comment moderation and ip banning until I got mt blacklist upgraded, which I have now so I've turned those off again so hopefully they won't be neccessary now. Jay Allen totally rocks with the new blacklist layout and the way he integrated it with mt 3
- I'm working on a cool surprise for the site. Actually, two particularly cool surprises are coming but I'm only working on one of them.
- The dog needs to go outside now.

mt plugin manager help needed

I've been getting this error when I go to the mt plugin manager page-

Is this a dreamhost xml issue, a mt plugin issue or, a "my fault" issue? Should I contact Dreamhost about this?

This wasn't happening until Saturday when I was trying to use the mt amazon plugin before I installed mt 3.

I've tried removing and installing mt plugin manager, upgrading mt, all kinds of stuff.

Help!!

watch the orange cones or you might fall in

Margaret Cho was fucking hilarious. I highly recommend going to see her if she's coming to a town near you.

I'm upgrading to MT 3 and futzing around with things on the site today so tread carefully and leave a trail of breadcrumbs just in case.

new photos

Added a bunch of photos from that strange bellydancing / punk show we went to up in Santa Fe. Lots of photos of Agate bellydancing, Justin and Jocelyn, and me.

yaay!

Our cable is back yaay! Yes ladies and gentlemen we were offline for a week. It was a very long week. But hey I got my butt in gear and burned and labelled all my burn it cds - and mailed them out with some small fun surprises in it that I hope my group enjoys. And I went to the gym a lot. And didn't do a lick of housework. Go me! hehe.

Cody's vacation got pushed up yesterday so now he's on vacation until next monday which is cool. And one of his bosses called today to tell him about a supervisor position at this office that's being posted. We're going to assume they called him because they want him to apply? So he's excited about that. And that he's on vacation just when Doom 3 comes out tomorrow. We're gathering up some old games we don't like anymore to trade in at electronics boutique.

When I was at the gym last night Cody went to the store for some things and bought something really funny for me. These "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans" candies based on the Harry Potter franchise. They're made by the jelly belly people and there was a 'menu' which lists sardine, ear wax, spaghetti, booger, dirt, and other icky flavors among the usual good ones like buttered popcorn and green apple. So I figured they weren't actual gross flavors they were just being funny. Well guesss what?? That spaghetti jelly bean has a distinct garlicky flavor. The sardine does, in fact, taste like fish. Dirt is just like a mouthful of dirt. Spinach is kind of good. Booger is NASTY salty. I couldn't find the black pepper or ear wax and just didn't have the heart to try the vomit flavor. You should've heard the awful sounds Cody made when I got him to try the sardines flavor!

So yaaaay we're back online wooo!

memememe

I finally got around to publishing the separate meme log. Still playing around with the skinning ability there so hopefully there won't be too many problems.

on the sidebar

I'm going to be rearranging the sidebar a bit today so don't freak out if things look a bit weird over there today.

new flavor

Created a new skin today called mocha hedgehog. This is my first attempt at creating a new default skin since Luka converted the site to php a few months back so I hope it's not too wonky. Let me know if it is and I'll fix it when I wake up.

this weekend

A bit busy this weekend because my best friend graduated from law school yesterday and we've been going to graduation, lunches, and parties - or getting ready for them which is a whole other thing. We're very, very proud of her she's finished her bachelors and this law degree all by herself with loans, grants, and work study - no government assistance other than grants, no parental help. Neither of us can even begin to imagine the things she's gone through to finish this degree. So yay for Jocelyn!

This is a lot more social than I usually am so I also take a bit of time to gear up for them and wind down afterwards. Been doing really well so far though and have met some interesting people.

Mom sent me a few favorite pictures from the the late eighties and early nineties so I posted them in the photo journal and thought we could all laugh at my big hair. I was a whole other person then. This was before I realized I was smart - and that it was ok to be a smart girl, among other realizations.

Also, I'm re-arranging my blogrolling lists so there might be some weird looking things going on to the right. And I'm going to do some City of Heroes playing today it's been over a week

tech note

Looks like blogrolling is down. That's who I use for the dynamic weblink content so I've taken references to them down until they're working again.

The good news is I've been scanning photos all afternoon and have some fun ones to upload in a few minutes so go check the photojournal! Lots of new office, hedgehog house, winter, and kitty pics.

egeltje group

I've been playing with a few things on the site. Namely I created a group weblog for some of my close friends. Not much there atm but I'm very proud of the design.

the egeltje group

I'm also working on a meme-only log but I still need to finish the design.

meme?

what is a meme?

baby pictures

added photos of winter when she was a baby to the photo collection

new look!

How cool is this new design? Like I've said it's been roughly four years since I designed a page so I'm WAY out of the loop here. While I wanted to take advantage of all the advances in dynamic content and design ideas and codes I really wanted to go ahead and start journalling too. So I just used a template and started typin...

While looking around for templates I've found a lot of weblogs with all kinds of fun designs and ideas that are totally new to me. Blogs that I bookmarked to visit again. Later on one particularly talented lady (whose site I'd really enjoyed one day but lost the address and had to trace my way back the next day because I loved all her smilies) mentioned that she needed some help getting a pet deposit I figured it would be the perfect time to get some help with a cool design and I can take my sweet time acclimating myself to this newfangled php stuff. I've always learned from picking apart others' codes to see what happens so I'm really looking forward to learning a lot.

And if I don't want to worry about coding I can just concentrate on the content and have this COOL design!

So a BIG BIG thank you to the blog chameleon for all her great work! She not only did a bunch of work converting my blog to php, making it skinnable, and creating this great design she also created a custom 404 and about me page. She even threw in the ubercute hedgie favicon! I'm very happy with it all :) She's having a half-price sale right now but even when that sale is finished she charges extremely reasonable prices!

I'm so glad I've started blogging again :D

Old

Wow. Playing with the wayback machine. Webdreaming was my old site. Before that it was Webgoddess Graphics. I also had a site that offered free graphics here. Before that it was Noelle's Noodle - which started as a geocities page in July 1997. This was the last webpage I had in 2000 until I started again this year.

ok

Ok so enough futzing around with figuring out movable type templates. Time to bite the bullet and post already. Not trying to make a big deal with this site. Just want to get some thoughts written down someplace because I think I rely way too much on other people to remember the random crap I say. And it was kind of fun making Nicole's website. Clearly I'm out of practice but at least I'm getting the css/dynamic content thing this time around. Been so long since I've made a website. Four years? Five? I'd given up on the site creation. At the time I don't think I had much else to say. Felt like I was talking in the wind. I guess what's changed is I don't really care if no one reads this.

I've definitely got some rules in mind for myself. I won't get involved in the blog wars bullshit. I won't check my referrer logs. Maybe I'll link to weblogs I like to read but I don't want to get involved in cliques, personality cults, that kind of thing. This is the big one: I won't consider my audience when writing. If people like what I have to say, great. If not there are about ten trillion other sites out there to play with. A few 'real life' friends or family may be made aware of the site but I will not worry about it. Of course these are my rules so I suppose I can break them anytime.

Kind of in a bad depression the last two nights. Generalized anxiety, tense jaw, tight feeling where my neck meets my skull. Feels kind of like a nic fit but it's been 1y 1m 3w 1d since I smoked. A few fleeting bad thoughts. Overwhelmed with the neverending list of shit to do. Might be pms. Last month was like a nightmare pms meltdown that caused me to gain ten of my beloved 40 lost pounds. Still haven't lost it back yet. Damn. I really need to get an appointment with my doctor and get back on the wellbutrin. I was on a blissful zoloft/wellbutrin cocktail - it took a whole lot to make me upset and I didn't want to eat or smoke to feel better. Cody made cheeseburger macaroni hamburger helper with ground turkey for me last night. I can't eat high fat foods even if I want to now - makes me really sick afterwards. Never thought I'd be that kind of gal.

Set up a play area for the hedgehog on the new desks and turned off the light. She's been running on the wheel a bit, eating, and napping.