So I’ve been severely remiss lately with this. Truth is I got a bit discouraged and dissatisfied with the way it was shaping up and took a break. Things always seem to work a little better for me, once I let myself step back and gain some perspective. Added a new theme, that I’m beyond happy with.
Moving on.
Lots of stuff happening lately with me.
- First- I’ve started back to work, and boy talk about hitting the ground running. I walked right into a layoff. Thankfully I was one of the lucky who are still gainfully employed but, it’s not an easy process to get past. Overall outside the plus of being employed the whole thing really kinda sucks.
- Second- I’ve been running for the past 5 weeks to see if I can do anything to get rid of all this baby weight I gained. So far I’ve lost 25lbs since giving birth but that still leaves me a long way to go, and right now everything seems pretty insurmountable. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the running. I hate every fucking step of it I take, but I love the feeling I get after it’s all over and done with. I’ve even signed up for a 5k in June so I have no reason to slack.
- Third- Photographed Kevin and Amanda’s wedding. It was good times, and a good learning experience and I learned a hell of a lot from it. I came out of it with a ton of pictures I’m pleased with, and now that I have a renewed commitment to this blog I’ll be posting way more often. Both photos and just me -blah ness.
And I’m done.
OPML has saved me time.
As I could be termed a novice in the finer details of the more ‘tuned’ and by this I mean most things under the hood, aspects of the web, I am pathetically happy that I’ve been able to pull from my feed reader a lovely file that saved me having to copy/paste links for my blogroll.
I have achieved final happiness with my theme, and how it’s setup. For the last few days I’ve been stressing about the look of everything. Again, primarily because I’m visually inclined and I just couldn’t see myself getting comfortable with this blog, and being committed to it if I didn’t have some form of satisfaction with the appearance. I didn’t want frills but I wanted something that allowed me to personalize a bit. Neoclassical has done that for me.
So yeah, I’ve got random rotator images with which I am very pleased. It was actually fun going through my old images and looking to see what I would be happy with as a header image. Surprisingly the ones I first envisioned didn’t work very well in that capacity, and pictures I hadn’t looked at in a long time (we’re talking since 2006 folks) started having mass appeal in that they were perfect.
Now I just have to setup my blogroll and a few other things, and move on from the oppression I was feeling while theme-hunting.
Messing with themes again. Decided on Neoclassical finally as opposed to the other two, because it’s a bit more updated than Conestogastreet, but still has the minimal simplicity I want/like. I just have to figure on the picture sizes and such, I’ll have to use something like highslide or just adjust the size of my flickr posts. However it goes it’s not something I wan to focus on right now. I’ll worry about it tomorrow, along with some additional personalization to the new theme.
Still messing with themes, but think I’ve settled on Conestogastreet I like the streamlined simplicity, but of course there’s a ton of things I want to change, which is natural really. At least I’ve got a baseline for what I want.
Searching for wordpress themes is a pain in the ass. This is not to say I’m not appreciative of the mass quantities of free themes available to me. It’s not to say I’m not appreciative that for the most part they’re easy to use. It’s just I’m a little annoyed with the whole theme search process.
I know it’s me being finicky as I feel like I can’t really start blogging until I’ve got the theme thing solved/taken care of. That’s just me being me, as I just realized that right now I’m putting appearance over content which lets face it, if the content is good then the appearance isn’t all that important. Mostly it’s because I visually reference things, so for me things must look good. it’s a gut imperative, that my own impatience is forcing me to by-pass. After all I created this blog for a reason, and why not document my trials and tribulations with getting everything to be how I want it to be. After all that is the point of blogging isn’t it. Documenting.
So…right now I’m using Hemingway Reloaded which will probably change about five times prior to my coming to a final decision on what I want to use, and how much personalization I can give it. I like the nice clean look of it, but it may not be all to my cup of tea.
You gonna be there for Batman?
Nice to meet you however.
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