June 14th, 2008 What I’ve Been Up To

To be honest, I really haven’t been doing much at all. In the Life area I’ve been preparing to go on vacation for a week to the Dominican Republic. Which I frankly don’t want to go to because of the people joining us. Horrible demon cousins of mine, I want to smack them around. Seriously. They’re awful.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with my big brother, it’s his 25th birthday soon. And like every year, he tells us what he wants. In this case, I gave him $30 to put into his Metal Gear Solid 4 purchase. He wanted the limited edition what-have-you. So, you’re welcome Mike! We’ve also been watching Dragon Ball Z together. Don’t laugh. When we were younger and living in central America, we’d watch it five days a week in Spanish. I guess it just holds dear to our hearts still. I’m not nearly as big on anime as I used to be but I still enjoy Dragon Ball Z with my bros.

Online, I’ve been helping a friend set up a few WordPress powered blogs for her family. Yay. I hope they’re happy. Originally the said sites were manually coded, which wouldn’t have been a problem if there weren’t so many bloody pages! I was like “You need WordPress!” Of course the transition didn’t go as smoothly but meh.

I’ve also updated my LiveJournal with a new name (stupid rename token is a ripoff) and design, along with redesigning and renaming my Twitter. As for this site? Not much is going on.

Oh yeah! I’ve started to post awful videos on Youtube! Check me out at The Silky Witch @ Youtube.com.

That’s enough shameless plugging, I think.

Emotionally, I feel really ignored. Not going to name any names, but you know who you are. =/ Talk to me, okay? Blah. Don’t wanna be emo, ESCAPE THE EMO!

Right now I’m watching Simba run into the glass door over and over again. I don’t know why he keeps doing that. I’m thinking maybe he wants to go outside? But it’s too dark and out late out for him to be wandering around. He’ll end up coming home at like 3am. He’s done it before.

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May 25th, 2008 Creativity VS Ability?

I want my Designing Mojo back. It’s been gone for like two years or so.

I miss being able to whip out a layout every week. What the Hell is wrong with me?

In other news, I gave Simba his parasite medication today. It’s really for prevention purposes. But every time I give it to him he makes this huge goopy, sticky mess of the stuff. As usual I had to shower and wash my hair, leaving my shirt to soak in the kitchen sink downstairs so the mess wouldn’t stain said top. Also had to clean the stove and stove top, kitchen closet door, and floor. Because he got it all over those spots too.

Now he’s playing (read: going psycho) with a feather I found in the backyard. I love that kitty. And I really want a second kitty to keep him company. Preferably a male tuxedo kitten. There shall be no spawning of demon kitties in this house, oh no.

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March 30th, 2008 Artistic, Medical and Fleas

For those of you who aren’t Following me on Twitter (everyone but Mitch, shame on you!) I posted a tweet earlier about a new website I’m starting to work on. It’s titled Happyvenus and you can find it at happyvenus.net. There’s nothing there yet but a quick little splash I made with said domain name but here’s to the future!

I plan to at least attempt at something creative with that site, be it a photo blog of sorts where I post a pic I drew or maybe post up some designs I make. I’m not quite sure yet but I know I want to do something artsy-fartsy with it! I guess this will psych me up some more for my Wacom Bamboo tablet I’m still waiting for in the mail. Can’t wait to get it and practice with it! I haven’t drawn in forever but I plan to get back into it especially with the tablet. I pray this helps my web designing too.

I mentioned in the last post that I’m dumping the college scene and going to get a few medical licenses. College isn’t for me, it isn’t for everyone. I’ve had a tough time lately where my friends and family are split with my decision. A lot of them are telling me “You’re stupid for dropping out of college!” and some support my idea saying things like “It’s not college, but it’ll still earn you money. You’ll still get an education, and your dreams are what’s most important”. Of course I like the second opinion best! I’m in no way going to change my mind about this, but I would like to know what you all think of my plans.

At the end of April I’m going to start classes for four weeks in the field of medical billing and coding. Basically, medical coding entails that said person takes care of patients’ charts, using a universal coding method to mark things like symptoms on a chart and handing it over to a doctor. Medical billing is pretty much collecting money from the patients and insurance companies. It sounds boring, but it’s a steady job and an easy one. Plus it pays pretty well. Once I’m done with the classes I take an exam, and gain my medical billing and coding license that allows me to work in that field.

The second license is an EKG license. EKG experts strap a patient to a machine that prints out heart results like rate and so forth by attaching electrodes to the chest etc etc. This is easier than medical billing and coding, but is more secluded AKA lonely. Plus it pays less. This is also four weeks.

Then from there I’ll see what I do. Obviously look for a job. There are a few clinics really close to home so I’ll try there first.

What do you all think?

Blah. Simba still has fleas. There were dots of blood / black pepper (which are both flea poop. flea drinks Simba’s blood -> poops it out) in the sink this morning. Yeah, he sleeps in the bathroom sink. So I went out around noon and bought flea and tick powder. Supposedly if you rub it in his fur and skin real good, the damn things will die. I don’t have faith in any of these flea cures anymore except for medications like Advantage and Frontline but we can’t afford it. We need to settle for a cheap and quick fix until we can go and pay for his meds monthly.

My poor kitty. He’s an angel, too.

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March 18th, 2008 New Theme

Okay so here I am making the obligatory “New Theme” post. I was originally going to write about something else completely different (seriously. I have a draft post and everything) but I don’t know. I don’t believe I’ll be posting it since it’s no longer relevant. So, onward with the show!

This new theme is mostly CSS and divs (I’ll admit this, the footer is Epic Fail on my part. I used a table. I couldn’t for the life of me manage to make the three divs float next to each other and keep the black background. It was five in the morning so I gave up). The theme, called “solitude” (with a lowercase S) involved a very interesting process to be honest. It developed into something very nice (I think it’s nice anyway) and different while I was coding it.

I specifically went into the whole coding process with a different color scheme and look in mind- But somewhere along the way I changed the background color and went “I’ve got to use these colors somehow…”. And so I did. The theme I was originally trying to create, and port from Livejournal, was minty-peach’s Boss 66. You can definitely see the similarities.

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November 14th, 2007 Be Savage no More!

So my kitty (who’s actually a cat by now) Simba is getting neutured today.

Unfortunately I couldn’t go and drop him off or say my “Good-Bye”s but I’m sure he’s fine. At the clinic where they’re operating on him, you have to be there at 7am. So, since my mom has the day off she thought she would take care of that on her own while I’m away.

And a neat thing to notice, I’m on a 17″ white iMac. whether it’s Intel or not is beyond me. (checks). Aha, Intel C2D =D Makes me pretty happy.

Such a nicer experience than using the DELLs around here (relief). And it’s so hard to actually grab an unocuppied Mac! There are twenty in this room and they’re ALWAYS snatched up no matter how early I get here. Pretty amazing that I could find this one, really.

I’m really worried about my kitty. D= I had a horrible nightmare where he was turning into this vicious beast with oozing green saliva and stuff. I went to my cousin’s mother’s house and she was like “He was bitten by a rare bug that made him transform into a monster”. So we ripped off the bug. But still…

What if he just becomes worse after the proceedure today? Getting neutured (cats) supposedly makes them calmer, not wanting to bite so much or run away, stuff like that. I hope it’s true. The freaky black cat from a while ago was chasing after him last night. ._.

Unfortunately he has to go for the rest of today without eating or drinking anything, and he has to spend the rest of the time in the carrier. This is going to break my heart. I can’t feed him, pet him, give him water, let him loose… Blah. D= It’s all for you, kitty!

Also, I don’t believe in declawing a cat. A friend suggested it to me and I went Ape on her ass. No. No declawing. It’s horrible to do that to a cat. What if they run away from home one day? How are they supposed to get food or defend themselves?

So no, Simba will not be getting declawed. He will be getting neutured and will hopefully stop biting the shit outta me.

Edit: My kitty is back home~ I let him out so he can walk around for a bit then put him in his bathroom to sleep. So he can at least walk around the bathroom. He’s very groggy, but vicious. My cousin’s mother, Carmen, told me that he’s probably really vicious right now because he’s absolutely starving and he can’t eat anything until tomorrow.

So I don’t blame him for wanting to take a chunk off my foot.

The two stitches down there scare me. I took a peek between his hind paws while he was out cold earlier out of curiosity (I’m no pervert, I swear!) and it is indeed scary. But I’m sure it’ll be much better in a few days and he’ll be back to his annoying, bratty self in no time. =3

I love the Jeebus outta mah kitteh.

Edit2: ZOMFG! IGG is working on releasing an English translation of Wonderland! I almost pissed my pants in joy (not really)! This game has been in my (online hosted) bookmarks for almost a year now, praying the company would release it in English but instead IGG is bringing it over! SQUEE!

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