Getting It Started
On December 10, 2012, I will complete my Bachelors in IT/Web Development. By that time, it is my intention to have my own web development business. Last night, I started putting together my business website.
I’m ready to start some web development services now, such as setting up WordPress sites with widgets, plug-ins, custom artwork, migration services, setting up hosting, and all that good stuff.
This is what I’ve spent the last three years learning to do. Now that it’s year four, it’s time to get into motion. I won’t quit my day job for awhile, but I’m taking this next year to grow into this. I don’t have to do it all at once.
Today, I’m studying networks and servers. Interesting stuff.
Duh…
Over the weekend, I was playing around with Photoshop and came up with a really awesome image. I saved it to .jpg and decided it was so cool I needed to make a website just to use that image on.
I coded the main page of the website, and it was absolutely gorgeous…except for one thing. My nav was wonky. Yep…my navigation bar was beautiful, but it wasn’t lined up in the right way.
I thought I tried everything. Then, I just started clutching at straws. I attempted stuff with CSS and with HTML. I opened it up in Dreamweaver and checked everything out. I just couldn’t see my error.
I guess this was a case of needing to put it down for a day and then approaching it again. This morning – before I even had my coffee – I opened the code again and inserted a <div, and voila…it was perfect. Go figure…
It’s amazing how one little tag in the wrong place can mess things up. I usually go wrong in CSS by leaving off a semi-colon.
Now I can insert my links and make page two.
I think I’m going to use that website for my web design business site since the artwork came out so well.
I’ve been studying for my Adobe ACE certification for Photoshop. I thought I would do the Dreamweaver cert after that, but now I’m starting to consider taking the tests at the same time. I’m not sure yet. This is certainly not the easiest test I’ve ever prepared for. I guess if it were easy then more people would do it.
I started my Network and Telecommunications Concepts class today. We’re starting off with voice communications. Cool. My first assignment is to write a paper on:
- Rotary and Dual Tone Multi-frequency (DTMF)
- Wide Area Telecommunications Service (WATS) and leased lines
- Private Branch eXchange (PBX) and Centrex
- The layers of the International Organization for Standardization-Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) model
Yep…I got this…
First Goal Met!
Today, I achieved my first weight loss goal – 10 pounds gone! The food in this picture weighs 10 pounds. That’s how much I’ve lost.
Losing 10 pounds is no easy feat, but particularly not around the holidays. I cheated a lot, and I didn’t exercise at all, so this is pretty good.
My next goal is to lose another 10 pounds the second month. I’m going to start incorporating exercise today. I’ll use a combination of things, but a big part of it will be my Wii Fit. I like Wii Fit running.
Jenny Craig is by far the best diet I’ve ever been on.
The Nutcracker – Houston Ballet
Tonight, we’re going to the see The Nutcracker performed by the Houston Ballet. I’m so excited! This is something I’ve been wanting to do since I was ten years old and our fifth grade music teacher brought Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” to music class. It was so exciting to hear about the magic and to listen to the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”. I don’t remember the name of the music teacher, but I never forgot about my dream to see The Nutcracker ballet.
It’s fun to get really dressed up in your Christmas finest and to drive to downtown Houston in the chilly weather amidst all the Christmas lights for a little culture. There may be hot chocolate afterwards.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
This isn’t really a lion. I forget what kind of cat it is. I took this picture at the Houston Zoo. This fella was sleeping on a ledge, and all that was sticking out was his face.
It’s Time To Stop Just Talking About It
I’ve lost 8 pounds in 12 days on Jenny Craig. I guess I really should start to think about some exercise. I really don’t feel like it. Maybe some hula hooping on my Wii Fit, a few dumbbells. Tomorrow, maybe I’ll drive by the gym. Tuesday, I might wave as I drive past. It’s not like me to feel so unmotivated in the exercise department, but I really just don’t want to.
Tomorrow afternoon I have a job interview. I am so happy I’ll be working from home again. I’m so sick of people constantly nagging, harrassing, and micromanaging. That’s the sign of an immature, insecure manager with not enough to do.
Freedom From The Pursuit Of Happiness
I quit my job this week. I don’t think I’ve ever quit a job without having already snagged another one. There’s just something about being worked past the point of exhaustion for six months, harrassed, intimidated, and insulted that makes you do things you wouldn’t normally do.
On the upside…I have an interview Monday and one Tuesday. Whoever hires me will be gaining a very experienced and top-notch employee who always gives more than she gets in return. Too bad, so sad for those who failed to see my value and to hear me when I expressed that I was fatigued and needed a couple of vacation days. I’ve never heard of employers who send you vast chore lists to do the morning of your first vacation day and then follows them up with endless e-mails of “Are you done yet?” Ah well…that’s in my past…onwards and upwards.
Today is my eleventh day of Jenny Craig, and so far I have lost 7-3/4 pounds. I know, right… Awesome!!!! My consultant said this week “we’re going to talk about exercise”. I can do that…talk about exercise, I mean. I’ve already prepared items to talk about:
1. Talk about the tennis courts across the street from our house.
2. Talk about the Wii Fit I have downstairs…all hooked up and everything.
3. Talk about the gym I belong to…and how I can go there and watch people exercise.
Yep…I’m all ready to talk about exercise.
The Jenny Craig food is really good. I especially like the pasta fagioli and the lasagna.
