June 2008 – Page 7 – The only certainty is bad grammar

i think i have enough faces. and books

June 1, 2008 Crystal im cool, medium

so, i currently have two facebook accounts (one for my undergrad at WIU and one for grad school at UofI-springfield), a myspace, a twitter account, this blog, a blog for work, and ummm another web-thing that requires upkeep.

so im thinking of deleting one of my facebook accounts.

also, i can’t keep the passwords straight.

but im scared. and i can’t decide which one to delete. western? or springfield?

the point is, if you randomly aren’t my friend on facebook any more, blame the abundance of passwords i have in my life.

re: im scared

June 1, 2008 Crystal im cool, short

editor’s note: umm. ya. i guess just make sure you read the updates. otherwise this post makes no sense.

ok. ok. i changed my design. what do you guys think? if you really, really hate it, tell me bc it’s fairly easy to change. i didn’t get a ‘home’ link, but just like before, you can click on the blog’s title to go ‘home.’

One really cool thing about this design is that is shows my tag line under my title: ‘because writing is hard.’ before it was only visible on my dashboard.

another obvious plus is that my widgets no longer only appear on capital letters.

UPDATE: ya. im not really sure if i like it. … im flirting with some other designs. stay tuned.

UPDATE: ok. this is the design i really WANT to use, but im scared people will say things like ‘i don’t like reading white text on a black background.’ if that’s you’re beef, speak now or forever hold your peace.

also, it doesn’t list tags and categories under posts, but you can still search via those things on my side bar.

and beware. i might change it in like 7 seconds.

i have problems with commitment

UPDATE: seriously. this commitment problem i have is probably the reason im single. anyway, i changed it again. this one is eastier to read.

what do you guys think?

beware — it might get tweaked.

AND YES, it IS just a modified version of this girl’s blog. and this girls blog. but both those girls are super good writers (seriously, they are. you should go read them right now.) so maybe this theme will help me be as cool as they are.

maybe.

plus, maybe both of them picked it because it’s the ONLY one that has everything a girl could want in a blog theme (a “home” link, non-capitalized widgets, a viewable tag line. etc.).

maybe.

im scared

June 1, 2008 Crystal im cool, medium

editor’s note: most of this blog post is now outdated. i have obviously changed my design, which is addressed above. however, it does explain my new twitter feed, so read on if you want to know about that.

so i was inspired by my super cool friend (erin) and her super cool husband (dave) to get a twitter feed on my blog.

the only problem is, my blog design puts things on the sidebar in capital letters.

so i want to change my design (theme).

but im too scared.

actually i changed it for about one second.

but then i changed it right back because my stomach sank. (my blog is like my child. i don’t want anything about it to change.)

the other thing is, i really want a “home” link on my site. if i was web-savy i could just figure out how to make it a page link. but im not. im lucky i figured out twitter.

but other designs automatically include a “home” link.

so what do you guys think? should i change my theme?

UPDATE: oh ya. you’re probably thinking ‘what the heck is twitter?’ well, because i like to talk about myself, i basically added a feed so that i can update that section of my blog (located on the top of the widget column and titled ‘what im thinking right this second’) via my cell phone.

i know. you’re excited.

but this way, when my blogging dies down mid-week, you can still check in and see new stuff on my twitter feed.