hello, lovely

I am in the process of upgrading Wordpress, so if anything goes screwy, uh… well, that would suck. Hopefully you won’t notice anything on your end.. it’s just on my end.

eta: other than the fact that I’m a moron and deleted the folder with my theme in it (so now I have to find it again. damn!), everything seems to be okay. whew! i thought it was going to be a lot worse. lol

In case you were wondering, I’m in love w/ this layout.

in more ways than one!

I don’t have time to post a lot, but if you visited earlier, my website was broken. the domain expired, and I never got notification of it (because they had an email address that was like, two ISPs ago! Oops!), but it’s fixed now. YAY!

I also just got back from CA on Monday… I’ll tell you all of the horror stories later, when I’m not so busy w/ work! So..maybe tonight or something.

in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new layout up. i like to haunt the wordpress themes site every now and then and find something new since i don’t have enough brain power or desire to design a layout all my own.

i also put a new theme up at KP… there’s lots going on over there, since all i do anymore is knit. lol

right now, i’m going to target… going to get a new toothbrush and some food. and i have to go to the container store to get a box… and um. yeah, i think that’s it. exciting, huh? when i get home, i’m going to clean up a little bit, then i’m going to sit and knit.. finish watching the Charmed dvd I have, and whatever movie DVD i got from Netflix… i want to try to finish socks i’ve been working on (probably won’t happen, but i want to make progress on them anyway).

i live such an exciting life.

FYI - my site was down yesterday because bandwidth was exceeded. I’m having bandwidth issues since last month. I’m not sure if it’s spammers or what. I have a LOT (like, 20,000-30,000 hits) of 404 errors to some old Moveable Type cgi things. I don’t know how to make it so people don’t try to access it… especially since it’s coming from a spammy site. I’ve been blocking IP addresses like crazy, and it doesn’t seem to be helping.

If anyone has any tips on blocking bandwidth thieves, I’d appreciate the help.

cross-posted to knitting psychos.

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ps. everyone in the dfw/metroplex area be careful on the roads today. i have to venture out into it later today to get joe from the airport. that? should be fun.

I’m having issues w/ my hosting stuff… I have stuff on my acct that isn’t mine, and I’m getting invoices for stuff I’ve paid for (upgraded the pkg when I got the invoice). I’m currently waiting to hear from someone as far as support is concerned.

If I disappear for a little bit, I’ll be back ASAP. Just so you don’t worry / freak out.

EDIT: Looks like everything is okay. THanks!

Yall, I’ve had the Frappr Map over on the sidebar for the longest time, hoping someone would see it and stick their pin in it, but I guess not. Most of you, dear readers, must be like me - you either don’t pay attention to the sidebar, or you’re reading through Bloglines or some other such feed-reader. *lol*

Anyway, do me a favor & stick your pin in my Frappr Map! I’d love to see where you all are from!

it’s all about randomization here at hello, lovely today.

i didn’t go to my mom’s today because i intended to go grocery shopping and do oodles of laundry and bake and clean and organize my yarn. well, i went grocery shopping. and i cleaned a few sections of the livingroom, so i can’t say i didn’t accomplish anything. i also finished a scarf tonight, and started another Christmas present tonight. i also ordered tc’s present. i had what i needed for her, but i have 4-5 projects to knit for her, even if she doesn’t know it. but i was searching around, and i found this other thing that SHE HAS TO HAVE NO MATTER WHAT. so i ordered that along with a present for my secret pal and a present for me. well, not really for me. it’s a basic sock pattern thing that i think might be good for my lorna’s laces yarn. i only have enough for 3 pairs, with about $300 worth on one of my wishlists of more colors I eventually want to get and knit for myself and other people. lol.

for those of you who are or are not aware of my upcoming birthday (october 28th, dear friends of mine!), i’ve posted wishlists on the sidebar. these are mostly for myself and for Teresa because she asked what I wanted. i don’t really want anything since Joe’s visiting, and he’s all I’ve wanted to have on a birthday since we got together, so anything else is just a bonus. the lists are also posted for curious passers-by. i love looking at other people’s wishlists.. so in case there’s another person out there like me, well, there you go.

let’s see? what else? oh, go check out Morgan Clamp. he messaged me on MySpace a few days ago, and I went to listen to his stuff. it’s pretty good. at least, i think so. you can download his songs on itunes or order his cd from his website, but it’s good stuff. i recommend it.

oh, in regards to my last post - things are good with joe. he put the phone down so i could write my email and pretty much fell asleep. his phone was on silent so he didn’t notice it when it rang. lol. oh well.

oh. also, in case you didn’t notice. new layout. this is called Red Train, and I got it from the Wordpress Theme Browser (i think it’s on alexking.org somewhere. do a google search for Wordpress Themes and it’s one of the top ones, if not the #1 result.). I lurve it. I downloaded a bunch of them from there (the last theme was there too) lately. they’re pretty neat. cuz i’m too lazy to figure out how to work the darn thing myself.

i was going to do tc’s site to, since i was in the mood not to accomplish any of the things i need to do, but the links she sent me to templates and layouts are at work. :/ cuz that’s where she emailed me & i never forarded them on. suck.

okok, that’s it. I’m going to go back to knitting and talking to Joe.
g’night!

Comments have been changed to where you need to be registered to comment.
I didn’t want to have to do it, but I’m getting too many anonymous comments w/o even a name. We’ll see if it works. Your email address won’t show up & you won’t get any spam.

Green Day!!!!!!!!!!
I’m freaking going!!!!!!!!!!
The concert is in like, 2 hrs. Scott just left to come get me, and then we’re going to see the best band eeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr!! I wish I could tell you how much I can stand it, but I can’t stand it. I can’t even believe I’m going. I haven’t been all excited and “EEK!!!”y about it because I can’t even believe that it’s happening. I! ME! MANDA! Am going to see the band I’ve been a fan of the longest (13 yrs) and have NEVER EVER SEEN!!

And did I mention I’m rich?? Yeah, I just checked the mail and had a thing from the Paypal Litigation Settlement thing - I got a whole… $13.59!! It’s about the same amount I got for the cd thing that happened a long time ago. So rock on.

Note to self - deposit along w/ TC’s check tomorrow when I go to the store.

Wheeeeeee!!!

I’m still playing around with the layout - i have to fix the links at the top, and insert my “witty tagline” and all that fun stuff. i just wanted something different & i wanted to see if it would work.

it does, but it was late when i did it, so tweaking will come later. maybe this weekend, maybe not. i’m going to my mom’s, and that usually translates into movie + knitting time. we’ll see.

have a good weekend!