Today is officially my last night shift at work! I start 9-5 on Monday. For the month of May anyway. Hopefully it will be a permanent thing! I don’t mind nights but days are better. I will miss sleeping in though! Am I the only one who loves to stay in bed till 10 or 11? I don’t like doing it every day. Just once in a while. So anyways I guess I am excited about it! I have not been doing a lot other then going from work, to home and home back to work it feels like. So maybe the change of hours will be good.

Keith and I are looking for a house. We are hoping to rent something just outside the city since our hours will be similar and he can get a ride in with me everyday. I really want something homey and not too small but not too big either. 2 or 3 bedrooms. One for us. One for a computer room/rec room. And a spare bedroom that we can get a little bed for (or maybe an extra bedroom for us later?!?!). We want to find a place with a nice big back yard, a deck (or somewhere where they will allow us to build one). Keith is a carpenter so we are hoping maybe we will find a place that the landlords will not mind us improving and maybe compensating some… They seem to do that a lot in the smaller towns around here. People don’t care if you ask first usually. I want somewhere where we can get a dog. I really would love to get a chocolate lab or something like that. Apartments are no place for animals. We learnt that with Midnight. She drove us nuts. I have never seen or heard of a cat that could not occupy herself!

I’ve been searching the web for tutorials for photoshop and illustrator and I found a pretty good site that gathered a bunch of website layout tutorials. They are great cause you can follow it and create what they have and then you can do it a second time and let your imagination run wild! To bad I don’t know how to code something that comprehensive from scratch. But I am going to try it. I’m going to take my time and take a couple of weeks and really design it. Then take a few days to figure the coding out. And then who knows. If I like it I will put it up here. And I may make a few for download. I know I can do it. I just need more time to do things. But I annoy Keith when I am on the computer a lot. So I try doing it at work or when he is occupied with hockey. Since that seems to be never ending right now. I will be soooooooo glad when the playoffs are over. I would love to see Pittsburgh win though. Just because of Sydney Crosby!

I’m absolutely hooked on Facebook games. I feel like I spend most of my internet time on Facebook playing games. There are a few in particular that I always play. Treasure Madness and Treasure Isle are my favorites. How about you? What do you guys do one Facebook? I occasionally talk to my friends and family. I should maybe do that more… But more often then not I am playing games of some sort.  I don’t know why but they are so addicting!

I just renewed my Club Pogo membership. I used to spend a lot of time on there playing games. I got addicted to that too. Especially Poppit! It’s not that the games were great. Just something to do. I also liked collecting badges and having goals and challenges to work towards. It all comes down towards things to do when your bored. And I get bored so often

I find I am always looking for tutorials for Illustrator and Photoshop or stuff that is Photography or Web Design related. I love looking for inspiration and just to see what other people can and have done.  Anyone know of any really good collections of tutorials? I want to learn more about illustrator. I was thinking about getting a cheap (for now) graphics tablet, something similar to this one. But I honestly don’t really know anything about them and which ones are good. Guess it’s time to do a little research.

Yay for useless random info…

I went back to work yesterday for a 5 hour shift. I am feeling better but I wanted to be sure before doing a full shift. So I went in for 4 instead of 1. I have good news though! I am going to days in May! I will finally be working a 9-5 job Monday-Friday. Since I love the job this is great. I am glad to be back. I was a little concerned about missing time. I hate missing any time. But if your sick your sick…

This will also give me a chance to get out more and do things. I am going to set up a schedule for walking every week. 3-4 times a week. Maybe a day or two with Keith and a day or two without since he wants to walk to but enjoys walking alone sometimes. I also like to go places for a walk , like trails and hiking and he doesn’t so maybe I’ll take off and go find a trail somewhere. There are tons of trails around Halifax and Dartmouth both. I sometimes miss living in Dartmouth.

We’re going to go down to my parents today after he’s done at work. Need to get some laundry done and find out when they want to start building up the ground for the pool. I can’t wait! I want to loose weight so bad. I was doing so well last winter and summer but this winter I just let myself go and gained back some of what I lost the winter before. I am not going to let that happen next winter. I am buying season passes for Denton (my little brother) for our birthdays for Martock. Well I am going to get his for his birthday anyways and also see if my parents can get one for me for my birthday rather then anything else. Or even some money towards it as it’s $115 for the pass right now for next season. I need to also figure out if I am going to get a season rental pass for equipment again of if I am going to buy skiis.

I’m doing pretty good following my budget. I am out of money for the month but since I have only a week left it’s better then running out half way through like normal. Next month is going to be tough again cause my first pay is not going to be a full one. But I just have to re-think things and re-work things to fit. I’m getting there at least. I know where my money is going. Now it’s just a case of getting everything current and up to date so I have less to pay each month. I am really terrible with money and Keith is not much better. I don’t really know how people do it? Anyone care to share ideas?

It’s nice and warm and sunny out again. Last week was snow and – temperatures and the week before was rainy and warm and the week before that was hot and sunny. So it’s nice to have the sun back and the warmth. It’s a beautiful spring day! And I’m stuck inside instead of being out enjoying it.

I’ve been off work since Monday. I started having really sharp intense pains in my chest on Monday and was concerned when they would not go away so I went to the hospital. After 10 hours (and countless fights between Keith and the Doctors) I got sent home without knowing what was wrong. I went to sleep as soon as we got home and by Tuesday morning the pain had moved lower to the top of my abdomen on my right side. Near where my gallbladder is. I went to my family Doctor and she said got me to go get some more blood work done.

Yesterday morning I ended up at the hospital again because I still had the pains on my right side. And occasionally on my left. On top of that I was vomiting constantly and really nauseous. They still couldn’t figure out what was wrong and sent me home (more fights between Keith and the Doctors) and today I am still sick and still in pain. I think it might be getting a little better. I’m hoping by taking another day off and just laying on the couch and watching TV and not moving much that some or all of the pain and nausea will go away.

Anyways I put up the new layout. Hopefully I didn’t miss anything or mess anything up… I worked a long enough time on it that it shouldn’t be. I created it in illustrator and photoshop. My first illustrated layout. Or anything really.

I’ve been working on a new theme over the last few days. It’s completely hand drawn myself in Illustrator and I have been coding it myself from scratch (so there will likely be errors and things I overlooked). I was getting inspired by the warm weather and you’ll kinda see what I mean when you see it. It’s nothing spectacular but it is the first layout that the graphics are 100% mine minus the font I used. I will try and finish it tomorrow and get it up. I need to work a little on the comment area before I put it.

I said I was inspired by the warm weather… well it’s not warm now! It kinda took a turn for the worse and it has been snowing for almost 3 days off and on. And then today it snowed most of the day! My mom, Mary Ellen and I took off for Truro. They picked me up on the way. And on the way back we saw a really bad accident. One person was stuck in the car and another was covered by a blanket (I think just to keep them warm. I think they were hurt but alive). And the cars were mangled so bad you couldn’t tell what they were. It scared me. Made me remember my accident last February and what my car looked like or what was left of it after I took out 1/2 dozen trees and down a rocky hill into a river.

Anyways on a good note. I got to see my cousins baby for the first time today. He is a month old. What a gorgeous little guy! He has a head of dark hair and he is the happiest, quietest, easiest going baby I have ever seen. When I held him he just laid there and smiled up at me. I was so taken with him. I want one!

I managed to work out a budget for Keith and I. It’s pretty detailed and I am proud of myself for doing it. Now hopefully we can follow it. I like that it has a column for the budget itself but it also has a column for what was actually spent and what we actually made. My aim is to follow it for at least 6 months and get an idea of where our money goes and why. Because we decided that next year at about this time or more in January or February we are going to the Dominican. We are going to start looking for vacation packages now and see if we can start paying ahead of time in the next month or so. I’m excited!