breaking out of my chelle

...this is a pullquote. im in a testing phase, i wonder if i can insert a link to my work blog...

i was going to use this post as a test run for my pullquotes, but i was so overcome with giddy happiness with being able to accomplish these little tweaks in my blog that i decided to make an official post anyway. so this is me, all happy and giddy every time i click on publish post and a wonderful new tweak has been added to my humble blog.

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i must say i have gone a long way ever since my first ever tweak (or hack? whats the difference?) (i don't really know) (they are all tweaks to me) -my first tweak was a marquee thingy several months and several blogs ago. and you can see that i fell in love with it (see sidebar) -->

i moved on to posting links, posting pictures, posting pictures and links that open to another tab or window, (i have to say this is one of my favorites as i don't like losing pages im reading just because i got mouse-happy and decided to click links like crazy), getting a whole new template from outside blogger (again, very important as it personalized my blog completely), putting a signature in my posts, adding a favicon (woohoo!!), making links to pages at the top of my blog, adding widgets and more widgets and even more widgets (at one point, i got so addicted to widgets that i had to delete a previous blog because there was nothing BUT widgets), adding a site counter ---and these are just the simple stuff.

i eventually mustered enough courage to make changes to my template (ooohhhh!) i added tag cloud hacks and archive hacks with a calender (both from here, thank you so much), adding pullquotes and tool tips (thank you dean annie), and a recent posts widget (that i will be adding in a little while - thank you hans). and can you believe it, just by reading their instructions i am learning indirectly on how to make my own codes and stuff (can you tell i don't know what to call them. hehehe) with the help of cheats of course.

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and so, what was intended to be a "test post" for my pullquote has become a long list of raves and thank you's to the wonderful world of blogger-instructors and html enthusiasts that makes it easy for me (a humble html-idiot-blogger - who doesn't even know what html, css, xml, feeds, and such means) .

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CREDITS:
dean annie
hans
peter chen
ramani
phydeaux3
more to come. ;>

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...like i said before, it doesn't feel like real blogging if i don't change things around every now and then. change is part of blogging. what fun it all is. ;>

Posted in: blog related, links, pullquote on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at at 11:06 AM 0 comments

*a blog post i started a few weeks ago. now my train of thought has completely been broken. i don't even remember why.

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Just a little senti tonight...

I wish I knew, I wish somebody told me.

For the longest time, as far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to be on my own, living in my own home, financially independent, travelling for leisure… I wanted to be free. I wanted to be away from it all. At the time, “it” meant my life, the people around me, problems, pressure, even depression. I want to say the typical angst that a teener goes through, although I don’t know if it is indeed typical. I now realize that that has always been my means of coping – I run away. I escape...

XXX

that's it.

Posted in: escape, repost on Monday, October 15, 2007 at at 6:04 AM 1 comments

i have to admit it. shit. im not, im just not.

although crazily enough, when im not blogging there are so many things i want to write about. it could be an opinion or a thought or a picture or a significant event, i even phrase it in my mind already.

oh shit.

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then i realize. the whole point is to break out of my shell. look at myself from out of the box and think and act from there. change. change is the key. its not blogging im not good at,

its the sharing part.

its the rules.

and who says i have to follow them every time. and people who follow them every time, they are not too bad too, its their stroke.

i have mine.

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Posted in: about me, random thoughts, saturday thoughts, why i'm not a blogger on Friday, October 12, 2007 at at 7:24 PM 0 comments

tonight's play list:

• we built this city - starship
• jessie's girl - rick springfield
• cherish - kool & the gang
• dirty diana - michael jackson
• telefone - sheena easton
• new year's day - U2
• she's out of my life - michael jackson
• la bamba - just another band from east LA
• on my own - patti labelle and michael mcdonald
• the look - roxette
• born in the USA - bruce springsteen
• i want to know what love is - foreigner
• keep on loving you - reo speedwagon
  

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i've been away for too long.

the past few days have been busy. work got crazy, as it always does, but this time it got aggravating. my supervisor told me that one of my clients asked for a faster turn-around-time with their files. this is not new, they have been asking for this for so long i can't recall when it actually started. but this time, we are receiving heat from them already, calling the other bosses and asking, no - demanding that their files be sent stat. this in itself is not impossible, if what they want is just that, their files sent back to them half-baked. but if they wanted quality files, they just have to realize that that takes time, given the fact that they are a difficult client, (the most difficult one i have) plus their format is not easy.

anyway, they threated to leave several times already and i say let them. it is not worth the aggravation. i say a healthy working relationship has to have open communication - they have been demanding and demanding and demanding, but they are just not listening - fact is, working their files takes time. plain and simple.

but that's just half the aggravation. as a safety measure, my supervisor is now asking me to share the account with a groupmate, which is fine, except... except now this other person is copying my work, practically just changing my name on the report and passing it off as hers. now that's just plain nasty.

i could elaborate but that would mean naming names and i cant do that right now (maybe later).

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it's a monday night sound trip. and based on my song list up there ^ its the 1980's top 40. yey for old songs.

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i have an itch that has been bugging me since about august. i need to get my hands working again on some craft stuff. i've already put away my beads because according to the plan, it's review time already - but honestly, its the last thing on my mind. right now, all i can think of are papers and cards and crafts and ribbons and deconstructed and reconstructed calendars and journals

(hey, she's out of my life, i love this song. reminds me of elementary, this particular day i was in a friend's house and we were listening to michael jackson's album. as early as then, i already had an affinity with this song. its so sad its beautiful.)

anyway reconstructed journals, homemade cards, homemade stamps, inks, cutting tools, rubber pads, you get the point.

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link finds of the week:

http://www.finetune.com - the source of my 1980's top 40 music right now.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com - the source of my crafting fix - this site is getting me fired up about just doing it already.

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just once - quincy jones

let's all take a moment of silence as one of my ultimate favorite songs is playing in the background.

this used to be my song. happily it is not anymore. it reminds me of a more bitchy me, an insecure girlfriend who gets riled up at the smallest things. oh yes, i have to admit that about me. at one point, not only did i feel like the the world revolved around me, i wanted somebody else to make me the center of his world. and how did that turn out? disastrous. a happy disaster though. changed my life.

now its just a really cool song.

ok, moment over.

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Posted in: crafts, old songs, random thoughts, work stories on Monday, October 1, 2007 at at 6:19 AM 0 comments