Welcome to Wonderland, where the tea is tasty and everyone is mad I went home at the beginning of May for about a week and half and while there I randomly had the idea to make an Alice inspired layout. After many days of messing in photoshop with the illustrations and many weeks coding I am finished! I may still tweak some of the colors here and there (I can’t seem to get the annoying blue border around the thumbnails in the sidebar to go away), but other than I am very pleased with it I loved my last layout but it’s Summer time and I want something bright and happy. And I love Alice in Wonderland so it fits (I still need to see the new one by Tim Burton!).

Also notice the spiffy font at the top, an Alice font. I love plugins. Sadly, I have another idea for another layout too … but at the rate it takes me to make and code them it won’t be up for awhile ;) Let me know what you think about the layout and any errors you may see. Also let me know if you saw the new Alice in Wonderland movie, it comes out on DVD Tuesday so I may pick up a copy of it

First off, I deserve a pat on the back for getting the site back up this quickly. I was apparently highly motivated Anyways, new layout! I made the owl originally sometime last year and came across the file and ended up making a night scene with some other animals. Oh top of a new layout I edited a few pages here and there and also added a new section, Artwork. Having my class projects on flickr worked but I wanted it to be more integrated into the site itself, so I was able to accomplish that using Nextgen Gallery :). I am up-to-date on all class work thus far except for a few classes (have to locate the photos I took of them), even with my classes this semester.

In other news, I haven’t been up to much. I recently got promoted at work and I am not a permanent member of the electronics team (even though I’ve been working it for over a year haha), which also means a raise so yay for that. Nothing else is really going on (I am so boring), any thoughts/suggestions on the gallery itself or the layout would be appreciated

HAPPY NEW YEAR <3! I can’t believe it’s 2010 already, nor can I believe I am FINALLY opening the new site! I registered this domain back in May (yeah a while back :x) and was finally motivated over the last week to finish it and decided that opening it on the new year would be nice I’ve edited some pages and added some new stuff as well with the move so everything should be in working order. The only thing I am having problems with is the 404 page and the contact page at the moment, but hopefully I’ll figure those out soon. Do you have any New Year resolutions? Here are mine (one was to get this site open so yay for completing one already!)

• To actually exercise and eat as healthy as possible (and not just every other-other month like I have been doing!)
• To get into the graphic design program at FSU (I apply this upcoming semester!)
• To keep a daily moleskin of random thoughs, doodles, and general babble.
• To learn how to play my acoustic guitar, my goal is to at least learn one full song.

And there’s probably more but at the moment I am drawing a blank Since I last blogged at Blissful.nu (oh how I will miss that domain!) I’ve bought an Xbox 360 which is my current addiction and quit World of Warcraft, again. I am very much addicted to Modern Warfare 2 since a very lovely person got it for me, it’s too much fun for it’s own good I also picked up a copy of Mass Effect at work for only $4.98 (I love clearance). In other news, I have not been up to much. Classes start next week and I wish my break was longer. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

As for Despair.nu – the domain has expired and the coder I originally had to add new features to it has been having internet problems. I have all of the files and databases backed up so hopefully sometime this year I can re-open Despair. Sorry it is taking so long, but hopefully sometime in this new year I’ll be able to reopen that site as well on a new domain I’m excitied to be blogging again, I missed it!