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I think I may have found a template that I can use to remake my website.  It's simple, clean and artistic - and it has minimal flash.  It's shocking how few website templates seem to be designed for a variety of personal content.  There are lots and lots of page designs for photo/art portfolios and plenty that are designed for blog content (and then there are your average business-style sites).  But very few combine the two and allow for something that isn't just a general overview of the hobbies of the site owner.

Any template I use will have to be altered.  Hopefully, I can keep the alterations to a minimum - I prefer to not have to learn a lot of coding and do a lot of graphic-work to get what I need.

Ideally, I would like to hire someone to design a custom site just for me, but that is a lot of money that I don't have to spend on something like that right now.  Maybe after I've completed my photography courses and have a business to advertise.

I think I am going to integrate my wordpress blog into the site.  I am going to keep the articles, book reviews and the sabbat celebration sections.  I might get rid of the BOS section, though.  I'm not as into the educating the newbie masses as I used to be.  I don't mind sharing my opinions and the outer trappings of my practise, but a lot of the rest has become something that is not really for public consumption.  I'm not really looking to create a tradition or gathering followers.

Along with the new look, I think I'll need a new name for the site.  'Into the Land of the Phae' is kind of fun and kind of whimiscal, but I think it's also indicitive of a much younger me.  The new site is going to be more visual, more modern, more reflective of where I'm at now in my life.  I think I need a title that will reflect that - something shorter, sleeker - something memorable. 

Anyway, that is the plan as it stands now.  How fast it comes together depends on how calm life decides to be for the next while.  Hopefully, the snow of last week is the last we will see this year.  It was up to about 10C today and sunny.  It was great!  I didn't realize how bad the cabin fever was until I was actually outside and running around. 

Yay for spring!

-PT

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That is all.

--Phae

Ok, so website update is mostly done. I am currently working on the new additions to the BoS. I have to write up my Apple visualisation (I'll be putting it up for the C&P crowd before I put it up on the site), and I think I want to write an article as well ... maybe about tools or about the symbolism of the apple.

I worked on Jet's Lessons a bit today, too. Luckily, that I am finding that a lot of my list can be compiled under  larger headings, so I should only have about three or four left. I am gonna take on the hard one later this week (or next weekend).

The weather was gorgeous on Saturday ... kind of cloudy and cold yesterday, and back to gorgeous again this afternoon. I am betting it will be beautiful all the rest of the week because I have to be inside

I have discovered what might be causing my plants to be dying off this year. Apparently, you aren't supposed to water your plants with tap water anymore because of anti-bacterial agents which kill all the bacteria in the soil. So, that sucks hard. I am gonna pick up some plant food in the hopes that I haven't done too much damage to them.

That is about all for now. Tomorrow will be my first day of work out of training. So that is pretty exciting

The pink hair thing didn't work very well.  It ended up looking a bit like paste, so I am now on the look out for pink permanent dye so that I can put in real streaks.  I will not be thwarted!  LOL  Surprisingly enough, pink isn't all that easy to find.  Red, purple, orange are everywhere, but pink - no so much.

I still have a packet of blond dye.  I think I am going to put in light highlights in the mean time while I search the city for the pink.  Now that I think about it, I figure I probably should start working on the outline of my 'Glamour' article.  And maybe write up an update on my self-image spell (and maybe a plan to renew/recharge it).

That is about all that is on my mind right now.  It has been a very lazy day for me.  The days are starting to have that feeling of summer vacation.  I miss that.  Time to visit the farm markets and the local wineries.

--Phae

Well, sort of.  Take a look --->

http://members.shaw.ca/alcros/ind.html

--Phae

I slept in late today!  Well, late for me (which was about 11am).  Then no coffee, so that kind of sucks.  I hope my postings in PC were at least a little bit coherant.  I think that the eight hour days have finally caught up with me.  I think it is something that will just take a bit of getting used to.

My grandmother is coming to visit (well, I guess they are already here, but I won't see them until Saturday).  She is really excited about me having a new job.  She is always saying how I need to be working in someplace that lets me be creative.  Which isn't something I really get at New Job, yet.  I am sure that there are other things that I could move into that would let me do some interesting stuff.  And I have (in the new slang of WD) a 'metric buttload' of hobbies.

I am going to get back to writing on my breaks and at lunch.  Visitng and chatting with folks is fun, but I am starting to feel like I have been neglecting everything.  I am also going to start taking a book to read so that if I don't feel like writing, I at least have something to do other than play online poker (which is great, but gets a little boring after a while ... I am *so* not an addicitive personality - LOL).

Last night we learned about the most boring tool we will ever use.  One that is left over from the very beginning of the company.  It is a DOS program that prints out huge text file reports (and when I say huge, I am talking about the smallest scrollbar that windows will give you).  Holy crap, is that ever an eyestrain!  I really hope to never be in a position where I need to do that very frequently.

As I type this, I just got another email through my website *cringe*.  I guess I should go and answer the ones I have been putting off forever.  Anyway, still loving the job ... still very confident and thrilled that I will be doing something that is a little more mentally stimulating.  It gets old when you are basically just a face for people to yell at.

--Phae