Month: September 2004

I threw up a temp archive page… By temp I mean I took the photoblog layout and changed a few colors and I KNOW IT’S LAZY but I wanted to get myself motivated. It should be fun to watch it grow and change. It’s is going to be my official ‘Learn how to code using CSS for the web nazi’s’ layout. Who know’s how much I’ll break in the process. FUN!

Are you excited yet? :nana:

In other news… Cassidy’s dad is a *insert mean word that can’t be used against me in court here*. You know how we picked her up two months ago at the end of my VOLUNTARILY given time with him? Well yeah, he hasn’t called here a single time to talk to her since then.

She asked to call him the other night and I tell her the same thing every time, ‘You may call him whenever you like. You know the #.’ Usually she says, ‘I’ll call him later’ and then doesn’t mention it again for awhile.

So Saturday she comes to find me and says, ‘Mom, I miss my dad.’ So I say… ‘call him.’ She did and left a message. They called back that evening and she was asking them to come get her so she can visit… he tells her he’s going to come get her for the weekend… and doesn’t ask to talk to me.

Um hello? You are not allowed to pick her up from school. I’ve been VERY specific with the day care instructor that myself, Ben and my mother are the ONLY people allowed to pick Cassidy up from school. And BESIDES, he didn’t think he should coordinate picking her up with me?? So now Cassidy is expecting her dad to pick her up on Friday. I told her last night, ‘Honey, daddy needs to talk to mommy so that mommy knows when he wants to come get you. So don’t get all excited till I’ve talked to him okay?’

She immediatley tries to call… last night at around 5 and leaves a message… and I have not heard anything back yet. So I can just see it now, I’m going to be the bad guy because he doens’t call, doesn’t come to get her..

Blah. Worthless. He better fucking call.

#1 – The photoblog is back up and running. You can check it by clicking the ‘Views’ button up there at the top of the page.

It’s all coded pretty in CSS so it should work NO MATTER WHAT BROWSER YOU HAVE!! I took a layout that I *kinda* liked and tweaked the shit out of it. That’s an understatement really, I pretty much changed everything. But whatever, it works. ON ALL THE BROWSERS!!!

#2 – I’m going to start working on a layout for an archive page. I really want it to fit within the frame of the main layout but I’ve been looking at blogs all over the WWW and it seems like if you have a frame layout, a seperate archive is the way to go. Meh.

I’m sure that will be CROSS BROWSER COMLIANT too. I just want a way for people to be able to view posts via catagory and date.

#3 – Why all the motivation? Well, frnakly I’m sick of the site being half done. I change layouts like I change underware (maybe even more :screwy:) and I’m tired of ‘coming soon’ signs and things being half done. I need to STICK with a layout already and work on content. The thing is, the way everything is coded now, I’ve made changing layouts really easy on myself because I use Edit Plus to do a Find->Replace All and BAM! Everything is ready to go.

#4 – I’ve set a date to come up with a name for a new domain. By the end of September, the name just HAS to be registered. Then I can just transfer everything over to it, put a nice little temproray redirect up and kick the name Stacy out of my life FOR F-IN GOOD. (Othen than the princess of course, but that’s a given). I just HAVE to get rid of this domain name. I hate it. It’s like an Albatross I just can’t get away from.

#5 – Anybody who suggests a name that I like and end up using will get some kind of special prize.. I don’t know what yet. But something cool. I just have total thought blockage when it comes to trying to figure out what I want myself to be ‘know as’ for what should be a very long time.

HELP!!!!

I added a new catagory: Conversations with Cassidy. Not that you can search by catagory… because I don’t have them listed anywhere. That will change soon. Anyway, this is a pretty self explanatory catagory. Most of the conversations are between Ben and Cassidy because when the two of them start… it’s just classic.

And here we go!!

Last night in the car on the way home from the grocery store:
Me: *as we pull a ‘Ben’ around a left turn* Oh Lord.
Ben and Cassidy: *chuckle*
Me: We have bread AND 2 litre’s in the back. The bread needs to make it home alive for Cassidy’s lunches.
Ben: She can have Pepsi sandwiches.
Me: *blank stare*
Cassidy: Good one Ben!
Me: OH… LORD!!!

Fist rain of the season. I love the rain. Well, I love it when it rains for ONE day, MAYBE two at a time.

Last year we had a rainy season that lasted for about two months… where it didn’t rain for a total of two days. That was a bit hard to take for this Bakersfield native who was used to seeing rain for 10 days out of the whole YEAR. Ben on the other hand, absolutley thrives in that rainy weather. He grew up in Washington where overcast sky’s and rain were normal all year round.

Anyway, it’s raining now and it sounds and smells lovely. 🙂 I’m off to take a long hot bath becuase nothing is better on a cold rainy day than a long hot soak in the tub while listening to the drops hit the roof.

Hit F5. Because it’s fun. 😉

Need to get the comments redone. I’ll get that done tonight.

Also working on a new layout for the photo blog so that should be done in the next day or two. 🙂

I have become slightly obsssed with makeup lately. Experimenting with different color eye shadows, lipsticks… I’m also obsessed with shiney, glossy lips. The lips must be glossy at all times. Even if I have NO OTHER makeup on.

So vain, I’m going straight to hell.

P.S. – This is the best lipgloss in the WORLD!!! I have it on all the time. Clear in that pic up there but I also have red and pink. It’s aswome color that lasts quite awhile and is SOOOOO GLOSSY!

I guess the celebration started on Wednesday because that’s when my mom got to town. This is probably going to be the second longest post ever but I’ll start there…

Wednesday: Mom and Cameron arrive at about 6:30. We ate at Pasand because… well, whatever excuse I can use to get to Pasand will be taken. 😉

Thrusday: Mom had an interview that went really well. We ate that night at the philly cheesteak/grlic fry place I can never remember the name of. I think everybody in the city of San Jose could smell the garlic stench that escaped our house that night. 😳

Friday: Mom had another interview at a place farther away. Went well but more work than she’s wanting to do. One of the reasons to move it to find a place she can work LESS. Not the same amount of time FARTHER away!

When I picked up Cassidy from school the VERY first thing she said to me was, ‘Have you been home to see your surprise yet?!?!?’ SURPRISE?!?! I think I ran a red light on the way to the house. 😉 When I got there I walked in and the living room had balloons and streamers hanging up and there was a card from Ben and from Cassidy on the table. Ben had taken my mom with him to get the decorations and then went back to work and my mom and Cameron got them all hung up. They are still up actually but they are not going across the room, just hanging from the walls. I jsut CAN’T TAKE THEM DOWN!!! I will this weekend.

(This pic was taken AFTER dinner. That’s why we all look so full and lazy and fat!)

My mom and I went shopping that afternoon and she bought me the MOST GORGEOUS strappless, classic ‘little black dress’ and sexy black heals for my ‘surprise’ on Saturday. Ben just told me to get something dressy. God I love him for giving me an excuse to shop.

I opened my card with the cash and the ‘rules’ stating I had to spend all the money on clothes by the end of the weekend. Such HARD rules!!! 😛

Then we went to Franky Johnny and Luigi’s Too for some fabulous Italian food. 🙂 We never even got to cake. We were so full that we decided to put it off till the next day.

Saturday: My mom and I got up and shopped, shopped, shopped. I got some jewelry for the evenings fun and a few other things. I’m going to hold off on all the shopping spoils for another post. I’m in the process of taking pics of everything. 🙂

I came home with just enough time to get in the shower and get ready for the surprise. I could kick myself in the ass for not having my mom snap pictures of Ben and I all dressed up. He looked.. hot. Dress pants and shirt, tie, leather jacket. Hot. I think I looked pretty damn good myself!

So… he took me to Bella Vista. We sat at the table to the left in the first picture there where the three people are sitting and ate dinner looking at the view you see in the third picture. We had a nice bottle of red wine, praws for an appetizer, petite filet and the biggest lobster tail I’ve ever had at a restaurant… and Godiva chocolate souffle for dinner. It was delicious, romantic, beautiful… It was better than I had dreamed all week long it was going to be. And I had BIG dreams. In a word, it was ‘perfect’.

Sunday: We got up and FINALLY ate CAKE!!!!! I was going to take picture of it with ‘Happy Birthday Anna’ but after three days of drooling over it I cut right in!!! Good lord it was good.

My mom and I went and looked a apartements for her. Well, we looked at one. And it was the PERFECT one for her. She put a deposit to hold it right then. That too shall be in an0ther post. Location and all that good stuff will be posted about very soon since she’s decided on the job she is taking.

After that we all went and grabbed some Quizno’s and they were on the way back to Bakersfield. I went to spend the rest of my money and came home and CRASHED. I was absolutley BEAT.

It the best weekend EVER. Ben was… Ben? He made me feel like an absolute princess. I could never thank him enough. My mom and Cameron being here was just icing on the cake.

And that’s it. I’m bushed and heading to bed. I have lots of stuff to talk about and will get to all of that tomorrow night. Night all!

I need to post.
I need to post all about my birthday and how I have the best boyfriend ever who not only let me blow money on clothes but who also took me to a dinner overlooking the entire valley and got a bottle of wine and we had steak and lobster and GODIVA CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE (like the real souffle that you order with dinner because it takes 45 minutes to cook and tastes like HEAVEN ON A PLATE) and decorated the living room with balloons and streamers (with a mother and annoying little bothers help) and brought home a sinful Mocha cake from The Prolific Oven (which, BTW I won’t make fun of any more just because it’s call The PROLIFIC Oven) and pictures will come with all this information I swear.

*deep breath*

Aren’t run-on sentences fun? *crosses fingers* I’ll make an actual post tonight I swear.

Thanks guys for the birthday wishes!!! I’ll post some pictures of tonight tomorrow when I can move again! I’m soooo full.

Ben is taking me out tomorrow night but won’t tell me where. He just told me to dress fancy. So my mom bought me a new dress at Saks 5th Avenue and a new pair of really strappy sexy shoes to wear.

Ben also gave me $300 to go buy myself some new clothes… So my mom and I are hitting up IKEA tomorrow because she’s never been and then we are heading to the Great Mall. I’ve been given specific instructions to spend the whole $300 on clothes by the end of the weekend.

I have the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER. :hello2:

Well, it happened. 6.5 hours ago I aged a year. The world actually kept turning. The stars did not fall from the sky. I didn’t turn instantly into stone and dust and fly away in the wind.* I’m 26.

Now, send me presents! 😉

(*I need to stop watching vampire movies before bed).