Goes Around in Circles

I seriously meant to change the theme to something different, but I cannot seem to break away from this particular theme. I absolutely love everything about it, and I am more of a writer than a designer…so I personally feel that the theme/design is secondary to whatever else may be found on the site. I know that there may be some disagreement to this but I haven’t truly been in the mood to work on any of the content…and I am seriously debating turning this into just a blog site. However, I know that I need something to bring in visitors or I have to do some serious blog hopping on a regular basis. I keep going around in circles when it comes to this matter. It is really bothering me, because I am not very good at graphics but that seems to be what the visitors want?!

I am going to stop stressing over this, because it is almost eight o’clock in the morning and I haven’t gotten to bed yet. My insomnia seems to be getting worse, although I thought that I had it made since I went to bed at 9:30 last night…and woke up at 1:00 this morning. I am beginning to think that the only way to solve this problem is to force myself to stay awake until a decent time to go to bed or try to sleep until I am no longer tired. I honestly don’t know what to do…and I am totally open to suggestions.

In other news, I will be posting my Christmas presents post as soon as I receive my final present, which will hopefully be in the next week or two. There has been a slight delay, and I will probably post another entry later on today, as I am going to try and get some sleep. *crosses fingers* Also, I will try to get the sidebar straightened back up sometime today – so if we are affiliates, don’t delete me…I will have your link back up ASAP.

 

Lost All Control

Mood:

Please don’t shoot me…I know that I said I would post photos of all my lovely Christmas presents in my next entry and I am going to definitely do this. However, I have yet to receive one of them – there has been a bit of a delay in the monetary department. ¹ I am hoping that he will hear something in the coming week or two, and that I can have it sometime in February. I have a question for you, if you could get a laptop right now – without having to pay anything and you cannot get a Mac ² – what would you get? I am leaning towards getting a Sony Vaio E-Series Laptop in Pink. You can view pictures and everything of it by going here. There is a Mac on sale on CraigsList for $1799 – the exact title says Apple MacBook Pro, 15 ”, Core i5 Processor, with Adobe CS5 installed!. Sadly, it is a bit out of my budget at the current time – but I may be getting a job soon. *fingers crossed* Oh, boy…this paragraph has bounced from topic to topic, and I am extremely sorry about that.

But I have reached a decision about what to do regarding my replying to comments – comments will be answered here on Bemusedly unless a direct question is asked, and then I’ll send an e-mail to the person. I would like to thank everyone who provided input on this issue. It really helps me to know how others deal with certain website/blogging issues. It was also refreshing to know that others have the same problem that I do about making themselves understood. As Karin said in her comment on the previous post,  I think everyone who has an active online presence have the same problems with expressing themselves. Body language and tone of voice IS a huge part of how humans communicate, and on top of that is all kinds of cultural differences and customs. It is amazing how different gestures mean different things in various parts of the world – for example, in Muslim countries it is considered a terrible insult to shake hands with your left hand. What if you’re left-handed? You can view the Top 10 Rude Gestures Around the World for yourself.

Since it seems that I am on the topic of being rude, what are some of the things that you consider to be rude personally? I am personally annoyed when you ask someone a question, and they don’t answer it. Or when you ask someone how they did a specific thing on their website, and they tell you to Google it. If I am asking you how you did something, I have already done that and Google has popped up with over a zillion pages. ³

In site news, I have changed my emoticons to lovely mouse ones that I found on DeviantArt and I am in the process of changing the Mood ones as well. You will also notice that I have removed everything but the Mood from the beginning of the entry. My reasoning for this is that it usually takes me a day or two to finish posting an entry – I have the tendency to write them out first and add stuff to them as I go. Therefore, I am usually, if not always, finished with whatever book that I mentioned reading, food that I mentioned eating, etc. I originally started listing all of this – because I thought that it would help me to stay in the moment when writing blogs. Sadly, it didn’t help.

Now, it is time to end this as I need to do some work on my other projects and I am going to share this video with you – simply because it is stuck in my head for some reason. Plus, I absolutely love TBBT.