It’s pretty, but not exactly everything I wished for, you know? Sometimes the image in my head doesn’t match the drawing on the picture.

Anywho, I realized that one thing that websites are supposed to do is increase the length of time one person is on it for a while. How is a personal website supposed to do that? I’m not going to offer games, contests, or giveaways. That’s not my style and I’ve heard from other webmasters that giveaways aren’t as helpful to increasing readership. It causes a spike then disappears again. Moot. That’s what it is.

Back to the question: how do I not jump the shark? I can’t do things like hype other people, mostly because I have no writer friends (*hint* let’s be friends! *hint*). I would have a link page if a) I would admit that most are Disney links and b) I give away where some of my writing inspiration comes from. Yes, I’ll add more photos, but the problem lies in the fact that I actually have to reduce the size of the photos and it’s a bitch I tell you.

I used to have a bookmark tab of other writers/journalists/mothers with computers that I really liked and mysteriously all of them disappeared. I will check my main computer (I’m situated in my backyard between two large citronella candles trying to keep every bug away from me) later on. Anywho, their pages were a combination of concise and yet I wandered their page for a good 15 minutes. Here? Not so much. I can go through it in five, but mostly because it’s actually very content thin.

I get it: I’ll work on this page. I guess it’s an ever evolving thing.

So now, Feedburner should be taking care of my problems with RSS. Maybe I can finally get past that one subscriber and have…dare I say… two?

(Click on that Continue Reading for a picture of Sailor Moon and a dumb story)

I remember days when I ran my little rinky-dinky Tripod website. I didn’t even know that Tripod still existed. Doing a quick Google search, I found the not-so original address. I say, “not-so” because I did try to move the site and the “new” address doesn’t work anymore. I remember the original website was basically an HTML table, the links on the left and content on the right. Back then the biggest problem that I had was that I sucked at HTML. I also thought that a lot of unnecessary crap was cool. Animated Gifs, MIDI files, long loading photos graced each and every page.

Hello! Apparently my username still works...and I can access it

I just logged in and looked at the mess. Everything isn’t in folders, the files are just all out like dirty laundry. It looked like a ten year old made it. Then I looked at the year I placed on the website. 1998. Oh crap. It was when I was eleven. Wow, the internet is a funny thing isn’t it?

I’m thankful that I grew up and gained some taste. Granted, I used to have cool designs and stuff (well I thought I did) on Blogger. I turned making a crappy html website, to learning Photoshop and what colors matched each other. Luckily for me, I have a color-chart/thing that my old roommate Alex made for one of his classes. He didn’t need/want it afterwards and I decided to take it. It sits in my office and whenever I need to color match, whether it be HTML or scrapbooking, it’s behind me.

My how much the internet has changed after eleven years.

Anywho, today was one of those days where I felt like I kept doing several thousand things and yet time didn’t pass me. It’s odd, I haven’t had that feeling in such a long time. I got almost everything done today (even fixing this website!). I’m going to continue checking things off of the To Do list.

I love those weekends.

It’s a little sad. Since Eric lost his job, he’s been in this weird rut that I can’t help with. I don’t really have anything positive left to say; that and I tend to have a degree of indifference to things. (It’s called being slightly narcissistic) The big problem with it is the fact that he’s starting to depress me. I don’t think he’s gone out of the area of my house for the past week. He’s gained bad sleeping hours, he’s too tired and lazy to go outside. Yesterday I went shopping (I bought Animal Crossing for the Wii), the day before I had to go to the bank and run errands and with both cases Eric was a no show. Today I went on my morning walk. I don’t exactly know why Eric was awake (bad sleeping habits), but he didn’t want to go. I will admit that the weather was beautiful, albeit the snow hasn’t fully melted and it was mostly ice when I was walking.

Getting to the point, Eric’s mood is getting me in this weird mood. As a writer, I have the time to sit and type for several websites. I can’t focus because he’s around. I tip-toe around, run errands for him, and cook meals that I don’t normally have to. To make it worse, I haven’t gotten those damn responses from several websites and it’s making me doubt myself. Even with the smart promo work that the SimAnimals Soundtrack is having, I can’t even bask in the coolness of having my name on a Wikipedia page. (Link)

I need to go back to morning walks, they help me a lot. With the weather getting better (and groundhogs biting mayors), my mood should be as well. I’m hoping the year of the Ox will help me out as well. I mean if the stars align well, I’m good with that. Eric also has to go home this week because one of his family cars has decided to have their transmission die on them.

Soon everything will iron out for me. I’ll get my weekly updates back on track. I hope…