My Random Blog

As you can see, if you’ve been here before, I have changed my template. Again. I wanted a little more usable space and some top link buttons. I found the template online and tweaked the shit out of it. God bless Photoshop, y’all. The original template was nice, but didn’t look the way I wanted it to. Now it does.

Anyway- I’m still tweaking here and there, but for the most part, I’m happy with it. Hopefully I’ll remain happy with it because I keep forgetting how wretched fun it is to mess with code.

Brain hurts, it’s super late… I’m going to bed.

Peace and new, shiny templates.

Well, thanks to the suggestions offered by my reviewer at Ask And Ye Shall Receive, I have made some changes to my blog. Mostly it just involves cleaning up my side bar.

I have removed all the unnecessary crap and replaced it all with text links. (All but the Blog Catalog and Blog Rush stuff, obviously.) There’s now an About Me page and a little Award page, as well. I must admit, I prefer things the way they are now. I thought I liked all the images and widgets but, without the clutter, I feel better. Now, my blog looks neat and clean. Not to mention, it loads faster.

I also upgraded WordPress, thanks to the FABULOUS automatic upgrade plugin that (the also fabulous) Gina pointed me to. WAY easier than doing it manually. If you are using WordPress, with your own host, download it here and never have to mess with it, yourself, again. The only thing I had to do was re-activate my other plugins. Yeah- not hard. 

Peace and tidy blogs.

Holy shit. Since that was my immediate response to what follows, there it is.

There is this Web site in the world titled: Ask And Ye Shall Receive. The purpose of this brutally honest, no-holds-barred site is to review blogs that have been submitted by their owners. While the title of the site may not seem very scary- the URL of it gets more to the point: iwillfuckingtearyouapart.blogspot.com.

Back in January, Trouble suggested that I submit my blog to Ask And Ye Shall Receive. I’d never heard of it, so I went over and checked it out. I was immediately terrified and decided that I would NOT, in fact, submit my little blog to being torn apart. However, I loved the reviews, as painful as they were to read. I can’t help but be attracted to people who are honest, smart, and write with a dagger. While I felt bad for the blogs that were “fucking torn apart”, it was hard to not like the manner in which it was done. However, I still wasn’t about to send my blog into that shredder.

Fast forward a couple of months. After a night out with the girls, and many beers, I came home and hopped online. Feeling no pain, and no fear, I submitted my blog to the shredder. Waking up sober the next day, I realized what I had done and have been waiting in anxious trepidation (is that redundant?) ever since.

Today I woke to an email from my reviewer. “You’re so brave,” it read, “I hope you enjoy it!” Deeeeeeeep breath. I, honestly, was dreading reading it. I closed the email. I opened it again. I did that several times before I realized that I was gonna HAVE to read it eventually. So I put my Big Girl panties on and went to my review.

The title of my blog sucks (I already knew that, though), I have too much shit in my side bar (I knew that too) and I could use an About Me page so people who wander in here know who they’re dealing with (I intend to create one). I’m just glad I took my Twitter box out before she got here, or I’m sure she would have tried to stab me in the face. It wasn’t all bad, though. In fact, I was beyond happy with what followed. So happy, in fact, that I didn’t even care that my name was spelled wrong.

You can read my review here: You Can’t See Everyone Naked. And yes, I left a comment.

Peace and fierce women who kick ass.

Sunday night I meant to take it easy but, having barely anything to eat the entire day, that wasn’t successful. I woke up yesterday with wheat beer where my blood used to be and not feeling very spunky. Unfortunately for me, I had to go out and do it all again because it’s almost a crime not to on St. Patrick’s Day.

Oddly enough, it was last night that I ended up taking it easy. With drunk people all around me, I managed to pace myself and keep the shots to a minimum- which isn’t easy when you’re surrounded with friends who don’t know how hammered they are and who keep ordering shots. And while I did consume my share of Dirty Porn Stars (made with X Rated Vodka, citrus vodka and energy drink), by the end of the night, I was drinking water. Gratefully.

Today I’m recovering, trying really hard not to be sick, and blog hopping. Whilst over at Thinking Out Loud, I discovered that I had been given a Blogscar award! Yay me!

So I’d like to thank Natural Woman for bestowing my little blog with her one-of-a-kind award. It may not make my liver feel any less beaten down, but it makes me very happy.

And now, without further adieu… My Blogscar for your viewing pleasure. You may touch it if you wish, but make sure your hands are clean.

Peace, functioning kidneys and Blogscars.

Need to express creativity + the attention span of a caffeinated flea + Photoshop = New header. Hopefully no one thinks it looks like crap.

Peace and goldfish love.

Okay… Spammers have officially pissed me off and I am at the end of my proverbial rope. I’ve tested out several anti-spam plugins, but they weren’t working the way I wanted them to. So now I’m trying the WordPress included “Akismet”. I’ve heard both good and bad things about it, so I guess I’ll see for myself.

Since I am using Akismet, I will stop moderating comments in order to let it work, and do it’s thing. I will still be combing through the comments marked as spam, however- to make sure that nothing gets stuck that shouldn’t be.

If you leave me a comment, and it doesn’t show up, please feel free to shoot me an email and let me know. (corrina [at] myrandomblog [dot] net) I’m hoping this doesn’t suck because I’d really hate to start using CAPTCHA or some other kind of thing that causes my visitors to have to do anything but read, leave a witty comment and pimp their own blogs.

Peace and flaming crotch fleas to spammers.

Two posts in one day. Rare but it happens. I have been visiting the blogs I visit and ran across a little typing test thing on Lady Banana’s Blog. So, naturally I fired up my fingers and tried it out. I think if you have a minute to spare, and you care how fast you type, you should check it out. Here are my results…

Peace and fast typing.