Rogue Idea

Finally free from what? MY OLD BROKEN PIECE OF CRAP CELL PHONE!!! Today I went out with my dad and basically my whole family bought new cell phones, lol. Anyways, my old one was in like ten pieces and it never worked or anything. So I’m really glad I got a new phone, its a LG VX8300, not that I know or care what that means. But its pretty new hopefully it won’t be like when I got my old phone and then two days later the entire world had the same damn thing.

Today I did my second lab practical exam and I think I did really bad on it. So yeah I NEED to do good on the next two exams which is this coming wednesday and thursday. theres so many tests I don’t even know what test is when anymore, I just assume theres a test everyday, lol.

Well besides that, I think later tonight I will work on my project again, I’m still at the menu thing, trying to make it display two different menus depending on whether or not the person is logged into their account and has access. The good thing is I got it to display the menu based on the stuff in the database, which is good. Now I just have to add even more stuff to checking if people are logged in or not. The whole log in and out thing is a pain in the butt.

Also I finally got done cleaning my messy room up. But later I gotta put up all my laundry. I am planning to spend some money on clothes soon (So hopefully I get some income from the job later this week) so I can buy some new clothes. I mostly need some basic stuff like new undies and bras, some gym/work out clothes, more khaki pants, maybe a pair of jeans or two, and some nice shirts/tank tops. Oh and some new shoes. Okay fine I need a whole lot. But yeah I am tired of looking the same always and want a whole new wardrobe, I know this will take some time (mostly cause of the money issue) but I really wanna get some nicer clothes to wear around instead of just t-shirts and jeans with tennis shoes. Plus not all of my t-shirts are very summer friendly cause theyre made of heavy cotton or just material thats thick. I need some like skimpy clothes for when its hott. Yeah I used to like avoid wearing shorts to school and stuff cause my ass would be showing but seeing how hott it is I really could care less now. Anyways so that is the plan so far. Hopefully I will be called into work this weekend. I told Linda to come and help me out to pick out some clothes since I don’t really know what the hell I’m doing. I need someone to come with me though to help me pick out stuff and give me some opinions.

Okay well today I need to put up my laundry, work on my project, and print out some stuff for class and study for my tests coming up. Also gotta vacuum the stairs and my room and schedule some stuff in my planner too. Okay the planner part is just because i’m obsessed with it cause it makes me wet! =) I think I’ll post some pictures of it later. I love my planner. Without it I can easily remember all the tasks I have to do everyday but I just love it so much and I like to keep it so I can be organized.

awwww…my poor blog. I know i’ve been neglecting you *kisses* but I promise I’ll get better! Well lately I haven’t been up to much…except a WHOLE LOT!

Well first like i said before the second summer session started. i did really bad on my first two tests and my third one is tomorrow so i have to do really good and i will be studying all day today. Also have a test on monday but i will be studying for that on friday morning when i go to school there. right now i just showered and i feel good with the windows open and listening to a cd i burned last night. just old songs compiled that i havent listened to in a while and some new ones too. i guess sometimes it just feels good to slow down for a second and have some music on. sometimes it feels like i’m moving along and doing so many things at my desk i dont even remember what the hell i’m working so hard for.

but anyways besides finally meeting up with some old friends lately i have also met a few new ones in a very…different way that i usually meet friends. anyways it really is just from my lapse of judgement one night and now i’ve meet a few more people cause of it. and no they are not freakos. I guess most of the time i meet people on my own (meaning i meet them instead of being introduced to them) its just chance that i happened to feel extra social or something those days. sometimes it works out and sometimes i wish i had never opened my mouth, lol.

Also I FINALLY got a job. Well…it is a job but then it’s not really something i would wanna tell everyone about. So i think ill just keep it discreet. =) anyways the pay is great. and so i’ll be able to definantly work with this for a while and hopefully it lasts for a while too because its part time right now but i hope itll get busier so i go into work more and get some more money in so i can reduce my debt by quite a bit. lets just say its an interesting job all in all and i will probably pick up some interesting stuff from it after a while. its kind of an outcall sort of thing though so i never really know when ill be working until a few days before or maybe even the day of. mostly right now i will be working on the weekends but once school starts i can take get in more clients cause ill be free monday wednesday and friday mornings. well i had a client last weekend and i already spoiled myself by spending some of the money on buying the sims 2 expansion. but i have been playing and its so addictive! i played for like 3 hours yesterday lol.

well once i get some more cash inflow i will be buying some new clothes cause i want some. I havent shopped for myself ever and i kind of want to buy some new clothes so i dont always look like a slob. even though i dont really care, lol. but yeah i need like stuff like shorts and some gym wear so i can go work out this semester at the gym. also wanna pick up some new lingerie and maybe some comfy pj’s and stuff to wear at home. and then of course some new khaki’s and some jeans and shorts to wear. i dont want an entirely new look, but my clothes are really starrting to wear out so i need some new ones.

Okay well about my little project, it will of course be finished way late now since i got a new job and need more time studying (and playing sims2 lol). but i am still working on it so i will keep that updated in here later this weekend probably.

Well obviously I haven’t been following my schedule (or else I would’ve been posting here more regularly). I did really bad on my biology tests so far so yeah i need to spend more time studying for that so things around here will be pushed back a little bit but not too much. these past few days have been a little bit crazy for me ( a lot of weird things have happened) so once my life gets settled back into being normal then i will be able to be productive again. =)

One thing I’m having to deal with everyday is the fact that I keep coming up with more and more things I want to add to this whole thing. More things means more time spent on coding! Of course I’ve spent a lot of time already but the last thing I really needed was extra things to add to the long list of things to do. Well the good thing is I’ve finally decided how I want my menu to look like.

I think a big drawback is that I have ..weird taste. And so I guess sometimes my website looks good to me and sometimes it looks really horrible. I’ve already gone through 4 different layouts and like 100 different logo ideas and I like the one I’m sticking with right now the most so far. But I’m going focus on getting the site to work 100% before spending more time on making it look better. Right now its pretty plain. I don’t want it to look all fancy but I do want it to look somewhat pleasing to the eye. But for now i’m leaving it the way that i last decided I wanted it to look so I can keep working on getting the site to work the way i want it to.

Well tomorrow I have school starting again sooooo that means less time to work on this. Okay well that’s all for now.

Okay so last week is obviously over by now and I finished my CMS just in time. Thankfully I’m starting to get the hang of using php and mysql together so things were getting easier towards the end. I did end up having to add one more thing to it but it wasn’t all that bad so it only took me an extra hour or so. So there now i have my CMS that does FOUR whole things!! Next thing to do is this week I need to finish my template up. Right now thinking of how I want my menu to be. I’m thinking I’ll just go with putting it all out there instead of a expanding tree thing or like a pop up menu. It’s not really that much stuff, I mean there are 5 categories and 15 subcategories so thats really only either 15 or 20 Links. I sort of wanted a tree menu before because I had the content more spread out , which would bring me to a LOT more links than that and I didn’t want it all to be all over the place.

So now that I have that decided how the menu will be I’m trying to think of what I want it to be like. Should I have it in outline form? Or should I have it in just horizontal bar image links? Orrrrrrrrr…I don’t know. Anyways that is my task today to figure out and put up a menu system! I realized that I could do this later, but I feel like I want to do it now because how am I going to test my website without being able to try to navigate through it?? Huh I used the word navigate…thats weird.

Every once in a while I actually leave my room to watch t.v. outside (instead of playing FRIENDS reruns in here on the dvd) and I realize what a terrible world it is out there. People are so self absorbed and all the reality t.v. shows are just playing on this to make loads of money. So I’m watching t.v. and there is nothing really good on except stupid pointless shows anymore.

Now a days it seems like everything is being ‘made over’- houses, rooms, faces, boobs, etc. I’m wonder what kind of idiot would sign up for some of these shows. I have to admit that I sometimes like to watch the house make overs because I like watching them redo houses and make them all pretty. But the whole we can make you look like a celebrity, let us make you pretty shows are just stupid. For example, there used be this show “the Swan” basically all these ugly people audition/apply to be on it, and then the ugliest ones get picked, they get made up and all these surgeries and then they compete in this contest to be “the Swan”. First of all, does this mean that the ones who don’t win are still ugly ducklings? Yes, most of the time the person doesn’t even look all that much different except maybe they finally got their teeth whitened and new glasses after 40 years. Second of all, they all don’t look that great afterwards anyways and usually they look VERY fake. If tomorrow I came out of my room with a perfect even tan I’m pretty sure no one is going to believe me that I tanned out at the beach. Same thing with this situation I think, you can’t go from green to red without it making a ugly color here and there somewhere hinting that its fake.

And the MOST rediculous thing is I just want to ask these people is it really worth the 10 minutes of “fame” to go through all this so you can be exploited and then have 30 minutes of shame that more people will remember you for anyways?? If someone is missing an eye I’m sure they have been planning to find some way to make themselves look more normal to stop people from staring. I totally understand those kinds of things. I do NOT understand a perfectly normal person sending in an application saying “Hi, I’m not pretty enough to be a model; But I think that I’m ugly enough for you to make money off of in exchange for making me look like a idiot on t.v. and then later look like I came out of a whore store. Please pick me, I’m as ugly as they get!” Not only is it the make over shows but also other stupid shows too like those reality ‘life’ shows where they just put a bunch of idiots together and watches to see what happens. No one really remembers those people unless its for something bad. So what if they’re good looking? Next seasons they’ll have someone else play the ‘Hot Couple’ and no one will give a damn what happened to the old people.

*sigh* I guess I’m just tired of people being so shallow to the point where they would do dumb things like this just to get a surgery on themselves, be on tv for 10 minutes or make a little bit of money. Its like no one has self respect for themselves anymore!

On another note I don’t have to go to school tomorrow because I got exempted from the final exam since I have an A. Don’t know what grade exactly but I guess I’ll just figure it out later. Anyways to celebrate I made myself a picture of an A (sort of).

So the other day I’m sitting online (of course) and I start thinking about where I should put my website that I’m working on. Obviously having it on the web makes it susceptible to ‘dangers’ online like people stealing my ideas (okay I admit its not that great of an idea, but still). Then I’m thinking that I could put it on the domain that it’ll end up being on so then it’ll be less hassle getting it all over there later. Well after talking to John and realizing that most people don’t do this then I go check out this XAMPP thing that I saw being mentioned online before. And finally it all clicks together!! All the sudden I realize how those people putting their errors and examples up always have their stuff at “http://localhost/…” and it makes complete sense cause then all your code and files are offline and you don’t put it out into the internet until its all done!

So then I try to download it and I’m thinking 32 Mb for an installer I guess I can wait. Then it kept getting stuck and I couldn’t make it start off where it cut me offline. After one zillion million hours of trying to download this damned thing I finally have all 32 Mb of it and install it. Of course after installing it I realize I have NO idea how to use it. And apparently there are no tutorials or help things on their site, just lots of documentation about what they put it in it; basically stuff that I don’t really care about right now. It took me a few hours to figure out how to put in my backup of my mysql database into the thing and by the time I found out, I already redid the entire thing manually. Then it took me another few hours to find out where to put the files that I wanted to show up on my new little server that I downloaded.

I felt like I was trying to learn fireworks again - I search and search and search online but theres no help anywhere!

Well I finally got it all completely set up yesterday and also organized all my files again since I had to move all my things around a little bit. And now, I will go eat ice cream.

Well since I’ve gotten my template done for the site already and set up the database structure I’ve started working on my cms so I can add content and manage users of my website. What I really hate about this kind of thing is that I usually get the idea pretty well and then its always one tiny thing that messes it all up. Anyways after a small syntax error was fixed last night I finally got my cms to be able to let me view unverified users, and then pick which ones I want to verify and verify them. There is really only three things that my cms will do in the end and thats verify users, add content, and edit content. so today I’ll work on the 2nd one which is making it add content into the database. So far my cms looks like this :

This is usually how most of my websites look like when I’m working on them. This is how my template looks like too. Except that one is even worse because there are three boxes on the right column and all of the boxes on the page are different random colors. When I make the css I usually just make up a random 6 digit code for the colors so it turns out that way. This time though I decided to make it all one color (since the template/layout was much easier, I knew everything would be in its place so I didn’t have to test it). At first I was like ewwww mango color. But now I think I kinda like it =) So thats what my cms looks like its just one box with the links on the left, one in the middle with stuff going on and one on the right that says login or welcome.
While im working on my cms all these ideas keep coming to me for other websites so I just jot them down and then hopefully I can finish this one and if its okay then I’ll move on to doing other things. But for now all my focus is on this (yeah sounds like I’m doing something big but actually its just a medium project and im a beginner, hehe). i’m kind of suprised that I got this far because this is the furthest I’ve ever been with doing an ‘online’ project having to do with websites. I mean I had my Britney Spears website before but that was…4 or 5 years ago now and I don’t even remember the url so I’ll just forget about that. So I am determined to finish this no matter what! AND S want to finish this before school starts again. Since I realize I am in a little bit of a time crunch (okay a month and a half seems like a long time but with other things going on that S want to do S still need some time management) S made sort of a schedule with some mini deadlines to go by:

• End of this week : Finish CMS (July 8th)
• End of next week: finish template (the structure is done but I need to put in php to pull correct content in on each page), write and put up public content July 15
• July 16-August 7 : put up all content
• August 7- August 20 : Finish tweaking things and adding last things of content.
• August 21st: finish tweaking things and making sure maintenance of site will be smooth.
• August 22nd: celebrate by letting myself buy nice school supplies for the fall semester.

Now the content will take a long time because I have to organize it and make it all sound good and what not. But for the most part I know what I’m going to write I just need to organize it right and add things here and there to it. My goal is to be ahead of the schedule so I can give myself some time incase something crazy happens or incase I have to study for my class a few days or something. Okay well thats all for now. Today I vacuumed the house cause my mom insisted even though I vacuum like every two days. Tomorrow we’re having my family over for July 4th so that means good food to look foward too!

This is my all time favorite ‘doctor’ joke and its from FRIENDS. Basically the character Phoebe is trying to get pregnant and is asking all these questions and the doctor always says they don’t know, and then she says “Wow. You guys really don’t know anything.” Okay fine maybe its not a ‘joke’ but it still cracks me up everytime.

Well i am finally done making my site template and login system after a long time of wondering whats wrong with it.Â? then i was going to start working on my little cms thing but i realized i couldnt add any content through it because i didnt have my database set up.Â? so friday night i made my databases and yesterday i finished planning them out and i made a ‘hard copy’ on paper so i dont have to log into phpmyadmin everytime i dont remember what a column was named or something.Â? okay so today i’m going to make my little cms finally and hopefully things will go somewhat more smoothly than my previous steps.

besides that i’m not really doing much else today.Â? yesterday i finally called into chase bank and did my balance transfer so now i dont have to worry about that. well i still do because i need to check to see if it goes through, the guy said it will take 3 to 5 days though.Â? at least i was able to do it last night at around 6 cause they are answering phones 24/7 which is good.Â? oh yeah and i guess i should study for my test tomorrow that i shouldve had last wednesday already.Â? its a good thing we dont have our lab practical until this wednesday though because i still need to look ata few more things which i’ll do tomorrow in class.Â? ohh and today i’m supposed to like clean up and stuff for guests coming over on tuesday but i think i’ll just do that tomorrow. plus theres nothing to clean everything is already clean cause i do this like every 3 days already.Â? well thats all that i can think of that i’ll do today so i guess ill get started now