Wednesday, June 21, 2006

stuff and junk

I've been really getting in to CSS code lately. I knew about CSS from my web design class that I took years ago at BYU, but I only ever used it for text presentation and didn't really get it very well. It's only been in the last week or so that I have started learning myself how to do layout with CSS. I've re-designed my website homepage and am working on my classes page, and I'm very excited about it all. I'll be sure and let you know right away when the new version goes live so that you can see what I've been up to. Also, I'm trying to find a new place to host my blog, where I can get more sophisticated with it. I need to talk to Paul about that.

I went to see the new Pixar movie "Cars" last Thursday, and LOVED it!! I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard, let alone at a movie. (Actually, come to think of it, I think the last time I laughed that hard was when Katie came to visit in April.) Erin and I were saying we felt like we had missed half of the movie, because you know that there's so much more going on in each scene than what are you are aware of at any given moment. I will definitely be seeing that again. I just can't emphasize enough how much I love Pixar.

Oh, and Kimberly got a new computer. *sigh!* It's a Mac. *sigh!* Don't get me wrong -- Ladislaw/Percy has been very good to me, and I'm still very happy with him. But he is getting older, and I'm starting to really need more memory than he has, and I'd love more resolution as well. And -- don't tell him this, but I really wanted a Mac in the first place. I won't be affording that for some time still, but for now Kimberly lets me come over and salivate over her new laptop, which hasn't been named yet. (Lest anyone worry, I want to assure you that I don't literally salivate over it -- not only would that be detrimental to the computer, it would also be just plain gross.)

Plans are shaping up for the Shakespearean Festival (lovingly referred to as ShakeFest2006) trip in late July. I'm also seriously considering a short trip to New York City with Katie at the end of August, before going back home to see my family for the annual weekend-before-the-weekend-before-Labor-Day event.

"If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?" (40 points)

3 comments:

elliespen said...

I am probably going to go see Cars this weekend with my little sistahs -- at a drive-in! Glad to hear it's worth seeing. :) (Not that I doubted Pixar but I work with four people of little faith and all their dire predictions started making me a bit nervous.)

What a great song. That's one of the ones I still sing to very loudly in my car. I think back when we were in Provo you used to do it with me too, but it might have been a different song... I just know there was some loud singing and Margo was looking at us pretty funny. Good times.

Anonymous said...

I really love this song and used to sing along at full volume, as well. It's just one of those songs that begs loud, obnoxious, slightly off, car singing. Word to the wise, though: you forgot "then"..."If I go crazy THEN will you still call me Superman." I actually know the lyrics to this song. Let me bask in that knowledge and point out mistakes. It's all I've got and we all know it doesn't happen as often as I'd like! Don't take it away from me!

I'm also very glad that you don't literally salivate over my precious baby. I would have to bar you from internet access if that were the case. I'm thinking of naming the Mac Fabrizio. The network is named Luigi, right? It makes sense that I continue the Italian theme. And Fabrizio is the main male character in The Light in the Piazza, which musical I love.

The end.
Kimberly

Anonymous said...

I also loved Cars. It was a great movie. I was looking for a topic to blog about today, and now you reminded me. Thanks.

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