Last Saturday I went for my daily bike ride. Every day I ride a half a mile on my bicycle. Normally it doesn’t tire me too much, but on Saturday I started later than usual, so I was thrown off. Quite literally thrown off.

I had pulled over onto some gravel to let a car pass by, and when I tried to shift gears, the wheels got stuck in the gravel. I was thrown off my bike, and the bike fell over onto my legs. I sat there on the gravel for a few seconds before collapsing.

When I regained consciousness, I tried to stand up. But I couldn’t. My left foot and ankle couldn’t move. I could barely feel them, but what I could feel was nothing less than agony. I started to panic. My ankle couldn’t be broken. No. That couldn’t happen.

I sat there for a few more minutes, looking at my foot. The outer side of it had swollen to the size of a tennis ball, and the entire thing was blue. I couldn’t move my toes, and I was half a mile from home with no phone and barely any money. In short, I was screwed.

I couldn’t stand and I couldn’t call anybody to have them pick me up. After an hour or so, a car stopped and the driver offered me a ride. I took it, not caring about the “don’t trust strangers” rule. When I arrived back home, I crawled up the stairs and through the front door.

My parents just looked at me. I knew that I wasn’t going to get any cooperation out of them, so I was on my own. I tried to stand. I found that I could hop, but I couldn’t put any pressure on my left foot. I hopped to the bathroom to get an ice pack and a stretchy wrap, and then went to bed.

I stayed in bed for the rest of the weekend. By Tuesday I could walk somewhat, so I went to school with one tennis shoe-d foot and one stretchy-wrapped foot.

Now it is Thursday. I’ve been made fun of numerous times, and I still don’t know exactly what is wrong with my foot. It sucks.

Also, my hostess Renee got a new domain, so I’m there now. See? Hopefully everybody can find me again. I’m not sure how to go about telling everybody.

Recently I guess there’s been some technical difficulties with my server, so the site’s been down. It’s back now, obviously. There’s a new layout too. Can you tell?

A lot of the site is out of date - most of it is from last year! Gotcha, didn’t I? It’s only the 9th of January. I’m good.

I’ve done absolutely nothing over the past few days. I hung out with my duck, watched Family Guy reruns, and repaired my computer. What was that last thing you said, Katie? Repaired your computer?

So basically my sister used my computer to play a game and download stuff. I realize now that allowing her to do this was a huge mistake. Not only did her game eat up major bandwidth, but she downloaded some kind of virus and my computer started crashing randomly. By the time I got rid of the virus, parts of the computer were permanently damaged (or something) and I had to repair it myself. The day I let some 40-something who lives in his mother’s basement fiddle with my computer is the day my duck stops trying to eat me.

I pushed a couple of buttons and everything was fine. Oh, and my computer thinks it’s November 15, 2007. I didn’t think that system restore could do that.

Frick, this was supposed to be ready by new year’s, but I’m lazy and there were technical difficulties that prevented it from being released.

It’s here: New Layout

Does it look okay? Are there any margin problems in different browsers? Let me know and hopefully I can get it up by Tuesday.

I put up a new layout a couple of days ago, only to find that it won’t even load in Firefox. It reverts back to the old one no matter what I do. It’s all good and fine in IE, but not Firefox. I don’t know why this is happening - it’s not an issue with my coding. I think it’s just Wordpress and Firefox working together to make me frustrated.

What I’m going to attempt to do is re-upload the new theme, but under a different name, and see if that works. If not, then I might have to override this theme’s files with the new one’s. This is incredibly frustrating for me, so please bear (bare? I can never remember) with me if the site looks wonky.

(P.S. Join Colourlovers.com. It’s way awesome and fun - I’m learning color theory and getting over my color-blindness! I’m cbpride on there if you want a buddy.)

EDIT: The observant may have noticed that there’s a new layout. Even those who aren’t observant may have noticed. The observant may also have noticed that there’s been some major changes to the navigation and such. Let me know if there’s any issues you have.

Or rather, it is my destiny to depart in a week for Denver, Colorado. In the winter. The Mile-High City in winter. Whose bright idea was that, to make this conference I’m attending in the Mile-High City in winter? Never mind that I’m from one of the warmest places in the country, send me to one of the coldest without so much as a weather forecast.

You know, they couldn’t have made this a week ago. The World Series is going on right now in Denver. Baseball is awesome, but I won’t get there in time to catch it. Shoots.

I’ll be away from the seventh to the twelfth. My birthday is on the twenty-ninth. Buy me stuff.

By that, of course, I mean it’s time for a new layout.

Over the past few days I’ve been working on a new design and I think I’ve finally gotten it working properly. I’d like some opinions before putting it up. So far I’ve only gotten a few opinions and it’s only been viewed in two browsers.

You can view it here: New Layout

Do not click on the navigation links - they won’t lead anywhere but a 404 error because I haven’t got any pages set up over there.

Known issues:

• In IE7, the navigation is positioned slightly higher up than it should be. It cuts slightly into the header, but not enough to make a major difference. This is due to IE constantly mis-rendering positions.
• Comments are not the prettiest things ever. I can’t seem to come up with anything attractive for the comments. If you have any suggestions, please tell me.

I’d like to take this time to thank Nellie for reviewing my site. It’s greatly appreciated, and she had some good suggestions for the site.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Can you name a single animated Disney movie that DOESN’T involve talking animals? I can’t.

I’ve slowly been making changes around the site. I’ve cleaned out stuff I don’t like anymore from the Writing and Art sections. I’ve redesigned the Me index so that you don’t see the list of links but instead the contents of the basics page. I’ve redone the Music page so it’s not as lengthy, and I’ve gotten rid of some old Me subpages so it’s neater now. Go check it out and tell me what you think.

While I’ve gotten work done online, in real life I’ve been so lethargic. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so listless in my life. I haven’t had the energy to do anything except put my head down and fall asleep during a science exam (no wonder I got a C!). I chose a really bad time to be tired - it was exam time. I had four exams in the last two weeks. I completely aced my Civics exam (95 out of 90 points), I almost aced my algebra exam (96 out of 100 points), I did kind of crap on my science exam (78 out of 100 points), and I failed my Hawaiian exam (12 out of 22 points). In October I have my PSATs too, so unless I drink 10 coffees a day from now on I’m in trouble.

But whatever. I still did way awesome on my Civics exam. I helped organize the test, so I got 5 extra points on it, but I would’ve aced it even without the points. I like Civics better than the other classes I have. Especially Hawaiian.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Will you be going anywhere this November/December? And where?
I’m going to Denver, Colorado in early November. It’s gonna be snowing. I haven’t seen snow since I was 2. It’s been a long time, but soon I shall see it again.

I’ve been considering a layout change sometime. Maybe in November, before I leave for Denver (I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback on the current one, so I’ll leave it up for longer than normal). I’ve been lacking inspiration to come up with an entire layout, but I have a basic idea:

What do you think?

So I’ve finally got the layout the way I want it. Strike that, layouts. Yup. Scroll down to the footer, and you’ll see that you can now switch between Green and Orange! Fun stuff.

The “crap” thing is coming from the fact that on Wednesday, I have to do a run-through of a workshop I’ll be doing this summer in Florida. I’m not prepared. At all. The person I was relying on to get me the info I needed to do the run-through appears to have dropped off the face of the earth. I might (MIGHT) be able to do it since I’ve only got to do it for an hour versus the three hours this summer. But I’m still panicking.

This morning I tried to play the guitar. I failed. I had SO much trouble with the Fm chord. It was ridiculous. You need about 6 fingers to play the thing. So much for “Hey There Delilah”. I’ve moved on to attempting “21 and Invincible” by the one and only Something Corporate. I’m not doing too bad, actually. Hehe… rock star in the making.

On an unrelated note, Google Maps is awesome. I love the StreetView - I can go to Miami and see it before actually, you know, going there. NYC looked pretty awesome too.

Well, I’ve gotta get going now. Later!

Please forgive the messy layout. I don’t know what the fuck happened.

EDIT: Aaannddd I really don’t understand what happened here. I was changing the font sizes from pixels to percentages and this happens. So it looks like a new layout is in order. It’s okay, I was tired of this one anyway.

So hold tight, and maybe by tomorrow everything will be alright.

EDIT 2: Well, this is what’s going to be up for now. It’s still rough and unrefined, but I’m really pissed off right now, and I don’t feel like working on it anymore tonight.

EDIT 3: New layout y/n?
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i269/katehmora/cbp/base.jpg

And here’s the buttons and their respective rollovers (ignore the black stuff around them, that’s so they blend in with the header):

It’d be great fun to roll over them, I’m sure, but is this what you want to see up next?

EDIT 4: Check out the layout in action. Don’t click anything, though. I know that there’s a little 2px overhang on the right side under the header, but that appears to be unfixable.
http://kmwptest.freehostia.com/index.php

Oh, and it’s time for the Question of the Week. Right. DA-YUM, weeks sure do go by quickly.

No fancy image this time, I’m working. But the question is: What was the last CD you bought? On Friday I went to Borders and got my Jack’s Mannequin - Everything In Transit CD/DVD combo that I’ve wanted for forever. I only had the CD before.