You’ve probably been wondering why I haven’t written many blog posts lately. I’m sure you’ve been eagerly checking and rechecking your google reader, hoping for some news of my life.
And the lack of my post-age has likely caused you to worry that I’ve been sick or hurt or that our downstairs bathroom toilet flooded, causing our house to be released from it’s foundation and float off down the river.
Or maybe you thought that I haven’t written a new post because I have been doing something productive, like cleaning up a flooded basement, or rotating my food storage, or planning a trip someplace warm where it NEVER, EVER snows, because right now I might as well be living in Narnia where it is always winter but never Christmas, since the White Witch has somehow taken over our land, only she doesn’t give us Turkish Delight.
Well, that’s not what I’ve been doing.
I’ve been spending all my free time trying to learn CSS.
A computer language.
A language so complicated that as soon as I master it, I should be able to program a flux capacitor, or at least create fuel to power a time traveling DeLorean. But I’d settle for knowing enough CSS to redesign the look of my blog.
Which is why my blog still looks exactly the same.
Although I’ve learned so much CSS that I’m practically a professional web site designer already. So if you want me to redesign your blog, I’ll be happy to do it. Unless you want your sidebars to line up and your header to be visible–then you probably ought to hire someone who isn’t me.
But I’ve been working on redesigning my blog, and I unveiled the almost finished, revolutionary design to my sister the other night, and she said, “Truthfully, I can’t tell much of a difference,” meaning the new blog looks similar to the old blog, so now you know you can expect great changes, my friend. GREAT, BIG changes.
Like not having the header image lined up with the sidebar.
Or not having a visible title.
And you also probably want to know why I need a better looking blog when it doesn’t matter how a blog looks on the outside–it’s whether or not it is funny; but, honestly, we all know it’s not about the content, it’s about who has the cutest blog.
This month is my blogaversary. Next week, it will be a year since I started “Life in the Highlands.” I didn’t officially go public until October, nor did I post often before then, so it’s a fakish blogaversary, but one I wanted to celebrate with a new design, anyway.
And, also for my fakish blogaversary, I wanted to host my first give away.
But then I realized that a give away should include, you know, giving something away. And the only thing I could possibly give away is the bag of shoes that my daughter has outgrown that I need to take to the DI.
Or one of the ceramic pots that my kids made.
Or our Red Heeler/German Shepherd/Dingo dog who keeps digging huge holes under our fence, escaping from our yard, and stealing stuff from the neighbors. Except then my kids would be mad at me for giving him away, until he dug a huge hole under your fence and escaped from your yard, and made his way back to mine, because that is just the kind of thing he would do.
So, the give away is out.
But I’ll showcase the new blog design just as soon as I figure out how to resize my header image and get my header title to reappear.
Or, I’ll invent time travel. That’d be easier.
Isn’t blogging great? Especially blogmakeovers. When you try to do them yourself with no clue what you’re doing.
At least now I know that getting a clue wouldn’t really help.
And I’m glad you’re back.
Hello,
Your blog looks fantastic! Great job!
~ Gabriela ~
Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Gabriela.