a thought just occurred to me (again? this is my third attempt at quitting smoking): sure it seems fine while i’m at work and i have lots to do to keep my mind off lighting up, but what about this weekend?

assuming i stay away from alcohol and partying, i’ll still have all of saturday and all of sunday to find things to do. sometimes i get bored and i’ll go out for a smoke. or i’ll eat. i don’t want to replace smoking with eating. with the patch, i’m having less cravings. but i still have all that time to fill.

maybe i’ll write a book. that book i’ve been trying to write for the past eight years.

i finally got rid of that thin white space down the side. there was a 1 px padding on the footer which bled all the way up to the header.

i spent a lot of time trying to tweak the header until it went away. but as my page loaded up, i saw that the header was fine until the very last second, which made me realize that it has to be somewhere towards the end of the script.

so i checked the structure of the footer and found code for 1 px padding. i don’t know why it was there. i’m glad it’s gone, though. i don’t think i need the padding for anything. i think it had to do with the original header. but since i use my own image, i don’t need it anymore.

this makes me happy.

as of this morning, i’m on the patch.

so far, it’s surprisingly easy. at first, it felt like i was going cold turkey. but after an hour or so, i’m fine. i guess it took a bit to work its way into my system.

the only other problem is just dealing with my triggers. i haven’t been outside yet, but i can imagine the moment i step out the door, i’ll get the urge to light up.

as of this moment though, i feel like i have a lot of time on my hands. more time than i know what to do with.

i’m considering starting this yoga class tomorrow. i think i really should. it would be a great way to get back into exercising. plus, this class seems like a great way to get back to myself spiritually. it’s not just one of those yoga classes you get when you sign up at a gym. the people running it, i know at least one of them, seems to have it together spiritually.

i’m hoping to get back to basics by my birthday. i’m hoping to be smoke free and on my way to a healthy mind and body.

i’ve finally updated my gallery. i downloaded this iPhoto plugin that lets me export photos directly into an album or create a new album and lets me resize them all and everything. it’s really neat and makes life a lot easier to upload photos. so hopefully this will allow me to keep everything up to date and i can upload photos as soon as i download them off my camera and whatnot. now people can stop bugging me for pictures and i can just direct them to this site!

i’m still trying to work out the kinks on the gallery page. i want a link that directs back to this main site. once you click on the link on the side bar to go to the gallery, there’s no link to come back. you have to use your browser’s back button to get here and it’s pretty annoying once you’re already in the gallery pages. i like the simplicity of the theme i’m using, but it just doesn’t have the functionality i want. like for instance, when you’re browsing through the photos, you can only go through page after page, you can’t select page 1 or page 24, you have to go through each page in sequence. i think i’ll just have to keep playing around with different themes until i get the right one.

and there’s no main index page to just edit the html or add a code myself. if there is, i can’t find it. it’s all based on modules and php, which i just don’t know much about. i spent a good amount of time reading about modules last night and realized that i should’ve been reading about creating themes. i really don’t want this to be more complicated than it has to be. i really want to just keep things simple.

but the good news is i’m almost done. we’ll see how things go. i might just scratch the whole design altogether. the important thing right now is just to get photos up and start blogging: check. and check.

i’ve decided to toss out the old site and start over from scratch.  well, mostly from scratch.  right now, this site is undergoing major construction and i’m hoping to have everything up and running by the end of the week.  i thought it was best to make this my central location for blogging and uploading photos.  i’ll have a link to my resume and a links page, but that’s pretty much it.