Just a quick note about the forums

The forums have no officially been taken offline. Anything that was there is backed up, but I don't anyone should have need of it.

Bartman pointed out a long time ago that they had gotten full of spam, but I wanted the forums to be up in the event anyone actually used them.

Not sure why picked today to pull them, it just felt right.

Thanks to anyone who posted and had fun there. Hopefully this is another step in the very very slow revamp of the site. :)

Wandering

It's been some time since I last blogged. A really really busy time. I keep telling myself I should sit down and write but I tend to feel so tired at the end of the day that I never write. Now I'm here and it's almost midnight and I really felt like I should update ya'll on what's been up.

The biggest change is that I moved. We finally found a bigger place in a much less freaky building. Now Shaggy and I live in Etobicoke, or as I call it: The edge of civilization. It's a nice enough apartment and I'm working hard on fixing it up. (It was all cream >.< I *hate* cream on walls!)

But unfortunatly for me, it's far away from everything. There are no book stores, cafes or yarn stores in walking distance. :/ I have to bike or take the bus to get anywhere except the grocery store. Oh and we have a really crappy Shoppers. After some time I found a park, but it's nothing like High Park.

The next change is that my step father-in-law moved in. The economy is really sucky back home and the poor guy needed a job ASAP. So right after we moved in we had to re-arrange everything 0.o So the pigs got evicted from our shiny new computer/pet room and now I get regular visits from my mother-in-law. It's like living in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Only my in-laws aren't nearly as scary. My biggest problem thus far is my MIL's compulsion for re-arranging stuff around here, and I can deal with that.

And the least ground breaking, but very exciting change is that I have completed my first commercial web site! I'm the in house designer at work and for months I have been toiling over this site, doing countless revisions and little tweaks. I am happy to announce the Hair Sprung Website is up and running @ http://hairsprung.net! (Disclaimer: The views here at BLM are not necessarily the views of Hair Sprung and the views of Hair Sprung are not necessarily the views of BLM. ) I am very happy with it. Hair Sprung is an awesome place to work for! :)

I also adopted a very cute gerbil. When Ichigo-chan decides to stay still for more then 1 second I'll get a picture for you guys. Needless to say, she is the most adorable gerbil ever. :)

Well that's it for tonight. I hope to be up and posting more often now. But hey, I'm a wanderer, it's not like I've gone long without posting before. You all know the drill by now.

Small things amuse small minds

It always amazes me how I fall for small little web gadgets, avatars banners and such. I tend to go hog wild on the various pretties I use in my sites and signatures. I have always wondered why I am drawn to such things, and why I spend so much of what could be useful time downloading them or even creating them. This blog could even constitute as a bigger version of such diversions.

I have added a few blinkies to the bottom of the side bar. My favourite thus far has to be:

I' m not really a web master, I just play on on the internet.

But hey I got to play with the quote feature on blogger. Yet another small thing to amuse me. :)

Added on: See Bartman, I figured out what happens when you don't add labels. It makes the bottom of your post ugly. And you know how I get sad when design turns ugly. :(