After seeing Christopher's blog layout change (definitely for the better), I decided that I definitely wanted to do the three column look again. Having two columns (i.e. previous look) was too cluttery, because while the blog entries had its own large column, all the links and craps were scooted to the side and it looked more like a gruesome grocery shopping list. It didn't look so list-like when I had the sunny orange look from before. Maybe it is because of the bigger, opaque art work center piece, as well as having a darker background color. Anyhoot, as you can see some places still need updating, because it says "Blank for Now" (duh). I'll get around to it, but right now my fingers are numb from all the typing (of course I did it manually again), so I'll have to drink some coffee and zone out for a bit. Thankfully it's a quite work day -- Mmmm, mmmm Coffee, here I come!

On a lighter note from my previous enraged entry, I saw American Wedding, which is the third film in the American Pie series... it was tasteless, perverted, and nasty. Just the way I like comedies! Much like their previous versions, actually, even more so than previous versions, it features crude comedy involving sex, the genitals, and of course (who could forget?) feces. I know some are offended by such obscene and/or violent images, like Janet Jackson's "nipple shield" (why does the press keep putting that in quotation marks...? It's a nipple shield is a nipple shield is a nipple shield!), so I won't offer gory details. But it's hilarious. I think I actually saw the un-cut, un-rated version, so it might have been less severe in theatres.

Although I haven't finished my ideal man post, I'll write briefly about my ideal movie. I generally like most films, unless, of course, they suck (I might have contracted mad-cow -- my brain is running like a 286... I mean, I can't find a decent synonym for "suck"). I love comedy, and when I say comedy, I mean hard-core comedy. None of that romantic comedy/chick flick stuff. Well, When Harry Met Sally is an exception, but only because Meg Ryan is just so appealing and viewer friendly. Dumb and Dumber was a classic. I must have seen that movie about 9 times. Jim Carey is magnificient, in a nutty way, as he was in Ace Ventura, and still hasn't lost his touch, as we have all seen in Bruce Almighty. His face is so pliable, but we'll have to talk about that another time.

Horror is definitely my favorite genre. Especially the classics, not only Hitchcock, but true classics villains, like Freddie, Mike Myers, et. al. Chuckie from Child's Play was wonderful, and several Stephen King film (Pet Cemetary, The Shining, comes to mind) are fabulous. Exorcist is probably my all time favorite, although I have a hard time deciding. I think I just like the shock-value it has to Christians. I somehow feel not too scared and a bit safe (from Satan, I mean) because I am not Christian. But Satan speaking Latin backwards... that is killer. Of course, newer films like the Scream trilogy are alright too. Eh. But their parodies, as seen in Scary Movies part 1 and 2 are hilarious. I nearly cried!

I don't like chick flicks, as previously stated. It takes a lot for a chick flick to get on my good side. Love Actually was one that actually kind of sort of got an "OK" from me. Serendipity, one of my best friend's favorites (she actually contemplated purchasing the VHS) is a classic example of why I don't like chick flicks. They give a false impression of romance, and I am not buying into that (forgive me for what I am about to say) SHIT. I mean, writing your name in a book and selling it and hoping that the man of your dreams would come across it?? I can literally sit down and watch the film and pin-point out exactly what is wrong with each line of the film. I'll slash it like Simon, from American Idols, does to the Idol-wannabes.

And of course, I still got my bone to pick with Disney. Pixar, I love, but Disney, I don't know. I loved Disney's original works, like Snow White, Cinderella, etc. but since The Little Mermaid and how it was so wronged -- I have lost faith. Beauty and the Beast was alright, well-done, even, but it started downhill. Lion King -- so-so. I know nobody hates Simba. I'd be killed just for saying that I didn't like the Lion King. But I really don't like it. Simba goes through puberty, as in his voice changes. Is there something wrong with a lion's voice changing as he ages? Eh. But more importantly, it is animated films like Brother Bear that really disappoints me. And the sales/profits echo my disappointments.

Well, I guess that sort of covers my ideal film, or at least my favorite and hated genres in film. If only discussing men would be so easy. Humph.

I was browing through my computer and found a program called Microsoft Frontpage. I opened it to see what it was, and found a program that would have eased me from my suffering! It is a program that writes the html codes as I doodle -- I can make tables, columns, put in art work, write text, and all of it will appear in html coding! Perfectly! Without errors! And I could even load pre-set templates and tweak'em as I please. I will be playing with it for a while... I am not quite friendly with how to use it exactly, but I think it would be MUCH MUCH MUCH (have I emphasized the "MUCH?") easier than learning html from scratch... All this time, why was I writing the whole thing by hand? I feel like I'm from the cave man era... I have SO little knowledge... All this time I saw these people creating beautiful layouts left and right on Blogskins.com I thought that they were just plan geniuses (see? I don't even know if the plural of "genius" is geniuses or geni... perhaps I am just having a brain fart, or maybe my brain power is degenerating...) while I was just a big clunky dumb blogger.

Had I known about this program and learned how to use it, I would have made this blog transition into the new facelift smoothly without side-effects... LIKE these friggin' white scroll bars. Where did they come from? I originally wrote the page to have the background remain intact and have only the blog text scroll... then I changed my mind, and cut, deleted, then went back an pasted from a backed-up file (I work meticulously, saving each step separately!), and then did some more copying and pasting... and now for some oddball reason, I have these UGLY white scroll bars that are blocking the text and making the page look hideous. I have a feeling that it is because of the blockquotes I placed on my previous entry.

I am mad. I am angry. I am furious. I have a dysfunctional blog. It's handicapped. People will come and see how dysfunctional it is and close the browser. Maybe I should go back to the orange layout (which, too, had glitches when it was first made, but a lot less than this one) while I work out the bugs. But just when I think I got all the bugs worked out, more pop out. Aigo...

Don't be fooled. This random blogger that I've found, Hot Abercrombie Chick! is not someone you're imagining right now. Sure she's young and cute and looks good in an Abercrombie shirt, but she's also intelligent to the extremes, and prefers to study rather than party. I was browsing through the "recently updated" blogs list from Blogger when I ran across her site. I saw the title, and I wanted to see what dim-witted diary-keeper was wasting precious cyber-space. Little did I know, I would be dead wrong.

I expected to see something like this...

Oh my god I saw this hot guy who works at the Abercrombie & Fitch store yesterday, and my friend Jenny was like Oh my god you should ask him out, so I tried to talk to him and he was likeSO CUTE! SO anyways after talking to him I found out that he had a two-digit IQ JUST LIKE ME!It was just so amazing cuz that horoscope I read yesterday was just so true! I could not believe that this guy wanted to go out with me too. We had this really cool connection, cuz he liked my skirt, and oh my god, guess what? I do too! So like...

But this Hot Abercrombie obviously has an IQ of three digits. She's very expressive, and her blog isn't too old, but I'm seeing that her site is growing exponentially. I know I sound old, but I'm glad that other young people are writing bright things in their blogs. And, of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being fashion friendly!

It rained on Monday and it rained yesterday, and I am freezing! I know it's much colder in the East Coast and Iowa, where my best friend lives, but 55 is just too cold for me to bear. I am dressed to the teeth and still cold!

I've been wrong. So wrong. Actually, it's closer to, that I have wronged my blog. My blog is now a year old, and with increasing numbers of abandoned blogs these days, having a blog survive over a year should be a miracle and celebrated as such! A year old in blog-age is... is like... 40 in human age! Perhaps my blog has been feeling a bit mid-life-crisis-like lately. So here's something to cheer up the mood --

Happy Birthday Blog!

We've been through a lot together -- ups and downs, politics, scandalous celebrities, school work, ramblings, lactose intolerance, and much, much more. I'm proud to say that I have never left my blog for more than a few days. As nerdy as it sounds, blogging is a hobby of mine, and will be for a long while. And special thanks to Blogger.com for hosting my site, and Villagephotos for hosting my pics for free for much of last year, and even though you suddenly made me pay $5 for the once free service, it's still all good. Thank you Paypal for the "Donation" button that no one utilizes! Thank you Blogskins.com, Webmonkey, Geocities.com and many more, without whom, my blog and I could not have shared such beautiful moments.

Jeez... I guess I really would do anything to get myself out of this comatose state.

Here's something to enjoy, while I get out of this slump!

Oh yeah, about that Ideal man post... looks like it will remain in a "To Be Continued" state for a while. I started on something just waaaaaay too overwhelming and I don't have the nerves to finish it -- at least not yet. I'll work on it offline and maybe post it later. Don't hold your breath.

I've found a great website! Click Here -- I promise it's nothing gory. It's actually a website created by some Korean person to help others learning Japanese. Among other things, anyways. There is a section that is actually very thorough in Japanese grammar, phrases, greetings, writings, and etc.. It's a great site! I found it so complete and thorough that I am inspired to take up on learning Japanese again. I had to stop after two semesters because of the cost. That was already more than two years ago, so needless to say that I have forgotten a rather large chunk of what I had learned. Thankfully, I still have the text book (it's still the current edition -- not that the Japanese language basics would change catastrophically over two years). I'm even more thankful that I have something to be productive about!