It’s not dead here, at least. So far the only reason is that I put a disco ball on the layout… but I have a strong urge to use lingo from the disco era. Far out, man? I’m getting all this slang from this site so if it’s totally wrong or lame, blame that. Can you dig it?

Story time (it’s probably a really boring story.)!
My best friend’s birthday is coming up on Sunday, so her sister decided to throw her a surprise party. This was the first time I’d ever been involved in one, so I was rather excited. We tricked her into thinking she was just going to her sister’s house to babysit the next morning, and that I was going just as a backup, because she had to be somewhere at 9:30 the next morning. So her mom and I stalled a while after youth group while everyone was heading over to Emily’s house (that’s LAURA’s sister). So um… we got there and she was surprised. That was a really lame story, I’m so sorry. Oh, and… *(this has nothing to do with what I just said)* Stop dippin’ in my Kool-Aid! (apparently people said that.)

I got dragged to a campus tour of Kent State University today by Laura. She has to go there because her dad works there so her tuition is free. People from here always rag on that college as “Can’t read, can’t write, Kent State.” I guess it refers to stupid people going there. I’ve kind of thought that, too, a little. But upon further observation, I found that it really isn’t that bad. And actually, I kind of want to go there. I thought what I wanted was to go to a nice private university. I thought I was set on Malone. Shows how sure I am; as soon as something else dangles in my face, I’m not so sure anymore. What mostly appealed to me was everything that’s offered on the campus. It’s so big that there’s tons to do. In one of the residence halls, there’s a bowling alley. In others there are 24-hour restaurants. The rec center is awesome – just what I need, haha. Even though it’s only about 15 minutes away from where I live, I really find myself wanting to live on campus. It’s not just wanted to get out of my parents’ house. I want the whole college experience. Plus I want a fresh start as far as living space goes. I’m so sick of the stuffiness of my house. Not to mention cleaning up after everyone. And what’s awesome… is that I’m smart. Haha, aka I’d get to be in the honors program, which gets the honors dorms, which are amazingly nice. Plus… tuition and room and board is cheaper than tuition alone at Malone.
Well, Laura is quite excited now. She thinks I’m sold. She could be right.
“That’s the joint.”

School starts in a week. My senior year. How do I feel about that? Totally indifferent. Is that how it’s supposed to feel? Or are most people anxious or something? Who knows. Tomorrow I have to wake up early to be a tour guide at Freshman Orientation. I’ve always wanted to do that. I’ll get to guide the bewildered little freshmen. I’ll take care to tell them about the third floor pool and the elevator passes. (;

Okay, let’s talk site-wise. In my last blog I talked about not doing myspace stuff anymore and just doing graphics and tutorials and such. A lot of people thought that meant that I would be taking all the myspace stuff down. NO. Totally not the case, you don’t even have to worry about that. I worked way too hard on all that stuff to throw it away. But I might throw away the broken stuff, such as the comment boxes and blog layouts. Honestly, I don’t know how to code for myspace anymore. They changed so much.

I think most of the next few updates will be tutorials. Leave comments about what you’d like to learn. I’m gonna put up a disco ball tutorial. Just because.
Also, leave ideas for graphic things I could make.
If you want quote banners, leave short quotes that I could use. Four lines max.

That’s it. My urge to use 70’s lingo died along the way. Lame-city! /:
Catch you on the flipside!

I made something for the site! That’s a step, right? It’s a tutorial on making wavy text in photoshop.

Click here!
Also, follow me on twitter. twitter.com/thefateof1x.
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So this is sort of weird. I don’t really feel like I should be allowed to write anything here. I’ve sort of alienated myself from this site the past 6 months. It was kind of gradual, but now I think it’s finally happened. I think a lot of it is that I’ve done the complete turnover to Facebook fanatic. So, obviously, a website dedicated to MySpace holds no interest for me.

I don’t know how many loyal visitors I have here (if you are and you happen to read this, let me know?), but I was sort of wondering how it would go over if I stopped with the Myspace stuff and focused on other areas. Graphics, yes… maybe… I don’t even know, actually… and I was thinking like reviews and blogs (not just for me, for you). This is a pretty topic-neutral site name, so I thought it might be okay to do a flip. I could even give tips on Facebook apps or something (I got sucked into them! I can’t help it D:). I don’t really know what anyone is interested in (besides Myspace).

Obviously there has been a lack of updates (which is an understatement). I will not promise that there will be a ton more. Brutal honesty. But I’m doing a bit of a character transformation and I decided that I should probably work on this site with all the free time I have (not all of it… but meaning I have a lot of free time). I was thinking I would consider doing stuff on the site as my “homework” in order to get things done. So who knows what will happen. I certainly do not. *BIGsigh* I sort of want to make a new layout. I know that’s what I always do before updating anything. And I know that’s not what the site should be about. But I always feel like if I do a site-flip I’ll be inspired to make content. We’ll see.

So thanks for sticking with me thus far. I’ll try to at least write blogs more often. Toodaloo.

[*edit*] So, jk, I’m not changing the layout. You guys are stuck with it for a while longer.

So I haven’t written anything here since before I went to Washington DC. I have to say, that was very fun. I made a lot of friends, but I’m not going to get into very comprehensive details. At least not right now– I have to go to bed in a little bit. I just wanted to get something written here before I forgot.

Last night I went to a Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Secondhand Serenade concert. Two things: RJA is kinda not that great in concert (but still not terrible), and John Vesely (Secondhand) has chicken legs (or at least that’s what it looked like from where I was). Last time I only saw like half of a Secondhand song. This time I got three. One day I’ll be able to stay for a whole concert. One day! Haha

This weekend I’m going on an all-youth retreat with my youth group to Kelly’s Island! I’m so excited! We’re leaving at 4:30 tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be so nice. 75+ (which is so great for Ohio, haha). Woo! I don’t know what else to write about that… just thought I’d share my excitement.

I bought my prom dress. It was like $127, which I guess isn’t THAT bad, but it’s still very expensive for my blood. Compare that to my $5 shoes. (; I love Payless. The dress shopping was pretty much Hell, though. I only ever want to do it like 3 more times in my life… MAX! My prom next year, POSSIBLY Josh’s senior prom, and my wedding. That’s IT!

Um, well yeah. That’s all I have for now. Sorry for the lack of excitement. I’ll write something else after the retreat! Laaahhhvvvv yoouuuuuu! (Actually, I only really like you guys, sorry. ;D )

The cutest and semi-most embarrassing thing happened yesterday. My boyfriend and I went to hang out and he took me to a park, and I was like, “Hmm I wonder why we’re here, considering it’s raining?!” He was like, “Why not?” So we sat under the pavilion for a while and talked and he said we should have a picnic sometime. I was like, “Yeah, but it’s kinda cold today. Maybe after I get back from DC?” So he was like, sure, why not? A few seconds later my friend Lula comes up carrying this hefty picnic basket with this huge smug look on her face and I was like… OHHH MAN, I feel dumb! So I open the basket and there’s a flower on top and I go, “This is NOT a daisy!” (The day before, Lula had asked me what my favorite flower was, and I told her it was a daisy, but I already told Josh that.) Josh was like, “Sorry! She didn’t tell me. ):” But I was totally kidding so it was all good. And then he goes EHEMM and points in the basket and there’s this blue paper with white letters glued on it that says “PROM?” I was like YES!! Haha so cute. Then we ate cheese and crackers and apples and brownies. Gooood dinner. Haha. I felt like an idiot, because Lula had been in the van the whole time, just laying in the back and I had no idea. But it was still sooo cute. (:

On another note, due to some recent comments, I’ve started to wonder what appeals to people in a layout. So I’m taking a basic poll so I know what kind of layouts you like. I wish I had some sort of rating system for the layouts, but unfortunately, this is the best I can do. If you want to comment with your favorite layout style (of mine, preferably), that would be awesome as well.

What’s More Important in a Layout? The stylesheet / coding The background They’re both equally important

…before the sun rises today.

That’s totally irrelevant, but I absolutely love that quote. It’s from the song “If I Am” by Nine Days. Listen to it, because it’s absolutely amazing.
Anywho, the reason for posting. I’m so very excited! Next week is my spring break, and although I’m not doing anything, I’m really pumped to chill out for a while. I’m going to have to do a lot of homework during it, though, because you know why?! I’m going to Washington D.C. the week after. So that means I technically get a two week spring break… but really I’m just skipping a whole week. Here’s how it all works out:

The American Civics Center is an organization that arranges for students from various states to experience Washington D.C. for one week. There are a lot of planned activities, and they’re pretty much all educational. It helps to learn more about the government and whatnot. It’s intended for seniors taking a government class, but I guess they couldn’t get enough people to go, so Mrs. McCoy, the teacher who is organizing most of it, extended it to juniors. The best part of it is that it’s free! Normally it would cost somewhere around $1200 to go, but due to some special circumstances that I won’t get into, the 9 of us get to go for free, most expenses paid.

I had never even heard of Mrs. McCoy until all of this got started. My friend Lula is in her psychology class and she got to go. When a few of the people’s applications or whatever you want to call them fell though, Lula told her that I might be eligible for the trip. So she pulled me out of Spanish class and talked to me about it, and I had to rush and get information made available the next day, but everything worked out. I leave on March 28th. I’m so very excited, you guys… you don’t even get it. Haha. We’re flying there… in an actual plane. That is EPIC for me. I’ve never flown before, never ridden in a subway (which I will also be doing), and I’ve never even been out of Ohio besides going to Myrtle Beach twice when I was wayyy younger.

To top that off, I’m going to Wisconsin and Chicago for on Memorial Day weekend with my church’s youth choir. We’re performing for a sister church in Wisconsin and then just exploring Chicago for a day because we can. Woo! This year is sooo the best. I mean, high school has been a total joke up until this year. By far, this is my favorite. I have the best friends, the most fun, the most stuff to do, the most opportunities. Ugh, I’m just so bubbly and happy!

I should probably stop before I make you guys throw up from all the happy bubbly reading. (; Laterrr!