I feel so fried today.

First of all, I am exhausted.  I hardly got any sleep last night - between all the commotion with the power outage and the sleep cycle change, I lay in bed awake for most of the night.  When I did get to sleep, it definitely wasn’t that deep, restorative sleep - just fitful tossing and turning.  There was periodic thunder throughout the night, which certainly didn’t help my quest for sleep.  When the lights came back on at 6:30 this morning, our house lit up and I got out of bed.

Now I am attempting to work on my code.  For several days now, I’ve been working through a PHP tutorial of how to design a wordpress theme.  All was going well until today.  I copied, pasted, and typed everything, exactly as the tutorial directed, and something’s wrong.  There’s a syntax error on line 74, which may also be an ansi/unicode error.  I have no idea how to fix it, and it’s incredibly frustrating.

So, between the exhaustion and the frustration, I just feel totally blah.  Maybe I need to take a nap.

exhausted and frustrated with php… i have some kind of syntax problem and i can’t figure it out. grrr!!!

We had another storm last night.  We also had another power outage last night.  Yippee…

So, with no power, our internet didn’t work (because the router and modem need constant power) and our computers didn’t work anyway.  We pulled out our handy “blackout” radio, a radio that picks up the audio on television frequencies, so that we could still listen to the news.

We pulled out all our candles and created a “soft light” zone around our dining table.  Hint: Tealights are fantastic for blackouts.  If you need to carry the candle with you, though, put a votive candle inside a baby food jar or votive holder.

Anyway… we played several rounds of Skip-bo by candlelight.  Then, when the news was over, we went to bed - because frankly there was nothing else to do!  It really makes me understand how and why people slept so much more before they had electric lights!

My skin has been breaking out so much lately.  When I was a teenager, my mom took me to a dermatologist, who prescribed various medicines and lotions and potions that I used religiously.  But I can’t afford to go to a dermatologist, and I’m totally out of habit with applying creams daily.  I need to find a good OTC medicine that will control acne - something that doesn’t cost much, isn’t too difficult to use, and will help keep my skin clear.  Unfortunately I guess I’m demanding a bit much.  Maybe I should try an herbal acne treatment.  What are your experiences?  What do you recommend?

barely conscious. woke up EARLY… power came back on @6:30 or so. takin’ advantage of my early morning awakedness, going out for breakfast.

@kwannon if u switch to hellotxt let me know how it goes. i am shopping for a new phone and will need to subscribe to one of those services.

Yesterday was so busy.  I’m quite sorry that I was never able to blog yesterday, but I had so much fun researching. (Yes, researching.  I’m quite the nerd!)

My local library has just recently opened a newer, larger genealogy center.  The Midwest Genealogy Center began many years ago in the basement of the North Independence branch of the library.  Many books were donated to the genealogy center, and acquisition of the census records of 1900-1930 led to exponential growth.  The library built another building near the North Independence branch which served them well for many years.  However, as they have continued to grow, they outgrew this building and have built an even larger, stand-alone building.  They have an unbelievable amount of genealogical information in this new building.

Yesterday, my pastor’s daughter (Abbie), my mother, and I went out to lunch together and spent the afternoon researching at the new MGC.  It was an amazing and productive afternoon.  We were not even able to access the entire collection, because the microfilm and microfiche information has not yet been organized, but we still learned a neat amount of new information.  I spent a great deal of the time researching marriage and death records for my father’s side of the family.

I am looking forward to more wonderful hours at this library.  The microfilm collection includes a myriad of census records, and getting into that will be lots of fun.  Hopefully I will also have a chance to share the things I have learned with you.  It’s really amazing, and tons of fun to research.

just got back from the library, went to kmart instead of target (saves on gas!)

i need to go to the library and Target today… but i’m really lazy right now…

annoyed w/ my external hard drive… it’s being SLOWWWWWWWWW today!