So I finally changed my layout. I think this is the first time in my website “career” that I have ever used someone else’s layout. It feels a little like I’m cheating. But I just love the way this layout is set up. My favorite part of how it shows one of the pictures from the post (if there is one). It’s how I wanted my last layout to look but didn’t know how to do it. In order to make this layout work I had to change my pages into WordPress pages which was another thing I really...
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Blogging Used to be Easy
Blogging was easy when I didn’t live with my boyfriend. I would be able to blog whenever I wanted to. My boyfriend doesn’t like it when I’m on the computer so out of respect for him I try to limit myself. If I was living alone I could blog about TV shows right after I watched them. I could talk about my feelings at the exact moment that I was feeling them. Now, I talk to him about everything first and by the time I get around to blogging about it, it’s old news. Anyway, this post will contain...
New Layout!
I’ve been wanting a new layout for a while now. I decided to make a simple one that has a bit of a winter feeling to it. Let me know if you find any errors.
30 Days
I saw this on a website and thought it would be a neat idea to try. Let’s see how it goes! I will start Day 01 tomorrow and then every day until the end of July. Day 01 : Your favorite song Day 02 : Your favorite movie Day 03 : Your favorite television program Day 04 : Your favorite book Day 05 : Your favorite quote Day 06 : Whatever tickles your fancy Day 07 : A photo that makes you happy Day 08 : A photo that makes you angry/sad Day 09 : A photo you took...
Teaching
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my teaching position and thought it might be nice to answer them. I think I have answered everyone’s questions individually so this may be a bit of a repeat for some of you. In case you don’t already know, I graduated last May with my teaching degree. I did my degree in elementary education so I am qualified to teach from grades primary to grade 9. I am not trained to teach music or French but I did get taught physical education even though I haven’t actually taught that subject yet....
Father is Retired
In sitely news, I joined a new forum and a contest. The forum I previously told you I joined has pretty much died due to spammers. I found a new one called Pop which seems to be pretty good. The contest I joined is held at 6birds and it is a chance to win a .info domain. If I happen to win, I plan on using the domain to host the Nerd Listings. In lifey news, this week hasn’t been too exciting. I wasn’t able to find any teaching jobs until today. The job is for tomorrow at another...
SOTF Winner!
The first SOTF contest of 2010 has come to a close. The winner is Tell You Why. Click on the button on the sidebar to visit their website. The next contest will begin on Monday. We still have room for one more website if anyone wants to join! This week was full of teaching. Monday started off with me getting a call to go teach for the day so I got ready and went on the bus. I got about 10 minutes down the road before I got another call saying that they didn’t need me to come teach...
Validated
I just finished going through all of my website pages and made sure they all passed validation. All the codes should be now up to date! I plan on going through my website and reorganizing some pages and maybe deleting some other ones. Eventually I would also like to make a new layout but I think it’s going to be a little while before you see that. I’m also going to try and figure out if there is a way to import Cutenews. I did find a plugin, but I don’t know the correct path to my Cutenews. I...
Done!
I have finally got my layout to work with WordPress. I still don’t know how to import my Cutenews. I will say more later. Please tell me if you find anything wrong.
Learning
I am currently trying to learn how to create a WordPress theme from scratch. Please excuse the mess.
Welcome
Thanks for coming to Stubborn Ox. net. I am currently working on this page. If you are looking for my blog site please to go http://blog.stubbornox.net/ If you are looking for the Nerd Listings please go to http://nerdlistings.stubbornox.net/. Sorry about the mess!
WordPress
I tried to work with WordPress for the second time in my blogging life today. I still can’t figure it out. I like some of the things you can do with WordPress, but I like coding my website myself. I feel like with WordPress it is doing everything for you. Plus I found the same problems I found last time I tried to switch. The major one is that I can’t figure out how to make my own layout. I want a blogging system that will fit into my current layout but with WordPress I would have to switch...
Productive Week
This has been a pretty productive week for me. I’ve been able to do some teaching for the first time since probably November. My goal is to teach at least two days a week in order for me to be happy with my pay check. This week I was able to work a full day on Monday and a half day on Tuesday. I am also booked to work another full day on Friday. The only thing I can think of that will stop me from working tomorrow is snow. I heard that we’re supposed to get 10cm of...
Forum
I might still have one spot open in the SOTF contest which will begin on Monday February 1st. It’s possible this person won’t be able to play until March. If you are interested, please visit the page and enter the contest! In other news, I recently joined a new forum. It’s been a while since I was a member at a forum. It’s called Tell You Why MB. It’s currently just me and two other people who are members, which is part of the reason why I joined. I like it when the message board isn’t too busy. But...
SOTF
Some of you may remember a contest that I have on my website called Survival of the Fittest contest. It’s similar to a SOTM contest. It starts with five websites competing. Each week people vote for their favorite website and at the end of each week the website with the least amount of votes is eliminated until there is only one website remaining. The winning website gets free advertising on my website for one month and their site button will remain on the SOTF contest page for as long as I own my website. If you don’t already have...
Web Stats
I haven’t done much more research on the web counters since the last post but a lot of you have valid points. Stats programs that you download right into your website are probably a better way to go. When I have some time I might start looking at those ones too. If you have any suggestions on which ones are good let me know. I don’t know how many of you watch the TV show called How I Met Your Mother but I think it’s great. When I was in Europe my boyfriend’s sister showed it to us for...
Users
You probably have or soon will notice that I have made it so that you need to register in order to comment on my blog now. The reason for this is because I have been getting a lot of spam messages lately and I’m getting tired of it. I just spent about 2 hours deleting spam messages. I hope this doesn’t put anyone off of commenting. It only takes a minute to register and in the future all you have to remember is the name you use to post with and your password. I also have vowed to start...
Whoops
Whoops. I kinda have neglected my blog. I try to blog at least once every 2 weeks but I failed this month. Anyway, here are my excuses. The weekend before last my boyfriend and I bought some fish. We have a Betta which we named Sunya and we bought three Harlequin Rasboras which we have just named The Gang because we couldn’t tell them apart. They seem to be doing well so far which is good. The last time I had fish they died after a week or two. I think these ones will last longer. I have finally...
Cold and Websites
I caught a cold last weekend. It had been a long time coming. I could feel myself fighting getting sick for a few months now, or at least that’s how long it felt. I tried to teach through the cold. But today I decided to stay home. I’m glad I did. I don’t think my voice would have lasted through the day. Since I was able to stay home, I was also able to work on a website that I was making for someone. It was actually quite exciting getting paid to make a website for someone. I was...
School, Apartment, Internet
Well, I didn’t get my snow day last week, but I did get one today! I love snow days, but they do mess up your schedule. Starting this week I am in charge of both Math and Science. It makes me nervous because we are working on topics in those areas that I’m not confident with but I think it will be alright. My supervisor was supposed to be in today but because of the snow she will now be coming on Friday. Wish me luck! As for the apartment, we weren’t able to get the one we applied...
Guilty
I have to admit, I have been avoiding writing a new blog entry. I haven’t had anything interesting to talk about. I have been dealing with a lot of things in my head lately. I have been avoiding my responsibilities. I am currently on my reading week which is basically a week off. You could call it March break, except it’s not March. I have been at my parents house for my week off and I can’t really stand being here. Living away from home is so much less stressful. I don’t know how I am going to be...
Pictures
I just updated my photo album! First time in quite a while. I’ve been meaning to for a while. You missed a lot of good photos due to my laziness. I don’t know if I will add them now but I do plan on adding new ones in the future more often. For a while now I have been wanting to take at least one picture each day. It would be a lot easier if I had my web cam, but it doesn’t work on my laptop because the cam is too old. I still have my digital camera...
Busy
Teaching is keeping me busy so I can’t really write a big entry. It has been going great so far so I’m happy. I will write more when I have a chance. Also, I still have to return comments from the last too blog entries. Hope everyone is doing well.
Entrecard
Wow, another entry in about an hour . But I just remembered something that happened last week that made me mad. You may have noticed that I don’t have an Entrecard on my website anymore. Well, one day I got an email saying they deleted my account. I went and read over the rules and I couldn’t find any that I was breaking. I emailed them back to see what was up and they said I was going to stay deleted. That really makes me mad. Why would you delete someone that wasn’t doing anything wrong. And if I...