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April 17, 2009

Shopping

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You see these dresses?

Safari Dress

Safari Dress

Safari Dress 2

Safari Dress 2


Those (I think) are called Safari dresses. I like these dresses, they look comfortable and nice on those tall and slender models.
Now, what do I look like in those dresses?
Cleaning Lady

Cleaning Lady


Okay, minus the apron, mopping accessories and the rubber gloves. Um, and is she wearing chanclas to clean? What maid service is this?!
Yeah, I look like a maid. There is nothing wrong with the maid profession, my mom cleaned hotel rooms for a while. But yeah, my idea of looking like a chic fashionista turns into me looking like I should have a name tag and asking if you need towels!

It’s almost like these Empress waist type shirts:

Empress Waist (for the smaller bust)

Empress Waist (for the smaller bust)

Empress Top

Empress Top


First of all, (with the first image) I have no idea how a curvy girl doesn’t pop out the top of it. I try one on and my husband loves it, but it’s a bit too much skin for me (unless I’m feeling saucy). On some, the Empress waist looks pretty. On me, I look pregnant!
Two styles that I’m sure have come and will probably be gone soon, that I just can’t seem to pull off.

I’m a jeans and t-shirt gal I guess. I try to get cute clothes, show a little more skin, wear heels, girly stuff like that. But man, being girly is exhausting! My twin is very girly, she has the clothes and hair combo down to an art. My curly black hair is usually very natural (that’s my way of saying I just don’t know what to do with it so I spray some curly frizz stuff on it and hope for the best). At times I ponder how it feels like to get up in the morning and just brush your hair. No need to wet it first and put some leave in conditioner. No need to wear a cap when you run to the grocery store for something. I know, I know, not all women can do that and everyone has bad hair days, but it’s almost like someone forgot to put a tag on me. You know, “Care Instructions” or a “See Reverse for Care” tag. There are several curly hair websites I sometimes look at. My favorite so far is NaturallyCurly.com.

As you can tell, I went shopping today. It’s been about several months (my mind is counting six but I could be wrong) since I have shopped. Usually I would return in a foul mood, but I think I found a couple of things that might just work (no Safari or Empress Waist items were purchased).


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April 16, 2009

And further more…

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I think I may need to use a widget to possibly connect this blog to my other blog. I have an old one on Livejournal. I haven’t updated it in a while, but I want to… A lot of my posts were set to “Friends Only” so you might not be able to see the meaty stuff. I see that WordPress has password protection here so I might give a few friends a password in case I want to vent.
I have had that journal for years. My closest friend (besides my husband) Mandy and I used to share a type of journal in high school. We would write in a spiral and then leave it in each others locker. The other would pick it up, read it and then write their own journal. It was way cool, or at least in my mind! Little did we know that we were forerunners in the web world! The first blog! Okay, not a “web log” per say, but it was social and journaling. I am pretty sure I still have a journal or two we used. It’s probably packed away with all my other stuff.
Perhaps if I had taken that idea from so long ago, we would be rolling in the dough (and then losing it in the dot com bust). Let’s see, the web started in the 90’s. First website was created in 1991…and look how far we’ve come! Yep, that was about the time Mandy and I were putting journals in lockers.

I just noticed that Wordpress is ignoring my HTML structure (even the one it creates). The lists in my last post don’t have bullet points, what gives? Why give the option, and then not follow through?!

Also, “Superstar in my Own Private Movie” is kind of a long title for this blog, perhaps for a tagline instead. What witty and cool title can I use? Maybe something clever dealing with being a latina webbess, latina webber, latina muy fina, latina cochina…hm, gina cochina, latinista, webinista, ginagwen?


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Themes…what to choose?

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So I am eagerly looking through free Wordpress themes that I can use for my blog.

  • Do I go with a cute vector art grunge style theme?
  • Should I find something that matches my website? Which I need to update, like 2 years ago.
  • Should I pick a theme with dark colors to show how deep I am, or light and bright to show my fun and witty side?
  • Is there a way to download a theme and then edit the parts you want? I don’t know since I can’t decide on one!
  • I’m sure I could make my own, but how…do I have to do it in the next few minutes before I go to bed?

Oh Wordpress, how much time I will waste on you!

More questions I am asking myself:

  • Exactly what will I put on this blog? Work and web design related information?
  • Since everyone can read this site, how much personal information (like photos) should I allow?
  • Will I have anything interesting to write about?
  • More than that, will I keep up with this blog?

Hm, questions to ponder in dreamland.


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Here it goes…

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So I have created my first WordPress blog. Now I just have to make it work and keep writing in it. I wonder if I can connect this one to update my old blog. Hmmm…this will take some time, but I’ll try and figure it out.