The Ebb and Flow
Jerome's Dream - Thirty Dollar BillI created a new theme with the lovely Marilyn Monroe. She decorates many of my apartment walls and this is the second WordPress theme she has inspired. Obviously I am completely obsessed! 
This is hopefully not obvious to the majority of you unless you are plagued with dial-up (I’m so sorry), but this new theme is rather large in file size, due mainly to the animated gif within the tv screen (talk about painstaking) and the general graphics-heavy nature of all my layouts. However, I believe I have managed to keep it somewhat web 2.0, and by that I mean I added some new glossy icons, hahaha! Just kidding – this really wasn’t meant to be a geek post. 
I have been gone for so long even though I promised myself I’d try harder to keep my blog alive. I must stop making promises! On a serious note though, I do love the blog world, and I have made so many wonderful e-friends throughout my reign as a neglectful webmaster. I never meant to lose touch, but I’ve been going through a sort of premature “life crisis” phase and I never felt this blog could handle all that melancholy without sinking and depressing everyone. There is that constant desire to entertain everyone when you keep a blog, and guilt always haunted me when I’d pen another “woe is me” post even though those were all I felt compelled to write for such a long time.
Anyway, I will be in Buffalo for exactly 3 more years. That sounds like an eternity, but I have already crafted my to-do list in preparation for our getaway back to Philadelphia, and here are a few of the most important points:
- Go to driving school and get my license. I don’t need or want a car right now, but I need to have had my license for at least 2 years in order to use PhillyCarShare and I also need a license to drive the U-Haul van when I move.
- Learn Italian. This is academically necessary for when I transfer to Buffalo State, but also a personal goal and dream of mine.
- Fix my credit score. Somewhere along the way a medical bill and unpaid utility bill screwed up my credit just bad enough so that I can’t even get a student credit card in order to build my credit. I need to fix this somehow if Justin and I have hope of buying a home in a few years.
PS. I named this post for the song by Hot Water Music because it’s so fitting.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:56 am
fish fuck, baby. i’m gonna fuck you with a fish. gonna take a river carp and stick it up your butt. you slut. you whore.
why are you my mom?
fish fuck.
- justin
June 16th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Great. Am I supposed to hope that my readers will realize those are just lyrics and not the workings of my insane, verbally abusive boyfriend?
- Ashley
June 16th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Haha, you can hope but I wouldn’t get them up too high.
And I left you a long comment the other day, except your comments weren’t working so it didn’t stick.
I’m glad you got my letter, because I was pretty bummed out about it. And I need to fix my credit pretty badly too. A few months ago when I was falling apart I kind of stopped paying all my bills and now it’s just out of hand. It’s crazy-stressful but I only have myself to blame so whatever.
Good luck with everything, you’ll do great.
- Heather
June 16th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
your layout is brilliant.
- scott
June 17th, 2009 at 1:31 am
This layout is really well done. The background is so seamlessly integrated with your images.
- Sam
June 17th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I like the new layout! Marilyn Monroe is so beautiful, its just a shame she died so young :(
I need to fix my credit as well, its so bad I don’t even like looking at my scores anymore. I’m almost to the point I have to declare bankruptcy and I’m only 22! lol It sucks, I can blame an ex for it though, blah :P
- Aimee
June 17th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
The new layout is absolutely amazing! Marilyn Monroe is so gorgeous!
- Hayley
June 17th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
haha thanks. that’s awesome… i have no clue where it’s at… i don’t live anywhere near NY… i just let that guy do the work.
- scott
June 17th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
LMAO.
I saw Justins post and was like… Wow.. haha.
Glad to hear your doing good! Its me, the owner of lifeinpink, or was the owner.. I haven’t checked out your site in forever and apparently its the perfect time because you’re just posting ;p
You should come back to PA because I just moved to MD! haha. Hope these keep on improving for you.
You can do it ;p ….all night long!
- Natasha
June 17th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Glad to see you’re back!! I used to really like your blog back in the day, years ago, but then when I got back into blogging I saw you were mia.
Also, funny story: I just moved to Buffalo (for the summer, anyway) yesterday, because of an internship I have here. And usually I live in Philly. So there ya go.
- Elizabeth
June 18th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Hey, thanks for visiting my blog! Yours looks so great that I wish I’d started off with WordPress instead of Blogger.
Anyway, I’m hoping to get my license soon too. Can’t wait to drive around on my own! This post isn’t exaclt depressing like you said on my blog.
- P