Feeling Really Blah

Did you ever have "one of those of days"? Today has been one of those days for me. *sighs*

Let's see...it started yesterday, actually. When I got home from work, I was really tired, so I decided to lay down for a nap. That was at 4:30 in the afternoon. My nap lasted until 1:30 the this morning. I'd say 9 hours constitutes a really good nap! lol As you can probably imagine, by the time I woke up, I was rarin' to go to start my day. First things first: Coffee! Next up: Shower. Third on the morning kick-start list: Turn on the computer and see if I can actually get something accomplished today.

As you may or may not know, I am a Web-Mistress - meaning I build and maintain my own website. I have had this website for about 8 years in various venues. About 3 years ago I decided to purchase my own domain and find a good reliable web host. Once that task was accomplished, I began the major endevour of rebuilding my site from the ground up. That, my friends, is no easy task. I have painstakingly written code after code (because I'm stubborn that way, and it gives me more control if something goes wrong), designed my own graphics, not to mention the content that needed to be placed on my site. Many hours have gone into my website over the last 8 years, but it still needs a lot of work to make it a worthwhile site.

The last two years have not really been very mentally condusive to working on my site. Focus and concentration have been lacking, for various reasons. With that being said, I really haven't accomplished much on my website over the last few years. I actually considered letting my domain go, and giving up the web-mistress thing, because it has pretty much laid dormant, with only the occasional visitor sending me e-mails commenting on the fact that it is in serious need of updating.

Well, a few weeks ago I decided to surf over to my site and do a little work on it. One of the things I've really wanted to do for my site is add a blog to it. Most of the content on my site is 'read-only', and I wanted to add a way for people to interact. Before I became the head case that I have been, lol, I had actually found a blog program to add to my site. It was one of those 'ready to go, just install' programs, so I had installed it, and then spent several hours going through the code to customize it to my site. So, like I said, I surfed over to my site a few weeks ago to do a little updating. When I got to my blog, I couldn't remember my password. Eek!

Okay, so the logical step is to click that little link that says "Forgot password?" So I click the link, wait for the infamous email that sends me my password, and then get ready to get my password and move on. But wouldn't you know it? There's a glitch with the program I installed, and all I get in the e-mail is a bunch of garbled code. So, my goal for today was go into my SQL database and see if I can retrieve my password. This is the start of a bad day.

This morning, as I'm searching through my database files, I realize that I won't be able to retrieve my password that way either. This leads me to having to delete my database files and the program all together if I ever want to use that blog. So, the next logical step is save all the files that I have worked on previously, to try to save myself some time. I deleted the files afterwards, and went to reinstall an updated version of the program, so I wouldn't have password issues in the future. I was really bummed at having to delete the old version. It looked damn good, if I do say so myself. :) But sometimes, ya just gotta do what ya just gotta do.

After installing the newer version, and finding that the programmers had made a lot of improvements, I went into the code files to start fixing the blog up to match my site again. I'm thinking to myself, this shouldn't take very long, since I saved all the important code from the previous version, right? Yeah, right. They've made so many changes to the program, that I literally have to start all over with the code. *sighs* But at least I have a password now. I worked on that code from 2:30 am to 9:30 am today. 7 gruelling hours of my head spinning, while I tried to figure out what was what, and I still didn't accomplish much.

Then, at 9:30 this morning, I get a call from Hubby asking me if I want to go to breakfast downtown. I was starving and really could use the break, so I said yes. He came home and we headed downtown.

After breakfast, I needed to stop my Penny's to pick up a pair of clogs I had ordered. (Yes, I finally found my clogs! Yay! LoL) But when I get to the catalog department to pick them up, the lady tells me in a not so friendly tone that the delivery truck broke down and they won't be here until tomorrow. I was a little irritated at her attitude, but I walked away and said I'd be back tomorrow.

Then I tell Hubby that I really need to get my nails done, so we head over to the nail place, and Hubby drops me off. I go into the nail place, only to be told, and I quote: "You need to come back. I can't do you right now." That was it. No explanation beyond that. That irritated me a little more, especially since I'm a very loyal customer. And I tip good, damn it. At least ask me if I "mind" coming back later, or something a little more friendly. Don't just tell me to leave.

Okay, so now I'm getting a bit grumpy. I called Hubby to come back and pick me up. Then I tell him that I really want my nails done, and there's this place I heard about. "Let's try there", I say. So like a good Hubby, he takes me over there. While I'm in there, I tell the Lady what I want. I'm really in need of a new set, so I say that, and she looks at me cross-eyed and tells me they don't do that there. All they do is fills, and they never put on "new sets". Then she throws at me that she's been in the industry for 23 years. Don't pull rank on my ass like that. I've been in the industry for 25, and I told her so. Then I pointed out that sometimes it is necessary to take off the old acrylic and apply new, and that is what I wanted done. She starts arguing with me that all I need is a fill. Does this woman get it? I don't want a frickin' fill! I want a new set! Then I ask her how much. She tells me their prices and I about fell to the floor! Needless to say, I walked out of there mumbling under my breath, got into the car and told Hubby to take me home.

By this time, I'm tired and pissed off. It's about 1:00 in the afternoon, so I had been up for almost twelve hours. I was ready for another nap, but I had one more thing I needed to do yet, and that was to call Apple Computers about my iPod. My iPod had been glitching really bad lately.I knew something was wrong with the hard drive, so I called Apple to see what they recommended. I explain to the Apple representative about the issues I've been experiencing with my iPod, and without giving it much thought, in my opinion, the rep tells me, "It sounds like your hard drive has crashed. If you would like us to fix it, that will be $249.00." OMG! Are you kidding me??? That's the price of a new iPod! And the only reason I know that is because we just bought one for Hubby last week! I can neither afford to buy another iPod right now, nor pay to have this one fixed, which at this point seems completely senseless, since the new ones are so much more advanced. The only thought going through my mind at this point, is "screw this shit. I'm going to take a nap." So that's what I did. I laid down and took a 3 hour nap.

When I got up from my nap, my iPod odyssey continued, as I un-installed and reinstalled my iPod & iTunes programs. Then tried, to no avail, to restore my iPod to factory settings, but my iPod program keeps telling me something about it being the wrong version or some shit.

Well, there ya have it. That's been my day. In the end, I got nothing accomplished, except for to bitch here in this blog, lol. That being said, I'm done for the day, and now I'm going to veg out in front of the computer playing solitaire, until I feel another "nap" coming on, LOL!

xoxo