A new year, a new beginning.

I’ve been using other blogs for most of my writing lately. Mostly I’ve been working on designs and implementing various features tho. I’m really starting to feel more comfortable, and confident, with the customizing of WP sites. I’ve got at least 3-4 that I think are pretty sharp and I’m going to be able to use as templates for future designs having done a lot of work to clean up the sloppy css and cut out the un-needed crap.

I still have learning to do. I want to experiment with using WP as a CMS more, experiment with drop down javascript menu’s, learn some more php tricks, etc. etc. I also really need to get samples installed on my biz site and do some upgrades there in general.

On the personal side, I’ve been stressed and depressed a lot. This has been a crappy winter so far. I plan to just keep putting 1 foot in front of the other and hope that things will get better as the new year moves ahead.

The holidays will be over soon. Thank god. I guess I’m looking forward to the weekend with J’s kids but aside from that theres not much else to like about xmas imo - call me scrooge. I am looking forward to the beginning of a new year tho. I’m hopeful that this year will bring many positive chnages for me/us.

Last night was another frigid one. Fucking miserable. Its a little warmer tonight at least.

Oh well, I said I needed to change my sleeping habits.
Since I tried to go to bed early last night (around 2am) and haven’t slept more than the equivalent of a couple of naps (maybe 4-5 hrs total) then today may be a good day to turn my sleep around. It kinda sucks, I’d much rather have been able to just get to sleep last night and sleep soundly. I especially don’t cherish the idea of going to the gym, which I’m supposed to do today, sleep deprived. I guess I’ll just try NOT to focus on the fact that I haven’t had as much sleep as I think I should have ie. ignore or forget it. I’ll plan to drink lot’s of coffee and fake it.

17:52:03
Back from the gym. Its a good thing that I always feel better after a workout, and I know that before I go, because the workouts themselves sure aren’t always fun. Today I felt tired as crap and really didn’t enjoy the process @ all.

Speaking of workouts, I found an article on another site specific to training for ectomorph’s. It doesn’t have any new info that I’m not familiar with but it might serve as an good reference piece for me. I’m copying and pasting it here for later reference.

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