Pam’s Thoughtful Spot

I’m taking today off for a movie (Get Smart) and BBQ.

The rest of the weekend I shall be working.

Suck.

Happy 4th everyone!

So, I’ve been going to the same hairdresser for the last 6 years and she is really sweet and I’ve mostly liked the haircuts I’ve gotten.

Two haircuts ago, she gave me the cutest flippy style that I got lots of compliments on.  So I requested it again.

What I got…was a disaster of layers.   This is my hair after not being cut for 8 weeks:

(Please pay no attention to the puffy face and bags under my eyes…I am indeed overweight but I’ve also been up since 4:30am.  I couldn’t sleep so I rocked the house with some Aerosmtih Guitar Hero)

Now, I’m going to a new girl and hopefully I’ll look normal again.

I really hate having bad hair.  Really really hate it.

You probably have seen the commercial.  Men & Women happily scraping the gunk off their gnarly feet with something that looks like a mini-grater.  It is the foot grooming miracle:

The Ped Egg

I get really dry, cracked heels in the winter and nothing helps them.  NOTHING!  When I saw this infomercial, I had to laugh at the happy scraping people excited about the foot gunk being trapped inside the egg shaped do-hickey.  But then I saw it at Walgrens and I thought “What the Hell?”  and two nights ago became a proud owner.

This thing works!  It only took a few gentle scrapes and my heels looked like new.   I heart my ped egg!

I do need to warn…the foot gunk does not stay trapped inside egg.  Some of it does, but the rest floats out like puffs of flour.  ick.

There is this person I know.  He’s a sort of slacker but goes to work each day with a briefcase.

It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer wanders into a building looking for a bathroom and ends up going into a meeting and then going to “work” each day.   At one point he opens his briefcase and there are crackers and comic books inside.

I have to know what this person has inside his briefcase.

My blog went down the tubes last week when I dared to change a domain name on one of my blogs…  You would think that it would only hose that particular blog but no indeed…  It hosed up everything to the point where I had to finally DELETE my typepad account and start fresh.

So here I am.

I’d been hosting my domain through 1and1.com and decided to start actually use them to host the blog itself.   I went crazy looking for their blog tools until I (ahem) read the directions and found out I needed a different (Linux by the way) hosting package.  Then I was up and running on the 1&1 version of Wordpress.

Which I didn’t like.

Great for beginners but not as much flexibility as I crave.  So I decided to install the real wordpress. 

That my friends has taken me two days.

I hated programming so much that when I became a consultant, I stopped learning new tools.  I didn’t realize until just this weekend how big of an idiot I’ve become with regards to CSS, PHP, etc…  I have no idea what the hell I am doing.   I managed to get this page up thanks to smarter people that know how to put together wordpress themes.  

On order and arriving this week is “Wordpress for Dummies”.

I will prevail!!!

(oh, if you are looking for my book site - I’ve managed to screw that up too…ugh!)