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As some of you know, today is Blog Action Day and I’ve registered Static-Romance to blog for awareness this year’s theme of poverty. It is not too late for you to register and sign up. If you’re reading this today, October 15th, 2008, I urge you to participate and take action.

I’ve spent the last two months without a cell phone. The first day my phone broke, I thought it was a mini-tragedy. How was I going to get my Olympic text messages from NBC?  Safe to say, I did survive. Life continued on, and I made due with what I have. At eighteen years-old, I’ve spent everyday of my life with running water. I’ve had electricity, gas, heat, and for the last four years the usage of air conditioning. If I’m hungry, I can drive down to Wendy’s and spend $4 on a entire meal. I don’t have to walk anywhere. I can choose to, but it’s not a necessity.

Most of you are just like me. I’ve never had to fetch water from a river filled with toxins just to drink and bathe in everyday. I’ve never had to eat less than 500 calories a day. I’ve never had to sleep on the ground. This is not my everyday life. However, for millions of others, it is their everyday life.  

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Edit: Please participate in Blog Action Day on October 15th! I’m going to participate so use your site for a cause. You can read more about it at http://blogactionday.org/.

This weekend has been entirely crazy. I was planning on blogging on Friday but I had so much to do. We even had an internet outage so I was like bleh. I also have a new Flickr so feel free to add me. I have ZERO 3 contacts on there at the moment. A lot of people were like omg you need a Flickr and where are they to be found? lol so if you want to see some hideous photos of me and other people I know you can add me. The link will always be at the bottom in my footer or on the my links page. 

I FINALLY finished the wordpress theme for my visitors to download. You can download it and view the live demo here. If the feedback on this theme goes well, then I’ll try to create more. So if you like it or not, just let me know in the comments. I spent more time on it than I did my own theme. I also did two Pink for October wallpapers. 

A lot of things annoy me online and I don’t know about you but I think it’s list-worthy:

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Okay so I’m seven days late but it’s okay! I actually did post a blog on the first, which does look like it disappeared. If you commented me and it seems that I didn’t comment you back, I apologize x 1000. I’m having host issues. I am actually hosted by two companies and guess which one just went down? The new one, exactly the same day the old one came back. I find it kind of funny but as long as the site is here. It’s kind of like managing two sites which I will be doing soon but that’s a secret.   

I changed the theme for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It features Nana from the manga NANA, If you knew me when I first started this site, I lost my cousin in 2006 to lymphoma a week after her 13th birthday. She was one of the sweetest people I ever had in my life and there’s not a day I don’t miss her. I think it’s important for people to be aware that cancer can happen to anyone and thousands of people are affected. Young or old, it doesn’t matter if it’s in your family or not, it just means a lot to people when you help out. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll have a theme and a few wallpapers available  for download for others to go Pink. If you want to go ahead and go Pink now, here’s a list of 13 WordPress themes and don’t foget to sign up here. For even more information, you can visit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

I’m a huge sucker for autumn. I love it when it’s cold. There are new seasons on all of my favorite TV shows, the holidays, new fashion choices, personal holidays (like my 3 year anniversary with David was yesterday and my site is turning 2 tomorrow), and just so many things going on all at once. It’s like spring but only colder.  So in my spirit of giving and for the fact that I’m not done working on my gifts for my visitors I’ve compiled a list of 10 nice wallpapers for autumn. …

Edit: The site is being a bit difficult when commenting but your comment does go through. If you want to see it just refresh the page after you comment.

Good evening blog-world! For those who were actually giving this site any attention, I have been away for the past month. Honestly I’ve been away from the site since June but I periodically placed two blogs so I didn’t seem dead. Well as you can see, I deleted every blog entry I ever wrote, except for my last whiny one. I’m a very nostalgic person so that seemed impossible to do. I just wanted to start all over. I’m eighteen now. It’s time for me to grow up. Although I’m almost nineteen, I’m going to spend plenty of time with my site in the next few months so I might as well make it worth while.

What has a person like me been up to since my last blog? Not getting paid. No seriously I’m just waiting for things to work out. I still have my job as a case manager; however, I haven’t been to the facility in nearly a month and a half. I’ve been studying web design. Something I’ve gotten so much better at since my first theme. Yeah I apologize for you having to stare at it for so long. It’s gone now so let’s give thanks! I’m still waiting for my three months of pay I have yet to receive. Working for a state-certified facility means you get to feel the wrath of the budget cuts. However, it has been confirmed for the 30th time that the funds will be released within the next two weeks. So somebody is going to take their $$$ and invest it into my future. 

As for the site, you may want to change whatever links you had. I’ve intergrated most of the site into WordPress. Be patient with me because I’m coming up with a better navigation system.  I’ll probably get into the dynamic sidebars or something or drop-down menu navigation like I had intended. I was planning on validating my CSS/XHTML and I’m going to get there eventually. I’m going to come up with better resources and tutorials as soon as I get back on my laptop. For now, I’ll do blogging and I’ll be posting articles as well. I also have a new empty Ask & Answer page. I updated my webmistress page, took down the fonts (I do fear getting sued), and probably some other stuff so browse around.

I’ll try to wrap this post up but I just finished this Japanese drama called 1 Litre of Tears about a girl named Aya Kitō who had spinocerebellar degeneration disease. It’s based on a true story and the Aya had the disease for 10 years before passing away in 1988. I don’t think I’ve ever cried as much during one series as I did watching that show. For the fact that one girl who was three years younger when diagnosed, had such courage and had to face so many hardships inspired me personally to be a better person. I do think everyday we take things/people for granted. The show made me think harder about my dedication towards my loved ones and how much I would go through just to see them smile everyday. Aya had a lot of people in her life who couldn’t carry half of the burdens she did, and who somewhat gave up on her.

Yeah we’re all only human, and some of us can’t handle such extremeties. If some of us were in Aya’s position, slowly loosing control over our bodies and dying at the same time, wouldn’t we want to have the same friends? Wouldn’t we want to have the same people who say they love us now around us; even if we are facing inevitable death, to spend the time we have left enjoying life with those people? Life means so much and I’d rather be cherishing it and doing the best I can for others to enjoy it as well.

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing - 木藤亜也