10:41 a.m. - Saturday, Dec. 21, 2002
SquirrelX and My New Page Design
10:41 AM
Today is turning out to be a wonderful day. I slept fantastically last night. Whoo! Did I ever need a really good rest. And I only woke up once during the night that I can remember. I went to bed early last night, about 7 PM, I think. I was exhausted! The night before I didn't lie down until 4 AM and then I couldn't sleep. I had taken some pills, if you remember, that were supposed to remove fluid retention. Well, they worked--all too well. It seemed as though I'd no sooner lain down than the pills kicked in with full force. I had taken an extra two pills, total of three altogether, since one was so mild it didn't seem to do anything much. When the medication began working I had to get up approximately every twenty minutes to go to the bathroom. Fluid came off remarkably well--almost too well. So I didn't get hardly any sleep at all Wednesday night and all day Thursday the pills continued to work the same--bathroom every twenty minutes. They finally began to wear out of my system yesterday late afternoon. Now my ankles are no longer swollen and I feel fantastic after the long rest I had last night. I set my alarm clock to wake me up but when it went off I couldn't drag myself out of bed so I didn't go to church today. I slept late, not getting up until 10:30 AM. Today I feel fantastic! I am rested!!! I have no fluid retention!!! I am not running to the bathroom every few minutes any longer!!!
And my good friend, SquirrelX, made an entry into her diary. The notification message was the first thing I saw in my email this mornin'! I was so glad to see that she is still writing. I had sent her an email yesterday after reading her previous entry when she was confused about what to do, and so did a lot of her other readers too, according to Xtine. She sent me a lovely reply thanking me for my email to her and the support and concern of all of her reader fans. I am so glad that she has decided to continue writing. Xtine is going through hard times at the present so she needs the support of friends right now. And if you're curious to know what I'm talkin' about you'll need to read her diary for yourself and find out. Click the link, SquirrelX to reach it. When you get to her diary you can click "Older Entries" to get to her archives and read her past entries, some of which will make you laugh 'til you pee, so don't take any fluid retention pills before reading, hehehe.
I have just this month begun reading Xtine's diary and I am enjoying it tremendously! Whenever I feel blue I read some of her past entries and I get a boost. And since she's from Virginia and writes lovely "Southern-ese" I enjoy her entries even more. Xtine's speakin' mah language, suhs and ladies! She doesn't write quite that much Southern-ese but kind of the way I do in my writin'. If you understand me you will have no difficulty understandin' SquirrelX.
I have a lovely new diary design thanks to my sister CM. We worked on it nearly all day yesterday as we tried to get the links all in place, having to work between my bathroom trips, lol. DiaryLand has some different ways of doin' things than a regular web page, and CM kept wantin' to put in graphics like a regular web page and then she would have to work and work to figure out why it didn't go in, but she finally got it all figured out. She did nearly the entire thing for me. I did add a few words more into the banner than she had first shown. And I managed to set up the links for some of the buttons like the ones below that say "back" and "next". It had taken so much time to do the other that I decided I could at least give it a shot to put the fancy graphics buttons in. CM told me that the buttons wouldn't work like Penny Parker (tm) had set them up to for web pages and that they would probably have to be put in just as links. So I was proud of myself for being able to get those on the page because I usually can't do much of anything without CM holding my hand when it comes to web page design.
And I also put on the link back to Penny Parker Graphics (tm) at the very bottom if any of you would like to look at some of her work. She has some free graphics, such as what I used, and then she also has some graphics she charges for, which is only right and fair, since she does all the work on them. For a charge Mrs. Parker will also make personal graphics designed for your site only. I have seen a few of those and most of them consist of having actual photos of children or grandchildren in the place of faces on drawn designs. Things like that.
I will miss the butterfly and the fancy print "Belle" that was on the first design that CM made for me before we decided to try Penny Parker Graphics (tm). I still have some work to do to get all of the pages changed over. I have to go in and hit the change button on every page to make them have the new design. I also have some work to do on the older entries page. That has to be done completely separately from the regular entry pages, so if you go to it and the print looks odd, I haven't finished with it yet.
2:04 PM
I have done it! I have now gotten all of my past pages updated to the new design. I think that will be for the best to keep only one design overall. I noticed there was a bit of a flash going on when I changed pages up until I changed them all over. Wow! I am really learning to remember how to write some html script out of all this repetition, lol. It's like going to school again! Now all that's left to finish up is the "Past Thoughts" page and I will have that done before long.
I have been looking at some of the other Diaries on this site. It is very surprising to me. The majority of the writers are usually young kids or gay men. Or that's what I've found mostly so far anyway. Where are all the straight and--a little bit--older group of people on DiaryLand? I'd love to read some diaries by some straight guys. Well, I know that D is straight as an arrow, but he just started, like me, and he's so busy he can't really spare time to update very often, which I understand. I'm not complainin!--just wonderin'...Surely there are some straight men, 20-ish to 30-ish, writing on here too. Evidently they're just hard to find.
Speakin' of straight guys with diaries or journals, over the past few months I have been readin' a very interestin' journal by a straight male. It can be found in an online magazine called Red Book. This guy's journal is only what I would call interestin' because it's probably completely fictional, lol. Anyone with a life like this guy has would have to be a character from a sitcom.
