Monthly Archives: May 2009

I’m weak & lack of sleep

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I’ve been attempting to diet for the past few weeks. I wanted to try to get on the wii for at least 30 mins a day on wii fit, but I’ve done that twice in the past few weeks. I swore of soda, but have had some in the past few days. Today’s excuse was lack of sleep and I needed the caffeine. Which is hardly doing anything but it was keeping me awake last night.

I had ice-cream too. But that’s easy to counter with just having good stuff for the rest of my meals.

But I’m so tired right now. I really need a nap but that probably won’t happen any time soon. Sammi had a really bad night, woke up around 11:30 screaming and crying and stayed in that state no matter what I tried until 1am. Kathleen was awake most of that time too, but she was at least in her room watching tv. I only had to get on to her a little bit. We went to be around 9ish I could have slept till 11:30ish but the caffeine and the laptop reformat was on my mind. I hate going to bed with an unfinished project on my mind. But the laptop is now up to 100% and it’s NOT slow. So I must have had a virus or something on it that was jacking all my processor speed. It seems to be fine now.

Mother’s Day

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I can’t say that I had an awesome Mother’s Day or even an eventful one. But it was probably one of the best I’ve had these last few years, mostly because my big girl actually took part in the little event Daddy put together.

Daddy let me sleep in, but Kitkat woke up early enough that he took her aside and to the computer and they sat down and made me an e-card. But this wasn’t the best part!

Kathleen came into our room and woke me up. “Mommy it’s Happy Mother’s Day! Come see the polar bear hug.” Granted I had no idea what she wanted me to see and she tried to show me but Daddy had already sent it to me via email. So we sat down at my computer and we watched the little animated bear give big hugs. It was cute. Shea told me that he let Kitkat type her own name (he had to show her of course but she did the pressing of buttons.)

I got three e-cards. It was a good day. I was tickled that she woke me up the way she did. It did make my morning.

cakePHP

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I have been hesitant over the past year or so to pick up learning a framework of any sorts, it kinda feels like cheating. But I picked up 960 grid system a while ago and I do like it, it takes some of the guess work out of designing. But I don’t use it consistently. Then I picked up jQuery and fell absolutely in love with it. It makes life so much easier and I don’t have to wrote bunches of javascript and make sure it’s cross broswer computable for the most part.

So last week I got a big protion of a new project information and it looked like I was going to be a doing alot of coding. My biggest concern is paypal integration and security of the application. I started looking around. While there might still be issues I decided to pick up cakePHP. I’ve been using it for three days or so and in that time I’ve decided to rewrite my Grocery List Meal Plan Application again using it. I’ve worked on that particular app for two days. And most of that was trying to figure out how to do a few things that were giving me problems. I have added functionality and areas I hadn’t incorporated into my initial design in a matter of hours instead of days. Talk about cutting down my development time. Grated it take two days to get the probelms of what I have done now resolved but that’s because I’m still learning and it’s to be expected. I have one more hurdle to nip in the bud and I think the rest will be smooth sailing because at that point all things will be building on what I just learned.

I think it’s going real well. I am really enjoying it. After the functionality is done I’ll work on theming the application and possibly routing but for now I’m leaving it all as it is. Here’s to learning something new!