Long Time, No Sea

Nothing like having your brain oozing out your ears to remind you how ADHD you are. Im sitting here about to write and all I can think about is how much I wish that Joomla! was more like Wordpress. You have to still manually update everything, plugins, etc on Joomla still and even the SEO functions are not working well. Backing up is tough, at least RECOUPERATING a Joomla! site can be a feat, in itself- and all the while, Wordpress has figured that all out, already.

Last night, Jay and I watched the 35 minute feature film of ‘Lemonade‘ last night- it was quite inspiring! I want my own coffee roaster in my home now. My ideal home would be such a circus, people. I would have a personal coffee roaster I would roast my own beans with, drive-thru espresso window to serve people ‘Jyn’s Juice’. My art studio where I would paint and edit my photography in, inbetween photoshoots. Downstairs I would have a family room with cabinets for storing kid projects and assignments, a corner area for studying with vaulted ceilings and lots of light coming in through windows. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases filled with all sorts of books- old and new. I would have my own pantry filled with supplies to cook with, shelves with cases of cake decorating supplies and recipes…. the list is endless.

Just this morning I was thinking about how neat it would be to have a website called ‘The Village Traders’ that sold bulk items for storage and use for large families/ organizations. How nice it would be to have a 3 sectional cereal dispencer that fit on the bottom shelf of our pantry that could be refilled when pulled out. But it really would have to be a 3 section, deep- not tall. Im always coming up with ideas like that.

But, I’m already the Jyn-of-all-trades. I do the mom thing, the wife thing, the web design and photography thing, the blog thing, the cooking thing, the Youtube thing, the writing thing… I do the coffee thing the making-stuff thing…. I really would make a bad employee, ADHD makes for a bad career.

Sometimes I feel like one of those one-man-bands, walking down the hall with a drum, cymbals, harmonica, horn, guitar and accordian all strapped to my body…and a baby on my hip.

-Jyn

I have been VERY ADHD today. But boy, has it been refreshing! It’s like stepping out of my skin and stretching a bit.

So, to follow just a few of my tangents from today, I was browsing Twitter exploring some users there. I confess, I’m a N00b Tweeter and haven’t really done too much with it until now. I ‘tweet’ my days and minutes on Facebook as it is,  why do it somewhere else too?

But I came upon a VERY interesting Tweeter named LightStalking who had some fantastic photography tips. From there, I joined the website and followed it to one of his HDR tips article links, Stuck In Customs- another fabulous photographer. If you have never done HDR photographs you have GOT to visit his website.

So, here I am surfing this huge wave- it was great. I go to Facebook to check out his profile and notice he works for this website called Web Wars. VERY interesting new era of online games. It offered 2 different platform games- Weblings and Weblords, a duet of online games that entertain while guiding people to website affiliates by splitting the screen in half and having creatures ‘hide out’ on sponsors waiting for you to defeat them. You install a toolbar into your browser that facilitates this online gameplay and by clicking ‘Explore’, you are directed to a random website within the categories their mobs are hiding out on.

If you are curious, I chose the Weblings version and I’ve won 4 battles already- the last of which led me (ongoing on this runaway train) to www.thingiverse.com. Its fabulous! The word ‘Inspirational’ did not describe entirely how I felt about it. Now I cant wait to own our own property complete with huge shop area so we can GEEK out and buy my own 3D Printer.

Im definitely inspired to develop some more shoots to upload. I haven’t really done anything particularly professional since I was pregnant with Emma- Lord knows I’ve had lots of opportunities. I guess I just wasn’t ready, entirely.

Either way, it feels good to creatively stretch and I hope it helps get you up onto your web surfboard, too.

-Jyn

A few things that always get me inspired and giddy, are 1.) new Updates to applications Im using both online and as software and 2.) plugins! I love plugins… especially ones that do cool things I use a lot. Wordpress has lots of fantastic plugins.

Today I installed some new Spam plugins, one of which is Wassup! which logs and shows the IP address of my visitors (*chuckles to herself maniacly). So, upon installing this, I now find myself RACING to my stats page to view who has been.. viewing me! As if I need anything else to fixate on, hah!

My Google Analytics doesn’t seem to be working, however which is frusterating- causing me to go on a forum binge of thread skimming, of course, leading to other tangents of plug in surfing and intalling… ah, to be ADHD. You guys don’t know what you are missing.

-Jyn