The gods and goddesses really are kind
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 ~ 11:07 am
Last weekend Gary and I were blessed with a very rare time in our household, I like to call it a free weekend. Usually Gary and I do something every single weekend. It could be going to see a movie with friends, a birthday party, going to London, going to Hamilton…whatever it might be it’s always something. Now, being the homebody that I am, I find this schedule to be pretty tiring. Last weekend, my Mom, her boyfriend and my Grandma were going to come up to celebrate my birthday but ended up canceling.
It was as if the skies had parted and a single ray of sunshine was beaming benevolently upon my upturned face.
Or, maybe not.
While I love my family, this unexpected gift of a free weekend made me plain ole giddy. Gary and I watched a lot of movies, we made yummy pasta, drank about 20 magic bullet fruit smoothies and I worked on my site almost all weekend. In fact I don’t think I even left the apartment, Gary was the one to go and fetch food because otherwise I would have starved 
Of course you can’t expect me to work on a site all weekend and not have this overwhelming desire to geek out and post about everything I did on my site. I’m going to wait until the site has launched (and it doesn’t’ suddenly break) before I begin documenting what I did. Hopefully, if all goes well that should be around the end of January. I need to edit the existing category structure before I implement it.
One thing that I can mention before the site is launched is that I *adore* WAMP. I love the fact that I can do development work right on my desktop without having to FTP everything up to a test server every three seconds. Seriously, if you develop WordPress templates, or just want to mess around with PHP, I recommend you install it. In fact Lifehacker has a few tutorials on how to install WAMP and host your own WordPress Blog, Gallery2 or Personal Wikipedia site on your home computer. I still need to install Gallery2 and customize it to fit in with the new WordPress template but that will be another weekend project.
