Julynell’s world

Well, here ya go, the first glance of my own created WordPress theme.

I still need to create a page.php, I need to fiddle with the comments section a bit more, think about what I really want in the sidebar. And I still need to figure out how to make my theme compatible with plugins like ’subscribe to comments’ and gravatar displaying in comments.

And then there is the matter of integrating my business website into wordpress. Meaning I need to create a different, but based on the same theme, page template with no sidebar and a menu with other links. But I’ll manage

And yes, there is already a footer there, but not visible in the screen shot. And I have the single.php in place as well, with comments in there.

Let me know what ya think

Fall away – The Fray

You swear you recall nothing at all
That could make you come back down
You made up your mind to leave it all behind
Now you’re forced to fight it out

You fall away from your past
But it’s following you

You left something undone, it’s now your rerun
It’s the one you can’t erase
You should have made it right, so you wouldn’t have to fight
To put a smile back on your face

You fall away from your past
But it’s following you
You fall away

Something I’ve done that I can’t outrun
Maybe you should wait maybe you should run
But there’s something you’ve said that can’t be undone

And you fall away from your past
But It’s following you

You fall away
It’s following you

It’s fun! Designing and building/creating your own WordPress theme. I’m still in the learning curve, just started last week. But I must say, I’m getting the hang of it all. I suddenly realized how the WP structure works. And it’s great! It’s a really powerful thing, it is
And I’m not saying it’s easy, the learning curve is pretty steep. But if you have program coding experience (so you can understand the coding structure and what a piece of coding is actually saying) and you set your mind to it, you’ll get the hang of it.
It’s gonna take some more time for me to finish my own design and put it up here and use it, but I made a start and that’s a whole lot

Ow, and for the ones interested: I found this site on my search for how to code a calendar thingie on my blog One day I want a blog design similar to his or to the one on webdesignerwall.com I absolutely love that design. But that’s for later. It takes time and inspiration to design such a hand drawn design. And especially the latter has left me a couple of months ago. You could call it a writer’s block, but different

For some strange reason, this song suddenly made me realize what Croga has meant to and for me the past 9 (almost ten) years. So this one is for you, hun

Twilight by Vanessa Carlton

I was stained, with a role, in a day not my own
But as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown
And I always knew, what was right I just didn’t know that I might
Peel away and choose to see with such a different sight

And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I’ve seen, cause I’ve seen, twilight

Never cared never wanted
Never sought to see what flaunted
So on purpose so in my face Couldn’t see beyond my own place
And it was so easy not to behold what I could hold
But you taught me I could change Whatever came within these shallow days

And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I’ve seen, cause I’ve seen

As the sun shines through it pushes away and pushes ahead
It fills the warmth of blue and leaves a chill instead and
I didn’t know that I could be so blind to all that is so real
But as illusion dies I see there is so much to be revealed

And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I’ve seen, cause I’ve seen, twilight

I was stained, by a role, in a day not my own
But as you walked into my life you showed what needed to be shown
And I always knew, what was right
I just didn’t know that I might
Peel away and choose to see with such a different sight

And I will never see the sky the same way and
I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday and
I will never cease to fly if held down and
I will always reach too high cause I’ve seen, cause I’ve seen, twilight

Lyrics from lyricsdownload

Ever had insomnia? And I mean, for several nights in a row. I suffer from it for a week now, since I quit smoking. If there would be one thing that would drive me that nuts that I would start smoking again, it’s this. Nothing worse than lying in your bed, staring at the ceiling, knowing you have to get up early in the morning to go to work and seeing it become 3 AM in the morning. Having a person lying next to you, sleeping like a baby makes things worse. And the worst thing: the desperate need for a smoke. In the past, when I suffered from insomnia, and I had that a lot during my dad’s illness, I would go out of bed and outside to go for a smoke. That would always lead to sleeping when I got back to bed. Now, I don’t go out of bed for that smoke anymore, and it’s killing me. But I know I have to go through this. It’s my punishment for smoking all those years I am kinda proud of myself, to be honest. I am smoke-free for a week now and I feel better, I must admit. I have much more air, I don’t ’squeak’ anymore when lying in my bed at night. But there is a down-side to it all…some food doesn’t taste good anymore. It tastes weird and not nice. And that’s the one thing I hate about this. Favorite foods are not that favorite anymore..Luckily my coffee still tastes good

And I am so very determined to go through with this, to never smoke a cigarette again. But I am not there yet, I am aware of that. The danger of smoking that cigarette again in a weak moment, is always there. But I’m hanging in there. Someday the craving for that smoke will be gone