Need Stickies

In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to change how I create and present this portion of my site. (I've also been trying to stay away from site-referential entries, but I'm putting that on hold for now.) As I find most people like to have near daily updates, and as I find that updating the whole site navigation and all is so time-consuming that it makes me disinclined to write new updates, I'm going to try for some regular shorter entries. That's not to say I won't still get in those long rants. But I hope to produce some vignettes to fill the space between those entries. And if all goes according to plan, shorter entries will mean more frequent entries.

Of course, I've tried this before to no effect. Thus, I now plan to change my approach to writing each day's entry. First, I'm going to keep Notepad or something like that open all day (how I wish I had Stickies on Windows) to catch my random thoughts instead of attempting to save them all in my head throughout the day for a long entry at night, at which point they've likely been forgotten or I don't feel like writing. Second, I've created this new front page dedicated exclusively to the most recent entry. While I'll still have all my entries archived on the old pages, if I decide to make a quick update sometimes without updating all the navigation, everyone can still access that day's musings.

Well, there's the grand scheme. Wish me luck in executing it.

Later: I finished pillow number one a little while ago. This one is yellow fleece and turned out to be slightly rectangular in shape. I had immense trouble sewing the pillow at first, as the machine kept eating the fabric and creating large knots. however, after struggling with it for a while this afternoon (my mom tried to help, but couldn't find a problem with the machine), I finally realized what was holding me back. I had loaded the bobbin (that's the spool of thread in the bottom of the machine) backwards, so the thread got tangled every time the machine attempted to sew. after i flipped that baby around, I stitched those sides together like a master tailor. then I stuffed the pillow with a great deal of fluff in an attempt to create a smooth, comfortable surface. I'm glad I got the extra bag of polyfill as it looks like I'll definitely need it. In fact, I'll have to buy more if I end up making small pillows with my leftover fabric. Yeah, I know, I'm being way too domestic. I prefer to call it crafty.

I hear another random rain shower starting. This summer, rain has drifted in unexpectedly some days, often several times a week. But we're not talking a light sprinkle here -- these are honest-to-goodness downpours, albeit ones that last only a few minutes. Just short, intense bursts of rain followed by equally strong blasts of sunshine that dry up all the moisture. In another words, we're having a summer of flooding droughts.