Bottled Sky

My LiveJournal has been “smoochified.” I normally don’t do mushy, but I came across this old drawing of mine and felt the urge to use it in a layout:

I added the style sheet to the LJ themes page in case anyone else wants it. I had a few drops of creative juice left over after finishing the layout, so I made a bunch of icons as well.

In other news, my mom is now a blogger. I guess everyone and his mother really does have a blog these days She chose Mrs. B for her screen name and refers to my dad as Mr. B and me as Miss B in her entries. I love it, haha!

To my knowledge, my dad has yet to join the blog-wagon. He does visit this site regularly, though. (Hi, Dad!) Sometimes we’d be eating dinner and he’d say, “By the way, in your links page you missed an ‘I’ in ‘visiting.’” Who needs Spell Check when you have a perfectionist father going over your website?

Taking a cue from my traveling book, one of my favorite pairs of pants has left me for Germany. My aunt, who lives there, stayed with us for a couple of weeks in November. She went back home just before the holidays, and my pants were accidentally mixed in with her luggage.

Although I’m a little bummed about losing those pants, I can’t help but be amused that another of my possessions has reached Europe before me. Plus, I can’t really complain, because although I lost a pair of pants, I gained three cocktail dresses that my aunt generously bequeathed to me before she left. Sure, they look like they belong more in the costume department of a bad 80’s movie than in my closet, but at least they’re, um, interesting.

• Dress # 1 is bright purple with a fully-sequined bustier top and a skirt made of shiny, metallic fur (I kid you not). It also comes with a matching shawl made of the same furry fabric.
• Dress # 2 has a black satin bodice and a ruffled, gold-and-peach skirt. I don’t know what that gold fabric is called. I asked my mom, but the only thing she could say was that it looked like crinkled candy wrapper There’s also a wide ruffle that runs around the bust area, which my aunt says is supposed to make the wearer look like a flower.
• Dress # 3 is made of black brocade and adorned with a big bow on the front. It’s actually pretty tame compared to the other two.

All three dresses fall just above the knee. In case you’re having trouble imagining what they look like, here’s a visual aid:

All I need now are 3-foot-high bangs and a costume party to attend. Does anyone want to join me? I’d probably wear the furry, sequined wonder; you can pick from the other two dresses.

…hello, Bottled Sky! I now have my very own domain, a gift from Kathy, Ivy, Tin, Albert, and Derek. Aside from the domain name, they also paid for an entire year’s worth of hosting. Thanks so much, you guys! Tracy of Katgyrl.com also deserves a huge thank you for hosting me for six long years. That’s an eternity in web time! She is made of pure awesome.

As you can see I’ve basically kept the same layout, making just a few minor adjustments to reflect the change of title. I also cleaned up the content a little and installed WordPress. I encountered problems while attempting to import my Blogger posts, so I ended up having to manually add every single entry. I’ve never been more thankful that I don’t blog that often, haha! It sucks that I can’t import my old Haloscan comments. I definitely have no plans of doing that manually, though, so I’m just going to have to let it go (Edited on 2/13/2007: Scratch that. My “OCness” got to me and I ended up transferring the comments anyway.)

If you have me in your links or bookmarks, don’t forget to update them. And please let me know if you find any bugs. I’m still very new to WP, so there’s a huge chance of errors lurking in the shadows. (Cue ominous music.)

Happy new year, everyone!