Mood:
party time!Now Playing: Wii Tennis - Beloved's kickin' pixel butt ! Go, Honey !!!
Today was interesting. Beloved Hubby got a bonus, so we did a bit of shopping. Ended up at Best Buy - and the doors were festooned with copy-paper posters in at least nine different colors, trumpeting the fact that Nintendo Wii systems were now in stock. Eeek.
We'd been thinking of getting one, both to help Dearest Son learn sharing, following directions, and cooperative play and to get me off my big butt. The Wii is the one with the controller you have to move around to use, and there's a disc of sport games included, plus lots of additional physical games sold separately. The graphics are sub-par compared to PS3 and Xbox, but we weren't too concerned about that. Both Beloved and I are too old for games that need the player to coordinate twelve buttons, a joystick, a trackball, and a rocking lever switch all at once. A simple, fun to use system would go a lot farther in Chez Insanity than the latest and greatest tech. I still like Pac-Man !
We'd done the research and weighed the benefits and minuses - namely $250. and the possibility of a game-addicted Son, plus the fact that no one's had any systems in the two weeks we've been pondering. Odd when you think about that, the system's been out for nearly a year. Looked up games and add-ons, and the included features, read scores of reviews and articles about autism and video games. And we still hadn't decided when these Skittles-colored signs confronted us.
Amazingly, they were on the sales floor, albeit in the back, but we just strolled up, muttered about how this was probably a bad idea, and took one off the pyramid pile and to the register line. I figured they'd be under lock and key, or these'd be dummy boxes redeemable for the real thing once payment was tendered. But Beloved and I both knew, as soon as we saw the signs, that we were leaving with one. Decided to use what came with for a while, then later get additional controllers and rent a few games before buying.
Only took about 20 minutes to install, and when you consider all the other stuff we have connected to the TV already, this isn't bad at all. I actually stressed my right arm a bit during one of several boxing matches, and I rank in digital bowling about as badly as I do with the real thing. But it certainly was fun. The nice young lady who cashiered our purchase beamed and said we'd love it. I even let her talk me into a free Rewards card, since we'd get $5. for each $250. purchase - and we'd just made that. And I think she's right. I've already enjoyed it quite a bit, and I worked up a real sweat during Boxing.
Son wiped the floor with both of us in Bowling. And he fell asleep in about ten minutes tonight. I think he wiped himself out, too. We're all gonna make a personal icon - called a Mii - to represent ourselves in the games tomorrow.
In doll news, I decided to keep just the latest ten images from the Challenge - dress every Barbie-size doll in something I've made using patterns I've never used - on the Home page. Moved the rest to the Barbie page, reducing some of the images a bit to save on space. I'll probably edit the information later, Tripod was doin' something wonky with the text interface today. Having only ten pictures up on the home page is plenty, and it makes it easier to scroll through.
I try to update the site at least three times a month, but I'd prefer ten updates, even if it's just ten new doll dress images. That way the '10 most recent updates' near the bottom of Home all have the same month in ‘em ! I hate it when a site is great and fantastic - and it hasn't been updated or even touched since 2004.
Spending a lot of time on the site lately. Probably because I'm spending less time online reading bad webcomics (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comes to mind, author's either 17 or a serious misogynist), smirking at images of kittens using pidgin English, and reading jokey news sites and misery maven havens - I just don't have the endless hours anymore.
While I was on the Barbie page, I updated that a bit, too. I had this empty space at the top, and I thought, ‘Wouldn't it be cute if I could find a Barbie font, and put my name there ?'. Well, thought = action, and I found the font in seconds. Too bad Windows Vista didn't want to let me install it ! Ended up copying the True Text files into Clipboard, storing them in a file, then opening Fonts and selecting ‘Add new Fonts'. Not sure why that worked when a simple ‘Extract to' didn't, but that's Vista for ya. From there, I made up a few signs in PaintShopPro, and pasted them to the Barbie page as photos. Tripod is a nice webhost company, but they only give me four fonts for my freebie pages.
If you'd like the same font, it's free, and available here ->
http://www.newfonts.net/index.php?pa=show_font&id=308
And that was my day. Housework in the morning, website in the afternoon, Wii and Taco Bell tonight. No time to sew something new, but a really nice day today. At least the snaps for ‘Ice Night' are sewn on - Son's busdriver will be gone for a few days, so he has a substitute learning the route. While Mr. George has Son home about ten minutes after school lets out, the subby takes a bit longer. And yes, that means the photo was taken with Malibu Barbie wearing the dress pinned on. I'm always so excited about a new outfit's completion, I wanna post it as soon as possible, which normally means pins in the back.
I keep telling people I'm evil and lazy, but they never believe me !
