01.16.09
I’ve been thinking…
I think I might be moving.
This has nothing to do with wordpress. I love wordpress. Everything is so neat and packed together, and some things are confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, everything is so nice and wonderful.
WordPress only has one sad problem: it’s themes. A lot of them are pretty and fun. But while I really like my current one, it doesn’t quite feel like home. It takes a long time to find something that feels like home. Sometimes you have to put two together, and manipulate the HTML by yourself (although I find that is sometimes fatal, as I am clumsy with such stuff. But sometimes it works! 
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But sadly enough, wordpress isn’t as flexible as that.
Although that is really the only problem I find with wordpress, I find it a pretty big problem. It is hard to do stuff to something that doesn’t look like yours.
So I may be switching to blogspot.
I don’t know, but I think I’ll start working on it. I’ll say something if I move. Or if I don’t.
Merissa
P.S. Just throwing this out there: even if I don’t change, I’ll probably change the title. I love reading, but I love other stuff, too. So there’ll probably be a lot more normal stuff.
01.06.09
Bookish Stuff
First of all, Laura’s Review Bookshelf is hosting a contest for the ARC of Prada and Prejudice (which sounds like an awesome book)! All you have to do is tell her about the most expensive thing that you purchased that you didn’t have to purchase, and upload this widget that I’m supposed to have on my sidebar. Except it’s not showing up. I don’t know why. Does anyone have any help?
The most expensive thing I ever bought was probably this old manual typewriter I have. I don’t ever use it, because it is so loud and cannot even compare to a laptop, where it SAVES your work. I don’t remember what I spent on it, but I got it at a yard sale and so it is not even new.
The second thing I am not really telling you. I am asking you. What does it mean when, if you teacher asks if anyone got any good books over break, everyone laughs as a response?
Don’t worry. I don’t really want you to answer that (although if you do, I hope you answer that it is not a good thing). But I am hoping that perhaps there were some people who did (not including me), and they simply did not speak up, perhaps too engrossed in that new book(s). You can always hope.
You know what? I think 2009 will be a bloggy year for me. I am posting even more than I expected.
Merissa
01.01.09
Happy New Year’s Eve!
It’s very strange. After midnight tonight, it will be 2009. And then after that, it will never be 2008 again. What do you suppose happens to 2008?
Personally, I think this year was a fantastic year for books. And that is why I would suggest that people read book blogs (not necessarily this one), because it opens you up and introduces you to books you otherwise wouldn’t have read.
This year had such gems as The True Adoration as Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson, and Chalice by Robin McKinley, and Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale (illustrated by Nate Hale, no relation). It was also the year I discovered books not published this year but great nevertheless – like Just Listen by Sarah Dessen and Undercover by Beth Kephart.
So I enjoyed you very much, 2008. And I cannot wait to see what 2009 will offer!
Merissa
12.29.08
I am feeling cheerful
I am really. My computer was being slow for so long, and now it is back to normal, so I am happy again. It is amazing how quickly I can be won over.
And I have done some investigating. I have discovered that I usually write only ONE post per week. (For those of you curious, the info came from the calendar on the sidebar. I am tremendously good at investigating.)
Unfortunately, due to the slowness of my computer, I have been on here for a frighteningly long time, and I should really get off the computer and do something else.
To get to the point, I officially declare that I shall write more than one post per week. I am announcing it on here, because the safest way to make sure I finish something is to declare it to the world.
I would say more, except the timer has just beeped. I can just hear it shouting for me to get off. So I shall, just to humor it.
Merissa
P.S. In case you are wondering, I am writing my new year’s resolution list right now. I probably will post the entirety of it by next week or so.
12.06.08
I love the new WordPress!
It’s just so cool. I had planned to post a book review here, but then I came, and the new dashboard was so awesome, I couldn’t do anything but post about it. (And I feel slightly sorry for anyone who doesn’t have a wordpress account, and can’t see the changes between the former version and the current 2.7 one. I suppose that means the former one was 2.6. Am I right?)
I would love to investigate more, but first I have to post this about how cool the new version is. Everything’s so connected. You can go anywhere from here (although I won’t just now, because then I’d lost this post, as I haven’t saved it yet.)
So now I shall publish this post on how I approve of WordPress 2.7, and go explore more stuff. How fun! I think that’s why my father says I’m still like a child sometimes, I love new things so much.
Merissa
