May 25, 2013 7:24 pm

Hot Spring Highlights

Our fifth wedding anniversary was on May 24th, so we’re celebrating in Canada this weekend!

Some highlights from the hot springs:

  • Steven Segal look-alike with a gold chain necklace and nipple tattoos – one said “sweet” and the other said “sour.”
  • An adorable toddler girl with an amber teething necklace and a little pixie haircut.
  • Little boy, about age five, while happily swimming by with his mom’s help: “I’M DROWNING!”
    As Daniel and I dissolve into giggles, we hear his mom say, “It’s not nice to say that unless it’s true.” It reminded me SO much of the things I have to say to Wesley!
  • Friend Paul (a really good friend from college) was making a nationwide motorcycle trip and ended up at our house early in the week. He then met us at the hot springs this morning for a swim! It was really good to see him.
  • We Skyped with Wesley for the first time this evening and got such a kick out of it! He perked up as soon as he heard our voices. We told him about our ferry ride and how we bought him some presents, and he was pretty excited about helping Ona make some chocolate pudding before bathtime.

We need to get Wesley a passport so he can come with us next time! I think he’d have a lot of fun swimming. There are a lot of families with kids here, so I think as long as we remind him of the rules (no splashing, no running, etc.) he would do okay.

I say this every time we visit, but CANADA, I LOVE YOU. You have Shreddies cereal and Cadbury mini-eggs (available year round!) and tiny jugs of chocolate milk, and lilac bushes EVERYWHERE along the highway and it’s all so beautiful! Plus, your television commercials are way better than ours.

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May 4, 2013 10:16 pm

Things Wesley has thrown up on today

  • My hand
  • His jacket
  • His button-up shirt
  • His sweater vest
  • The umbrella stroller
  • His own butt (twice)
  • A cherished quilt handmade by my now-deceased great-grandmother
  • His pajamas
  • The concrete steps outside our door
  • A bucket for playing in the sand at the beach
  • An empty animal cracker tub we designated as a barf bucket
  • The toilet
  • The kitchen floor

Apparently when Wesley contracts a cold, it heightens his gag reflex to an outrageous degree, making it so that any coughing (due to the cold) is liable to end in vom. It is a terrible habit.

Excuse me while I go take a shower.

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May 3, 2013 3:13 pm

New pink and aqua theme!

Wednesday afternoon, I was struck with inspiration after reading some articles on the “flat design” trend happening right now and after a couple of days of off-and-on work, oipom.com has its first new design since (oh gosh) AUGUST OF 2008?!

I’d been meaning to update my previous theme for a while; it didn’t support threaded comments, I was using images for everything (vs web fonts) and, while I still really liked the design (semi-flat! before it was popular!), the copy was really tiny and I kind of like the giant copy trend happening at the moment.

This was one of my first experiences “designing in the browser” – I barely used Photoshop at all. It was also my first time using SVG graphics. I don’t get to do a lot of this kind of stuff at my job, so it’s nice to be able to experiment with HTML5 and SVG and mobile-friendly themes. This theme also has an updated favicon and Apple Touch image, so if you bookmark my site on your mobile device (no one will do this but hey) it should have a nice bright pink logo.

Still to do:

  • Fix some weirdness on the mobile layout
    Now that I have an iPhone, I actually care about this sort of thing! I think the threaded comment links are missing and it could use some pixel-pushing, but it’s readable as-is for the most part.
  • Update logo to SVG
    Desktop looks fine – you can’t tell – but oh gosh, what a difference this would make on the mobile layout. I think the logo would be an okay SVG candidate as it’s pretty vectory anyway.
  • Other refinements
    The archives page is kind of broken (I think the jQuery UI isn’t coming in or something) but it’s still usable.
    Type-related quirks, like sentences getting messed up if it contains an ellipses.

If you notice anything that looks really out of whack, PLEASE tell me and I will do my best to fix it! Also, let me know if you miss the “most recent tweet” gizmo – I debated on whether or not I should keep it and decided that I’d ditch it for now unless somebody says otherwise.

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