the ramblings of a newlywed

so i decided to make a new layout...my header i had up recently was beautiful (peace sign) but i wanted something more personal...which is usually my style. i usually have pictures of me or jc or just whatever..in any of my layouts and stuff i make for myspace or my blog or whatever it is i'm doing at that time.. so i just felt my my current header and layout was too bland..so i decided to spice it up a little...and here it is!! thanks to the awesome webpage Vector Magic i turned a regular boring picture into an awesome vector image.. i think it turned out so cool.. i wanted a person touch of "me" yet i didn't want it to just be another picture ya know. i wanted it to be something cool. i am soooo happy with the results. i also decided to kinda give it a title.. i usually don' t have one. i usually just use my adiqshun name that i use on everything (myspace, facebook, twitter, livejournal...etc.) but i wanted to actually give it some sort of title that way for the people who just happen to stumble upon my webpage somewhat knows what this blog is about.. that way anyone who can relate to me may stop and read instead of just pass on by. so as i was brainstorming ideas of a title...i thought well my image i'm using is me in my wedding dress...and i've almost been married a month now so i'm considered a newlywed...so i'm gonna call it ramblings of a newlywed... which in my case these ramblings are about love, life, & unfortunately unemployment. hehe but i still think it explains me really well. i usually change layouts often but i'm hoping since i am so happy with this one i will keep it for a while. plus now that i finally got my blog exactly how i want it....3 columns...etc. i am now going to really start dedicating my time to my webpage. this has been a dream of mine for years... i've been "online" since around 1997-1998. i was first introduced to the internet around 5th or 6th grade. i was staying the nite at my friend stephanie's house and she went and sat down at her computer and got online...(dial-up...you can actually hear it dialing up) and i was like "oh my god...what's that noise?" from that day forward i was obsessed with being online.. i couldn't wait to go over and hang out at her house....no i didn't use her for her computer but that was definately something i did while i was there... so a few years later when i finally talked my mom and dad into getting a computer and getting the internet...i was officially and addict. i wanted to be online all day everyday and didn't want to do anything else. i became obsessed with livejournal and chat rooms and creating images and layouts for people. i would make livejournal layouts..sometimes 15 to 20 a day for people.. i'd take requests and work all day long trying to make something that would make them happy and that i was proud of. unfortunately i did it for free and made no money from it but it didn't matter to me.. i loved it. i felt so proud when i'd be browsing thru livejournal and see a 100 x 100 icon made by me. sometimes i'd put the © melissa jo on it so that everyone knew i'd made it. even if they had no idea who melissa jo was...i knew who it was. so as i upgraded from livejournal's to webpages (geocities, angelfire, etc...) i taught myself to do html and saved up all my money to purchase paint shop pro 7.0 so that i too could make those awesome images like everyone else online... i would visit sites like lissaexplains and study and read for hours on how to do things that i had always wanted to do. as i went thru high school i still stayed online quite often but i made more time for friends and partying and such...so i sorta slowed down on stuff... (and now if you asked me to make you a livejournal layout...oh my..i have no idea) no matter what....i've always had a dream of owning my own domain and starting up my own webpage... i've always wanted to be able to make graphics and layouts and whatever there is out there that people want..i wanted to be able to make it and give it out for free. because whenever i started online there wasn't much out there.. if you wanted your own graphics you had to learn how and make them yourself.. so i'm gonna do it... i've always said i'm gonna..but never did ....and now with me not working ....why not?
i'm getting unemployment (i haven't got my first payment yet) so it's not like i have no income....if i had no income i definately wouldn't be able to sit at home and try and work on my web career..but with having money come in it's the most perfect opportunity for me. i was working on my webpage before the wedding plans were going crazy..i worked on it sometimes from the minute i got home from work until the minute i went to bed...so if i have all week everyday open...then i definately think i'll be able to get this thing going.... that is if i stop procrastinating... here i am...watching the olympics....blabbing away on my blog....getting ready in the next few days to start sewing stuff to sell on etsy ....but hey..i can do it.. and i'm gonna start i think on monday. maybe tomorrow.. but tomorrow i have my cousin's first football game and then jc's family is sorta having a get together/dinner thing.. and then saturday jc's cousin is having a cook out/party and jc may be going to avon to play softball so....the next few days will probably be kinda tough to work online... i want to do it while jc is at work..he works from 5 am to 1:30 pm.. so if i could get up at 8 every morning and work online from 8-1 that's 5 hours a day i'd be putting in online...that'd be awesome..as long as i can stay away from myspace, facebook, ebay, etsy..etc.... than i could definately get shit done.. haha
{the last two pictures are from our wedding & wedding reception. the one picture is me and my girls before the wedding in the room they gave us to get ready in at the church..and the 2nd picture is us taking shots at the bar at the elks... i had been there maybe 20 minutes...and already taking shots...that was probably about my 4th one or so already...hehe}