silken lines and silver hooks wins by more noses than there are roses ~

[lookingland]

weirdness lately.

i shut down over the weekend and didn't get the motor started until about 6:30 sunday night. put on Master and Commander and suddenly i had all kinds of energy to do all kinds of things. so much so, i watched it nearly twice (turned it off about halfway through the second time). i dunno why i couldn't be bothered before or why i "woke" up then, but i guess there's no point in questioning: onward!

i worked on the website for most of sunday night. a lot of what i did isn't visible yet, but the new homepage is sort of showing (linked to the old pages still, but hey, the site is no longer "down"). i fixed whatever weirdness happened when i reinstalled nucleus (sorta ~ it's still a little kvetchy, but i'm redesigning it, so that's okay). and i built a new home for Reconstruction (which isn't online yet, but will be shortly). it's going to be radically different, this new incarnation. i think i have finally figured out what i want from it and i'm hoping i can just do it and stop fretting over the silly thing. (yes, virginia, that was a pig with wings that just flew by).

and of course, all this revitalization when i've got an ADV contract staring down at me (quite viciously, in fact). i'm gonna be busier than a one-armed paper-hanger with a broken thumb in the next few weeks.

thank you to everyone who voted on the quotes last week. here they are in full:

The sum which two married people
owe to one another defies calculation.
It is an infinite debt,
which can only be discharged
through all eternity.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

~ Emily Bronte

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.

~ John Donne

what i am working on at the moment has a wedding theme. i'm having fun with it.

: D



Southworth & Hawes.
[Unidentified Bride] ca. 1850.
Daguerreotype, whole plate.
George Eastman House Collection.

Comments

[sparowe]

No, weirdness is looking at a bride and feeling strangely sad. :/

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

awww.

cheer up, maybe she had a miserable marriage?

geh.

it's just the horse. tell yourself that: it's just the horse.

[sparowe]

LOL What strange rationale! And yet, I like it. Thank you for making me giggle.

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

oh my! Really cool website design. :) The color combos are sharp as is the layout and I really liked how you organized the gallery portion too. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you ~ ! i'm mostly happy with it, i guess. i've just been so ridiculously pokey about putting it together!

: o p

looking forward to putting the rest of it in order though. it'll be cool when it's all done. yay!

how's your site these days? i know you've been working on your novel and not focusing on the other stuff.

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

I'll probably get back into Eden's Edge once the novel is done, which might not be before April. The next thing for the site will probably be a forum or board of some sort once I pick up PHP/MySQL. :)

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

The new layout looks great...can't wait to see what you do with the rest! :)

The bride you posted is absolutely beautiful...all that lace and ribbon!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you ~ !

she is really pretty ~ the picture looks so new to me. the clarity is wonderful.

: D

[daregale.livejournal.com]

I love those quotes. I only recognized Donne the other day so thanks for posting.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

you're welcome!

: D

[ryan-howse.livejournal.com]

Master and Commander is awesome in both book and movie form.

Also, Patrick O'Brien is my grandma's uncle!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i keep meaning to read o'brien's books ~ and that's really cool that you're related!

: D