It’s been a long time… but here I am
12 Sep 2010 3 Comments
So I’ve been gone for a while… but I’m back. In the last year, I was hit by the recession. I lost my crappy job to a layoff. (April 09) Funny thing is I wasn’t mad, I was relieved. I stayed home with the kids over the summer which was nice. It took me 8 months to find another job. The week my unemployment benefits check ran out, I interviewed and landed the job! I’m very happy to be at my new place… i enjoy my job very much. It’s so nice to feel appreciated. In between – I’ve also built a custom website for brother in law. Pretty soon i’ll be working on myown design. We’ll see how that goes…
Well I’m happy to be back…
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Kim @ Not Your Typical Southern Belle
Sep 13, 2010 @ 21:23:13
That is so awesome! The fact that you got to stay home with the kids, and be relieved instead of stressed…the timing, and the design. I wanna see! I still haven’t cut my teeth on my own WP theme yet. SO much code. I could knock out a blogger design in a day once I had my graphics ready, but WP is … well, you know, if your BIL’s site was at WP.
Still want to try to do some designing with me? My code isn’t likely up to par, but I am working on it, in my VERY limited spare time. I can still do some (what to me are) pretty nifty graphics, though.
Let me know! We can learn together.
notthepromqueen
Sep 14, 2010 @ 21:28:34
I did love blogger – it was so user friendly. WordPress… i’m not sure i like it much more. And yes – there is waaaay too much code. As for the brother in law’s website – it was actually for him and my hub. A custom website at their own .com – away from wordpress. Yes, I’d still like to try some designing with you! You know how to do the blogger designs and I do like your style too…. I’ve gotten pretty good with photoshop and I know how to get the end result loaded to the host for custom sites… I’m thinking more along the lines of income… when you have time take a look at http://moxiedesignstudios.com/ tell me what you think. Let’s talk about it some more.
Kim @ Not Your Typical Southern Belle
Sep 21, 2010 @ 13:39:50
The Moxie Girls site is wonderful! Of course, I can’t really do much with design until I replace my laptop, but that will *probably* be at least Christmas. I can do a blogger theme, no problem, but it’s a LOT of work to do a custom WP theme. I’m thinking for WP, maybe just custom graphics – which I can do – and maybe a bit of custom coding for widgets, etc, would sell for folks to dress up their plain/free/whatever WP theme. That’s what I do right now!