Ch-ch-change-es

:) I'm sorry. I can't seem to help myself with the cheesy song title blog titles, complete with the singing inflections. :)

The house smells like snake again today. I don't know if that means the cat got all excited and pounced on it while we weren't paying attention, or what, but since I've been home all day, and the smell didn't start up until right around 5, which is the same time I got home yesterday, I wonder if it's just coincidence, and the smell (which I keep typing as small) is something else. Either way, it's unpleasant. And there was a bloodbath in the small bathroom when I got up today. A trail of blood leading into the house from the garage, up the hall to the bathroom, across the bathroom floor to her preferred killspot just in front of the sink, and a LOT of smeared blood and spatters covering a 2' square area (that means 2 on a side, right?) in front of and under the sink. Since it always and without fail falls on me to clean up the blood of whatever hapless victim Fujo brought into the house, I grow steadily un-enamored with the cat. And whatever this bitter smell that tastes frigging horrible is that is filling the house, it really needs to go.

But none of that has to do with our title, so let me tell you I have finished the new index page to the site, but I have to redesign the nav bar across the top of the page, incorporating the bottom bar into it and effecting a system of rollovers. Since I am not a flash type of person, this will require actual work, which will require help from the very impatient and unhelpful SO, who is himself bogged down with work, not to mention, I am PMS'g, making it a very bad time to learn anything new regarding web design, so the new page has not yet gone up to replace the old one. I like it so much though, that I am inclined to put it up anyway, even with the now too-wide bottom nav bar.

Ah, webdesign, they name is Pita. ;)

However, the friends page, which is easy to change, is growing like mad. :) I am proud to say I have added Silver Parrot, Yatta, and a new banner for Indigo Art to that page, and have become a member of the International Jewelry Designers Guild and Bust Magazine's Girl Wide Web (those are on the links page), and am waiting confirmation (and an opening) to join the Society of International Jewelry Artisans, which I am VERY excited about and hopeful they will accept me. Their membership is doing some crazy beautiful stuff, and I can only grow and benefit from membership with them.

I also changed the template to the Dragonblog, as I call it, here, because blogger navigation drives me absolutely insane, in that once you click a link to another page not the main index page, you can't get back to index without hitting the back button. Now, however, you can. Just click "Dragonblog" up there at the top of the page under the title, and it will take you back to the index page of this blog. :)

In addition to my own changes, I would like to congratulate Cynthia Schmidt, of Indigo Art, who has hit a milestone of her own, having recently registered the Cranky Cat® trademark! :) I wish her nothing but the best and all kinds of wonderful success. :)

(I can not wait till I have a kitchen with actual wall space - this one is entirely open, accept for the cabinetry and a window - so that I can hang my wonderful Indigo Art print, Fish Soup. :)

And Sea of Stars is going through a bit of expansion and has redesigned recently, as well. :) So it looks like everyone is right on path at the moment. :)

That's it for now. Ciao, bella!

Jenie