Too Bright!!

Does this layout hurt anybody else's eyes? Refresh your browser if you can't see it. I'm still trying to code it, but OUCH my eyes burn! Maybe it's just me... or maybe I should change the content color to a lighter, softer color. Suggestions please!
The calligraphy was done by a man at this Festival my friend and I went to. I'll write more about that later, but basically the characters are just the syllables of Jezrehiah.

I also fixed my cutenews problem. For some reason I couldn't have more than one article per page without them messing up the layout, so I experimented with my coding. And it turns out, this one little font code was the problem. So it's fixed now. =)

posted by Tika on 13 Aug 2008

Have you figured out?

By the way, I'm working on a new layout. Don't know when it'll be up though!

posted by Tika on 11 Aug 2008

Coming to a theater near you

So it's August. That means school is coming up. It was fun while it lasted... having the summer to myself and not thinking about the terrors that lie ahead. Unfortunately summer homework is a painful reminder of the future. Yet somehow, there's excitement. Excitement at seeing old friends again. Excitement at trying new things. But I know from past experience that excitement dies pretty fast... like say, the first week?

It's kind of strange to look at life the way I did every year before. I remember last year the thing I wanted most was to join Cross Country. Now it's the thing I want the least! And how the year before that I was determined to be good friends with everyone... well, somehow I ended up being target practice. That was the worst year of my life. Every year has it's problems I suppose. Sometimes I just wish life could just freeze in a certain period of time, you know, the good times. Then I could avoid all the bad experiences. But I've come to the conclusion that if there weren't any bad times, then we wouldn't grow and mature as people. At first you would imagine a beautiful carefree life, but then we wouldn't know right from wrong and would end up digging ourselves into a hole. It might sound kind of odd, but if we were never broken or hurt, we wouldn't need God. One of the toughest questions of the world is why God let's us get hurt. I have total faith that God has a plan for each of us, and every bump or obstacle along the way will benefit us later... whether it was from our own doing or because of a total accident. There's nothing we face that Jesus Himself wouldn't or hasn't faced (Hebrews 4:15). Even though it hurts so bad, knowing I have someone to turn to makes life a little easier.

I wish I could explain this better, but this is just what I'm feeling right now. Dread. Dread at whatever bad things happen to lie in the coming of this year, but somehow excited at the new adventure before me. I'm going to stay strong.

posted by Tika on 06 Aug 2008