Love this:

Here’s a statement that deserves a separate paragraph: if no one dislikes you, you’re not doing it right. If you get mean comments, or read something critical of your work, it means people have an opinion about you. And that’s essential. Good job.

Thank you, Alice.

I follow some home design blogs and all too often I see this print hanging up in any featured room:

Finding myself all too often in a somewhat frazzled state, I can certainly appreciate the sentiment. However, I’m SO OVER seeing this particular print EVERYFREAKINGWHERE. There are definitely amusing and sweet variations on this poster, however, I think I’ve found the one that most appeals to my Harry Potter nerdishness own sensibilities:

NOTE TO FAMILY: MY BIRTHDAY IS IN LESS THAN THREE MONTHS.

It will of COURSE require a little tweaking – I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t mess with things as they’re barely out of the box –  but I think it will be easier to modify than the previous theme. The previous theme was cleaner and had all kinds of awesome functionality but I couldn’t figure out how to go in and change a color here and put in an image there because the code was so different.

I think I will alter this one a bit to make it a little cleaner as well as making the left column for the posts a little wider. I love the notebook idea and the pretty colors, makes it feel much more personal diaryish.