NickSampsell.com

I’m back

Written: July 3, 2006 at 4:50AM EST

The Blog & Site

Hello everyone, I’m back after nearly three weeks of coding, and many sleepless nights I have finished my hand-coded blog as well as wrote up a new layout. After being on wordpress for a couple months, then suddenly deciding to switch to a new blog system is a pain, but I did it. 43 blog entries, 72 comments, and about 40 pages of content (all of which had to be handcoded). Although it was a lot of work, I did enjoy doing it, and I would reccomend that anyone trying to attempt this should try Codegrrl.com’s tutorial on Build A blog, its a great way to learn PHP and you end up with an awesome blog!

EDIT: back to wordpress. I missed it too much.

Now Back to Life

The last couple weeks have been kinda boring, not much has really been going on, its summer and everyone is either away or busy. My sleeping schedule is now completely and utterly screwed up!

Sleep: 6am - 6pm
Wake: 6pm - 6am

Its horrible and my mom isn’t too happy about it either. Oh well, I have the whole rest of the summer to get back on track.

The Dog!
A couple days ago was my sister’s birthday and mom my sister would joke with my mom saying “So and so is going to get me a dog.” And mom would reply to that with “Yeah, and then you and the dog will be living outside.” So as my sisters birthday got closer, mom had no idea what to get her. So the day of her party my sisters friends came over and they were acting like loonatics. The friends that came included (I’ll give name, my name for them, and a description of their personality)

Kate - Blue - Hyperactive twin of Liz. Petrified of me.
Liz - Pink - Hyperactive twin of Kate. Also petrified of me.
All(ie?)y - (No Nickname) - AAAAHHHH!!!!! She drove me nuts!
Tracy - (No nickname) - Just there, didn’t say too much.
Devin - (No Nickname) - Also kinda there, made fun of my sisters toes (strange I know!)
Kaylinn - The Indian Girl - Loud, and kinda rude.

Now all these girls along with my sister were in our tiny house from 5 until 8 and it was raining so it was nuts! They then went to my grandma’s house and spent the night there. (She was extremely brave for doing that).

So a few nights later, my mom still hadn’t gotten my sisters present. I saw her looking in the newspaper for dogs in the “For Sale” section, and she couldn’t find one. She was trying to be all secretive too, but she kinda gave it away when she asked what a maltipoo was. She looked all over and she couldn’t find any dogs that would stay relativly small (as our house is small enough with five people in it.

So yesterday we went to Holly’s Hounds (a pet store in the mall) and out in the hallway of the mall they had little puppies in a pen, my sister immediatly ran over to the pen and saw a little black and white puppy (kinda looks like it has cow spots). Anyways, my mom called my grandma who came up and inquired about the dog and we found out it was a purebred male Chinese Crested Powderpuff. We then ended up buying it, so now we have a dog at our house. Ill upload some pics into the gallery later.