Why did I decide to become a stay at home mother? I almost feel a post about this topic needs some kind of disclaimer. Something along the lines of:

Warning: Do Not Get Your Panties In A Knot If You Are A Working Mother. I Have Nothing Against You, Your Child(ren), Or Your Decision. I Am Sure You Are A Wonderful Mother. The Following Post Are Simply MY PERSONAL Reasons For Making A Different (not wrong, but different!) Choice.

Seriously, to be or not to be a SAHM (stay-at-home mother) is a hot topic in the mommy communities, sometimes the debate gets downright vulgar. I have been told more then once that I am a disgrace to the feminist movement and setting “the cause” back decades by being a stay-at-home mother. I hope that most working mothers do not feel this way, I definitely don’t think that working women are inferior. Can’t we all just get along? Anyhow…

Several factors contributed to my choice to be a stay-at-home mother. What was my husband’s opinion? Was it financially feasible? What did I want from my life?

Michael would have supported me either way but in the end, I feel he is content with my decision. Both his an my mother stayed at home, some one could argue it was only a natural decision for us to make. I think it is more then that though. As far as some are concerned, staying at home makes me a doormat. I am certainly not a doormat at the beck and call of some man who lords over me as though I am property. Michael and I make a great team, we are lord and lady of this household and share in it duties. Sure, I do more housework, but then he goes to work everyday and does money generating work. I say it is a fair trade-off. My mother or my mother-in-law fall into the doormat category for that matter.

Financially, it actually made more sense for me not to be employed. Since I lack a college education, my entire wage would have gone towards childcare anyways, which seemed pretty pointless. Besides, to be honest, I really do not like working for someone else. At home, I am mistress of my domain, which is really pretty sweet. Sometimes I do miss the social interaction that comes with service industry jobs, but then I remember the enormous amount of people who were rude to me. At least I only have one person throwing food at me now, and he is a heck of a lot cuter (and doesn’t drink hot coffee…) In the end I could always join a parenting group or walk to the park if I need to find someone to chat with, or call one of my friends of course.

I suppose in giving up a job I am giving up a certain amount of “Me” time. During a workday (lunch hour, breaks, on the way to and from work) I could grab that haircut or do those little errands that are way more challenging as a stay-at-home mom, but it does all balances it out in the end. Michael gives me little Mommy Time so that I can grab that soaking bath, or weed the garden, or whatever I need to do to center myself. Damian and him had a guys afternoon a month ago so that I could go buy some clothes with my friends which was wonderful. Sometimes I spend Damian’s nap time working on a personal project (like knitting, drawing mandalas or blogging.) Yes, it is harder to find me time, but I have also found that it is less important then I initially anticipated too.

What do I want from life? This is the trickiest question of the lot. I want to be happy of course, but what does that mean for me? Can happiness be found at work, going back to college to learn a new skill, dedicating my entire day and night to the nurturing of a child? Seriously, all of those have their pros and cons, but I chose to stay home because the thought of leaving my child with someone every day was just to heart wrenching for me to contemplate. I don’t want to miss one milestone, not the first smile, the first step, the first word, even the first big bump and bruise. I want to be the one to kiss those young and tender hurts away and cheer on the accomplishments. Is that selfish? Maybe. Does it make me happy? Usually. Is Damian happy? I think so. I feel I am fulfilling his needs the best I can because of my decision to stay home, and that makes me truly happy.

There use to be a commercial on tv that said “having a baby changes everything” and I didn’t realize how true that was until we brought Damian home. No transition that big is easy, choosing to stay at home or not is only one aspect of the many choices that factor into life-after-labor. There have been moments where I have wanted to throw a mommy tantrum and run screaming from the house to find “real people” to talk to, but truly, those moments have been few and far between. I feel really blessed that I have been able to chose this life. I feel like I am where I suppose to be and I think that ultimately that is really what matters.

After a few months of work, largely interrupted by Damian’s birth, the new website design is finally up. The previous design had been around since 3/31/2007, so it was well past time for a new design. This new design is intentionally lighter and more clean. I plan to add more Web 2.0 features to it later to make things a bit more slick. The theme is nice enough, I might clean it up a bit and release it for general use. Anyone want to use this theme on their own blog?

I’ve been working on a new website for about 2 weeks, and now it’s ready to share with the world. Quite simply, it’s a catalog of our home videos. Jaspenelle’s Dad bought us a video camera for Christmas, and we have made several videos.

Video by michaelandjaspenelle.com

Most people would use YouTube or some other video sharing site. I considered using them, but I prefer to host web-content myself whenever possible. If you are using a third-party, like YouTube, you have to agree to their terms and deal with their servers and their policies and restrictions. I don’t like being restricted.

The website was actually developed quite quickly – because of several existing open source solutions, I actually had a working (albeit not very pretty) mockup working after a few hours of coding. The remainder of the 2 weeks of development was making things nice and experimenting with different features. It’s built using the following technologies:

Linode

condor.garjasp.com is a Linode 360, a UML virtual server. This let’s me micro-manage everything about my hosting environment, and run any services or software that I need or want.

Ubuntu Linux

The OS is Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. I would have used Debian, but they are always out-of-date. Previously, this server (when it was known as manticore.garjasp.com) ran Gentoo (of which I was also a developer), but that became too difficult to keep up-to-date and secure.

Apache HTTPD Server

Only the world’s most popular http server. I have an intimate relationship with this beast, and have tamed it quite well. All configuration is pulled from LDAP (using a set of PERL scripts to autogenerate the config on startup) and is highly optimized to the server environment. For the video site, I have some mod_rewrite magic to create the pretty URLs.

PHP

The website backend uses PHP5. This is used to check for a valid video file, generate and read metadata, get a list of available video files, and allow for different templates based on the URL. It will be quite easy for me to extend the video site to have Categories, RSS feeds, or anything else I can come up with.

FFmpeg

After videos are uploaded to the server, they are encoded to FLV by FFmpeg. It is also used to generate the PNG thumbnails.

Flowplayer

Another great piece of open-source software, flowplayer plays the FLV files generated by ffmpeg. It’s highly customizable and scriptable, so I was able to make it do exactly what I wanted.

Yahoo User Interface Library

YUI provides the core scripting components to make the Web 2.0 features easy to create. I use it for easy DOM access and for dynamically loading the video metadata.

Carousel Component

This is an add-on to YUI that I use for the neat scrolling of available videos.

Blueprint CSS

In the past I have used YUI for designing websites and CSS design. I recently heard of Blueprint CSS, and it works pretty well for what I wanted to do. I’m not actually using much of the CSS framework directly – most of my CSS is actually a modified form of it’s classes. It provides a nice reference and jump-off point that YUI just couldn’t provide. YUI requires too much HTML bloat, and that’s something I’ve always disliked about it.

Currently, the code for the website is not in a releasable state – some things are very specific to the current environment. Over time, I hope to get it cleaned up, add a nice admin interface (right now all administration is done via WinSCP and SSH), and make it more configurable, then I may release it to the general public.

Let me know what you think!

So, I finally got around to upgrading to the newest wordpress, version 2.5. It was quite a pain due to the way I have this site setup. I keep everything in SVN to make it easy to make changes to the code from anywhere, without having to mess with FTP and such. My first attempt at merging the changes failed miserably, and I had to restore it all from backups and start over. The second time, I skipped the svn integration, I’ll have to fix that later, but it’s working for now.

Jaspy want’s a cloud, and to get rid of the categories, so that will be my next project – but not tonight, I need some sleep before I get sick again.

I had a wonderful birthday. I really did. Jaspenelle pampered me all day (not that she doesn’t pamper me all the time anyways, it was just more so that day). I relaxed, played with the cats, we went to a movie (The Reaping – great movie BTW, you should see it it you haven’t) at a new movie theater in town. All in all I had a good time.

It was just when I was about to go to bed that the disaster struck. I was trying to upload a video of Aos to youtube (check back friday for the feline friday if you want to watch it) when suddenly the internet stopped working. I came into the studio where phoenix, our beloved [web server|file server|router|desktop|beast of a machine] is kept. To my horror, 4 of the hard drives in the RAID array were showing Orange – they had died. Unfortunetly, that was just one too many. To the credit of linux, it was still running – just not very well. The filesystem was giving I/O errors for most operations, and had moved itself into read-only mode. The routing part of it wasn’t really down, just the transparent proxy I had setup that needed to be able to write to disk.

I gave phoenix CPR for a few hours and decided that it was a goner. I shut it off, reconfigured the network so that phoenix wasn’t required as a router, and started to come up with a plan to get our personal websites back online, and allow both myself and Jaspenelle to work on the computer at once (with phoenix gone, we were down to a single desktop: mooncougar).

From 2am to 8am, I pointed the DNS entry for our local computer (local.garjasp.com) to my hosted server. Because all of our personal sites hosted locally used a CNAME to that one entry (actually required because my dynamic DNS can only update one entry – local.garjasp.com), I was easily able to put up a message letting people know what happened:

Server Crash

Our beloved server, phoenix, has had another massive hard drive crash. This time, he signed a DNR, so we are letting him die the death he wishes. Our personal websites will be down until we get another server set up, and our online time will be limited, as we now have to share a single laptop.

Michael and Jaspenelle Stewart, 21-Apr-2007

My plan of action was simple:

• Buy a new computer (woohoo! birthday present), which would be the desktop that I would work on.
• Repurpose mooncougar to be the local file server/router
• The laptop would become Jaspenelle’s “desktop” as that is what she uses most of the time anyways
• Expedite the setup of a second hosted server that will now run all of our personal sites as well as other sites I host. (In the meantime our websites are hosted on mooncougar, which is why they are quite slow)

We ended up buying a Compaq Presario SR5010NX with Windows Vista Home Basic. (Yes, I’ve returned to the Beast — Windows) for a little under $450. It took me the better part of 8 hours to remove all the crap on it I don’t need, put all the crap on it I do need (Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim/Pidgin, Gimp, gVim, PuTTY, TortoiseSVN, OpenOffice, and Avast Antivirus — I may have returned to the beast, but I still love open source)

While installers were running and files were downloading, I set to repurposing mooncouger. I had originally planned to just wipe it and start fresh, but when I tried to boot from the Ubuntu CD-ROM, it wouldn’t load (it booted, just wouldn’t come up). It turns out that the CD-ROM in mooncougar is on it’s last legs. So instead, I fired up aptitude and put a minus on the x11 category. Then promptly spent 3 hours resolving the broken packages

During all this (still multitasking), I started unpacking the backups. This is the second time I’ve had to restore from backups this year, and it was a breeze. My backup system Just Works.

This morning, in the hour I had before I had to go to work, I got Apache, MySQL, and PHP configured the same way phoenix was, and reset the DNS for local.garjasp.com to point back to mooncougar. I had to leave for work before I could test as well as I would have liked. But most the sites were working fine. A few tweaks and cache rebuilds here and there when I got home today, and everything seems to be working well.

I cannot stress how important it is to have a daily backup routine. Mine is automated, and well tested. If I did not have it, I would have lost everything – websites I’ve designed, jaspenelle’s art, software that is a work in progress (including the entire SVN history), and much much more. If you don’t have a backup routine, and have anything that you can’t lose, then you are playing with fire. It will burn you one day. Hard drives crash. Technology fails. Be prepared. I was, and because of it, I have everything still.

If you did not notice, the blog has changed in many ways other then the new domain name (don’t forget to update that in your blogroll!) You can click the link below this excerpt to see my whole post or my whole blog now and from the main page see Michael’s blog and all our other sites.

Michael built it all (with a lot of my input!) and posted about it in his blog too, I’ll try not to repeat too much of what he said. I think the new design is pure awesomeness. I adore the layout and colours, which we debated about for quite awhile before finding something we both loved. Its all in one place so I don’t have to go everywhere to find everything anymore. I can give people one domain name instead of ten from now on.

I think the layout is pretty self explanatory but if you have any questions or find anything wrong let me or Michael know. I hope that you like it as much as I do.

We’ve been planning a site such as the one you are now looking at for over a year, a combined blog and portal to our other websites.

After we figured out what we wanted, it only took about 2 weeks to design from start to finish, and then modify the design to be a Wordpress theme. Nearly every page is easily customizable, and this will allow us to create sub-blogs that have a completely different design.

If there is enough demand, I will clean up the code to the theme a bit and release it for other Wordpress users to use. Let me know if you would like to use the theme for your site. (The released theme of course would not have this custom front page – though if you want a custom front page for your wordpress blog, I am available for hire.)

If you find any broken links, images, or problems, please let me know.

Enjoy!

It came to my attention a few minutes ago people were getting 404 errors on my blog (people you got to let me know when this happens, drop me an email or something! ) It problem is fixed now, let me know if anything else pops up.

So I fainlly went through the 4000 some comments my blog software has marked as spam… hopefully Michael can upgrade my wordpress (where you comment) so that I can approve people on an individual basis and won’t have to deal with the 100+ spam comments I get a day. My other blog uses that technique and it seems to have a lot less problems.

So Eknock, Eala, Kymba, Raven, Ginanne, Venny, Zyleeth, Shafanhow, Skywing, Velen, Dad, flarecarrot, Meowman, WildeRavan, Silerenth, Rah-Bop. Purrmeow and Opaistt are the people I found in my spam filter.

If you comment does not show up don’t worry it just means it has to be moderated because something landed it in the spam filter. Hopefully this won’t happen again but I will keep a closer eye on my spam filter till we upgrade.

I added an about me page here for anyone interested. Michael found a neat thing so that I can list the books I have recently read on the main blog page. I am wondering if there is a way I can have my most recent up there and then above them the one I am reading at the moment. Kind of how the blogger of You Who? does it on his. Oh and expect the layout of this journal to change soon because this one is incredably boring.

I need to make a note to myself here too, to ask Michael about I can make some custom fields for the bottom of these posts so I can list what mood I am in. what music I am listening to and what tea I am drinking. Mmm tea.

If you are here from Michael and my journal and curious about this one; this journal is going to be a deeper look into my spirituality, things I do not talk about on the other one but that I occassionally briefly touch on.

If you will be reading this blog drop me a comment and let me know. I have an RSS feed so you can keep track of me that way.

How many people read this? Comment away on this post because I need to test something. This blog now has threaded commenting! So help me test it out.

And yes this is exciting to me, I have wanted to be able to reply to people for ages now. Let me know if you get an email notification when I reply to your comment.

Also I have gotten around to creating another blog, this one is just for my spiritual stuff, which I post a bit about here but I will be posting much more in depth over there. No cross posting to lj from there because I figure if you are truly interested in that info you will just watch it through rss feed. It will not obviously be updated as frequently as this one. It can be found at:

http://blog.painteddragonfly.org

Galleries need to be rebuilt so if the links don’t work in my journal that is why, forgot to say that last night. My Thunderbird is acting weird so I can’t send emails, I am not ignoring any of you really. Painted Dragonfly is being weird, the menu bar is way to far over, no clue why. Everything else seems ok though…

I have so much to do today and Monday is my least productive day because I have so little time between when Michael goes to work and I leave for work to finish anything. I am hoping to finish Michael’s patchwork leather pouch this week at work though and a painting (most detailed one yet) and still need to test out my new dremel bit.

I need to clean the apartment first though, I don’t like cluttered places I feel like they hamper my creativity and drain my energy. I really need to start doing yoga again.

And getting my eating habbits back to something semi regular. When I got up this morning after uh… depleting my energy in bed, hehe. I felt a bit woosy and after making Michael’s lunch my arms were shaking some, mostly my right one when I was sitting on the couch but I might have just been resting my arms on a nerve or something.

I had some fruit and its better. I just really need to keep on top of my health. I just… forget to eat when I get really into something and then all the sudden I’ll get really unstable physically and loose conncentration, I get woosy sometimes and my extremities will hurt. My extremities (like finger tips) hurting is normally the first symptom that I need to eat. Then when I eat something it goes away. I crave fruit or something sugary or starchy. As far as I have been told it is hypoglycemia but meh it is really annoying, I feel like I burn up everything I eat so fast. But ah well it isn’t something I can change so I have made my peace with it, I just need to remember to eat and not ignore the symptoms.

I’m smoldering some frankincense at the moment, I should really sage the apartment after I clean, that always helps me feel better, I am so ungrounded right now. I need to get some gum arabic or gum senegal since it is a base for the ink and incense I make but am at a loss for finding a good source for it anymore.

I got my book budget today, now decide what I want. Probably one on herbs since I am getting back into that.

But first oatmeal with maple syrup… I wonder if we have anymore orange juice…

Back online, took a little longer then expected… Arial fonts work again (yes this was an issue before.)
Yup, thats it, off to watch Office Space now. Peace.

Sorry I missed your message online last night Cyr, been wanting to chat with you bro.

Michael is rebuilding Phoenix today (our server), a few websites (not Graceful Symmetry since it is on Manticor – our other server) will be offline as well as my avatars (oh well) and my art and life gallery. I won’t be online either so if you need to get in touch with me then chances are you have my number so give me a call.

I want to make a long post about herbs but that will have to wait, getting back into the apothecary stuff thats all. My violets have started sprouting! Should be back online tomorrow. Peace.

I’ve finally gotten around to updating wordpress to a more secure version. I’ll re-theme it later. Expect many test posts.

Who is this stranger posting to this journal?
For those of you who forgot, I’m Michael, Jaspenelle’s husband.

I’m just posting to say that I finally got around to putting in for my vacation time, at least 1 weeks worth of it. So from Jun 10-18 we’ll be on a road trip. We will of course have a new car by then as well. We’ll probably meander to Portland, up to Seattle, and then back.

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As far as other things, SiteCadre is coming along well. What is SiteCadre? It’s a PHP framework that I’m writing to use as a backend for more-or-less all websites I design. It integrates Smarty, PEAR::DB, and a custom authentication/permissions scheme that I’m writing. It’s object-oriented and very modular, so that I can rapidly add new functionality to any website I manage. Right now the basic API and a few simple/test modules are done. Up next is to plan what modules I want implemented before I release it as 1.0 and to get them done. Look for our websites to have new functionality, including threaded commenting on every page, integrated image galleries, search functionality and much more coming soon.

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In Gentoo, I’ve been rather inactive lately, mostly because I’ve been spending a lot of time on SiteCadre, and much more with Jaspenelle (she’s very demanding – I love her so much!). The new-style Apache configuration and many of the add-on modules have gone stable. It seems everyone else that was working on Apache in Gentoo has gone inactive, as no-one else has touched thier modules. I’ll have to do it eventually – the x86 herd doesn’t like the amount of apache module bugs sitting in thier queue.

Yesterday I spent the day getting User-mode linux setup so that I could have an easily-restorable testing sandbox. This allows me to test any package from a basic bare-bones Gentoo installation. This is turn will allow me to debug and fix that major bug that makes it so that apache-1.3 doesn’t install easily on a base system. That bug should be fixed soon. With SiteCadre to a good holding point, I’ll be concentrating on Gentoo for a week or so.

I have another poem up here. I am on a roll lately with them *touch wood* lately. This one is not depressing, really. Tell me what you think. It is called I am…

The reason I am linking you too it rather than posting it here is because it has some odd spacing in it that wouldn’t show up properly on livejournal (for the 90% of you who read my journal there.)

Who does read my journal on my site anyhow? Anyone use the RSS feed?

Oh and I was happy to hear back from Zancan over on deviantART yesterday saying it was ok of me to use one of his beautiful paintings on the page of my last poem, “I fill my desert with uselessness” since it was inspired by his piece which also bears the same name.

I need a job, have I griped about that enough lately? Probably but meh, all I want is something part time, anyhow short of fastfood (ew) and a gas station (Michael has this thing about not wanting me to get shot… imagine that.) Anyone want to commission me? Blah, I’ll stop bitching now, I am with the love of my life, we have a roof over our heads, tuna sandwitches and pink lemonade, that is more than most people in the world can say.

Oh an think Neserit tagged me to do… evil woman ~_^.

“List five songs that you are currently ‘digging’. It doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good. But they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your five songs. Then tag five others to see what they’re listening to.”

1: Cranberries – Zombie
2: Lacuna Coil – My Wings
3: Incubus – Drive
4: Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride
5: Five for Fighting – 100 Years

I tag these unfortunates:
1: Velen
2: Cyrakhis
3: Cryslara
4: Opaistt
5: Aethear

I am reworking my beliefs section on my part of this site. Michael and I have our own seperate sites you know? I have painteddragonfly.org and he has alteredeclipse.org both really have nothing on them, ok well his had more stuff then mine, stuff about gentoo linux, mine has the “I like to move it” song on it but they will eventually have more content. You see gracefulsymmetry.com, this site, is going to turn into my art portfolio and the two aformentioned sites will become our personal sites.

Bored yet of my rambling? Don’t worry I am finished now ^_^. Back to finishing up a trade.

I revamped how my art gallery on Graceful Symmetry is organised. I added labels to everything so at the top of it all you will see either:

-FOR SALE-, -NOT FOR SALE-, -SOLD-, -TRADED-, -GIFTED- or -ON HOLD-

If it is for sale or on hold I list the price of the item under the title. Otherwise I do not. check it out and tell me what you think of the system. Thanks ~_^.

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And bugger this basket was $5 a few weeks ago, not it is $11, I don’t if I want to pay that for convience… but everywhere else online they are $14 and I can’t find them in stores here for some ungodly reason.

I updates our website. Removed a few pages, editted my profile page and my wishlist.

I also added photos to my gallery section and Michael’s gallery section

AND new kitten pictures!

So cute! Eee!

I updated Michael and my website.

New Place – we got some stuff off the shopping list, of ya and I fixed a spelling error.

Jaspenelle’s General Page – just some little cosmetic stuff.

Two Names – linked to my general page, it is why I have 2 names I use publically (Jaspenelle and Kira)

Jaspenelle’s Beliefs – completely revamped! Ok well more or less revamped, check it out!

Jaspenelle’s Wishlist – self explanitory I should hope.

Otherwise I made a section with Michael’s character descriptions that some have been asking me about but I want him to look at it before I put it up.

The page with photos and info about our move is up! You can take a virtual tour about our place. Tell me whatcha think because you know I love your guy’s input! Oh ya and I edited my wishlist as well.

ok the “/small” tag on the end of all our posts is fixed, shouldn’t be happening anymore.

Well some of you have seen it already but those who haven’t I have a new poem up here (c&c and spelling corrections always welcome.) My Dad helpe dme clean ti up a bit from the last version.

Click here for poem

G’night all.

ok, I know many people dislike the way our site work, because it is sooooo slow. it drives me nuts too. eventually I will fix it. For now, I have removed the background images from the blog so that it’s readable. Sometime I will create a new design and style for the website. But I have a number of other things I have to take care of first. Admitting you need to do something is the first step in getting it done – my projects list. So yea.

Oh ya I forgot… something new…
Cyaneus!

Oh and Michael fixed the script in the gallery so when you post a comment it sends you a happy little email thanking you.

About replying to comments btw, if you don’t think I reply, I do just Michael and my comment script is kind of missing a reply button. We are working on that atm.

In regards to commissions I am just going to make a big reply here to everyone who has asked.
Yes I very much do do them. I am a starving artist, we thrive on commissions/sales hehehe. (Really I am poor and I would do any kind of request in stained glass.)

I will draw whatever you like and do it on glass and either send you the glass with it on (more expensive) or send it to between cardboard peeled off the glass so you have a piece of flexible glass that will stick to any glass surface you like (make sure it’s cleans.)

I will also take any existing picture (that holds NO copyright… I may be starving but I am not stupid) and convert it to a stained glass style and do that on glass.

I do any size between 4×5 and 16×20. In all shapes.
I also do cylinder glass vases.

I am finished pimping myself now ~_^.

You know you want a commission, you know you do… Or to buy one I have already made… check out the gallery to see some I have already done ~_^.

Edit: Prices… well we can discuss that.

Korrok!
The spotted hyena. (Though I can’t really do the spotted effect with stuff I have.)
Anyhow this is my half of an art trade with her, the image I posted the other day is by her.

I updated the gallery since Michael got an avatar done of him (which is under fanart) and I put the above image in there.

Amazon seems to have messed up shipping a package to me, my father sent it to me via my wishlist and I have checked the address a million and one times and it is correct, the landlady has not seen any packages come in or out and they all go through her and the post office hasn’t called. This of course leaves me a little but miffed. When my Dad sends me the tracting number (he sent the package to me) I will call whoever was suppose to ship it and find out… Till then I can only wonder…

I need to update my resume today.

Peace and love,
Jaspenelle

Graceful Symmetry’s photo album has been updated.

It’s alive! It’s allllliiiivvvve!

Open FireFox everyone ’cause Graceful Symmetry is now online (really, I promise! It is this time!)

Ok well it works in evil IE but it was made for FireFox so get it. Now! …pwease? …FireFox… pwease?

Outr site contains writings and poems by Michael and me, our photo and art gallery, a webcam, our life (ie: this journal), an annex of sites we enjoy(if you want us to enjoy yours, post your site in a comment), and last but not least, contact *cough*stalking*cough* information.

Comments will hence and ever after be disabled in my livejournal. All posts I make from our site will post to my livejournal and there will be a hyperlink at the bottom of all the posts so you can comment (on our site.)

What else…

Happy New Years!

Peace and Love,
Kira and Michael
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Michael and Kira
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Jaspenelle and vericgar
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vericgar and Jaspenelle

I need to sleep now. Bye bye.