Posted Jul 18, 2010. Filed under Updates. 8 comments.
Two blogs in two days??!!?? I know, it’s weird of me.
But I have some majorly exciting news.
It’s called…
ALTOALI.ORG
That’s right. I have a domain! The super marvelous and gracious Emily offered to buy me one and host me so I can embark on the next step of my web-design career. I can’t thank her enough for helping me start setting it up. She’s a real trooper!
With that good news, means this: I’m moving! Everyone, change your links/bookmarks. Altoali.org should be set up in a day or so, whenever it decides to start showing up. I’ll comment/email you to make sure you hear the good news.
Posted Jul 17, 2010. Filed under . 1 comment.
Title inspired by Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”!!
So I really needed a new blog. What to blog about, what to blog about…
Last weekend I met my baby cousin, Isabel Grace, for the very first time! She’s very cute. My uncle and his new wife live in the middle of nowhere, out in the country, so it was a long drive out there. It’s kinda cool, being in the country. Very relaxing. I think it’d be cool to live there for a little while. We drove out Saturday morning and got there about midday. We then went to the college town nearby and ate lunch at this really good pizza place, Shakespeare’s Pizza. My dad actually, back in the stone age, worked at one of the very first Shakespeare’s as a pizza maker, so it was probs weird for him to be back there… We then walked around, I tried to take hipster pics, and saw this homeless violinist. I had this overwhelming urge to ask him if I could play his violin, but my common sense got the best of me…I wish I could tell you I showed him up, though! Lol 
But yeah. We stayed the night, and then went home in the morning, but not after stopping at the Capitol building. It was pretty cool. My dad and I are more of the sightseers, but my sister and mom just really wanted to go home. So they didn’t enjoy it too much!
I’ve also been involved in a local outdoor theatre production of “Cinderella”! I’m not in the cast, but I’m in the pit orchestra. I really, really like it. It’s very laid-back, and the median age is approximately 40. Let’s just say that I’m the only person who not only can’t drive,… Read more of ten minutes ago, I saw you.
Posted Jul 6, 2010. Filed under Updates. 34 comments.
Title by Kate Nash. <3
So I changed the layout! The old one was giving me a headache and I wanted something new. Honestly, the old one was really similar to the one before it, except that it was green instead of black. Hope you guys like it! I had a horrible 24-hour css struggle so ENJOY THE CSS. That’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. It was really weird, the content div was directly under the sidebar div, and ugghghhhhgihdhdjk. Not fun. Luckily, 2 html forums, 3 threads, and a talk with my host later, it got solved! Turns out I was just missing a div closing tag…I hate it when the solution is so simple. Actually nevermind I love it. <3 Html forums are my new besties.
Pertaining to the layout and graphic design in general…I feel like I just can’t graphic design at all anymore! Maybe it’s because I don’t have PSP9 anymore and am using a laptop sans mouse, or maybe I’ve really lost it. I dunno. My layouts lately have been very simple. I feel like I’m using “simple” as a disguise for just lack of skill…I really wish I could have a big, impressive, complicated layout, but I just can’t do it. Errgg. I wish I had photoshop. Or a domain. Or both.
Reassure me that my layout doesn’t suck too bad? 
My sister said it was too plain…tru dat.
Money money money. I have none since I bought gaga tickets! I’m going in August and am super super pumped. I want to get a body suit and bedazzle it. Or something. Something Lady Gaga worthy. I’ll definitely post pictures after the concert.
Oh, and the layout is Kate Nash-inspired. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kate Nash!! If you haven’t listened to her, I highly reccommend all of her songs. But I’ll tell you my favorites: Mariella, Kiss That Grrl, Skeleton Song, and Do-Wah-Doo. I wish I could link you but stupid FanUpdate doesn’t like links. So it’s whatever. Youtube or illegally download them or buy them. She’s incredible.
Posted Jul 3, 2010. Filed under . 21 comments.
So I kind of missed the challenge this Wednesday…so typical of me. I’ll try again next week.
First thing’s first, vote for me in Dear Oxygen’s Domain Contest!!! Link in the sidebar. Vote for me!!
Lately I’ve been wrapped up in a little thing called Summer Gym. (Oddly enough, I remember blogging about this exact same thing one year ago…lol life parallels). Summer Gym is a torture device designed for the non-athletic and overscheduled. I happen to be both. Since my state requires one unit of gym (or two semesters), I had to return to this prison for the second year in a row. It’s three weeks, five days a week, 7:00-12:00 IN THE MORNING of constant physical activity. It’s a part of summer school in my district, this year hosted at a ghetto-sketch school that boasts an impressive record of juvenile delinquents and condoms littering the turf field.
It was bad.
However, I survived it with my best friend AJ and made a few new friends along the way. So the social aspect wasn’t too bad. I just learned how awful I was at most every sport. Except soccer and tennis. I like those. 
Since it was a part of summer school, we shared the building with the creepy gangtas and thugs who couldn’t pass English or Algebra the first three times and therefore had to come to summer school. We were basically the only ones there by choice.
The other thing that I was doing this week was planning aforementioned best friend’s surprise sweet sixteen! It was very fun and elaborate. I planned it with two other friends. The party was yesterday and we had only started planning saturday. So it was a lot of work squeezed into a short amount of time.… Read more of Summa’ Gym 2010- NO REGRETZ!.
Posted Jun 23, 2010. Filed under . 6 comments.
Ready to be challenged? AltoAli is set to provide you with weekly challenges every single Wednesday to rock your way of thinking. To challenge your mind and way of life. Or at least quench your afternoon boredom.
It is a big, big world out there.
Full of adventures, experiences, skills, knowledge, people, and opportunities.
It’s largeness almost seems unfair
Like we can’t fathom it’s complexity.
Have you ever been totally frustrated by how big the world is?
To me, it seems like there’s so much to do, so much that I want to accomplish in my time here, that I’m afraid those dreams may get swallowed in the daily routine.
I mean, haven’t we all heard the story of the grocer who dreamed of being a painter? Or the housewife who wanted to be a senator?
Those may be a little bit extreme. I mean, most of us are just teenagers or young adults, and a lot of time, the pressure is to follow your dream. My parents, as many beefs and issues that I have with them, have always allowed and pushed me to follow my dream, whatever that may be. I don’t even know what my dream is! Maybe I won’t ever know. Maybe no one ever knows what they really want in life. But we all have things we want to finish, what we want to remember, before our time is out.
I challenge you to make a BUCKET LIST. Make a list of EVERYTHING you want to accomplish in your lifetime. Or in the next year. Or during your school years. Or all of the above.
There’s no catch, no requirements. Make it any way you like it: scribbled on a napkin, on a dry-erase board, into an intricate… Read more of Challenge #1: the bucket list and intro..
