Time to con"template"

Call me independent but I’m the kind who always wants to be different. I have my own style and my own flair. You can see that in everything that I’d buy and own. And that includes in the designs that I do for my website.

If you’ve been visiting my Sarita’s Corner since the day I started making my own personal in 1998, you would have seen the personalized touch in every site update and revisions that I make. Even if I used Frontpage, CoffeeCup and other designing software when I was still a PC user, I certainly would make my own template and design.

That’s why this first complete site that I had made since I switched to Mac took a long time in the making. Because I didn’t want to make it look like any other websites. I’d like it to be called my own. Anyway, since I’m taking the credit as the webmaster, why not take the credit of having my own design, right?

It was a great frustration for me at first when I learned that there’s no way to integrate my Blogspot account to my new site. I have quite a number of posts on it and have liked the convenient ways to blog - via email, any browser and now, on my iPhone. But as I always believe, one can’t have everything and still hope for everything. You have to let go of something good to make for something better.

As it turns out, there’s no way for me to really blog on this site while I’m away from my computer. My iPhone won’t even allow me to blog-and-publish-later-when-I-sync and that sucks. But then, let’s just say, save the best for last.

So I’ll stop whining about it now. Till my next whining.

The Techies

I’ve been a contented, happy and satisfied Mac switcher for 6 months now. I don’t know if you have read it somewhere, but I think I wrote something before that I named my Macbook, Mackie.

Mackie has been a good boy since he came into my life & never failed me. Love everything about it - except the heat (ouch). Mackie wouldn’t want to settle for anything less and always have the latest sofware/applications.

Mackie has a little sister and we named it iBabu. It’s the usual 8GB iPhone but what makes it a cool accessory is having me as its cool accessory as well! *headspin* Oops, sorry about that. I love iBabu a lot, she’s so delicate that I would always cradle her in my arms. Shhhh, don’t tell Selena about that.

They both complement each other. If I’m away from Mackie, iBabu keeps me company at its best. And when iBabu is tired from playing and recharges herself, Mackie helps me with what I need to accomplish for the day.

Paquita (iPaq HW6500) and Ixussa (Canon Ixus 750) are still around. They usually see iBabu a lot especially when they’re juggling inside my bag. Mackie is too big to play with the little babies and he’s too heavy to carry around.

Marl, on the other hand, has Trening (Treo 750). She’s his first WinMobile PDA-phone as he’s a Palm user right from the start. So far, Marl is loving her. I’m not jealous. Well, okay, a little.

He still has his Treno (Treo 600) and Nokee (my Nokia 6300). And remember my Fujitsu notebook that I was selling last year and nobody wanted to buy? He bought it! Of course, he bought it! And no, he didn’t get a discount! Business & pleasure are 2 different things. Of course, he can give me both if he wants! LOL.

I think it will take a while til we add another baby in the family. Time to save up as Selena’s been bugging me to add a REAL baby in the family. And not just another DOLL. LOL.

All New SaritaOnline for 2008

My domain is soon expiring and that led me to cram to update my website with a newer and more updated one, just so my annual fee wouldn’t be put to waste. I haven’t blogged for 6 months, haven’t uploaded photos for a year and I guess most of my friends have already forgotten the way I look!

One of them even said, “Sarita, the only reason for you to hibernate yourself for too long is if you have had any surgeries that turned bad and wouldn’t want to show anyone. Are you pregnant?”. Don’t worry, I still look the same and, no, I’m not pregnant or wasn’t pregnant at all. You all know that I will always stay pretty like you would all want me to be.

Okay, first of all, I deeply apologize for the long waiting. Your worrying emails and messages have encouraged me to surprise you with this site. I know it’s not THAT amazingly surprising, but I’d like you to know that making my own template & layout is far more tedious than putting stuff on this site. I do hope you find it worth-waiting for.