Yesterday was dictated by the rain.  Yes, an entirely rainy day in late June.

After a quick survey of painting supplies in the basement, I took Annie for an hour-long walk in Magnolia, during which time it was sprinkling yet warm.  Lucky Annie didn’t even need her coat.

After lunch, I drove to Ballard (I know, a risky thing to do any time, any day) to stop at my favorite coffee shop from the old days when I lived by the locks.  I found an awesome parking spot (for free!) less than a block from the coffee shop.  I’m not going to tell you where it was, however, because the fewer people I have to compete with, the better my own parking chances.  If you’re looking for parking in Ballard, I heard that there are quite a few convenient bus lines you might have better chances with.

At the coffee shop I decided to sign up for web hosting and thereby create my own actual website!  Now jessicawicksnin.com is mine, all mine!  I know there was a lot of demand for it because I got it for free AND it was immediately available.  I’m looking forward to creating lots of subdomains like jessicawicksnin.annie.com!  And of course, I have my own email: jessica@jessicawicksnin.com.  Mwah ha ha!  It may appear to be the height of egoism, and it is.  Annie only gets her own website when she learns to type (which isn’t too far off, actually).  If you visit the website now, it (hopefully) doesn’t show anything, but a day not too far off it will!  It really will!  Am I allowed one more Mwah ha ha here?

My next steps are to get the site to look less like total crap (halfway crappy would be ok) and start putting some of the stuff from my web development class online to make a “portfolio” (if this were HTML I would use tags on the “quote marks” because the truth is, I have no idea what the heck I’m doing with this whole portfolio thing, but frankly, “trying stuff” has got me this far, so why stop now?)