Friday 5:

1. What makes you feel old?

Being married and pregnant. Hehe. Old in a good way, though. Oh, and having bills to pay and responsibilities and a savings account.

2. What makes you feel young?

Everyone telling me I look 14. Yeah, even while pregnant, and after gaining about 25 pounds, I still get this comment. I also exercise a lot and still read comic books.

3. What was better when you were allowed to do it the old way?

Math. I think we’re losing our grasp on doing simple math in our heads. When I ask someone what 10% of something is, they can’t seem to answer me. Dude! 10%!! I’m guilty of this though, since I carry a little handheld calculator with me everywhere I go, for such emergencies as lackage of brain power.

4. What’s better now that you do it the new way?

Blogging. Doing it html-style, manually coding everything, was really really tiring, not to mention a very long process. I coded every single entry separately on a separate subpage. That was a long, long time ago, before livejournal, wordpress, movabletype, etc. I don’t really miss those days, though I still do appreciate html and being able to code by hand.

5. What’s something you are old school about?

I still want to code my layouts manually. Wordpress and PHP don’t really make that easy. I think I’m more able to be creative when my site is completely hand coded by me and designed from scratch. I like that blank slate to work with. Haven’t done that in over a year though. Some people think it’s as boring as hanging curtains, but I like it that way.