16th August 2007

The Catmafia goes dark!

And after I’d convinced myself that what I had was good enough - I changed my mind and decided I would do something that I’ve never done before.
I made something dark.
Hence, the name of this theme is “dark”. I couldn’t think of anything better, honest. All my creativity had been sucked out of my brain in making the damn thing.
I got my inspiration from a colour palette I saw over at Colourlovers. I don’t have the link to the exact palette - but the colours were something like the pink, green and blue used at FamFamFam.
Well, I’m pretty pleased with it - although I think I need to tone down the colours a bit. It looks OK on my mac, but somehow everything is more saturated on my PC, and the green looks absolutely horrendous. Please give me any suggestions you have I’m also having trouble picking out a font that I like - since my mac’s resolution is a bit larger than my PC’s - anything that looks decent on my mac looks far to large on my PC. Maybe I’m just not used to my PC any more, hence I look at the font and think “God, that’s large, ugly and obnoxious.” So, yes. Suggestions please.
I was staring at the layout in Photoshop, and then I suddenly thought, “THE CAT MAFIA!? That is such a good name. I can’t believe I thought of that.” Yes, for me it often takes a while for the penny to drop. And sometimes, the penny floats back up again and then a while later, gravity will pull the penny back down. I often sit down in deep thought, and all of a sudden I’ll realise something: like “OH MY GOD MY NAME IS TISH! That suits me so well. Tish. Tishy Tish Tish. Tishhh.” Other people think I’m a bit mental, but my brain is so full of useless things that there is no room in it for basic facts, such as my name, in my… er… RAM. So occasionally something appears out of nowhere from my mental hard-drive and smacks me in the face.
Interesting analogy.
Back to what I was going to talk about until I got distracted by my own name - I wanted to ask you all: how did you come up with the name for your site? (if you have one, that is).
Personally, I was talking with a friend and we were making up random words by sticking other words together. Just for fun. We came up with several very idiotic things like “BottleMouse” and “NuclearChicken” but I, being cat obsessed, had to make up something to do with cats. So I shouted “CATMAFIA!” and started running around meowing with an invisible gun in my hand. And that is why my site is called The Catmafia.

17th August 2007

An interesting turn of events…

When I woke up this morning, I didn’t think I’d be returning to my own hosting account with my very own domain. Life takes interesting twists and turns sometimes.
Jacky has hosted me for the past few months, and I’m very grateful for that Thanks, Jacky!
As you will know if you followed Twiskers.net, I originally needed hosting because of financial problems. But now, everything is okay and when I asked my Mum if she was still planning on cancelling the Dreamhost account, she said I could keep it. Dreamhost gave me another domain registration free because I’ve been with them for about… three years now, so here I am. This morning I was at tish.dubious.nu, and now I’m at thecatmafia.net!
I feel weird… Sort of, lonely. I really am a very strange person, aren’t I?

21st August 2007

Suddenly

I haven’t even been on this domain for a week, and all of a sudden I get seven comments on a post within a few days of posting it. Where are all you people coming from? Haha. I think it’s the layout. There must be a subliminal message in it somewhere. Saying “YOU MUST COMMENT”. The thing is, there’s nothing different about my referrers, but I’m getting a lot more hits. Hmm?

• 20 from tish.dubious.nu
• 12 from jemjabella.co.uk
• 3 from detraquer.com

I wonder…

23rd August 2007

Missing: One Cat, Tish’s Sanity…

I’ts 6am, and I haven’t slept yet.
I’m absolutely sick with worry for Anna, my cat (well, one of my cats).
She’s been gone for five days now.
She’s only ever been gone for two days at the most before.
I don’t want to think what could have happened to her. Maybe I’m overreacting, but anything could have happened. She has a collar, but no name tag and no address or anything on it. I don’t really like the idea of collars, but it was a temporary treatment for her fleas.
Spider is okay, I think he’s snoozing downstairs. We thought he may have been poisoned because he’s been really maniacal for the past few days. He also seems to have suddenly developed conjunctivitis in his eyes :X
I just hope more than anything right now that Anna is safe. I keep getting images in my mind of this dead cat that me and my friends saw on the road once, when we were walking to school. Please, God, if you exist, don’t take Anna away from me.

26th August 2007

Psycho killer, que’est-ce que c’est

I know variety is what makes life interesting, but when it comes to mood swings, variety is just plain mean.
One moment I’m all happy and smiley, looking forward to going to school and seeing my friends again, where I will point and laugh at the year sevens who have to go through three years of geography, music and design technology - subjects I was glad to drop for my GCSE course.
The next moment I feel panic nauseous and suicidal, because a) I have to write letters for work experience and it’s just sitting in the back of my mind, nibbling away at me like some kind of parasite, b) I have to buy shoes for school, damnit, and c) I’ve convinced myself that I’m in love (read: lust) with someone who absolutely hates me and is a total arse.
Then comes stage three, the insane psycho killer (I have an urge to say que’est-ce que c’est). Running around like a lunatic, wide eyes, dilated pupils, swearing to exterminate anything that so much as dares to stand in the way of me and my sanity. The irony here of course, is that I am the one standing in the way of my own sanity. Needless to say, this eventually leads to self-destruction of the soul.
Damn hormones :grr:

27th August 2007

Proof that Britain’s education system is in decline

Hmm.
Someone’s MSN name today:
woo result’s where god i gotz A* in english
Oh deary me.
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a joke.

Side note: I just did the National IQ Test 2007, and scored 116 (54/70). Pretty good considering the surgeons’ average was 101, and they didn’t have my age on the conversion table. Danny Wallace got 119, so assuming I gain three or four points for being 14, I’m as smart as him!

31st August 2007

Is it wrong?

I’ve suddenly developed an affixation with Kaiser Chiefs’ drummer, Nick Hodgson. Well, not suddenly, it’s been hibernating in the back of my mind for quite some time; but when you’re bored and you go searching on Google images, wonderful things can happen. And I now find myself in love^[1] with someone who is fifteen years older than me, famous, and has a girlfriend. Yet I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside when I hear him sing (very badly, eeek) or speak (love Yorkshire accents!) or see a picture of him looking pointy and long-haired. I’m officially an obsessed, crazed fangirl.

Wouldn’t it be amusing if Nick searched his own name on Google and this came up somewhere? If you’re reading this Nick, I’ve probably gotten over you by now, considering the amount of time Google takes to spider pages and for people like me to get to the top of search lists. Nevertheless, I would like to hear from you, since I am probably the most famous Kaiser Chiefs’ fan on the internet (hah, as if, Tish…) and I absolutely love you all. I will be somewhere near the front of the crowd wearing a white “YOURS TRULY ANGRY MOB” t-shirt at your Birmingham NIA gig on November 26th. Please feel free to throw your drumsticks at/to me

1. I use the term loosely. By love, I mean infatuation You know, the type that makes you focus on one person only and lets you forget about everything/one else…

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