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Skinning....better than Xanax.

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Last week I took off on a 1300 mile trip to Kansas for my son's wedding.  I'm kind of prone to panic and anxiety, and with the economy the way it is right now, this trip was sort of like walking on a tight rope without a net for me.  However, I am, once again, in the middle of constructing another Windowblind, and during this trip, whenever I caught myself thinking about all the disasters that could befall me (car wreck at any of the states I had to drive through where I don't know anybody to help out and don't have any extra cash to pay anyone to help out; breaking down on the road with no one to help and no way for my spouse to get to me to fix things, because our second car is broken...dying on the road before I GOT to the wedding, etc.), before I started to hyperventilate, I began to think about how I wanted to skin the scroll bar, or what I'm going to do with the Please-Wait animation.  

I went the entire round trip (2600 miles) without once freaking completely out in the car, and I owe it all to skinning!

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I sometimes question whether had I been raised by somebody NOT so negative and willing to point out everything that could go wrong, whether I'd have ended up like this.

Maybe yes, maybe no...an unanswerable question...but I wouldn't sacrifice the wonderful friend you are and great graphics skills you have for nuttin'!

I'm very selfish, and should be ashamed.....but I'm not. :D

 

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 1

Maybe yes, maybe no...an unanswerable question...but I wouldn't sacrifice the wonderful friend you are and great graphics skills you have for nuttin'! 


:blush: <3 \o/  Flattery will get you everywhere.

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

We're friends for keeps, girl.  :inlove:

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It seems a majority of desktop customizers(especially the skinners)are borderline to full blown wacko...digital art is a great way to pull yourself out of a bad time...plus the kudos from appreciative users gives your ego a little boost...something we social retards need a bit of.

 

Crazies tend to be more creative than norms too. :dur:

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Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I.R. so that would explain why I've made 150 Widgets this week.. I'M INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!! :S o_O :rofl:

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

hehe...That IS crazy! :w00t:

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Tailsgirl, reply 5
I.R. so that would explain why I've made 150 Widgets this week.. I'M INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!


That, and you can't sleep.  That means you have 8 more hours per day in which to find stuff to do, than those of us who sleep.

150....Crikey!  You need to try your hand on a Windowblind.  Just adjusting the colors and fonts alone will consume a week.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

/me  <------ Fueled by Insanity!:grin:

 

Karen, slight exaggeration on my part, but I did make 15 clocks yesterday.. seriously!X|

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Tailsgirl, reply 8
Tailsgirl  <------ Fueled by Insanity!

 

Karen, slight exaggeration on my part, but I did make 15 clocks yesterday.. seriously!


That's called "a rut" - (...or OCD...depending on whether your a lay person or a psychiatrist).  Really...you should try a WB, perhaps inspired by a clock.  Maybe the start button could be a clock!  I can't wrap my head around the clocks...I'm too aware of the passing of time the way it is.

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

TG should make a cat or shark skin....get it? sharkskin?....Bwah hah hah... X| :w00t:

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Welcome to Ward C at Sunny Valley Sanitorium.  Crayons and paper will be supplied, but please don't eat or stick the crayons up your noses.  For those of us not on Haldal, there is desktop skinning in it's many forms.  My doctor just added OCD to my list of malfunctions for learning to make clocks.  C'mon in if you dare.

                                             

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My favorite scene from the Disney movie Alice in Wonderland.

 

Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. 
Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... 
Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. 
Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... 
Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. 
Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. 
Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. 

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thought all you crazies might like this quote.

 

                                         

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

when compared to what lies within us."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Now, Ed, I could argue about that quote...because what lies before some of us exacerbates what lies within us, and someday someone might invent something that corrects the deficient things that lie within us, so what lies before us matters much in regards to what lies within us...and if some idiot blows up the planet then what lies before us pretty much makes null and void what lies within us.

THIS is what happens when you place a profound quote by Emerson in the hands of a crazy!  (and also why the stoners I use to go to school with told me what I really needed was just to get high once in a while, but that's another thread).

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"Exacerbates", that sounds dirty.:rofl: *_* I can't argue with you Karen.........I can't type fast enough!;P

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting angus1949, reply 15
I can't argue with you Karen.........I can't type fast enough!

In my business, we know ALL the tricks to fast typing.  Most of it has to do with using a text expander, but I don't have any of the dirty words in there, because I enjoy typing them out the old fashioned way. (What does that say about me, that I get a kick out of being paid to type "naughty" words?)  o_O

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As this thread decends to the depths of depravity I can only say.......what words?:omg: 8(| 8O :O :rofl:

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Text expander?!?!?!?!  Where are the Mods? What kinda trashy talk goes on here?

All this crazy talk! What is this....you guys been inhaling from next door at the marijuana thread? ;P

Next you'll be marketing a tape/DVD: "Skinners Go Wild!".

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I type hospital records for a living.  That means, aside from all the technical words for the fun parts of the anatomy, I also get to type what the patient says in quotes, and SOME patients are kinda crabby and upset and on their last nerve when the doctor asks them questions that they don't really feel like answering politely.  Occasionally I get to type reports of intoxicated individuals who have been brought in for a 23-hour hold to the psychiatric unit, and THOSE, my friend, are my favorite reports to transcribe!

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 18

Next you'll be marketing a tape/DVD: "Skinners Go Wild!".


All proceeds to go to the WinCustomize subscription drive!

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head
Feed your head

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Karen, NOOOOO not a rut hon, they are different kinds of clocks, with custom hands, they look cool, never tried it before. :)

Tis a GOOD thang.:thumbsup:

 

/me made ANOTHER clock just before this post.:blush: ... it had a side effect though, I've started to tick!:'(

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting angus1949, reply 21
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head
Feed your head

Sounds like "Jefferson Airplane", Gracie Slick ca. 1966-7

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sounds like "Jefferson Airplane", Gracie Slick ca. 1966-7
Go ask Alice.........you bet.  She was HOT.

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Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That was a book we had to read at school, about a druggie chick.X|