... yeah, don't ask me what I think I'm doing with this layout any more. I could try and excuse myself by saying 'it's for spring', but I'm not totally sure that would be true when I hang onto journal layouts for several months at a stretch and it's not exactly spring yet anyway. I'm just in the mood for something far more girly than what I had before. Yeah, unleash your inner twelve year old girl.

Well. Inner twelve year old girl and random emo kid.

I don't know what the deal is with the Placebo lyrics. They're not my favorite band and (prior to making this new default icon of mine, which is what really inspired the layout change) I hadn't even listened to them in an age. I just felt that having stuck them on the icon I really needed to follow the theme through as regards my journal title and subtitle. The lyrics are from no particular song, I just picked them out at random because liked them and thought they were suitably intriguing and pretentious without being overly WATCH ME EMO, which believe me is an ever-present danger as regards Placebo.

The icon took me an embarrassing length of time last night. The image editing, the resizing, the background, the whole thing just took far too long. I was planning on getting an early night, too. Instead I made this icon and edited it until my head exploded.

And I had Commercial For Levi running through my head the whole time.

(Yes, that is why this icon is captioned 'Valium and Cherry Wine'. I know Commercial for Levi makes no sense in the context of one Ken Hidaka, but I was so fixated on the idea of using that precise quote - for which I blame the colors - that I just had to ignore the fact that Ken isn't a very good junkie nymphomaniac. Well, not when he's at all in character, anyway, though I admit it's fun as Hell to speculate.)

Still, it's not like it really matters where it all comes from. It could always be worse; it could be Evanescence lyrics, and that really would be a random Emo kiddie moment par excellence. I'm not quite that far gone, though.

The real downside to changing my layout, though, was the mood theme. I'm anal-retentive about my color schemes, so changing the layout meant that I had to edit the user icons so they were bordered in pink rather than yellow (sorry, Kenken) and then reupload them to photobucket. No easy task when the uploader insisted in spazzing out at me every few minutes and freezing halfway through the process. Still, I got it done in the end, which makes me glad. I do still like this mood theme ever so much.

Now to see if I can get a couple of CSS fixes. I've read the helpsheets and I have no idea what they think they're talking about, so it looks like I've got to go begging for help again. At least I managed to find the CSS to change the font size without having to ask.

That's another reason I don't like updating my journal layouts.