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Well, that used to be a nice song and even my radio show years ago. Time has passed and now I am thinking about this title while having a not so lazy at all sunday afternoon. Yesterday was lazy indeed. Went to the pool, got some serious sun tan and now I have to “pay” for this lazy day.

I had to finish 2 shopping carts for 2 clients before I start a new one. I added some products and made some more changes. While I had to modify the script once again I got an idea for a tutorial: How to remove the price in the New Products box in oscommerce. I didn’t write anything in the articles section for quite some time, so it was a good thing to prepare this tutorial for our visitors.

Now I have to prepare some more changes on another site in the Dojo Design portfolio and also try to work on some pages in the portfolio itself. I wanted to put the new design very fast and didn’t get the chance to finish all the pages. In few minutes we’ll make an upgrade on BaniVechi (Old Coins) - My BF’s numismatic site and then I’ll start working on other projects too.

My friend Adi is already working on some translations for a site in the network after she translated files from the MyBB package. And something tells me she’s gonna get more work soon

Z Componenti is one of the latest oscommerce sites I made. For an Italian client, with Italian content. He wanted some animation too, that would explain the moving stuff in the header. I also had to re-create some content based on his material and also modify the script a bit so that we can use it according to his requests.

Centru ATV would be the other site I had to work on today.  We wanted a simple yet pleasant design for this one too … New content will be added soon, but the site is already working OK. Again .. we had to make some changes since the client didn’t want some features and wanted others, but overall it’s all done.

And if all goes well, tomorrow the work starts for another shopping cart

As I worked on some client site it hit me .. I have my own design firm, I wanted it so badly and still … I never got to celebrate it. After all the problems I faced when trying to start it I promised myself I’d get drunk from happiness. Even if I don’t drink at all …

Still .. the day came. My lawyer called to tell me I am on the track and the firm was approved. I called my folks and told them that yeah, after 2 months of problems and nerves I made it. Called my boy friend and also my boss, the one who sent me to this lawyer.

Then went home and was ready to think about spending a nice evening with my close friends Caius and Adriana and celebrate the small victory by ourselves eating some nice icecream and drinking natural orange juice. I know I should be more mature than this, but I don’t like coffee, cigarettes or alcohol .. so this is our treat.

I had something to do that night and we weren’t able to celebrate and the second day I had to meet with my lawyer and get all the papers and I also had a prospective client to meet with.

That night my grandmother fell ill. We rushed her to the hospital that morning, she had a heart attack and also pneumonia. I spent the day running from the hospital to the business meetings, back to the hospital and then to the dental clinic to also do some maintenance work on their computer. After 4 hours of sleep that night and almost no food eaten till late in the evening I just didn’t have the time to celebrate anything.

I had one of the best days of my life followed by some of the worst. The problems lasted for 2 weeks and then we got her home. Then I was already working with clients and so stressed that again I missed the chance to celebrate my firm.

2 months have passed. I have all the paperwork done now, a nice logo, clients and already a lot of work .. and still don’t know when I should get some time for a small celebration. Who knows, maybe when we have the 100th client? But who counts them anyway?