UPDATES: My connection has gotten better—VERY GOOD SIGN. I wonder what’s wrong with those dumb underground cables in the middle east that has to do with this. The news said they promised to get it done by the end of 2008 but oh look THE JOY?? It’s already the second of january. Only good news is I see some improvement….which I should be grateful of not continue ranting like what I’m doing now. OH SHUCKSSSS

NEW LAYOUT? I lost the old one I was suppose to upload. Don’t ask why please I’m already feeling awful enough to what I’ve done. *sniff* This one’s for the awesomeness of Grey’s Anatomy. SEEMS LIKE SHUR IS STUCK WITH THE SIMPLE TEMPLATE AGAIN, HEH~

SPINACH: Oh btw I made a new hosting site, Spinach! So remember to get hosted with me if your host ditches you, etc hahaha.

I was supposed to upload a new layout but my bad, bad, connection just had to screw it up. So there’s not gonna be a real layout up until my connection gets better. I have no idea what went wrong with it, it just started acting this way right after Christmas. Actually it got bad during the first week of December, then it just got worse after. *sighs*

Hope everything goes back to normal soon, I need to get those pages back up too!

ARE YE REALLY MARRIED: Nay. That’s just an inside joke so you can stop freaking out now. And also Chad(wick) wrote that entire blog which was COUGH highly praised COUGH. He was disappointed that everyone called me funny in the comments instead of him a.k.a The Creator Of Heav- I mean BLOG. So give that poor soul some love and if you may, mention him in your comments. I will personally refer your little encouraging notes to him.

JOLLY SCHMOLLY: I love Christmas, everyone’s just so in the mood and I hear Christmas music everywhere. (which is also one of the main reasons why I love it so much) I went grocery/food shopping (LONG STORY WITH THE ‘FOOD’ SHOPPING QUOTE~) with my mom and friend yesterday, so my friend’s brother wanted to go to the toilet and I had to bring him UMM OKAY THE POINT PLZ?? The point is I brought him to the toilet and I even heard the radio blasting Joy To The World IN DA TOILET-O. My friend’s brother was singing that song while doing his UMM little business which seriously embarrassed me to no end. (he was in there for like 40 hours.) So hmm where were we? I keep getting off topics these days. WHATEVER SHUR I DON’T CARE. Merry Christmas everyone!

Hello fans of Shurley, I’m ‘Shur’’s husband Chadwick Swan. Now I recently discovered this site and wasn’t even informed it existed. I am very disturbed, to say the least. The reason I am so violently disturbed is because my wife is lying about who she is on the internet. I was browsing the history on the family computer today to check if our 14 year old Charlie had been doing anything he shouldn’t have. To my greatest surprise I saw that he hadn’t been doing anything wrong and I should have trusted him. Now as I was searching through this history I found VoltageBox. A site where my wife of 30 years was telling people she was a teenager. I sure hope that is all she is doing, pedophilia runs in her family so I am quite nervous about the entire situation. If you know anything that Shurley has done wrong please post it in a comment and I will notify the police right away. Sadly they have been watching her. I noticed she has become quite distant lately with her recent addiction to a teenage chat game titled Habbo Hotel. Yeah, I found it a bit weird but let it go. I really never suspected this and I apologize to each and every one of you that is involved at all in the situation. I’d like to let you all know who you are dealing with. Shurley Swan is a 60 year old woman born in southern France to Frederick and Maggie Liance, a very rich and famous couple in their day. At the age of 14 Shurley left home in search of an adventure and that is where she met me. We spent our days robbing the rich and giving to the poor (as cliche as that sounds). I will never regret the adventures we shared but now I am wondering if I will soon to regret our marriage. Once again I am so tragically sorry, I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

One last note, this is something I will be living by for the next little while.

Philippines 4:13
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

SO UMM LOL JK. She’s 15. And awesome.
the husband part isn’t a joke though.

Anyway do you see the new layout? If you only see the header with the old CSS, please refresh your page as I had this problem when I first uploaded it too. I’m trying to see what’s the problem AND CROSSING FINGERS HOPING IT WOULD BLOW AWAY IN 2 SECONDS. I hope for useless things, shame on me. Snicker, snicker. Hmm this blog seems unusually short, so I’m thinking of something to blog about, ah yes, Shur has found it!

Thanks for all ye suggestions in my previous blog, all of them were really good though unfortunately I won’t be using any of it. I’m thinking of majoring my site with my portfolio + hosting. Not that premades and tutorials aren’t my thing, no dear don’t take it the wrong way~ I’ll be (most probably) keeping my tutorial page, though I might delete the Content page. I just checked my stats and noticed people rarely ever visit it so why not delete it instead of letting it rot. Or maybe show off to people I have so many pages and blah. Not that kind of person, really-o. (a) I NEED AN ANGEL EMOTE HERE PLZNTHX.

So yeah that should probably sum up what’s been on Shur’s mind these few days. I hope you like this layout, one of my friends already does, so I’m hoping you do too. It’s nothing big like OMG HOW DIDJA DO THAT SHUR TEACH ME PLZ? But more to the…hmm, O THAT’S NICE SHUR, NOT CHANGING THE CSS AGAIN? SNEAKY-ISH.

UPDATES: I just noticed something really important. In fact, it’s something I should have noticed earlier. Maybe I did but I kept pushing it away. (O PUSHING ME AWAY, EVERY LAST WORD, EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SAY~) I am currently feeling guilty and sad that no one reminded me to do anything about it. Are you not curious what is this ailing conviction in me???? I haven’t been updating a lot. Not like blogging, I blog way too much it’s not even normal/healthy. Oh this life I am living~

Ya, so the point is I just noticed my tutorials and premades (is it still called premades? i haven’t been thar fer agez~) have been there for so long, it either needs a revamp or new content. What do you think I should add? I’ve even thought of removing some stuff. I’ll definitely be keeping the tutorials though, they were made with MUCH, MUCH effort. (make an O face, make an O face….YA)

Pokay, let’s continue. (new word thx 2 chris.) I’m thinking of adding new tutorials, probably Fan Update ones. Nay wait, there isn’t much to add….right. Honestly tell me what do you want to see more? It’s hard making random tutorials out of the blue and then realize after that no one even reads it. Maybe I should add new stuff randomly more often so you can try finding it like, like, like that..WHEREZ WALLYZ thing?? God bless Wallyboo, what a classic.

Alright, back to business. I treasure your comments and suggestions so please take some time to think about it. Because, I might make a llama award for you if you do.

I know there has been a bit of a drama since this huge hosting site, (let’s call it Hostwalley Balley~) is closing and everyone’s ranting and complaining. TOLD YOU LIFE WAS HARD. Most of the big sites hosted by Hostwalley Balley has probably find a good host but there are also some who haven’t. I’m gonna be frank and tell you honestly that this blog is all about advertising my super server. (sounds like some detergent thing.)

If you need reliable and solid domain hosting, look no further, this is the place to get it. I offer unlimited hosting for only $50 a year. Interested? Comment me here, leaving your email with it so I can contact you. I know $50 may be out of your budget and it isn’t really an ideal price but I TOLD YOU (no i’m not saying life is hard, jumping to conclusions AGAIN EH.) Anyway like I said, my server rocks everything in this world. No it doesn’t rock enough to make your world go round but it’s good enough to turn your frown upside down.

…Omg phrases, that sounded great. (writing it down, writing it down) BACK TO BUSINESS SHURRRRRRRR. Cough yes, where was I? Oh yeah get hosted! Come on you know you want to, if you’ve know me long enough, you’ll know I’ll be a good host and take care of you well. There hasn’t been a downtime since I moved to this server. My host is amazing and so am……I. (laughs, OH SHUR, you, you, you….uh..smarthead.)

What else should I say hmm, YES I DID HAVE FUN AT CAMP. So everyone can stop asking me that now, yeah in a good way. I know there’s this magic thingum called copy + pasting but pressing CTRL+V like 23 times in 10 minutes is no easy job.

Anyway as for now, don’t stop your comments coming in, I’ll definitely reply them. As for hosting applications, they’ll only be replied to when I’m back so please have some patience. If you’re wearing out of them, you can find another host, I’m perfectly fine with it. ENJOY YOUR…WEEK (while i’m gone criez????) EVERYONE! :’)

Anyway where was I? Yes checking up on Hazel Jones and some random doorbell thing. I wonder where I get such notions, yeah. Okay so I googled Hazel Jones and nothing come up, well there WAS something, though it wouldn’t be right to mention it here. So I tried googling ‘hazel jones blog advertising’ AND BAM, guess what I spied with my little eye. Lots of other blogs showed up on the search with the EXACT SAME MESSAGE that Hazel left me. If this isn’t a scam, what can it be? :’)

So site owners, beware and be on the look out for scary little scams left in your comment box. Always check up on that person before replying to their emails/comments/perversive messages. LISTEN TO MOMMA, ITS FER YER ON GEWD.

UPDATES: Wow I didn’t expect so many of you to join my MB, and I’m really flattered over it. Okay so maybe flattered is too big of a word to describe lol, but still I’m excited over the response. Cammy is even advertising it on this site with millions of hits each day, and Helene, yes the amazing girl who sits in her forest crying all day, has even advertised it in her new blog. WOO, I love you all

HERE GOES THE BAD NEWS: Still haven’t fixed my Fan Update. Tried donig what Kevin told me too (one of the commenters on my last blog), but it still doesn’t work. I’m convinced Jenny is tired of my emails and has……..stopped replying me. Sigh. I can’t blame her, I know how annoying it is when people keep pestering you with questions and saying (supposedly) fancy things like “OMG YOUZ A WALKING DICTIONARY, BABE. YOU COULD TRY REPLACING URBAN, TOTALYZ.” what the? Yeah. Someone also told me to try re-installing Fan Update, that’s a nice advice, though it’s too much hassle and I don’t want my blogs deleted. They’re very, umm, precious, to me in some sort of way

RANTS: Hi everyone, I don’t know if you’ve noticed it but Fan Update has been eating my blogs again, like for example, after posting a new blog, I have to wait for an hour for it to show. I’ve already contacted Jenny (creator of fan update omgz) and according to her, I’m having some problems with my time zone.

There are two problems I need to fix, so far I’ve only gotten to the first. Still waiting for Jenny’s reply as I have no idea how to make the “Time Zone and Time Zone Calculated” to show right. JEEZ THIS IS HARD, SOMEONE HELP ME? I can’t continue living in different time zones, that would make me really weird. Because like my head would be at 12.54pm while my finger is typing away on my blog at 1.54am WHAT THE. Not good at all

ONLINE: I know I’ve been tagged a million times before and I never really write out those seven hundred million random facts about myself each time, which I apologise deeply. Though, to be honest, I dislike tags and do it out of obligation for the person who fortunately remembers my name AND possibly even made a list of “Things I Could Do To Annoy Shur” chart. Whatever the reason it is for you to tag me, I’ll still be a good child and do it. So here goes 7 random facts about myself.

1. I was the 1^st commenter on Swimchick’s site on her blog about Obama’s victory.
2. My site was born on the same DATE as Swimchick. (31^st June)
3. I don’t get why the first two facts are about Swimchick its not even funny why you’re laughing.
4. I LIKE TYPING IN CAPS LOCK IF YOU DIDNT NOTICE WOO.
5. I’ve been saying the word WOO! a lot lately, don’t mind me. (a)
6. People love my sense of style (offline), so don’t believe me then come move in like what Stephine did. EW STEPHINE STOP PICKING ON YOUR TOE NAILS. Yep, she’s sitting beside me.
7. I own a whole bunch of Converses. Woo.

So I admit those are lame but it’s not like I can help it. Told you I sucked at tags. :o

UMM WHAT’S WITH THE LAYOUT: I bet you’re wondering, OMG SO YOU ARE AND HERE I AM EXPLAINING IT ALL TO YOU. My design nerves are perverted at the moment, needs some inspiration + a lot of fixing to do.

OFFLINE: Now that I’ve fixed my site, another problem has yet arise. (Why does this seem all creepy like OMG DECEPTICONS ARISE kind of feeling.) Yeah anyway don’t you want to find out what’s the problem, so here we go. As some of you know I couldn’t open my Photoshop a couple days back and STILL can’t open it. It was alright last week, then it started being all gay on me when I couldn’t open a new canvas / file. After that, things just got worse, I couldn’t edit files, and NOW GUESS WHAT I can’t even open the program. Oh damn you sexy Adobe.

I still haven’t got a clue what’s wrong with it until my anti virus program shut down on me today while I was doing scan. (WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BUSY CATCHING BUGS ATM NOT BEFRIENDING THEM.) After that, ho ho, it was Mr. Limey Blimey’s turn. (aw I loved him) Limewire started acting all weird and kind of buzzed around my comp, hopefully that makes sense to you, if it doesn’t just try to imagine a Lime flying around screaming “Wire! Wire! Wire!”.

Yeah after Limewire a bunch of other programs acted all weird then BAM something hit me. (UGH IT SHOULD HAVE HIT ME EARLIER UGH IM SO DUMB UGH) Maybe I was running out of disk space? Uhuh, O Shur You Smart One. Unfortunately it’s true, I’m running of out space. Since my comp hates me so much I might as well act all “Be Gone With Ye! GO GO RUN LIKE THE WIND WOO.”

So alright, I’m outta space, (is it me or did that just sounded like OUTER SPACE) I need more but I’m not getting more INSTEAD I’ll be getting a new comp soon. Somehow dad has gotten a hold of my comp and also realizes how retarded it can be at times, SO YEA WE HAVE COME TO AN AGREEMENT. New comp soon, baby! :D:D:D

UPDATES: Yes people, I DID mention a surprise coming soon. So no more questions on whether I was rambling on that or telling the truth kk. I’m sure most of you have been wondering what it is. The Almighty Helene of Crying Forest thinks she knows what I’m talking about but is reluctant to tell me what she guessed. I’ll be forcing it out of her the next time she gets online (WRITES THAT DOWN ON TO DO LIST.) So the surprise is coming VERY soon. There are only a few perks left to do and it’ll be ready to go so watch out for it.

ON A RANDOM NOTE: Don’t you find this blog extra short than usual? Well I have nothing to blog/talk about. So throw me some questions in your comments and if I find it worthy enough, it could be a replacement for this on my next edit.

UPDATES: I’ve got new affies again, yep. It’s mostly the same update I might as well skip this as you should already know I’ll say it every time. Should I?? should I ?? but then I would feel guilty for not mentioning them, as everyone is precious in God’s eyes.

Anywho this blog will be clearing up the air (that doesn’t make sense online but yeah you’re a smart kid.) ALRIGHT IT WILL BE CLEARING UP THE ONLINE NON-EXISTING AIR on why my blog’s date always shows a…umm…it always shows the date on the day you’re reading it. (does that make any sense at all? i hope it does.) People have been asking questions thinking my blog is OMFUHGUHH MAGICAL!?? in some sort of tweaky way. Well I wouldn’t say no to that, I believe there IS some kind of magic going on. (Not disney-godmother kind, you perv.) But yeah, back to the point. The reason why my date changes so quickly (cough magically cough) is because sometimes……………

(I’m just quoting what I told a friend earlier to safe time but dang, msn chat logs are messy and hard to search/look/find. WOW REDUNDANT USAGE OF WORDS. COOL.)

“I update the date on my blogs daily because sometimes I’m far too lazy to post a new blog for days but I don’t want my visitors thinking I’ve died or possibly permanently migrated to Neverland. So I always update to show ‘em a recent date.”

The Neverland Idea is a real thing. It’s not a random quote I made up, so stop throwing questioning comments on me, I get…scared easily? NO I AM STRONG, I AM A FIGHTER, I AM, Yeah that’s enough Shur, stop it. Yeah Yeah, you get the idea. So I guess this blog is enough to explain why my blogs are so magi…cal.

Random thought: *THROWS PIXIE DUST AT YOU* (no, I’m not disney obsessed, I just find pixie dust cool.)

Alright, here we go with our little misunderstanding. I’ve been commenting back many sites lately and been wondering a whole lot why I never get replies from them. Surprisingly they all happen to have that lame copyright at the bottom saying ‘proudly powered by WORDPRESS’ (that’s a clue, YO.). After a tough but thorough analysis I figured there could only be two reasons. First, some people are just slower than Gary (spongebob’s sexy snail) in everything they do, or Second (which has a higher possibility) Sir Wordy has been against me the whole time, blocking all my comments, MY INNOCENT, HARMLESS LITTLE THOUGHTS OF WISDOM, turning them to spam, kicking them to that scary moderation room. Oh poor babies, they didn’t even get the chance to breath that fresh air. OKAY SHUR YOU’RE RAMBLING AGAIN?????

Sigh. ‘Tis dreadful, so very dreadful. So commenters, if you don’t get a comment back from me (esp if you’re with that Evil Schneevil Sir Wordy) Then you know know who to blame. I can guarantee you that EVERYONE gets a comment back.

psshh: Aw, don’t run away and hide/cry/bawl at barney Boris Jonas, yours is a different case. Feel free to go kick Wordy in his shins now

ONLINE: Has anyone watched the Love Bug video? I honestly expected more and in the end I just thought it was boring, bland, and needed much more energy to it. Love Bug is one of my rare (not to mention, occasional) favorite JB song, plus the Jo Bros have proved again and again that they’re people with good taste! Now, don’t mind my rudeness, but I would like to enquire (…nicely) WHERE DID YOUR TASTE GO??

I only liked the last part where the song turned rock, and petals started falling from the..roof?? Unfortunately that only lasted for 5.3147683 seconds. After that I was back to my thought-you-could-have-done-better mood. Though overall, what got me into a sick mood was my favorite part of the song, the CHATTERING at the beginning and the end wasn’t added. Instead the beginning was replaced with some sort of medieval music. It was soothing, nice, and….yeah. Though I thought the chattering would have done a much better job instead.

Lastly, where’s that classic “GET OFF MY CAKE!!!” Joe quote?? HUH!?!!? That’s my favorite. How many times do you want me to say the word favorite before my readers would could puke when they see the word again. (Yes, that was meant to be a statement, not a question) Sigh, conclusion is, I was really looking forward to what they would do with the video, but unfortunately most of my favorite parts got cut off, and regrettably, I have to say I didn’t like much of the video.

OFFLINE: The Aids Exhibition I went today was called One Life Revolution founded by World Vision. World Vision is “a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.” Just the long explanation might have already bore you out, though really, a person like me would care less about the definition and move on with the practical help they give to needy people. To sum it up, One Life Revolution is pretty much this international aids exhibition, reaching out to young people all around the globe and teaching them to have an awareness for Aids, its causes, prevention methods, and most importantly, how to face if you’re a victim.

The whole exhibition was really interesting, you had to first line up, and the people there will hand you an mp3 player. The narrator on the player will be your guide through the whole journey, you’re suppose to follow all the instructions it says. You will then be directed to a room. Then the narrator will introduce you to the exhibit, then give you a brief introduction on the country where the victim is from. You are then told to imagine being the victim. The life of the victim and everything he/she experiences will be expressed from room to room. One second you’ll be at home, and the next you’re in the hospital attending to your sick brother. Everything is surreal, and by the time you’re done you’d probably be crying your lungs out the exit.

Altogether there were 3 different stories, and they have this special route for each one. Just follow the route, and it’ll lead you to room after room. 2 of the stories were about Aids victims, one had been diagnosed with it through child trafficking/prostitution, and the other one through his father. The last story was of a girl who had to suffer the lost of his family members through Aids. She lost every single one of them. By the end of the journey, you’ll reach a place called the Reflection Room, if I’m not mistaken. You can take some time to reflect on the life you’ve just heard. When you’re ready to move on, your last stop is called The Wall Of Hope. This is where we get chance to write little encouraging post-its and stick it up the wall. Every single one of the notes we write will be read and some might even be given to the victims as a form of encouragement.

SO, WHAT NOW? What I wrote up there was just a brief run through of my experience at the exhibition, and if the One Life Revolution comes to your town, I’d definitely recommend you to try it out for yourself. As much as I can tell you, only experiencing it yourself will really let you feel how it’s like to be in their shoes. It IS a tough world out there, and all this really made me think how grateful I should be for everything I have. You and I may not know any Aids victims right now, but reaching out to that poor kid who lives down the street and never gets enough to eat is already enough for a first step. This is not going to be easy, as I’m sure most of us have gotten used to our comfort zones. But I’m willing to help as many as I can, are you?

WHY, OH WHY, SHIA? There’s a reason. I’m a fan, just a fan. Not obsessed fan who finds his nose hair sexy. Hey, don’t call me gross I’m just quoting from crazy fans. If you ever venture on those boards, you better brace yourself for absurd fan girlyness. Anyway, I was browsing through galleries and saw this old photoshoot of him then something in me went OOO I NEEDA MAKE SOMETHING OUTTA IT. And I did

I know I’m not a good storyteller. I just….tell them as plainly as I can. Now THAT’s what I call a true story teller. Don’t exaggerate, it’s a disgrace to the art of story telling. (Quoting grandma.)