Technically, it’s January 3, but this post counts as January 2 because I haven’t gone to bed yet.
My plan is to move these posts back to my original blog. Since I wasn’t able to convert them from WordPress to Blogger, I’ll have to copy them manually and put the date/time of post in the entry. One at a time. Yippee.
I did read the first lesson for Sunday School, but I’m not sure if we’re going to church. The high is supposed to be around 3 degrees. I would just rather stay home – and stay inside – when the weather is like this. We’ll see.
And my comment about the lesson manual – I really am concerned about how I’m going to make 2 1/2 pages into a regular lesson. I’m more used to running out of time for the lesson, not running out of lesson for the time.
I didn’t design anything today (Saturday). I’ll try to have things average out. I’m thinking of designs for the rest of the year for Sandy. I kind of wish I could be there on Monday when she sees it for the first time.
I haven’t formally made any resolutions yet. I do want to do the Design Something Every Day and post it here. Today’s is a modification on a co-worker’s desktop background. She has a picture of a donkey that she likes. I made some modifications - I put Happy Birthday across the bottom and added stars around the donkey using a Photoshop brush. And I placed an image of a party hat on the donkey’s head. She won’t see it until Monday, so we’ll see how she likes it. Oh, yeah, I also added a January calendar.
I’m thinking about doing this for each month – modify the original image with specialized additions and a calendar for each month. I’ve got time, though – I don’t have to do it all today.
I had also planned to start reading the Old Testament. We’re studying it in Sunday School this year. I glanced over the class guide for the first lesson, which is mainly out of the Pearl of Great Price. I haven’t read it lately, so I’ll need to do that before Sunday. Also, I need to start working on my Relief Society lesson for next week. I’m kind of panicking over it. The lesson is so short in the book. I don’t know how I’m going to make it take the time available. I don’t want to get done with the lesson and have 15-20 minutes left!
I will place the NaBloPoMo badge in the sidebar, though. This month’s theme is BEST.
Oh, and I’m counting this as the entry for January 1, because I started it on January 1 but just took a little too long getting things finished.
I’ve been thinking of changing my personal blog back to my Blogspot site. In anticipation, I have deleted the archived posts that I had imported from Blogspot, and am in the process of figuring out how to export the remaining posts to Blogspot. Then I’ll use this site for more professional/design stuff.
I’m going to start designing desktop calendar wallpapers. I spent a great deal of time today downloading resources and I’ll be working on integrating those into designs. Smashing Magazine offers a few every month are submitted by designers from around the world. I have also used wallpapers from Kate.net and Mamselle.ca in the past. (Mamselle is not doing designs for now – her parents have both just died.)
I just checked and it’s been nearly a month since my last post. This is not good. I’ll try to do better, honest.
Here are a few thoughts:
Thanks and kudos to my neighbor who came over Christmas morning and used his snowblower on my driveway. He cleared what I had done after the last snowstorm 2 weeks ago. I hadn’t done the whole driveway – just enough at the end to park in and a path to the house. But having him do that was awesome – this recent snow was preceded by rain and sleet, and was wet and heavy. No fun.
I enjoyed having a quiet Christmas at home. I wish I had done laundry during that time, as I really need to do it now but Cayla really needed to take a shower, so I have to wait.
Some people need to take a chill pill. Apparently DJ Delilah decided to take her kids out of their school because the school is adding some things from “The Leader In Me,” a program for students from Stephen Covey, author of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.”
Here’s my response (posted on an LDS forum):
It’s not the first time I’ve questioned her judgment. She had a caller ask for a song just before Christmas. The caller was listening to Delilah’s show while painting her living room of the house she and her husband just bought before putting up the Christmas tree. They had a baby boy in February, so this is the baby’s first Christmas. Delilah picked “A Christmas to Remember” for the caller.
Really? A song about two strangers who randomly decide to go to Tahoe for Christmas and happen to meet, then hook up? And they’re hoping to do it again next Christmas? Yeah, I would definitely pick that to associate with my baby’s first Christmas.
In other words, she appears to make decisions based on superficial information. She probably picked “A Christmas to Remember” because of the title, not the content. But the content is what’s important. I wonder if she interviews every teacher her kids have to make sure none of those pesky Mormons teach her kids, and runs a background check on her kids’ friends to make sure they don’t hang with Mormon kids.
I have a habit of trying too much and failing. Seriously. I make New Year’s resolutions that last maybe a few days. I’ve had to drop classes at school two of the last three semesters – and a Flexnet class I only did one assignment in. But I want to try this: Design something every day. I’ll post what I do here. I also signed up for a regular class and three Flexnet classes, although I’m thinking of dropping one of those classes. I’ve got Web Multimedia (in class), English Composition I, Western Civ: Ancient to Early Modern and World Regional Geography. I would drop Geography. We’ll see.
I need to get more organized. (And the sky is blue … )
Obviously, November hasn’t been a great month for daily postings. Maybe December will be better.
In the interests of passing at least two classes well, I have dropped two classes. I’ll concentrate on getting caught up in my Marketing class. I’m doing okay in Web Animations. I was so far behind in Dreamweaver – I think I could have caught up, but the site wasn’t working for me. I’m going to get a book for CS4 (we were working from a book for CS3) and try on my own.
I’ve got a couple of websites I should work on, too. I need to work on online training for Family History Consultants. I’ve got a whole list of things I need to do. I get tired just thinking about it.
I meant to but haven’t actually started writing for Laurie Ashton’s Flash Fiction Writing Month. So I’m posting the links to the prompts (so far) so I can go back and go through them.
I participated in some Flash Fiction a couple of years ago (in 2006, actually), but dropped out after a few weeks. This Flash Fiction Writing Month is sort of a counterpoint to National Novel Writing Month, which for the first time since I heard of it I’m not even signing up for. I have never completed it – not even close. And since I already feel like a failure on nearly every level, I’m not going there.
However, I think I can catch up with FFWriMo and produce something that will be interesting to read. And maybe I won’t feel like such a failure. (Long story.)
Okay, it’s not really ugly – in fact, there is a certain charm to a drizzly, wet, rainy, windy day, as long as you don’t have to spend a great deal of time in it. In fact, it’s a great day to go back to bed for a couple of hours. Which I’m about to do.
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The other day I clicked on a video that I could not finish watching. It was horrific – a man attempted to dive in water but didn’t make it and landed on his head. I’m convinced he did not survive the accident and the image has haunted me since. I will be very careful what I click on from now on.
This video is safe for all ages. It may bring a tear to your eye – it is sentimental and thought-provoking. But it is worth watching and worth considering for your relationships with people of all ages. The video has subtitles and takes about 5 minutes.
