I did this one for Technorati by adding the code into my post template, but not sure how to use it or others. Which are the better ones to use?
Thursday, December 27, 2007
A little help with feeds?
I'm pretty new at this and would love a little help figuring out how to add feeds to my blog.
I did this one for Technorati by adding the code into my post template, but not sure how to use it or others. Which are the better ones to use?
I did this one for Technorati by adding the code into my post template, but not sure how to use it or others. Which are the better ones to use?
Write regularly and relevantly in 2008
I turned 39 this past summer. Already people were asking about what I'll do for my 40th birthday. As I looked around, I realized I have Writer's Market books dating back to 1996. Yet, I have never attempted to be published. So this, my 40th year, is dedicated to writing. To see if I'm still good at it.
I'll admit, I have a few distractions. Must be the OCD and ADHD that would explain so much if I actually had. I've also wanted to learn how to build a website, and digital scrapbooking, and how to actually earn a living writing (ideally online), and still be the full-time caregiver to my preschooler, and keep doing the actual job that I have and love- part-time hairstylist in my home, and spend quality time with my husband who travels a lot for work. See what I mean? ADHD for sure. Although, I couldn't survive without it.
In theory, all these things can work together. I may be spreading things a bit too thin, but we'll see which ones stick, I guess.
The website building I have a pretty good handle on now. Last year, my toddler (now a preschooler) and I tagged along on 5 of Daddy's business trips... each lasting between 10 days and 3 weeks. So, to fill the time in the hotel rooms from toddler's 7:30 bedtime until hubby came home from working, I built a website devulging many of the tips and tricks we learned about traveling with kids. You can check it out at www.BestKidFriendlyTravel.com. My friends always ask me what products I use and where to get them, so you'll find a lot of links to that stuff there. I actually made it to the first page of Google for 2 articles!! Without paying for ads!! Yay!!!
Digital scrapbooking just makes so much sense for me! Besides the obvious benefit of documenting my memories; if I learn how to do more of my own creations... make my own embellishments and papers, I can use them in my website/s. I just bought the latest Adobe package with both Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. I'll let you know what I learn as I go.
Apparently the way to earning a living writing online is to do as my title says... write regularly and relevantly. That's my mantra for 2008. What to write about? There's always more to say about traveling, that's one. Here, that's another. I started a blog about beauty tips... things I learn as a hairstylist. You can check that out at www.dyesandcurls.com. So that's three. Too many? I hope not. We'll see.
I'm always coming up with another thing. It could get interesting as things go on. ;)
I'll admit, I have a few distractions. Must be the OCD and ADHD that would explain so much if I actually had. I've also wanted to learn how to build a website, and digital scrapbooking, and how to actually earn a living writing (ideally online), and still be the full-time caregiver to my preschooler, and keep doing the actual job that I have and love- part-time hairstylist in my home, and spend quality time with my husband who travels a lot for work. See what I mean? ADHD for sure. Although, I couldn't survive without it.
In theory, all these things can work together. I may be spreading things a bit too thin, but we'll see which ones stick, I guess.
The website building I have a pretty good handle on now. Last year, my toddler (now a preschooler) and I tagged along on 5 of Daddy's business trips... each lasting between 10 days and 3 weeks. So, to fill the time in the hotel rooms from toddler's 7:30 bedtime until hubby came home from working, I built a website devulging many of the tips and tricks we learned about traveling with kids. You can check it out at www.BestKidFriendlyTravel.com. My friends always ask me what products I use and where to get them, so you'll find a lot of links to that stuff there. I actually made it to the first page of Google for 2 articles!! Without paying for ads!! Yay!!!
Digital scrapbooking just makes so much sense for me! Besides the obvious benefit of documenting my memories; if I learn how to do more of my own creations... make my own embellishments and papers, I can use them in my website/s. I just bought the latest Adobe package with both Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. I'll let you know what I learn as I go.
Apparently the way to earning a living writing online is to do as my title says... write regularly and relevantly. That's my mantra for 2008. What to write about? There's always more to say about traveling, that's one. Here, that's another. I started a blog about beauty tips... things I learn as a hairstylist. You can check that out at www.dyesandcurls.com. So that's three. Too many? I hope not. We'll see.
I'm always coming up with another thing. It could get interesting as things go on. ;)
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Big Tornado in a little town
In 1979, an F-4 tornado ripped a path through my small Iowa town 8 football-fields-wide. I was 11. I remember the sky turning green, and watching the massive pale wedge turn black after consuming acres of farmland. I was mesmerized. My mother had to pull me in the house from the driveway, only to later peel me from the windows as I tried to keep watching. It really did sound like a train, not the train whistle, just the rhythmic roaring down the track. By the time she got me and the dog into the basement shower, the windows started buzzing. Then everything was silent. Dead silent. Then the roaring and buzzing again. When all was calm, we went outside to see the damage.
Everybody was on the sidewalks in minutes all telling each other what happened in their house. We all needed to know that what just happened really happened. Our neighbors said they looked out the window and it was right above our house!
Just then my dad pulled up in his brown Ford van. After lots of hugging, he said the tornado destroyed the entire truss building except for the small office where he worked. He saw the hail and went to put his van into the garage. When he got outside, the tornado was just a few hundred yards away and headed straight for him! He left the van and ran back into the concrete building and prayed.
Several homes were leveled in that storm, I forget now how many. There were a few who died, mostly elderly who couldn't get downstairs, or who had no basements. Many tragedies come with a storm like this.
But tornadoes do very curious and amazing things also. In our town, for example, there was a house that was picked up, an RV was set down in the basement, and the house was set right back down again almost perfectly in place. In our house, all the siding was sucked out 1/2 inch... just 1/2 inch! We had to pound every single board back in. There was a large piece of corrugated steel laying inches from our car in the driveway, yet the car had nary a sratch. There are so many stories of these oddities that don't get told outside of the locals. But for those of us who've experienced them, they are forever etched in our minds.
This storm created my fascination with tornadoes. If you share this fascination, you may already know about this website featuring some of the best tornado footage I've ever seen. If not, enjoy!
Tornado Videos, Tornado Stock Footage, Storm Stock Videos
Everybody was on the sidewalks in minutes all telling each other what happened in their house. We all needed to know that what just happened really happened. Our neighbors said they looked out the window and it was right above our house!
Just then my dad pulled up in his brown Ford van. After lots of hugging, he said the tornado destroyed the entire truss building except for the small office where he worked. He saw the hail and went to put his van into the garage. When he got outside, the tornado was just a few hundred yards away and headed straight for him! He left the van and ran back into the concrete building and prayed.
Several homes were leveled in that storm, I forget now how many. There were a few who died, mostly elderly who couldn't get downstairs, or who had no basements. Many tragedies come with a storm like this.
But tornadoes do very curious and amazing things also. In our town, for example, there was a house that was picked up, an RV was set down in the basement, and the house was set right back down again almost perfectly in place. In our house, all the siding was sucked out 1/2 inch... just 1/2 inch! We had to pound every single board back in. There was a large piece of corrugated steel laying inches from our car in the driveway, yet the car had nary a sratch. There are so many stories of these oddities that don't get told outside of the locals. But for those of us who've experienced them, they are forever etched in our minds.
This storm created my fascination with tornadoes. If you share this fascination, you may already know about this website featuring some of the best tornado footage I've ever seen. If not, enjoy!
Tornado Videos, Tornado Stock Footage, Storm Stock Videos
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