Homeschooler Influence

First off, if you haven’t seen the ad with Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris, watch this. I think it’s great.

Then I was just watching an interview on Fox News with Chuck Norris and Huckabee, and found this pretty cool. Chuck was asked how he came to endorse Huckabee, and he was talking about all the research he did…and how two boys from Oregon with a site called The Rebelution emailed him and told him why they supported Huckabee, then he gave the link to the site and told people they could check it out. I’ve been to their site and heard of it many times, and they have a lot of great stuff. I just thought it was pretty cool that they got together because of Brett and Alex Harris, Josh Harris’s younger brothers, and Alex is also on HSA, which I’m a member of. They’re pretty well known amongst older homeschooled kids and graduates.

Here’s the link to the video, but I’m not sure if that will work. If not, go here and scroll down to “On the Record” and click “Dynamic Duo”. (After writing this, I found you can also view it here on their blog)

I thought it was pretty neat to see how much influence an email from two homeschoolers could have like that, and it’s a reminder how small the circles are among homeschoolers.

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Plans…

There’s a quote that says, “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” We can plan so much, but sometimes, our planning just doesn’t coincide with our circumstances.

I planned to be much more diligent about blogging this month, to write a novel(or at least start one) in a month, to work on crocheting and finish up Christmas gifts and making cards before December, and to work more on web and graphic design and make some blog templates and advance my skills. A bit ambitious, but I was going to try. Another quote says, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Okay, a bit inaccurate, considering the moon is closer than the stars are, but that’s beside the point. I wanted to make the most of my time by working toward all those goals. I figured even if I didn’t accomplish them, if I at least tried, I would get a lot done and have a rather productive month.

Did I mention that our plans don’t always work out? Mine certainly didn’t. That tendinitis has still been being a pain, quite literally,  and typing irritates it faster than anything else. So I’ve done little typing, and when I have been typing, it’s been to catch up on correspondence or do things I had to get done. Pretty much everything I planned to do needed my hand, which hasn’t been so cooperative. Though I can crochet some, which is nice. That doesn’t bother my hand nearly as much as typing does.

This is the longest thing I’ve typed in some time, and my hand is starting to rebel, so I should probably stop. My hand is slowly improving, I think, but  I still need to rest it a lot.

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Snow!

In honor of the coming winter, and because I’m rather longing for cooler weather, I thought I’d share a picture with y’all. The only snowman I’ve ever made.

I made that a couple of weeks ago with a free program I downloaded. It’s pretty cool! I haven’t worked much more on it, because of the problems with my hand and wrist, but I’m reading over things about it and want to learn how to do more 3D/animation type stuff.

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IE problems…

I just viewed my site in IE6, and it looks pretty awful. The formatting is messed up and it’s hard to read, and there’s no menu. If you’re viewing the site in IE6, I apologize, and I’ll work to fix it asap! I had previously checked it in IE7, Firefox, and Opera. Cross-browser issues sure can be a pain! Apparently it’s also having some trouble when not viewed on a widescreen, so I’ll have to see what I can do to fix it. Maybe I’ll find a pre-made layout to use until I can fix this or create a new one.

Also, I’m not sure why, but some of the additional pages aren’t working properly, such as the comments or about page. Not sure what’s going on there either, but sometimes they’ll load and sometimes they won’t.

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New domain

I wanted to post this separately from the last post, but I got my own domain! I put this on a subdomain of that, and need to decide what to do with the home page. I want to reinstall Photoshop Elements and make a new layout soon. I haven’t reinstalled everything yet from when I erased the hard drive recently. I’d like to post more, both about this and for GreaThings, but I have a splitting headache which I’m trying to keep from becoming a migraine, as well as a lot of dizziness right now. I’ve been fighting that off and on the last few days. So I think I’ll go rest and watch a movie and see if that helps.

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