My Sunday Best

1. . Have you ever wanted to see a You Tube Video of the kind of dancing my aunt used to do? Probably not, but it is still cool! These dancers were on the Jackie Gleason show. This week I was visiting with my Uncle Brian and he showed me this website. Apparently, I have an Aunt Jeanine (my middle name) that used to dance like this back in the 60's and 70's for Horace Heidt. Instead of synchronized swimming, they do synchronized dancing. I always new I came from fame!
2. This is the store that I have been buying a lot of clothes from lately. The reason being, they have great customer service, you can find $25 coupons off all of the time in Southern Living and they have a great section of petite clothing. By the way, I do not wear petite clothes because of my waist size, but because of my height or lack-thereof! :)
3. What is my favorite way to find friends? This week I have found two of my really close old friends. It also makes me feel young inside to be able to communicate this way. :)
4. What is my favorite curriculum for home-schooling my son?
5. Been wanting to get organized? This is a great place to take the Monthly Organizational Challenge.

Blurb, Blah Blah Blah!

This is a tale about when scrapbooking meets computers.

I told you about my scrappin' retreat I had last weekend. Well, it was a blast, but I was a little miffed at the whole blurb.com business. I have posted before on how my husband made a really cool Guatemala Mission Trip "scrapbook." Little did I know that he did not change any of the fonts or try to fluff it up. All he did was plop his pics into blurb and he popped out a really cool book.

You know, if you are a real scrapbooker, that things are really rarely that simple when making a scrapbook. . .plop and pop. I was inspired by my fellow scrappin' friends crazy books that they were making at the retreat. They were throwing together some paper and tape and it made me want to fluff my pages up a bit on my computer screen. All I wanted to do was add some fun fonts and make the sizes fit the page better. Nothin’ extraordinary.

I got everything set and then decided to change the themes and backgrounds. Then kapoof all of my text and sizes went adios. . . back to the same font I started with on all 126 pages that I had perfectly arranged on each stinkin picture! URGH!

I went to the “Help, I want to strangle whoever made this stupid program” section to check out what just happened. In the blurb forums I find lots of people irritated with the same thing. So I have joined the ranks of the Irate-Can’t-Format-Font-on- Blurb Friends! I think I will make that a facebook group! Anyone want to join me?

Netiquette

This is something that one of my co-workers sent to me. Maybe it was a hint?! Just kidding. She sent it to our staff and thought it would be useful to us as professional emailers. I think it is really helpful to look at and to remember as we are interacting in cyberspace.

Use of good “Netiquette” is essential in an online environment. Please observe the following rules of common courtesy:

a) Focus on one subject per message or use pertinent subject titles.

b) Capitalize words only to highlight an important point or for titles. Capitalizing otherwise is generally interpreted as SHOUTING!

c) Be professional and careful with your online interactions. Remember that you should be comfortable with your statements if they were published on the front page of the local newspaper.

d) Cite all quotes, references and sources.

e) Never forward someone else’s messages without their permission, this is considered to be extremely rude.

f) Use humor with care. The absence of face-to-face cues and body language can lead to misunderstandings. Feel free to use emoticons such as :) or ;) to communicate that you are being humorous.

g) All postings should be of top quality, on time, and rich in text. This means no comments such as “at a boy”, “you go girl”, “I agree with that”, “couldn’t have said it better myself”, etc. will be considered master degree quality responses. Make sure to take the time to add richness to the discussion and make connections to the many theories in counseling, diversity and leadership that will be covered in this course. Remember, postings are tracked for quantity, quality, and punctuality of deadlines set forth.

(The above “Netiquette” guidelines were adapted fro Rinaldi, A. (1994) The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette, Florida Atlantic University, available from Netcom.)

http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/home/leagal/netguide/elec.html

Menu Plan Monday

It is hard to get back on track today. I have been digital scrappin all weekend and I came home to a sick family. Hopefully we will be on the mend soon after a great week of food! :)

Monday - Farfalle Florentine
Tuesday - crock pot roast with beef broth and pepperoncinis/Roasted Potatoes/broccoli and cheese
Wednesday - Omelets
Thursday - Creamy Chicken Burritos
Friday - mooching off of my in-laws
Saturday - still moochin
Sunday - The Traditional Taco Salad

Happy Cooking with Love this week!