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I have an elderly relative who, as she was turning 70 and facing the rest of her life as a widow, decided to learn to use a computer. She discovered the Paint program, and over the past 4 years has taught herself to use it, and to create some amazingly lovely stained glass-like art. Faced with her reclining years on a very small fixed income, she came to me for help.

“What can I do with my Art?” she asked me.

Lucky for me, I actually had an answer for her, although my learning curve has been and probably will continue to be pretty steep as I attempt to assist her. The internet is the answer, I boldly proclaimed. Your art is soothing and delightful to view. I’m sure there is something we can do with it!

And that is how this little movie was born.

Hope you enjoy it!

I have been locked out of this blog for over 6 weeks, and now I’m back on track.  I messed up the upgrade somehow, and managed to lock myself out.  I was so frustrated (and angry with myself) that I kept avoiding the issue like the proverbial plague.

What undid my logjam?

A little nudge from my hubby in the form of a Project Management Handbook.

Using the forms he made, I was able to organize, prioritize, and focus on getting the essentials taken care of.  Wow, what a difference having that PM structure made for me this past week.

I know I’m not alone, so very soon we’ll be making this available to the world.

Stay tuned!  It’s gonna get a LOT better.

Simply speaking, 80% of all good is derived from 20% of our activities and/or possessions, give or take a percentage point or two.  Ergo, discovering which parts of our lives are contributing the most to our happiness and well-being and then focusing on those areas can have a tremendous impact on our quality of life.  I suspect, however, that this principle also works in the reverse.  By that I mean, it appears to me that 80% of all of our stress, anxiety, and generalized crap can be traced to aproximately 20% of the things, people, and possessions that are currently in our lives.

That said, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some weeding in my life and in my possessions so that I can find and focus on my 20% that produces good, and rid myself (insofar as I am able) of that 20% which is causing a large portion of my turmoil.

So I am starting here.  I’ve removed a couple of posts that are no longer relevant, and will be bringing in some new widgets and new pages very soon.  Pardon my dust as I remodel.

 Let’s make 2008 TwoThousandGREAT. 

Here is a short film taken at our local Holiday Fair on Dec. 2, 2007.

If you get an error message, simply hit reload and that should take care of the problem.

It really isn’t difficult at all to set up WordPress on your own webhost.  I actually did more than I had to, because my webhost had Fantastico in my cPanel, and it did the installation in a couple of clicks. 

Where I ran into difficulty was that I had installed a place holder named index.html, so my wordpress blog template didn’t show up.  It only took about a minute on the WordPress site to discover that removing the index.html file was all I needed to do.

The steps I didn’t need:  download and unzip WordPress on my home computer, and unzip the theme I wanted to use.  Could have skipped both of those steps.

Having blogged a bit on other (nameless, LOL) blogging sites, I was already familiar with the use of a “dashboard” for blogging, so the logging in to post was super easy.

This installation supports blogging by e-mail, but I don’t know yet how to use that, and am not sure I’m going to.  I’ll save that for later.

I’m on my way!