Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Primal Fusion

So, I've played around a little bit with the primal fusion program. I've figured out how to edit before publishing at least.

1st one
knit and crochet

2nd try
Doilies and Threadwork Crochet

3rd one is better edited
State of Maine

so that was fun

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Rambling around with internet technology

I've been so busy with helping to care for my dad that my thoughts have been so scattered.

I've actually made 2 hats, 1 baby sweater, 2 doilies and got an afghan started that's 2/3 finished.

I've added my ravelry project bars to my blog.
I've added a technorati account.
I've found friends on facebook.
I've opened a Mindmap account at XMind.
Now I'm trying out Primal Fusion for integrating thinking and web searching.

So here are some links I've been messing around with:

Ravelry Progress Bars
Ravelry users can follow this thread for adding blog widgets.
I haven't updated my projects though.

Primal Fusion Crochet Doilies and Threadwork

Technorati is for claiming and registering your blog.

XMind is helping me work out some personal info.

At facebook I'm mostly trying to figure out the apps and general layout for the place. It's one of those places that I just search around and find interesting people and things I like to explore.

I've been able to find some of my family, old co-workers, old friends and some of my newer ones too.

So, I've really been scattered but I'm actually trying to connect everything together; my personal life, my hobbies, browsing easier, and making social connections at facebook.

I went to school with a friend named Seth that is really a whiz with technology and brainstorming ideas. It's nice to know that someone from my hometown has achieved a Doctorate. A pretty interesting guy. (Although he doesn't even know how to knit or crochet!)

My dad...a heavy sadness, to see his life energy dimming is a very sad thing. There will be peace for him though. I have a strong faith in God and believe there is peace and harmony in the hereafter. I will miss him dearly. Prayers

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Which Classic Dame are You?

Your result for The Classic Dames Test...

Katharine Hepburn

You scored 17% grit, 14% wit, 48% flair, and 29% class!


You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women.


Find out what kind of classic leading man you'd make by taking the
Classic Leading Man Test.


Take The Classic Dames Test
at HelloQuizzy

Monday, April 6, 2009

My World is Totally Upside-Down

I can't knit or crochet fast enough to help get through losing my Dad to cancer.

Daily, everything is changing.

The End of Life Hospice Care is really the best way for terminal cancer.

There could have been 6 months added to his life but why, for 6 months of heavy duty chemo and radiation that makes him horribly sick and then feeling like he was already gone?

There is a heavy sadness in my heart but also a peace in letting him go at home in his own bed and recliner with my Mom.

I've nearly completed an afghan to keep him warm. I've made 2 hats for him. I've started a new baby sweater for my son's new baby due in sept. Today, I started a clothespin hanger for the clothesline.

Life is life I guess. People are born and people die. It's just the way of the world.