Michael’s room is finally finished! It only took me 6 days. But to my credit, I also finished Corey’s room in that time.
Basically I just ripped everything out that wasn’t glued or that could fit through the door. The reason Corey’s bed is still in Michael’s room is because if we take it apart, it won’t go back together. So now Michael has an extra bed, but that’s okay because he has friends sleep over from time to time. But with the second bed, we were having a hard time putting all the other furniture in the room. I ended up removing a dresser to fit everything else back in. I was looking up some shelves on Amazon, but never ended up getting them. Glad I didn’t, because it would’ve been a waste of $40.
There was a lot of stuff I didn’t put back in there that is either in the garbage or in the garage. I’ll go through the stuff in the garage later, but I’m pretty confident it’s all garbage anyway. I’m really proud to have finished this, but I’m too embarrassed to show you what it looked like before, sorry! If you’re bored, here’s a video I made to show Anna how I finally ended up arranging the room. It’s cute.
I got a new camera today to replace my old one that Jay took to work and lost. My old camera was a Sony Cybershot with a touch screen. I got it so I’d have a camera I can just slide in my pocket and pull out at any opportune time. It was my favorite camera and I took it with me to all the Three Days Grace shows, so it really meant a lot.
So my new camera, the Nikon Coolpix S230 is the only one I could find that also had the touch screen. Best Buy only sold the purple one, and I wanted blue, so I had to buy it online. After shipping and the 4GB SD card, the total came out to $244. That’s a bit more than my Cybershot cost 2-3 years ago. So it comes, I put it together, and start taking some pictures. The screen looks really grainy, but fortunately that doesn’t show on most of the pictures. It does show in the videos, though. We’re still fiddling with the settings, but so far I’m not impressed with this camera. Sony had a better camera for the same price 3 years ago.
Features (according to Nikon):
- 3 inch LCD Touch Screen
- 10 Megapixels
- 3x Zoom Nikkor Lens
- Electronic VR Stabilization
- Motion Detection
- Touch Subject to lock Auto Focus and Exposure
- Portait One Touch Zoom
- Paint Function w/Stylus
- Scene Auto Selector
- Smart Portrait System
I would recommend this camera to someone looking for a quick camera for random family photos. It’s very good for still shots, but if your subject moves (like my dog) it’s going to delay the camera in shooting and have a crazy blurry shot. However, I don’t feel like I’ve reached the full potential of the camera yet, so I’ll keep working with it and let you know.
It’s very light weight and very small. It’s shorter than my cell phone, and just slightly wider.
In the past my page rank on this domain has been as high as 4, which wasn’t extremely high at the time, but has become pretty hard to obtain lately. Now I’m back down to a page rank of 0. But since I’m rebuilding the site I want to keep an eye on my rank conveniently. There are a couple of ways I’ve found to do that.
1. Google has a Google Toolbar that allows you to see the page rank of any site you’re visiting. The only problem with this is that you must use Internet Explorer or Firefox to see the ranking. As of lately I have been gravitating more toward Google Chrome because it’s a bit faster. Just go to the site in your preferred browser and it will give you the correct page for your toolbar.
2. There are 3rd party websites out there that will check your page rank and display it for you. Most of these sites require that you go to them and put in your URL, then they will give you your page rank and possibly even more information, like how many backlinks your site has. The site I’ve picked shows you your page rank, then gives you a button to paste onto your website. I put mine up and now all I have to do to see my page rank is scroll to the bottom. Once I actually have some page rank, I’ll put it above the fold.
3. Google will tell you. They have free webmaster tools to help you make the best of your site, but will also show you the page rank of all the pages on your site. This will help you in determining a few things, but is most important for deciding how much you should charge for advertising on each of those pages. A page with PR 8 will be worth a lot more than a page with PR4, but the PR4 is still worth quite a bit. Every page has a different ranking. This is a great tool to use once a month to keep tabs on your site.
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The boys just left for the week because spring break started for them yesterday. They’re going to spend half the week with Jay’s mother, and the other half of the week with his aunt (who is like a 2nd mother to him). I packed them all up and met my mother in law half way for breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Lately eating out for breakfast has really made me appreciate a home cooked breakfast. It’s one of those meals with very few foods and that can be done wrong too easily. I stopped going to IHOP altogether because I was waiting an hour for food that wasn’t as good as what I could make at home, then spending $30 on it.
Anyway, so they’re gone for the week and I have a lot of work ahead of me. I have a lot of house work to get to, and a lot of computer work I’d love to get done. The entire house needs work, inside and out, and I always work best alone. If I can avoid getting so lonely that I start leaving the house to spend time with other people, I can accomplish a lot. I want to start with Michael’s room because it’s completely out of hand. The boys used to share a room, but I split them up, giving Corey the ‘play room’. Most of the stuff ended up in Michael’s room making it a huge mess. I don’t blame him for it. Corey’s room has been neglected lately, but I want to try to rearrange it, too.
I’ve also had a lot of ideas for a lot of sites come to me lately and I want to utilize them all. One of them being this site, which is why you see it up again. I really have a lot of ideas but I’m having a little trouble putting them to use. I’m hoping I can do all the things I want to do. I guess this week I’ll find out if the boys really do hinder my productivity, or if it’s just me. I’m such a procrastinator.
My name is Amy, and I've been creating and designing websites for 10 years. I live
in the lowcountry of South Carolina where there is plenty of natural inspiration. 
