My Best 5K Ever

was NOT today! I blame it on....

1.  The weather: who runs in 60 degrees? sunny, no wind, not a cloud in the sky?
2.  My shoes: there has to be something better than a Nike!
3.  The iPod: maybe Coldplay instead of Tom Petty would have helped.
4.  The route: I didn't see anyone else using the course I had selected.
5.  The time of day: no reason, just thought I'd throw this in!

It was a Nightmare on 13!

I've avoided haunted house for most of my adult life
 
having been to 'Night of the Living Dead" I remember why,
they scare me to death! Am I a baby or what?

Africa Is Life Changing

IT IS OFFICIAL!
I am very excited to be selected to be one of about 25 volunteers who will be traveling to Naivasha, Kenya early next year with Africa Is Life Changing, Inc. a humanitarian, non-profit organization whose on-going mission is to nurture the value of women and children. I have been assigned to the work with a team of medical volunteers to provide training in various areas including reproductive health, disease prevention, including HIV/AIDS and health screenings for women and disease prevention and general wellness children.

Since my passport is up to date and my travel vaccines are current, I will be spending the next several months concentrating on increasing my knowledge of Kenya, for sure I want to know more about how the country was settled by the British and how their independence came about.  I am anxious to study an atlas and see how the country is layed out, where the mountains begin and where the rivers flow.  I doubt I will be able to learn any one of the 40+ languages spoken in Kenya but I will be able to learn more about the Masai tribe who live in this part of the country and the Kikuyu tribe which occasionally occupy the area.

But more than anything else, I will be counting down the days until I am in Africa!
http://www.africaislifechanging.org/

Picasa for SENIORS

Earlier this year I logged into my blog and found my images missing?!?! What the heck?

I was running the photo program that came with my computer to edit, store, and upload images but something I did with my photo files deleted by uploaded files, and my profile photo was missing in Facebook as well! When I started asking around I found out that if I used Picasa these problems would be eliminated and I would be able to add slide shows to the blog as well. I was convinced!

Well after maintaining a blog for nine months and using Picasa for five I ended up with an unbelievable amount photo files (mostly containing 1 image each), I realized I needed to learn a little bit more about how Picasa manages my photo files within their program, how photo changes affect my stored photos and how the 'cloud' photo storage program works.

Enter the library, why pay for a book?


The only help guide available was 'Picasa for SENIORS" What an insult! Does the author really believe that the comprehension of this program is age related? Like if you are young you understand the program and do not need a manual, but if you are a SENIOR you do not understand the program, hence the manual? You know there is a third option. there's me!

I want to read the manual, try some of the techniques and bookmark the place in the book, then set the book aside.  A few days later I want to go back to the manual to review what I have learned or to read ahead and learn a new trick or tip.  I want to work ahead at my own pace and look backwards when something doesn't work right.

I need a manual for Picasa because I want to understand how the program works, and not because I am a SENIOR!

Jillian's Wedding

It is said that the 'weddings and funerals' in our life brings us together as a family, well I am blessed to live close enough to my children that I can see them in the good times and in times of sorrow and in many times in between! Nonetheless, at the wedding of Troy and Jillian Brereton I took the opportunity to have this

picture taken - It is my hope that in this photograph we may look back on this moment and recall a time when all was good in our family.  Children, life doesn't get much better than this. --Mom