Delicious

I love delicious! It was like having a search engine that only brought up good pages when I searched specific tags. It is a little bit confusing at first, especially tagging all of my old bookmarks. But, I am figuring it out and really appreciate the tool. Any suggestions on how I can add tags from school instead of just from my home computer?

RSS- Yahoo vs. Google

I have been a Yahoo user for over a decade. I love their e-mail, my yahoo, travel, etc. Now I have to admit their reader is second-rate when it comes to Google. I tried twice to set up my Yahoo reader and got frustrated both times. Finally, I caved and decided to try Google. When I tried to the Google reader, it took me about 5 minutes to set up all of my friends blogs and it is easy. I am thankful for this tool and so excited to have it set up!

7 1/2 Habits

Out of the 7 1/2 Habits of a Lifelong Learner the most challenging is probably to play. I would have never said that about myself prior to being married, but now I get it a lot. This summer, I think I had four people in one month tell me I needed to learn how to play and relax better. I tend to have a structured schedule in my head and pretty clear expectations of how things are going to go all the time. I would have liked to think of myself as quite spontaneous and playful, but nothing revealed that I was in fact not that way than being married and having to slowly reveal my secret planned out minutes, days, months, and years ahead to David.

The easiest habit for me is probably to begin with the end in mind (see above). I like to think of potentials and plan how to get there. I think sometimes thinking about the end makes me want the small steps of getting to the end go a bit faster.

My very first blog post...

I have been enjoying reading my friends blogs over the past several months. Specifically, my dear friend lost her baby a year ago and has blogged through the pain and surprising hope and joy. Reading her blog has been such an encouragement for me (funny she should be the one doing the encouraging). David (my husband) has been telling me that I should have a blog about cooking and cleaning, posting different recipes and cleaning solutions I create. I told him that I wouldn't start blogging until we had kids so that somebody would actually read it - we have a lot of family in South Carolina that maybe would be interested. But, here I am making my first blog post!