Hi all,
I'm sitting in a Dreamweaver class right now. It's kinda fun, but it's going slowly right now, the time that is. It is going to be useful, expecially when I get the program and can make my webpage with my pictures and sounds and all that...It will be very fun. We have covered the Dreamweaver interface, formatting existing text and now after this break we are going to place images and experiment with tables. This class had people of all abilities in it. There are some who have used Dreamweaver 3 or 4 already, some who have never seen a web editor, and some, like me, who have seen some things, and catch on quickly. Well, we're getting back to the class. It's not taking me so much brain power, but I think that is because I catch on to this computer stuff rather quickly, (kinda like my friend Nate). Oh, and another thing, this computer looks like a Fisher Price one! Why must Windows XP look like Fisher Price????????????

I went to see Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood this weekend with my mom. She came to visit me. We had one heck of a storm during and after the movie too, but that isn’t the point of my story, yet. I really, really liked it. I know it had some bad reviews, and maybe the reason I liked it so much is I can relate to some of the stuff in the movie. Oh not the bad stuff, but the good things, and the humor, and having friends like the ya-ya’s. I kind of had a group like that growing up. We never had a special name for ourselves or anything that I can remember, but many of the same close ties were there. And I could relate to having my friends help me to be a little less reticent. So all in all, I would say if you are a woman (guys may have trouble understanding all the topics), and you enjoy girly movies, and movies with a story, and movies with an actor who has a GREAT accent (I love accents), then this is one for you. It made me sniffle and laugh, so all in all a good movie-going experience.

Ok back to the storm. OOH—funny story: After the movie we drove home in a monsoon, and there were flash floods over some of the roads and I enjoyed thoroughly going through puddles at high rates of speed like they tell you not to do. When I got into the city (most of the drive was on the highway), and I was almost to my house, the water pressure built so much in the storm sewers that it was blowing the man-hole covers off and shooting water 30 ft. into the air a-la-geyser-style. It was so fun to watch, we were driving just slightly behind it, so we saw them do this geyser act one at a time for about 8 or 9 blocks.

I love thunderstorms with a bunch of rain and wind and especially lightning! I love playing in them. We are supposed to have a few more here tonight and tomorrow and Saturday, I can’t wait. Anyway, next chance you get go play in the rain and wind and have a great time, and go see Devine Secrets.

Wow, I'm starting to understand HTML. I'm in a class for it right now in fact! We're on break...Still, whoever made the template for this page used software that is still over my head, and over the heads of the people teaching the class. Well I wouldn't say over the heads of, but I would say that they have never seen it before, cause I showed the template to them and wallah, nothing going. I do feel more comfy already playing with my templates....and soon now I might even make my own and FTP it up and have my blogger there, or I'll make a new blogger, cause I don't want to lose the stuff on this one. It's really kinda cool...this class, though I've pretty much already done all the stuff that we have covered through my own trial and error. After break we are going to cover Hyperlinks, Images and color and texture. Shoudl be interesting. I can't wait. hehe..

I can't wait to take the advanced classes and the Dreamweaver classes and some FTP classes...and, oh wait, one thing at a time...Well, looks like we are going to be getting back to what we were doing earier. Time to go all.

Go out and learn something new today!

You know, I thought I would be better at keeping up writing in this, but my bad, I'm getting lazy already. That and I just haven't had that much to say. I went to see Mr. Deeds this weekend, and for an Adam Sandler flick, it was…different. It tried to do the comedy of a Billy Madison or a Happy Gilmore, but it had a storyline much like the Wedding Singer. Now I won't say too much for those of you who haven't seen it but may actually go, (please don't send me hate comments all you A. Sandler fans, I'm not dissing the movie as such) but it seemed kind of put together in a hurry and more of a cut and paste of old movies than a new movie for him. I saw the preview for the atrocious cartoon he's having come out too, an animated movie, already NOT A FAN. So anyway, there is your movie review of what I saw this weekend. If anyone else has seen it, let me know. All in all I give it 2 stars, for making me laugh occasionally and it's good if you just want to go and plug your head in for about and hour and a half, not think, and laugh a bit. That is all for now, later~

I drew today. I haven't drawn in ages. And this wasn’t just a doodle either. I drew a woman, in a long dress, wearing a pendant. She resembles me, and yet isn't. Her hair is short and curly like mine, and her eyes are large and light, she smiles easily like me, and like me there is mystery and mist surrounding her. But she has a sophistication I don’t have, and there in the gray lines and shadows, she hides something from me. It's there, in the mist, just out of sight, just out of reach. And like the fading remnants of a dream, the more I reach for it, the harder it is to grasp. She hides it in her hands clasped behind her back. While I drew her from my memory it almost came to me, but then, when I stopped to ponder…it was gone.

I don’t' know why I decided today of all days to pick up a pencil and a sketchpad and draw. Well, it wasn't even a sketchpad, just a pad of engineering graph paper I had laying around cause my sketchpad seems to have disappeared. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I wonder if a sketch is worth a thousand thoughts, or hopes, or dreams. The weather could have had something to do with the drawing. It rained all day here. Not a summer rain, but a cool fall rain, the kind that I can imagine falling on a castle on a moor, with mist surrounding it. My lady belongs there, in the castle in the mists, and maybe-hopefully-so do I.

I haven’t written for a while on this site, I have to admit, I haven’t been doing much in the way of reading/watching movies/writing lately. There are some movies I have meant to go to, but I really haven’t found the time, or when I do, I can’t decide what one to go to. I’m really looking forward to the second Harry Potter movie though, and I’d like to read the fifth book, too bad it isn’t out yet. I can’t wait to see The Two Towers, the second installment of Lord of the Rings, it should be great. It reminds me a bit of Empire Strikes Back, but I don’t want to go into it too much for those who haven’t read the books yet, (like my friend Erin). For those of you who have read both, or seen one and read the other…I’m sure you can agree with me.

I saw Star Wars: Attack of the Clones twice, but I could have done without the fireplace scene. To me that was too mushy, and not what Star Wars is all about. I mean, yeah romance IS part of it, but it doesn’t need to be THAT obvious. I like the way the played the romance bit between Han and Leia much better. Subtlety is key in these types of movies.

Ok, enough on that, it’s the 4th of July, I’m going to go enjoy the food, the sun, and the booms… Have a good night all.