Week 5 Thing 12 Rollyo

I am just amazed at all of the things I am learning! I wasn't sure at first how I could use my rollyo, but after thinking for a little while I came up with an idea. I have very little time to pursue the things that I really enjoy. I love nature and do love to hike, but usually don't have much time to try new hiking trails. So my rollyo has a list of sites that I can look at to find hiking and biking trails in maryland! Yippee!

Select...Hike and BikeSearch The Web

Week 5 Thing 11 Library Thing

Wow! This was soo cool! It is a great way to keep track of books that you've read. You can also chat with other people who have similar reading interests through library thing groups. You can invite people to chat with you (you know I'd love that!!!) or join other groups of people to talk about a particular book which could be useful for book talks! There is also a group for librarians who librarything and even a group of Myers-Briggs Types!!! I chose 6 books to display on my blog, all for particular reasons. The Little Red Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings was my favorite book when I was a little girl. Hop on Pop and The Very Hungry Caterpillar were my daughter Maegan's favorite books as a little girl and we spent so many fun filled hours with her curled up on my lap reading them. The Chesapeake Bay Trilogy was a series of just plain enjoyable books that I have read and re-read, just to escape for a little "Kim" time! The Christmas Box was the first book I read by my favorite author Richard Paul Evans that touched my heart! And I'm hooked again! I'm on my second book of the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins! Ahhh, I do love to read!

Week 5 Thing 10 Avatars and More

I had sooo much fun making my avatar. First of all, I totally goofed and somehow ended up with a male avatar and I was really beginning to wonder what your thoughts of that would be haha! I finally figured out how to change my avatar to female and from there the possibilities were endless! Since I like to have a lot of fun, I finally decided to let the kid in me win out and gave my avatar pigtails. Since winter will be here before we know it, my avatar is dressed for the snow and of course her black lab is right there with her! In fact she is ready for a snowball battle! What's that??? Splat! Gotcha!!!

Week 4 Thing 9 Exploring Merlin

I have added Merlin to my bloglist. I found Feedster easy to use to search for various topics of interest. I also tried syndic8.com, and did not care for it as much. I thought Topix was especially interesting to find useful information on Westminster news all in one spot! I also tried Technorati. It was fun to see all of the newest blogposts but I don't think I will use it as often as Feedster and Topix.

My bloglist URL is http://www.bloglines.com/public/libraryhugbug

Week 4 Thing 8 RSS Feeds and Bloglines

I finished creating my blogline. I was able to find some sites with RSS feeds on some of my favorite topics such as dogs, especially black labs, animals and nature and health (I admit, I'm not perfect. I love to live a healthy lifestyle but do give in to my weakness for chocolate sometimes!!!) I have really learned a lot. I didn't know much about RSS feeds before now and am excited that I can find so much information on my favorite topics in one place.

Week 3 Thing 7

I know this seems like a minor thing but it made me sooo happy! I have been using text messages for quite awhile. I had to learn out of necessity! My kids would text message me. What message were they sending me?? So...I learned how to open them up and how to send them. But it always bothered me. I would type everything in lower case letters. It drove me crazy! Ask my kids. Spelling, grammar and punctuation have always been one of my vices. So, I finally took the time to figure out how to capitalize my letters! And it was sooo easy! For those of you who don't know...there is a shift key just like on the keyboard! Success! :-)

Week 3 Thing 6 Flickr Mashups and 3rd Party Sites

I had a lot of fun playing around with Flickr Mashups! Do you remember Andy Warhol?? As you can see, I also Warholized a picture of my black lab, Laxie and me. Pretty cool! I also played around with Color Pickr. My favorite color is blue so I had to look at those pictures first. But it was fun looking at purple and yellow and red too! One of my favorite things to do was play Guess the Title. The longer I played, the better I became! I better watch out though...this game could become addictive!!!

Week 3 Thing 5 Figuring Out Flickr

I had a lot of fun on this site! There were so many different things to try out. It was easy to navigate around. I posted a few pictures of my dog and my one year old granddaughter.