The cold that never goes away

So I know I am probably just whining, but, I feel as if mother nature is still making up for having a nice mild winter with all the sicknesses going around this year. I think more people have gotten the stomach bug, colds, and sore throats this year than any other past years. I am on my 5th cold since January, and it is not fun at all! This weather is messing with us, it is nice out so we wear sweatshirts one day and then it drops to the 30s the next. Our body temperatures are going crazy and weakening our immune systems!

We are constantly outside playing whenever possible, which I know the fresh air is good for you, but I feel like whenever we do, within a day or two, I am getting sick again.

If this is mother nature compromising with us, it is no fun! But on the contrary I would rather get a stuffy nose than shovel.  =)

What the weather was like this time last year....

For all of us who are loving the weather this winter, this is a quick flash back at where we were last year!!! I will stick to the 40-60 degree weather with sunshine all day! I am not a fan of shoveling what so ever, so the fact that we can still go for walks and bike rides in almost March is fantastic!!! Bring on the beach weather!

Styling My Webpage

The past few weeks have been really fun learning all about how much you can do with notepad and text/edit. It is amazing how much work and coding it takes to make one simple sentence. Throughout the past few weeks, I have created 4 html webpages via notepad. They are index.html, videos.html, images.html, and midterm.html.

It was a blast making a table in notepad for the midterm, it was much easier than I initially thought it would be, but once you get the hang of it, it is not so bad and becomes fun. We learned how to make the font larger or smaller, and bold or italics. I learned how to change the color of a paragraph as well.

I am excited for all that is to come and proud of myself for understanding everything thus far!

How Internet Has Affected Media

Oh how times have changed from 20 years ago to today. Technology has by far out done anyone's expectations and then some! The internet specifically has become the top way to research and look something up, for example movie times, business hours, maps, etc.

The internet has had a huge impact on media as well. Whether it is music, movies, or commercials, the internet has you covered. Say you want to watch the super-bowl commercials again because there was one you loved, all you have to do is Google "super-bowl commercials and BAM! there you go!

The internet is a huge help with advertising as well, there are all sorts of ads everywhere from company's. There are the annoying pop-ups that we have learned how to successfully avoid, and usually on the right or left margins of search engines, there are ads, I think the most common one I see is weight loss ads.

The internet has helped make movies available online instead of having to rent the dvd, not to good for BlockBuster, but great for websites like NetFlix, and Hulu. How can you beat that, $8 per month for access to watch any movie you want as many times as you want, and even better, they are accessible through gaming systems too!

Absolutely Love This Song

Yes I am a country music girl, but I think that this is one of the sweetest and motivating songs out right now. Whether you are sick or not, it makes you realize it will be okay!

How my job has changed my outlook on life

Since becoming a full time nanny, I have a different outlook on things. I have been a nanny for about 4 years, and before that had my fair share of retail jobs (one in which I still currently do part time). Being a full time nanny means you are responsible for children monday thru friday while their parents are at work (for those who were unsure of the job details =] ). I started my current nanny job this past March so I am coming up on 1 year next month. I love and care about my girls as if they are my own, they have changed my attitude of not wanting to go to work everyday to absolutely loving going to work. We go all over the place for fun activities, such as Canobie Lake Park (amusement park), Bonkers (indoor kids playground), Chuck E Cheese (death of me!), the mall (has small indoor playground as well), out for different lunch dates, and so much more that I can't even think about. My family absolutely adores them as well, my grandmother loves when I bring them over to visit her. They are such sweet, intelligent, fun little girls. I dread the day that they are old enough and do not need me to watch them anymore, but also look forward to a life long friendship I hope to have with them.

Technology 2012 ... Good or Bad for Communication?

When given the question..."How has the progress of the internet effected communication of family and friends?" I found it strangely difficult to answer, because I have never really thought about it before. I know that I am on Facebook everyday and am constantly checking my emails, but I never actually sat back and thought about how all this forth coming new technology, and birth of all the social networks actually altered my relationships. 

With that being said, here is what I have concluded; since joining Facebook, I talk to people more often. When I graduated high school I pretty much didn't care if I ever talked to most of the kids I graduated with ever again. High school was filled with so much drama, I was happy to graduate and move on with my life. However, since I graduated, almost 4 years ago, Facebook has reconnected me with people I never thought I would ever want to talk to again. It is nice to see how the once ridiculous people I called classmates have grown and matured into responsible adults like myself. 

As for the family aspect of social networking and internet communicating, most of my family is also on Facebook, my mother, grandmother (yes i said my grandmother!), all my aunts, my brother, also my in-laws. So if anything it allows us all to see what each other is up to. I still visit my family the same amount, I never really was one to call my grandmother or aunts and uncles frequently. My family is so huge that we see each other pretty regularly between holidays and birthdays.

After thinking about all of that it was a relief to realize that the internet really has not changed the way I communicate with people, if anything, it enhance it!