Ashlee and I were talking about our shared love of Mandie books today, which now has me trying to think back and remember all my favorite childhood book series.
1. Mandie by Lois Gladys Leppard - www.mandie.com
2. Laura Ingels Wilder
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Narnia
5. And there was another series. I actually have a couple of the books at home, but I can't remember their names right now.
6. Nancy Drew
7. American Girl - before they were so popular. I liked Kristen the best.
8. My Canadian West Series and others by Janette Oak - (gosh... just early of an age did I pick up reading as I feel like I was awfully young to be able to actual read these books all by myself without any help.)
And I'll have to keep thinking. I'm sure there were more.
I got an email today from a Janet Norwood. I thought maybe she was someone sending out messages for the mayoral candidate - Mary Norwood (who I don't like and am not voting for unless claiming relation to her will help out my ministry in the years to come).
Here's the message from Janet: Are you ok????? I was thinking about you all night???? I have a hang over and I still have 4 and 1/2 hours of school to go and then Mary's tonight...what was I thinking.
Hmmm... I'm thinking she really must have had a rough night, as I don't think I'm the Christy Norwood she intended that email to go to... unless I had a REALLY rough night and have NO recollection of her or the night.
First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
Life has been uber crazy, but good.
Last night I was driving up a side road next to Kroger when this big black SUV starts to peel out of a little very used parking lot next to Kroger, but slammed on its breaks when it saw me. I was far enough and going slow enough that I didn't even go for my break. I would have had plenty of time to stop had the guy not stop. Well, the driver of the SUV proceeds to SIT on horn while I drive past him and the passenger flicks me off with both his hands. I was so ANGRY. I wasn't the one who did anything wrong. I was the road driving straight and slow. I think they failed to realize (maybe they was getting high in the very dark of the abandoned parking?) that while they didn't have a stop sign, they weren't on a road and were at parking lot exit and therefore didn't have the right away. I was just on a straight shot of road. It wasn't two roads intersecting. And heck... I wasn't even up at where the exist was when they tried to peel out of it. I was so frustrated. I hadn't done anything wrong. They were they idiots.
This all happened after my monthly and LONG Neighborhood Planning Unit. I was on my way to buy some food for the week as well as the bread I need to bring this afternoon to our family Thanksgiving potluck lunch. I wasn't in the mood to be messed with. Well, I need to actually run and help with the potluck. I'll go ahead and post this, but will edit it a little later today and post more.
Just got done with an AMAZING potluck. Don't really know that I have the energy to write more just yet. Guess it will have to wait for another day.
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
... you live and work in the inner city when the hot news on the press and the exciting buzz of the day is about the new Subway located just 2 miles away. Yummy! I am enjoying a terikyki (spelling) 6-inch sub as I write this.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
from our little pumpkin!!
Stay tuned for pictures of him in his costume!! What will Abe be????
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
as a family that is. So you will have to excuse the horrible lateness of getting this post up but well, I've been busy :) So Monday morning of our trip we had arranged for our driver Solomon to meet us at Bejoe House since we thought that we would be going to the Care Center to pick up Abe. Once he got there though Travis called and told us that the other little guy being picked up that day wanted to go see his Mom and Dad now and didn't want to wait on us to get there so Travis said that he would bring Abe along too and would be at Bejoe in about 1 1/2 hours. Since Solomon was already there we decided to run to the store to pick up some bottled water. We got our water and was on our way back when Solomon got a call from Travis asking where we were. He was already at the guest house with Abe and we were nowhere around!! Solomon gets off the phone and says Travis is at Bejoe and I completely freaked out. What did he mean? We still had plenty of time. I needed to get our cameras and have someone video tape the event, I wasn't ready (oh, wait, yes I was, I had been waiting for this moment for years!!). As we start to pull into the guest house alley we notice that Travis is parked in his car at the entrance waiting for us to get back, so we were able to pull in, run upstairs to get our camera (we were going to video tape it but we didn't even have a tape in the camera and Jeremy was shaking so bad he couldn't get the wrapper off so we just went with the camera.) So here's the video for my little camera. Little background, the other couple that was there were caught off guard too so since I had the camera I started video tapping them because I thought Travis was the only one in the car so I figured he would bring up their son and then go get Abe from the car, well I was mistaken.
We spent the rest of the day just hanging out at Bejoe House with Abe. It's hard to put in words all the emotions of that day. It all kind of seemed surreal. All of the sudden this guy walked up the stairs and handed us our child, WOW!! But it also all felt so natural. Having him just fit. All the waiting, all the fustrations and emotions leading up to that moment just all seemed to fade away like a distant memory.
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