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Of late my blog has become a page where I can save stuff that I can access at school OR at home.. and thats a big deal.. Its nice because then I can just jump on here at school, and save anything I need to so I can get onto it at home. What a convenience! Well i have to go, i've got to get this scene read... AH! the bell just rang.. bye!

Final Project!

A Storyboard illustrates the Site structure with thumbnail sketches of each Web page including: Logo, heading, text, background color, placement and size of graphic, fonts – color, size, type of text headings, hyperlinks.

Things to Remember:
§ 1 Home page
§ 5 Web pages
§ 1 Sitemap Page
§ Navigation Bar that links to each page (No Broken Links)
§ Logo on top/left hand corner that links to home page.
§ Graphics
§ Creative Backgrounds
§ Design Elements: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
§ Effective use of Tables
§ Complimentary color scheme - http://www.hypergurl.com/colormatch.php
§ Website needs to target a certain audience and stay consistent throughout the entire site.


These are the requirements for the "final project" in our web page design class. We'll i have to get back. i'm just posting this so i can start on it at home. joy...

1,510 words later....

My Paper is done. So Here it is:

Stress: Everything you wanted to know...(and then some)

Stress can cause many problems that affect daily life by causing headaches, irritability, sickness, and insomnia. Maybe sometimes you’ve felt stress is like when giving a presentation at school or work, problems with family members, deadlines, and so forth. Your heart can feel like it is racing faster and faster. Stress can come from many sources in life, and affect people in many ways. There is always a way that you can tell if someone is stressing out because there is some signs. Many places like the internet, books, friends, etc, are designed to help people that have become overly stressed and are depressed or have other problems. Below are the symptoms and how to understand stress, some of the effects, steps on how to deal with everything, be able to manage stress and how it will help you.
Stress has many symptoms that can be identified fairly well, but to be able to identify it you must be able to understand stress and what causes it. Stress is “a psychological and physiological response to events that upset our personal balance in some way. When faced with a threat, whether to our physical safety or emotional equilibrium, the body's defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the ‘fight-or-flight’ response. (1)” This is a good summary of what the overall definition of stress is. But we must dig deeper to get to know what causes stress. For each person it is going to be different, and will affect them in different ways. For a teenager who has a lot one his/her plate, they might take it well or not. It really depends on how well the person can cope with it. Stress is always good to a certain point because it can push you to do better. In life we have stressors that force us to adjust. Many people look at it negatively, but it can be a good thing, too. Many daily stressors can be your environment, family, work or school, or you’re social situation. There is also stress that can form just from you. You may worry a lot about something, or be pessimistic. You also can criticize yourself, have unrealistic expectations for yourself, and try to be a perfectionist, have a low self-esteem for yourself, or have excessive or unexpressed anger. All of these can cause problems. But if there are a lot of them all at once, then you can simply have a system overload. You can’t keep up with it all, and you just get overwhelmed. In the end, you must be aware of what is going on in your life and be able to tell what is troubling you, and how to control it.
Once you have understood what is causing your stress, you need to know what can happen. Recent research suggests that 60-90 percent of sicknesses are stress-induced. Stress can harm your cardiovascular system and immune system, causing you to get sick. Many things that can affect your health is Chronic Pain, Migraines, Ulcers, Heartburn, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Asthma, PMS, Obesity, Infertility, Autoimmune Diseases, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and skin problems. That’s quite a lot of stuff to worry about, so knowing what can happen is important to know so you can prevent it. For emotional stress you can become depressed, anxiety, using drugs and alcohol, and eating disorders. In more serious cases such as the Post-Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD), experiences where sudden, terrible things happen like disasters, assaults, accidents, or war. After it happens, people usually start to recover, but when they don’t they get PTSD. Some of the results of PTSD are Flashbacks, avoiding places, Hyper vigilance (Like a driver recently in a wreck becoming so focused on the road they don’t acknowledge a passenger), tension and irritability, and depression. If someone has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, they need to get professional help. Knowing the effects of stress is an eye-opener that should make people realize how serious stress is and that it can get bad enough they should seek professional assistance.
Next, learning to deal with all the stress and side effects of it can be hard, but if you learn now it will be easier when the going gets tough. On a helpful site, Helpguide.org, they have put together 4 steps on how to manage your stress. Step one: Avoid Unnecessary Stress. If someone asks you to be in charge of something and you are already stressing out about something else, just say ‘no’. Take no more than you can handle. If there is someone that just drives you up the wall, ignore them! If someone is causing you a lot of stress, limit the time you have to deal with them or just end it. If there is a topic such as vehicles, politics or religion that get you fired up, politely excuse yourself. If it’s something that is repeatedly brought up in conversation, politely excuse yourself. Step Two: Alter the Situation. When something is bothering you, express what is bugging you. If a person or place is driving you absolutely mad, talk about it. If you don’t express yourself now, it will bottle up and get worse. Manage your time better; if you are running behind constantly you are going to be so stressed out because you’re not on time. Plan ahead so that you’ll have enough time to stop and smell the roses on the way to wherever you’re going. Step Three: Accept the things you can’t change. Many things are uncontrollable, like somebody’s attitude. You can’t change them, so just work on how you react to them. As the saying “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” says, look at challenges as an opportunity to grow. Look for the good side in any type of situation. Step Four: Adapt to the stressor. Will the problem be such a big deal in a week, month, or year? If it’s not worth getting upset over, then don’t! Don’t expect yourself to do perfect on every single thing. Avoiding perfectionism will make it so that you won’t have so much stress in your life. Make lengths that you can make reasonably and don’t set yourself up for stress. Be okay with what you can achieve. In the end, if you can listen and heed the council of the above steps, your life can change. A main point that was in a lot of the steps was to only bite off as much as you can chew.
Finally, ways to manage stress are innumerable. There are ways from Working out, taking a bath, listening to music, curling up and reading a book, spending time in nature, talking with a friend, and so on. Some ways are easier than others, and a technique that you can do solely on your own is learning to breathe deep and meditating, per se. What you must do is be in a comfortable position and close your eyes and try to relax. You pay attention to your beating, your chest and abdomen. Feel it more up and down, slowly, slowly, until you are completely using your lungs. Breathe through your nose, and see if your chest is moving in time with your abdomen. Inhale deeply, feeling the bottom of your lungs to the top slowly but still focusing on your breathing. Exhale through your mouth and focus on the sounds and feelings of your breaths. This exercise is to notice how you breathe and for you to notice how much lung space you have. Another exercise is a Complete Natural Breathing, which utilizes how much lung space you have and how to use it. You sit or stand with GOOD posture, breathing through your nose. Then you inhale and fill the bottom of the lung, then middle of the lung, then top of the lungs. You hold your breath for a few seconds. Then while you exhaling, relax your chest and abdomen. This method relaxes you really fast if you can concentrate on it. It will help you calm yourself down. You can do this practically anywhere, even if it is loud and busy. By doing something about the pressure on you, you will be healthier, feel better emotionally, and so much more!
In conclusion, stress in the daily life can be quite the hassle. So why not take some time out of your hectic day, and do something about it. Make a plan of what you can do to solve your problems, and how to cope with everything instead of letting it all catch up to you at once. Finding something is wrong, knowing what to do about it, how to do it, and actually doing something about it will help you have a much easier going life. Don’t sweat the small stuff, it’s all small stuff, and if you can’t fight or flee, flow. In the words of Louisa May Alcott, “Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.”

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So today has just been a big blur. As i was walking out of english, my last class, it was like i was walking through a fog with people passing me and yea! I thought it was really weird! So, thats sounds fun, huh?!

LAST NIGHT we went to a funeral viewing. A good family friend, Gaylon Nelson, died in a plane wreck. His funeral was today and his viewing was last night. Its really sad, but you know thats he is in a better place now. No more crap to deal with from this world!

Tonight for mutual we are riding around the community on a semi singing christmas carols. Its a combined with the Guys. I'm excited.

Well i got to go, i need to get ready and eat some dinner!!!


Hasta La Vista, baby!! lol

Wowza. What a...

Hecktic day. Very interesting.

To Start it all off, lemme tell you all that happened. There was a wreck, a false fire alarm, and a seizure. Thats already catching your attention, right? Add a lunch lady thats got it out for me, and your ready for a fiesta!

So to go in order, i'll tell you about the wreck. There was one car that stopped suddenly, and got tapped by a pickup from behind. Little damage, just a bumper-bumper thing. No biggie, eh? So theres a red car stopped behind them, then out of the blue, this girl comes roaring up and hits them! She hit the red car, totalled it, pushed it out of the way, and hit the pickup! NUTS! I knew all the people involved (Mostly) and they are.... haha. you thought it would tell you who it was! BAHA. SO yes, that was a fiasco. The fire dept. and the police were there, then they had to split up and do double time!

Next we come to the false fire alarm. This girl was playing with the whole fire alarm boxy/thingy and just accidentally pulled it. And she is just NOT the type of person that would pull it, even if she was told to or forced to. Shes a really good girl. wellllll mostly good. O_o. lol. So we stand out in the freezing cold for 20 Flipping Minutes! AHODSWFJHKP:{IOKASDJFHNCIHUJK:EDSNCHF:EANWSlo;idfjnaesdaojfdasdijf[9AJWEFdsAj!!!!!! Yes. COLD! and i had just put my coat in my locker and was going to class! COLD!!!!

Then, this girl, at lunch, started crying and shaking and all, and her boyfriend grabbed her by her arms and laid her down. She had a seizure. Apparently she had one about a week ago. Quick thinking! Man, were can we find more guys like that?!?!?

.... Ready for more?? I thought so. Me and Rayell get in the lunch line and we were having burritos(Spelled right?? hehe) and animal crackers and french fries. So there were 2 ladies serving fries, one had nice, crunchy, all the way cooked ones, and the other had soggy, undercooked, disgusting fries. Guess who slapped their fries on my stinking plate? The nasty ones. Just last week she gave me the usual under-cooked tater wedges/jo jo potatos instead of the crunchy, yummy fries. Shes got it out for me!!!! AHhhh!!!!

SO yea. Theres another thing we're doing tonight, but i'll just have to write about it later. My fingers are hurting from all the detail and i need to get my Trigonometry Homework done. Good thing its only a review, short and sweet, and easy!!!

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong

and my favorite.....
"If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body...then only left-handed people are in their right minds." -- Anonymous

My Essay

So i had to have a way to get my essay home so i could finish it... and all the emails are blocked. So eya. I had this brilliant idea to post it on my blog! So here goes!:

Tough vs. Weak
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ford. This is thus my main goal in life to accomplish. Ford is the top dog of the brand name vehicle chain, the big Kahuna. There are many reasons why ford rock, but the overall best reason why, is because I like them. Scratch that, I love them. They have gotten many people through messes that others would think impossible.

In my extensive experience of vehicles, I have reached a conclusion of the overall performance of them. In the case of ford, I have been greatly pleased, and rewarded. Quite some time ago, my family was at a family reunion in the early part of August. We were just leaving, when, my sister and her husband’s truck broke down. We were pulling our 29’ Travel Trailer, their pickup, and their 30’ travel trailer. We pulled them over Pine Creek Pass, all the way home. Now how many other vehicles can you say have done that? That is quite a feat. When we got to the base of the pass, we came across an officer who waved us by, and as we passed him, he was just shaking his head in disbelief. This pickup of ours has lasted us 7 great years, hasn’t had many problems. Ford has done us well, and continues to be a favorite vehicle in our family. My Brother has a jacked up ford, which, if you have cruised 17th street lately, you might have seen him. My Sister and her husband also have 2 fords, and use them like none other. They have lasted through thick and thin, running against immeasurable odds. This is just a familiar example that my family can attest to, and is highly proud of.

Earlier this day, I have taken a poll between the two rivalries, and have asked the favorite- Ford, or Chevy? In getting to know what each individual person thought was the better vehicle, I realized something. If I applied my recordings to the population, would it be near accurate? So I did some research and came to a website where only 44 people had voted. But nonetheless, this is what I got: 19 people voted for ford (43.18%) and 25 people voted for chevy (56.82%). This was not a surprise to me, whereas the site was created by a chevy man himself. So I couldn’t really trust the site I found. My recordings for my class of 21 people, swayed in favor of the ford vehicle. The ford fanatics, such as myself, were to a total of 12 people, and the chevy diehards accomplished themselves to 2nd place, with only 9 votes. This is a feat hardly worth defending.

I do, in fact, realize that there are many advantages to having a chevy truck. It has an overall smooth ride, good gas mileage (not the diesel trucks, though), and, is a good city truck. But, on the down side, it is always being replaced by so-called better vehicles annually by its own company, and has no torch whatsoever. Ford has the experience in being a tough, heavy duty truck that can do anything the driver wants. I mean, if a company has a logo saying “Built Ford Tough,” it’d have to be great. What kind of name is “Like a Rock”? Do you mean it just sits there, useless, or that it looks bad? You can pull up to 10,050 lbs. with just the smaller end fords (f-150). The larger the truck, the larger the towing capacity.

Ford has an overall great pickup that can accomplish anything the driver wished it to. Plus, they have some pretty snazzy looking cars out right now including the 2007 Shelby GT500 and the 2007 Mustang GT. Also, as of recent, seven of their ford vehicles have SYNC in them, which allows them to hear your voice and call or play requested music. They are the future, they’re innovative, are good looking, and have the power to, in Larry the Cable Guys’ words “Git-R-Done!”



Well thats it. Like it at all?

hmmm. BUSY!

haha. The last time i've sat down to actually breath. finally! Man, school is driving me crazy!!! Its only the 4th day of school, but i feel like i'm overloaded. My mom(hi mom) wants me to take advanced classes, like the ones i'm now taking: A.P.(advanced placement) Biology, Advanced math, and English Composition(pre a.p. class), u.s. history, and finally, Parenting and Child Development. P&C dev. is probably my most relaxing class, that or history. I have to tell you how much i LOVE my history teacher. She is AWESOME. now i won't say names, but i'll call her mrs. w. mmk? so today mrs. w. was talking about experiences in school(elementary) and she was talking about one teacher she had in, i think, kindergarten or something...hmm. Anyways, one day the teacher was in her car, and hit mrs w.! then the surprising part was when mrs. w. was like, i never did like her much, she was too much of a bi***. lol. i love this lady, she is awesome.(plus she really doesn't swear at all, just that once!) she also has only one rule: Don't piss mrs. w. off! and all will be well. then my english teacher, mrs. s. calls her classroom stricklandia! haha. love her too! well i have to go to bed, morning comes early!