Final Project...

This class is now coming to an end.. with less then 12 classes left it is really time for me to start cracking down on this final project...

I have decided to take my personal religious experiences, and writings and put them all together to form a new blog. In this new blog, there will also be many new religious pieces that I will be writing. Hopefully, this blog will be viewed by others who are interested in there own views and beliefs of religion; not only the religion I believe in, but also there own.

My true hope is that it could someday be used as a resource for people who are trying to get ideas about faith and prayers. And with the ultimate goal of having it linked to my churches website.

I Don't Know...

I need to figure out what to do as a final project for this class, but I truly have no idea what I can and what I want to do. I have a few ideas but it is hard to incorporate those ideas into the daily lives of others.

I will keep thinking...

What? My Bad...

If those reading my blog haven't caught on yet, this blog is for a class. I write a blog on something I am feeling and relate it to something I am reading. I could have easily written my previous blog entry ("You Look Pretty Today") without mentioning anyone else but myself, and not linking to anything. But with doing that, i would be losing possible points and lowering my overall grade for the class.

In the past, I wouldn't post an entry until I have thoroughly read through it. Most of the time, I don't post a blog entry until after a week of it being completed so I can edit it and change it around before I make it open for the world to read.

Earlier last week, my teacher had told me to stop doing that. That I really need to focus on writing a blog entry in the class time assigned, so I decided that I would do that with my next blog entry.

By the time everyone gets to class and turns on there computers and log in, we have less then a half hour to actually work. I rushed through it like crazy, and with doing that I used the wrong word. Where I wrote the word superficial, I meant to write materialistic (yes, I am very aware that there is a large difference in the two). And for that I am sorry, I never meant to call any person superficial.

It was completely my mistake and it was a much needed realization that I must carefully read over each blog before posting it because my words can hurt the feeling of others...

I apologize to all those who may be offended, including:

Cherry Blossom Girl
Knock Out Niki Presents
Le Blog De Betty
Unejeune Demoiselle
Le Blog De La Mechante
Cachemire & Sole

I-Podcast

This is not my first time podcasting, and will probably not be my last. Last year, Mr. Miller recorded his public speaking class giving their pet peeves speech(Megpetpeeve.mp3). I must admit, talking in front of the class was hard enough, adding this to the presure just made it that much harded to speak.

I also used podcasting in public speaking last year to make a commerical which was later played for the class. We all (the class) used the program Audacity to record and save our projects. I have never been to keen on using tenology, nor am I very quick to learn how to use it. It took me a long time last year to get everythign going and completly, but the completed project made it worth it.

From my struggle last year, I knew I had a rough journey ahead with publishing and recording my podcast. But I remembered all the things that I had done wrong the year before and streived to create this pod-cast with ease. And I think that I did...

"You Look Pretty Today"

What I decide to wear for the day completely depends on how I feel when I wake up in the morning. Today I decided, why not? I am going to wear heels again for the third time this week. With the hound tooth heels, leg warmers, skinny jeans, white ruffled top, and a black vest I would like to say I did put together a cute outfit. However, I left my hair the way I would normally wear it, and my face blank like I often do.

I have received about ten complements from various people today, most being from students. I have gotten the:

"You look nice"
"I like your shoes"
"Those leg warmers are cool"
"Nice Outfit.."
and "You look pretty today"

I greatly appreciate these complements. But what I don't understand, I may never will, is that how do the clothes that I am wearing affect my beauty. Why do the clothes you wear, or don't wear, change the natural beauty that everyone is born with.

Occasionally, I walk into school in baggy sweats, a white T, and sneakers. Keeping my hair down and no make-up on my face. I get no complements from anyone saying that...I look pretty today.

There are many websites, stores, and blogs that put materialistic things on pedestals. They insert the false fact into a persons head that without these things they aren't as good, and aren't as pretty.

A friend of mine has been keeping up with some blogs like this, the one she follows the most is Cherry Blossom Girl. Even though I enjoy reading her blog and think that that pictures she take are beautiful, her blog has that superficial vibe that I am talking about. That you can't have beauty without the right accessories.

Similar blogs are:
Knock Out Niki Presents

Le Blog De Betty

Unejeune Demoiselle

Le Blog De La Mechante

Cachemire & Sole

And just because I don't understand what the words are saying, doesn't mean that I can't understand what the blog is saying. Clothes are beauty. Well, I think that beauty is beauty and I wish that more people could see it that way too.

I am going to wear sweats tomorrow and see if anyone says anything...