From Housewife to Film Maker

After being a housewife/stay at home mom for 23 years and 8 children, I'm learning to be a film maker.

Randomness: Facebook Fan Pages, WordPress blogs 2nd post of the night . . . November 11, 2009

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I was so jazzed about sharing the whole Wordle thing that I leaped clean over my day.  In the vain of staying on task with my daily journaling here it is:

-Went to Dan’s performance at school.  I was there with bells on at 8 and the bugger didn’t start till 8:30.  Ugh, lost 30 minutes of sleep on that deal.
-Glad I went to the performance because I sat with Caleb and he wasn’t feeling well. He came home with me.
-Searched out ways to chop money off my monthly budget.  Many phone calls and realignments.  For one going to save bookoo bucks on Cable.  I only have Cable for the kids.  I don’t watch it.  Movies are my jig.  Try having 3-4 kids regularly in your small apartment and not have Cable.
-Reason for digging deeper into my budget?  I’ve made a decision.  I’m NOT moving.  That’s right I’m not.  I’m staying right here.  Been here for two years and it’s a terrific apartment.  It’s the one place that’s really felt like home to me I’ve lived in three other places on my way here.  I can’t leave.  Plus a smaller apartment means tighter quarters for when the kids are over and frankly visions of that make my head float.  They are almost comfortable here and at times they feel a squeeze, put them in a smaller quarters and God only knows what that will look like.  I have my sanity to consider. However, this means trimming fat and searching for what I can to trim what hasn’t already been trimmed.
-John2 showed up and together we:
-Learned some more stuff about Facebook fan pages for John1′s page by experimenting and scanning the info.
-worked on getting my WP blog up and running.  The template I bought, with real money, is giving us a fit.  We downloaded some free ones to see if they would work and well, the suckers worked fine.  I got so annoyed we decided to scan to look for ones that I might like in place of this one.  John2 keyed in different word searches or something because he landed on sites I had never seen.  We found a couple that are cool.  One that won’t take any additional plug in’s so I shoved that to the side.  I mean, please, expect me to function within tight limitations when there are thousands of plug-ins available?  But what I really want is for the one I PAID for to work.  And John2 agreed it really is the best.  Soooo, sent an email off to ah la creator to petition for help.
-In our searching for a different template we found these cool pages that you put up while working on your site.  You can see it by going to: fromhousewifetofilmmaker.com.  Progress in the works  :)
-John2 left and I scanned to see how to help correct these blasted issues with my blog.  Found some terrific sites in the process to really snazz up my blog.  So this may have worked out to be a good thing!  I’ll post about them when I see that these things really work.
-Later I drafted the previous post, did some other randomness, and then this post.
-I’ll leave you with this question.  What do you think of the name of my blog?  Is it too long?  Is it good and catchy?  Does it leave you scratching your head what it’s about.  Should I choose something totally different?  Should I drop the word “from”?  I really would like feed back on this.  The time to change is now, if I’m going to change.  So please respond through comments and if you’re shy through email or facebook.
Now, going to flatten my mattress!
Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane
-who feels complete now that I’ve blogged about my day :)

 

A little of everything . . . October 6, 2009

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Today, has been one of those days. Little of this, little of that. Here a little, there a little, and I think I’ll pittle over there just a little.

Sent my first tweet today and I’m going to be right out there honest about this whole thing by saying, I really don’t get it. But I’m going to very soon. I know it’s not complicated, so I have no fear of this all coming clear quickly. It’s just that I don’t really understand who on earth is going to hear me as I sit in my tree and tweet away. Now I do know I can followers but haven’t gotten far enough to know how to tell you how to follow me. Work stepped in my way of making that full connect. BLAH. Sooooo, tomorrow for that. Or today really since it’s 2:30 am.

As I mentioned yesterday I was going to make a decision on what to set up in Facebook for John1′s book: Red Book and Cotton and I did, so drum roll please . . . Went with a page! So surf on over to FB and search for his Page by key searching John Solomon Sandridge and like magic it’ll pop up. And don’t forget to become a fan! Haven’t got much in there yet, but there will be soon. I’m hoping to see the discussion board light up with people gabby about the book. Be the first to enter a post!

Night all, Love ya,
Theresa
-watch for my name in the film credits

 

Gator Host, Amazon, Facebook . . . October 5, 2009

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Sooo, I held to my word. I worked allllllllll day. Accomplish a lot. Got the web site fully moved over into Gator Host. Took most of the day, going back and forth, because there was a glitch. But we are resolved! Up and running and moving at amazing speed according to a couple of people that checked for me. I also chatted with the Gator Host tech guy for almost 2 hours, through live chat, learning different things about their site and other odd details. And I have to say they have a feature I love: before you close out of your chat they ask if you want the chat emailed to you! Glory hallelujah . . . why YES! Then I looked into different things with Amazon and there is some pretty cool things over there that authors can do. And tried to decide whether John1 should have a Fan Page or Group on Facebook for Red Book and Cotton. Think we may go with a Fan Page. If there’s a way to have a discussion forum then decision made. If anyone knows please leave me a comment. But for now I’m leaving that till morning. I’ve had enough reading and exploring, reading and exploring, reading and exploring . . .

Let me tell you, the first thing, and I mean the very first thing I’m doing when I’m financially able is hiring a tech person.

Fun highlights for the day: Dan wanted to come over and be with me so he was here for some time. Just him, as I told the others he wants some alone time with me. Chatted briefly on Facebook with a friend I haven’t seen or talked with in probably 20 years and exciting news his wife is pregnant for the first time, also chatted with Cathy on FB too, she tried hard to help me with putting a link on the left side of my page for my blog. She can’t remember how she did hers and no matter how long we tried to figure it out we couldn’t. You’d never guess I just build a web site. If anyone knows how please leave a comment.

Night all, Love ya,
Theresa
-look for my name in the film credits

 

 
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