Carefreekaitlyn's Blog

Blogging…Overall.

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:49:17 +0000

What can I say about blogging and bloggers? Well in general my first response is still slightly negative. I must say though that when I first started this project I was not excited, to say the least. I had this extremely bad attitude about people who blogged. My whole argument was why in the world people would find thrill in sitting at a computer and talking about their feelings and thoughts on an issue and then allow other people to read their view on a situation and comment back. How could this be enjoyable or fun? I just couldn’t understand how someone had the time to do this. Didn’t they have anything better to do?

But after I was forced to blog as an assignment I figured I’d better straighten up and try to see the value in this otherwise I was not going to pass. So I tried hard to grasp the concept of blogging and really get into it. And wouldn’t you know that after two times of blogging it became something that wasn’t as much of a hassle. It was a way for me to express myself and say what’s on my mind and not really care what other people thought about it. To this day I’m not quiet sure that I can say that I love blogging but at least now I have a better understanding of why people do it. It doesn’t frustrate me or aggravate me anymore when the subject is brought up. Maybe just maybe some day I will become a more frequent blogger. (=

Vitamins

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:32:59 +0000

Awhile ago my mother and I were discussing whether or not I should be taking some sort of multivitamin. She thought it was an excellent idea for me to take this because I am still young so getting all my vitamins and minerals is becoming more and more “essential” and “beneficial” to me. In my opinion, a multivitamin is just one more thing to throw on my schedule that I would have to remember to take each day. It would be a pain I explained to her. Why should I be taking something that I don’t want? I am a healthy person who rarely gets sick. What’s the point? We went round and round discussing this until finally I had had enough. My mother suggested that I go consult a doctor to have his opinion on whether or not I should be taking this multivitamin, but I had a better idea. Here is yet another example in which technology has saved me tons of time. Instead of wasting my time calling the doctor’s office and waiting for him to make an appointment to see me and then waiting until the day of the appointment, I just simply jumped online and searched the benefits of a multivitamin. In literally under five clicks of the mouse I had made it to a website for One A Day Women’s. Here I found a multivitamin made just for women with a complete and detailed list all the benefits of taking a multivitamin daily. I finally was convinced after reading the material that my mother was right and that I should be taking a multivitamin each day.

Online Education

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:08:31 +0000

I just got done finishing up with my two online classes and got to thinking about how technologically smart we have become these days. If you think about it we know how computer based learning. We are no longer required to go to a building where a whole faculty of professors are just to get an education. A lot of people now days (including myself) have taking the option to learn online. I find this extremly convienant. I don’t have time to run to Delta everyday for a few hours here and there. I do however, have time to jump online and do a few things for a class, sign off, go do more important things, and then continue again with my work from a class. It saves us so much time! You no longer have to sit in a lecture theatre for hours at a time a listen to some teacher ramble about how the government is changing. All you have to do is sign in and all your reading material and information is a few clicks away. When I stop to think how much time and gas I am saving by doing these classes online I really get excited. I hope that one day soon all classes can be taught online. Maybe teachers will start taking their lectures and putting them on a site like youtube where you could log on and skip through the lecture to the actual important parts. I wonder where technology will take us next. Maybe someday soon we will all be able to teleport.

Here are a few sites that further my point of online education:

www.educationworld.com/a_tech/

712educators.about.com/cs/technology/a/integratetech.htm

Decorate for less

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:54:20 +0000

Well fall is among us so it’s time to get out all the cute decorations. But instead of purchasing all those overly priced decorations at the store why not just make your own? It’s so much cheaper to make your own decorations plus you get to put your own artistic flare to it. Instead of buying somone else’s art you can make your own. Decorate your home with tissue paper ghosts. Then wind your staircase with a home made string of leaves. Next you can make several paper scarecrows and hang them from ceiling fans and tape them to your doors. Instead of paying three times the actual price for a fall wreath you can go out and grab leafs from your yard and make a home made wreath for free! Then to get into the spirit of Halloween you can take empty milk jugs and make jack-o-laterns. Get the children in your family involved. Let them put their own unique designs on these great and cheap decorations. Then can even help you in making bats and spiders to strategically place on the walls of your home. This can be accomplished by cuting out the bats and spiders on black construction paper and glue googley eyes on them to give them more charachter.

With all these great ideas one can not help but laugh at those who spend a fortune on store bought decorations. All of these ideas plus many more can be found at these two great websites:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/fall/

http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-crafts/halloween-decorations/

Homework

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:23:04 +0000

While doing my wonderful mound of homework for hours on end I couldn’t help but wonder how an average person fits all this homework into their lives without being overly stressed. I know there are times when I am just stressed to the max because I am working a full time job and trying to keep up with all the homework that is assigned to a 14 credit hour student. At times it’s as if I do not have a life outside of school and work. I see my friends going out and having fun while I spend all my time learning and working. This is not a bad thing but I would mind having a few hours during the week to do the things I enjoy doing. It seems a tad ridiculous for me to being cramming homework in at 3 in the morning just to get it all done. Obviously an easy solution to all this is just simply to quit work and devote all my time to my studies but because that is not an option I am bound and determined to learn how to manage both work and school without feeling overloaded. I was very please to find a website that help me do just that. This website suggests that I should find a job that works around my school schedule. I already have found that job so I’m doing well when it comes to that. It also suggests some other good pointers. Hopefully I will be able to manage my time a little bit better. (:

Awful Roads

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:24:58 +0000

Is it just me or do the roads seem to get worse every year? I can’t tell you the last time I’ve actually driven on a descent, well paved road in Michigan. It seems like all MDOT ever does is just make horrible lumpy patches in a terrible attempt to fill in pot holes. The reason I am so worked up about this subject is because just today I was driving to the my local Wal-Mart and took a road in Kochville Township called Davis Road. This Road has got to be the absolute WORST road in the whole state of Michigan. I can not tell you the numerous times that MDOT has patched and then re-patched this road. You can not drive your car faster than 15 MPH without hitting a huge pot hole or going over a thick patch that has been repatched 20 times without doing some sort of damage to your vehicle. It makes me so mad to think that I pay my taxes for road work to be done and nothing is ever done to the roads that I can say I am satisfied with. Why don’t the roads that are in such poor conditions such as Davis Road ever just get re-paved and made smooth again? It’s my money right? Why shouldn’t the roads satisfy those who pay for it? especially highly traveled roads such as Davis Rd. I went online and found a campaign to improve Michigan’s roads website where you can place a complaint about a terrible road anywhere in Michigan. I advise anyone who has a road that does not meet your standards to go to this website and place your campaign.

Refreshingly Disgusting

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:21:37 +0000

Air fresheners are used by everyone all over. Air fresheners have the ability to make a room feel more comfortable and homey. However, sometimes when you walk into a room the scent some how has a negative effect on you and can make you feel sick to your stomache. While researching harmful products I found a website that found toxic chemicals in air fresheners. I was shocked to think that something that people purposely breath in because they like the scent is actually harmful to your body. How could the companies allow people to breath in these disgusting chemicals that are harmful to the human body. Because there are these gross chemiclas in airfresheners it causes nasty side effects such as eye irratation, headache, irrated nose and other weird symptoms. Some of these toxins could lead to cancer. But then again what can’t these days? I just think this wrong to sell something that is harmful to the general public. There a ton of products being sold each day that are harmful to society. I feel dumb because I’m making a big deal out of this knowing that there will probably be no action taken place to prevent this in the future because I am just one person with one opinion. But I think that something should be done. A boycot of all airfresheners that put these harmful toxins in their products wouldn’t hurt. It’s just not right for us to purposely be breathing something in that can harm us and no one is saying anything about it.

Television Obsession

carefreekaitlyn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:13:54 +0000

How much TV do you watch? How much precious time do you allow to be eaten up by the TV each day? According to the Television and Health consultants, TV plays a big role in everyone’s life. According to statistics, the average person spends more then four hours everyday watching television. This in turn means that the average person spends two full months out of a year. I find this to be utterly ridiculous. Think about all the other things we could be getting accomplished if we would just get our lazy bones up. Our minds are being turned to mush and we just do not care. Not that I am a big advocate of not watching TV, I watch probably just as much as anyone else, I’m just saying that we need to limit our time in front of the TV. Watching the television isn’t helping our children become successful in life. It’s only hindering their learning capibilities. I think that kids should be limited to the amount/time spent watching it. Most children today would rather stay in doors on a beautiful summer day then go outside and play and explore. This is sad. We need to change this mind set. The outdoors is a wonderful amazing place not just to the mind of a younger child but even to the mind of the elderly. The youth are being taught that everything they need to know is inside. They need to get out and discover how things work themselves by doing hands-on activities.