Currently viewing the category:
"KD History and News"
This is a short film showing an actress that auditioned for Katniss in the Hunger Games, but was beat out by Jennifer Lawrence. I just cannot get enough of this movie. I cannot wait for it to come out in March 2012.
New stills from movie filming in Charlotte. I can’t wait for this movie!
I am finally going to purchase an iPhone4! The future is now! I am so excited just waiting on some things to pan out and then by the end of this week I should have the phone that everyone has or wants. I know nothing of the capabilities of this phone, so please comment, and leave me some tips, and suggestions on some sweet “apps” to download. I am going to addicted to it I just know it already!
Next on my to-do list…find an IA group (iPhone Anonymous)!
“Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.”
Click here to visit the Book’s website.
I read this book years ago. It was interesting to learn a little about the opposite sex. Although even after reading this informative and creative book I was still just as perplexed about men than I was before I read it. I have concluded that no matter how much time one invests in understanding the dynamics of a relationship one cannot even come close to unlocking the secrets of a perfect union between two people. It really boils down to experience, self-confidence, and the ability to be able to have a “give-and-take” outlook on life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
Overall, it is a decent book, but I wouldn’t recommend reading it in the hopes that you are ever going to understand the opposite sex or in the hopes that after completing the book you will land a significant other that is, “the one”.
This book, by TL Hines, was an interesting and quick read. His first novel delivers an interesting story, and a thrilling end.
The main character in the book, Jude, gains some sort of ability to see into the lives of those he meets just by a brief touch. He gained this ability through his many near death experiences, with each experience leading up to the main experience he has in which he solves a major abduction case in the small town he moved to for peace and quiet.
With the help of a woman which seems to be nothing but a fan, or to him a stalker, he finds out that the trusted sheriff of the town is actually the one that has been abducting, torturing and killing children in a radius around the small town, but now within. Jude has an ex-wife and a son that he does not see much since developing severe anxiety and being so withdrawn. After his brushes with death the breaking open of a case so big involving innocent children, Jude comes out of his years of withdrawn and obsessive compulsive disorder-ridden life and emerges a new man left to appreciate his life, and the lives of his loved ones, and makes amends with his estranged father as well.
Click Here to Go to the Author’s Website!
I just finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilberts (Thanks Rosemary for letting me borrow this book almost a year ago. I have been reading it off and on throughout the past year. I tried to parallel my own experiences with karma, yoga, and other spiritual journeys with what she experienced. I am convinced however, that I in order to really get outside of your own head, a physical journey is almost required. Just the act of leaving the familiar, and going somewhere far away and unfamiliar, leaving all your issues and everyday worries behind seems like it would be cleansing, and at first scary, would turn out to be very worthwhile. It is hard to move on from feelings that hold you back in life when constantly surrounded by the stimuli that cause those feelings.
Not all of us can afford to leave for a year and go on a spiritual journey, but I highly recommend, no matter the amount of daily duties, or others you are obligated to, to take time out, if not daily, weekly for yourself to reflect on your thoughts. Exercise or meditate (if you can), or just exist and do absolutely nothing, no matter how foreign it feels.
I took away from the book the notion that you cannot fully love, or be love by another person until you love yourself. Loving yourself, well easier said than done. You have to purge yourself of guilt, the past, your faults, and accept all the negative things from your head into your heart giving those things a place to call home, and when they are out of your head, they are no longer bouncing around in your head, terrorizing you on a daily basis. Filling your heart with love and invariably light, and then inviting the “darkness” into your heart, only then is it consumed by the light. For a while, kick everything out of your mind and give you a chance to focus your thoughts and calm your ever-constant fluttering mind. You may just find things out about yourself that you never knew before. However, you move those thoughts from head to heart is yours to discover. Meditation, yoga, or spiritual journeys (physical and emotional), just to mention a few are all ways to get you started.
Whatever path you choose I wish you luck. I hope to forge ahead into the unknown finding my own path to spiritual enlightenment, and peace within.
There was a bit of a disaster that occurred, and my beloved, ongoing website project, is not so ongoing right now. I am still working on restoring everything, so for now, other than a new logo that I created, the site is confusing, unorganized and missing a lot of things that were previously there. I am working to get everything restored. It is not as if it will put a kink into anyone’s day not to be able to view/read anything that I write or post anyway, but for those who do come by now and again this is what is going down!
Here is the deal…
I idiotically decided it would be a good idea to click “Update WordPress” and use the so-called automatic updating process. I received a confirmation message saying the update was complete, and even successful. I tried loading my website in a new tab, the page remained blank, and the new Dashboard was something “to be desired”.
After cursing and literally crying because about a year worth of posts, pictures, and work had seemingly gone down the tubes, I gathered myself and realized that buried in the tables of the database were all my posts, pictures, and work. After minimal time spent copying and pasting all my posts into separate Microsoft Word documents, and confirming that I had my entire picture collection backed up on my computer locally, I tried reinstalling the previously used older version of WordPress. Come to find out that during the automatic update, despite the message received of my screen of the installation being “complete and successful”, it had actually; pardon my French, fudged up the table design on the database side of the site.
I was going to have to start from scratch! No problem, because I had at least rescued all my posts, and found that my backed up pictures on my computer (thank goodness). I had to delete the database that I had originally created almost two years ago, and create a new one, no problem takes literally two seconds, but then there isn’t anything in the database, so that’s where WordPress comes in. Therefore, I unzipped the file and saved all the files within where they should go. Long story short I followed the “Famous 5-Minute WordPress Installation” guide, and I was at least back in business with a basic WordPress Theme and one default page and post.
I then re-created all the pages that I had previously copied and then pasted the text I had rescued from the database tables. I adjusted the “permalinks” to match what I had them as before, made a few adjustments to the code on the navigation page and I was back in business…well sort of. Since you create and online account with WordPress saves your “customized” settings in the Dashboard, and once I aligned everything with what I had before and uploaded pictures and other files back to my site everything fell into place, for a while.
