OUR Love!

My greatest passion is LIFE!!!  I am taking my life to a higher level, greater value and savoring the journey....the real value of life is the Journey, not the destination. If the journey is trudged through with misery in your heart or promises of rewards at the end and everyday is dreaded but survived for the sake of reaching your destination, then you have short changed yourself and your loved ones. The destination is the finish line in the race of life!  I choose not to hang my head, drag my feet, or walk on egg-shells, all with a heavy heart to boot.....I will forge forward, embrace Life's hazards, obstacles, and challenges--ponder, absorb, experience, savor, and cherish the check points in this passionate race I call life!  Sharing my LIFE with my soulmate *MICHAEL* is a HUGE part of that journey.  I am blessed to have him.  We are both better for it!  MY SOULMATE!
  My COMPUTER is an extension of me.  It loves me in spite of myself. I can't learn enough, have enough, use it enough, or upgrade it enough (yes . . . I guess that means I'm a geek).  My computer is the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night.  It is my obsession with my technical alter-ego.

Along with my computer goes my  SONY CLIÉ (palm computer).  It is an extension of my desktop computer.  My whole life is in this little puppy!  HA! This is one thing and I can't leave home without!!!    
I bought my first PDA (personal digital assistant) a few years back.  I started with a Visor Deluxe (monochrome) and then upgraded to a COLOR Visor Prism.  I quickly bonded with it....and we have been inseparable ever since, that is until I replaced it with my Sony Clie`.  It is my day planner, address book, memo pad, daily journal, Client data base, grocery list, personal info cabinet, photo album, games (Casino, Vegas Slots, Bejeweled, Chess, Yahtzee, Ababall), Diet and Exercise Assistant,  E-book reader, and Now it is an MP3 player . . .  just to mention a few vital reasons.  Yeah...yeah....yeah...I know, I'm a gluttonous techie!

MY FAVORITE TECHIE TOY to date is my Toshiba Notebook! *more to come soon*

INCREDIMAIL is a big reason for my obsession with my computer.  I use Incredimail as my e-mail handling program.  It is exciting and addicting.  From that, I have become addicted to:

 All are in relations to creating E-mail Stationeries and signature tags. I have been members of numerous Yahoo Groups, Incredimail related.  It is unbelievable, the designs and creations I have collected.  I have added a section to my site dedicated to Incredimail and related things including IncrediMail Skins, IncrediBar skins, fonts, midis, wavs, and blinkies too.
 

PAINT SHOP PRO 7, 8, 9 & X is a graphics editing program that I use in coordination with my Incredimail.  I have become very comfortable editing, creating, and enhancing graphics from a *raw* state. PSP allows me to design graphics for e-mail stationery and signature/name Tags and WEB DESIGN my current passion!  Tags are used like a calling card, gift cards or signatures for e-mail.  Those whom care to curiously check out some of my letters click the Letters Gallery  on the left navigation bar .

I am motivated by MUSIC.  I have very diverse tastes in music.  Many of my favorites are artists such as Yanni, Celine Dion, Barbra S., Cher, Martina McBride, Eagles, Kellie Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Pink, Christina Aguilara, Nickelback, Nsync, Creed, Lifehouse, Kenny Chesney, Jim Brickman, Faith Hill, Lara Fabian and many more.  But bottom line I am a romantic and it is the ballads and body and soul music that sinks it's teeth into me.  I also love to dance....so Dance music (disco, Rave, Trance, Club mixes) or music with an emphasis on percussion are connected to the fibers in my soul too.  It is seldom I have silence....most often there is some kind of music playing. My all time favorite sound track is "Somewhere In Time".

MOVIES. . . I am a huge movie buff.  I love to go to the movies or rent 4 or 5 for a weekend. I enjoy Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Disney and most animated, Suspense, Adventure, and *against all odds* overwhelming success stories.

LVS ONLINE . . I am always trying to learn academically and through life lessons.  Many of life's lessons have been brought upon me this year. But the lessons I have preferred have been in the form of computer academics.  I have used an online school to further my education and capabilities with my computer programs of choice.  LVS Online has a wonderful group of people  and an extensive class schedule.  It is affordable and you can do it all through your computer and the internet at your convenience. I encourage anyone with desire to become more proficient with their computer and it's programs to visit their site.  If you choose to enroll I would appreciate it if you would let them know I referred you.  Thank you!

OTHER CLASSES. . .I have been taking HTML, Web Design, Digi-Scrap classes.  I love web design. . .I thoroughly enjoyed the classes I have completed and continue to take classes at WebTechU.