The Joy of Webcam Communication

Am I the luckiest girl or what?! Here is a screen shot of what my mom and I look like about twice a week, when we get to chat on Skype. Its free and we get to use our video phones. I am always relaxing on a couch or bed, and she is always in front of the computer at home – playing video poker or solitaire. It's pretty fun. I took a better picture of her – its posted below, along with a picture of what I try to look like to her – I keep trying not to look at her video, but instead look at the camera, so that its like I'm looking at her.

Mom – what a cutie!

Me… the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, they say. J

ALSO – I have learned a lot of cool stuff lately about Microsoft Office 2007 (some of it from my friend Melissa – check out her blog: http://mel-dyes-her-hair.blogspot.com/). One of the neatest things is this program called "One Note" – I saw Mel using it and was intrigued – its basically a "paper" filing and note system that you can just use on your computer – you type instead of writing (unless you have a notepad that you can use a stylus on). One other thing it allows you to do is take really quick screen shots of whatever you want (example: the skype pic above) and it pastes it automatically into OneNote – where you can make notes about it, etc. It's a pretty neat program! Anyway, tonight I wanted to get that shot, so I clipped into OneNote and now here I am. The next step was that I was trying to get it onto my blogger, but I couldn't figure out how…. SO – I was in OneNote with my clipping and when I right mouse clicked it, it said "Blog this" and so I clicked that…. Lo and behold, it threw me into Word 07, where it hooked me up with my blogger account and let me put in pics and everything. Hooray!

Well, I should be reading or doing laundry right now, so I'd better at least go change my sheets and get my laundry ready for the AM – and get into bed. I hope you give these functions a try (Office 2007 stuff) and that you also check out Mel's blog – she always has new stuff to say and things to discuss. Blessings, friend.

Postscript: I did have some problems after all... the photos that were in my original blog in MS Word did not upload to the blog. Something about where they were stored. I"m trying to figure it out still, but if there is no screen shot at the top... that is why. :)