At This Rate

Welcome back!

At the rate I’m going this won’t take long, but I want to be prepared. I am inching ever so near my 500th post here on the blog. In fact this is post #404 here. So, I asked my Twitter friends what they thought I should do to celebrate my 500th post and one of them responded have a contest. I think it’s a great idea, mind you, but my question is “What kind?” and “Where do I get the prizes?” and all that jazz soooooo…. I am open to suggestions.

Please make yours in the comments below. I am also open to prize donations. If you would like to donate something to this I’d love it and I”ll do lots of link love for you as well as it being a great promo tool for you, your product or service and your business or blog. So, help a girl out, comment, suggest, donate and let’s get ready to celebrate my 500th post. Should be coming in the next 90 days or so.

In other related news, you may notice I have a new theme.  Not long ago Real Life Design gave me a new look with a new header and background but I was craving a new layout, one with a navigation bar and more room in the sidebars to make everything look cleaner so here it is…. what do you think??  Is it a keeper?

So Purdy!

Yes, I”m from the south, the Deep South, MissSippy (I know that’s not how you spell it), whatever you want to say so yes sometimes we do talk like that, “It’s so purdy!” But, I am not walking around barefoot and pregnant all my life though I have been pregnant for the 17 of the last 24 months. Oh, should I have just admitted that? The thing is I had a baby in 2007 and got pregnant with another baby in 2007, I find that pretty remarkable but some people might just think it’s a Southern thing which I’d have to differ with.

Ok, so that was completely off subject and rambling, but hey, I can do that because this is my blog and there are no rules. So, if you’re here on my blog, rather than reading me through a feedreader then you can see I have a new look and it is Oh so purdy if i do say so myself. I had said yesterday it was going to be up and now it is. I really love what Sarah from Real Life Designs did and I hope to keep this design for a while.

Just to give you a little background on my blog. I actually started Life from my Laptop last June. I figured that out because I just got a reminder to renew the domain name. You may notice i have archives for further back than that. The thing is prior to getting this Wordpress blog on my own domain I blogged. I just blogged over at Yahoo on Yahoo 360. I didn’t want to loose all those precious blogs so I began moving them over here, trouble is, there were 100s of them so it is taking some time and since then I have gotten super busy with other things I have not had time to move all of them. Hopefully one day though so I can have every one of my blogs in one place. Then, I’d like to get one of those books printed with your entire blog in it. That would be some kind of cool, except I’m not sure I”d just want anyone to read it. Ok I say that and now I know what I just said doesn’t make any sense because well anyone can read anything here on the web unless I have it all encoded and password protected, but the thing is there are people still in my life who have no clue what a blog is or how to find mine to read it, but if I had a physical book they’d be more likely to actually pick it up and read it. So, does that make sense now?

Anyway, my point is eventually my blog will be all in one place here on my domain, I hope! And, the thoughts behind Life from my Laptop were this, I use my laptop daily, I probably use it more now than I did back when I first started this blog, because I am actually making a go of this work at home mom thing and I actually make an income so it’s more important now than ever that I log on daily, work, check emails, so on and so forth. My life doesn’t revolve around my laptop but it is involved in it. Does that make sense?

Another element that is on this design is the butterflies. I love butterflies, if you have ever visited any of my other websites you will know this. If you haven’t you can find a list of them here. Each one of them has butterflies somehow incorporated into the theme. Back in 2006, when I stepped out and started my website for my ministry, my good friend Crystal designed my first website. She designed the Beauty by Design Logo and I fell in love with it. Those butterflies now represent me and my ministry wherever I go. Butterflies to me are a sign of life, and beauty and that God allows us to become beautiful over time out of something that isn’t so beautiful at first.

Sarah noticed my love of butterflies and asked could they be incorporated into this blog theme when we were working on it. I was like YES! I like that idea. So, she decided to have them come out of the laptop or have “life” spring from the laptop. What an idea huh? It gave a whole new meaning to my blog title. I love it! Then I chose the green background because to me green is another symbol of life. When using colors to tell the plan of salvation to someone I say green means growth and it is the only step in the process you never stop doing. So, this green is here to remind me to never stop growing in Christ. I hope it’ll remind my readers of that as well.

Well, this post turned out much longer and more involved than I had first expected, but I am glad I have shared with you. Share with me what your blog name means in the comments below, I”d love to hear about it!