Thing #2

Creating my avatar was a lot of fun!  It was easy as well.  I did not make my avatar look too much like me, nor did I make it too different from me.  I wanted it to represent me in a way while still remaining anonymous.  I do feel that my avatar reflects my personality though.  She wears avatar glasses and is a "t-shirt and jeans" kind of girl as I am.  She seems to have an easy-going personality also as I do.  Creating my avatar was definately more fun that creating my blog, but the more comfortable I get with blogs, the more I am starting to enjoy them.  I had difficulties setting up my initial blog simply because it was something new that I had not mastered yet and that frustrated me.  It is getting easier and easier with each blog though.  I put my name as the name of my blog and the "thing" number as each post title to keep it simple.  But who knows, maybe as I learn more about it, I will get more creative with the titles!     

Thing #1

The 7 1/2 Habits tutorial was very interesting to me.  The one I find the hardest to do is Habit 3, viewing problems as challenges.  It is hard to stay positive and in good cheer when human nature is telling you to get frustrated.  It is even more complicated to take that problem and view it as a challenge, an opportunity to grow.  Nevertheless, when we do accept the problem as a challenge, we learn much more from it.  Habit 1 is the easiest for me to do.  Even though something may be hard and stressful now, if we keep the big picture in mind it will be much easier for us to get through it.  When I first set up my blog, I was worried I would never understand this new blogging experience, but now that I have had time to play around on it, it is not nearly as hard as it initially seemed.  I do not know much at all about Web 2.0 tools, except what I learned about them in setting up my blog.  Once I get more comfortable using the Web 2.0 tools, I look forward to seeing what all they can do.