Done...maybe
I think I finally finished playing around with the whole website in general...but maybe to come back and finish a page for each one of us. One Tyrone page, one Stephanie page will probably be added on this blog underneath the introduction link on the right hand side for our favorites and such...
Websites & such...
I have mostly used frontpage to do most of my website work...no code to write and pretty much get anything cool added or on my website. BUT nowadays they have stopped updating frontpage (I think maybe since 2003) and I am trying to grow with everything else in order to keep up...
I have all this great coffee cup software that can do almost anything so I am trying to use its many different stand alone programs, and they even kind of jive together. Right now I am working with the blog feature which is pretty nice. It is real light and less of a hassle than all the other software that you can have on your own host. Like: Wordpress (I changed my mind about this obviously), nucleus, pmachine...
This software was a free download for using Lunarpages as my website host and domain name server...you can check the prices and things and see if its right for you. I really just needed a good host but now that i have been playing around with this software and learned a few more things like php and mysqul databases...whew, now I am having fun!
So bare with me as you may not be able to access things from time to time. As a side note, did you know that Books-A-Million has wifi now? Yep, and if you have one of their BAM cards (which is only 15$ a year - good for discounts too!) you use the number on the card and get the wifi for free. That would be worth 15$ a year...especially the one I like to visit when I am at home. Nice plush chairs, no hassle, 50cent (not the rapper) coffee for life if you buy one of their coffee for life cups.
Yeah, life is good sometimes....then you go to a third world country. And it gets better...you realize you CAN live without all this STUFF. And you enjoy and appreciate it more when you come back to visit on breaks and fund/support raising trips. Oh, and by the way...I borrowed the BAM card and coffee cup from my father. Yep, good ol' dad.
Here's to ya! While I sip my Vanilla Nut Coffee and upload this post.
I have all this great coffee cup software that can do almost anything so I am trying to use its many different stand alone programs, and they even kind of jive together. Right now I am working with the blog feature which is pretty nice. It is real light and less of a hassle than all the other software that you can have on your own host. Like: Wordpress (I changed my mind about this obviously), nucleus, pmachine...
This software was a free download for using Lunarpages as my website host and domain name server...you can check the prices and things and see if its right for you. I really just needed a good host but now that i have been playing around with this software and learned a few more things like php and mysqul databases...whew, now I am having fun!
So bare with me as you may not be able to access things from time to time. As a side note, did you know that Books-A-Million has wifi now? Yep, and if you have one of their BAM cards (which is only 15$ a year - good for discounts too!) you use the number on the card and get the wifi for free. That would be worth 15$ a year...especially the one I like to visit when I am at home. Nice plush chairs, no hassle, 50cent (not the rapper) coffee for life if you buy one of their coffee for life cups.
Yeah, life is good sometimes....then you go to a third world country. And it gets better...you realize you CAN live without all this STUFF. And you enjoy and appreciate it more when you come back to visit on breaks and fund/support raising trips. Oh, and by the way...I borrowed the BAM card and coffee cup from my father. Yep, good ol' dad.
Here's to ya! While I sip my Vanilla Nut Coffee and upload this post.
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Ever had those tasty peanutbutter and marshmellow fluff sandwiches in that store bought sliced white bread? Re-live your adult dream with this cake...
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Foodaphilia: FlufferNutter Cake
Appreciation Dinner
This week I will be going 'home' to Alabama to host and cook an appreciation dinner for friends and family...mostly members of my home church.
What is a home church? The church you feel you have embarked from and/or originally hailed from. I feel that most jobs and traveling have always been temporary relocation's, of which I will relocate again next year to Sierra Leone. Care to join me?
Hopefully I will leave behind an existing business 'launching' to be able and look back to see them survive and actually provide a small base of financial support for my mission/charity/humanitarian/volunteer work...call it what you will, nobody pays me for it. ( lest I forget, my wife is also part of this, I usually just speak for myself on this blog, force of habit). I work for Mercy Ships, in case you didn't know already...or are new to my blog.
Well lets see...back to the dinner, if you feel this would be something you are interested in (financially supporting my wife and I) this is fully covered at our website tyroneandstephanie.com. AND there is also a link at the bottom of the blog to donate and receive a tax receipt/credit for giving to a charity.
If you are going to be in the Huntsville, Alabama area please drop me an email telling me you would like to attend and I will be expecting your presence at the dinner!!! All the information and a map is supplied VIA the website.
Our catering company is currently developing specialty products for National online sales, as well as local cakes and baked items for the holiday seasons. That can be accessed thru ExclusivelyYoursCatering.com.
If you are coming to the dinner I'll see you this Sunday!!!
What is a home church? The church you feel you have embarked from and/or originally hailed from. I feel that most jobs and traveling have always been temporary relocation's, of which I will relocate again next year to Sierra Leone. Care to join me?
Hopefully I will leave behind an existing business 'launching' to be able and look back to see them survive and actually provide a small base of financial support for my mission/charity/humanitarian/volunteer work...call it what you will, nobody pays me for it. ( lest I forget, my wife is also part of this, I usually just speak for myself on this blog, force of habit). I work for Mercy Ships, in case you didn't know already...or are new to my blog.
Well lets see...back to the dinner, if you feel this would be something you are interested in (financially supporting my wife and I) this is fully covered at our website tyroneandstephanie.com. AND there is also a link at the bottom of the blog to donate and receive a tax receipt/credit for giving to a charity.
If you are going to be in the Huntsville, Alabama area please drop me an email telling me you would like to attend and I will be expecting your presence at the dinner!!! All the information and a map is supplied VIA the website.
Our catering company is currently developing specialty products for National online sales, as well as local cakes and baked items for the holiday seasons. That can be accessed thru ExclusivelyYoursCatering.com.
If you are coming to the dinner I'll see you this Sunday!!!
Fat Boy ~ A moment of truth
I have never been skinny. Ok, maybe when I was seven or so...
During middle school, high school, and my pre-college (running around) days I was basically a 'fat boy'. My weight came close to 280 in my young teens...my mother may not remember it that way, but I do! And if I could find those pics I would post them so you can see the difference. But right now I can't find them.
I am 6'2" and have successfully kept my weight between 200 and 220 for the last 10 years or so...but lately I have found that my clothes are becoming tighter and I feel less active. And I will not be buying new clothes just to fit in them!
If I don't do something to change for the long term I may find myself out of the 'big boy' stage and back in the 'Fat Boy' stage again...and that is unacceptable to me. Because I don't believe in dieting. Dieting meaning that 'commercial' plan of doing something to lose weight. No, everyone has a diet. Whether it be junk food, carnivorous, or vegetarian (just to name a few) everyone one, has one.
Possible reasons for this weight gain could be...less activity in my job. I still work hard, but till I get back on the ship I will be missing about 500 steps to run up and down a day. Not to mention your muscles always balancing out the sway and roll of being on a ship (and you can sweat to death in Africa or the Caribbean).
And there could be that period of time from 6 to 8 months where I neglected the gym all together because of too much going on: moving, starting a different job, getting married. I have been back in the gym for months now...but I gues I get frustrated because the weight loss doesn't seem to happen as fast as the weight gain.
Further contributions could be that now I work in a kitchen full-time and also work a second job catering. We are also working on some online products for sale. I think I realized that I probably sample/taste more calories then most people eat in three well balanced meals. How does that happen? You ask. Easy...spoonful of this, bite of that, few pinches and slurps everywhere else...then you get hungry and eat too!
I think I am on the right path to recovery but it sure is taking longer than I want! And during this time it is actually depressing and unmotivating when you can't seem to see results.
Plus, how many of you out there have vowed to change your diet but everyone and everything around you deters you from the lifestyle? You got to get tough, tell people NO! Tell grandma that you are already overweight and that YES, one more cookie will hurt! Because everyone will 'one more' you to death, literally.
All that being said I think I am going to implement more aggressive measures in my diet and exercise to find the balance I want. We'll see how it goes...donut anyone?
During middle school, high school, and my pre-college (running around) days I was basically a 'fat boy'. My weight came close to 280 in my young teens...my mother may not remember it that way, but I do! And if I could find those pics I would post them so you can see the difference. But right now I can't find them.
I am 6'2" and have successfully kept my weight between 200 and 220 for the last 10 years or so...but lately I have found that my clothes are becoming tighter and I feel less active. And I will not be buying new clothes just to fit in them!
If I don't do something to change for the long term I may find myself out of the 'big boy' stage and back in the 'Fat Boy' stage again...and that is unacceptable to me. Because I don't believe in dieting. Dieting meaning that 'commercial' plan of doing something to lose weight. No, everyone has a diet. Whether it be junk food, carnivorous, or vegetarian (just to name a few) everyone one, has one.
Possible reasons for this weight gain could be...less activity in my job. I still work hard, but till I get back on the ship I will be missing about 500 steps to run up and down a day. Not to mention your muscles always balancing out the sway and roll of being on a ship (and you can sweat to death in Africa or the Caribbean).
And there could be that period of time from 6 to 8 months where I neglected the gym all together because of too much going on: moving, starting a different job, getting married. I have been back in the gym for months now...but I gues I get frustrated because the weight loss doesn't seem to happen as fast as the weight gain.
Further contributions could be that now I work in a kitchen full-time and also work a second job catering. We are also working on some online products for sale. I think I realized that I probably sample/taste more calories then most people eat in three well balanced meals. How does that happen? You ask. Easy...spoonful of this, bite of that, few pinches and slurps everywhere else...then you get hungry and eat too!
I think I am on the right path to recovery but it sure is taking longer than I want! And during this time it is actually depressing and unmotivating when you can't seem to see results.
Plus, how many of you out there have vowed to change your diet but everyone and everything around you deters you from the lifestyle? You got to get tough, tell people NO! Tell grandma that you are already overweight and that YES, one more cookie will hurt! Because everyone will 'one more' you to death, literally.
All that being said I think I am going to implement more aggressive measures in my diet and exercise to find the balance I want. We'll see how it goes...donut anyone?
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