hopeslife
About me
I spend lot of time thinking aboutMany, many things! Songs that pop into my head, legal cases, blog post ideas, scripture verses, and whatever weirdness pops into my mind.
Four things I could never do withoutFaith, family, prayer, and good friends.
What I'm doing with my life?Blogging right now. Planning to start my Shopify store very soon. Documenting everything and having fun doing it!
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How I did it:
Obviously this will be a habit, but I did really well with my scripture reading challenge last month. I think I read 26 out of the 28 days.
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Well... I'm actually starting 6 more Lol yay for post scheduling, I suppose.!
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Read the Bible... a lot! I've probably read it through 6-7 times by now. Not only that but I try to watch Bible study Youtube videos, I go to church as much as I can, and listen to adult Sunday school podcasts. There are also the devotionals that come in my email.
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Well for the most part, although it's centered around blogging/social media. I definitely try to include prayer and devotional time in the morning. A lot of devotions come in my email so I'm able to read while checking it. The rest is just fun.
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Being in the hospital, or sick, or having bad headaches helps with this one.
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I just decided to commit to daily scripture reading, in this case. I'd be OK with making weekends my days for reading other books as well. That way I read every day lol. Not only that but I consume a lot of online content, which is reading if you actually read the whole thing. I do unless it's going to take me more than about 10-15 minutes.
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Called spectrum and asked them to cancel it because it was too expensive. I did this back in December and just realized it was still on the list.
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Well it's still not perfect, but I've been doing this for about a month now. Trying to include a vegetable in every recipe, and buying fruit to have for snack.
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Committed to checking the feed, and trending goals every 3 days or so. Also reviewing goals every couple weeks to make sure they're still current.
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It took years, going back to 2009. I just tried to post on a semi-consistent basis.
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I'm not sure if I'll ever be done with this goal because teaching the world anything takes a long time. I try to do this by answering any questions people have, and I did a series on my blog a couple years ago about common questions people ask me. http://hopesthoughts.blog/2015/10/ If anyone still has any questions after reading that, feel free to ask them. I'm marking this done because it's one of those life-long things I'll always be working on. (read more)
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hopeslife Done 3 cheers 2017-08-09 17:48:30
Ok, so I get asked lots and lots of questions all the time. Lol but now I need to ask a question of my own. Why do people ask the same things, over and over, without fail, all the time? When someone read my profile on gab.ai and it says I'm blind at first he didn't believe me. Then he asked if he could ask some questions and I said sure, but let me give you a link to a blog series I did where I answered the most common things people ask. I gave him this link: http://hopesthoughts.blog/2015/10/ that link has 31 days worth of questions in it. Some I answered together, some separately. Apparently, he didn't look very hard because the questions he asked after that were "how do you use the internet?" and "can you picture things if described? Those are both questions I answered in the series.
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hopeslife Done 1 cheers 2017-07-09 06:33:27
My latest thing has been to contribute to this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6lt6sq/ada_compliance_and_your_website_should_you/ You can read my comments there, (Reddit username is webgurl83.) In short, I don't think people should be worried legally about accessibility. Mostly because if you're designing for mobile friendly, you'll most likely be fine. Not only that but if I can navigate your site, it's probably fine, even though it most likely won't come close to validating.
I also took the time last week to listen to the American Counsel of the Blind anual convention. Don't get me wrong, there were a few resolutions and positions I disagreed with. I'm Libertarian, so asking for more federal funding for anything is a bad thing! However, it was good to be updated on what lots of companies are doing when it comes to access, and there are more than a few major companies working on it. I invite anyone here to ask me anything! Look at this thread first though, https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/55wzgp/how_do_blind_people_use_reddit/?st=j4wcdbzc&sh=d9a76938 -
hopeslife Done 4 cheers 2017-03-01 07:20:10
Right now, I'm trying to hip mom to the fact that I don't have non-24. I do however have insomnia, and when I get headaches, sleep is usually out of the question. Lol right now, I have what I like to call "internet I don't want to go to bed syndrome." Lol because I've been up until 2 or 3 for the past couple weeks just looking at things. Here's a Wikipedia article about non-24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake_disorder Some people may think that insomnia is involved in the symptoms of non24. However it isn't and it shouldn't be. Insomnia while staying on a completely normal schedule is not non24. It does involve waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep. You then fall asleep at strange times during the day. A lot of people don't understand how bad my headaches can get, so they think me waking up in sheer pain and not being able to go back to sleep again, because my brain feels like it's going to burst out of my head, is some form of non-24.
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hopeslife Done 10 cheers 2017-02-17 00:33:41
OK, so I posted a link on Facebook to a post about these: https://coolblindtech.com/orcam-glasses-help-the-blind-read-any-printed-material-and-even-recognize-faces/ It's the same link I'm giving you right now. Someone reacted as "sad." I commented that I'm a naturalist that is, I believe God made me the way I am for a reason. However, that doesn't mean I can't use tech to augment things and make life easier. It would be cool if people could get over the misconception that being blind is this sad, bad thing.
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cisclub 4 cheers 2017-02-25 09:36:42
Reply Report Permalink@hopeslife Orcam glasses are awesome indeed. Of course being blind is not sad. You are one proof. You have a nice list of goals. Proud of you Hope :)
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cisclub 2 cheers 2017-02-25 10:20:41
Reply Report Permalink@hopeslife I'm sure you need them just as a secondary option not necessary. You are doing a great job without them already
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How I did it:
I started using Lavabit email, DuckDuckGo for search, and hooktube.com in place of Youtube. Deleted my Google account last week and haven't wanted it back since!
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I found a yoga studeo and went to classes there. I also did some on my own at home.
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Well, whenever I thought of something to throw into the entry box, I put it up there. Unfortunately, my personal blog takes priority for these kind of things. Lol so I had a hard time coming up with what to post.
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I made a conscious effort to go to bed somewhat earlier than I usually do. It's still hard sometimes, but I think I've mastered the getting up early part anyway. The only days I'm not up between 5 and 6 AM are days when I have bad headaches.
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My family and I went for my brother's wedding. The wedding was good but that's all we were really able to do. We did walk the strip though and it was 113 degrees. I got to enjoy the spins! Lol I don't do well when it comes to heat. I dehydrate extremely fast. Lol but I love the spins, and the adrenalin that comes with it. Cheap thrills!
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I picked out the books I was going to read ahead of time. Then I stayed up for 24 hours, and probably ended up doing about 20-21 hours of reading! I took several 30 minute breaks. Mostly for Twitter, Facebook etc.
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Well I tried giving up Soda and fast food. Wasn't so successful with the soda thing at the end though. I also tried practicing Lectio Divina. I did enjoy that.
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By reading lots of entries, following almost everyone, (I think I'm behind at this point,) and joining/following goals that have more than just myself doing them.
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Lol I just followed everyone in @stephanie's list. It took time, but it was easy enough.
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I found my profile on Wayback like I discussed last time, then I put my list in a text file and pasted it into an entry.
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Ok you have to put 43things.com/person/yourusername in the wayback search field. replace yourusername with your actual username, obviously.
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