Becca's Dream

Through the years Becca has participated in Special Olympics; so have many of her friends, now they have a chance to give back.

On April 10 2010 @ 3:00p.m. 

 The STARS of College Church will be singing in 

“You Raise Me Up”

A fundraising concert for Special Olympics along with 

The NGOMA Group

Chicago a cappella  and

The GlenEllyn-Wheaton Chorale

Ticket info available at www.gewchorale.org or 630-415-3066

$10.oo per person or 5 for $40.00

I listened to practice tonite they are sounding good.

Think about coming it is shaping up to be a great time.

I use Word Press, this is default theme 1.6 by Michael Heilemann. I wish I designed it. It’s wonderful it allows even someone like me, who is struggling to learn, to have success. I needed to resort to this post to answer you all because I haven’t conquered my sites e-mail yet. Every thing is bouncing back as undeliverable. I have been trying to contact some of you just be patient with me I’ll figure it out sooner or later. Till then there is always more than one way to achieve a goal. But my e-mail is another days learning problem. Gotta go hope this helps.

Besides our training to certify as service dog handlers: our video of Becca is the largest single block of time /effort we have to accomplish.  As I did not know anything about putting a video together this has been majorly stretching for me and taking way more time than the actual training will. In order to train Becca’s SD specific to her  and her needs 4Paws for Ability needs a window into her life.  We have been video taping Becca for a year now. Sorting through it all and pulling out the things 4Paws is looking for has been a challenge.  They have four pages of questions. I am finding it is taking about an hour of video per page. Half is done. The interviews about what the family knows about dogs, past experiences good and bad, what we like and dislike in  a dog are all done. How Becca interacts with animals, her fears, is she appropriate or does she poke into eyes and ears or go for tails done as well.

They want to see what activities is she involved in? That took a whole hour of video in itself just covering her weekly, monthly and yearly activities. Pulling tons of 15 -30 second clips together so 4Paws could see the kind of crowds we would be taking the SD into, and to hear the noise levels of these situations.  Took a few hours after preparing that video to engage in my own little pity party. We do so much to keep her busy! It is no wonder I have no life of my own!

Well drop the pity party because now I have another problem. This third disk will not save and burn. Seems that I cannot put materials from three different cameras into the same video. Especially when some are avi and some mpg.   AAGGHH!!  Well I wasted a day trying to make it work and hubby has used another day to convert mpg to avi and guess what? That’s right it still won’t save or burn. Hm-mm, I thought I had a hard time learning to blog. Speaking about learning to blog my son updated my google browser and the next day all they side bar information on  Becca’s Dream was gone. I had entered her site through that log in for so long I had forgotten how  to get here any other way. I was locked off of the blog for a week. But that’s OK, I am learning more about my computer the web and my blog everyday and getting much practice in learning to control my tongue. Last week I was yelling at my computer and realized Becca was sitting at my elbow. Oopps! Time to reclean the mouth and make appologies.

I actually missed not getting time or beong able to log on to do this. But learning to make a video is good. So I’m grayer than I was four weeks ago. And Ok I have less hair because I have been pulling it out in frustration. My mouse is also worse for wear because of my frustration in fact I am surprised it still works. Some friends and I said it would be cute to have one that squeaks and scampers away if you smack it down on the desk top. Well so much for my technology woes. Excuse me for not working on the grammer today been down with the flu. But as I was instructed on how to get back onto the site I wanted to shout out to you all.