How to make a good Blog post.

This is centered mostly towards my Daddy, who is confused with the feed back he is getting on his blog. I figure this might help him, and anybody else, who is having problems with their blog.

Step one: Interesting posts. This one is an obvious one. I mean seriously, who wants to read a boring blog? I sure dont. Pick an interesting topic, that most people will find worth-while to read.  For instance, Something funny or something that is informative, but still fun to read.

way too long!

Step two: Short posts:  Nobody wants to read a blog that is very long. When you take a glance at it, you assume it is boring and you dont want to spend the time on reading it. Short & sweet is good to go by. Try to keep it within an paragraph or two. If it must be long, follow step three.

Step three:  Pictures:  Pictures are WONDERFUL and possibly nessecary to a good blog. People need visuals to become intrigued. If you see a picture that catches your eye, your more likely to want to read the passage. This method is also good for if you have a lot to write. Try writing a paragraph or two then posting a picture. It doesnt always have to be a self-taken picture. It can easily be a picture extracted from the internet. But make sure that  it has something to do with what you wrote.

bad example

Step four: Be funny!:  Everybody LOVES to laugh.  Its just obvious! For example the caption on my last picture probably made you giggle or smirk. If your blog isnt funny at all , it will be harder to catch people's attention. So try to work a giggle or two into it! Wording can help too. See step five to see how. A witty summary at the end is always helpful!

Step five: Wording: If you use big words that nobody knows it is going to be like a speed bump in the road. It gradually slows you down until you are uninterested. Try to write with a matter-of-factly or smart alike tone. This catches people's attention. Also, try to make words BIGGER or underline, italicize, or bold it.  When people are reading, they will see this out of the corner of their eye, and want to read more to find out why it is like that. Type like your talking to someone in person!

personalize

Step six: Personalize:  Make your posts interactive! Put up a poll, or a video. Challenge your readers, suggest a book. SOMETHING! People love things that seem to be made just for them! Add a little insight or something! Try to use the word "you".  ALWAYS thank the people for reading. It makes them feel special. =

Thats about it! I may not be a professional in this topic at all, but I DO  have enough common sense to know what will make a good blog and what wouldnt. I am now challenging you to do at least one post using this and get feed back on if people liked it or not! Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed it! Love, Erin Michelle <3

My Iphone will not be getting better.

Its officially over. 

Today, I journeyed to the Crabtree Valley Mall to get my beloved Iphone fixed. The lady kindly did everything she could, but nothing worked. Apparently, my warranty ran out so they couldnt replace my Iphone. My only options were to spend $69 on extending my warranty or $99 to buy an Iphone 4. Both of which we did not have the money for. So I couldnt get my phone fixed or replaced. The 2 1/2 hour drive home, I cried. The only thing I dont understand is that it was THEIR software that broke MY phone, but they refuse to replace it for free. I always thought of apple being my friend, that always had my back. Apparently this "friend" has gone and stabbed me in the back. I guess this the end of my apple crusade. I am officially done with apple, but I will always love it. 

My No-No square is dead! D:

My Iphone is Dead! 

What happened you might ask, Well Ill tell you what happened! Cody happened!! About two weeks ago, my friend cody texted me exactly this:

Cody: OMG! you need to go to itunes and download the new IOS 5 update!

Me: ehh coooody! I was sleeping! and uhm why? I like my phone the way it is.

Cody: I just downloaded it! Its AMAZING!

Me: grahhh okay. 

Then I proceeded to get on itunes to download the update.After I downloaded it my phone decided to not accept my sims card anymore. So, I googled this and It turns out with some phones the update breaks the something-or-another and you have to take it to the apple store for a replacement. The only problem is the closest apple store to here is an hour and a half away! Oh well.. I know What im doing this weekend

By the way , I call my iphone my no-no square so when people grab it (because people think since i have an iphone their obligated to grab it a play on it ) I can scream " NO THATS MY NO NO SQUARE!!" and they instantly learn their lesson

Sorry!!

     Sorry I didnt post my story yet!! I havnt really had the time to do so! I promise I will get it up ASAP. I am also sorry for not blogging as much lately. I have had a lot of work to do and not enough time! I will try and blog sometime tomorrow! Love ya'll =]

Coming Soon!!!!

Coming soon! Patrick, a suspenseful thriller about a deranged killer who has underlying psychological problems. This exciting story will be sure to grab your interest and make you want to read more. Be sure to come and read it when it is posted on October 22, 2011. I hope you will like it! 

Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Today, I went to my friend Alec's house to help him film his movie ( for a project for Language Arts)  It was Alec, Cody, Allen, Matthew and I. It was loads of fun, but not a lot of filming got done. We enjoyed rolling (and pushing) eachother down hills, having slow-motion dinosaur fights, playing hide and seek, and much more.

Anderson Creek Club

Alec lives in Anderson Creek Club ( a nice gated community) So even the grass in the woods (where we were filming) was perfectly cut. Because of Our lack of filming today, we will have to go back tomorrow to finish. I will try to get the finished product of the movie on here.  Love and miss ya'll- Erin

New Blog Design

As you have noticed, I decided it was about time to change the view of my blog. It all happened when I read through my comments and noticed that my blog looked awful immature and conceited ( mind you, I made it when I was 12) So I decided to make it more mature looking, but still with a hint of "Erin-ness" Also, I added some more fish. There are 10 in total.

Just a Picture I made

This post is kind of short and uninteresting I know, but I thought I should let you know my reasoning behind the new design. I might put another post up later, but for now, that's it. 

                                                                                         Love and miss ya'll -Erin

My Favorite Off Brand foods

I have noticed that lately people have been buying more off brand food, due to the economy. I have also noticed the interesting names of these foods, so i decided to make you a list of them all .

Honeynut tasteeos

Honeynut tasteeos is the best ceral ever. It is better than Honeynut Cheerios. It has a funny name too! Which I totally love.

flavor aid

Flavor Aid is an knock off brand of kool-aid. Like most off brand food products, it is just as good as the brand name. The only difference, is that it has an awesome straw-man and a funnier name than kool aid.

Hichew

Hi me, hi you, hi chew! I am not actually sure if Hichew is an off brand product or not. It is definately cool one. It is similar to starburst, but better. Ive only had it once but would kill to be able to have it again =] 

Whonu

Whonu cookies are really cool cookies. They have great nutrients and still taste like chips ohoy'! I assume they are more healthy than normal cookies but.. how healthy can a cookie get? lol =]

toastem popups

And last but not least, toastem' popups. They are the off brand poptarts. They are good too. I think that they are even better than the name brand. They tend to have more filling too! 

      Well, that concludes my list of my favorite off brand foods! I hope you enjoyed it, and if you havnt tried these before, you should try them! Love and Miss everybody! -Erin

The Ickbleh

I have recently come down with a terrible case of the ickbleh. What is the ickbleh you might ask? I'll tell you what! The ickbleh is a word my friend Cody and I made up to describe sickness, without knowing what its was. Last Tuesday, I went to the doctor for being sick for about a week. After a swift check up, she said it was probably Mono, but the would have to do some blood work. So, they stole my blood, and I was on my way.

Today, my doctor called with the blood results. Negative. (dun dunn dunnn!) So, what do I have? Nobody knows! I have another appointment scheduled for Friday morning. Symptoms? Severe Fatigue, soar throat, shortness of breath, Overly thirsty, frequent urination , and random all over soreness.

Spa Day With My Mother

 Yesterday, I was feeling better from my icky-sickness, and Mom and I decided to have a spa-day sort of thing. After we got back from McDonalds (which i had been craving for days and had to beg to go =] ) and Dollar Tree ( I got heart stickers) We grabbed my laptop(thankyou daddy!), nail stuff, and the t.v remote and went into her room. First, we looked up easy to make all-natural face masks. We didnt have much supplies, so we settled for the corn meal face mask, which consisted of cornmeal and water.

It looked NOTHING like that!

It looked more like putting pancake mix on your face. While we waited 15 minutes ( as the website said) we took off the long since chipped and worn away nail polish. When it was time to take it off, my mothers face came out surprisingly soft and smooth. When I took mine off my face was red, and irritated. After about 10 minutes though, my face came out as nice as hers.

actually, our nails came out pretty good!

And then we laid in her bed and watched scary Steven King movies until we were both super sleepy. That's the end of our spa-day!

Engulfing myself in the wonderful world of Algebra One

You would never guess, based on my creative personality, that I am Absolutely in love with Algebra 1! I tend to find comfort in the world of numbers. A magical world where everything is fair and  has an answer. I love algebra for many reasons, but the main reason is that it is the one type math that I am actually good at! My whole life I have been terrible at math but, here comes wonderful algebra! I love that it looks difficult, but it is actually very simple. I just finished doing my homework, and two extra pages just for the fun of it!!

All day, I find myself either sitting in class anxious to go algebra, or sitting in another class wishing i was in algebra. I could do it all day with a smile on my face! I almost love it as much a I love singing Which is A LOT!

My teacher (Mrs.Stevsons) is the best also. I stay for tutoring just for an excuse to do more algebra! pretty crazy huh? Well, I have to go =] Love ya'll =]

Long Time No See?

Well, Im back!

 

I'm super sorry that I havent been able to blog! Everything is okay now though! I have internet and a nice laptop thanks to my awesome diddy! So what have you missed? Nothing specail! Haha. My schedual is super busy lately. Here it is:

Monday- Beta until 5

Tuesday-Babysit

Wednesday- Algebra 1 tutoring until 4

Thursday- FBLA until 5

Friday-Friends :)

Saturday- volenteer at thrift shop

Sunday-Weekend homework/ projects

It doesnt sound too bad, but on top of school and such, it's pretty difficult. except for fridays :)

Well, that is all I can post at the moment. I will again asap. I have school work to do! Bye!