I can’t believe how time is zinging by, I thought I had just posted and it has been 2 weeks! I now have a small website project, 10 hours a month, around 120 euros, for a man here in Muelheim. With Susannes help, it is now live and functioning okay. I had to get a crash course in CSS, I knew nothing about when I started and I had to relearn HTML, I haven’t used it in a long time. I had stopped concentrating on web design after my first audio production and video editing classes, I was more interested in the latter two. But now I see that I can possibly make money (FINALLY), here if I can do web design for people. I have seen websites here that belong on the “Websites that suck!” site. People can certainly use the help!  I am teaching myself more about CSS, slicing and more HTML, it can only help in the long run. So I am earning my first money here after 9 months, not much but it’s a start. I am still making e cards, it is a slow process but it will pay off in the long run. I am making valentines day cards at the moment and I found  great tutorial that walks me through creating a CSS driven website. I found it the other day, I wish I had found it last week when I was trying to learn CSS and was about ready to tear my hair out. I sat here tring to figure out how to use the stylesheet with HTML and I was sooooo lost. The fact that I had to work without a timeline and keyframes was frustrating. I gave up and gave up and keep going back until finally, something started making sense. I sat with Susanne and watched her as she worked also, which helped immensely. I will post some of the sites I fould to be the most helpful.  So now I am confident I can learn how to do wed design without using Flash. I am really looking forward to making nice sites for people. Yes, finally the wheels are turning and we are moving forward. I guess we have been all along, but now it feels like we are out of the driveway and on the road.

The snow has melted – YAY!. I was getting used to seeing it, now it looks bare outside, back to gray, soggy days! I looked at my shorts today, they miss me, they told me so. I told them they would have to be patient, it is another 5 months until it gets (what I consider) warm. I think they actually cried a bit. My hands stay the coldest, I sometimes work on the computer with gloves on, to keep them warm. We are lucky here, it hasn’t snowed nearly as much as in the eastern part of the country. Susannes friend up in Lubeck, near the sea, was snowed in for a week. They just got the three roads leading into town cleared and now it is snowing again.

Susanne and I went to get me signed up for an Integration course over at the Volkshochschule, about 6 minutes from here. If they have enough people for the class, I will begin at the end of the month and will have class in the mornings for 4 hours, language and German life and politics. It is a little expensive for us right now, but it is good that I can get more language lessons. I started reading a novel witten in German, I am almost past the 1st page, I should be finishing it by the time I am 80. It will be cool to be with others learning the language, I hope to make a few new friends there. That’s about all for today, I have to get back to work, I’m going to get back to posting 2 times a week, things got busy over the holidays and I got lazy about writing. Now I gotta get back into the habit of writing.

Til next time!