i found this post on a teacher community. it’s pretty interesting. i’ve never messed around with my spell check before, so i didn’t know about this. try it out if you get bored. ^____^

“This bit is specifically for the writers and teachers on my friends list, but feel free to use this bit of recently-gained knowledge in whatever way you find most appropriate.

Open up a document in Microsoft Word (I hear this will work with other programs, but I only know how to guide you through Word).
Once it is open, go to Tools on the toolbar.
Select Spelling and Grammar…
When it indicates the first error it thinks you should fix, select Options… at the bottom of the box (NOTE: If you have no errors at all, make one intentionally so the program will find and try to fix it)
Put a checkmark in the box next to Show readability statistics
Click OK
Finish the spelling and grammar check, and at the end you will get a rather thorough diagnostic of your writing, including words/characters/paragraphs/sentences counts, sentences per paragraph, words per sentence, characters per word, percentage of passive sentences, Flesch Reading Ease, and (this is the best part of all) the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level at which you are writing.

You know, like sometimes you pick up a young adult novel that says it is for people ages 12 – 15 or grades 3 – 5 or whatever? Yeah, like that…”

well, grandpa went and saw that new herbie movie all by himself yesterday. ^_____^; he thought madagascar was a nascar movie, but i guess he went to see herbie for the few minutes of nascar stuff, or maybe he went to see lindsay lohan. ^___^;;;

braedon is here. again. staying with granny. last night we went over there for supper, and he decided he wanted to go home with us. my mom asked him if he came with us if he would be good and he jumped up and down and said, “sure! sure! sure!” so, he’s at our house. he had come over yesterdya to swim, and i guess he had fun so he wanted to spend the night. he slept in katee’s floor. she was trying to go to sleep last night and he was making noises so my mom went in there and he said, “i want to go to sonic.” and my mom’s like “the restaurant?” and he said, “yeah! i want a corndog!” ^____^; what a goofy kid. he’s sweet though.

well, i finally made something using the sewing machine i got for my birthday last year. i did it really quickly, and i did it the wrong way really because i didn’t use any lining or interfacing or anything, and my seams are so sloppy in some parts where my thread got tangled, but…. here it is-

i made a purse! whoo-hoo! *is all proud of herslf!* i need lots more practice with my sewing machine. the foot pedal thing is sorta weird to get used to.

i filled out more applications last night. i haven’t heard anything yet though. anyway, that’s all for now!