Ummm... I was just practicing.

Failure is just a learning experience.

When something works out, it's a success. When it doesn't... well, it was just a practice run. (A good philosophy for any setbacks in life.)

So the previously version of the Kristen's Guide Community forum was... a practice run (i.e. too many people couldn't log in). So I set up a new and improved Kristen's Guide Community forum where we can all share our problems, ideas, goals, dreams, progress, ask questions, make suggestions, etc. so that we can all sort out our crazy lives and start creating the lives that we really want.

Just go to http://kristensguide.forummotions.com and PLEASE let me know if you have any problems with it. (I'm keeping my fingers crossed.)

Of course, since I just set it up, it's currently empty, so I would absolutely appreciate it if everyone just dropped on by and added something to get things started. (Doesn't need to be much unless, of course, you want it to be.) I posted my my introduction and can't wait to learn more about all of you.

IE7 Users Are Having Problems -- Take 2

I've recently heard from people having problems logging in at the forum. Right around the same time, my husband was complaining that he can't get his office network software to work. And then another friend was mentioning that he couldn't log in to one of his favorite sites.

What did all of these people have in common? Internet Explorer 7.

If you're having problems using the forum (or any other sites on the Internet), IE7 may be your problem. (Bummer, isn't it?)

As for the forum, I've changed it so that guests can contribute to forum posts, even if they haven't logged in.

But if you want your posts connected to your user profile, you'll need to try using a browser other than IE7 (I know it's annoying). I recommend Firefox (my favorite), so I put a link to it on the forum.

Please feel free to come on back to the forum and try again.
http://www.kristensguide.com/forum

Happy day!

New Way for You to Share Your Opinion

I'm testing out a new commenting system, called Intense Debate. This means that you can now share your opinions about articles on Kristen's Guide by adding your comments to the end of articles.

Just go to Kristen's Guide, read an article, and use the new system to let me know what you liked about the article, add your own ideas to elaborate on the topic, and report any problems with it.

I hope to get some good feedback from everyone since I want to learn as much as I can from all of you as well as share what I've learned from life.

Happy day!

Jolly Winter & Merry Xmas & Happy New Year

It's that time of year again. 2007 is almost over. Winter has officially begun, Christmas is 2 days away, and 2008 is right around the corner.

I've printed out my 2008 weekly planner and filled it out, thought about my New Year's Resolutions, wrapped all the Xmas presents, and baked cookies for my neighbors.

I have just one last thing to do...

Say "Jolly Winter, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year" to all of my Kristen's Guide readers!

Thanks for reading my stuff and sending me all the nice messages (the best gift of all). I hope you all stick around for 2008 and help me make Kristen's Guide even better. I couldn't do all of this without you.

Happy holidays everyone!

Meet Other Kristen's Guide Fans at Our New Forum

I get lots of emails from my site visitors, and I often don't have time to answer all of them right away, so I've decided to create a forum where other Kristen's Guide visitors can help answer your questions. It's also a place where we can all get to know each other.

Go visit the forum, register, and introduce yourself in the Introduction section.

Then head to the Forum Suggestion section and tell me what topics you would like to talk about in the forum, and I'll set those sections up.

See you there!
http://www.kristensguide.com/forum

The spam isn't from Kristen's Guide

Spammers sometimes forge headers so that the spam they send out looks like it came from a legitimate site, and so they won't have to deal with any complaints. In this case, spammers sent out a bunch of spam from fake email addresses that included the kristensguide.com domain.

I just wanted to assure everyone that I have not sent out these spam messages. If you check the headers of the spam, you'll see that the IP address has no affiliation with the kristensguide.com domain.

For those of you on any of my mailing lists (e.g. updates, support groups, etc.), don't worry. The spammers do not have access to your email address. They were using their own email lists to send out the spam and do not have access to any mailing lists affiliated with Kristen's Guide.

Happy day!

http://www.kristensguide.com

Oopsie

I just discovered that many of my pages had a formatting boo boo that made my pages unreadable when viewing them in Firefox or Opera.

Fixed it!

Sorry.

Please try visiting those pages again. This time, what you're looking for will be there... promise.

http://www.kristensguide.com

Tidbits Update Schedule

If you are a subscriber of the Tidbits from Kristen's Guide feed (not the Kristen's Guide Updates feed, which you are reading right now), here's an FYI for you.

The Tidbits from Kristen's Guide will be updated once per month. If you don't see an update every day or every week, don't worry, the blog has not been abandoned. I'd like to post to it more frequently, but, hey, there's only one of me.

http://kristensguidetidbits.blogspot.com/

Oops... Printables Fixed

I recently heard from a visitor who said that my printables were popping up as errors. Yikes! I'm fixing them all now. Please let me know if any printable doesn't work for you.

http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/index.asp

Who is Kristen and why the heck does she have a site?

What kind of an expert are you? How do you know all this stuff? Why do you stick it on the Internet? What makes you so special that you deserve a website?

I've been getting questions about Kristen's Guide as well as questions about lil' ol' me, and I thought I would make it a bit easier for everyone to get answers by updating the Who's Kristen page and adding a What is Kristen's Guide page. Enjoy.

Here's the link to the new What is Kristen's Guide page (from there you can get to the Who's Kristen page):
http://www.kristensguide.com/what_is_kristensguide.asp

I'm back!

I just got back from vacation, Disney World. I didn't have an Internet connection, so I couldn't post anything while I was gone (not that I would have had the energy to do it anyhow). I've missed you all dearly, and for those of you who thought I fell off the face of the Earth, I didn't.

So what have I learned from my experience... more travel tips.

OK, so I haven't updated the travel pages yet, it's all in my head, but it will be updated soon. I've also spent lots of time thinking about various topics and new ideas and plan to add many more articles and printables to the site. I'll be sure to let everyone know when they're up.