Hey all! I'm so excited!  I found this really cool place called LaLa that has my CD on it, and you can listen to it on the player I've embedded on here.  How cool is that??  Just check out the player that's to the right of this post and a little down.
If you like the songs and want to know more about how each one of them got "birthed" (so to speak), check out my music tab off my website at:

http://www.hollybaxley.com/

I'm still trying to work out the kinks on this website template, but I really like it, and know that eventually I'll get it to look just like I want it.  Embedded players and all in their proper spot.  But still, I'm doing the happy dance, cause you can hear my songs.  Woo hoo!!  Let me know what you think of them.  I'm thinking about working up some videos too - nothing fancy...just sitting at the piano singing. But I really want to embed the lyrics as I play and sing too.  Makes it easier to understand.

My thoughts are jumping everywhere, so I'll close for now.  Gotta head out to an ortho surgeon for an opinion.  Not fun, so praaaaaaay for me.  I feel all squishy like jello.

Will write more soon.  :)

And so far, I like what I see.  Pretty interesting to use it to type with instead of the “blogger” interface that comes with blogger.  Windows Live Writer (which is free, btw) says that it’s suppose to be easy to see what you’re doing, it edits in real time and shows you the immediate look of your post.  So far – so good, on my end.  And it has a built in spell check!  (Bless you programmers for that one!)

Let’s see if I can imbed video.  If I can, what you will see is a song I wrote October 2009 called “Latter Rain”.  I love it cause it’s fast paced, got a little techno beat and it’s so joyful!  It’s just an instrumental, but to me it just makes me wanna dance in God’s rain of grace!

Wow…that embedding was easy.  OK, so far Windows Live Writer is getting a BIG thumbs up from me!

I’ll be back tomorrow to follow up “The Letter”.  It too will be on “Karen’s Threads of Hope” just to complete the story. Though Brent laughed at me and said, “You know it doesn’t end there!” when I told him what I wanted to do.  He’s right.  There’s more to even the ‘ending’, so I’ll add an epilogue to bring you up to where we are at today.  Do I think I can do it all in an epilogue? Maybe.  ;D

Hmmm…you know what this Windows Live Writer is missing? Emoticons.  You know…smiley faces?  Maybe “real” bloggers don’t use smiley faces.

I like them. :D

Maybe I don’t look serious enough when I use them.  :(]

Oh well.  :p

Ooh look.  I made a bunny:

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Be back tomorrow….