I have lost my maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, and my 11 year old dog all in the past 8 months. Every time I try to get up and stand on my own two feet I seem to fall crumbling back down. Since I was young I’ve realized that life is short and we only get one. I try and live every single day to it’s fullest, though lately it’s been a struggle to do so.

In terms of the grieving process after a loved one has died, I believe that everyone grieves differently and in their own way. I took the 5 stages of grief theory and transferred the emotions into my 365 day project over the past 5 days and thought I would share with you.

The 5 stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. If you would like to research more about the grief process I recommend Grief (on Wikipedia) and The Five Stages of Grief.

P.S. I will be back again and this time even stronger, I’ve just needed a bit of a break from my online life. In the near future I plan on to start posting more frequently again and re-designing some of this website to include a photography portfolio and possibly a couple other things.

I invite you to come along for the ride of the wonderful and interesting days that are to come ahead from this project. You can find the photos by either:

• Going to the website that I’ve set up for the project which is now included in my navigation:
• By signing up to the RSS feed or get it delivered by email
• Following along straight from the set on Flickr titled “365 Days of Cathryn Gray, 20 to 21“

My first and unsuccessful try at the 365 day project ended up turning into 19 days of self portraits which can be seen in my Flickr set.

Twitter went down last week on the 8th and is down again for an hour, both were planned. That leaves me wondering what else to do when the fail whale comes up or when Twitter plans scheduled maintenance. Here’s my compiled list of 25 alternative things to do when this happens:

1) Write a blog post about Twitter being down (Ehem, haha)

2) Get on Friendfeed and talk about Twitter being down

3) Get on Facebook and talk about Twitter being down

4) Get on Myspace and talk about Twitter being down (Does anyone use MySpace regularly anymore?)

5) See who else is complaining about Twitter being down

6) Try to remember life before Twitter

7) Read some blog posts from your favorite blogs

8 ) Comment on favorite blog posts

9) Check out new iPhone Apps, like Finger Sprint

10) Rediscover some music in your iTunes library

11) Start watching the TV show that’s in the background

12) Watch a movie that you haven’t seen in forever

13) Find a new game to play online, like Letterbox

14) Upload photos that you’ve forgotten about

15) Check out the explored photos of the day on Flickr

16) Put the computer down and go take some photos

17) Check out Likaholix 

18) Get on YouTube and watch videos about Twitter

19) Work on some actual work

20) Visit whentwitterisdown.com to get more ideas

The second is from Ryan Aylsworth who did a clean version of his 90D90, which is below, and also has an unedited version.

And the last, but not least, is by Mrik who put together a more time lapse oriented piece.

The spoof of Twitter, Flutter, introduces nanoblogging, which takes down the 140 character limit of Twitter down to 26 characters. I mean seriously, who needs vowels?

Here you go Mr. 500 Internal Error, take that! I did some serious ranting on Twitter the past two days about Dreamhost having issues with the server that my site runs from. I would like to apologize for the downtime and I’m hoping that everything is now set back online for good, or at least until the next problem that arises.

I signed up to Likaholix yesterday after reading a few tweets about it. This new social network definitely has some potential and is a bit addicting.

So what is this Likaholix that you speak of? Likaholix allows you to share, discuss and discover your likes with people. Essentially, you find things that you enjoy and add them to your profile. The site will ask you to enter the name of an item in the ‘Like Something’ box and then give you options to choose from, or you can add a link to the thing that you like. Then you will be able to add a comment about something particular you like about whatever that thing may be. If other users like the identical thing that I do, they may say that they also like it. This is where you can find people who like the same things and can meet new friends through Likaholix.

Note: There is no hating going on around the site, only positive feedback. Of course you can view a friends profile and always make fun of them if they like something you don’t agree with.

UPDATE: The site is still currently in limited private beta, but I now have a permanent invite code which means all of you readers can now join the site through me using the code. All you have to do is click here to sign up.

“It has the black button at the bottom and the “screen icons” in its “flat screen”. The top layer of the soap is dark grayish black and the bottom layer is a slightly lighter shade of gray. I must say that this is one of my coolest creations and each feature is meticulously created.”

It weighs about 3 ounces and the two that are available come scented either Mojito or Tropical Mango. You can even customize the fragrance or have none at all. Honestly perfect gift for a friend who loves iPhones, or even yours truly.

You can check it out on Etsy.com