Damn, I got a Baby Shower Invitation

I got the mail this afternoon and there was a small envelope mingling with the bills. Damn they got me! And invitation to a baby shower. I wonder what silly assed games we will play? I really hate bridal and baby showers. And there are so many reasons why. I think the biggest reason though, is that I have to go. Everyone went to mine. Yes, I was "showered" with gifts several times. If you want the toasters, pyrex, bath towels, hand-made crocheted afgans and baby booties you have to play the game. I have an engaged son and I will have to plan a bridal shower soon. Oh, as I address the envelopes I will be doing a Muahaha!

Should I start blogging about Television?

I watch so much TV. I may as well blog about it. All the season premiers are about to start. Should I use this blog or my other blog? Or maybe start a new one? Or get my own domain? I have a lot of sorting out to do since I entered the world of blogging. I'm trying to decide which direction my blogs should go because right now they are both about the same topics. And when I get a blogging idea I have to figure out which blog to put it on. That will be my main focus next week! Organizing!

The Day After Thanksgiving

They are calling the day after Thanksgiving Black Friday now? I never go shopping on that day. And if they are calling it Black Friday, it’s worse than I thought. I hate crowds. That’s why, as I’ve said in previous posts, I’m doing as much of my holiday shopping on line as possible. While searching the net I found a site called Black-Friday.net. Hah! Check it out, here is an ad for Kohl’s. All you do is submit your email address and they notify you when new Black Friday ads are posted. Here is a store list. There are quite a few stores.

Imagine doing your holiday shopping with a cup of coffee in your hand, sitting in front of your computer, listening to whatever music you like. As opposed to grabbing a lousy cup of coffee at the food court and not being able to take it in any stores, standing in line with a bunch of short tempered shoppers and listening to piped in holiday music.

Here’s the Circuit City ad. Lot of bargains! Black-Friday.net is making it too easy for us. What will we do with all are spare time after we get are shopping done? I suppose, baking, wrapping, sending out cards, cleaning the house……… Oh boy! Here come the holidays!

The Neighborhood Came Together Today

Oh my! The drama. Our nextdoor neighbors dog got loose. He's my dog's boyfriend. My dog, Buckeye, was very upset. You could tell he must have visited her after his escape because she kept looking back when I was taking her inside. I just didn't catch on soon enough. So the neighbor and I were out calling for the boyfriend dog and Buckeye fretted inside. Soon we had more neighbors join the search. The buses started dropping kids off after school and they became part of the search party. Everyone talked about what a little pistol he is and Buckeye paced and whined. She's in love. Two hours later the neighbors husband, who came home early from work, pulled into the driveway with one mangy looking, in trouble dog. Buckeye took a nap, it was way too much drama for her.

PayPerPost Has Sent Me in a New Direction

I jumped into the world of Blogging with both feet! Almost a month ago I found PayPerPost. Wow has that discovery change the direction of my life. Yes, the direction of my life. In less than a month I’ve made over $100.00. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, but the potential to make more is there. When I’m not blogging I’m working on my traffic generation. Or I’m on the message boards finding out as much information as I can. And there is a lot of information!

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I never thought someone would pay me for my words. Maybe I’m on a newbie high but seeing that green thumbs up symbol telling you that your post has been approved is exciting! What a sense of accomplishment for someone that got a C in English!

I Was Set Up

When a dog chases it's tail you have to stop and laugh, I don't care how many times you've seen it, it's worth another laugh. So when our dog decide to entertain the neighborhood my son called me to the window, "She's chasing her tail mom!" He said it in a hushed tone because the windows were open.

I was able to turn the air conditioner off because Northeast Ohio is experiencing a cold front, whatever, it's 65. So Boy #2 lured me to the open window. Do you see how the tone of this post completely changed? I'm at the window laughing at the dog, there is a guy jogging, just as he approaches our house Boy #2 whistles at him and ducks out of sight. There I am looking out the window with a big smile on my face as he looks up. My husband is in his recliner laughing along with Boy #2 and Boy #3 is laughing so hard Pepsi is coming out of his nose.

I was set up bigtime. I wonder how long they had been planning that one?

How We Do Business is Changing

I quit my job in February of this year to work at home. I use to work at a printing company. I was the graphic artist, nothing glamorous, I made a lot of forms to be printed. One of our clients was an event registration service. They planned conferences. They would set up a form, email it to me, call me with changes, I’d make the changes, send them a proof and then if we were lucky that was it and we would print! These clients would be at their event site and realize they didn’t have enough registration forms. They’d call us in a panic! They ordered more forms and would have to pay for the set up of the press again.

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Christmas Shopping

My sister-in-law will be calling me soon for a Christmas list. She will want to know what my kids want for Christmas. I'm not even sure I have all their school supplies and I have to come up with a list?
I am starting to assemble a list of places to shop and as I've said before I plan on doing a lot of shopping online. I have so many online store owner friends. I have website links listed in the right column and look for that list to be growing. If you are looking for something, I probably have a friend that sells it!

I can't believe the gorgeous day outside my window! The dog and I are going to have to go on a walk! Maybe then she will be too tired to chew on my sandals.

More Cowbell

I wanted to see if I was able to post a YouTube Vid on my Blog. And this classic is one of my favorites!

Add Pingo to your vacation packing list!

When you check into a hotel room and you have children the first thing the little darlings are going to do is …….. jump on the hotel beds of course! Even if they are 12 and 15. We were in our Niagara Falls (Canadian side) room for 15 minutes when the 15 year old body slammed the 12 year old onto the bed. My husband and I were still moving the luggage around when they both jumped up surprised and the 12 year old held up his right arm and terror was written on his face. Unintelligible sounds started to come out of his mouth.

Now, we were out of the country. When the arm started to swell I got on the phone. Nowadays you don’t call a doctor first, you have to call your insurance company. After every vacation we take, my packing list grows. Now on my list are ace bandages and prepaid calling cards. In addition to the insurance company I made calls to my doctor who was also on vacation so the answering service gave me another number to call. I called 2 different hospitals. And my mother!

Needless to say I could have used Pingo to make some cheap international calls. I could have saved up to 90%! When you sign up for Pingo you get 5 hours of International calls FREE! Special phone card blog discount coupon: “ppp3” valid for $3 off Pingo Receive $25 phone card for just $17. Yep, Pingo is on my list of things to pack when we go on vacation, but those kids are off the list!

My feet hurt!

And so does my neck! I have a pounding headache because I'm so hungry. That pizza guy will be here in 45 minutes to an hour, I just called him. So I decided to look busy and blog before my husband starts back to work on the house. Yes, I'm hiding from him. Why not, the kids do it. As soon as they see him put his toolbelt on they head for the hills.
My husband loves to construct. He is turning our patio into an all-year-round room. We built a wall today. WooHoo! There is talk of this room becoming my office. The complaining is kept to a minimum because I'd really like that room. As long as it's warm enough in the winter!

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He found me! It started to rain and we had to put up some tarp. I'm going to watch for the pizza guy.

Is The LAP BAND System right for you?

The thought of weight loss surgery can be pretty overwhelming. But if you are thinking about it, do some investigating. Journey Lite has a website full of information. A page devoted to explaining the surgery with an animated video, very impressive! You can easily navigate Journey Lite’s website to find the information you are looking for and find out if The LAP BAND System is right for you.

I'm addicted to SIMS 2

I have no idea how this happened, but I'm addicted to SIMS 2. I used to play it every night, then the computer it was on crashed. An unfixable crash. I lost my entire community! I went through my SIMS 2 withdrawals and got really involved with making money online instead of playing games. You can see links to my online stores to your right. Well boy #3 got a computer and installed SIMS 2! Yikes!

I'm hooked again, strung out on SIMS 2. I can't make any money playing SIMS 2, can I? Please provide any information if I can!!! I must remain focused and get my online stores (to the right) ready for the holidays!

Yikes! Who should I vote for?

My husband was flipping through the channels last night, so annoying. He stopped on a Republican Debate and then he stayed on the channel. I didn’t realize how many candidates there are! Check out this Political Blog called Gimmie the Scoop. It shows you all the Republican Candidates and guess what? There are just as many Democrats. There is a little bit of background information on all of the candidates, so perhaps bookmarking Gimme the Scoop wouldn't be a bad idea. There is someone out there in blog land willing to try and sort through the Presidential Candidates.

Took the Dog for a Check Up!

It was time for my dog's "Comprehensive Exam" yesterday. I dropped her off at 9:30 am and didn't pick her up until 4:00 pm. Needless to say they checked everything. I had them cut her nails because she won't let me, they had to sedate her. I have a picture of her on the front page of one of my eCrater Stores here. That's the store that is in serious need of attention and I will be devoting my time to it today. I have several items to list and maybe slash some prices! When I'm not Blogging and fixing up my online store I will be at The Crabby Host stop by and see me!

I'm getting too old for this!

My husband and I decided to replace our own windows and side our house on our own. Actually it was more my husbands idea. I was more on the side of hiring someone for our home improvements. After almost a year, 2 trips to the emergency room, an ache in my upper back that won’t go away and teenagers that mysteriously disappear when dad puts on his tool belt, we are almost done!

It would have been great to have someone install all eight of our Double Glazing windows. Maybe let someone else worry about the heights you are afraid of, you know a professional. This is my last home improvement project! I’m getting too old for this!

How did Farvel Cargo get its name?

Every other month or so I feel the need to explain the name Farvel Cargo. I know it's weird. The following should shed some light on the puzzled gazes at my blog:

Eight people were sitting around our dining room table one Sunday afternoon eating homemade soup. To find out more...........

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My list of things to do grows the more I wake up and I can't decide what to do first so I will stop by The Crabby Host and check in with my online store seller buddies, have lots more coffee and get to work. Let me know what you think of my name story okay?

Get it Done!

If I keep blogging about starting my holiday shopping early do you think I might actually do it? Start early I mean? I want to get it all done online. Boy I could really get a lot of my holiday online shopping done at www.couponchief.com. They have coupons for everything.

This is the first Christmas we will have with our dog! She will be spoiled! And I will use coupons from PETsMART. If you are going to online shop why not use a coupon? You can find something for the entire family at www.couponchief.com. Even those hard to buy for grandparents. I can get them an Entertainment Book and spread the coupon love!

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It’s time to stop talking about all the shopping I want to do and get it done!

My favorite time of the day!

I'm sitting in front of my computer blogging with a glass of ice tea within reach and the dog is asleep at my feet. It just doesn't get any better than this. Well maybe if I had an email box full of sales from my eCrater Stores it would be a little better. Yeah, a little better! I didn't sell anything last week so I will probably be lowering some prices this week.

Now that summer is "officially" over, perhaps the shoppers will come out to play! Remember my tool store Farvel Cargo when you are shopping for the holidays. I have several items that would fill a stocking very nicely. And a lot of items under $10.00

Those kids will be home, soon upsetting my solitude. I'll put them to work, we have a dog that needs a bath!

I really screwed up!

Let me just say that this blog I use to help me with the look of my blog it is wonderful! It's pretty much a Blogging for Dummies site. I should say it's for Blogger.com blogs. Anyway this dummy is so scared of html especially after Thursday!

I tried to add a Digg button and I really don't know why, but everyone has one. Well I added the button and all the content of my posts disappeared. My words! Where are my words? I can laugh about it now. Because you can see my words can't you?

I left a desperate plea in bizwhiz's comment box and he responded right away. I'm going to practice on my other blog with all the html knowledge this guy's giving away free and then move to this one. But I wanted to pass this blog along to everyone in case you are looking for help!

Yes, I know there is a "preview" button for instances like this, but if I didn't have a little drama in my life and I wasn't such a dummy what would I blog about?