Archives for May 2007

Snuffy! I’ll save you!

May 31, 2007 by Leave a Comment

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now, and just keep not getting to it. My blogging buddy, Colleen, posted a crazy dream she had, and she wanted others to participate and post their crazy dreams, as well. And well, I love this dream and I love telling people about this dream – so it basically gave me permission to tell the story one more time! (Without my kids saying, “We know, Mom, you told us that before!” HA!) So – even though, I’m incredibly late on it, do you think I’m going to pass up this opportunity? No way!

Ok, so those of you who do watch/have watched/did watch Sesame Street – you know who Snuffalupagus is, right?
Yep! He’s the one! Isn’t he a cutie? I just love Snuffy! Ok, well, anyway – in my dream, they were writing him out of the show. Only there was no one to take him and nowhere for him to go, so they were just going to have him put to sleep!

AHHH!! Poor Snuffy!!! So a friend and I set out to set him free. He was in his little fence, right outside the front steps of Gloria’s apartment. (I know, I know, he’s supposed to be in the courtyard – dreams are crazy like that!) And I climbed up on the top of the fence and we were working out how to get the gate opened up. We finally figured it out, and opened the gate, and called Snuffy out with us. We were just running off down the street …. when the dream ended.

But – I saved Snuffalupagus! I’m a HERO! Yea me!!!

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Filed Under: dreams

Microsoft Surface Computing – Awesome!

May 31, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Move over Jane Jetson, there’s room for more techno-savvy housewives in this solar system! Like me!

Dude! This is just awesome, I mean, totally awesome! Anybody got a spare $5,000-$10,000 they could loan me?

The part where he takes the picture of his colleague …and then sends it right to the computer …and then sends it right to the phone – just totally and completely BLOWS ME AWAY!
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Filed Under: Computers

I miss my babies!

May 31, 2007 by Leave a Comment

That’s all. I’m just saying.
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Filed Under: Parenting

Outsource, shmoutsource

May 31, 2007 by Leave a Comment

“I can’t afford to outsource! I have so much to do and I am so overwhelmed and I just can’t seem to get it all done and there just aren’t enough hours in the day!”

All of the big name marketers, like Alice Seba, who I’ve looked up to for years, say you’ve got to outsource if you’re ever going to get anywhere with your own business. And for all this time, I’ve been thinking I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I need it to move forward, but, I can’t afford it, so I can’t accomplish what I need to in order to move forward. Aggghhh!

NOT ANYMORE! …. Enter on to the scene, our entrepeneur’s hero of the year, DoMyStuff.com!! Now you can pick and choose the tasks that you want someone else to do, and negotiate a price – that you can afford – and get the help you need! Totally awesome!

(I am not sure why YouTube decided my video needed to be blurry, it wasn’t blurry on my computer. Hey, perhaps I need some help with videos… I gotta go, I’ll see you later! I’m going to DoMyStuff.com to look for someone who can help me with my videos!)
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Filed Under: business

I am so ready to be skinny again!!!

May 30, 2007 by 8 Comments

I am so sick and tired of being fat!! Just completely sick to death of it. It is just so hard, being over 35, and having had three kids, and having had a hysterectomy – it’s like I have all the cards stacked against me. It would be so cool to be part of a market research study for weight loss and get some free help with it! Who knows? I might even get paid for it! There used to signs on the side of the street in Dallas about some program like that. I would really love to find something like that right now, because I am just done. Done. I am so entirely sick of not feeling like I am even being ‘me’. That part about it is not only very weird, but also, very uncomfortable. And I am ready to be Lisa again. Naturally.Winking 2

+Benjamin Roethig Test, test, this is a test. Just came here to zap a spammer and saw this notice that this (mentioning G+ peeps) could be done. So you get to be the guinea pig. Yea!

Filed Under: weight loss

I need to get back on track!

May 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment

I feel like I am at a crossroads again, or a jumping off point, if you will. Which is odd, because I find myself here so blankety-blank frequently. I am needing to get back in the swing of things with my weight loss, though. And I guess, I could be grateful that I continue to arrive here, instead of falling off the wagon and abandoning all hope forever. So it’s good news that I want to get back on the horse. The falling off part is in the past. Right. That is the best way to look at it. When I was doing so well before, I was taking a diet supplement. I wasn’t taking the full dosage, and I wasn’t even taking it every day. I think I just used it for the gentle nudge in the back to keep me going, you know? I would like to try to find another one, though. It had Hoodia in it, which I think helped me, but, it also had something in it that made my heart race like a young thoroughbred just released from the gate! It was awful! I don’t remember if it was caffeine, or what, but, I would like to try one with just Hoodia in it, I think. This is all just so frustrating. I remember when I was a friggin’ teenager and young 20-something and I thought I was so fat! Could someone please find me a time machine, so I can go back and slap the crap outta that me?! And if I wanted to lose weight back then (yeah right, like I had any to lose!) I would just make it happen. Almost like snapping your fingers and the weight is gone. What I wouldn’t give…
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Filed Under: weight loss

I really *am* a goofball!

May 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment

I have these pens that I really like, they’re not bic pens, I’m not really sure what kind of pens they are, but, I just love them. And I try to keep the family away from them, which is a nearly impossible task. So I have resorted to trying to save the pink one, because I love it. The ink is not pink, they are all black ink – but, the outside is a very pretty dark pink and I just like it. You can tell that it is my favorite because the ink is almost gone. Whenever some little hoodlum or their evil sire reaches for a pen, I holler out, “Don’t take the pink one!” Heh. And that is all I seem to be left with right now. I am pretty sure, though, that the orange one is in Sammie’s room. And I was lamenting one day that the pink one was almost out of ink, and I guess I was overheard by a hoodlum-turned-sweetheart, as Shawn later says to me, over dinner, “You know, Mom, all you have to do to keep the pink one longer, is just open them up and switch out the ink from the orange one to the pink one.”

DUH! I didn’t even think about that! It may sound funny that so much fuss would be made over pens, but, pens have always been a special thing for me. Pens, pencils, paper, and all of that good stuff. My friend, Deb, was just blogging the other day about how all her life, even now, she has just loved getting a new notebook, or new, fresh paper – or a new pack of pens. She spoke of the same warm, fuzzy, joyous feelings I’ve always had over such things. It’s lovely to find someone that understands you. And I suppose Shawn does, too – as he cleared my head up about saving my pink pen! Yeah, now that I think about it, he is the same way. He once hung onto a mechanical pencil given to him by his second grade teacher, Mr. Chapa – for years! And when he lost it, he was devastated!

Pens, paper, ahh, such glorious and lovely things!
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Filed Under: blabbering

Quit kicking me around!

May 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Alright, alright – you can do it one more time! Just once, though – and I mean it!!!

Now that was fun, even I have to admit!! Oh my bum, though…ooooohhh!! Heehee!

I swiped this from the blog of a really awesome online marketer, Jim Kukral – check him out! If you are working online – internet marketing, blogging, anything online – you will want to keep reading his blog!
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Filed Under: blabbering, business, Internet

Heartbroken

May 30, 2007 by Leave a Comment

My children are in another state, several states away – without me. All of them. All three of them.

It feels pretty strange. Shawn got me a little ‘broken in’ to such occurences, by going to Washington D.C. without me. It still feels really strange.

My mother was here all weekend – and we had a fun visit. I suppose it could have been more enjoyable, had my narsty migraine not visited at the same time! Dagnabbit! We did still have a good time, though. And I am glad that she got to finally see my home, my town, and all the cool stuff around here!

And then on Tuesday, she packed up and went home to Texas – with my children! Aggghhh! Stop that woman! She has my children!!

Ok, ok, I’m just kidding – that was actually part of the plan. She takes them back with her, and then Mark and I will join them on Friday.

It was so funny, because Monday night she took them with her to the hotel, right here in town – all of THREE MILES from my house – and that first night was the hardest. Hello? They are three miles away! What? Well, I guess it was because it was the beginning of their journey without me.

Patrick still had some laundry in our dryer, and Mark had planned on taking it to him that night at the hotel, and when he was ready to go – he asked me if I wanted to go with him. I jumped up like my chair was on fire!!! Ripped off my pajama pants, threw on my jeans – and said, “YES!!!”

So the two of us, silly saps that we are, went over to the hotel, and watched a movie with them. It was “When Mars Attacks”. I love that movie. It’s so ‘B-Movie-ish’, but, it is filled with awesome actors and actresses and it is so silly-funny!

Anyway, so my little monsters are away, and I’m feeling kind of like I don’t have my shirt on or something. Not to be grody or anything, just like, that feeling of ‘Wait a minute! This isn’t right – something’s not right!’ You know?

I can tell you that I feel 1,000,000% better than when Shawn went to D.C., because they were with my mother, going to my brother, sister, and father – and going to spend the night with dear friends, whom I know love them very much and take very good care of them. Familiar – and safe – places. That D.C. thing liked to kill me! Whew! I still look at him and go, “Oh! You’re home! My baby, my baby!”

I know – I’m a goofball – you don’t have to tell me.

Filed Under: Family, Parenting

PayPerPost Direct

May 25, 2007 by Leave a Comment
PPP Direct

This is just a very exciting time in the world of blogging, if you ask me! I am actually still just tickled pink that I can make money doing something that I love so much. There are so many new things happening around the blogosphere, though, that it just continues to get more exciting. The newest installment from one of my favorite companies, PayPerPost, is their way of letting advertisers more directly approach specific bloggers for the buzz and/or reviews they are wanting. This new release is called PayPerPost Direct. With this program, bloggers install a button on their blogs to let advertisers know that they can be approached with an offer to blog about their site/business/blog/product or whatever it is that they are trying to stir up some buzz for. You can see my handy dandy button on my right side bar. The advertiser can then click it, and enter negotiations with me about their desired post. Once we come to an agreement, I then make the post and the advertiser reads my post, and can also at that time have discussions with me about it. Maybe I’ve used the wrong link text, or they want one more link, or perhaps, they are extremely pleased with the post. Then they approve the post – and I get paid!

I could enter into all of these negotiations and going back and forth with an advertiser on my own, and I have before, but, I do not have the safety net of another company to make sure that I do, in fact, get paid. And PayPerPost only takes 10% of the total cost of the post! That is an amazingly low percentage for a service such as this in the blogging marketplace today! It is really unheard of, in comparison to other such services. So say you and I negotiate and you decide that you are willing to pay me $20 for a post. Then the total cost to you would only be $22! Do you see how this is an awesome deal for both blogger and advertiser? If you were to go to Sponsored Reviews or ReviewMe for the same service, you would be facing a 50%-100% markup!

When you click on my PayPerPost Direct button on my sidebar, a popup window opens up and you and I can begin to discuss what you deem a fair price for a post here on my blog. That is a great feature to this new service – it is basically you and I here, on my site, working out a price together. So PayPerPost is enabling me to sell real estate here on my blog, while at the same time offering me the security of money in escrow already waiting to be paid to me at the completion of the post.

All in all, I am really excited about this new blog advertising service, and can’t wait to see where it takes all of us! It really is an exciting time to be involved a part of the blogosphere!

Filed Under: blogging, PayPerPost
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