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Where do I start? I've had so much on my mind lately, this website layout has been bugging me. Sometimes I feel like wiping everything out and starting from scratch again, but that would just require more time in front of the computer so I will leave it alone for now and let it bug me.
Money has been real tight, mainly because I've needed to buy Spring clothes for myself. I knew I probably couldn't hide under hoodies and baggy t-shirts forever and with the weather starting to get warmer and warmer, I just can't squeeze myself into anything from last year. I guess that attests to how much weight I really have gained over the years.
My stress makes me eat, and my eating makes me stressed, I have to buy new clothes for myself, which makes me broke, which makes me stressed. I feel stuck in a major rut right now. I know I will get through it, but until then, I just feel like crawling into a hole and sleeping for a few months.
Originally published at Angels Dust. You can comment here or there.
Real...clear...ENGLISH. Hellelujah!
I almost went back to church after speaking to my customer service rep. I was so happy, it didn't even matter that I had to repeat my name, address, phone number and email address 4+ times, not to mention he processed my credit card number wrong the first time, I didn't care...because he spoke English and I was so proud to be an American at that very moment.
As dramatic as it sounds, I mean every word. Don't get me wrong, I do not have anything against foreigner's, but what corporate America has to realize that if they ship off all these jobs overseas and make a bunch of people that don't even know how to speak the native language of 90% of their customers, there's something wrong, and they will loose money because we will stop dealing with it.
That's one of the main reasons I stopped selling Avon. If I had a problem with my representative account that required me to call into customer service, I was on the phone 1/2 hour longer than necesary because the customer service representative could not understand me. It's unnessesary, so please Avon corporation, bring the jobs back to America!
Ok I'm done preaching. I seriously had to get that off my chest though!
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Ok actually I was just really lazy and busy with a few projects sitting on my plate growing mold.
I started a new website about a month ago, a NASCAR blog and I was fortunate enough to get a very prosperous advertising oppertunity with BlogHer to place advertising on my blog over there. It did involve a small income, so I spent the past two weeks perfecting the site, adding more content, and getting the site up to my personal standards. In turn, this website got ignored.
Next on the project list is my sponsorship blog, I have been joined with a few sites for a few months that pay me to write posts on products and do reviews, so I must go over and perfect that site as well so I can start making an extra income.
After that, I am making a website for a local buisness for a family friend.
So much stuff, so little time.
For posterity reasons, here's what happend in the past two weeks that I didn't blog:
Oso got a brand new bed.
Kennedy and I went on a shopping spree at Meijer's last Saturday. Everything was on sale from 50-70% off because the store on our side of town is closing down. She made out with toys, I hit a race memorabilia gold mine.
Last Thursday, I saw Ace Young perform live. I am an American Idol fiend, and he was completly georgeous!
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Last night (Saturday) I went out dancing with my best friend Susie and Sean. The most interesting thing was not running into some weird guys trying to feel me up, but I actually ran into my old roommate Alissa and we exchanged numbers.
Originally published at Angels Dust. You can comment here or there.
For the first time in a long time, the weather was absolutly perfect yesterday. Not to cold, not to hot, and not to sound like Goldilock's, but it was JUST RIGHT.Yesterday, Nick, Kennedy, Smoke and I went on an outing to his grandma and grandpa's house so they could go fishing on their pond in the backyard. It was just too beautiful outside to stay cooped up in the house (altough the race was on and I was interested in watching it.)
This is probably Smoke's 3rd or 4th car ride and she is behaving very well on them. I took the little pink kennel carrier that I had originally bought for my little poodle Pepper and used it to transport Smoke. It was too small for Pepper so I think it worked out well that Smoke turned out to be a girl because now I can use it for her. If my ferret turned out to be male, I probably would of still the pink kennel for him, but I would of felt like I was wacking a part of her manhood off. I kept her in my lap for most of the car ride and let her run around. The kennel was mostly for potty and food transport reason's. I know in my last entry I had predicted that it would take Kennedy a while to get the courage to hold Smoke by herself. Well, here it is day 2 of Kennedy being around Smoke and she is picking her up and bringing her to me with little hesitation and I have told her she can be the ferret's official babysitter. She is excited about it.
I conregated from inside the house talking to grandma to going outside to side pond side and watching my babies go fishing. Kennedy got very anxious to catch a fish and also got bored with waiting for the fish to bite on her hook. I was sitting next to her watching and taking a ton of photos. At one point she asked me if I could help her put a worm on her hook for her. I was too freaked out about killing a poor little worm and she was too grossed out to touch it. We are such typical females huh?
Grandpa bought us pizza for dinner which was absolutly delicious after having barely anything else to eat that day. I even gave a small piece to Smoke and she devoured it. She is already such a spoiled animal. I almost dread to see the day I have children of my own because they will be just as spoiled as my animals. Not to mention, Kennedy is heavily spoiled by me and she is not even my own child.
All in all, I'm so glad I did not decide to stay at home and do my normal computer surfing and geekiness that I normally do every weekend. When it comes down to it, spending time with my boyfriend, Kennedy and even his grandparents who are always so wonderful to me, is more important than all the hours and dedication I put into whatever web project I ever decide I "need" to work on. It's so easy to forget simple things like that but that's why I write things like this on a regular basis. I need to remind myself I'm luckier than I think. I get stressed out a lot very easily and often, it's so easy for me to forget that I do have people in my life that care and love me. This is my personal reminder.
Some pics from the days adventures:
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