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12 years and counting!

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Yesterday, the 22nd of October was my wedding anniversary! My husband and I have been together for 17 years in total- 5 pre-marriage, 12 married. All have been wonderful.

I had just finished writing a very long post about our time together but when I hit Save and continue editing my screen went blank and my post disappeared. I’m upset about this because it was a very long post and I’d put my heart into it. This is the second time this month that wordpress has caused me to lose a post. Grrr

So this post is going to be shorter!

In our time together Chris and I have been through a lot! Unemployment- one at a time and both at the same time, which of course meant major financial problems, we’ve each taken a turn going back to school – College or University in order to study for a new career, four miscarriages and serious illnesses for both of us, the major purchase of our house quickly followed by 9/11 and my husband being permanently laid off work on the same day, the death of my father, and then the death of my mother, followed one year later by my sister going into a coma after a mistake occurred during a surgery she’d had, and now my ongoing illness (Crohns) and inability to work.

Through the stress of all those bad things happening we’ve managed to stay together, build on our relationship and grow even stronger. I know many couples who’ve gone through only a couple of the types of things I’ve mentioned above that couldn’t hold their marriages together after those things occurred.

I credit the fact that Chris is not only my husband but my best friend, and my being his best friend as well for the strength of our marriage.

Even through all of the bad times we’ve gone through there has always been love and laughter almost every day. I love him with my whole heart and I know, when he looks at me in that special way of his that I am his world.

To twelve very happy yet very eventful years of marriage and many many more. I’m certain we are in this for the long haul.

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It’s Click & Comment Monday! You guys know the drill by now don’t you? I don’t have a renter so visit someone in my Links (left column- extra helpings) and leave them a comment, then visit a blogger that’s linked to there site and so on. Please visit at least five different blogs in this manner.

Have a great Monday everyone!





Make money posting on a forum?

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I kept hearing about this forum where you could go and post questions or post replies to discussions that were already going on and then the owners of the site would actually end up paying you for your participation.

Since I’ve been looking for ways to make a bit of extra money I thought what the heck, why don’t I at least check it out and find out what this is all about. So I went and registered at MyLot.com yesterday.

While I was surfing sites and answering email I’d occasionally switch tabs and respond to a discussion on my lot or post a question of my own. I have no idea if I made any money doing that yesterday because they haven’t updated the earnings section yet, but many members say they make $3 to $8 a day doing that and I saw some that said they made $40 per day.

I think I’ll try this for a week or so and see what kind of earnings I make while posting on the forums. I’ll let you know how it works out.

Home Office from Hell Contest

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If you work from home, full or part-time, or if you have a home office from hell, you might be interested in this contest that I found. It’s The Home Office From Hell contest. Fairly self-descriptive don’t you think?

The contest begins October 23rd, that’s today folks, and it will end on March 31, 2007. The official contest rules are posted on the site, but the basics of the contest are:

  • Post the top 10 reasons why you need to move out of your home office from hell;
  • Optionally – You can also upload a video of your hellacious office.

The grand prize winner will win 12 months of rent (up to $12,000) at any location posted on Offices2Share.com, and a paid trip to New York City which includes two nights hotel stay and lunch with Donald Trump’s right-hand man George Ross, A dell desktop computer, a Dell laptop computer, and a Dell switch and server, and tuition for the Entrepreneurship mastery program at Trump University. The grand prize looks like it’s worth more than 24,000 dollars! The second, third, fourth and fifth runner up winners will also win some valuable prizes.

If I were entering the contest my top 10 reasons why I would need to move out of my office from Hell would be:

  1. My home office is in my living room dining room
  2. I have two desktop computers on my antique dining room table
  3. My chair is falling apart
  4. Our living room couch is the break room area, and the second office where the laptop is used most often
  5. I can’t concentrate when the TV is on
  6. I get distracted when the TV is on
  7. We are in the process of renovating our living room dining room – particularly the ceiling so I’m going to have to move my office
  8. I have loose plaster falling on me occasionally since we have cut the plaster in our ceiling
  9. I get the urge to dance to the music that I’m playing instead of working
  10. My husband and sometimes boarders use my Office!

That probably wouldn’t be a winning entry, but create a list that’s better than mine and send it in for the contest. What are you waiting for- look at the prize you could win!

Any Blogroll Experts out there?

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I need help!

Yes I know, you probably already guessed that I need help, but I mean I need assistance in helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls.

I’m managing four different blogrolls that people are welcome to join.

The trouble is- I’m having a problem helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls. Some of the people are using:

  • Free WordPress.com
  • Typepad
  • LiveJournal (I don’t think this one hasn’t come up yet, but I bet it will)
  • Blogger

I think I’ve got the blogger instructions mostly figured out – ie make a post, put the blogroll on that, then link to it in your sidebar. But the others? It seems impossible to put blogroll code on Free WordPress.com. Has anyone done this correctly?

If anyone can help out by sending me some simple easy to understand instructions on how to add the blogroll code to a Typepad, wordpress.com, livejournal and or Blogger blog I’d really appreciate it. What I’d like to do, if and when all of these are figured out is create an “Adding a Blogroll to your blog” FAQ, that in the end will be beneficial to everyone.

Please help?

Trivia Blog

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Have you ever been trying to write an article or come up with some blogging ideas to write about? I know I have – perhaps you can tell sometimes. No? LOL Perhaps your writing something for work or a school project?

Well, I think I might have found a site that will help anyone that needs to find some facts, interesting trivia or come up with something unusual to write about. The site is called The Trivia Blog. The site is set up into several different categories, for example you can see what kind of interesting trivia they list for animals, clothing, food, history, holidays or locations. There are more categories to search for facts and trivia I just wanted to give you some examples.

There is a post up right now that lists facts about Eiffel Tower and it’s quite interesting. Did you know that the Eiffel tower 986 feet high and that it weighs 7 thousand tons! Under Holidays there’s an article called “Celebrate Cat Facts this Halloween” with information such as “Ever wonder why a cat sees in pitch-black dark? It’s because their eyes take light in and reflect if back out … like a flashlight!”.

There is a lot of information on this site already, and I’m sure it will grow as time goes by.

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