Wordpress Update To Version 2.5

If you were here about an hour ago, then you probably noticed we were down. Well, I upgraded to the new Wordpress version 2.5, and I love it. Both Ask Angel and this blog are completely upgraded. I am very excited about it and I must admit - I like the new Wordpress.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, you better get moving. 2.5 can be downloaded from the wordpress.org website.

If you have, leave a comment and tell me what you think of it.  I think it’s pretty user friendly.  I like it a lot.

Tomorrow will be a real post, about real topics in my life.  And other real stuff.  Real.  Until later.

Posted in Blog Updates

Spotlighting WAHM’s: The Peanut Shell

Over at Ask Angel’s WAHM Business Directory, yes I know that’s a mouthful, I’ve been trying to keep it updated regularly to help bring up it’s popularity. First of which is changing the spotlight box once a week. Giving someone listed in my directory the chance to be in the spotlight for a week. I stick to doing those updates every Saturday. Today’s spotlight is The Peanut Shell. If you’d like to check out their store, click on the spotlight image above and click the link to their estore from the directory.

My wahm directory is my pride and joy of directories. I love it because I am able to show off different wahm businesses. It’s my way of supporting them and I also get the opportunity to make a little money from advertising [and when someone purchases a featured position]. My goal is to create a very large index of as many wahm businesses as I can find and as can find me.

That isn’t to say I don’t like my other link directory. It’s great because it has many categories for anyone interested in being linked. I have sold 3 links on there so far, which is pretty cool. But as a wahm, I have a bit of a soft spot for my wahm business directory.

If you know of a wahm business feel free to tell them about my directory. Links are free. Reciprocals are appreciated but not necessary.

Tags: The Peanut Shell, WAHM Business, WAHM Business Spotlight   Posted in Miscellaneous

Busy Busy Bumble Bee

Oh, life has kept me busy enough to not be here.  Mom was home 3 days in a row.  It’s not really a big deal, it just limits my computer time.  I’m not on all day getting important things done, then finishing them up in the evening.  At that point I am generally rushing at night to get as much as I can finished before I get so tired I about fall asleep at the comp.  When things are like that, something has to give.  That generally means I have to give on my personal posts here.  And that’s where I have been these last couple days.  Busy.

As you probably already realize, blogging is a hobby for me… not a job.  No amount of money will turn blogging into a job for me.  I love it too much.  But I think I get a little nervous about wanting to do a good job on something that I write, then I don’t do so well when it’s finished.  I over think every sentence and pick at it for a half hour after I’m done trying to make sure it is right.

Of course over thinking things makes my writing come out much worse than it would have been when I’m done.  It has the opposite effect from what I was trying for.

When I try to write about one of the business opportunities or franchise opportunities I’ve been emailed, I do exactly what I mentioned.  I over think it.  I try to be loose and relaxed when I write, but I’m just a little nervous when I think I’m going to be critiqued.  No one’s fault but my own.

The worse of it is when I get a bit of writers block.  It’s a killer.  It usually hits me when everything I’ve written starts to sound the same.  Then I realize I need to freshen things up a little or die from getting mundane.  I’ve gotten writers block while writing work at home mom profiles more than once.

I’ve found that it’s not always easy to freshen up what I’m writing when I’m writing about the same topic daily, but on the other hand I like kind of “specializing” on one topic considering I am also a wahm.  It’s just usually I’m feeling a little short of inspiration on some new thoughts when I come across yet another wahm business that’s the same as the one I’d written about recent, and such.  The unique ones are the best to write about, they spark a little bit of excitement in me and the words just flow.

The only thing easier to write is a random blog entry like this one.  I don’t have to form and edit my thoughts like I do profiles and such.

And for that reason my post tonight is going to have to end here.  I have some extra stuff to write to make up for not getting it done earlier.  It looks like it’s going to be a looong night.  I’ll try to type it all up as fast as I can.  Until later.

Posted in Other Blogs, Personal Posts, Writing

Oh Bah Humbug

It’s just one of those days where I could possibly crawl back into bed for a long nap.  Not because I’m depressed or anything like that.  Just still sick.  My voice is still mostly gone.  Not getting worse, but not getting better.  I can however breath a lot better, so I doubt I’ll be going back to the doctor and I don’t really think Aubree needs to go to the doctor either.  She’s doing much better.  Her fever is gone and she’s just still a little sick, but it’ll pass.  It’s nothing worth getting worried about.

She was actually so cute today that I couldn’t resist getting a photo of her on my camera phone.  The cutest thing ever, lol.  Anyway, I am waiting for them to show up in my pix in my phone account and I’ll show my favorite photo here.

Anyway, it’s been a little weird not leaving the house at night anymore. I do slightly miss getting out without Aubree.  But that’s really all I miss.  I actually like having time with her when I am not getting my work done.  I have free hours at night to play with her and do things with her.  I didn’t have that when I worked at the gas station.

Yesterday was Easter, obviously, and Aubree made out like a bandit.  A new barbie, an M&M’s car, Dora, Elmo and My Little Pony easter eggs and her fair share of candy.   She also got a Dora bucket.  She had fun with all her new things.

I need to go, their’s a large load of dishes to do tonight.  You have no idea.  So… Until later.

Posted in Personal Posts

The Joys Of Mommyhood

This is a picture I got of Aubree this morning.  She doesn’t feel good, I think she caught what I have.  She has a slight fever, but it’s nothing to run to the hospital for.  I gave her some Motrin and she’s acting like she feels much better.

One thing I have to say I enjoy when she doesn’t feel the greatest is that she tends to spend the day relaxing.  No running and screaming.

As for potty training, that’s going great too.  She’s been getting up in the middle of the night when she has to go and going on the toilet like a big girl.  It’s been over a week since I started letting her go to bed in underwear and she’s only had one accident 2 days after the first day wearing underwear.  Since then she has been getting up and going potty at night and about 20% of the time going back to bed.  The only bad here is that she usually doesn’t, even if it’s 4am.  She gets into stuff that isn’t hers and tends to get into a lot of trouble for it.

Last night when she got up in the middle of the night and went potty I am excited to say that she did go right back to bed afterwards, but that’s probably because of not feeling good.

Today is a busy day where my poor, neglected house and dishes will be taken care off and I have way too much to do online first.  Until later.

Posted in Parenthood

I Feel Cruddy

I’ve been sick for about 4 days now.  I don’t feel as bad as I did the first and second day, but in a way I feel worse than I did.  If that makes sense.  My throat is so damn tight and when I just cough a little it hurts a lot.  I’m not as tired as I was and my headache I had from having a slight temp has backed off some, though.

I don’t have to worry about work.  They were jerks.  I was sick of Sara and her insistence on knowing whatever my friend and I talked about, ever since she’d quit.  It was seriously none of her business and I bet she didn’t appreciate being told as much.  All I wanted to do was to do my job and stay out of it.  My friend didn’t drag me into it, Sara did.  It didn’t help that she wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box.  I tried explaining to her that my friend wasn’t answering her phone because she’d lost her voice and Sara thought that meant she was pregnant.

Then there was my boss.  I’ve talked about him here more than enough.  The many times he’d treat me like an idiot.  Or instead of telling me how to do something he would yell at me for doing something wrong that I never knew how to do in the first place.  The damn bottle room thing where he went off the hook on me over stuff that could very well be classified as his fault for never telling me otherwise was the last straw for me.  Since that day I’d held no more respect for him anyway.

I’ve had more than one job.  I’ve worked for people and this is the first time I can say I truly hated who I worked for.  It’s nearly impossible to treat someone with respect if they can’t show me the same respect in return.  I am too damn free-willed to want to tolerate being talked down to all the time and made to feel like everything is my fault.

To put it simply, I liked my job but couldn’t stand my employer.  Unfortunately as I’ve heard more than once, that’s life.  I’d like to think that it’s not.  After all, their are some jobs out there that don’t go through employees like they do paper.  I’ve met my fair share of people who don’t treat me like a piece of chewed gum on the bottom of their shoe that they just can’t get rid of.  Too bad Mike and Sara couldn’t be respectful or kind.

Now that I am done complaining and explaining, I am going to go spend some time with my slightly over active daughter now, lol.

Posted in Personal Posts, Work

New Phone, Walked Out, Tired In General

As soon as my pix upload, I will be able to add them to this post, but right now it’s being slow.  And brings me to the first thing.  My new phone.  I got a new phone and a whole new account which means I got a new number.  I did it just so I wouldn’t have to worry about receiving calls from a certain someone who likes to harass me.  I feel crappy about changing my number, I’ve had it for some time, but at the same time I am excited to have a new phone number and no one bothering me that I don’t want to talk to.

I spent a pretty penny getting a new phone and the money to put minutes on it.  With the new phone comes a whole new plan that I didn’t have as an option on my old phone.  I can buy a minutes package and if I buy a new one within 30 days, my unused minutes from the month before roll over.  I was paying $.18 per minute on my old phone.  With the new phone I have the option of buying minutes at a discount rate.  For example, $50 gets 1000 minutes.  That’s $.05 per minute.  I paid $30 for 400 minutes which is just over $.07 per minute.  Then they have $20 for 200 minutes which is $.10 per minute.

Anyway, I bought a super slider from Virgin Mobile.  It has bluetooth, IM, pix [it's a camera phone], and email.  That can all get expensive.  It generally costs $.25 per picture sent, and $.10 per IM, txt and email sent.  But for $20 per month I can get that unlimited.  I can send as many of those as I would like.

So I am very excited about that.  I think it’s a good deal for a contract free phone.  I’m a very cheap person, I am always looking for the best deal and I haven’t heard of anything better on a prepay level than this.  It’s a good deal if the person can afford it.

I don’t want to get into it, but lets just say I almost left work and never went back.  I came to work just in time for my bosses wife to ask me to call my friend for her because she wasn’t answering her calls.  I was mad.  Since my friend quit, she’d been trying to dig info out of me about her.  That was the last straw.  I called my friend, told her what she asked me to say, then I walked out.  Their are a lot more words in there that I’d prefer not to repeat.  But I was just sick of the crap.  The dramatic crap that they just wanted to start.

Now for the tired in general.  I am freakin exhausted.  I am busting butt at work.  I have more than my fair share of stuff that needs done at home and I feel like I’m getting more and more tired as time goes on.  On top of that, I’m getting a sore throat and I think I might be getting sick again.  If I get sick, that would make doing my job a zillion times harder.  I’ll just keep fighting it.

And now off I go to get some other important things done today.  Until later.

Posted in Personal Posts

A Quick Thought

I am not going to be on here much longer.  I have some cleaning I want to do, a little reading I would like to do and some dishes calling my name.  We can’t forget that I have to work tonight as well.

So I decided to write down how much I eat calories wise and count them.  Maybe I can get my diet back on track that way.  No matter how much I want to, I just don’t want to at the same time.  Make sense?

Beyond that, work is definitely a work out in it’s own.  It keeps me moving.  I think I’m start to adjust to not getting any time off, though.  It’s not hard, because work is becoming a routine.

We’re watching Dances With Wolves right now.  It’s not my favorite movie, but on this take [mom recorded it off the TV a long time ago] after this movie comes Turner and Hooch which is one of my favorite movies.  It’s Sunday.  Nothing worth watching on the only channel we have.  Just sports.  So this is good.

I’m going to get a little exercise in before I start cleaning the house.  Take Aubree outside to play, too.  It looks nice and sunny outside.  Until later.

Posted in Personal Posts, Weight Loss

A Smirnoff Flood

The great flood hit the cooler at work. A whole freakin stack of smirnoff cases as well as one case of parrots bay had fallen over in there and busted all over the floor. I suppose part of the blame can be laid on me. I am pretty sure I didn’t stock the mikes hard lime, someone else had. But I do remember looking and seeing only 2-6 packs left in the case and I didn’t take them out because I figured that with the way we create extra 6 packs needing a box to sit in until they got stocked, that I’d be able to fill the box in a day or two anyway. That half full box, though, was on top of everything when I left work yesterday. The delivery man put it on the bottom of the stack, placing a bunch of smirnoff and a parrots bay cases on top of it.

The blame was put on me, of course. I would worry more about the darn delivery man who didn’t seem to notice the box was half as light as usual. But whomever you want to blame, I spent a half hour trying to mop up the flood in the cooler which made me 1/2 an hour late leaving work.

The worst part is that he don’t want me to quit so although he’s mad and probably wants to scream at me, he’s trying so hard to be nice and tell me it’s okay and just to make sure they’re not left in boxes once the box it open, etc. Of course I hated being yelled at for something that all he had to do was let me know I made a mistake. I think I dislike him trying to be nice when I know he’s mad even more. It’s kind of uncomfortable. I just hope they find someone else to work for them very soon.

So that was my night. I’m angry about the mess because it took me forever to mop it up and it’s going to need mopped once more today because I’m sure I didn’t do it good enough last night. I had to stop trying so I could rush and stock things. We had a lot of new cases of Faygo and Arizona teas to put up. I technically didn’t get out of there until about 10 minutes before 10. Because of that I just put down that I worked until 9:45 instead of 10 because it was closer to that. And I feel bad about how this week is going for my boss. First he loses a ton of money on Sunday, my friend quit leaving him with me and I guess their’s quite a bit that I really still need to learn to be able to even slightly fill the hole left now.

I hope like hell that they can find someone because I don’t know if I can keep working there for long. I like getting out of the house, I like being able to be active. I have arm muscles I never noticed before. Being the only employee at the gas station kind of depresses me. All responsibility is 100% on me and I don’t think I was ready for that.

I have plenty of work to get done today, so I really should be going now. The weekend is coming up so I will definitely be writing. Until later.

Tags: smirnoff, Work, work bloopers   Posted in Personal Posts, Work

Busy Bee

I’ve actually been extra busy.  Some bad some happened where my friend quit her job and that leaves me as the only employee.  I am 110% with her on this one.  Stuff happens, she didn’t deserve to be yelled at and I know how she feels.

I now work 7 days a week, rather than just 4.  Everyone tells me I should be excited, more money, but I’m not.   I always looked forward to those 3 days off.  I enjoyed them and lived for them some weeks.  It’s going to be weird not getting a break from work.  I’ll just keep sticking it out, I guess.  I just hope they find someone else to work register soon.  Once they do, they won’t need me to work every day.  As it is, I’m worried about what they’ll find to yell at me about.

The great part is that my position working from home is great.  I’ve been given some more work to do that will definitely help me save up enough money to buy a laptop faster.

Speaking of money, mom borrowed $80 off me to pay for her car getting fixed - that’s how much short she was of the total cost.  I loaned it to her, then just ended up telling her to keep it.  That’s my every so often down payment to make up for the cost of gas.  I don’t buy gas for me to get to and from work.  Mom fills the tank, not me.  Although work is only a mile away.  I just figure it’s my part of using the car too.

When I get paid on Monday, I want to deposit enough money to make an extra months’ payment against my sat net bill so I can hopefully stay a month ahead.  I would like to pay 2 months each month so I keep putting myself ahead so I won’t have to worry about that bill if something was to happen and I couldn’t pay for a month or two.  I like to try to think ahead of I can afford to.

Well, I need to go and start getting ready for work.  Until Later.

Tags: bills, money, satellite internet, Work   Posted in Personal Posts, Work