Lifes Like That

Well it’s official. I have been a blogger now for about three years. Wow, I really can’t believe where all the time has gone. I have learned so much over the past three years that I’m quite proud of myself. I now know everything about HTML and how to insert links such as Eagle Creek luggage. I have learned how to set up word-press blogs and how to upload images and other stuff. Three years ago I could barely turn on my computer, so I really do think I’ve come a long way. Certainly I have a long way to go yet, but I’m pretty sure over the next three years I will learn just as much as in the previous years. Isn’t the Internet amazing???

Saturday night was our annual Santa Clause parade and we took the kids to it. First of all I would like to tell you all that it was quite mild out so standing in the cold watching a parade was something that we didn’t have to do this year. And because the kids weren’t cold, they were happier to stand outside and watch the parade. Well it was a good parade this year with lots of floats, lights and music. It definitely put me in the Christmas mood. Both of the kids had their letters made up and gave them to the post men to give to Santa. So all in all it was a very good night, and fun was had by all.

My youngest son is pretty annoyed with me these days. When he started school in September we purchased him two pairs of Cole Haan shoes. One pair was for indoors at school and the other pair was to wear back and forth to school. Well, he destroyed the ones he wears back and forth to school and I refuse to purchase him new ones at this point.

Because the snow will be flying shortly and the fact that we just purchased new winter boots as well, I’ve been making him wear his winter boots to school. Most of the children are wearing sneakers still so my son is pretty annoyed that I won’t go out and purchase him a new pair of sneakers. Well he’ll get over it and soon all the kids will be wearing winter boots. Then after the winter season is firmly behind us, I will then go out and purchase him a new pair of shoes.

Last Thursday I purchased a new to me vehicle. And let me tell you all, that I’m absolutely loving it!! It’s just a tiny little car and suits me just fine. There’s only one problem with my car and that is, because it sits so low I can’t see out the front window without using a pillow. That’s right, I’m 41 and am now driving sitting on a pillow. Oh don’t get me wrong, my pillow is quite comfortable, but it does seem quite funny that at my age I’m too small to see out the windshield. But as long as that’s the only problem with this little beast, then I really have nothing to complain about.

Last night I got a phone call from a company that does insurance marketing. Now normally I will talk to people and try to help them out. After all their only doing their job right?? Well this particular caller called right during supper hour so I told them I was busy. Well apparently that wasn’t the right answer as they continued to drone on and on about the services that they were offering. After the fourth or fifth time of telling them that I couldn’t talk, that I was busy, I hung up. Normally I would feel bad about this, but they really weren’t taking the hint. I understand that they have a job to do, but where does it end?? I really hope they never call back. Because even if I have the time for them, I won’t be doing them any favors.

Finally I am starting to see some movement on my Alexa rank. For the past few months it has been pretty high and it didn’t seem to matter what effort I put forth, I could not seem to get it to go down. Although it’s still pretty high, it has started to go down. So I am happy with this move. I have been doing a lot of networking (and have the dark circles around eyes to prove it) and it’s finally starting to pay off. I still have a long way to go to get it down to the numbers that I would like to see. But at least it’s a start.

So my husband and I finally have made a dent in our Christmas shopping. Yesterday he stopped into one of our local stores while he was on his lunch break and bought our daughter some Couture Jewelry and bought our son a Jimmie Johnson race car (for all you NASCAR fans out there, you know who he is). But that was pretty much it. I know it’s not much, but hey, at least it’s a start. Now that we’ve started I think I’ll see a little more progress in the weeks to come. So how about you guys?? Have you started yet??

Apparently the image that I had posted for Remembrance day didn’t stick. So…. I hope you all had a great day!

After having everyone in the house last week sick, it’s now time to get back to my fall cleaning. I really didn’t do a whole lot of housework last week as I spent most of my time taking care of sick people and being sick myself, but this week I’m trying to get back on track. I have started thoroughly cleaning both of the kids rooms. That means that I’ve even shook out their rugs, washed their walls and have gotten a start on de-cluttering their closets. Hopefully I can continue with my cleaning over the next week or so. Then I will have all the major cleaning done before the holidays.