DEFINING YOUR BLOG
Other blogs will tell you to find your niche. What if you have several? Do you have different blogs for different niches?
That to me is to much hard work for this 50 year old woman. I work outside the home, I also have a husband and a dog at home. I also have two young men in their first year of college who still need the support of their parents from time to time. And I also have both parents still alive, along with a grandmother. Who has the time to research and write for many blogs in their spare time?
For me, I am combining all into one blog. I will write about what I am passionate about at the moment. I do not want to maintain a blog about one subject, another blog about another subject, why not combine all your interests into one blog? My writing will probably be all over the place, but that is OKAY.
I am a newbie, I will learn and I will find my own place. This is life.
MAKING TIME
I can not believe it has been over a month since I have written anything. It goes to show how life just gobbles you up and leaves you no free time in doing things you love to do. I had/have every intention to write more but never found the time. From now on, I will do everything in my power to write more or I will shut this blog down.
THE FOLLOWING NOTE TO SELF:
Why have a blog if you never write?
Is it just to tell other people you have one?
Is it just to try to make money?
Whatever it is, you just NEED to write something once or twice a week or just shut it down.
If you never have the time or, are not willing to make the time, then just shut it down and go on with your offline life.
YOU have a month to decide.
Snow
I have a love hate relationship with snow.
I love the whiteness.
I love the clean feeling of it when it first falls
I love the brightness
I love the stillness.
But it does not take long to hate it.
Hate shoveling the porch so the dog can go out and do its business.
Hate shoveling the driveway so you can get your car out to go to work.
Hate not having a 4wd and fighting your way to work.
Hate the wetness of it when you track it in your house.
Snow disrupts the normal routine of my life and I love hate it.
New Year’s Resolutions
I try to not make New Year’s resolutions.
Cause if I fail, I will not beat myself up about it.
Instead I try to take one day at at time.
For me, it is simpler that way.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Here’s hoping 2011 will be a great year
Eating Out
Am I the only person in the whole wide world who does not eat out in restaurants?
I have not been to any restaurants in over 10 years.
Why not you ask?
Before I had children, and when they were very small, we ate out all the time.
Then money became so tight when my husband became disabled, that I had to learn how to cook. Going out to eat was out of the question.
We finally were able to get a $5 pizza from Little Caesars occasionally, until the sauce on the pizza made my husband and one of my sons sick. So we quit going there.
The only place we grab a bite to eat, is Subway. Then it is their $5 foot long. Hubby and mine is almost always the same; oven roasted chicken with everything, but jalepeno peppers, with olive oil and vinegar dressing. Since, I hate tomatoes, and he does not like pickles and banana peppers, we trade. The foot long does us for 2 meals. We only do this when we are traveling back and forth to the colleges that our boys attend. No potato chips, no cookies and drinks are in the cooler.
Am I the only one that does this?
Christmas
Here it is the 10th of December and I am so sick of the Christmas commercials on tv.
Their messsage tells me If I do not BUY a gift I will be seen as scrooge to my loved ones.
Why can’t we go back to just enjoying a get together with family, friends and food?
Why has it gotten so out of hand?
When will we wise up and just say enough and take back Christmas.
Many years ago my family said enough.
We went from buying presents for EVERY family member to just having a Christmas Dinner with all the family and whatever friends they bring along. If any member wanted to give a gift they could, but no one was obliged to bring one, nor give one in return.
Now the only thing that is required is that each family member bring one veggie, one dessert and your own drink. Mom feels the meat, (being turkey at Thanksgiving to ham at Christmas) is her department, so we let her do that. Rolls are my department, so I bring those, along with my veggie and dessert. Even the friends of family bring something, either an extra drink, an extra pack of rolls, an extra dessert, it does not matter, they bring something to contribute, even though it is not necessary.
We all sit around eat, laugh, take pictures, joke, laugh at the little ones and just have a merry old time.
Good times are had by all.
That is what Christmas is all about.
Poop on Demand
You ever wonder how dogs can poop on demand?
We are having an arctic cold snap here in WNC.
Today we were out making sure all the vents were closed around the house and the water pipes were covered in preparation for tonight’s freeze. The weenie dog has not been around that side of the house in two weeks, so what is the first thing he does after he sniffs the new territory?
He takes a poop.
He sniffs a further 10 feet and takes ANOTHER poop in LESS than five minutes.
He must be marking his territory.
But instead of peeing every few inches he takes TWO poops.
Go figure.
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