Today my sweet, precious baby boys are 14 and 15 years old. How that could possibly be possible, I’m not really sure. I don’t feel but about 17, myself. Hmm…

Here they are in their (almost) full marching uniforms, sans hats. (I’ll get that ‘hat pic’ for you soon, Mom! I keep trying to catch them, but, things get hectic when they’re going out on the field, etc. LOL!)

Aren’t they just adorable, though?

Yesterday, I was looking out the kitchen window, watching Patrick walk up the driveway. He stopped to help his dad lift a fairly heavy generator. There was no one in that driveway with Mark, but, a handsome young man. Where my baby’s gone, I do not know. He was this squishy little blob on my left shoulder just the other day.

And Shawn – with his mysterious, rocker-boy elusiveness …completely adorable, for sure – has gaggles of girls swooning, but, has me wondering where my little munchkin went. That little baby smelled so good – his head smelled like glue – I wanted to suck him right up my nose. Odd, I know – but, he was just so sweet and smelled so yummy. We’d fall asleep every afternoon looking into each other’s eyes – me and Shawn and God – the three of us taking an afternoon nap together.

OMG, that is just quite enough, people. Quit pulling the sap out of me! I mean it. I get so unbelievably homesick for Texas on my children’s birthdays that I have to put my emotional guard up today – I’ll sap tomorrow! Now quit messing with me! I’m strong. I’m a ‘thinker’. No ‘feeler’, here, no sir! Not me!

I don’t feel a damn thing!

Except maybe the need to say….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PATRICK AND SHAWN! I LOVE YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!

I’m so excited that I’ve lost twenty-five pounds, because, that means I get to buy some of my favorite items at Soul-Flower.com! They carry all kinds of items, including stickers, bumper stickers and magnets, but, they also have some of the coolest hippie clothes around! They did have a plus-size section, but, they didn’t have a whole lot of stuff in it, and I think they didn’t do very well with it, so they no longer have it. They do have some clothes, however, that I am very close to fitting in and I am so happy about that!

My weight loss has been at a standstill for a few weeks now, because of some tummy and migraine issues, but, a standstill is a beautiful implication! It implies that my weight has not gone up – and guess what! It has not! That is so freaking cool – I’ve been basically ‘off’ my good eating plan for almost three weeks now, and I haven’t put on a pound! That is totally cool! My tummy is getting a lot better, too – and migraines I just live with, anyway – so I’m sure to be getting back on the ‘losing track’ in no time at all.

And then – it’s shopping time! There are a few items that I’ve been coveting at Soul-Flower.com for quite a while now. They have some very beautiful wall tapestries that are so reasonably-priced that it is unbelievable! I have actually started ‘designing’ my office all around this one tapestry on their site! This is all in my mind, of course, as my office is still a complete pigsty! But I’m seriously thinking of the tapestry on this one wall – and then going out around the rest of the room from that! I think designers call this a focal point …or something. Didn’t we have a focal point when they teach you how to give birth? I mean, I know we had one, I just don’t know if that’s what they called it. So, conceivably, (accidental pun) once I purchase the tapestry and get this place decorated – I could give birth in my office. I think I’d probably need a uterus for that activity, and I seem to be missing mine… hm….

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Image by Jeremy Brooks via FlickrRemind me never to buy a mansion – because, DAMN! They make me SO TIRED! I do rather like the one we were cleaning today, though. I am exhausted, however. And my day is nowhere near finished. We have a football game tonight – remember, both of my boys are in the marching band. My husband and I work in the concession stand and help with the halftime show. My daughter runs around willy nilly with her friends and just has an absolute ball!

I will get to sleep in tomorrow, but, once I get up we have to go back to school. We have two band competitions. Yes, that’s right – two of them, back to back – in two different towns, of course.

It is surprising that we are still going to them, really, because, there is NO GAS left in our ENTIRE COUNTY. I am not kidding you. Gas trucks come to fill up the stations, and SWARMS OF PANICKED people attack the stations like they’ll never, ever be able to buy gas again in their whole entire lives.

If you could see the lines. It is so nutso! Well, you can see the lines – check out any news you can find on Calhoun County, Alabama. I’m hoping this will all be over in a few days.

I actually had to hold a spot in front of a gas pump for my mother-in-law. We were lucky enough to find a station with gas and just immediately jumped in line where we could. And we were just lucky enough that this put us in the wrong direction for her gas tank! Argh! I told her, “I’ll jump out and stand there and you go turn the truck around!” Otherwise, it was gonna be back to the END of the line for us!!

Mark bought us new phones and they just arrived yesterday. I’m going to use my last remaining minutes before we have to leave for the game to try and get them set up. If my exhausted body and mind can even hold up.

Ya’ll have a SUPER GREAT night! Stay out of mansions – they’re killers! Killers, I tell you!

Image via WikipediaI think I might have an Adsense heart attack! Frealz, ya’ll! Haha! I have been an adsense affiliate since

…wait for it…

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

…and I am JUST NOW about to reach payout for the first time! Are you proud of me? Do you think I’m awesome? Or ….do you think I’m ‘Awesome Blossom’? Hahaha!

Now listen, please don’t let this sway you when my new training course comes out next month. It’s called ‘The Uber Duber Queen Adsense Exclusive Club’! I’ll be teaching you all the ins and outs of Adsense affiliation. I will teach you how to pace yourself, so you don’t make too much money too fast and burn yourself out on the whole ‘affiliate marketing game’. Because goodness knows, we wouldn’t want you to burn out on too much success and go back and get a J.O.B.

Stay tuned closely to the blog, as details for the most important marketing education club will be coming out soon!

Image via WikipediaI’m completely exhausted! Completely! J and I cleaned two houses today and I am lying down in bed blogging – sideways – with my laptop propped up cattywumpus on my legs. J and I cleaned two houses today – I cleaned five toilets.

With the way my back is hurting and with the way my feet are killing me, I will once again proudly make this statement, “I much rather prefer getting paid to write.” All of this physical work is just for the birds. Birds, I tell you, birds. I hope L gets better soon. Of course I love her and actually want her to get better, but, I can’t wait till she gets her a$$ back to work! Haha!

I’m behind, as usual, on some of my own stuff, which bites, really. I’ve got a long two days ahead of me, neither of which spare much time for being on the computer.

Way too sleepy to continue…

May possibly add more ‘meat’ to this at a later time….

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Uh…yeah…Lynn and I have been talking a lot lately! Ha!

I stumbled onto the Twitter Grader this afternoon and I, being the self-centered me that I am, checked my score. I got a 94, not too shabby. And then, further with the self-concern, I wondered how I compared to Lynn Terry’s score. I put in her name and clicked ‘Get My Grade’ and went to other windows bee-bopping around, doing other things, while I waited. When I finally went back to that window – before I could even notice her score – I saw it! Lynn is completely obsessed with me! There’s no denying it! It’s all there in black and white! Burnt orange and white! Whatev!

Hahaha! I’m just kidding! Lynn and I have known each other for a number of years – well, she’s been on my radar, anyhoo. I’m frequently wearing my slacker-gear and I joined her forum eons ago (in internet-speak) and never freaking posted!

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Maybe, just maybe, had I posted – she could’ve been even more of an inspiration to me and I’d be further along in my quest to make a living from home. And maybe I wouldn’t have gotten so completely sidetracked by paid blogging. Though it was totally kick butt at the time, it was surely not any kind of lasting business model – for me. And I completely dropped every other thing I was doing. I did learn a lot and meet a lot of rockin’ people and forge some awesome relationships (personal and business) so it wasn’t a total wash. I do feel like time was wasted, though.

But, I digress – this post is about Lynn being in love with me. Oh yeah. See, she has this free webinar every Tuesday morning – just for me! Seriously – go read the page! Go on – click it! You’ll see – it says it right there in that post – this is for Lisa. Yep. Yeppers.

And she makes up catchy new phrases like “Rank and Tank” just for me to use! And then she makes nice long posts to explain them thoroughly – to me!

Alright, alright, I’m just razzin’ ya again! But let me tell ya something she does do for me. And I imagine for a lot of other people, too. I mean, she teaches me a lot, sure. But sometimes she reaches straight through the computer screen and touches. my. heart., effectively adding fuel to the fire I already have burning there. You know the fire – that fire I have to succeed at this thing called ‘online business’.

So Lynn, thank you! Even though I probably won’t be leaving my husband for ya anytime soon (ya never know – it could happen)! Thank you for teaching me (and all of us that learn from you) so much!

What the heck happened?! This was supposed to be a ‘givin’ Lynn grief’ post and it turned into another ‘Lynn Terry Lovefest’. Man! (Sorry, davebo, or whatever your name is – I guess Lynn’s good nature just brings it out in us – even when we’re trying to give her a hard time!)