I'm Bored Wanna Play A Game ? And Music Mondays Winner

Really I am bored and I wanna play with all of you

I am working on putting together a game that we can all play together.

I am asking if any of you would like to play along?

I am not sure how it will work yet but it will help me to know how many people want to play.

If you are interested in playing a game let me know as I get the participants I will send you all an email letting you know how it is going to work and when it will start.

I can say it will involve some blog hopping, pictures, clues and there is a chance it could be fun.....

Leave me a comment letting me know if you want to play and an e-mail address where I can communicate with you.

Oh and a BIG SHOUT OUT TO TONI FROM IT IS NAP TIME for getting the correct song title and artist on Music Mondays.

The Man Is Now On The WWW

So "The Man" has decided to get into the blogging world he is starting his own blog about something he knows well. Truck driving he set up a blogger account lastnight before he left for work. He has so many questions I hope after all I have learned I can help him. He wants to have a special header so I either have to learn to make one or try to find what he is looking for out in the WWW. If anyone knows how to make a custom header and would like to point me in the right direction that would be great.Until then I will be out and about trying to gather info on how to do just that.

I am excited for him to do this he has so many ideas of how he wants it to be. SHHH don't tell anyone but I believe he suffers from a mild case of ocd and it is going to be a hoot watching him try to get his page to look exactly the way he wants it to look. He is so meticulous about somethings and he is going to drive me crazy trying to decide what should go where and how the colors should be. He's too funny!!! I'm sure I am not going to be saying that after we start working on it. I will probably be posting about it saying"man hubby sure is pissing me off with this whole blog thing" HAHA!!!!

As soon as we get his blog up and running I will let you all know so you can take a peek.

Moms Helping Moms

I just joined a new social networking group called Moms Helping Moms it is a great new community. You can meet lots of new mom bloggers there see all there great blogs. There are lots of different groups to join. It's a wonderful place to make new friends and be a part of a community.It was started by Mama Ofromance you can check out her MHM profile here. She also has a blog called Sex Diaries Of A Mom which is a blog about well I guess I can't explain it any better than what the title says it's about. You should just go and take a look she has lots of good posts there. So I hope to see some if not all of you over at MHM and I look forward to adding you to my friends list there.

I Have To Say It

I'm sitting here trying to think of something exciting to write something that will make the unique visitors who come to my page want to actually let me know they were here by leaving a comment. But the words are not coming to me the witty commentary that I read on other blogs,blogs that have high page rank or outstanding Alexa stats. These blogs are good the one thing I notice they all have in common are their bluntness if that's even a word. They say exactly what's on their minds and it works. They curse often and say things that most only think.

I on the other hand try to keep my blog clean and curse word free and guess what it's not working for me. I have a foul mouth at home in real life the f word comes up often I try not to use it in front of my kids. I do say ass in front of them they get a kick out of it and it's not as bad as some of the others I could use. Like when my son farts I say to him "tell your ass to stop talking shit" he laughs every time. I know what your thinking why would I say that to my son that's not a very good mommy thing to do but he is 11 and if you and him only knew the things I did when I was 11. You wouldn't be thinking that at all you would actually expect it from me.

Oh the stories I could tell you about my fun filled youth things that would make you think "oh my god is she for real she actually did that at 11" yup been there done that and more. I grew up with 2 older brothers as my role models and you learn from your peers right? Good or bad it doesn't matter. I tried to be a "good" girl and do the things other girls my age did but to be honest it wasn't as much fun. Hanging out with my brother who was 4 years older and doing crazy get into big trouble things was how I rolled. Good thing for us we were good at doing bad things and we never got caught. My parents would have shit twice and died if they knew what we were doing.

So you see saying shit and ass in front of my kids is tame for me and I promise that's as bad as it will get for them but I can't promise it here any longer I must be me and I hope I don't offend any of my daily readers if I do I'm sorry please don't leave me to find less mentally ill blogs to read. I will try to keep in mind that some of you probably don't think as warped as I do and keep it as civil as I can and I will try not to use the f word. That is if it doesn't just fit really cool into the point I am trying to make. Have you ever noticed how sometimes it really is the only word that will work to get your point across? I know I have.

Blog Recession Help A Blogger Out With Only A Click

I was reading a post at my friend Kim's blog about helping out fellow bloggers during these hard times. Kristen over at Motherhood Uncensored has come up with a great idea to help out her fellow bloggers through these tough times. It runs through the whole month of August. I think it is a great idea for everyone. All you have to do is visit a few sites and check out their post. I can't explain it as good as Kristen did so I grabbed this from her post

"The premise is simple. If you read blogs, then for the month of August, make the "pledge" to click through from your feed reader. No obligation to leave a hilarious comment or send a long stalkerish email (although both, within reason, are always lovely). Just click through to the blog (not on ads unless you are so led) and if you're feeling generous, click around to their older posts."

She is also entering whoever posts about it and sends her the link to win some really great prizes.
So go ahead and try it what have you got to lose?

Just Some Things I Was Thinking

I spent some time today around the blogging community checking out some new to me blogs and leaving some comments. I try to do this every couple of days I enjoy finding new blogs seeing what kind of people are out there and what they have to say. I have made some friends from all over the world places like Canada, Alabama and even the UK. How cool is that?

I find lots of cool blogs some are popular and some not so much. I did read this one blog whose name shall remain nameless it is a very popular one though and I was not impressed. I couldn't see what all the hype was about. I am trying hard to understand how some blogs make it big and are really not that good and why others that are good don't get the recognition they deserve.

How and why does this happen? Do the big name bloggers go somewhere special? How do they get so many people to their site? I know they for sure know something I don't.

I really don't think it the content of their blog because this one I mentioned above really didn't have anything different than say mine. Maybe it the fact that some of them used to be professional writers NO I don't think that's it either well no it could be maybe they had followers from being a writer and those people just followed them to their blog.

Who knows it is a secret that one day I will learn and I will pass it on.

I Have A New Blogging Job

I am a stay at home mom of two my husband is a truck driver and is gone sometimes for weeks at a time. Money is very tight sometimes and recently I wrote a post asking my fellow bloggers for ideas for me to make some money from home to help out my family. A few seasoned bloggers sent me links to different sites that pay you to blog.

How can this be? Are there actually companies out there that pay you to write about everyday things ? YES THERE ARE Isn't that something? So I checked them out, at first I didn't get accepted because my blog was to new. But a few days ago I got a message from payperpost. They accepted me and now I am writing about them to tell everyone how it works.


The way it works is you sign up for payperpost they look over your blog to make sure you qualify. Once you do you receive an e-mail letting you know that you were accepted then you go to the site. Sign into your account and get started it's that easy.

I have made alot of new friends blogging and have noticed a certain kinship in the blogging community. It is an awesome feeling knowing that there is someone out there willing to lead you in the right direction.

I think I am really going to like doing this work I mean really who wouldn't? I get to be home with my kids and do what I have grwon to love BLOGGING. I am going to tell all my new blogging friends about payperpost and encourage them to give it a try.

With the money I am going to make I plan on being able to pay my bills on time and take my kids out to spend money on things they want. Maybe even upgrade my computer and give this old turtle a rest.

Trying Something New On Entrecard

Hey I am trying something new. I have decided to actually read someones post before I drop my Entrecard on them. I noticed that most of the card droppers don't even take the time to read someones post before they drop their card. I am not going to be that person.

I joined Entrecard to drive traffic to my site and make me the most popular blogger in the world. Ok so maybe I am going a little overboard with that last statement. I am however trying to get myself out there and just stopping by a site and dropping off my card I feel isn't going to do that.

However leaving a nice comment about something I actually took the time to read just may do it. Well at least that is the outcome I am hoping for. I read all the time that the way to increase traffic to your site is to leave a comment so why not do it while your dropping your card? If you have time to go to the site and track down their card at least take a few extra minutes to read something.

So that's what my mission is now to make new friends read some posts and make a drop. I hope it catches on I believe it would or should I say I hope it will work.


WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!

This is also a new thing for me I just got accepted at Pay Per Post and I am trying this review my post. I am not sure it will work out but hey ckick on it and we will both find out. Go ahead you know you want to just click on it I promise it won't hurt. (click.)

To Much Blogging Causes Sever Eye Twitching

I am convinced that my eye is twitching because of excessive blogging. Or it could also be the stalker blogging I now find myself doing. I have found a few sites that I enjoy so I visit them on a regular basis sometimes two times a day. But anyway my eye has been twitching nonstop for 3 days now. Is it a side effect of blogging? When will it stop?

What other side effects are going to come up? Someone should warn us newbies about these potentially harmful conditions. Will my fingers go numb and fall off? Or maybe my back will break in half from being slumped over the keyboard. Who knows but I guess I will find out because god help me I am ADDICTED to blogging. I can't stop myself.

Is anybody reading this?

I have joined some new groups this week http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/personal/family and blogger.com and twitter.com. The only thing is I have yet to learn how to navigate through twitter. I kept seeing it on a lot of other blogs so I figured hey better join it so I can get noticed but not having much luck with it. I think I will figure it out eventually. It only took me a week and a half to get my blog claimed on Technorati. So I am a little slow! I am after all new at all this technical stuff.

Someday I am going to know so much I will be able to offer Tips and Tricks to having a successful blog. Yeah ok then I woke up and discoved no-one is reading this. It's funny how discouraging it is to see that no one is reading what I am writing.Yet I persist and try to come up with ways to get readers. I will someday find that one thing that subject that one person will see and tell all their friends about it.

I can see it now or should I say hear it now. There is this person let's say they discovered my blog on Technorati and was reading one of my posts and was like man that was so interesting so they tell a friend and so on and so on next thing you know bam I made Technorati's most popular blog list.....

A Mothers realization

Today started out good the sun was shining and there was a cool breeze blowing. I went out to do some errands before I had to head off to my son's school for field day. I had the radio on while I was driving and the great music just kept on coming. I had the window down and was singing and dancing. Going from place to place getting things done got home after all was complete had some lunch.

I was so excited about going to see my boy I have been going to all of his school events since he was in preschool. It's a mothers right to go to these functions to cheer him and his classmates on. It has always been such a joy for me to see him do well he is a fast runner so he is always the one who has to do all the running events.

But my day went horribly wrong see today was the day I as a mother have been dreading for 11 years (that is how old my boy is). Today I realized my boy is growing up and he didn't want me to be at his school for field day. I know this because in all of his school years he was always excited to see me come walking in the room or out on the field whatever the case may be. Today was different he avoided me just came over to me when I said "hey son how is it going". SIGH!

I sat next to him as I have always done and he didn't say a word he just looked around at all the other kids chatting with them cheering with them. Ok that's fine I can understand that is what they do but. As I sat there beside my son I could sense his uncomfortableness. So I said to him "Did you want me to hang here or go ahead and go" Know what he said he said "You can go if you want". :( That took a big chunk out of my heart.

So I said "Ok son have fun and good luck" . I was going to go and stand in the back of the room so I could wait for him to be in an event because when I had gotten there he hadn't had a turn yet. So I go to the back where I can see him but he can't see me and wait. Luckily he was in the next evet so I got a chance to se him. The event was called moon walking the kids had these metal alien looking things on their heads that they had to walk to the cone at the end while balancing these alien things on their heads. Well he was walking along and I am smiling wide watching him and low and behold he sees me and stumbles and drops the things on his head and gives me a look of disappointment.

I felt my heart break as he bent down to pick up the alien things and go back to the beginning and start all over. So I put my tail between my legs swallowed my heart and walked out of the building. I was thinking to myself the whole way to my car Oh my goodness my son doesn't need me anymore. I had to hold back the tears that I felt burning in my eyes. How could this happen? When did this happen? How do I deal with this?

I guees it's all a part of growing up and I have to learn that in private my son is mommy's baby boy. At school and in public he is my big strong man. This is something I will deal with in my own time and my own way. I still LOVE my boy.

Slowly getting the technical jargon

I am finally getting the hang of all this. Well not the hang but I did figure out something I have been trying to do since last week. I was getting lost in all the technical talk,but I finally got the Technorati claim to go through. What a relief for now. Next issue to tackle is writing good material. I am beginning to think that may be harder than putting all the codes in the proper spots.

So I have taken a look around and discovered that the most popular blogs are the ones written about technical jargon. Tuff luck for me I am almost completely computer retrarded. But I am slowly almost snail like getting some of it. Now I am not going to write about it or offer advice on it. So my next adventure is to find my as I have seen it put "passion" and write about it.

Giving Props

I wanted to give thanks to all the blogs out there that unknowingly helped me. I have learned so much over the past few days. Like how to add templates to my blogger page.

Thanks to blogger buster at http://www.bloggerbuster.com/ for your detailed description of how to add your template. It is beautiful!

Thanks to Shannon at http://www.rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/ for her link to http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/ It is a very helpful site.I am very grateful for your help.

Thanks to http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/ for all your insigtful articles and links. I will recommend this site to anyone who needs help reguarding anything to do with blogging.

Thanks to http://www.problogger.net/ for just being so darn informative. I learned a lot of information about well everything.

I also want to thank http://www.blogthority.com/ for teaching me about companion accounts and the information you had on Keys to successful Blogging.

Last but not least http://scribbit.blogspot.com/ this was the fist blog I accidently found. I say accident because for the life of me I have no idea how I found it. But anyway I really like this blog it is the one that lead me to all of the other ones that I found so helpful. I feel like a stalker because I am always going back to each of these blogs what seems like a million times a day.I can't help it though they all have so much to offer for someone like me who is just starting out.

So I want to say thanks to all of you who didn't know you were helping a lost soul find her way through this crazy place called the World Wide Web. Who knows maybe someday when someone actually discovers my blog and likes it and I become famous you all can say I knew her when. HA! HA!

Frustration !!

I am a little frustrated today!! I am trying like crazy to find out how to do this whole promote your blog thing. I am going from site to site trying to get information on just how to do it. I registered with techno something or other to claim my blog but for some reason it is not claiming it keeps saying claim in progress. Then I went to stumbleupon and when I signed up for it they said I already had an account so I signed in and it wasn't me.Well it had some of my information right except for my nickname and the city I live in and my age. So I tried to fix it but it says you can not change your nickname once it is registered. They suggest that you delete your account and set up a new one.


I just want to figure this all out before I get so annoyed that I give up. I really don't want it to come to that but it sure is heading that way.
I would like to thank rocks in my dryer for sending me the link to blogging help I am thankful for that it did have some useful info on it.
Maybe I am being to impatient maybe I should just step back take a breath and try again another day. Who knows things may be a little less frustrating in a day or two.