Hallmark has a new challenge which I will be doing, and to be honest, I know it will be extremely hard for me to do. However, I like this challenge, and would love for others to join in with me. Their new challenge is called BlogOut. The reason for this challenge, is to get those to turn off technology, and spend more time with family and friends. Now, they are not asking for you to do this for a long period. However, a few hours during the afternoon would never hurt right? I plan on doing it a full day, and I will be doing this on the weekend so my daughter is not having me break the challenge with helping her with her schooling. I will be taking a lot of pictures (I know a camera is technology), but I will be taking pictures to show all of you! During this time, I will be playing fun games with my daughter, as well as going on a fossil hunt. I have to say since we have moved back home, we are outside more. I mean a lot more then when we were in Tennessee. So who is in this … [Read more...]
Rafflecopter the New has Wore Off
When rafflecopter was first introduced, I thought it was rather neat. I liked how easy it was to enter, and also the back-end of things. However, the new of rafflecopter has wore off, and I have noticed bloggers are getting a bit wild with it. This is causing companies to lose the buzz they are reaching out for. I have been entering giveaways for awhile now, and what annoys me is when a blogger is using rafflecopter, and they have 5 mandatory entries, and not one has to do with the sponsor of the item. I mean come on 5 mandatory entries... let's be real here, isn't that a bit much, and to NOT promote the sponsor a bit better. Don't you think that is a bit tacky. The company goes out of their way to get you a product for review, they also give you one to giveaway, and you cannot make the mandatory about the company. This looks bad on bloggers, and gives them a bad name. Another thing that annoys me, and many others entering giveaways (yes, I have spoke with several). When a … [Read more...]
what do dreams mean
Do you ever wonder what your dream means? I dream almost every night, my husband on the other hand hardly ever dreams. Or he does and doesn't recall them. I know most my dreaming revolves around things that have happened recently. For instance, last night we were talking about bears. When we lived in Tennessee the area we were in, wasn't bear area. When we moved back to Michigan we entered bear area. Now, not many bears have been seen in this direct area we are in, when we went up north a bit we seen bear crossing signs. I thought it was a bit funny to see the sign, and I was praying those bears stayed in the woods. Anyhow we were talking about bears last night, and I guess when I went to sleep I had bears on my mind, because I had a dream that a baby bear was outside. I tried to get my camera to take a picture because I new noone would believe me. However, by the time I got back the bear was gone. I woke up startled, a bit. Then went back to bed, and started to … [Read more...]
getting back into playing
My husband is a very musical person, me on the other hand I love to listen to it, but I cannot keep rhythm. I remember the first time I heard him sing, I got chills. He is very passionate when it comes to playing any musical instrument. He currently owns, a violin, an acoustic guitar, and an ocarina. He isn't the best at the violin, but I think that is because of me. Whenever he would go to play I would get a bit annoyed and make him stop. I can only take so much screeching. Today when we were at my sister's house, he heard her husband play the guitar for the first time, and it got him excited. He was telling me now he has someone he can actually play music with. I can picture it now, Friday nights will be sitting around listening to them play music together. My husband was in a small band when he was younger, as he got older he no longer had the time. I am hoping he will start back into playing again, because I know it is something he loves doing. Next he will be wanting to … [Read more...]
Stop Intruders
Having a self hosted wordpress blog allows you to have several awesome plugins. I love being able to see who is trying to gain unauthorized access to my blog. One of my all time favorite plugin for wordpress, is the limited login plugin. Having this plugin lets me protect my blog from the "password scanners". Usually, they try a few times give up and move on, however, the other day I noticed someone trying to gain access and they were temporary banned, following day same thing. After I had seen 4 failed attempts, I decided it was time to just ban this person. Today I go in and look at my ban logs, this person has made 10 attempts to gain access. They want in bad, to bad they are not getting in, I think it is time to change a few settings, and make it ban after the first failed attempt. After doing some research I found this to be an Amazon ip address, and I may have to contact them to let them know someone is misusing their TOS.I dislike those that try to be destructive of … [Read more...]
pregnant and ran away with boyfriend.
As I was on facebook last night, one of my friends posted something, and I had to share. I do not know where this originally came from... A mother passing by her daughter's bedroom was astonished to see the bed was nicely made and everything was picked up. Then she saw an envelope propped up prominently on the center of the bed. It was addressed, "Mom." With the worst premonition, she opened the envelope and read the letter with trembling hands: Dear Mom: It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new boyfriend because I wanted to avoid a scene with Dad and you. I've been finding real passion with Ahmed and he is so nice-even with all his piercings, tattoos, beard, and his motorcycle clothes. But it's not only the passion Mom, I'm pregnant and Ahmed said that we will be very happy. He already owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood for the whole winter. He wants to have many more children with me and that's now one of my dreams … [Read more...]
what do you think of the death penalty
I have always been a strong believer of one should have to pay for their crime. I have also been a believer of the death penalty. I feel some crimes need to be handled by death. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel everyone should be sent to death for wrong doing. However, I feel strongly of a person to be sent to death for harming a child in away that is unforgivable. Such as Casey Anthony, maybe she shouldn't have received death, she should however have spent more time in prison. She is the reason her child is gone, whether it was by her hands or by her stupidity. Within the past few hours, Georgia put a man to death, when there WAS NOT enough evidence to say this man committed the crime. Millions of people around the world, protested, asked to re-look into this case. The judge refused, the state refused, this man was left out to dry. Did Troy Davis commit the crime he was accused of, or was this one of those "we will pin the crime on someone to close the case deals." Troy Davis … [Read more...]
do you hate the recent facebook changes?
Yea, so do I. Like many, I am not one for change. Sure change is good sometimes, but other times, change is not needed. Last night before I was about to close down the laptop for the night, I noticed some changes to Facebook. These changes were not for the better, I got pretty annoyed. I do not want to see my updates in a small box on the right hand sidebar, I want to see it in the middle how it once was. Instead I am seeing the same thing over and over again. Just because facebook thinks it is a top story doesn't mean I do. I seen several other facebookers fussing about this new change as well, one had comments, so I read the comments to find out there is an app for your web browser. I use firefox, so I got the firefox plugin, now this app or plugin whatever you would like to call it, doesn't make the facebook look like before, but you can customize how your facebook is, you can even change the theme. If you are interested you can head on over to Better Face Book, and check it … [Read more...]
can you believe these dogs are brother and sister
I am not much of a dog person. However, I fell in love with these dogs. It took me a bit to warm up to them, but they are rather good dogs. Can you believe these dogs are brother and sister. The male is the shorter dog, the female is the larger dog. These dogs entertain my daughter for hours. The female dog chases the laser pointer! I have never seen a dog chase the laser light before. This dog hears the click she is searching the floor for the light. … [Read more...]
