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Friend takes a mysterious trip

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The other day I got what seemed to be a somewhat cryptic message from one of our friends. He sent an email saying that he was off on a jet charter with his wife for the weekend – details to follow.

Now I know he travels for business quite often and sometimes he works a deal so that he can bring his wife along on some of the better trips. She shops while he works or attends meetings – now isn’t that the life?

So I’m assuming that it’s some kind of business trip since there’s no way he could afford a chartered jet on his own, but it must be something good since he said “details to follow”. Figures it’s a long weekend here in Canada and I’ll probably have to wait until Tuesday to find out where they went and what they did. Oh and even more importantly if they brought us back anything. LOL





Need a better way of keeping track of site earnings

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You know I was just thinking about what a mess doing my taxes was this year. Last year wasn’t so bad because I’d worked at the hospital part of the year before and also earned money from my websites. Last year though, all my income was from my websites and calculating everything was a pain in the butt.

I think I’m going to look into getting some kind of financial reporting software so I can keep track of my daily, monthly and yearly earnings in one place. I do have Excel on my computer, but I’ve just never really liked using that program.

Speaking of earnings mine are down so far this year. Ever since we got our Puppy last November my earnings have been a lot less. I find the puppy very distracting. She’s getting better at entertaining herself, but it’s still difficult to work on my sites with a dog dropping toys in my lap constantly or whining for attention. As a result I’ve been trying to work on more passive income earnings for my websites.

How do you get work done on your sites when you have a lot of distractions around?

Miserable today

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I haven’t been feeling well today at all. My Crohn’s is acting up and my stomach has been cramping all day.

Last night I fell asleep on the couch and slept pretty much straight through ’till 6 a.m.. Chris happened to get up in the middle of the night because he couldn’t sleep. I can remember him having a cup of warm milk at about 3 a.m. but as far as I know I just looked at him sleepily and went back to snooze land.

I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t. I was in too much pain. However around 2 pm a huge wave of tiredness hit me. Midnight was snoozing on the living room floor so I got her to go into her crate and then I lay down on the couch for a short nap. You know what time I woke up? At almost 7 p.m.!

This type of thing has been happening quite a bit lately. I guess I’ll have to go back to the specialists office and see if he can adjust my medications. I just have to start feeling better.

Laying around so much has actually made me gain a bit of weight. I can’t eat a lot with the Crohn’s, but when you feel so ill that you aren’t all that active you can still gain weight. Luckily it’s not too much. I did once consider trying diet pills, but that’s not the way to go for me. I just want to try to get more active. That’s one of the main reasons we got the puppy in the first place.

I hope that I start to feel better soon. Today is just intolerable. I might just go back to sleep and hope that I wake up feeling better.

Free Music downloads with MP3Rocket

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I don’t listen to enough music these days. We used to have a stereo, but it was old and when we moved to this house several years ago we never set it up. Instead I’d use the radio tuner on our home theater system to listen to the radio or I’d listen to CDs, or music stored on my computer.

Unfortunately, about half a year ago, our home theater system started giving us an overload message whenever we turned it on. We haven’t fixed it or replaced it yet so that means no more radio or CD music through the surround sound system. I’ve noticed that I’ve slowly stopped listening to music over the last few months because of our home theater system being on the fritz.

So earlier today I went searching for music online and I found a site that offers unlimited free music downloads. It’s called MP3Rocket. They have free software that you can download. Within minutes I was able to begin searching for shared MP3 files.

rocket_logo.gif The MP3Rocket software works by connecting to the Gnutella network and it’s very user friendly. I won’t go into all the details of how it works here because there’s a software demo on the main page of the website that explains everything way better than I could in this post!

The only thing I noticed when I was finished installing the software was that it had added an Ask.com toolbar to my Firefox browser. I’d rather know about those things ahead of time and either opt in or opt out during the installation process. It wasn’t a problem though – some of you might actually appreciate the Ask.com toolbar. I’ve already got way too many add-ons for my browser so I simply went to my computers Control Panel, clicked on Add or Remove Programs and easily un-installed the Ask.com toolbar. Simple.

There’s a Pro version of the software too if you want to upgrade. There’s a lot of added features in the Pro version.

I already spent sometime using the software searching for MP3’s earlier today. Now I’m going to spend some more time this evening looking for my favorite bands.

Going over blogroll requests

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What a boring Saturday night. Sigh. To think I could have been at a party this evening if it weren’t for my father in law booking non-pet friendly hotel rooms for everyone! (see yesterdays post for more info if your confused).

I’m spending my time going through my huge list of blogroll requests! So many people have asked to join my Green Thumb Sunday Blogroll, I am Canadian Blogroll and of course the extremely popular Do follow blogroll that I’m buried in emails.

It wouldn’t be so tedious if it were a matter of simply adding a site to a list, but for most of the lists I’ve got to check out the site, see how old it is, how frequently people post and in the case of the do follow blogroll I have to make sure that their comment links actually follow. This all takes time.

Frankly … since I couldn’t be at the big party for my father in law tonight and since I’m kind of bored I’d rather be on a relaxing vacation at one of those Hilton Head rentals or some great place like that.

I hope you guys are having a much more exciting Saturday evening than I am.

Even my puppy is bored. I finally gave her a rawhide bone to keep her occupied for a while.

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