Friday July 24

Good Morning.
Since I no longer work it's hard for me to say Thank God It's Friday. (I didn't use to work on Friday's)
Today's plans include taking my middle daughter to an appt at the health dept....taking my son to work this afternoon....eating out with Steve and his family this evening...then taking my son's girlfriend to work....and picking my son up from work shortly after that.
In between I will do a little housework...not much to do today other than clean inthe kitchen. I will be working on my dish scrubbie orders, and I want to work on my quilt to get all my squares pinned to sew tomorrow. I will, of course, be on the computer too.

I got a Bible School Photo Essay put in to gather yesterday. I did my last Investing for the Future post on gather yesterday and I woke up this morning with this feeling of what next. I've been in gather working in my friend feed and then working on post from my group. I'm a little less than 300 points away from my next $25 paypal cash out.
I also updated my Homeschooling lens on squidoo.
I worked on updating my homeschoolbuy auctions.
I even got more of my blujay auctions in rotation at reallysmartdeals.
So...I did do some actual work on this computer yesterday!!

I'm off for today. Here's to an awesome start to your weekend!
Marsha

Tuesday June 9

Good Morning!
I am back on my original computer. My son got it reformatted and came to pick his up. There is nothing but the basics on here so I have a lot to get it back. I am having a problem with the screen though. The words are blurry and I can't seem to figure out how to adjust my monitor to change that. Weird how it can be fine...hook something else up and it's not. So, if I mistype, excuse me....

In other news, I've decided this is the day to get back into my regular routine! I've neglected my card file box for well over a week while we got ready for a yard sale, and had a new baby. It's time to get my act back together.

I have my coupons out in the car and got a lot of them cut out yesterday. I will work more on that this afternoon when I take my mom to the dr. I am spending the evening at Steve's....not sure what any plans are there. Jasmine is at camp again this week so it will just be us (and his sister) at the house unless Liz decides to come with her kids for awhile to visit too.

Nothing much else going on right now...not like me trying to get back in to routine isn't enough! LOL

I will try to get my blog back in to order too...which means getting busy doing the things I need to do online to earn.

Thanks to all of you that read my postings :) Have one awesome day!
Marsha

Wednesday May 20

Good Morning! Technically, I can't say that for myself. I won't really go into it except to say I thought I finally was going to have a vehicle and now the cylinoid is probably out. If you want to read my Morning Rant feel free to do so over on gather.

On a good note...today is the last day of school!!!! Which means the alarm no loner has to be set for 6:45 and I no longer have the worry of Allen not getting to bed on time and him not wanting to get up in the morning for school! woo hoo!!! The girls still have school tomorrow, but mostly it's just a fun day and their Headstart graduation. I'm glad they decided to let other schools out a day early (due to construction needing to get started) so that Allen can go watch his little sisters graduation. Will I have the car back to drive? I might if all they have to do is change the cylinoid and they get it done.

No plans today outside the house. It's laundry day and I still hope to get more things priced and ready for the yard sale coming up.

For now I am off in my attempt to make some money...I sure need to make some sales and earn on some of my other sites. Speaking of that, I guess squidoo took away the $10 minimum to get paid? I found the $5.23 that I made this month in my paypal last night. I'm sure fine with that. I've been using my paypal to put gas in these cars he's let me drive over the weekend, then gas in the Thunderbird yesterday and need to "restock" my paypal now.

Have a good day!
Marsha

Tuesday May 19

Good Morning!
It's a good thing I got done what I did yesterday morning. No sooner than I had my lunch that guy brought me the car....which brought on being gone a lot. I took it to my son's to have him look at it again, took it to the tire guy and replaced one of the tires, and took my mom to transfer the insurance. It's a 1989 Ford Thunderbird. The body is somewhat beat up but not enough to make it look too bad. The interior is torn up on the dash. And,it still needs a lot of wiring work for the electrical stuff, but I am hoping to keep this one. He has the car again to try to fix the loose wire that is making one brake light not work all the time.

Really I have no other news today. If I get the car back I will take my mom to the dr this afternoon. Otherwise I just want to concentrate a lot today on the websites I do to earn and attempt to get as much done as I can in my gmail. I also want to get some things priced for the yard sale. I hope to get all the books on the huge bookcase looked through before the end of the week. I can't move all the books with us as there is no place to keep them.

I cashed out at gather yesterday for $25 in amazon after getting my last $50 card I cashed out for in yesterday's mail. I'm real close to buying the laptop at amazon, but I am afraid not close enough to be able to order it by the first week of June, which was my goal. I just checked and I still need to get in at least another $75 in amazon. hhmmmm

I'm off for today...have a great day!
Marsha

Friday April 24

Good Morning. I'm slacking on getting my blog written as early as I should. I keep jumping back and forth between cleaning and computering. I was really wishing the kids would get up and do my cleaning for me today for my birthday but no such luck. I would put it off until tomorrow, but it's a wreck down here and I have plans for tomorrow evening too.

I had forgotten about my grandson's program at school until after Jasmine and I got back from our walk to do the shopping for the week. Here is my shopping trip post Shopping Trip 4/23/09 I got lots of video from his program now to share on gather. I got in all the Easter videos in to gather yesterday finally...those and 2 of the kittens!

This evening I am going to the Wichita Crown Uptown Theater with a group from church. We are taking a bus. It should be lots of fun, I just need to let myself have a good time and not stress over the computer time I am missing!

I'm still busy getting my blujay items rotating in reallysmartdeals. I'm just over halfway there so I imagine I will have to finish it up tomorrow.

Until tomorrow, here's to a great start to your weekend!
Marsha

Friday April 17

Good Morning!
I was going to do ALL of my cleaning before even getting on the computer but decided I wanted to go ahead and get this blog written. Mom is messing with me already...she's come down and turned off ALL the lights like I'm not even down here, then complaining about the light bill. Oh my gosh mother...I do pay you...and I've replaced all the bulbs down here with the energy saving bulbs anyway.
I am not one that can sit in the dark...it makes me tired and it makes me feel depressed.

I got my L'Oreal Revitalift bzz kit in the mail and wrote my initial post about it which includes a photo of the kit as well as a before video of myself. Rec'd My L'Oreal Revitalift Bzz Kit Yesterday

No plans outside of home today. I just plan on getting all the housecleaning done here in the basement. I also plan on getting through all of my websites that I do daily as well as to clear my gmail. I also need to do quite a bit of schoolwork with Jasmine. This week Heather has been a big help with Jasmine and her school work, pulling her in with her and working on things together. It's been great to see. That should keep me busy enough. It's Friday so I can stay up late and sleep in tomorrow!

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Here's to a great start to your weekend,
Marsha

Saturday April 11

Happy Saturday!
Looks like todays high is to be 64 and tomorrow back down to only 50 for a high.
We are heading out soon to the church where the kids go for Awanas for an Easter egg hunt.
Once home I am starting on our Easter Dinner. We are doing our dinner and egg hunt at home today. Tomorrow the grandkids go with their father right after church is over.

I sure felt like I had a very productive day yesterday. It was a nice feeling after week of feeling like I wasn't getting much done. I don't expect to get much done today or tomorrow except Holiday things, and I am ok with that.

I updated my squidoo lens on my Crafts As Gifts. It really needed to be updated for sure!
I also wrote a couple extra posts on gather...nothing important really, rants mostly. I was feeling frustrated with not smoking, but I made it through. Now, to make it through today, tomorrow and onward. I know each day without smoking will be even better than the day before until my craving is gone.

I got in my Cranenergy drink from gather to try and to review. I will start today to replace my afternoon can of Dr. Pepper with the Cranenergy to see what it does for me.

I won't be posting a blog tomorrow so I will end today by saying:

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Happy St Patricks Day My Friends!

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I've been busily working on here today to hurry and get a lot of my things done on here this morning. I want to have most of my things done by noon.
I got a lot of the file box done from the Sidetracked Home Executives book. I'm pretty well done except for the birthdays, anniversaries etc and the address cards, but those in themselves are going to take a few days.

I didn't get any extra posting done on gather yesterday other than a post about a bill collector calling. I did post 3 photos, and I made my goal of 100 points of the day with 101. I am in hopes of cashing out of April 1 for both a $50 and a $25 amazon.

I updated a book review squidoo lens as well as my pets lens. I added photos on the pets including of the new kittens. I hope you will take a look. Meet Our Pets

I got my daughter to drive herself to pick her kids up from school so that gave me more time at home. Today's plans include taking my mom to her dr. appt. and bowling this evening. I will take my address file and address print outs to both places to work on.

I'm off now...don't forget to wear your green today!
Marsha

Friday March 13

Oh oh, Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious, it's going to be a great day! I did wake up and go outside to see all the cars covered with snow. I guess the ground was warm enough to melt it.
I also did not get out of bed until just after 9:30. Here's my story, and I'm sticking to it! Around 4:30 am, somehow 3 of my grandkids came down here and got in bed with me. Araya was crying and crying about someone had poked her in the finger with a stick. Was she dreaming? I don't know. Before long they had found a slinky and they were laughing playing with it. Finally after 6 am we all went back to sleep. I felt like I was a kid again and in the middle of some slumber party. There you go, my excuse for sleeping in this morning.

I did get in some grocery shopping and posted it along with a photo to gather. Grocery Shopping 3/9/09

I also have started where I am going to post our budget suppers. I did the first one last night. Budget Supper 3/9/09
Tonight I am trying a breakfast casserole recipe that I got from gather so that will be tonight's post.

I again updated 2 squidoo lenses. One was the one I built on Fat Albert. I was going to add a featured lenses module only to find in search that I am the only one that's made a Fat Albert lens. It's such a fun one, I hope you will check it out. Fat Albert
Today I will cover Jasmine's Anime lapbook and get photos, so her lapbook lens will be one that gets updated today.

I got my first 2 coupon choo choo train group coupon trains in the mail today. I need to finish cutting all my coupons today and get these 2 trains back in the mail. I'm excited to be a part of the group and have a chance at some different coupons from around the US. The group has a 3 month probationary period where you can only be on up to 3 trains for that time, but watch out once my 3 months is over!

I guess I better get to my work both on the computer and around the house. Have an awesome start to your weekend!
Marsha

Thursday March 12

Good Morning. Once again a cold day. They say today's high is to be 38, but it never made the 36 yesterday.
Today I have to take my mom to the dr. this afternoon and this evening is church council meeting. My grocery shopping will definitely be tomorrow and not today. I did get more of my coupons ready, but will spend today getting the rest ready.
This is why is pays to keep the coupons organized, then you are ready when the sales come to easily find what you need.

I joined a cool group on gather yesterday called Graphics and Generic comments. Anyone who joins agrees to have either or. I love doing the cut and paste graphic comments. Here's one I saved this morning to use in the group.

Joanne's Glitter Comments
Joanne's Layouts!


I'm still updating squidoo lenses. Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way, but just doing small updates here and there to keep them fresh instead of doing all that I want to do to each one all at one time. One that I updated yesterday is the one I made on traffic exchanges. Traffic Galore I'm doing Easyhits4u most all day now. It seems to give the best traffic and pays .30 for every 1,000 sites you surf with payout at just $3. I've been paid lots through them over the years.

Since once again I slept way past the time I wanted to I better get down to business on this thing. Thankfully I did enough housework yesterday that all I have to do today is the basic stuff.

Have a wonderful Thursday!
Marsha

Marsha's Sunday "Musings"

I woke up at 9, which would have been 8

But even that was kind of late.

Hey! I'm a poet

and I didn't even know it


I read this last night in the Lutheran Digest and thought it was cute, so true, and probably a much needed morning prayer for us all:

Morning Prayer

So far today, God, I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. I'm really glad about that.

But in a few minutes God, I'm going to get out of bed, and from then on I'm probably going to need a lot more help.

Thank you. In Jesus' name, Amen


In other news....we had tornadoes touch down only 4 miles from our house yesterday evening. That was pretty scary. We were all outside on the porch and in the yard when the man across the street came out and yelled across that tornadoes were heading our way in 5 to 7 minutes. Oh wow! One hit just south of us and the other east of us, but it was pretty scary all the same.

I got a lot of things done yesterday. I got the rest of my new things (incense) listed on blujay. I did my group work here on gather. I'm attempting to go through my email and get rid of it backwards. I got up to February 28. I hope to clear the box today and start fresh and try to figure out how to keep up with all that comes in in a day. I'm in the process of making my business bookmarks. I had run out. I put one in every order that I send out. I had to remake the file since I lost the original file in my computer when it crashed.

My plans today include finishing up what is above, getting my coupons cut out and doing some grocery shopping. Hopefully also to get my living area here in the basement pretty well cleaned up too. It's spring break this week, which is great. It means I don't have to hurry to bed, or set my alarm to get up and make sure Allen is up and getting ready for school. On the down side...no quiet time while three of the grandkids are at school.

The kittens are a week old today and their eyes are opening. I need to get more pictures. It's sure going to be hard to give them away when it's time. We've not had an orange cat in a long time. I especially like the one that is white with the orange spots.

Well, better get busy on all my projects, and my group work. Have a great day my friends!
Marsha

Wednesday March 4

Good Morning! I'm running behind, which is pretty much par for the course. However, I've got my grocery shopping done, and the daily housework is done. I'm getting ready to take the girls to school then take the van in to the shop. Now we are thinking it's the fuel regulator that might be out as well as the bearings. I'm just praying that they are able to fix those things, and that with selling my other van for junk I am able to pay for the repairs. As well as that it solves the problem and I will have a reliable vehicle. Say some prayers with me.

I had a great time shopping at Walgreens last night just getting a few things. I did a post on it on gather. You might check it out as the deals are still good! Good Deal Alerts at Walgreens

I need to get into squidoo today and update my lenses that have monthly specials that change. It should have already been done since today is the 4th! I did update my lensography yesterday to add my newest lenses. Marsha's Lensography I need to update the photos there at another time.

I also did get some coupons cut and sorted yesterday. I hope to work on that more today here and there. The store is having the buy 10 items get $5 off special again, however, they only have a few of the items listed in the flyer. I did the one on the pints of ice cream this morning. I bought 30 for a total of $14.70...yum!

Better run, almost time to get the girls to school and the van to the shop.
Marsha

Thursday February 26

Good Morning. The weather is making a change. After a few days of spring like weather it's clouded up and is very moist outside. I guess we see what it brings with it.
Today is another busy day. I was to take my daughter to a dr. appt. this morning but her boyfriend ended up able to take her. I am going to volunteer in Ariel and Araya's Headstart classroom today. We are planning a get together at my brothers later this afternoon with my aunt and uncle.
I am trying to get most all my internet stuff done on the computer before leaving for Headstart.

I am almost done doing my clearing work in my group on gather. This is something I didn't find the time to do at all yesterday.

I did get a couple of squidoo lenses updated yesterday and a couple more updated this morning. Here is the last one I updated: Earn With Marsha

I got quite a bit of work done on the newest plarn pattern I am trying while out and about yesterday. I will take it when we go today too. I will close for now. I do want time for a short rest time this morning before the afternoon in a classroom of 3, 4 and 5 year olds.

Have a great Thursday!
Marsha

Tuesday February 17

Yay! It's no longer a holiday so we will get mail today and the bank will be open. Yesterday seemed like such a long day. I did get a lot done though.

Today's plans include getting to the bank to cash my check, taking my daughter's boyfriend to cash his check and buy a few things, taking my mom to her dr. appt, and then bowling this evening. I already did most of my housework for the day, so any time home can be spent here on the computer.

Here is a post I did on gather on how my Valentines Day went. Dinner, a Movie and a Quilt Mat

I didn't do much at all on squidoo yesterday. I did update the unschooling journey lens on Saturday as well as my hometown lens. I added a couple more pics and a featured lens module to my hometown lens. I think it's looking better. Hutchinson, Kansas Now I just need to figure out how to twitter it when I update or build. The message said my twitter setting weren't right. I changed them but maybe it just takes time to take affect so I will check that out again today.

It's supposed to be a high of 67 today. It's rather cloudy out, but then again, the temp is to drop to a high of 42 tomorrow. I hope the weather is improving where the rest of you all are. I know some places have been hit hard by winter!

Marsha

Happy Valentines Day 2009

Good Morning!

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The weather is so much nicer today than yesterday for sure. The clouds and wind have disappeared.
Any plans for Valentine's Day? Steve is taking me out for supper tonight. My middle daughter is fixing chicken enchiladas for her boyfriend and the rest of the family for supper. I have a card and gifts for Steve, and goody bags made up for gifts for the rest of the family. It should be a great day :)

Happy Valentines Day to all my friends!
Marsha

Thursday February 12

Good morning. This week has been busy busy busy. Today in no different.
I took my grandson to school. I am about to head out to pick up my daughter's commodity food. I have to get to pay the car insurance and then to the court house to turn in the title and transfer the tag. I've decided to keep the van. I got some suggestions on how to get the knocking in the motor lower....and despite the fact that it quits a few times now and then when you put it in gear, at least it is getting us where we need to go. This afternoon I have to take my mom to her dr appt, then make a trip to buy the rebate stuff at Walgreens. This evening I have church council meeting.
I can happily say that other than maybe taking my grandson to school tomorrow morning, I shouldn't have any other places to go tomorrow!

For today, the other other thing I want to share is this announcement on the upcoming Spring Fling Celebration at Under the Rainbow....

 
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Have a great day!
Marsha

Wednesday January 21

Good Morning! Once again I had trouble sleeping last night and I didn't get out of bed until almost 9 am. I've been moving and doing things ever since. My spirits are up due to some things that happened yesterday.

The weather is still nice here and they've upped the high on Friday to 41 instead of the 18 they did have. They are showing a high of 31 for Saturday and Sunday. I, for one am very thankful for the warmer winter weather we've been having since I get cold so easy.

I have so much to do! I picked up loads and loads of plastic bags from a gal on the freecycle list. I got an envelope...large envelope of coupons in the mail yesterday form I don't know who. I need to get them looked through along with what else I have as the store is doing the buy 10 of the special items and get an additional $5 off your shopping order. This is always so much fun!

I did a post of gather on my freecycle adventure. Look What I got from the freecycle List!

Let's see...looks like I am up to featuring the squidoo lens that I made about Elvis. This one was built in honor of my mom since she is such a huge fan. It's another fun one with videos and information. Elvis for Mom

guess I better get on to these coupons and my shopping list so I can move on to getting these bags folded down and ready to cut. Have a blessed Wednesday.
Marsha

Thursday January 8

Good morning.
It's off to work I go again this morning. And, they asked if I can work Friday if needed as well. I sure will be glad when this week is over.
Thankfully, the weather has been great for winter this week...I'm in a frustrated enough mood already LOL
Despite working I've pretty well stayed on track with my goals and plans here on the computer. I've still managed to get through all my paid to clicks, listed an item on blujay, worked in gather, worked in squidoo, etc. For that I am grateful.

I tried having the van jump started yesterday thinking that since the weather isn't freezing I would just put water in the radiator and drive it. Well, the battery didn't even stay up for 2 hours before it was totally dead again. So much for that plan.

I have to do grocery shopping today. I wish I could get out to Aldi's. I also have groceries that I want to get at Wal-Mart as well. Hopefully I can get to both of those places before the weekend is up. In the meantime, I have my list ready and my coupons ready for Dillon's today.

Today's squidoo lens to share is one that I built for Heather on Tweety Bird. It's really cute, I hope you will take a look. Tweety Bird for Heather

Until tomorrow, have a great day!
Marsha

New Years Eve 2008

Good Morning! Here it is, the last day of 2008.
This is my 286th post on blogspot. I thought I had started at the beginning of the year, but looking back I see I actually did my first post on March 10.
I hope some of you have gotten to know me better over the year.

Any plans for New Year's Eve? Me, Steve, Heather, Adam, Jasmine, Elizabeth and Chris are bowling tonight for New Years Eve. That is always lots of fun, especially if you are like us and love to bowl. They make it really fun.

I want to share a photo essay on gather today. It's Christmas eve at home photos. As soon as I post this, it's that time, time to take down the Christmas tree. Christmas Eve at Home Photos

For my featured squidoo lens today I want to share one that I made for my grandson. It's on the Power Rangers. Power Rangers


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See you in the New Year Tomorrow!
Marsha

Sunday December 28

Good Morning!
It snowed yesterday but by afternoon it had warmed up enough to melt it all away. Looks like the high's for the next 5 days jump around in the 40's and 50's and no call for anymore snow right now. Sounds darn good to me.
We have this week off school yet, then it's back to that grind.

Today's plans include continuing to work on the shopping bag that I am crocheting with the plastic bags, house cleaning, and whatever I can get done on the computer. I'm going up soon to put some chicken in the crockpot for supper tonight.

Here is part 2 of the photos of Christmas Eve at my brothers house...funner photos as gifts are being opened. Christmas Eve at My Brothers 2008 Part 2

Today I will feature the squidoo lens that I built which is a book review on the book Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. Good book, great author, I hope you will take a look see. Summer Sisters Book Review


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Have a blessed Sunday,
Marsha