Archive for April 18th, 2008

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Friday, April 18th, 2008

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Filler Up

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Here’s hoping you remembered to file your taxes in a timely fashion since I forgot to remind you.  But you’re responsible and I have faith that you did.  So now all you need to do is sit back, relax and wait for that rebate check we’re all looking forward to to arrive in the mail.  Or get direct deposited or whatever.

Some grocery stores are offering a 10 percent bonus if you give them your entire check to turn into gift cards.  But I don’t want to spend ALL the money on groceries.  And what if I don’t use them fast enough – will they start deducting money like so many of the gift cards now a days do?

I think I’ll use mine to buy gas.  It should cover one complete fill up including the forbidden top off.  Actually, with the price of gas right now, I better not top it off.

Please Add Me to Your Mailing List

Friday, April 18th, 2008

My son asks every day if he’s gotten any mail and by that he really means, “Are there any catalogs?’  I’m more than happy to give him the junk mail and he’s more than happy to accept, but if there’s a furniture catalog, it’s MINE.  Just looking through one of those make me want a house with flowing drapes and bright open windows to showcase whatever furniture would look prettiest in my humble abode.  I’m constantly redecorating in my mind and I get all my ideas from these tomes.   He can have them when I’m done.

A is for Abscess

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I am getting really good at diagnosing things.  I date this back to when my mom had kidney stones and I diagnosed it as kidney related before she went to the emergency room.  Then there was the time when one of my sisters had a problem with an unnamed organ that she wouldn’t want me to tell you about but I don’t know why because it’s not the organ you’re thinking of and I diagnosed the exact problem with her just telling me one piece of information. (I think that was vague enough, don’t you?)

To help me further my education, my kids have started throwing me curve balls.  No more easy stuff like ‘stomach bug’ or ‘explosive diarrhea’.  We have progressed to the world of ‘hand, foot and mouth disease’, ‘impetigo’ and (insert scary music here) ‘SCARLET FEVER’!

It’s getting to the point where my mother is freaking out because when she was a kid (before antibiotics) at least one of these was a killer disease.    When I brought the kids home from the doctor’s office to brag about their random illnesses, she heard scarlet fever and dashed out.  She called me from her home to find out the symptoms were so she would be able to figure out if she had it or not.

You’ll be pleased to know that so far she’s doing fine.  And the kids are perusing the internet to find out how they can get Fifth Disease.

Read Me

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The more and more my blog goes along, the more and more I enjoy seeing the ups and downs of my Real Rank. Of course, I enjoy the ups of my Real Rank with great feeling where as the downs I only ‘enjoy’ in a complete lie sort of way. Kind of.

But wherever my rank is going, at least it’s going. As opposed to my page rank (read that in a snarky voice if you have one) which has never budged and will never budge because The Search Engine that Must Not Be Named says so. When I started blogging, I found out what page rank was just as that spanking went down and now months later, it’s obvious my blog has been sent to it’s room without dinner.

Or that’s how I’d feel if I didn’t have Izea Ranks to thank for my Real Rank. And I do, so thank you Izea. I know where my blog stands in the blogerverse (I think I used that term properly – and for the first time ever). And instead of being updated every few months, my rank is updated daily.

Obsessively, I’m looking forward to when my Real Rank reflects real time data – a nano-second by nano-second update. Though, that might be hard to read…. They could put it on a graph. I’d be able to tell when people are reading the blog because my rank would go up. When it goes down, I’d call friends and have them read my blog again so I could watch my Real Rank go back up.

And if you haven’t yet gotten a rank for your blog, then by default my blog ranks higher than yours! Whoo Hoo!!
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