I don’t give to the kettles.

When the holidays come around and the bell ringers are out, I don’t give them my change. I refuse to give them anything other than volunteered time. I’ve seen how they spend their money and it’s a waste. It’s disgusting how much money they spend on crap. Gee, so and so needs a personal vehicle, let’s give them a brand new Suburban to drive around town. Oh, this individual is being transfered. They get to remodel the house to their liking. Oh they are retiring, let’s give them a home and let them remodel it on us. I remember this crap from childhood and from recent. You are supposed to be living a life of servitude but you can still have all these material things anyway. I’d almost join, just for those damn perks!

New virus out and about. I stopped using an address book a long time ago. I now have three filters going through my mail. I maintain too many sites to deal with spam and viruses. People I don’t even know have me in their address books. I can’t stop them from sending me problems, but I can stop them before they become problems!

Can you tell I am feeling better? Well, I think it has more to do with the fact that I finally got to go for a walk today. I’m still working down from the adrenaline and figured I ought to try and be more productive while I can.

I switched Skittles’ site over yesterday. I added Google ads to most of the pages. The diary archives are the only ones that don’t have it yet. I need to finish cleaning that template up and deciding exactly what I want to do with it. Yesterday was a highly productive day. The irony was that I felt my worst yesterday. Strange thing this cold I have. Very strange indeed.

I’ve got an old Cher song stuck in my head. Actually, it’s just one line and it’s on repeat. That sucks.

I’m sick and it sucks. This is day three without a voice. I managed to talk a little while the kids were over. They thought it was fun that my voice was weird. Shalyn kept asking what happens if your voice goes away and will it be gone forever. AJ was working on a puzzle and as I walked over to him, he turned and looked at me and told me that I was sick. It was just too cute for words.

I made a lovely little font of my handwriting at fontifier.com (found via geekgrrl.com), two versions actually. One was a little grungey and one was clean. I was thinking of making a dingbat but I’m feeling to miserable right now.

I think I need a nap. I can’t breathe nor stand up for long. This sucks royally.

I decided to give Josh a break today and let him do what he wanted to do. So, today I took the girls to see Return of the King. Brittany has already seen it, but was dying to go again and Shalyn wanted to see it too. They had to pay their own ways in. They both made straight A’s on their report card, so they used their money to buy their tickets and also do a little shopping before the movie. A good day in all. I bought a Harry Potter stationary set and a few other odds and ends. I might go back and get some of the other Harry Potter stuff they had. Great little stocking stuffer gifts and birthday goodies.

I’ve been getting some work done lately, but I have had to multitask like crazy. My most productive time seems to be around 10pm. I’m not exactly sure why, but it works.

One day I’ll start including links again. As it stands, it has taken me almost an hour to compose this wee little post. Gah, oh well. Maybe I’ll finally get to email people who have emailed me.

Today is a day, just like any other day.

The weather outside is beautiful. Josh and I walked for a little over one and a half miles. AJ came over this morning and we cleaned up his jeep and rode around the block a few times. He’s getting pretty good at the steering, he just needs to work on going forward and reverse at the appropriate times. Then again, he is only three.

I did something Monday I didn’t want to really do. I joined Google AdSense for Skittlescam.com. I haven’t really put the ads where many people can see them, but eventually they will be visible. I’m working on redoing the layout over there, so they will be incorporated.

There is talk of rain. It was supposed to be here by 2 PM but by the looks of the satellite imagery, it won’t be here for a couple of hours. It is currently 73° outside. It has been in the 80s the past few days

Hmmph, complete brain lapse there for a second. I forgot the code to make the degree symbol. Time to go play with the munchkin. He wants to drive his jeep, but the batteries are charging.

Note: Books on tape are not Spoken Word. I was a little irritated to find audio books with the spoken word. Like sifting through the names and titles isn’t already hard enough!

I was productive everywhere today except where I really wanted to be. Some stuff has been pushed to the back burner even though I really wanted to finish them. I have emails to respond to, but no time.

I managed to get some stuff done yesterday, but not as much as I had hoped.

Skittles is being a major pain tonight and I am having one of those “why do we have a cat” moments.

I need sleep.

We made it home, but we are really tired. I did a little unpacking, but none of it was really clothes. We had tons of boxes of stuff. I started putting things in boxes that need to go into storage too. Came home to insurance bills (that we need to call and find out why they have gone up) and a couple of rebate checks. Cool. I think we are supposed to get $200 more soon but I’m not sure.

I’m going to clean off the couch and take a nap. I really need a nap.
Calhoun, your packaged arrived there safely… THANK YOU!!! Love it! Thank you. I will catch up reading later.