Journal that is my Life

Just my thoughts on anything and everything, and could be a lot of venting to.

 
 
 
 

Better Days Ahead

Well things are going better.  At least that is what I chose to believe.  I am still lucky enough to have a job, a web site, and so far a place to live.  I guess I should call my mortgage people and see if I can refinance under that new program that the President set up for us.  I should qualify.  As long as I can still sell my house I should be in good shape.  I really j ust do not want to live out where I do anymore.  I would like a place closer to town.  Although it is beautiful out where I live it is too far for me.  I can still live closer to town and have my horses.  That is my true motivation.  The horses and my dogs and cats.  I will live where I can have all of them.  I was hoping to get a new mortgage company but I guess If I am able to still sell my house after I refinance I should be in good shape.  I really haven't decided yet because my credit is still screwed for the next ten years.  I guess it won't matter when I am rich.

My website is going pretty good.  We have over 100 members now.  Its not up to charging status yet but we will get there.  As soon as we get some money in, we can start the advertising campagin.  Then when the big bucks roll in I won't need credit.  My charities that will get a monthly check is the St Judes Childrens Hospital.  I know they really help people.  Also we are going to set  up someting for animals.  What I want to do is set up a fund to help people who have to go to the emergency vet clinic just to find out they don't have enough money to save thier pet.  I wan't to set up a fund for people who really need it.    I think we will pick a charity or two for each website we build and make money from. 

Time changed this weekend.  It will be lighter later and that makes me happy.  I am not thrilled at how hot it is going to get but I can get a lot more pictures after work because it will be lighter outside.

Maybe I wll post a sample of my beautiful pictures I have been taking lately.  See yall later.

night night

Woo Hoo Bush is Gone

OMG I am so happy that Bush is finally gone.  I have been waiting a long time for this.  I know my blog post is late but I have been busy working my ass off at my new job.

Then Direct TV decided to steal $420.86 out of my account for the box and dvr I returned and got there the same day they decided to take it out.  It was Martin Luther King Jr day and the banks were closed so they took it out electronically.  Another company who steals for a living.  The only reason they had my credit card info was because I paid my bill online.  I was not even set up for automatic withdrawls for my bills.  You have to be careful.  After lies and getting the run around about getting my money back in 6 to 8 weeks, I decided to go to my bank and dispute the transaction.  Boy my luck sure needs to change quickly. Hopefully my bank will get my money back in a couple of days.  If I owe Direct Tv for anything on my last bill they can send me a bill and I will pay it that way.  Not steal it out of someone's account without authorization.  I paid all my bills with them for the last four years and now get in a little trouble and they become thieves.  I guess I must be attracting this type of thing to me.  What happened to helping people.  I was never intending to screw them out of any money so why are they trying to screw me.  Oh well I hope my bank can help me.

Back to Bush being gone.  That was one of the happiest days of my life.  I truly think if there is a hell he is going there.  I really don't believe in hell but if there was one he would definately be President there.  I know Obama has a lot of work ahead of him, lets call his administration the clean up crew, but I know it can be done.  The first thing he did was freeze the salaries of congress and staff.  You go Obama.  I know from here on we will start rising out of this economic depression.  I know it won't be instantinous because we are still dealing with shit from Bush's last few weeks in office.  I emailed the federal government voicing my opinion on the bail out money but they just gave me a list of local offices to voice my opinion at.  I guess the white house didn't care about my opinion.  I just asked them to explain how this bail out money is helping me or the average human being.  Who are the banks going to loan money to if no one has a job or thier credit is already screwed up. Oh well I will get my answers from someone, lol.

News on my website.  We are now up to 71 people, woo hoo.  Slow growing but not too bad for no advertising budget.  I made a bad business decision to put our money in newspaper ads.  That didn't work out to well.  Live and learn.  We will still be successful.  We now have a profile on my space and it has more friends then my personal my space, lol.  I cannot believe how hard it is to get people to my site considering how great it is.  Of course I cannot get near the any search page in Google for any keywords.  It's like trying to get into fort freaking knox to get on a search page for google.  My page rank is now a 1/10 yea.  For a moment we were on page one of Yahoo search if you searched for ematch, now we are on page two for that.  Not many people search for that though.  If you put the whole website name in, it comes up first on both search engines, lol.  Unfortunately no one knows our name  yet, lol.  We are not like "Cheers" where everyone knows your name, lol.  I emailed Ellen Degeneres to check my site out.  Do you think it will happen, lol.

Well this blog is way to long.  I need to come write more often so they are shorter and sweeter.  Bye for now.

Bill Gates must be Broke

Well my job is going well.  Thank God I got paid today.  I guess MSN decided they didn't have enough money in the bank and took $19.95 from me after I cancelled my account about a month and half to two months ago.  I called them and they said it was for November.  I am not sure if that is true or not but all I know is the credit card number they had was expired.  For what I am told isn't that illegal to change the expiration date without consent of the owner of the card and then charge their account?  If they would have notified me that the money was owed I would have made arrangements to pay it.  It would have put my account in the hole if my paycheck was not direct deposited this morning.  I know that is pathetic but true for now.

I am not even upset with the $19.95.  That is not a lot of money.  I am upset with the illegal way they took it.  (I think its illegal).  At least its immoral.  But I am upset that when I called I talked to someone in the Phillipines.  She would not let me talk to a supervisor and I asked if I called back would I get the Phillipines again and she said i may get India.  What the heck.  No wonder there isn't any jobs in the United States,  Its Microsoft for Gods sake.  i suppose they need some of that bail out money too.  They might as well all the other major banks and companies are getting it.  Thank God I found a job.  It only took a year to find and I make $7 an hour less than I did before.  How about sending some bail out money my way.  Now I know Microsoft did not get any bail out money but maybe if they did they would not have to steal money from thier ex-subscribers.  They must really be hurting to steal from me, lol.

That is ok because it has motivated me beyond belief.  I will be rich in 2009.  It is my turn for the piece of the pie.  I may only have 60 members on my dating site right now, but I promise it will be hugh.  Its a great site and all I need is a little exposure.  Now is the time to get things going and I will never have money troubles again.  Mark my words.  I am a millionare or a billionare waiting to happen.  I am done waiting.  Its my turn.  I will spread the wealth.  I am not greedy.  I am so excited this morning I am rambling again.

I am at work now and have a few minutes so I decided to vent on this blog.  Oh by the way.  I am still in forclosure even though the banks got all that bail out money.  How about you?  Did it help anyone else?  I don't know how long before Obama takes over the country but I can't wait.  At this point anyone is better than the worst president in the history of the United States.  Yes you know who you are George Bush.  Oh did I type his name in, lol.

Well I have ten minutes before I have to clock in so I better go and have a smoke.  Life is good despite my venting.  I will be rich soon.  Just wait and see.

Bye for now!

10 More days until payday

Woo Hoo only 10 more days until payday.  I still can't believe I get paid twice a month.  I am glad I enjoy my new job.  I wouldn't last if I didn't.  Everyone is so nice.  I think I got really lucky.  I might even stay there when I get rich from my website.  We got one person to sign up since I started working.  I have not had time to network and go into forums and stuff to promote my site.  I used to sit on the computer all day and do that.  Also I did research and tried to learn about how all this webmaster stuff worked.  My sister and I have decided to find a place to advertise with the money we have left.  when I get regular paychecks and get caught up on all my bills, I will throw more money into advertising our site.

Well today Randy (my boyfriend) and I went to eat off the Wendy's dollar menu and put air in my truck tires.  What a rip off.  It cost a dollar fifty to put air in my front tires.  It is seventy five cents and we had to turn it on twice.  Do you belive we had to pay for air.  I am glad we don't have to pay for the air we breath or I would be in big trouble right now.  I used to reupholster furniture and had my own air compressor.  I guess now I have to pay for air.  Who ever though of charging for air is rich I am sure but that sucks for us.  I can't wait to be rich.  At least what I am doing is fun and actually helps people.  You can tell I am older because I remember when air was free, lol.  You could just drive up and put as much air in your tires as you needed.  Now you better bring a bunch of quarters with you.  And it has to be quarters.  No nickle and dimes here.  My truck does ride nicer now.

I am staying with my mom during the week to save money on gas until I start getting a regular paycheck.  I miss my horses and dogs.  Randy is spoiling my dogs and making them fat.  When I go home on weekends my dog Sadie just whines for bones all the time.  I had her trained so well.  Of course I spoil her too but not to the extent where she is in charge.  I want to ride my horse this weekend.  Not sure if I should though he hasn't had his feet trimmed in a while.  I am sure he is fine, not sore or anything, I just like to keep them trimmed.  He is the best riding horse for me.  He takes good care of me.  When I first started riding him it was a trip.  We would go on trail rides and he was a bit spooky.  One time he jumped over a little bit of water.  I was not expecting it, but it was a blast.  I really have to get back into riding him.  Maybe it would ease my stress.  I love horses, have I mentioned that, lol.

Oh well I am getting windy.  Time to go to bed now.  Its late and I am rambling.

Night, Night

Almost a whole week at my new job

I have worked now for four hole days, yea.  It has actually been fun.  Boy they can generate a lot of paperwork.  Thats good.  It keeps me busy and the time just flies by.  I hate being bored at work.  The more work the better.  I am not making what I use to make at my old job but it is not as stressful.  The people are very nice and laid back.  I don't need to buy a whole new wardrobe because its casual.  That is perfect for this ole country girl.

I have not had much time to work on my site or our company blog lately.  I really need to update that blog.  I will write some type of article or how to tomorrow.  Today I am writing this blog and I am too tired to come up with something good for our company blog.  Its almost midnight.  I am going home tomorrow for the weekend.  I can't wait to see my dogs, horses, and my cat.  Oh yea, I guess the cows too, lol.  I will be back here on Sunday night so I can get to work Monday on time.  Only 16 more days until I get paid.  That still freaks me out.  Twice a month, omg.  I like money comming in every week.  If you can't pay something this week there is always next week, right?

My boyfriend came down and we went to dinner and he wanted to look at Toyota trucks.  Those trucks are really nice.  He was looking at a Tundra.  What freaks me out is that the truck was assembled in Texas and its a Japanese truck.  Our american trucks like chevy and fords are assembled in Mexico and Canada.  I really do not know what is wrong with this country.  My Chevy was assembled in Canada.  Oh well I do love my Chevy Truck.  Its older but loaded with all kinds of goodies.  The heated seats, self dimming mirrors, and the shift on the fly 4WD are my favorites.  Of course the power windows, door locks, seats, & mirrors are great too.  Also I just learned how to set my memory seats.  My new boss told me how.  I had my truck for two years now and couldn't figure out how to set them.  No, I am not blonde, lol.  Anyway, Chevy just thinks of everything.  Too bad GM is going under.  Hard to believe as much as I paid for my used truck.

Well I guess its time to go to sleep.  Maybe for my next blog I will write on how it would feel to be rich.  Practice makes perfect, lol.

Night, Night

I Found a Job - Woo Hoo

Well I started my new job yesterday.  It was kind of fun.  I work for a company that keeps track of the maintence on fire safety equipment for stores all over the country.  That is pretty cool.  I get to talk to people from all over the United States.  Oh well its a job.  The hours are kind of where I can't do anything else.  The pay is twice a month.  That really sucks.  I have to work 20 straight days before I can get one dime.  I guess my truck payment will just have to wait.  I just don't get that twice a month thing.  Its stupid.  I guess its good for the company, but not the employee.  I have never been paid twice a month.  How in the hell do you budget that.  Especially when you are already behind.  My whole check will be gone as soon as I get it and then what do I do for the next two weeks.  Oh well, I am complaining but I am happy to have the job at the moment.

My website is still not taking off and it is getting frustrated.  If I just had some advertising money I would be rich by now.  I am going to put money in advertising just as soon as I start getting paid from my new job.  That will be a while so I guess I need to figure out where else I can advertise with the very little money we have left.  That is all I need to do.  I cannot do any more SEO.  I mean, its a dating site for Gods sake, what else can I do.  I know if people could find it the site would do well.  We have so much more to offer and at a cheaper price.   Just getting people to find it is a bitch.  No one wants to even talk to you unless you have an advertising budget of over $5000 a month.   That would be fine if I had two thousand paying customers on my site.  But right now I have squat.  Its a catch 22 situation.

On a good note, my mortgage company said if I get this job they will renegociate my mortgage.  I know I didn't spell that right did I, lol.  Any way I can stay in my house.  Well right now I am staying at my mom's until I get money to drive back and forth from BFE to my new job.  My house will still remain up for sale but I wont be so desperate, lol.

All this turmoil will make a great rags to riches story when my new website makes me rich.  Maybe I can be on Oprah someday, woo hoo.  lol 

Well I have to go to work now. See ya on Oprah, lol.

The hunt is on

Do you believe I am still hunting for a job?  I have put applications in all over the place.  I have a lead for a burger joint to be in management.  That will be ok for a while.  Man it sucks to try to find a job in this market.  It is getting to be tourist season here and no one will hire me.  I am actually a great employee.  Try to convince potential employers when hundreds of other people are trying to convince them too.  I hate job hunting.  Thats probably why I stayed at my last job for nine years.  Well that and the fact that it paid me pretty good.  I also started a business because I just don't want to work for someone else.

We all know how that is working out, NOT.  At least not yet.  I have to keep believing that my business will do great soon.  They say it takes determination.  I have plenty of that. 

Anyone have a mare.  OMG they are such bitches.  Give me a gelding anyday.  My geldings are so sweet and laid back and my mare is such a brat.  Especially at feeding time.  Otherwise she is not too bad.  At least she doesn't try to kick my head off anymore.  I stopped that behavior.  And no, I don't beat my horses.  They are spoiled rotton.  Wait until I get rich.  They will be the most spoiled horses on the face of the earth.  They do however need thier feet done.  Boy that is expensive to get four horses done.  I wish I could do it myself.  I tried to get my farrier to teach me, lol.  I am afraid to lame them by accident.  That is something that has to be done correctly. 

I better get my business going soon or I will be living in a tent on some property because I will NOT give up my horses, or any of my animals.  At least my tent can't be repossesed, lol.  Its actually a nice two room cabin tent.  I could live there, lol.  Hopefully it won't come to that.  It would be like camping out for a very long time.  I could do it if I had to.

Ok, I am just rambling today so I think its time to sign off.  Got to work tomorrow on site promotion.  See ya on the flip side.

Night, Night.

Has it been that long?

Seems like forever since I have written a blog here.  The site is still not full of people but we have a few more.  All I have to say is if you have a website do not advertise in the newspaper.  It just doesn't work.  I guess with the little money we have left we will put up banner ads somewhere.  We have to decide on the best place for our money.

I have been very busy working on the site more.  Instead of matching people by interests, which was boring, we made about a 30 question personality profile.  I think its pretty cool.  Now its a better chance to get an actually perfect match instead of everyone matching you, lol.  Of course it will be even better when we get the members there.  I can't wait, its going to be so much fun.  Of course I know someday I will figure out how to do that.  Get people there and get noticed on the web.

I don't really understand because for less than on the big competitor sites, not mentioning any names, we have much more to offer.  Acutally my sister signed up for some of those sites and there is not much to do on them.  How do you get to know someone without ways to communicate and actually talk.  You don't want to give out personal information until you get to know someone better and make sure they are who they say.  I don't know it must all be in the marketing.  Because I think our site is much better.  They tell me it can handle lots of people so someday soon I hope to find out.  Of course then we will have the means to fix whatever, if anything, goes wrong.  I doubt it will.

We have a way to add VOIP calling to our site but I am not sure if we will do this.  I have to do a lot of research to see if it is safe and make sure our site is secure enough to add phone numbers.  Even though you will not be able to see each others phone numbers I want to make sure our site is completely secure first.  I am learning and will not comprimise my members due to inexperience.  Right now the only information we have is email addresses.  We do not keep personal information.  All our billing is done through paypal and we dont keep any financial information on our site. If anyone has opinions or is expericenced with VOIP calling please let me know. 

My situation with money stays the same if not worse but I know this website will take off soon.  Lets all pray for me, woo hoo.  Just think of the energy that would flow from a lot of people praying for you.  OMG.

Anyway, it is time to feed the horses and cows so I must go.  Night Night!

PS.  I forgot to mention we put in a company blog.  What fun that is. woo hoo.

"Still trying" is all I can say

Well the ads in the Salem newspaper did not go as well as I thought.  Oh well, maybe some more will sign up soon. 

We decided to start a local campaign.  Ads in newspapers around here, and we went around to different business to see If they would let us put up a flyer.   My sister is better at asking people than me.  I have to say it was fun and easier than I thought.  I only made six fliers.  They have the little tabs on that people can tear off with the website address on them.  We put all of them up and put business cards in various places. One place let us put one up in each bathroom on the towel dispenser and put a bunch of cards on the bar.

I figure we will start locally which is easier to advertise.  Once the money starts flowing in we can do some internet advertising.  I am thinking of chaning the template on my site.  The one we have now is not as pretty as the new one.  That will be a lot of work changing everything again.  But thats what I enjoy doing.

On a funny note we have moved up in ranks on search engines.  We are over five million in line to be on the first page of a search.  I kid you not, at least its better than six millionth.  That was last week.  Going up a million is not too bad huh? lol. 

Its fun to learn this stuff.  Oh I forgot, we started a company blog to post articles and how to's on the site.  That is going to be a lot of fun for me.

Well its after midnight and my brain is not at optimal performance.

Night, Night.

Lets hope this works!

Well yesterday I put an ad in a newspaper in Salem, Ma.  I guess they said they put out about 30,000 papers.  Pretty cool huh?   That is the only ad I have placed so far.  It should be pretty cool though because its October and they get a lot of tourist there for halloween.  I hope we get some members from that ad.  I will be placing more in different parts of the country.  It is not as easy as I though to place ads in newspapers.  Classifieds are easy, display ads are not.  There are so many requirements and they get pretty expensive.  I was lucky to find one I could afford right now with that many people in the area.

The next place may be somewhere in California, or I will just pick a state.  I go to citydata.com and see what the populations are.  There are so many to choose from.  If I get members from those ads I will have money to place more or can get a banner on a good website.  That will bring people to my site.  That should also get other sites to actually want to trade links with me.  That is not easy.  Most have affiliates and don't do link exchanges anymore.  I should have bought the affiliate module to go with my software.  That I guess that would give plenty of backlinks to my site.  Oh well.  Maybe the next site or I can add it later.

I have been having the most fun playing and trying out everything on my site.  My sister was bitching about her cell phone minutes being used up talking about this business so we went on the site and talked through our IM feature.  It was fun.  We could search all these newspapers in another tab or browser and still talk to each other.  We could have done it in the chat room also because there wasn't anyone else in there, lol.  At least not right now.  Its getting ready to really take off.  I can feel it.  I have been doing so much research and working on it alot.  It is all working great now so its ready and I am ready.   Maybe I can save my house after all.

I need to get some good graphic making software for flash banners and ads.  Also one I can make web graphics with.  I am already thinking about my next website.  I am not sure if I want to do another dating site or do the digital photo site.  I got some great pics yesterday.  I need to go more places and get more pics.  I love my camera.  Its fun to get great shots.  I like to take pics of wildlife.  I should have brought my camera with me yesterday because I saw four deer.  They were in on the dirt road and then went into one of the pastures.  They are so beautiful.  My zoom lens would have been perfect to get those shots.  Serves me right for not carring my camera with me.  I did get great pics of buzzards flying right over me.  They are cool ugly creatures.

Well anyway, enough babbling.  Its late and I got stuff to do.  I love this site isn't it great. 

Pounding the pavement

Well today I went out looking for a job.  That was a lot of fun. NOT!!!   There are not many  jobs out there.  I went everywhere and not many are hiring.  I just don't know what is going on with this country.  I went to dollar general because they had a sign in the window that they were hiring and they told me they were out of applications.  Do you believe that?  That is how many people in this area are looking for a job.  The job only pays a litte over seven dollars an hour.  That wouldn't even pay for my gas to get there.  I also applied for a waitress job at the resturant/coffee shop next door to dollar general.  At least they had applications.  I only need a job long enough for my website to start making money.

Its time to start advertising it in the newspapers.  We can put ads all over the USA.  Of course we will start off with about 4 or 5.  Then soon, riches, wealth, prosperity, etc.  We got an update on our software already.  Its pretty cool, now members can change their homepage they way they want it.  Change colors and upload background pics.  I am still trying to figure out the correct size the background pics have to be.  The system tiles the pictures, and cuts some of it off, if the pics are too big.  Its a pretty complicated site so making the FAQ file will take some time.  I am still learning the software and how everything works and effects other things, etc.  Surfing the web is much easier, lol.

So back to this economy now.  What the F*** is going on here.  In my opinion this president we have is the worst we ever had in the history of the US government.  Some people may be mad by that statement but I don't care.  This is my blog and I will say what I want to.  He sucks big time.  Good thing there is only 2 1/2 months left on his term.  He should not be paid for the rest of his life by us.  If we screw up an entire nation what would happen to us.  We would be arrested.  Really if you think about he is screwing up more than one nation.  Wow, it is truly unbelievable how this economy sucks.  I have never had trouble finding a job.  I have always figured out a way to pay my bills.  When you go out and there are no jobs or about 1000 people applying for the same job what do you do.  It really upsets me that my tax dollars will pay this man for the rest of his oil bearing life. 

Another thing I will say that will piss people off is that I want Hillary Clinton to be president.   She will bring Bill with her and he was the best president we ever had.  I don't care about all that sex scandle stuff.  Who cares, as long as the ecomony was booming that stupid stuff didn't matter.  Bill & Hillary make a great presidential team.  Things were great then.  Jobs were abundant and we were not trillions of dollars in debt either.   Really how is that possible.  Who do you know that would extend someones credit to a trillion dollars.  (thats a joke is case someone doesn't know that).

Well I am going to leave you with this.  I got this email the other day and it was fantastic.  I don't know how far it got but I forwarded it.  It said instead of giving that bail out money to the banks, give it to the people.  Here is the email so I dont have to explain it, lol:

 I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.                       
                                                                           
  Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We       
  Deserve It Dividend.                                                     
                                                                           
  To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bona fide    
  U.S. Citizens 18+.                                                       
                                                                           
  Our population is about 301,000,000 +/-, counting every man, woman and   
  child. So 200,000,000 is a fair estimate of adults 18 and up.            
                                                                           
  Divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion equals $425,000.00 per    
  adult.                                                                   
                                                                           
  My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It       
  Dividend.                                                                
                                                                           
  Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.  
                                                                           
  Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends         
  $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.                                 
                                                                           
  But that means that every adult 18+ will have $297,500.00 in their       
  pocket. A husband and wife get $595,000.00.                              
                                                                           
  What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?        
                                                                           
  Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.                           
                                                                           
  Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads.                   
                                                                           
  Put away money for college - it'll be there.                             
                                                                           
  Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.                  
                                                                           
  Buy a new car - create jobs.                                             
                                                                           
  Invest in the market - capital drives growth.                            
                                                                           
  Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves.          
                                                                           
  Enable deadbeat dads to come clean - or else.                            
                                                                           
  This is for every adult U S Citizen 18+, including the folks who lost    
  their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that cut back and, 
  of course, for all those serving in our Armed Forces.                    
                                                                           
  If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of   
  trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive.         
                                                                           
  If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult  
  U.S. citizen 18+!                                                        
                                                                           
  As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell it off.                                  
                                                                           
  Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real
  estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
                                                                           
  Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.                      
                                                                           
  Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."                            
                                                                           
  But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!                      
                                                                           
  How do you spell Economic Boom?                                          
                                                                           
  I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We  
  Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in
Washington   
  DC .                                                                      
                                                                           
  And remember, my plan only really costs $59.5 billion because $25.5      
  billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.                     
                                                                           
  Ah...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.                    
                                                                           
  Kindest personal regards,                                                
                                                                           
  Birk                                                                     
                                                                           
  T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic      

I love it.  I think this guy is a geinus.  That would solve all my problems.  Anyway this blog is hugh so I better go to bed now.

Night, Night.   


 

Progress!

Yesterday we made progress with our web site.  We didn't get any new members yet but we got a page rank from Google.  Yea!!!!  Its 0/10 right now but that is better than "no page rank information".  I was so excited when I went to my site and seen that we now are ranked.  Baby steps.  Every move forward counts to me.  This is definately a learning experience.  At least for my next web site I will already know how to do all this stuff.  Also my next site probably won't be as complicated.

Not much else going on.  I am stuck at home until my mechanic boyfriend decides he has time to do my brakes on my truck.  They are really bad.  I probably need rotors but not this time.  At least brake pads and later rotors.  I would like to get out of this house and go somewhere.  I kind of went a little overboard on my checking account so I really cant go anywhere anyway.  I need to find a part time job until my website takes off.

Lets talk a little on this economy.  What the heck are we going to do?  The government is going to give a whole bunch of money to bail out the banks but how do we benefit from that.  If they give it to us we can pay our mortgages and the banks would get it anyway.  I don't think the banks will help those of us in foreclosure.  They are still not going to lend much money out.  Now they will have more resources to forclose faster.  They have money to back them up.  I don't understand how that will create jobs, and get the working people money.  Maybe someone can explain that to me.  My mortgage company is not in trouble financially.  They are definately not wanting to help me or wait until my house gets sold.  So how is giving it to banks that are running out of money going to help us regular people?  Also what happens if you have a mortgage and your mortgage holder goes bankrupt?  Do you get to keep your house for free?  Its all so stupid to me. 

I have always had a way to make ends meet but this recession/depression sucks.  I am going to try to find at least a part time job that brings in more than unemployment.  What a joke that is, but it is better than nothing.   I am not sure what I would want to do.  I dont want a full time office job again because that would leave no time for my business.  Plus there just isn't any out there right now.  I can work in fast food I guess.  That would really suck.  I would like to work in a retail store that sells, insense, rocks, books, etc.  That would be cool.  I would enjoy going to work.  They I could work on my website when I am not working at the book store.  It would have to pay enough to be more than just gas.  Oh well I will try something next week.  Things will work out and I will be abundantly rich.

Well time to go to bed.  Still excited about the page rank.  One step at a time will get you where you need to go.

What a good day

I dont know what it was but I had a great day today.  I was very busy, maybe that was it.  Everyone else around me was miserable but I wasn't.  It was kind of cool.  I didnt let anyone get me down.  I would love to be like that all the time.  My sister and my mom got into an argument this morning.  Not real bad but it was not pleasant to be around them.  I just kept everyone in line, got things done, and tried to get everyone as happy as possible.  I am pretty proud of myself. 

I wrote a nice blog yesterday but when I went to preview it my internet went out and I lost it.  I should type these in word and paste them in here so I dont lose them again.  It wasnt too positive anyway.  I was frustrated about how to get people to my site.  I just dont know how to do it other than paying big bucks to a marketing company.  That is not something we can do right now.  It seems like no one wants to sign up for a member site with very little members on it even if its free for a while.  I will figure it out.  I am learning alot about internet marketing.  I will just keep studying until I get it right.  Also I am still working on the site and learning how to deal with my files in my cpanel.  Thats a little scary to me because I dont want to do something that crashes my site.  I tried to get someone to teach me but havent had any luck yet.  One guy even told me that my site was too complicated and I would have to find someone else.  At least he was honest and I didnt pay him to mess up my site. 

I just thought things would happen faster with the site than they are.  I will make a success out of my site but I guess not before my house is lost.  I am still hoping it sells.  I guess I can just deed it over to the lender and it will not put a forclosure on my credit so ive heard.  Thats not a bad deal but we would have to move as soon as I do It.  I still have some time to figure it out.  I really am looking forward to moving closer to town.  Its great out here but it would be easier to live a little closer.

There is not a store for about 25 miles from here.  Not even a convience store.  Nothing.  Living out here has its ups and downs.  A lot of driving and gas money is a down, but peace and quite is an up.  Also its very beautiful.  Not as beautiful as Tennessee but still Floirda flat land kind of beautiful.  I love to look out of my windows and see horses in the pasture.  They are fun to watch, especially when it cools down and they play and run around.  Even living closer to town I will still get to have that.  I will always have my horses and dogs.  Probably cows too.  I have one cow thats a pet.  I can pet and love on her but you still have to be careful with cows.  She is pregnant and I cant wait until she has her baby.  She was born here and now this is her first baby.  I still have her momma.  She is getting old and will have one more because she is pregnant too.  After that no more for her.  We got rid of all the bulls for now until we move and get settled.  They will be on separate land with different cows.  These two cows will stay with us to live out their lives.

Well I am rambling so I must go.  Have a great night.

Good News and Bad

Well lets see which one I should tell about first.  I think the good news.  Someone signed up at my site today. Woooo Hooooo.  So now there are at least ten real members.  I think it was from a business card I left on a message board in a resturant.  They have them near the bathrooms and you can put stuff up there.  Yea.  Its a start.  I know more people will sign up its a great site.  Just not enough people there yet and not on search engines yet.  Its only been up two weeks.  But I will succeed.  Its a lot of fun.

Now for the bad news.  I got the dreaded respond in 20 days forclosure letter.  I really wish my house would sell but now they are telling me its not worth any more than I owe.  Maybe a little less.  That really sucks.  If I am not going to get any money out of it what is the point.  I may as well just let the bank have it.  I guess they tell me once I respond that I can live here for a while because the courts are so backed up with foreclosures.  Thats pretty sad.  The government wants to bail out the banks but what about the people.  I guess they are having problems with that but I didn't get to see it because I went to my nephews freshman football game tonight.  It was fun.  I took lots of pictures.  I need to get closer to get better ones.  It started getting dark and the pics got a little blurry.  Not enought light for the shutter speed for movement.  I will post some pics of him playing when I get better ones.  This is the first game I went to and I plan on going to more.  Definately takes my mind off my mortgage situation.  I love football and I love my nephew.  Great combination.  He did really good.  They lost but he did great.  He plays offense, defense, and special teams.  He just does it all.  It is really good for him.

Well I have to start looking for someplace else to move with all my animals.  They are definately comming with me.  Its ok though because my boyfriend is going to buy a house and we will just move in there.  Works for me.  I really dont want to be out here anymore anyway.  I will probably try to short sale it or sell it on ebay, lol.  No really just short sale it to  revive some of my credit.  Oh well, such is life.  I will be just fine.  Soon I will be rich and just pay cash for a house.  I dont need credit anyway, right?

Well I better go try to get someone to my website or just go to bed and try again in the morning.

Good night all

Still Plugging Away

Well today was a non interesting day.  I rode around all day shopping waiting for my boyfriend while he was working.  His truck broke the other day and now we only have one vehicle.  He was going to buy another one but the dealership gave him the run around pretty good and he told them to F*** off.  I was so proud, lol.  Actually I was they were awful.  It was very hard to me not to tell them to F*** off.  But It wasn't up to me, it was his deal.

I was having internet withdrawls today.  I should have taken his laptop and our alltel wireless internet modem with me.  I thought of that a little too late.  Maybe thats why I started an internet business.  I know there has to be a lot of internet junkies out there like me.  Our first site has not picked up yet.  I just don't know how to get people there to see it.  When I did a search on Google for my site it came up and now two days later it doesn't.  I don't know why Google doesn't like my site.  Its a nice site dang it!  Anyway this marketing thing is soooooo hard.  It is acutally supposed to be my sisters job.  I set up the sites and she is supposed to market it.  I seem to be doing all the work.  I think we will have to have a talk about that.  She should know how I feel.  She gives up to easy.  I do spend a lot of time on the internet but I also did 99.9% of the work and research of setting up the site.  I still have a little tweaking to do.  We bought the software from russia and it has wording that sounds like broken english.  Great script but lots of wording to change.  Some of it is actually pretty funny.  We bought an open source so we can change anything about it we want.  Even how things function.  It was worth the extra money. 

Anyway I did get to go shopping a little today but it would be nice to have a lot of money to buy something.  Than shopping would be more fun.  I got a Frozen Mocha from Panera.  They are sooo good.  I am hooked on those things.  Hopefully tomorrow we can go look for a truck for my boyfriend so I can have my truck back.  I love my truck.  I work at home so it just makes sense to let him take it until he gets one.  I just feel a little stranded.  We live so far out none of my friends would come and get me.  Truck shopping is fun but dealing with the sales people and finance people sucks.  I hope we are done in time to watch football.  At least the Dolphins game.  I don't know why though because I had high hopes they would win more than two games this year but so far all losses.  They suck too.  But I still love them.  If you notice when they play at home the stadium is almost empty.  Mostly because the last few years they have sucked bigtime but also the economy here sucks too.  Its just weird to see all those empty orange seats. 

On a good note the Dallas Cowboys are doing great.  At least I can watch them win.  The Dolphins and the Cowboys have been my two favorite teams since I was a little girl watching football with my grandfather.  He would have several TV's with different games on.  Anyway when they play each other it gets me confused, lol.  Just kidding. 

Time to go to bed its late.  Hopefully soon I will be telling everyone how successful my business has become and that I have paid my house in full.  Right?

Night, Night

Better Days Ahead























Well we finally did it.  We got on Google.  At least for our site name.  I was so happy this morning when I got up and turned my computer on as usual, I go to google every day and search for our site name.  This morning it came up, yea!  Now we have to try to get on the search results for key words.  That is the part I am still learning.  But I enjoy it.  Its a lot harder on the webmaster side than the web surfer side, lol.  I will figure it out.  We also had three new members sign up yesterday.  Pretty cool.  It may not be a million but its a start, lol.  I know it will happen soon and all my money problems will be gone.

Last night we had a bad storm.  There was lightning everywhere and it was scary.  Especially when we were driving home in it.  It was so dark with hard rain and lightning lighting up the sky, I felt like I was in a horror movie, lol.  I am glad I wasnt driving.  I couldn't see a thing.  I must admit I was scared.  But we made it home safe and it slowed down enough for me to open the gate to get in the driveway.  That was pretty cool.

We were gone to long last night because my dogs told me so, lol.  Thay decided to get my centerpiece off my table and tear it up.  Good thing is was only a Wal-Mart special.  They are usually very good dogs but they were alone a little too long yesterday.  We had to go truck shopping because my boyfriends truck took a dump.  Transmission went out and it would cost more than the truck is worth.  I hope he can get the truck we looked at yesterday.  Anything will be a step up from what he had.  I hated that truck so I am glad it finally died, lol.  We are going to take it to the scrap yard.  His new truck is just a F150 but it is pretty nice.  In six months or so he can trade it in for something better so he can pull a trailer with his bulls in it.  He raises rough stock bulls for bucking like in the PBR.  Someday soon he will have bulls in the PBR.  That should be fun. 

Well there is a pic of the culprits, at the top of my blog, that ate my centerpiece.  Arent they beautiful.  They are catahoulas.  The black and white has glass eyes and she is so beautiful.  The male has one blue eye and one brown.  I love them so much.

I better go get to work on my site and getting people to it.  It will  be a great day today!

Another Day

Well my day was better today.  Up until the mail came and there was a letter from a lawyer about my mortgage.  I am getting to the point where I just dont care.  If they want it that bad they can have it.  I will be just fine.  I will find somewhere to live with my horses, dogs, cat, and cows.  We have leased land to put them on in the mean time.  I guess that is pretty lucky.  I am not fixing up the house anymore.  Why should I.  Its already beautiful but still needs just a couple of things.  Let them do it.

I really dont believe I am going to lose my house.  It will sell before that happens.  I know it will.  Its just far out in the boonies but someone will want to live here.  We did.  Sometimes things just happen that way.  Life goes on.  The important thing is even if we dont find somewhere to live down here, we are going to Tennessee.  My business is online so I can go anywhere that has access to the internet and that pretty much covers everywhere.  If there is a phone or alltel wireless has a tower we are on the internet.  At least Tennessee is beautiful.  Whey my website takes off I plan on having a place here in Florida and a ranch in Tennessee.  The Tennessee ranch must have a creek.  I cant wait to sit by the creek and put my feet in the water.  Or wade and walk around on the rocks.  I know I live in Florida but there are too many creatures in the waters here.  My house in Tennessee will also have woods so I can trail ride on my horses.  Hopefully I will make friends to trail ride with or my boyfriend will get into riding more with me. 

Ok well I am not going to let anything get me down.  I believe in the law of attraction so I have to change my way of thinking so I can attract new and wonderful things in my life.  Also I can change my situation.  My website wil take off, I will pay off my house and let my friends live in it while I buy something closer to town and closer to my family.  Also my place in Tennessee where I will stay most of the time.  Especially in the Fall.  Its so beautiful. 

Another day is ending here and I am going to check my site and see about getting some people there.  Its only been a couple of weeks its been up and running so I need to be more patient.  Once it gets successful its time to start on the next one.  I do love the internet and I am learning new things everyday. 

Good night to all

Frustration

Today has been a frustrating day.  Most days I stay positive.  Today is not one of those days. 

I got a call from my mortgage company and they are just awful.  First of all a couple of years ago I refinanced my mortgage and could kick myself in the ass for it.  I was behind on my mortgage so when this preditor called I went ahead and did the refi.  This women who made all these promises should really have trouble sleeping at night.  Anyway that refinance was a disaster.  My mortgage skyrocketed just at the same time I ran out of money to pay my mortgage after I lost my job.  They will do nothing to help me because I am on unemployment.  I am five months behind on my mortgage and there is nothing I can do.  I worked for the same company for nine years when they decided to close the business after the bottom fell out of the construction market.  They were ready to retire anyway.  I dont blame them at all.  Things got really bad here.  Worst I have seen in the 39 years I have been in Florida.  My house is up for sale.  Not much I can do about that.  No jobs around here so my sister and I decided to start a company and make websites.  Great thought.

Our first website took about 45 days to get up and running between getting the corporation, licenses, money, etc.  Well it went great but now what.  How do you get people to your website?  Google is almost impossible to get on and we are so new at this we just dont have the knowledge to play the games.  Yet that is!   It can be so frustrating finding out what works and what doesn't.  How do you get people to sign up for a dating web site when you have no members to begin with?  Maybe I just want things to happen quickly and I am not being patient enough.  Anyway my sisters job is marketing so I shouldn't even be worried about it.  My job is to get the sites up and running and that part is done.  Just a couple of bugs to work out and some customization.  I acutally enjoy that part.  I think I will just leave the marketing to my sister.  That way I will not get so frustrated. 

Well thats enough bitching for one day and I will probably be back to my go get um attitude tomorrow.  This is my first blog just to do whatever I want so its kind of fun.  It helps just to vent sometimes. 

My final thought for the day:  Hillary Clinton should be president!!!!!!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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