Dr Copa

Guest post by Linda Bradshaw

Today I was really surprised when I got a chat message from Yvonne from our business networking group. She and I had chatted several months ago about how I enjoy blogging and I had approached her about me working for her as a copy writer for her Internet marketing enterprise. Yvonne very politely turned me down, without any hesitation whatsoever, so I guess she just wanted to keep all of her work close to her chest and not hire any outside help.

So, as I was saying, I was surprised today when Yvonne messaged to me that she had heard about my recent challenges and she thought that she was doing me a favor by suggesting that I might be able to make some money by signing on with a pay-per-click advertising service. She sent me a link to the Home page of a pay-per-click website, and I did look around at the website for a few minutes. I’m always interested in the types of financial opportunities are available. Being a blogger, I really did not look at the advertiser page because I didn’t feel like I was trying to sell a product, rather I read the publisher page to see how it all worked. For folks who have high traffic on their blogs, I can see where they could monetize their blogs in that way, but when I look at the stats for my own blogs I really don’t think that I would be making any significant amount of money myself. But I will forward the information on to my brother who has a very highly visited web page – I bet he would make a fortune!

There just never seems to be enough storage room outside to protect everything from the elements.  I have a lot of items outside; from tractors to lawn mowers to a jet ski (which I know gets wet anyway, but I want to protect it from the sun) to an old pickup that I’m trying to restore. 

Also, if I want to change the oil or work on something and not clutter up the garage for 2 or 3 weeks, I can put it in there and work on it when I get a chance.  So, I want to get a carport.  Carports come in many sizes and shapes and I want to make sure that I get one that is big enough to put everything underneath there that I want to.

I’ve measured 2 or 3 of them and just when I thought it was the right size I found out that by putting 2 or 3 of the items in there that I want, all of a sudden there’s no room for anything else!  So I want to make sure that I get the right size the first time and not have to worry about it!  I also want to install some lights in it.

From what I understand the groundhogs have predicted six more weeks of winter weather. Well, so far the winter weather here has been unusually mild, so if that is what we are going to continue to get for the next six weeks, I am all for it! If I recall correctly, it has only snowed once around here this winter season, and we’ve only had some freezing rain once as well, and that is the way I like it! My folks back in New England have not had it quite so lucky; every time I talk to them on the phone they are telling me how cold it is and how much snow they are getting. Again, fine with me; they can keep it there!

Our dogs love to play with cheap squeaky toys that we can buy in the pet supplies section at Wal-Mart. It is so much fun watching our oldest dog go after they squeaker part with great enthusiasm. Most of the new toys that we buy that squeak, are “de-squeaked” within twenty minutes of giving the toy to her. She loves to play tug-of-war and “keep-away” with us with the toy, and we love to watch the two dogs play “keep-away” from each other. We’ll give them both a new identical toy at the same time, yet each dog thinks that the toy that the other dog has MUST be superior, so they are trying to steal each other’s toys. It really is funny to watch them play with each other and with the toys.

Our mattress simply is not as comfortable as it used to be; my wife has been complaining a lot lately about a backache, and that is not normal at all. We’ve turned the mattress and still her back hurts. Seems like it was just a couple of years ago when we bought it, but when we think about it, we realized that we bought it over ten years ago!

So we have agreed to keep our eyes open for a good mattress sale to try to get a good price on a new mattress. We’ve always slept on a king mattress, and even though our family and friends can’t seem to understand why we can’t seem to sleep on a smaller bed, we just know from experience that we just don’t sleep well on anything less. We’ve found that finding a king mattress sale can be challenging; it seems to us that more queen and double beds seem to go on sale than king size. So it may be a while, but it is important to get a new one as soon as we can.