Things have been very sporadic around here for a while.  My life has been in a major upheaval for the past 6 months and I've had to take it day by day trying to regain some normalcy for both my daughter and I.  I recently started working a full time job, making regular updates nearly impossible for the time being.  I have a huge backlog of emails for an assortment of blog related things, and I ask for everyone's patience while I attempt to slowly catch up.   I will be cutting back on the number … [Read more...]

I've been super busy the past few weeks.  We are in the finial few days of the school year and my daughter is super excited to be becoming a first grader.  She has had such a great school year, and I'm looking forward to next year. I will be contacting the winners of the Goldie & Bear giveaway either later today or tomorrow.  The winner for the Orkin giveaway never got back with me.  I just want to remind everyone to make sure that you give current/correct emails when you enter the … [Read more...]

I've been working on getting a newsletter going.  It would probably be monthly and/or announce when a new giveaway is starting.  I haven't really decided yet.  I'm using MailChimp.  I haven't had much time to mess with it lately but I'm hoping to get back to it after I finish some commission work.  I may have some sort of freebie download for those that sign up or something. … [Read more...]

Things have been very crazy around here the past few months.  However, the school year is winding down and I'm no longer dealing with Girl Scout cookies, so I'm betting back to business.  I have a few articles planned that I want to start working on.  I've been dealing with a few medical issues the past 6 months or so, and I will be writing about them.  I'm also getting back to product reviews as well.  I have several in the works right now and hopefully more on the way. I've been going … [Read more...]

I've been having some ongoing site issues the past few days, and it looks like it was due to some errors with Hyper Cache.  I've gotten rid of it, which promptly fixed everything.  So, I'm trying out a new cache program and we'll so how it goes.  I've noticed the site is loading a lot faster now...so I've got my fingers crossed. Now that this is out of the way, I can get back to general posts and a few more reviews. … [Read more...]

I'm working on getting rid of some of the site lag.  So far, I've switched out the slider to a new one that has a way better response time.  I'm also getting rid of some of the non-working ad code as well.  Hopefully it will make at least a little difference. … [Read more...]

Okay, I'm not doing so hot at the daily posts.  I'm trying.  My days just aren't interesting enough to write about all the time.  In fact, the most interesting thing that has happened this week so far is that neighbors kids (the ones who used to pee on the side of the house) crank called Domino's, ordered about $40 worth of pizza & put our address down.  The delivery lady was not happy at all.  I felt bad, but was not about to pay for it.  You'd think they would have outgrow this kind of … [Read more...]