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5 Great Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips

Last week for the Writers Workshop one of the prompts was to list 5 of my favorite blogging tips.  I always love to read other people’s tips and tricks when it comes to blogging so I figured I would list a few of my own.  These are things that I also wish I would have known from the start.

  •  First before I started a blog I wish I would have picked a name and also known what I wanted to blog about.  I say this because it is so much easier to have all of this done before hand instead of trying to figure it all out once you have been blogging for a few years like I did.
  • Don’t get caught up in the numbers.  I spent a lot of time worried about the number of followers of my blog or the number of likes that my Facebook Page had.  For me this just turned blogging into some sort of popularity contest and made me want to stop blogging.  Once I stopped caring and started blogging for me I found the reason I started blogging in the first place.  Now I still love when I get comments or emails from people who read my blog but I don’t focus on those things because if I do I get discouraged and blogging becomes a chore instead of something I just love to do.
  • For me I always have to remind myself just to have fun and be true to who I am.  I have been blogging for years and only in the past year have I started to really just blog about things I want to.  I have lost readers because of the book reviews but it is something I truly love doing so I am going to continue them.
  • Know that people who know you in real life can and will find out about your blog so don’t blog about things you don’t want other people who know you to read.
  • It can take years to build a blog so don’t give up if you aren’t where others are.  It takes some people years to build their blogs and then others make it big fast.

Those are a few of the things I wish I would have known before I started blogging.

What do you wish you would have known before you started?

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I Quit!!!!

I QuitWhen I saw that this was one of the posts for this weeks Writers Workshop I wanted to write about it even though I am having to post it a day early.  I am going to write about 4 which is tell us about a job you quit…why did you do it.  I am going to talk about when I quit my last job before I got hired on where I am at now.

As most of you know that I wanted to be a nurse and one of the things I had to do in order to become a nurse was become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).  Once I got my certification I had to work as a CNA in order to keep the certification.  I had a few other jobs as a CNA before I ended up at the last place I worked at.  Once I got to that place is when I really fell in love with the job and the residents at the home.  Before that I could have walked away from being a CNA because it wasn’t something that I could have seen myself doing long term.

Anyway back to the story, I worked there for about 2 years and loved everyday of it until about the last 6 months.  I hurt my back while I worked there and that was the beginning of the end for me.  After I hurt my back the workmen’s compensation doctor put me light duty and after you are on “light duty” for 6 months or something like that they make you take a leave of absence.   Now let me say that even though I was on “light duty” and “couldn’t” lift anything over 25 pounds I was still expect to do everything including the lifting.  Because of that and the fact that there were never enough people working my back never got better.

So when they put me on a leave of absence without any notice I was in total shock.  I went home and tried to get ahold of my doctor so that he  could change the order and I could go back to work.  The only way he would change the order was if I moved off the floor working in patient care and moved into an office type job.  When I talked to my supervisor about this he said that there was a job for me and once they got the new order that I could come back to work.

Well when they did get the order the job I had been promised wasn’t there and the only job was for me to go back working on the floor.  When I got that call I was pissed off and angry and I had to tell them well then I guess I can’t come back because I can’t work on the floor with my back like it is.

To this day the whole situation really pisses me off because I loved that job and I would still be there if I hadn’t gotten hurt.  I am not even going to talk about how I got hurt because that is another whole post.  To this day my back still hurts everyday so I am totally considering getting my certification again and going to back to at a different facility because I love the job and since I am in pain everyday why not go back!

Anyways that is my story on why I quit my last job as a CNA.

Why did you quit your job and would you do it again?

Mama’s Losin’ It

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May 2013 Favorites

May Favorites

 It is that time of the month again and here are some of the things I have loved during the month of May.

  • Here are a list of books that I have totally loved during the month of May: Catching A Falling Star, Once Upon A Prince, A Noble Groom, & The Cat That God Sent.  The review on Catch A Falling Star will go live on Tuesday the 4th of June.  If you ever are in need a good book to read let me know because I read pretty much everything.
  • I loved changing up my cell phone case’s often.  I am not sure how many I have but I have tons and I keep buying new ones because they are a good deal.  I am going to do a post in the coming weeks on all of my cases.
  • I had this in my favorites a few months ago but it is still something I use almost all day long and that is my iPod.  I love it even more since my laptop has died and I don’t have access to my music that was on there.
  • I just discovered this song at the end of the month but since I bought the song I have basically had it on repeat and it is pretty much all I listen to.  I have been loving Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.  Here is the link to the music video.   I can’t help but smile when I watch it.
  • I have been loving the new Brown Rice Baked with Sweet Potato Triscuits in the Roasted Sweet Onion flavor.  One I start eating a box I tend to eat the whole thing in just one sitting.  If you have never heard of these click here to see and read about them.

Those are some of the things I loved during the month of May.

What did you love during May?

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15 Reasons I Am Awesome

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

This week I was so excited that I could actually participate in the writers workshop and I chose to write about 15 reasons I am awesome.  I chose this one because there are times you just need to read a list of good things about yourself so it was a great way to make the a list like that.  So here it goes :

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

  1. I learn things fast.  I usually only need to be shown once maybe twice I have it down.
  2. I will do anything for just about anyone.  I love to help out when needed and I hardly ever say no.  Now this can always be a bad thing but I try to stay positive about things.
  3. I can piss off one of my cats in 5 seconds flat just by looking at her.
  4. I can always hit a curb while driving even when I think I am no were near them.
  5. I am very loyal and will stay at a job even when I know it isn’t the right place for me.
  6. Being single!
  7. Washing clothes and then just throwing them in a pile somewhere and never putting them away.
  8. Not following through with everything I say I am going to do because like I said in #2 I have a really hard time saying no.
  9. Doing the exact opposite of what someone tells me to do.
  10. Not listening to my doctors unless they say what I want to hear and I am also great at not being afraid to go to other doctors and get a second opinion.
  11. Dealing with drug & insurance companies.  For instance I get my Multiple Sclerosis medication for $10 a month instead of $6300.
  12. Talking about my experience with adoption and my experience being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis so young.
  13. Watching the same movie 100 times and never getting tired of it.
  14. Blasting my music even when I have a headache.
  15. Getting place on time which in my world means early!

Those are some of the reasons I think I am awesome.

What makes you awesome?

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A Trend I Don’t Understand

Crazy Fashion Trends

Last week for the writers workshop one of the prompts was about a trend I don’t understand.  So when I think of trends that are going on right now all I can think of is the shirts that look like you are wearing old drapes or an old couch that could be found in someones attic.

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I mean who in the heck wants to walk around looking like you are wearing a couch???  I have never been one to follow what the trend is or anything like that but these last few years I haven’t seen anything for the most part that I would actually wear.

I was looking at trends for Spring 2013 and I saw that people are wearing things that make you you look fat???  How does that work?  I mean why in the heck would I want to wear something like this:

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I don’t think I need clothes to make myself look fatter thanks though!  I don’t how clothes like this are flattering at all for anyone.   I am also sure that most people don’t put on their clothes hoping to be fatter or at least I don’t that is for sure.

Do you like either of these fashion trends?  Would you wear them? What trends can’t you stand?

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Introducing . . .

Introducing

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Today for the Writers Workshop I am going to introduce everyone to Sylvia.  I know I have talked about her on here before but I am going to introduce her and add a few clips of some videos that I have with her in them.

Sylvia is about 6 years old and my grandma is the one who picked out her name.  I already had Elinore when I decided I was going to adopt a kitten and I wanted them both to have “old” lady names.  She has always been a handful and has always hated to be held and picked up.  She is to this day still hates to be held.  While you are holding her she is growling and hissing.

She does have long fur so she gets mats.  Since she hates to be brushed we just brush the mats out when they are little because she will allow us to pet her when she wants to be petted.  When she decides that she wants to be petted you have to drop everything and pet her or she will hiss and run away.

She is the first cat we have ever had that is either sitting still or running full speed.  She doesn’t seem to go anywhere walking well she never used to but she has had to start slowing down because we redid the flooring in part of the house and she slides everywhere if she runs.

Here a few videos of her: The second one shows what she does when she wants to be petted and I try and move her off of me.


She is also scared of pretty much everything and I believe that is because she picked up on everything that Elinore was scared of in the beginning.  Since Elinore was abused before I got her she was super scared of everything and has since started growing out of all of those things but Sylvia is still scared to death of pretty much everything.

That is pretty much all of Sylvia and some of the crazy things that she does.

What crazy things do your pets do?

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