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06 Aug 2010 Feedback wanted
Author: Charlotte |  Category: life  | Tags: , , , , ,  | Comments off

I am seriously considering making jewelry. I ordered a catalog from a company that sells beads and other things for making jewelry. I also checked out EBay and found some great deals on beads, findings, wires and tools. What I want to know if there any other jewelry makers out there that read this blog and can tell me how hard it is to do and if you make any money doing that.

I really want to do something other than sit on the computer playing games all day and I want to do something I can make some money doing.

Please leave a comment because this is something I really want to try to do. Thanks!!

27 Jul 2010 So tired and stressed
Author: Charlotte |  Category: life  | Tags: , , , , ,  | 2 Comments

I’m so tired. I don’t sleep well at night much anymore because I get into bed and my mind won’t shut off so I can sleep. I keep thinking of all kinds of things over and over and over again. All this no sleep and stress are really taking it’s toll on my face. I think I’m starting to look older than my 56 years. I need to look into finding a good eye cream to help with the dark circles and wrinkles that this mess is causing.

I still haven’t been able to find a job and it’s been over a year and a half. I feel like a failure but I really do know that its because of the economy and not my fault. I look at the paper and websites every day trying to find a job but there just aren’t really any out there for me. If I do find one that I could do they want someone with a college degree or someone who speaks Spanish and I haven’t gone to college and have a hard enough time speaking English sometimes.. haha.

I was taking a pill at night that did shut my mind off so I could sleep but I stopped taking it because some side effects that I read about. I didn’t want to risk getting diabetes and some other things like that. For now I just have to deal with my sleeping problems and keep my fingers crossed that a job shows up for me soon.

24 Jul 2010 I need light
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I can’t wait until we can afford to get our stuff out of storage. I need some of my lamps. I can’t afford to go out and buy new ones right now although I’d love to get some Quoizel lighting. They make some very pretty lamps that I’d love to have. I have borrowed lamps right now but I just want my own. I love my lamps.. they’re so pretty.

I’d also love to replace the lighting in the bathroom. The current lighting is a strip of what I call “movie star dressing room” lights. You know the kind.. they are a strip of about 4 lights that have the huge round bulbs in it. They were very popular in the 80′s. We had them in the house we used to have that was built in 1986. I liked them then but not so much anymore. I’d like something a little more sleek and modern looking.

Actually this whole house could do with new lighting and even an electrical upgrade. We can’t have the window air conditioning units on and use a vacuum at the same time without tripping a circuit breaker. That just doesn’t seem all that safe to me.

17 Jul 2010 I screwed up… big time
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I got a can of compressed air this morning and wanted to clean the dust out of my computer. I’ve done this a hundred times before with no problems but this time I got the bright idea to get closer to the fan by taking off this plastic cover thing. I didn’t realize that it was attached to a part that had these metal fins which had a plug thing with a ton of tiny wires on the bottom that fit into another plug on the motherboard. Well.. you guessed it.. some of the pins got bent and when I put it back together and turned on the computer I blew the motherboard.

The monitor wouldn’t work and neither would the keyboard or anything else plugged into the tower. But the fan was blowing air like crazy

So Andi, my daughter, had another laptop that wasn’t working right and she reformatted it and now it’s working and I’m using that for now.

A new motherboard for my computer will cost at least $100 and I don’t know if I want to spend that much (which I can’t afford right now) or save up for a new computer (which I can’t afford right now either).

I wanted to get my pictures and other stuff (like my resume) off my computer and was trying to get a usb drive but I wasn’t able to get one quick enough before totaling my computer. I wonder if there is a way, when I do finally get another computer, to get the files off of the hard drive?

UPDATE: I might be lucky… I googled my problem and found someone who had the same problem. Then I searched for a heatsink for my computer and found one for about $20. As soon as I have that in my account I’ll order it and if it doesn’t work then I’m only out $20.

11 Jul 2010 Hot
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One thing about my new home I don’t like is that it doesn’t have central air. That is one thing I miss the most. It does have window air conditioners but we only use them if we are in the room. For instance: the units in the bedrooms only get used at night not during the day. I try to keep the one in the living room on low cool so as not to run up the electric bill too high.

This heat and humidity can be one of the best weight loss formulas. The heat makes you not want to eat or cook. I hate having to add more heat to the house and make the AC units work even harder.

11 Jul 2010 Almost looks like home
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My living room almost looks like a real living room now. I have a love seat and a chair. I have a rug in front of the love seat. I have a big black chest for my used TV. I have a table for my computer. Compared to what I just moved out of it feels luxurious to me even thought it’s all borrowed stuff (except for the chair). I feel like someone rubbed some stuff to fade stretch marks on this room and transformed it.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to type with my keyboard on a desk. I’ve been putting the keyboard in my lap and ending up with sore arms and shoulders. I even have room on the table for my printer. At the camper the printer was elsewhere and when I needed to use it I had to bring it over to where my computer was and hook it up, use it, unhook it and put it back where I got it from. It was a pain in the rear end.

Now when I finally get my stuff out of storage it will be absolutely perfect!!

08 Jul 2010 I hate my hair
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I’ve always had baby fine hair but in the last few years it’s become really thin. I hate it. I tried all kinds of different shampoos to try to make it thicker but nothing is working. I’m even temped to try fast hair growth shampoo but I don’t need it to grow.. I need it to be thicker.

I put my hair in a ponytail and it’s just a pathetic, skinny little rats tail. I have to make sure to keep my hair dyed blond because when the roots start showing you can really see just how thin my hair is. With it being light blond it kind of blends with my scalp and the thinness is not quite as noticeable.