Spending Time

So, I'm not working right now and my car needs fixed for me to go anywhere.  How to spend all this time that I usually spend running around? Well I have found a few ways to stay occupied.

1-Play everyone's farmville for them. My mom's won't let her in, my daughter is at school all week, and occasionally other people are too busy to harvest their crops on time.

2-Clean out my house like I've already found a better place to live. This one has the bonus of saving me more time later when it actually becomes time to move. Not to mention, having an emptier living room has left me feeling more relaxed when I lay on the couch to relax and watch tv, play online, or whatever.

3-Learn how to fix my laptop. (I need a new keyboard as my space bar is broken and I have to type really slow now, which my hyper personality seriously dislikes.) Now I just need to figure out where to come up with an additional 20-30 for the keyboard and shipping. I know how to do many repairs on desktops and I am elated to branch out into laptops.

4-Inventory my food. I keep intending to eat out what we have in the house so that moving will be lighter once I find a place but can't remember what all we have on hand. Maybe I won't have to go shopping in May for anything other than milk, bread and snacks. Wouldn't that be really nice?

5-Scrubbing walls, floors, counters, etc. My bathroom really shines right now.

6-Boxing up things we use less often. (Holiday specific kitchen wares, items for entertaining, etc)

7-Going through kids clothes to donate.

8-Working on counted cross stitch projects I haven't had time for.

9-Using StumbleUpon to find interesting sites.

10-Pushing through as much of my daughter's schoolwork as possible so that we can have light fun days when the weather is great.

11-Clearing off our bookshelves to donate to the library and sell online.

12-Organizing my computer files and bookmarks.

13-Teaching my son the sounds of the letters (since he already knows all his letters at 3), pencil control skills, and plain old fun activities like lacing, art etc.

14-Organizing my room.

15-Making it possible to change my couch out for one my parents are getting me from a friend of theirs.

I'd say that I've found a few ways to make good come out of the misfortune of the van needing repaired but there are a few downsides I just can't get around.

1-Having my schedule at the whim of others since I can't just take myself.

2-Not being able to schedule anything without consulting others to see if they can drive me.

3-Having to walk across town to get milk with little ones in tow on legs that are having trouble holding me up around the house let alone after walking across town.

All in all it's definitely been good to spend more time at home.

Simply Disturbing to Me as a Mother

So let me get this straight. You want our children to lie to us, hiding a potentially fatal medical procedure yet let me guess if something does go wrong and our child becomes a statistic (because let's face it if she dies you don't care she is just a statistic to you though she is not to me) you will still support our being prosecuted for failing to seek medical care for them WHEN WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY HAD AN ABORTION!!! Things are getting really shady out there.

China Product Boycott

Gotta Love Some Email Forwards

FOR EXAMPLE THE "OUR FAMILY" BRAND OF THE MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN FROM CHINA. SO FOR A FEW MORE CENTS I BOUGHT THE LIBERTY GOLD BRAND OR THE DOLE IS FROM CAL. ALSO WATCH FOR PICKLES. A LOT OF THE NO-NAME PICKLES COME FROM INDIA. BICK'S ARE FROM CANADA. WORTH THE SMALL DIFFERENCE IN PRICE.

Another example was in canned mushrooms. No-Name brand came from Indonesia. Next to them were President Choice brand. Produce of Canada!! The P. C. went into my grocery bag.

TAKES FOREVER JUST TO BUY FOOD AND DO LABEL READING ! !

Are we Americans and Canadians as dumb as we appear --- or --- is it that we just do not think?

While the Chinese, export inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in North American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the Obama Administration (and the Harper Government!) for perceived errors.

Yet 70% of North Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.

Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?

SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA/CANADA !!

Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product, or none at all.

You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.

Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some North American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.

THINK ABOUT THIS, If 200 million North Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor...fast!!

The downside? Some Canadian/American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory.

The solution? Let's give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on June 4, and continue it until July 4. That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their North American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.

EVEN BETTER. . . START NOW !

Send this to everybody you know. Let's show them that we are intelligent Americans and Canadians, and NOBODY can take us for granted.

If we can't live without cheap Chinese goods for one month out of our lives, WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!