Sunday Smile is a meme to share something about your week that brought a smile to your face (and will bring one to your readers). For me this is usually a forwarded message I got….the best one I received that week - the one that made me laugh out loud. So check out my Sunday Smile today and then go back to your blog and post something to make your reader’s smile - a forwarded like message, a story about something that happened to you, or even a photo of a funny moment….Then come back and sign Mr. Linky below so that we can all enjoy each other’s smiles as the week progresses and we get busy.
You know as a teacher, I love to find these classroom stories….check out how bright this little boy was:
This is a story, proving how fascinating the mind of a six year old is. They think so logically.
A teacher was reading the story of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ to her class. She came to the part of the story where first pig was trying to gather the building materials for his home.
She read, ‘and so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: ‘Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?’
The teacher paused then asked the class: ‘And what do you think the man said?’
One little boy raised his hand and said very matter-of-factly …’I think the man would have said - ‘Well, I’ll be darned!! A talking pig!’
The teacher had to leave the room.
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I’d love for you to particpate and join in Sunday Smile, and be sure to come back and sign Mr. Linky. You can also grab a Sunday Smile button HERE. Thanks to Karen for the awesome button.
I had hoped to do pictures of my prizes with my Thank Yous (and I’ll still try to do that), but with the Internet connection issue, I want to go ahead real quick and send out some Thank Yous for the prizes I’ve won and received in December from some great blogs!
There’s a couple other things I’ve won, but I’ll wait until they arrive so I can also post pictures when I’m back to blogging with my own personal Internet connection. Until then…I’m off to see if I can find a contest for a tv lifts. Those look like something my small house needs.
I have one more goal that I forgot to mention earlier and that is to get back in my habit of “Sunshining.” What am I talking about? My favorite rewards site - Sunshine Rewards. This is a site where you can sign up for offers and shop to earn money. I’ve earned over a $1,000 (you can see the exact amount over there in my right sidebar), but I really slowed down the last three months. I just seem to be so busy that something had to give and unfortunately, Sunshine is what I let slide. With my recent car problems and Internet problems, it seems that I should have been focusing on this extra income. In addition to these to financial woes, I also have 2 cruises in the plans for summer 2010. If I want to move them from plans to reality, I MUST get back in the swing of things and start earning this second set of money. So today I decided to get started while I’m at my parents so that I can get a start as I know I’ll make little over the next week while I don’t have Internet. *sigh*
Paid E-Mail: Thanks for being a Super Member for 4Q08! 0.55
Paid Click: Hot Jobs (January 2009) 0.01
That’s a total of $1.66. I know to many of you this probably isn’t much and doesn’t seem worthwhile, but I’m excited to be off to a decent start. My goal is to make at least $34 a month. This would mean I would need to make $1.13 a day. While I know I’ll be behind this week with the lack of Internet, I’m still going to try to overcome this when it comes back (and I may try one more offer tonight and if I come to my parents tomorrow I’ll try some tomorrow). Wish me luck. And if you are interested in being a SR member, please sign up and I’ll be posting some tutorials over the next few weeks and I think I’ll try to post my weekly earnings maybe to keep me on track.
With all of my Internet connection woes, my new years posts that I’ve been thinking about and drafting are maybe not even going to be posted, but I wanted to take a moment to blog about a wonderful weekly blogging opportunity if one of your New Year goals (I like that better than resolutions that are tossed aside so quickly) is to lose weight, get fit or lead a more healthy lifestyle. I’m hoping to do a little of each of those so I’ll be happily participating in Think Thin Thursdays over at The Not-So-Blog Blog.
So what are my my New Year’s Resolutions? I haven’t really sat down and thought yet (sad, I know)…but I can tell you off hand that I want to do the following three goals (I read somewhere that you’ll never accomplish your list if you let it get too long so we shall see):
lose weight, get fit or lead a more healthy lifestyle (hopefully by increasing the amount of healthy cooking and decreasing the precooked and fast food meals for myself and my family
Get in a better financial situation than I was on January 1st
I have 3 fairly large blogging ideas. I hope to accomplish at least 2 of those this year.
Good luck to everyone and if you haven’t already, go sign up and join in the fun at Think Thin Thursdays….you know we all need to at least do one of the Thursday goals.
My Think Thin Goals for the first week of January 2009 -
3 bottles of water a day (I’ve been slacking the last two weeks)
3 days of at least 30 minutes of exercise
I’ll be back next Thursday (or whenever I have Internet) to let you know how it goes. Thanks Bridgette for the help in accomplishing my goals.
Yes…I have missed my Think Thin Thursday post, my Aloha Friday post and after an hour on the phone with tech support today, I was informed they CAN’T FIX IT!!! And if I want it fixed, I have to have a tech guy come to the house AT THE COST OF $130!!!!! Yes…I now have a car that needs a $2,000 transmission and an Internet connection that needs a $130 service call! I flat out that Hughes Net sucks! I have for a long time, but lucky me lives in the woods (and actually I like living in the woods in EVERY aspect except my damn Internet options) and I really only have 2 options - Wild Blue and HughesNet and from what I understand, Wild Blue is worse. I mean seriously for $70 a month and hundreds up front for the satellite and modem, it seems the least they could do is keep us UP AND GOING! Hell, I’d be happy with ONE free tech visit a year. But no…we pay them and pay them and pay them! For better than phone line, but crappy compared to other high speed connections that are VERY moody with the weather and more than any other freakin type of connection out there AND expensive service calls. Aren’t we lucky to be Hughes Net customers?!?
Anyways, that Internet that is guaranteed to be out permanently - no hope? Well, now that I’ve agreed for them to send a serviceman out, it’s working tonight….SLOWLY, but it’s working hit or miss. UGH!!! Anyways, please excuse my posts over the next few days. I have to wait 3 to 5 days for the serviceman to arrive (which means a week right?) so I may have short posts over the next week and they may not be daily, but when my connection is happily restored within the NEXT week…I’ll be back to happily posting….
BTW, I did throw a royal fit with the FOREIGNER that had to repeat everything 4 times before I understand him on the HOUR long tech call (this is why I went 2 days before I called them) so I will be getting 37 free days of service - yea, me! That’s the first time in almost 10 years of service that they’ve offered me ANYTHING.
Have you read this book? I’ve read it myself several times as I’ve read it with groups of students. I’m so excited to know that a movie is now coming out about this book. This is as exciting to me as many were about the Twilight movie. And I’m even more excited to learn that Brenden Fraser will be the star of Inkheart. I have loved his performance for many years. I love each of the Mummy movies, but I think I first became a Fraser fan in 1993 when he played in Son In Law. We actually have that movie on DVD and I stil pull it out and watch it from time to time. Cameron loves to watch him as George of the Jungle.
If you do not know anything about the story of Inkheart, it is the first book in the Inkworld trilogy. The story is about a 12 year old girl, Meggie, who flees her home with her father and a family friend. Her father ends up being kidnapped. Through searching for him, Meggie learns that her father actually read her mother INTO the book Inkheart and that is why she has never been a part of Meggie’s life. I don’t want to ruin the entire plot, but I will conclude by saying that Meggie’s father atempts to read the people who are pursuing them into a book, and this book is the story of that attempt.
This movie will be in theaters January 23rd. Watch the trailer below for a sneak preview.
