The Blogger's Exchange! -- A great set of blogs!

So...I joined a group called the Bloggers Exchange. Wanted to share the other links with you...please be sure to check them out!


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BEAUTY AND FASHION DIVA

BROWN PINAY

CORBITONESS

DASHING SMILES

EAT,DRINK AND BE HEALTHY

EL OWEINI’S LIFE


EXOTIC PHILIPPINES

EXPERIENCE OF A SUPER MOMMY

FASHION AND PASSION ONLINE

FROM WALA TO OKAY

GENEFAITH’S HOME

HAPPY HOME WORKING

HAPPY MEALS

HERE…THERE..& EVERYWHERE….


HOBBIES AND EVERYTHING

I LOVE DARLY!

I LOVE HUES

I’M ONLY SLEEPING

I AM BUT… GAGAY.

JARED’S LITTLE CORNER

JE’S ANATOMY

JEN’S JOYFUL LIFE

JOY’S FLAIR


FAB MOMMA

KAYCE’S ONLINE DIARY

KERO’S CELEBRATION

KNITS READS AND REVIEWS

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LIFE ACCORDING TO ME

LIFE AS A WAHM

LIVE.LAUGH.LOVE

LOUE’S JOURNAL


LYZA’S LANE

MAKE MORE MONEY ONLINE

ME AND MY MESTIZAS

MIRAGE

MOM DAUGHTER REVIEWS

MOM’S SPECIAL DIARY

MOM’S UPS AND DOWNS

MOMMA HELPS

MOMMY SURVIVAL


MOMMY’S JOY RIDE!

MONEY,MAGIC AND MAYHEM

MUM WRITES AGAIN

MY BRIC-A-BRAC

MY CRAFT AND OTHER INTERESTS

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MY DAILY MUMBLES

MY JOURNEY BEING A MOMMY

MY LITTLE LIFE


MY RANDOM BEST

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MY THOUGHTS IN LETTERS

MY TOTS EXACTLY

MY TRAVEL FOLIO

MY WEB BLOG DOT COM

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NEW HOME SWEET HOME

NSHIMA SERVINGS


OCCASIONS OF JOY

OUR HOMESCHOOL ROOM

OUR VILLAGE IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT

PAGASPAS FAMILY BLOG

PINAY MOM’S MUSING

PINAY MOMMY A DREAMER

PINAYMUM-MOMMY’S LIFE AROUND…

POP UPS OF MY MIND

POSTCARD PERFECT


PRETTY OPINIONATED

PURE THOUGHTS

QUIRKS OF A DELUSIONAL MIND

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SEPTEMBERCHARM

SHAHZ MUSING

SO THE MORAL OF THE STORY…

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THE ALL-AROUND MOM

THE BLOGGERS JOURNAL

THE BLOGGING QUEEN

THE BLOGGING TRAVELLER

THE FILIPINA WAHM

THE KNIW WIT BY SHAIR

THE MISIS CHRONICLES


THE PEPPERRIFIC LIFE

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

THE TOTTERING MAMA

THESE AND THOSE

TRANSPLANTED THOUGHTS

TRAVELHOLIC’S EXPRESSIONS

TWEN TEEN MOM

UNWRITTEN CHRONICLES

VERNS DAILY


VIVA TRIPS & TIPS

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Late Night Jokes!

Hehehe. It's 2:30 am...but I didn't want to go to bed, without another post...so I thought I would find some jokes to share with people. *smiles*

Tomorrow, I will be finding jewelry in Garnet, in honor of my boyfriend's (and my partner girlfriend's) birthstone.

Well...let's see what I can find in the humor department. Sadly, it's 2:35, so funny now...may not be too funny tomorrow. *laughs*

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A mature lover went to a jewelry store to buy some gift for his girlfriend. He selected a locket.
“Don’t you want her name engraved upon it?” asked the jeweler.
The lover thought for a moment, and replied, “No, just engrave it: To My One and Only Love. This way, if we break up and she throws it back to me in anger, I can use it again.

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Date of Joke: Tuesday, 25th May, 2004

A white-haired old man walked into a jewelry store on a Friday, with a beautiful young lady at his side.

"I'm looking for a special ring for my girlfriend," he said.

Our jeweler looked through our stock and took out an outstanding ring priced at $5,000.

"I don't think you understand-I want something very unique," the man said.

At that, our now very excited jeweler went and fetched our special stock from the safe. "Here's one stunning ring at $40,000."

The girls eyes sparkled, and the man said that he would take it.

"How are you paying?" asked our jeweler.

"I'll pay by check; but of course the bank will want to make sure that everything is in order, so I'll write a check and you can phone the bank tomorrow, and then I'll fetch the ring on Monday."

Monday morning, our very disappointed jeweler phoned the man. "You lied, there's no money in that account."

"I know, sorry, but can you imagine what a FANTASTIC weekend I had?"

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Mel and his wife are walking down Main Street one evening. They stop at a jewelry store window.

She says, "Mel, I'd love those diamond earrings."

He says, "No problem.�
 and takes a brick out of his pocket, smashes the window, and gets the earrings for her. They walk away hastily and soon come upon another jewelry store.

In the window, there is this gorgeous diamond ring, and the wife says, "Mel, oh please, please, please, get me that ring."

He looks around, sees there's nobody around, takes a brick out of his pocket and hurls it at the window.

Now she's got the earrings and this great ring, and they walk away... until they come to yet another jewelry store.

There's this fantastic diamond necklace in the window. She starts begging, "Mel, Mel, just look at it. I need it!"

He looks at her and says "Whaddaya think, I'm made out of bricks?"

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(a little risque)

There is this young attractive married woman who wants expensive jewelry, designer clothes and fast cars but her husband is not so well off. One day, she comes home late wearing a gold necklace. Her husband, who has been waiting for her, asks, “Where did you get that necklace.”

The woman says, “I won it at the bingo.”

Three days later, the woman again comes home late wearing a mink coat. Her husband asks, “Where did you get that mink coat?”

The woman says, “I won it at the bingo.”

A week later, the woman comes home driving a brand new Jaguar. Her husband asks with suspicion, “Where did you get that car? At the bingo?”

The woman snaps back, “Oh shut up! I’m too tired to talk to you! Why don’t you just be a good boy and prepare a hot bath for me. I need to relax.” The husband stomps off to the bathroom.

A few minutes later, the woman enters the bathroom only to find the bath tub with very little water. She calls for her husband and demands to know why the bath tub isn’t filled with water.

Her husband replies, “I don’t want your bingo card to get wet!”


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Well, hope you enjoyed....I need to sleep. I hope that everyone will have a great night, and a great day tomorrow!

Mary

Woot! Followers!

Weeee! I am up to a whole 8 followers! *snickers* It's funny, since I have been trying to build up my follower base on Twitter...but I know, it comes, slowly but surely. (and don't call me Shirley!)

Who would have thought something like that would excite me so much...except that it's 2:30 am, and I really should go to sleep.

But...I feel like I need to make another post, since I haven't today...so I think I will make a joke post.

And maybe tomorrow, I will do another random birthstone jewelry post...since my boyfriend's birthstone is garnet, I will find some pretty garnet jewelry to share!

Until then........*smiles*

I Won! I Won! (at least I hope so!)

My last few days have been hectic. I wasn't on the computer for about 2 days, then had time yesterday just to catch up on emails, and a post or two, before I had to get ready for a sleep study last night (I normally go to sleep about 4am, and I had to go in at 9:30 last night. I shorted myself sleep yesterday, by only sleeping for about 4 hours, so everything took about 3-4 times the amount to do anything.

So today, after getting home, I caught up on my emails, saw a wonderful how-to video (see the previous post), then went traipsing about my blog stats, to see if I got new views...and what do I see as one of the reffering sites?  http://frugalkiwi.co.nz/2011/03/winner-of-the-silverworks-earrings/

So, I go over to see who won....and I did!!  I am sooooo excited!

Sadly, I saw the post (I think) was on the 30th of March, and so that makes it out of the 48 hour period.  So she may choose another one...and if she does, then I can't blame her...I want her to do what she feels is right.  BUT, I am so excited that I won (a week ago, I won snack bags from EarthSwag...I haven't been this lucky in a while!).

So all I can say is...I hope I get these pretties in the mail.  But if not, at least I had the chance, and I hope that the person who does, loves them also!

edit 4/3 at 11pm:

Yes, I am going to get them!!! They are on their way to me, and I am so excited!!!

Video: How to Make Earwires

I have always loved Szarka at Magpie Gemstones. She is such a lovely person, always helpful and cheerful in her posts both on Facebook, and in the wire wrap yahoo group, where I "met" her.

Now, I don't wire wrap...yet. But it's very nice to read the posts, and especially hers. She has gathered tutorials from all over the web, and placed them where people can find and use them. Everything from beginning to advanced.

Then she goes and creates this video. And I find she is just as beautiful in person, as her written "voice" sounds. She is very professional in this video, but a "real" person, including the "what is this.....oh, yeah, it's a burr cup". And finding she needs to "scramble" to find tools is funny, because it's all of our ways. I am a ton worse, but seeing that she is doing it...just makes you feel relaxed that it's "okay".

I wanted to share this video with everyone, not just to show how to make earrings, but to share this lovely woman, and her luscious beads, of which I haven't got to get my hands on one strand yet. But I promise, Szarka...I will! I will!

"Hidden" Illnesses

Yesterday, my ex-husband posted this to his Facebook wall:

YOU DON'T LOOK SICK?! No, I don't. It's hard to explain to someone when they have no clue. It's a daily struggle feeling sick on the inside while you look fine on the outside. Put this as your status for at least 1 hour if you or someone you know has an invisible illness (Anxiety, P.T.S.D.,Lupus, Fibromyalgia, IC, Chronic Fatigue, Diabetes, Crohns, Arthritis, Menieres, IBS, Epilepsy, Sarcoid, MS, Depression...PCOS

It really touched me, when I saw it.  For the longest time, I thought I was just "lazy" (and I may have been...I do have a tendency towards laziness), but for a long time, how do you explain that you are tired when you just slept 14 hours a day.  Small things like that.  Perhaps if I hadn't isolated myself somewhat in Vacaville, and I had had been bold enough to ask my ex for the trips, I might have been diagnosed earlier.

But when you start believing it in yourself, that you are lazy, can't do stuff, and just sit back, and let it take over you...it becomes a hard habit to break.  But now, that I know I have a known condition, Fibromyalgia, and others that are secondary, either diagnosed, or still working towards diagnosis (depression -- is it bipolar, or complete depression...is meds messing with my moods/etc.  Plantar Fasciitis on my feet.  Pain Problem with my back, that my shins, that they cannot seem to diagnose...I could list more...but those are my primary problems).

When I read the post on his wall, I cried...because he understood now.  And he's going through his own problems...another form, in a sense...He is suffering from PTSD.  He used to tell me to "suck it up" on the pain, now, he says it's understandable, and a lot more so, because now we know "why" I have the pain.  But I would not wish to have what he has....nightmares, sometimes just random jerks, because a shadow lays the wrong way, and reminds his subconcious....that sort of thing.

Thank you, Ken, for posting that.  I cried when I read it...and am now, also.  There's people out there who have, and who understand! 

 

*cries* I want

Gods, another one I want from here.