I SELL AVON
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Monday, May 18, 2009
4:38 AM | Posted by
Tina
I sit down at my computer and think "Today I'm going to post on my blog." and then I........ don't. It's not like I don't have anything to say. I would love to at least be able to write about things so I can go back later and say "Oh, yeah. I remember that now." or "That's when that happened. I couldn't remember."
Last week my oldest son won several awards at school. They had their band spring concert and he got best percussion student. The teacher said he had been a really big help to her this year. The day after that, they had the middle school awards ceremony and he got three: A honor roll for the year, highest average in English for HIS teacher and a Best Bear award for just being an all-around good student from another teacher. We are so proud of him. He's such a great kid. You would never know he's a teenager by the way he acts and I am so thankful. God has truly blessed me to have such a wonderful son and I thank HIM every day.
My tomato plants finally have some little bitty tomatoes on them. Those poor plants have been through a lot. If my dog isn't digging them up or breaking off limbs, they are getting drowned by all of the rain we have been having. I'm really surprised they are doing as well as they are. The bell pepper plants aren't doing so well. They've had it even rougher than the tomato plants. Maybe soon we can replace the fence around the patio so the dogs can't get on and mess up my pots.
My Avon business is hanging in there. I saw an infomercial about selling Avon and saw all of the money that some of those women were making. It made me really want to sell more. I am just not a pushy person, so it's hard to me to just approach people and say "Hi, I sell Avon. Would you like a brochure?" I did have them out at my garage sale and a neighbor saw them. She didn't know I sold Avon. She has actually ordered several items and I'm hoping she's going to be a really good customer for me.
I did find some little lamps at Walmart. They had two buffet lamps packaged together on clearance for $5. Can you believe they were only $5? They were perfect in my guest room. One is on the little table that I "rescued" from someone's trash and the other is on the piano. I try to be patient and wait my wants out, because eventually I will find something I like either cheap or free and it's a lot more exciting that way.
This morning I started walking for exercise. I got up at (gasp) 5:15 a.m. and walked for about 25 minutes. I am going to try really hard to keep it up.
Last week my oldest son won several awards at school. They had their band spring concert and he got best percussion student. The teacher said he had been a really big help to her this year. The day after that, they had the middle school awards ceremony and he got three: A honor roll for the year, highest average in English for HIS teacher and a Best Bear award for just being an all-around good student from another teacher. We are so proud of him. He's such a great kid. You would never know he's a teenager by the way he acts and I am so thankful. God has truly blessed me to have such a wonderful son and I thank HIM every day.
My tomato plants finally have some little bitty tomatoes on them. Those poor plants have been through a lot. If my dog isn't digging them up or breaking off limbs, they are getting drowned by all of the rain we have been having. I'm really surprised they are doing as well as they are. The bell pepper plants aren't doing so well. They've had it even rougher than the tomato plants. Maybe soon we can replace the fence around the patio so the dogs can't get on and mess up my pots.
My Avon business is hanging in there. I saw an infomercial about selling Avon and saw all of the money that some of those women were making. It made me really want to sell more. I am just not a pushy person, so it's hard to me to just approach people and say "Hi, I sell Avon. Would you like a brochure?" I did have them out at my garage sale and a neighbor saw them. She didn't know I sold Avon. She has actually ordered several items and I'm hoping she's going to be a really good customer for me.
I did find some little lamps at Walmart. They had two buffet lamps packaged together on clearance for $5. Can you believe they were only $5? They were perfect in my guest room. One is on the little table that I "rescued" from someone's trash and the other is on the piano. I try to be patient and wait my wants out, because eventually I will find something I like either cheap or free and it's a lot more exciting that way.
This morning I started walking for exercise. I got up at (gasp) 5:15 a.m. and walked for about 25 minutes. I am going to try really hard to keep it up.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Oh, good grief!!! I missed an entire month of blogging. It is now May 2, school is winding down for the year and the kiddos are winding up for summer.
My oldest son just got through taking TAKS tests. He took math and American history this week. Now he's ready for 9th grade. I wish I could say that I'm ready for him to BE in 9th grade, but that would be a lie. I'm not old enough to have a high schooler!!!!! Okay, I really am, but let's pretend that I'm not.
My youngest son had Field Day yesterday. I have never been so thankful for clouds in MY LIFE. Clouds and a breeze blowing. It made Field Day actually pleasant. It has been raining so much here in the Dallas area the last week that they had to make it Parking Lot day instead of Field Day. The kids seemed to have a great time. Of course, any time they aren't doing school work or testing is a great time when you're in third grade.
I didn't work this week, so I got some projects done around the house. When my mother was here last weekend, she made a comment about the valances in the gameroom, saying something like "So, you haven't hemmed those yet, huh?" I bought the valances at a garage sale for 25 cents each probably a year and a half ago. They matched the trundle bed cover I got at the thrift store perfectly. The only problem was they were wayyyyy too long. Valances are supposed to cover the top 1/4 of the window at the most and these covered the top 1/2 of the window at the least. I told my mom that I knew once I put them up, it was going to be a looooong time before I took them down to hem them and I was right. 1 1/2 years is pretty long for something like that. In dog years that would be 10 1/2 years. Anyway, I finally took them down, cut them off, hung them back up (looking muuuuuch better) (don't you like the way I'm emphasizing my words today) and actually made a couple of pillows to match. Am I a domestic divas or what? If you come over to my house, though, please don't look too closely at the pillows one is just a little smaller than the other one. Just glance at them and say "Wow, you did a great job."
The other project I did this week was painting my little side table. I guess I will admit to digging it out of a pile of trash in front of somebody's house a couple of weeks ago. When I dug it out, it was light blue and was a tiny bit broken. It's one of those tables that has the drop leafs on the side and a little "leg" folds out to hold up the "leaf". One of the little fold-out legs was broken off. It was also filthy and the hinges were bent. I still haven't figured out how the hinges got bent like that. I thought I would try to strip the light blue paint, but when I went to Lowe's and Walmart, the cheapest paint stripper I could find was $6.50 and I really didn't want to spend that much on a free table, especially when I didn't know what the wood looked like underneath. I decided to paint it black (I found a quart of black paint somebody had custom tinted and apparently didn't like for $3.50 at Walmart) and put it in the guest room next to the rocking chair. After several coats of paint and hammering the hingest back straight, it doesn't even look like the same table. We still have to reattach the leg, but it looks great. Now I just need a little lamp to put on it. Hopefully someone will throw one out soon and I can redo it too.
Wow, I guess I had a lot to say, but who wouldn't after not posting for a month? I'm going to say I'm going to do better about posting, but please don't hold me to that. I can't guarantee anything.
My oldest son just got through taking TAKS tests. He took math and American history this week. Now he's ready for 9th grade. I wish I could say that I'm ready for him to BE in 9th grade, but that would be a lie. I'm not old enough to have a high schooler!!!!! Okay, I really am, but let's pretend that I'm not.
My youngest son had Field Day yesterday. I have never been so thankful for clouds in MY LIFE. Clouds and a breeze blowing. It made Field Day actually pleasant. It has been raining so much here in the Dallas area the last week that they had to make it Parking Lot day instead of Field Day. The kids seemed to have a great time. Of course, any time they aren't doing school work or testing is a great time when you're in third grade.
I didn't work this week, so I got some projects done around the house. When my mother was here last weekend, she made a comment about the valances in the gameroom, saying something like "So, you haven't hemmed those yet, huh?" I bought the valances at a garage sale for 25 cents each probably a year and a half ago. They matched the trundle bed cover I got at the thrift store perfectly. The only problem was they were wayyyyy too long. Valances are supposed to cover the top 1/4 of the window at the most and these covered the top 1/2 of the window at the least. I told my mom that I knew once I put them up, it was going to be a looooong time before I took them down to hem them and I was right. 1 1/2 years is pretty long for something like that. In dog years that would be 10 1/2 years. Anyway, I finally took them down, cut them off, hung them back up (looking muuuuuch better) (don't you like the way I'm emphasizing my words today) and actually made a couple of pillows to match. Am I a domestic divas or what? If you come over to my house, though, please don't look too closely at the pillows one is just a little smaller than the other one. Just glance at them and say "Wow, you did a great job."
The other project I did this week was painting my little side table. I guess I will admit to digging it out of a pile of trash in front of somebody's house a couple of weeks ago. When I dug it out, it was light blue and was a tiny bit broken. It's one of those tables that has the drop leafs on the side and a little "leg" folds out to hold up the "leaf". One of the little fold-out legs was broken off. It was also filthy and the hinges were bent. I still haven't figured out how the hinges got bent like that. I thought I would try to strip the light blue paint, but when I went to Lowe's and Walmart, the cheapest paint stripper I could find was $6.50 and I really didn't want to spend that much on a free table, especially when I didn't know what the wood looked like underneath. I decided to paint it black (I found a quart of black paint somebody had custom tinted and apparently didn't like for $3.50 at Walmart) and put it in the guest room next to the rocking chair. After several coats of paint and hammering the hingest back straight, it doesn't even look like the same table. We still have to reattach the leg, but it looks great. Now I just need a little lamp to put on it. Hopefully someone will throw one out soon and I can redo it too.
Wow, I guess I had a lot to say, but who wouldn't after not posting for a month? I'm going to say I'm going to do better about posting, but please don't hold me to that. I can't guarantee anything.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Has it really been 15 days since I posted? Where does the time go? Sometimes I wish it would slow down, but then there are times, like when I'm at work, that I wish it would would go faster.
During the last 15 days Spring Break happened. What a trip!! We took the boys to Oklahoma to stay with my parents for the week and then went to my MIL's in Georgia for 3 1/2 days and then went to Bossier City, LA for a friend's retirement ceremony from the Air Force, then back to Oklahoma, then home to Texas. Hubby and I traveled over 2800 miles in 8 days. Considering a couple of those days were just spent puttering the few miles around her house, that was a lot of mileage to put on my poor van (not to mention my body) in those few short days.
My oldest son had a pre-UIL band concert Tuesday night and, as always, I was so impressed with way those 8th graders can play their instruments. It always amazes me how much they have improved since beginning 7th grade. The band teachers are just awesome. My son actually played 3 different instruments in ONE song. Talk about impressive. The only glitch was when he was switching instruments, he also had to switch his music sheets to another music stand and one sheet fell off. He had to play from memory and he stepped up to the plate on that. Didn't even miss a beat. My hubby told him afterward that it was going to do that again, please tell us so we can make him another copy of the music so he wouldn't have to worry about switching it around. That's just a disaster waiting to happen in a competition. Bless his heart. He's just 14 and doesn't even think to ask us to do things like that for him. He's such an awesome kid.
I had a Haagen Dazs ice cream party last night. I am a member of SheSpeaks. It's an online discussion board/word of mouth advertising site. About a month ago they asked me to host an ice cream party and I said "Free ice cream? How soon can it get here?" They sent 7 pints of different flavored ice cream, plastic spoons, paper cups, napkins, a tote bags and an ice cream scoop. How much better can it get? Everything I needed to have a party and it was FREE. They even sent it on dry ice, so my boys got to see dry ice for the first time. Two deals in one. Anyway, we tried passion fruit, coffee, brown sugar, ginger, milk chocolate, vanilla bean and mint. My favorite was the mint with passion fruit being a close second. Of course, you can't even go wrong with chocolate and vanilla. I didn't like the coffee at all. It was too strong for my tastes, but one of my friends loved it and the ginger. Overall, it was a lot of fun to have an ice cream bar and be able to share it with friends.
I'm not working today. In case you didnt' know, I work part-time for a small business owner in Mesquite, TX and the economy has really slowed down her business and so that has affected my work as well. That's okay, though. It gives me more time to blog. Whoo hoo!!
My youngest son it staying after school today for LandSharks. It's an exercise program where they walk around outside. Anyway, they were supposed to do it yesterday, too, but the weather here was nasty; rain, cooler temps, lightening, etc. They called me from school and said they weren't having it and were going to hold him at school until they heard from me. Well, I didn't know they would cancel if the weather was bad. I thought they would probably just run around the gym or something. I stayed a little later at work than usual. Fortunately, my neighbor was able to pick him up when she picked her children up. When my son asked me if I was going to work today, I told him no and he said "So you learned your lesson, huh?" Meaning I will NEVER tell my boss I can work later because he has an after school activity, unless my husband it home. Too many variables and I am a paranoid mother. Oh, well, when you never stop learning and some lessons are hard then others.
During the last 15 days Spring Break happened. What a trip!! We took the boys to Oklahoma to stay with my parents for the week and then went to my MIL's in Georgia for 3 1/2 days and then went to Bossier City, LA for a friend's retirement ceremony from the Air Force, then back to Oklahoma, then home to Texas. Hubby and I traveled over 2800 miles in 8 days. Considering a couple of those days were just spent puttering the few miles around her house, that was a lot of mileage to put on my poor van (not to mention my body) in those few short days.
My oldest son had a pre-UIL band concert Tuesday night and, as always, I was so impressed with way those 8th graders can play their instruments. It always amazes me how much they have improved since beginning 7th grade. The band teachers are just awesome. My son actually played 3 different instruments in ONE song. Talk about impressive. The only glitch was when he was switching instruments, he also had to switch his music sheets to another music stand and one sheet fell off. He had to play from memory and he stepped up to the plate on that. Didn't even miss a beat. My hubby told him afterward that it was going to do that again, please tell us so we can make him another copy of the music so he wouldn't have to worry about switching it around. That's just a disaster waiting to happen in a competition. Bless his heart. He's just 14 and doesn't even think to ask us to do things like that for him. He's such an awesome kid.
I had a Haagen Dazs ice cream party last night. I am a member of SheSpeaks. It's an online discussion board/word of mouth advertising site. About a month ago they asked me to host an ice cream party and I said "Free ice cream? How soon can it get here?" They sent 7 pints of different flavored ice cream, plastic spoons, paper cups, napkins, a tote bags and an ice cream scoop. How much better can it get? Everything I needed to have a party and it was FREE. They even sent it on dry ice, so my boys got to see dry ice for the first time. Two deals in one. Anyway, we tried passion fruit, coffee, brown sugar, ginger, milk chocolate, vanilla bean and mint. My favorite was the mint with passion fruit being a close second. Of course, you can't even go wrong with chocolate and vanilla. I didn't like the coffee at all. It was too strong for my tastes, but one of my friends loved it and the ginger. Overall, it was a lot of fun to have an ice cream bar and be able to share it with friends.
I'm not working today. In case you didnt' know, I work part-time for a small business owner in Mesquite, TX and the economy has really slowed down her business and so that has affected my work as well. That's okay, though. It gives me more time to blog. Whoo hoo!!
My youngest son it staying after school today for LandSharks. It's an exercise program where they walk around outside. Anyway, they were supposed to do it yesterday, too, but the weather here was nasty; rain, cooler temps, lightening, etc. They called me from school and said they weren't having it and were going to hold him at school until they heard from me. Well, I didn't know they would cancel if the weather was bad. I thought they would probably just run around the gym or something. I stayed a little later at work than usual. Fortunately, my neighbor was able to pick him up when she picked her children up. When my son asked me if I was going to work today, I told him no and he said "So you learned your lesson, huh?" Meaning I will NEVER tell my boss I can work later because he has an after school activity, unless my husband it home. Too many variables and I am a paranoid mother. Oh, well, when you never stop learning and some lessons are hard then others.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Yesterday it was in the 80s and today we're barely into the 40s. Yesterday was sunny and breezy. Today is rainy and windy. My only consolation is that "Spring showers bring May flowers".
Finally, on my second attempt at planting bell pepper, I have two little plants poking up out of the dirt. I was about to give up and go buy some plants at Walmart when I got ready to transplant my tomato plants (11 total from seed). I'm trying container gardening this year because having 3 dogs who like to destroy plants is not conducive to inground gardening.
We got the rest of my youngest son's project to school today. I was so glad we took the poster yesterday because it would have been a nightmare trying to keep from getting it wet this morning. The rain was coming down pretty good when we pulled up in front of the school.
We went to Taste and Trade last night in Mesquite, TX. It is so much fun. I would guess at least 50 businesses in the area had booths and they give away free goodies, i.e. flashlight, key chains, notepads, balloons. You know, all that promotion stuff that the kids love to get. The theme was old game shows, so a lot of the booths had games for people to play for prizes. The best part was the free food. 20 restaurants were there and we had chicken strips from Whataburger, pasta from Carinos, barbeque sandwiches from Texas Roadhouse, chips and queso from Chilis, and too much more to mention. I was stuffed when we left.
Unfortunately, tonight I have to cook, but I decided hamburgers are in order since we didn't have those last night.
Finally, on my second attempt at planting bell pepper, I have two little plants poking up out of the dirt. I was about to give up and go buy some plants at Walmart when I got ready to transplant my tomato plants (11 total from seed). I'm trying container gardening this year because having 3 dogs who like to destroy plants is not conducive to inground gardening.
We got the rest of my youngest son's project to school today. I was so glad we took the poster yesterday because it would have been a nightmare trying to keep from getting it wet this morning. The rain was coming down pretty good when we pulled up in front of the school.
We went to Taste and Trade last night in Mesquite, TX. It is so much fun. I would guess at least 50 businesses in the area had booths and they give away free goodies, i.e. flashlight, key chains, notepads, balloons. You know, all that promotion stuff that the kids love to get. The theme was old game shows, so a lot of the booths had games for people to play for prizes. The best part was the free food. 20 restaurants were there and we had chicken strips from Whataburger, pasta from Carinos, barbeque sandwiches from Texas Roadhouse, chips and queso from Chilis, and too much more to mention. I was stuffed when we left.
Unfortunately, tonight I have to cook, but I decided hamburgers are in order since we didn't have those last night.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I am trying to enjoy today's weather because tomorrow the bottom is supposed to fall out. Rain, wind and colder weather. It sure is going to hard to go from the 80s to the 50s in 24 hours. Gotta love this "spring" weather in Texas.
We got both of the boys' school projects finished last night and most of it was taken to school this morning. My youngest had to do a project on Ole Kirk Christiansen, the man who invented Legos. That was a really good inventor for him because he LOVES Legos. He is going to display his Lego "robot" that he and a friend made. I figured he could just take that tomorrow. He went ahead and took his cardboard project board since the weather is supposed to be bad tomorrow. Rain, cardboard and glue just don't get along very well.
Today I'm just going to do a few minor projects. I went ahead and got a lot done yesterday, so I can take it a little easier today.
We got both of the boys' school projects finished last night and most of it was taken to school this morning. My youngest had to do a project on Ole Kirk Christiansen, the man who invented Legos. That was a really good inventor for him because he LOVES Legos. He is going to display his Lego "robot" that he and a friend made. I figured he could just take that tomorrow. He went ahead and took his cardboard project board since the weather is supposed to be bad tomorrow. Rain, cardboard and glue just don't get along very well.
Today I'm just going to do a few minor projects. I went ahead and got a lot done yesterday, so I can take it a little easier today.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Well, the frosting on the cake didn't help at all. It was a little runny and kind of oozed down the side. It was really good though. I will be glad when it's gone. It just sits in the refrigerator calling my name. One more piece and it will be GONE.
Today I am running around crazy, trying to get all of my normal housework done, plus printing Avon invoices so I won't have to do that Thursday. Thursday both kiddos have functions at school. The youngest has open house and the oldest has a band fundraiser.
The fundraiser is really neat. It's called Taste of Forney and they get all of these restaurants, etc. from the area to bring in food and we get to sample the different foods, plus we get to be entertained by the bands while we eat.
I'm also trying to work some more on our church auction, getting donations. In this economy, it's a little tougher to get people to give.
Hopefully the rest of the week will go smoothly since I'm working so hard today.
Today I am running around crazy, trying to get all of my normal housework done, plus printing Avon invoices so I won't have to do that Thursday. Thursday both kiddos have functions at school. The youngest has open house and the oldest has a band fundraiser.
The fundraiser is really neat. It's called Taste of Forney and they get all of these restaurants, etc. from the area to bring in food and we get to sample the different foods, plus we get to be entertained by the bands while we eat.
I'm also trying to work some more on our church auction, getting donations. In this economy, it's a little tougher to get people to give.
Hopefully the rest of the week will go smoothly since I'm working so hard today.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
All I have to say is.............thank goodness for frosting!!! I just baked my oldest son's birthday cake (14 years old tomorrow) and it tastes great, but it looks terrible. I made a dark chocolate cake and it is really moist and chocolaty, but it was really hard to get out of the pans. I know it will look much better once I put cream cheese frosting it will look MUCH better, although I'm not really good at frosting either so I could be wrong. Okay, this I do know for sure. It's going to taste really good. How could it not with dark chocolate and cream cheese, right? I'm also making homemade pizza crusts for dinner tomorrow night. I have to work at my part-time job tomorrow, so I thought I would got ahead and get the crusts ready and then all I have to do it put the sauce, toppings and cheese and I'm ready to go.
On another note, I'm working on getting donations for our church auction on April 25. With the economy the way it is, it's really hard to find companies that can donate. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
The wind is blowing really hard here in Texas today, but at least it's warm. I have my little tomato seedlings in my guest room and I am just itching to plants them in my containers outside. Come on Spring!!!
On another note, I'm working on getting donations for our church auction on April 25. With the economy the way it is, it's really hard to find companies that can donate. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
The wind is blowing really hard here in Texas today, but at least it's warm. I have my little tomato seedlings in my guest room and I am just itching to plants them in my containers outside. Come on Spring!!!
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