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From country to city, From farm to fireworks…Through marriage & children, Through employment & ownership, Life continues to be an amazing journey…
Wednesday, February 18
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Thursday, October 2
Aunty Belle - My Hero - Our Economy Status
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Thursday, February 7
Blogs Gone Wild - New Digs Here at Blah Blah Blog - The Soap Box
How about the new digs here at Blah Blah Blog – The Soap Box, huh? My readers complained, and I listened :) It was high time to hire a professional to make it look like a “real place”. My hat’s off to Seven at Blogs Gone Wild, for doing such a great job! The slow loading problems are much better, and the blog finally reflects “me”. I hope folks enjoy there time here much more now. And, a big thank you to those occasional donations that made the cost much less :) |
Saturday, July 14
Support The Blue Star Deli - Farmers Branch, Texas
"Dave Mooney, owner of the Blue Star Deli in Farmers Branch, Texas, is feeling the backlash of his support of Farmers Branch. Dave has been in the forefront of support, opening up his cafe for all types of activities to support Farmers Branch and what that city has tried to do to stop the harm illegal immigration is doing. News has surfaced from Halliburton employees that a boycott has been called by the Hispanic and pro-illegal employees. Although, Dave didn’t have a contract for business lunches, he did receive orders to provide business lunches from time to time. These orders have now stopped. Also, it is being reported that Hispanic radio stations are broadcasting a boycott of the Blue Star. Dave is experiencing a 50% decrease in sales receipts due to this boycott and has now taken a second job. The call is out for all of us do what we can to help Dave. If you are in the area, stop by and have one of Dave’s good hamburgers, tell others about the Blue Star Deli. Call KSKY radio’s Mike Gallagher, KLIF’s Jeff Bolton and John David Wells, all who have had broadcasts at the Blue Star Deli, to ask their listening audience to support Dave. Let’s all do what we can to keep Dave in business. U.S Border Watch will be sending a check to Mr Mooney, and we encourage everyone else to send him a few bucks. Five or ten dollars in a restaurant business is a lot of money. We must help those who have put their business on the line to help our cause. Below is the address and web site for the Blue Star Deli, and if you are in the area drop in and thank this fine Patriot for his support and have a burger." Blue Star Deli 14724 Webb Chapel Rd. Farmers Branch, TX 75234 Phone 972-247-8681 U.S. Border Watch1-800-759-0948 |
Monday, July 2
Big White Hat - Influential Music
Big White Hat’s at it again :) Who were/are the most INFLUENTIAL musicians? Well BWH…damn ya, darn ya…there you go making me think again :) (No wonder you won the "Thinking Blogger's Award"). So hard to pick five. AND, when you back off of favorite, and strictly think influential…there were so many! Your scenario of your work is funny…you see…back in the day…crap dealers too had a fair amount of time on their hands some days, and of course “we’re too above” trivial chatter, we would come up with games like these to pass the time intellectually in order to make ourselves seem quite educated and im-po-tent :) 2. BB King 3. Elton John 4. Elvis Presley 5. Hank Williams, Sr. |
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Labels: Blog Links, Blogging, Entertainment, Fun And Games
Sunday, June 24
Blog Funk - I Survived :)
Blog Funk: …Not yet defined in print by Merriam Webster, but yet a true condition nonetheless. I’ve had so much on my mind the last few weeks, work has been extremely busy, and solemn reflectivities on personal matters have been predominant on my brain. Symptoms include: 1) strange numbness between brain and fingers, causing inability to put thoughts into print, 2) sitting with laptop in hand staring at changing screen savers with no better productivity ability at the end of a day than to click onto Pogo games and mentally masturbate in silence with shooting colorful balls or solitaire cards while thinking about life in general, and 3) the realization that having posted an average of three posts per day over the past year, and being 90 or so posts behind seems overwhelming. But…I took my blog temperature today, and I think I’m healed! The funk has passed while busy is still busy…, but the calm realization that blogging is a hobby, and if time allows it does, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t, and the self laughter in realizing that hardly anyone reads the stuff anyway was uplifting :). I’m back, so scroll down if you’re so inclined to catch up on my “stuff”. I past dated a couple of posts… (You can’t go to hell for blog cheating can you?) I’ll be stopping by your houses very soon to catch up on reading and commenting, (as blog funk also prevents reading others’ blogs), and if you think 90 or so posts behind seems overwhelming…try several hundred e-mails I needed to get to:)…but…I spent a few hours today before posting, and got to all of them. |
Wednesday, May 9
Why I Blog
I got tagged by Sunni Kay to list five reasons why I blog… I am to tag five others at the end :)
The following five are blogs I read regularly…of many dozen favorites I have bookmarked. If they happen to stop by and see this, and agree to be tagged... I’d love to read the answers… Aunty Belle’s Front Porch (Her Back Porch is FUN too) |
Saturday, April 28
Saturday's Super Site - Blah Blah Blog - The Soap Box
Imagine my surprise to awake on a lazy Saturday morning to check my e-mail and find that someone chose me as special. Sunni Kay, a regular reader here (and I love to read her blog too) chose me as this week’s Saturday’s Super Site! Her kind words about me and this blog truly made my day :) Sunni’s regular blog “Rantings, Ramblings, and Other Miscellaneous Stuff” is full of well written stories concerning support for our troops, motherhood, and newsworthy items of the week. It’s amazing how our thoughts and ideas mirror each other. I also recently found out that we live fairly close to each other; perhaps one day we will meet…drinks are on me Sunni :) Sunni also teams with a group to review books at “The Bookshelf Reviews”. If you are an avid reader, this is a great site. Thanks Sunni for the honor, and keep coming back! |
Thursday, April 26
First Vinyl Meme - From Big White Hat
Must be the meme time of spring. One of my favorite bloggers, BIG WHITE HAT, asked me to play along with his First Vinyl Meme. Of course I’m happy to oblige. First Vinyl Meme: Post a picture of the album cover of the first vinyl you ever owned – and tell a bit about it… Oh the memories. I didn’t actually purchase my first vinyl…my first album was a gift. I couldn’t have been but about 10-12 years old. My crazy hippie aunt from I had to find quiet time away from the folks to ever use the record player, because Joni Mitchell was “Rock N Roll”…and Lord forbid I allow it to warp my mind. (If any of you are familiar with the album, it’s easy listening folk music style). I would sit on the floor and listen to the album for hours. Thanks BWH for the invite, this was a pleasurable memory to share…and THANK YOU AUNT JOANNE…May you be singing with the angels tonight! PLEASE JOIN IN - Post your first vinyl and link back here! |
Wednesday, April 25
Interview Me Meme
I got tagged by EDog’s Everything Page, and yes…because I offered…I thought it would be fun. Ian (EDog) is a soon to be famous author, and a designer of a crazy superhero web comic called Adventures of the S-Team created with Lego’s! He is, of course, a fellow blogger…along with being a husband, father, and a guy still with a day job too. Welcome to the INTERVIEW MEME. It works like this… I’ll answer Ian’s questions here. If you like, I’ll interview you :) Directions follow my answers… 1. Tell us about your three companies. Which one is the money pit and which one is the tax shelter? We are just “Mom & Pop” companies, so there is no DEEP money pit, but we’re proud of our little Mom & Pop empire. Our first was a big rig truck garage (Nov. 2002). Started with 4 guys and now we have 4 mobile service trucks, a dozen mechanics and several support personnel. (This would be the money pit I guess). We got sick and tired of poor service and high prices from some parts vendors, so we opened a parts store. The original idea to open a store front and have other people run it failed. Not quitters though, we leased our store to another business and moved the tiny operation under the same roof as the truck garage. Being so busy with the successful truck garage, and not ever being able to find a heavy duty truck and trailer parts genius to pay a big salary too…we just keep that one open for the ability to buy parts from ourselves and save our customers money. We sell parts to a few, but we just don’t have the time or the personnel to grow it. (I guess that one would be the tax shelter, although it makes a little money on its own). And almost a year ago, if we weren’t busy enough…a man had mismanaged a little shop around the corner and had to go out of business. We have turned away tons of pickups at our big rig garage…so when the other guy went out…we formed a new corporation and opened a diesel pickup garage. I run that one now, and I started with two guys, I now have five. We’re looking for a larger building, and this one will be fun too in it’s time. 2. What’s your favorite Blonde joke? OMG…since I AM Blonde, I’ve probably just about heard them all. 3. What’s your best party tri That’s funny… OBVIOUSLY, dancing on a pole IS NOT IT! We have an annual customer/vendor appreciation – employee Christmas party in which about 250-300 people attend. In this BAD photo someone caught far too late in the night…my crazy friend 4. Describe a brush with greatness in your life. Well, this answer is easy, and without a doubt. I had a wonderful youth; I had a great career for 20 years as a casino dealer. I’ve met many many famous people, and have done some crazy things, and have been accomplished at several. However…without a doubt…my touch with greatness has come twice, and each time has been miraculous. That would be the birth of my two children. My boys are 23 and 17, and I will never again touch greatness more than I have by spending the years having had the privilege to be their Mother. 5. Finish this sentence: “The sickest I’ve ever been…” Oh my… My girlfriends and I went to DIRECTIONS FOR THE INTERVIEW MEME: 2. I will respond by emailing you five questions (if I don't have your email address, you can email me instead – Click the “Contact Author” link underneath my profile). I get to pick the questions. 3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions. 4. You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post. 5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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Labels: Blog Links, Blogging, Fun And Games, Home And Family
Monday, March 26
Icon Plant - The GOOD Con Artists
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Saturday, March 24
Pimp Your Blog - Beta-Blogger 4 Dummies
I have spent the better part of the last week figuring out (or trying to figure out) how to “pimp my blog” (as my teenager would say). I have run into every brick wall in the world, and have had this thing looking every which way but good over and over. AND THEN…I FOUND THIS WEBSITE… Beta-Blogger 4 Dummies! This guy is freaking amazing. I have since spent hours and hours at this site, and have learned more here than I could find on many dozen sites. Not only are his articles incredibly informative and well organized, he explains things in layman’s terms so that a true “Blogger Dummy” like myself can easily manipulate template code and change the blog attributes to look just about any way you can imagine. His Links to other blog resources are also wonderful. I found direct links to places that would do things for me automatically in a click or two that I’ve been doing manually and in way too many steps before. Best of all, this information and instruction is ALL FREE. If you are intending to, or would like to change your blog…by all means go to this site. You will gain enough knowledge to change your blog as often as you change your clothes if you like in a few easy steps. THANK YOU BETA BLOGGER 4 DUMMIES! WHAT A FIND YOU WERE :) |
Wednesday, March 21
New Look I Can Live With
Well, after beating my head against the wall trying to fix the recent NOT GOOD look, and pulling my hair out over my lack of HTML code knowledge, I think I've managed to find a look I can live with for a while. I wanted some more color and rounded definition to side bars...but I can't pull it off myself. I've been to a dozen hack sites, and contacted a few gurus...and go figure...they all have e-mails posted, and "contact me" if you'd like to have your template designed...but they are all so busy, or don't exist anymore. The gal that originally designed my site that I just grew tired of looking at hopefully will contact me when her load lightens up and perhaps I can add a photo to the title banner in the background, and add some pastels in the columns. We'll see. Hope this looks better, all of you were so kind to voice your true opinion of the last fubar on the makeover. I agreed and appreciated the honest opinions and e-mails. Well...I like "my house" again now, so perhaps it will be more fun to post and come here :) And, in the process of doing this I learned more about the new blogger template manipulation and as always...a day you learn is a day well spent. Now...keep coming and leave lots of comments :) |
Tuesday, March 20
The Cowboy Code Marshals
I’m proud to add another blogroll to Blah Blah Blog – The Soap Box. Although I LOVE my state of residence, I’m thankful to have been raised around that influence, and am honored to have been invited to include The Cowboy Code Marshals blogroll to this site.
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Tuesday, March 6
Pardon The Dust - Undergoing Makeover
I’d sure like to thank everybody that’s left a comment on the “new look here”. I realize it sucks right now. I know just enough about HTML to get myself in a heap of trouble. The “template file” I downloaded didn’t look a thing like this…go figure! I’m not ashamed a bit though to admit that I need to leave well enough alone before I go from bad to worse. I’m not sure I like the new Blogger “layout” features. I was just getting fairly competent at maneuvering things around in the old template page. Well, I’m happy to announce that I’ve consulted my professional to bail me out of my bad makeover. Thanks for your patience, and within a couple of weeks, I hope to have this place looking spiffy and worthy of your time here :) In the meantime, keep coming, and thanks to my loyal readers for their honesty. I must go and read a few more pages in my “HTML for DUMMIES” book. :O |
I've Earned Over $300 With PayPerPost
You’ve all seen the PayPerPost disclosure section on the right side bar of this blog. PayPerPost is the online advertising medium that allows bloggers like you and I to make money just by posting articles on our blogs about the advertisers’ products. It’s a very real endeavor and fun as well. |
Friday, March 2
New Blog Layout - PLEASE COMMENT
Just as with a woman's "bad hair days"... I've been suffering lately with "bad blog day". I was just tired of my blog design, and the "new Blogger" that is supposed to be so much better. |
Sunday, February 18
AGLOCO - Online Community - Money For YOU
Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos AGLOCO is a new social network online community in pre-launch stage. It is designed to pay YOU while you surf the net the way you normally do. As with the concept of YouTube, that was just sold for over a BILLION dollars because SO MANY PEOPLE use it every day…(YouTube’s Members got NOTHING), Agloco intends to grow a network and share the revenue with it’s members. The “viewbar” that is required to make it all work will launch in March. It’s FREE to join, so Learn More or Join Now! before the competition gets tight. |
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Labels: Advertising, Blogging, Economics, Education, Make Money
Thursday, February 15
Get Paid To Blog!
Get Paid to Blog! More and more big money opps are coming in all the time as this new “privatized advertising” idea is catching on. Bloggers get to talk about products and services they like and know a lot about, and the advertisers are beginning to pay BIG BUCKS. |
Thursday, January 11
Blog Birthday - Blah Blah Blog - The Soap Box Turns One
Photo Sharing - Upload Video - Video Sharing - Share Photos HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAH BLAH BLOG – THE SOAP BOX! I have been so very busy since before the Christmas holiday that I have neglected my favorite hobby terribly of late. I even have to wish myself a belated birthday, that’s pretty bad :) Yesterday was actually the blog anniversary. I have had a great time with this blog, and have met some incredible people that have turned into regular readers. Now that the New Year is in full swing, I hope to get back to a more regular posting schedule. 21,153 kind folks have stopped by this blog in the last year; I hope that number grows in 2007. Thanks to those who read, and continue please to grace this spots presence with your time. |






