What does it take?

I haven't posted in the last week or so because I have been sick and incredibly tired. Well I an all better now and plan to post with a vengeance.

Anyway what I have have been pondering lately is what does it take to become a success? My dream is to become successful and self-sufficient. I want to be able to not need help to get some of the bills paid. I want to be able to get a new nicer car. So many things that I want to do and I know that it sounds greedy or materialist but I want to do these things within reason. I am not saying I want to be filthy freaking rich, I just want to survive comfortably. But what does it take to do this? I want to do this and still have time for my family. But another thing is how do I find the drive in myself to do this? I want it so badly but I feel like I have a lack of drive? I am working on it but it is hard to get past it.

If anyone could offer me any advice on how to be successful it would be much appreciated. So please give me some tips! I want to be successful!!


~Sharon

Working from home.

In my life I currently work from home and work outside of my home. I work from home doing various things like telecommuting for a company called West. It is an easy job to do and I enjoy doing even though it is alot like my outside my home job. I also blog from home but am just getting started in it. I hope it will build into something that I can work with, because I am putting alot of time and energy into it. My goal and dream is to be Working from home full time.

I want to do that for various reasons, so that I can be there whenever my kids need me and do all of there school things with I am very fortunate that at my work out the home job that I can do that. But it is so hard going back and making up hours. So if I were able to work from home fulltime I could do that around their schedule and I think that it would benefit us more as a family in the long run.

~Sharon

Why I love blogging?

I love blogging because it lets me write out my thoughts, tell what I think, and sometimes even get my my point across. It is also to interesting to see what other people are blogging about, I love to read what people are blogging about, and what they have to say. Sometimes you even get a new perspective on something after someone writes about it. So to me blogging is fun and therapeutic.

Blogging As A Hobby For Chronically Ill - Here is another perspecitve on blogging!

Illness, Immunizations, and Pre-k

I am home from work today because I cannot speak, my voice is really crazy sounding. And since I do credit card applications over the phone there is no way I can work if I can't speak. So here I sit looking for something to talk about or to do online. However this morning I did venture out to take my 4 year old son out to get his shots today so that he could go to Pre-Kindergarten next year. The poor guy did not take it very good at all he is my stubborn strong willed kid. He was so upset however his grandma did take him to buy one of those huge balls and a new hotwheels car. Yes I say hotwheels because at 4 years old he is really particualar about the brand of his cars he plays with. So all is good with him. Now when I do go to sign him up for school and take him to school. Am I going to be ok? I don't think so! When his older brother started Kindergarten this year I was balling when I left the classroom. So with this being my youngest and last to start I may be worse than last time. Ah well enough of the rambles.

Enjoy,
~Sharon

I am exchanging Technorati favorites.

I found this in a post: Who Want's to get Faved? at Make Money Online The Quick and Easy Way! and thought it would be a great idea for me to try out!

So lets exchange links and favorites and I will be starting and updating a list on my blog of all participants and will be updating quite frequently!
1. Participate by Exchanging Favorites

Start by Faving my blog by clicking here and then please leave your Technorati username as well as a similar link to your blog in a comment.

To make things easy, I suggest using a Technorati favorite link or button. You can get the buttons and links easily at this Technorati page. Please leave a link to one blog only.

My Technorati nickname is sharonrose and I will favorite all the links as soon as possible. I will try to leave comments on them all so you know that I added.

Please periodically check to see who has favorited your blog and do also let me know if I’ve left you out.

2. Link to this blog post with your Post on Technorati Favorites

This is only for those bloggers who are interested in holding Technorati exchanges on their blog as well. These are the steps you need to take:

Create a post on your blog announcing that you are exchanging Technorati favorites. Prominently include a link to this post to indicate that there is a similar exchange going on at My Musings and Stuff.

Get a Link Back. Once I’ve noticed the link via trackback or Technorati, I’ll include a link to your post on Technorati favorites in this post itself so readers here can visit your blog to participate if they want to. I will also try to periodically highlight this post so it never gets lost in the archives.

~Sharon

Yay, for weekends off!

For the last 8 months I have worked every Saturday and Sunday. And recently our vendor took away our weekends because of dropped calls. Other people not showing up to work the main reason, now they aren't on the campaign anymore. Anyway I have weekends off now and I love it. I go in and work Monday - Thursday and am off Friday-Sunday, and I don't think you could beat that. I am enjoying it immensely. More time with my boys, more time play World of Warcraft, and more time blog! I am really enjoying being able to maintain my blogs everyday. It is really enjoyable and am having fun with it. And as an added bonus it is raining today so no yardwork!

~Sharon

Drama free?

How does ones life become drama free? This is a mystery for me that I have yet to solve. I can think of a few things that I need to do to accomplish this. But for the overall I just want a peaceful life, is that too much to ask? I would love to hear from anyone who has truly accomplished an ideal dramam free existience! It would be awesome! So tell me are you drama free?

~Sharon

Bloggerwave.com

Bloggerwave is a new up and coming site for bloggers to take opportunities and make money writing blogs. This site is good for even seasoned bloggers to do sponsored reviews. They are new so not too many opps at this time but I am sure with time they will have alot of opportunities to take advantage of. So I am trying it out, and I am excited to be a part of it.

~Sharon

Are you supportive?

Do you try to support your friends and family members no matter what? And I will not use with drugs or alcohol as an example because even I would only be supportive for the person to get help. My example is if you had a friend that wanted to divorce her husband, because she just wasn't in love with him anymore. Would you be supportive of her or disapprove and make her feel bad because you couldn't get off your moral high horse to see that it was the right thing for her to do. My point of view with it is why live the lie? I have a friend who in the last 6 or so months left her husband because she just wasn't in love with him anymore and could not keep up the facade of pretending that she was. I am fully supportive of her because in her heart she knew it was the right decision. If she had had doubts I would have tried to help her sort out her thoughts and figure out what was truly the right thing for her. But I don't think she is wrong for it, hell I think she is brave for taking the steps and realize what was the thing for her to do. Anyway enough rambling she has someone who think she made a terrible decision that she thought was a friend. Who she and I both think should not have judged her but been supportive and understanding of her decision. So my thing is if you had a friend in this predicament would you judge them and tell them you disapprove or would you be supportive and be behind them for doing what was right for them?

~Sharon

I often wonder....

How I am going to accomplish this dream of mine. My dream to be able to stay at home with my children so that I can be there for them more than I am now. It is really frustrating that I am at of the house 4 days a week until 8p.m. and get to miss so much evening after school time with them. My husband has even said that he wishes he made enough money so that I would be able to stay at home with the boys, but he also says that he isn't happy and wants a divorce. Whenever that will come to a head is still unknown. So right now I work out of the home doing CC applications for a company and at home I blog and take calls for a company called West. I need to focus on getting more time in with them and see if I can make that my main income for now and maybe be able to do that after bed and while they are at school. Time will tell though I have to take my time and see how things play out. And try to save my money no matter what happens that has to be done.

Sorry for the rambles
~Sharon

Some Pics of the weird East Texas Snow.

Here is few pic of the weather oddness that broke out here in East Texas yesterday.












I know, I know someone is going to say that it is nothing but come on it is because it never does that here.

Not Ready To Make Nice

I am listening to the song "Not Ready To Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks. And not being that big of a Country music fan, I will have to say that I do enjoy their music. But listening to this song brings so many memories to me and how I relate to this song on so many levels. It makes me think about how stubborn I am and how there are just some things that I just can't and won't ever change or "make nice about." But wish someday that maybe I will be able to, just not able to at this time. Despite wishing I could, I just can't and won't.

Snow

It is the day before Easter and it is Snowing in East Texas of all places. It is the first time it has snowed in a long time and up until the last few days it has felt as if it were Spring already. Ah well its pretty cool because it never snows here and my boys were enjoying it. However it wont stick it isn't cold enough for that. If only it would we could have a spring wonderland errr winter wonderland or something.

I will just keep wishing of it!

Sharon

DSL or Cable?

For crazy money savings reason I just switched my precious cable to dsl. I have alot going on right now, and think it is the more economical thing to do. But I miss my t.v. and watching everything on youtube and the networks website just isn't the same. But hey its saving me nearly $80 that I need to save so the sacrifice will be worth it in the end. One of my concerns is that I thought that the DSL may be slower but I have yet to see any difference at all. Seems to be pretty good so far, and to top it off I am getting 3 months free. So time will tell if it was the best choice but right now my pocket book feels alot better. But as soon as it is available I will be signing up for the phone companies new tv service and will be paying less for my phone, dsl and tv than I paid for just the cable. So hopefully it will all work out ok.

Whats your opinion on Dsl or Cable?

-Sharon

Stuck.....

I want to post but am not too sure about what to write. I have too many things on my mind. My marriage is probably the number one thing I am wondering about. My husband said that he wanted a divorce, it wasn't my idea. And I am torn about what is going to happen and how things are going to be handled. I just hope it works out one way or the other and it does soon.

The other thing on my mind is my job I am filling out an application for a semi-promotion and I am very nervous about what to write. It is something I really want to do and I think that it would be a good experience for me. Another thing going on at work is that they are making a bunch of changes and cracking down on agent behaviors. And it is going to be crazy to see what goes down and who they catch doing what. It is shocking to hear some of the stuff people say that others are doing as far as "system manipulation" goes. I guess they are "getting paid to do the job they do." Is mine and co-workers quote about the whole fiasco. It is crazy mess. But I have been told that I have been doing a good job so I am not worried about my position. Some people I think should be though.

Have fun,
Sharon

What kind of sick freak?

I heard about this on the radio this morning, and it just breaks my heart that a parent would do this to their own child. CNN news story
I wish parents would take care of their kids and let them be kids and not do stuff like this. My two sons are the world to me and I would hate for anything like this to ever happen to them. I shouldn't say hate, I should say I would never ALLOW or let them be put into any kind of situation like this. That mom is a sick freak and she should rot in prison for this sick behavior.

I have a request to make

Just wondering if anyone ever reads this thing. So if ya how about leaving me a comment. Just to show that you took the time to read it. Please, pretty please!!! How about with a cherry on top?

Come on comment!

America's Next Top Model

This last month is the first time that I have watched the show. I thought that it was just pointless fluff entertainment, but it is and sooo much more. For some reason I have become hooked on this show. I even have a favorites that I want to win and who I just want to get kicked off. And was definately bummer when Diana got booted off last week.

The one that I definately want to see go is Jaslene I can't stand her, she is very arrogant and thinks all of the girls are jealous of her. I can't see that they are and why they should be. After that I kind of think Jael should go, she has way too many issues. I really liked Diana and wanted her to win but I think out of the ones that are left that it should be Dionne, Whitney or Sarah. I don't really care for the rest. Hopefully one of those three will win.

Home atlast

Just got back home from work and had some good news and some bad news. What I do at work is take credit card applications. And the bad news well mostly not for the company but it could turn out to be bad for me is that the vendor took away our weekend hours which kind of blows. But as long as I keep my job I will have all weekends off so hey you can't beat that. So that is the good and the bad of that.

Another thing that is bad is that my oldest son has been running fever. Not good. I hope he gets over this stuff soon. It has been going on and off for the last week. He will be fine one day and the next day he might be running a fever. I hope we can beat this soon.

Off to work!

It's a Sunday morning and I have to go to work! Can ya believe it? Goes to show that people will apply for credit cards 7 days a week! Its not that bad though, most of the people who call on Sunday's are really nice and most want to apply for a card. But when I get home this evening after bedtime Jason and I will be hitting some more Warcraft. That game is so addictive, he will probably be playing when I'm work since today is his off day. He deserves it, he has been working really hard. Off I go the grandparents just rang the door bell to take the boys to church with them.