I am starting another at home job and just did a test call and did horribly.  I just froze up and couldn’t remember the product details or how I should act or how to find anything.  I am going to study more of the information tonight and tommorow so hopefully I will get it down.  I will be retrying the test call on Thursday and we shall see how it goes.  I think that since I have gotten that out of my system that it should go better the next time.  And the lady who is my supervisor is super nice and gave me quite a few tips on what I should do and what I shouldn’t do.  So wish me luck and hopefully I will get it down.

~sharon

My 6 year old son and I went to our first political rally last night to listen to former President Bill Clinton speak on behalf of his wife in the primaries coming up in Texas on the 4th of March.  I will have to say that before last night I was kind of on the fence with her and Obama but after reading a little more and listening to Clinton last night I will be casting my vote in March for Hillary.  I took a lot of photos and it was really fun and my 6 year old thought it was interesting because of all of the people and that fact that a “real live”( his words) came to our small East Texas City. 

I personally like her ideas on healthcare and education which have become really important to myself in the last 6 and 1/2 years since I have had children. 

~sharon

On my birthday I recieved a giftcard to use at Hobby Lobby, so I was all gungho about it and went in and bought some adorable Valentines paper, some cute little Bazzill flowers, a new Making Memories rub-on font in Rose color which I love, and even a new rub-on applicatior that looks sort of like a paint scraper.  Well I get in there and I start thinking about how much I love to scrap and just why in the world haven’t I been doing anything.  Well I have everything sitting on the table ready to use but have I touched in the last 4 days, no I sure haven’t.

On the other hand today Jason took me to buy some late birthday presents today and I got some new tops at Aeropostale that I am just dying to wear.  Maybe I will even make the time to sit down and straighten my hair and take some pics so that I can also show off my new glasses, that I got this last week as well, that are doing there job very nicely I might add.

~sharon

Oh yeah please send me some good get to Scrapbooking thoughts I have this cute little mug idea all in my head but just can’t seem to sit down and get it together.

Okay the outside work is done for the aerobic system, even if we will still be paying for it in a couple of months.  But it is a relief to have that mess out of the way.  I also had an eye appointment last week and just got my new glasses yesterday I love them and will be getting my husband to take a pic of me soon in them so that I can show them off. 

Today is my birthday and it has been pretty good, I had alot of fun with Jason this afternoon when I play hookey from work and then the kids came home and we had cake and some presents.  They even got me a gift card to hobby lobby which as soon as they went to Awanas I went and spent and got some new scrapbooking stuff.  Which I have just got to get the steam up to get some stuff done. 

~sharon

I know that we should have probably asked more questions than we did, and this is not that good of an excuse we were young and this was our first time buying a house.  But man I wish they would have given us some more information about our aerobic system in our backyard.  Like for example that you have to have it cleaned every few years, they told us about putting chlorine in it which we have been, but didn’t tell us that we have to have someone come out and drain the thing every few years.  We didn’t know this until it got full and some of it leaked in our yard and it started freaking us the hell out.  Now we find out that we have to pay a crap load of money to have it drained, pay for a yearly maintenence program so that we can make sure it stays in good working order and have the system licesnse thing changed to my husbands name which we should have done 4 years ago.  We had no idea about this kind of stuff.  Well maybe this will help a future first time home buyer when they go to buy a house and the builder’s don’t tell you this bit of info.

~sharon

I have been having a very stressful time lately trying to get some stuff straightened out.  Well my mother in law decided that I needed some chocolate so she brought me not just one but 5 boxes of Ghiradelli brownie mix witht he fudge that goes on top.  So I have to the conclusion that they will help me with my stress and feel more relaxed.  Now just for them to get out of the oven we shall see how it goes.

~sharon

After the sadness that happened last week with our Porthos we had decided that it would be a very long time before we would get another puppy.  Well the neighborhood mama dog who lives behind our house who we feed whenever she comes up to the house decided that, that would not be the case.  Well the mama dog may have been Porthos’ mother or maybe sister we are not sure which but we know that they are related somehow.  We actually found him walking down the road with his two sisters so we found the sisters homes and kept him.   Well anyway we knew that the mama dog had puppies about month and a half ago to two months ago, we just didnt know where they were or if they were ok we couldn’t find them. 

Saturday we were doing some major house cleaning and I left to get some food for everyone and when I came back Jason was on the side of the house with “little mama” as I call her and a puppy.  I am sure the mama wanted to get food for her and the puppy and we just thought that she knew what had happened and just knew that we needed a puppy in our lives.  We felt like she had brought her to us to take care of.  So now we have another puppy who we have named Cortana, yep the boys and Jason named her after the Halo 3 character.  And as for Little Mama I have informed Jason that as soon as we finish a fence in our yard that she is going in it so that we can take care of her and make sure nothing happens to her, because she is really a sweet dog I just feel she is too old to house train and we have to work on Cortana as well for training.

Here is Cortana

~sharon

To me Valentines day is one of those special days of the year that you show those you love that you love them in a truly special way.  With my husband I usually try to get him something that I know he has been really wanting and has had to wait a while to get because either the cash wasn’t on hand at the time or it just was not the right time to get it.  This year I think I will be getting him one of three things, either an iPod, a PSP or a Playstation 3.  At this point though I am leaning towards the iPod because it is something that he is going to be able to use a lot more than the other since he listens to is current mp3 player while he works and it is time for an upgrade on it.  I would also love to get a Playstation 3 on the other hand but that would be more of an all of us gift because I myself think that it would be really fun to have one.  And even though it is a Valentines it is always good to look at coupons to get the best deal that it is out there, for the gifts that I am getting I am either looking at either Best Buy deals or at Game Stop coupons if I decide on the PSP and some games for it.  Now I have to decide which one I am going to get for him because I can just get one of the others for him for his birthday which is coming in March right after Valentines.

Since the beginning of December I do not think that I have taken a single day off.  I have been trying to work hard at getting Christmas for the boys and getting bill caught up.  I have decided to actually not work at hom constantly anymore.  As long as my out of the home job is going well I will be able to and I will feel much better.  I do not honestly see how someone can actually live with doing something like this constantly, I have much respect for those people that do because it takes a very hardworking person to accomplish this.  I just know personally that I can work hard but I just can’t work this hard constantly.

~sharon

I do not know for sure what the company that I work from home for uses to manage the remote use on their servers with our call taking.  But we  also do sometimes have issues and have to have technical support remotely.  Uplogix is a company that offers remote management solutions for companies to utilize IT resources at different locations.  It allows the network to be connected so that IT administrators can get things back and up and running from different locations and saves money on travel and staffing since things can be done for more than one location at a single location.  They even the strongest encryption and security to make sure that a companies information is well protected.