Wednesday, June 8, 2011

My Dream Honeymoon, Now I Need My Dream Man

I am sure you are all are aware that I am divorced.  I would love to get remarried some day, if the right guy comes along.  I think the next and hopefully the last time I get married I would love to have a really exotic honeymoon. On my first honeymoon, we went to Clearwater Florida. I absolutely love Florida but I would really like to go somewhere new. I have been to Florida many times.  I would love to go somewhere with a beach and somewhere that is warm.  I love going to the beach, it is beautiful and words really can’t describe how amazing it really is.  It is just gorgeous.  I love to parasail too so I would love to parasail with my new husband.  I think it would be cool to get married while parasailing but I don’t really see how that would be possible unless there are harnesses for more than two people.

I know I am describing many places. I could really be talking about anywhere, but I would love to go to Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. My cousin Erin went to Costa Rica for her honeymoon and I remember how beautiful the pictures were. I looked like such a paradise.  I decided I would like to go there one day too. I have always looked up to my cousin Erin. I remember wanting to be the same age as her when I got married.  So, now that I have my honeymoon destination picked out, now I just have to find the right guy to marry.

Hey Baby What's Youre Niche?


Everyone is always talking about niches.  What is your niche? I am not exactly sure if it pronounced nitch or niche which would rhyme with quiche.  Honestly, I don’t really think I have a specific niche. When I fill out certain things one of the question commonly on the questionnaire is what is your niche or what your main focus is.   True I do a lot of reviews and giveaways but, I also talk about food, family life, being a mom, doing crafts and other bits of random things.  I think that I am my own niche. I am just me, I blog about whatever I feel like. It could be what products I like one day and something random like about baby diets.  I don’t consider my blog as a review blog because I have quite a few personal posts. I think a review blog is a blog that has only reviews, giveaways and other PR related posts. I love doing PR related things but I am a lot more than just PR.   I consider my blog a mish mash of everything.

There are a bunch of great niche blogs out there. I just don’t think I am able to write about just one thing and one thing only.  My friend Laura writes a chocolate blog.  I like chocolate but I don’t have her discipline to do that. I think it is awesome if someone has a niche, or is like me that write about whatever comes to mind.  I have never really been  a certain type of person. When I was in school I was friends with whoever I wanted. I wasn’t a preppy person although I have a funny story about Goodwill, I wasn’t an athlete, I hated gym.  I wasn’t a gangsta, I wasn’t a skater. I was just me. I have always had my own style, did my own thing and was friends with different types of people.  I wasn’t anyone but me.  I would dress whatever way I wanted to, be it a band shirt and cords or clothes from Abercrombie.  It just depended on how I felt that day. 

I guess that is something I carried along with me as I got older. I don’t want to be in a specific group and only do one thing. I want the opportunity to do what I feel like and not be stuck being type casted in the blogging world.

Do you have a niche or are you just like me and do a little of this and a little of that?

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Check Out Yard Sellr and Get a $10 Free Credit!

Everyone knows about garage sales or yard sales, it doesn’t matter what you call them they are the same thing.  This past weekend was our neighborhood yard sales, I wanted to go to them as I had done every year since we have lived here, but I just didn’t have the time. I had so much to do and the thought of dragging Noah around in his wagon was not something I was really looking forward to.  His wagon can be a pain to pull, I would have him walk but we live in a huge neighborhood and I was sure he would get tired.  I came across a website called Yard Sellr. It is pretty much the same thing as a traditional yard sale but it is from your computer. 

You can sell your stuff without actually having to set it all up outside, and spending two or three days sitting outside hoping someone will buy something.  You don’t have to worry about the weather, if it is raining or if might rain. I have had to end a yard sale in the rain and it was not fun at all.  At the end of a traditional yard sale you have to lug all of your items back in and then do it all again the next day.  You don’t really know if you are going to make any money.  I would love to have one but I don’t want to deal with all the hassles of the traditional yard sale.

So, Yard Sellr does all the work for you.  You can list as many items as you want and then an interested buyer will look at your items. This is great if you have some different items that maybe only a few people would be interested in. I know for example, if I were to sell my seasons of Strangers With Candy in a yard sale, chances are they wouldn’t be sold unless my friend Victoria was in town.  No one would be like oooh Strangers with Candy, and then purchase it. That is an example of something that would have a limited audience.  Your listings can be linked to your Facebook and Twitter account to share your items with your friends in your Social Networks. Sometimes you change your mind about selling something, you can easily cancel the listing as long as no one has purchased it.

 You can also buy items on Yard Sellr, with Photons. Photons are Yard Sellr’s form of currency.  When I was scrapbooking a lot I would always look for stamps, and other scrapbooking items. I didn’t really end up finding any. I would now be able to type in scrapbooking items for example and see what is available.  I wouldn’t have to scour through people’ s items and drag my son around to find what I am looking for.  You are not bidding on an item so if you want it, you don’t have to wait 5 days and spend hours trying to get what you want by bidding and making sure no one outbids you. I think it sounds really cool. I am going to definitely see what treasures I can find.

Sign up for Yard Sellr HERE, and you get $10 to start spending. You can earn 1,00,000 photons a day by doing different tasks.  10,000,000 equals ten dollars.  That is a pretty awesome deal. You can’t really earn credits with other sites.  I hope you join Yard Sellr. Maybe I will purchase one of your items.