Ask and you shall receive....a scaled down version of what you asked for.

So in my last blog I put it out there to The Universe: I am looking for $330,000.00. Today, when checking my bank account via telephone, out of idle curiousity and with the hope that maybe some money had magically appeared in my account, imagine my surprise when Automated Andy informed me that my account balance was $330.00 more than it was yesterday. That's right, $330.00. I had to laugh, both out of gratitude and amusement. I can really use that $330.00 right now. Grazie universo! (I have a current fascination with Italian, more on that later). Don't worry moral readers, I checked with the bank and it was a deposit from a legitimate source. So yay! It may not be the large sum I was looking for, but it's a start!

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Well, it's been almost two months since I last posted something on here. You know, I really thought that not working would free up a lot of my time, but I still seem to always be busy. It's a good thing. Loving being home with my daughter. Love being with her, revelling in the sheer miracle of her. There's no where else I'd rather be. And you know, when I was still working, I wondered if I'd be able to hack it, or if I'd be going stir-crazy, itching to be doing something more cerebral. I thought I wouldn't be fulfilled doing this, but I am. Totally. True it's only been five months, but I had lunch with the ladies that I used to work with the other day and I found myself thinking how lucky I am to not be in their shoes anymore. I can never go back to working in criminal law.

When I started out in that profession, I had a passion. I believed in what I was doing. Thought I would be making some fundamental diffence. Not so much. I quickly learned that you are not often defending the innocent being screwed over by the Man. You are usually looking for loopholes to allow degenerate, dangerous dickheads to continue to be free. It is sickening the things that really go on in your very own backyard that the common folk know nothing about. I know understand where the phrase, "ignorance is bliss" comes from. I just don't want to know anymore. So, this being my life, I have firmly decided never to go back to that, and am grateful that I didn't waste butloads of money and years of my life pursueing an education that would allow me to become a criminal lawyer. I'm just not cut out for the job.

What am I cut out for then? This is still the same question I've been asking myself for months now. The truest answer is "life of a rich person", but for some reason life hasn't realized this yet and made it so. There's a lot of talk about postive thinking and the law of attraction, so this is me putting it out there...I visualize myself receiving $330,000.00. That's right, $330,000.00. This amount just feels right to me, so I'm putting it out there. I imagine myself coming into this sum in October. Okay folks, let's see if it happens...

Spring into the Present

So after spending a day Spring cleaning my ass off (any major cleaning you do in the Spring is Spring cleaning in my books), once again I find myself, glass of wine nearby, tired but not sleepy, and wondering, just what it is exactly that I an meant to do with my life? Maybe I'm doing it already? Maybe I missed the boat on my One Great Opportunity, or maybe my ship is yet to come in. Maybe that ship has sailed. Maybe you feel that you're in the same boat as me? Wow, there sure are a lot of boat metaphors...I wonder why that is...I digress, blame the wine.

I have been stressing myself out a lot lately with this pondering of what I will do next; what does my future hold; and you know what? It's exhausting. So I think it's time to take a step back into the present and forget about the future for now. That's scary thinking for me though. I'm a planner. I think I mentioned that before...so: Here's to the present. It's a pretty good place to be. Cheers! Wait, let me get a refill....CHEERS!

Clicking Makes Cents

I am really loving this stay-at-home mom gig, and really do not want to have to give it up once the maternity leave runs out in December. However, there is the issue of money. On that note, I have taken up mining the web for ways to make money at home online, that are not scams and do not cost anything to join. I don't know about you, but the last thing I have when I'm looking for work is money to spend. I have spent hours searching for these elusive non-cost, no scam sites, and so far, I've come up with a couple that really seem legit.Clixsense.com is the first one I found. All that is required of the member is that they click on the links provided, which open in another window, and that you do not close that window for 30 seconds; (there's a timer that counts down the time). There is no need to view the ad it links you to for the entire time. Once I see the window open, I minimize it and return to what I was doing. There is absolutely no purchase necessary. If a member would like to become a Premium member, it will cost you $10.00 a year. This affords you access to hundreds of links, allowing you to make more money. This is a pretty small investment, so I took the leap and purchased a Premium Membership. This is not a "get rich quick" deal. Most of the links posted only pay you a penny for opening them. That's right. The most you can earn is $1.20 an hour, but you know what? That's $1.20 more than I was making before I started clicking.

The second site I found is: trekpay.com. This one works a little differently than ClixSense. The site is completely free to join and as of yet, doesn't even offer a "premium membership" for a price. Instead of money, you are awarded credits for opening the links they provide you. The credits then translate into money which is deposited into your Paypal account once it reaches a $5.50 threshold. I have read from some other users that the credit to money ratio is not that stellar, one person said their 700 credits only translated to .52 cents, but, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I will keep my blog updated with new sites that I find, and also on the progress I make with the ones I have.

p.s. Clicking on the banners for these referenced sites at the bottom of my blog will earn me a little scratch from these guys, so do me a favour and join! Like I said, it doesn't cost you anything, and even if you don't use the sites once you join, it will still help me out! Thanks for reading and happy clicking!

The Preposterous Proposal

So like everybody everywhere who watched the Bachelor last night, I am stunned at Jake's choice. Vienna? I mean really? Of all of the ladies, I personally found her the least attractive; she doesn't know how to dress to suit her frame; she's inmature, spoiled and inexperienced in both life and love, but yet Jake LOVES her. Barf.
It's a mystery to many viewers how this could be, but I think it's a three fold combination of things: 1. She was the underdog. No one liked her so I think he felt sorry for her; 2. they bungee jumped together. When you go through something like that - where you're in mortal terror - I think it binds you to that person. I would bet if he'd made that jump with anyone else he wouldn't be with Vienna now; and 3. lust. That one doesn't need further explaination. Double Barf.
Not that I think Jake would have had eternal bliss with Tenley. The chemistry simply wasn't there (probably because he was always thinking about Vienna). As a wife, Tenley seems like the perfect catch, but I think she's still got some healing to do. Girl just needs to go out there and have some fun. I hope she finds the right guy for her.
Now, my other beef with this show is that anyone can fall in love in paradise. Listening to Vienna say "I want to marry Jake because I want to feel like this forever", news flash sweetheart: THIS ISN'T WHAT YOUR MARRIED LIFE IS GOING TO BE LIKE! I would like to see the show incorporate some Amazing Race or Survivor elements. You learn a whole lot more about your compatibility with a person when you're stressed to the max, physically uncomfortable and have no one to depend on but eachother. You either pull together, of tear eachother apart.
Good idea right? Someone forward this to the forces that be on the Bachelor...

Tai Chi For Me

I have decided that it's time to expand my horizons. Get a hobby. Try new things. Cultivate some of those "interests" so many others seem to have. Blogging is the first new interest I'm undertaking, now I need to find something else, if only to have something to blog about! The problem lies in the fact that I am neither artistic, nor athletic. Some sort of motor skill impairment. I'm thinking tai chi. I've always been interested and I think now may be the time to pursue it. We'll see how that goes.

An Entertaining Endeavour

One might expect, judging from my Dashboard, that this would be a blog filled with "keen perceptions and cleverly apt expressions of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure", (as is the definition of "wit" according to dictionary.com.) Sadly, this entry at least will fail to meet that standard. I'll be openly honest: I just really liked the title. I'm simply a silly sucker for alliteration. Sue me.
My hope for this endeavour is to entertain - if not readers, then at least myself - and to learn more about me. Yes, it's a completely self indulgent effort. You see, I'm sort of at an impasse in my life, ok, impasse is a little bleak sounding, how's this: I'm at a crossroads with no street signs. I have absolutely no idea where to go from here and while that is freeing, it's also terrifying.
Up until a few months ago I was a Law Clerk in a Criminal Defence Firm. With all those capital letters it seems like a much more important position than it was, let me assure you. This is a job that I pursued, with no official credentials, obtained and performed for over five years. This was the closest I could get to the career I believed I really wanted: Criminal Lawyer. Well, things happen for a reason as they say, (who are they anyway??? I guess that's a topic for another blog), and after about three months I realized that this was NOT something I wanted to do for the rest of my working life either as the Big Cheese lawyer, or as the Little Cheese Curd Clerk. I could get into the reasons why, probably write a dozen blogs about it in fact, but suffice to say that I learned I am not a people person. Especially when those people are criminals with poor manners. Glad I didn't waste all of that money on law school!
Presently, I am a stay-at-home-mom. I'm loving it, I really am. My daughter is 10 weeks old and I also have a 12-year-old son and 14-year-old step-daughter. (Wow, lots of hyphens in that sentence. You'd think I was as fond of hyphens as I am of alliteration.) This is a great gig. I get to make muffins, cook casseroles and sing silly songs. Best of all, I can wear my PJs all day long if I like, which is a bonus as I don't fit into much of my pre-baby wardrobe quite yet. While this is something that I'm loving, I'm a Planner, and I know that there will come a time sooner or later, (hopefully later), when I have to return to the work force. Thus that crossroad I mentioned earlier. Where do I go from here?