I needed some newness in my life. Since I can’t afford to buy anything I changed my blog layout again. I shouldn’t have wasted time on it given everything I have to do, but I’m just getting well and I am stuck in a rut…. again. Oh well I’ll have to climb out of it tomorrow, well later on today, anyway. Its almost 2 in the morning and I’m still up. I have been fighting insomnia lately. I have been sleeping weird hours.

I have a lot to do today. Work and homework. Same old, same old.

So I have decided to take on Laugh Therapy. I just think its hilarious and I am fighting off a smile as I write this. I was so suprised at the benefit of laughing. I mean I knew it was good to laugh, but who knew that it was that good for you? I need to relieve some stress and get more positive thoughts going through my mind. I have been way down lately and I need to change that around.

So I guess we will Laugh our a**es off everyday at a movie, you tube video’s, funny memories, or jokes. This should be quite entertaining and possibly healing for my soul.

Valentine’s is good with Overstock.com’s “Game O Love”. You can register for Overstock.com’s Valentine’s Game to win lovely gifts for your lover boy or lover girl. I would absolutely love to win an LCD T.V. for my husband. That would be so cool. He would totally be surprised and happy. Or I would love to win some tools. Maybe a skill saw so he can make me things :) Or a Snap On impact gun so he can work on the car more efficiently. Actually I am going to have him enter the “Game O Love” contest as well so he can win the Snap On impact gun for me x;)

So what would you win for your love? Overstock.com has so much to choose from. They have plenty of gifts suitable for Valentine’s day, not just saws and impact guns. For the female love in your life they have jewelry or the electronic gadgets we women just love. For men Overstock has the before mentioned tools, electronic gadgets, T.V. so they can watch the big game or men’s jewelry if they are into bling. Perhaps you don’t have a significant other? Then win prizes for your kiddo! Overstock has loads of stuff for kids, toys, video games and electronics. So what are you waiting for? Get over to Overstock.com and sign up for the 18 day “Game O Love”.

So my daughter and I have joined the ranks of the homeschoolers. After moving to Stockton and realizing the school my daughter was attending was scary as hell I decided now was the time.

I get a lot of ideas from the internet, current events or our family interests. It is very interesting so far and as soon as this horrible weather lets up and spring arrives I hope to venture out and hit up some museums and historical sites. I really love doing this with my daughter because I know at the pace she learns and she needs one on one attention.

So this is a challenge, but its fun none the less.

Bidaroo.com is a charity auction site. They send 25% to 65% of the money you paid to the charity you pick at sign up! The have the best prices of any auction site I have seen, and free shipping! Prices are marked down 80 to 90% off the retail price. People have won auctions paying only $26 for an iPhone. Right now they have the new Air macbook for only $89! Bidders win by having the highest unique bid. That means that no one else has the same bid and it is closest to the set price. So sign up and check it out for yourself!

I was never a weird insane fan, but a fan I was. I always admired him becasue he didn’t take every movie role and he seemed to steer himself away from doing anymore teen movies. I loved him in the Patriot, his performance in Monsters Ball was great and A Knights Tale was funny to say the least. I have been meaning to see Cassanova since it came out, but haven’t yet. And then there is Brokeback Mountain which I still need to see. Once in awhile I would look him up on the internet to see what he was up to because he just didn’t force himself down peoples throats. I was actually reading recently that he was going to be the new Joker in the new Batman movie coming out this summer. I really thought that was a brilliant decision by whoever casted him. I knew as soon as I read that my interest was renewed in Batman.

It is a shame that some one so talented and seemed like such a great guy could go like that. Its a shame when anyone goes, but I think this was different. He wasn’t a drug addict and he wasn’t plastered all over the tabloids. I will probably have a Heath Ledger movie-a-thon.

My family’s thoughts and well wishes go out to Heath’s Family and Friends. I know he was more to them than he was to his audience, but we appreciated him just the same.

R.I.P. Heath Ledger 1979-2008

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SweetIM is pretty sweet. They say they don’t use adware/spyware and I haven’t detected any yet.

If you go to SweetIM you can download the software and benefit from all the nifty I.M. and web based email smilies , emoticons and winks. Below is a screenshot of an email I sent utilizing the Lips smilie from SweetIM. All you do is click on the tool bar and you get a variety of smilies to choose from to liven up you emails and I.M.s.

SweetIM works with AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN i.m. services. It also works with Yahoo! email, Hotmail and Gmail if you use Internet Explorer. Most people use these services and use smilies. So it would just make sense to try it out. You can even use SweetIM in your blogs as long as you use I.E.

The download and installation is easy and you don’t have to register for anything. They have a forum and from the looks of it they help you right online via your preferred instant messaging service with your SweetIM issues.

I think this is a great bit of software and essential for people you like to use smilies in their emails and instant messages.

So go to SweetIM.com and download the software to add cool smilies to your online communications!