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I Give Up !!!

This is where I landed on a site that has 300 Entrecard sites all ready for you to just go through them all. I then realise why my roadtrip kept ending up on a select few sites. I now know the two kinds of Entrecard people. There is the casual one that finds it fun to check out other sites and there is the professional clicker that just rifles through 300 sites a day and puts out a lot of ads.

I do not think I could ever become a professional clicker. I just do not have the time. I would much rather take that time to create. I do not think I would have time to write good blogs, read other people's blogs, add to my websites, and still have a life if I clicked that much.

Entrecard is a great resource and it helps people that do not have the money to advertise be able to. It also helps sites get a higher traffic ranking. Now here comes the huge BUT... if you do not take the time to have good content then people are just dropping and bouncing. You also need to make sure you have something eye catching right at the top or people will just click right on by. If people are not staying to read your blog or clicking on ads it is not worth much.

If you would like to see the full recipe for the REAL Greek Chicken just click here and head to the main site.

"Cheaters" Greek Chicken


Ingredients

Chicken
Potatoes
Greek or Italian Dressing
Water


1. Toss chicken pieces in Italian salad dressing until well coated.

2. Place in the center of a baking dish that has sides.

3. Toss cut up pieces of potatoes in Italian salad dressing until well coated.

4. Place them around the chicken in the pan.

5. Add water to the bottom of the pan and cover with foil.


Baking time and temp

Total baking time is 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Bake at 375 for 50 minutes covered.
Flip the chicken and baste. Cover and bake another 35 minutes.
Then baste again and bake another 15 minutes uncovered.



I hope you will try this recipe and enjoy it.


Do not forget that the real recipe for Greek Chicken is on the main website. It really is worth the little bit of extra effort and the extra ingredients. If I had planned ahead I would have definitely made the real thing instead.

Memorial Day here was warm and sunny. Now today it got cloudy and pretty cold outside. After all the fun outside yesterday the kids do not want to go out in the cold today. So I am forced to think of something to keep them occupied after school. I do not want to deal with the "I'm bored" statement for the rest of the day. So I decided that we will make some playdough. The kids also want an after school snack so edible playdough it is.

I will be making Peanut Butter playdough from the Edible Playdough page on the main site. If you would like to see more edible playdough you can check out that page. You will also find recipes for cream cheese playdough, chocolate playdough, and frosting playdough.


Peanut Butter Playdough

1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
2 cups powdered sugar

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, using your hands.
Dough should feel soft and pliable.
Form shapes and be creative!
You can add other foods like M&M's or peanuts for eyes, mouths, etc
Storage: When not using, MUST be stored in an airtight container.



If you want this to be a small portion of another snack you can have your kids make small things that can be put on top of graham crackers or apple slices. They could also place their creations on bread.

My kids love doing this "craft" because it is edible, fun, and they can be creative. I hope you will try at least one of the edible playdoughs. They can be a lot of fun.

Thursday after school we were all out in the yard when James' work phone rang. It rings nonstop so that was no big surprise. After he got off the phone he said that he had to run to one of his stores that is in a town that is 45 minutes away to go pick something up. I asked what he had to pick up that was so important that it could not wait. We still had a soccer game to go to later.

He was being very secretive so I knew it was not work stuff. He took Noelle with and off they went. When they got back home Noelle walked in the house trying not to get noticed. Then she called Nicole and Neona into the livingroom and told them to guess what they had to go pick up.

It was a tiny kitten. The manager of one of his stores found it in their furnace. They could not keep the kitten so we got her. I really do not think we need any more animals but she is very cute and the girls are very happy. Noelle has claimed this one as her own and has named her Bridget.

She looks very young. She still tries to nurse on fingers and ears. She also gets tripped up by her feet and staggers. If she gets too excited her back paws move faster than the front ones. James said he knew that the only way I would say yes is if I saw her. I am too big of a softy when I see cute animals.

So that brings our grand total to 2 big dogs, 3 cats, 2 guinea pigs, and 3 fish. LOL

Well it is finally warm enough here in Wisconsin to plant a garden. We tried to do the whole plant the seeds in the basement first thing. We bought the nice 72 cell seed starter kit from Burpee. We bought tomato and broccoli seeds and got it all started ahead of time.

The kids got all excited about the plants popping up. Everything looked great... Then one day as I sat at my desk working on one of the sites I heard a huge crash. Thankfully the kids were at school at the time. I think they would have freaked out.

I found that one of the cats had knocked the whole thing on the floor. It was upside down and plants and dirt were everywhere. I quick cleaned it up trying to save all the plants. This happened another two times over the last month. It appears that no matter how much I tried to protect the plants the cat wanted the broccoli too much to give up. So now we are left with about 7 pathetic looking tomato plants that probably will not make it outside. LOL

The girls have really been looking forward to having a garden this year. We were not able to in Arizona. When the day finally came to get everything started on the garden they were more than thrilled. Of course as the days went on they got less thrilled. LOL

The first day James just tilled the garden and then it rained. The second day we put up the poles and chicken wire. We have stray cats from the barn next door that come in our yard so I figured we needed some kind of fence around the garden. We also planted pots of flowers on the second day. Finally on the third day we planted all the seeds in the garden.

I heard a lot of... "Can't we just stop?", "Do we really need all of these seeds?", and my favorite..."Why don't you just finish it mom? You do a better job." I was sooooo happy that it was all over. Now we just have to wait and see if anything comes up. LOL



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Well this is the little "camp site" they set up on the side of the yard by the play house. In order for me to get it all in the picture I had to take it from far away so it is hard to see some of the details. On the little porch of the playhouse I planted some flower seeds in pots. Also that lump of brown to the right of the middle is actually the fire pit full of wood. I just noticed that our dog Padfoot snuck in the picture too. He is the black thing to the right of the fire pit. LOL

Well yesterday after school was crazy. I was rushing around trying to get everything done. The school had summer school sign up online. There are only openings for 15-20 kids per class so I had to hurry and get the girls all registered. They posted the link at 4pm and then you had to race everyone else to get your family registered and then each kid registered before you even pick the classes. The girls wanted to do the full maximum classes so they will be going to both sessions.

School is letting out late because of make up snow days so the first session is only 2 weeks long so they can still have a week break before it begins. Then there is a week break before the second session which is three weeks. For both sessions they are taking the maximum three classes. It starts at 9am and ends at 12. They are a bit worried about when my parents come to visit but I told them that they will just have to wait to do things until 12. That should not be a big deal. If they want to do full day things we can do them on the weekend or take a day off. It is just summer school anyway.

The girls are excited about their classes. This is their full schedule. Noelle has one less class because they can go practice with the band teacher during any of the class times. He has not sent anything home or told the kids it costs anything so I assume it is free or the $2 charge the other classes are. All he has said is that he hopes to see them in the summer. I assume they will send something home eventually.

Noelle is taking...
Lawn Games
French for Beginners
Beginner Quilting
Acting 101
It's All About Soccer

Nicole is taking...
Lawn Games
Codes Clues and Treasures
It's All About Soccer
Outdoor Games
Deerfield Math University
Outdoor Explorers

Neona is taking...
Brain Games
No Bake Cooking
Puppets
Outdoor Games
Cheerleading
Outdoor Explorers


Then after getting them all signed up it was time for soccer practice. Neona freaked out and cried herself to sleep saying she wanted to quit soccer. I told her she could stay home from the practice since the coach does not really do much during practice but she had to go to the games.
She wanted to be in it and now she has to finish the season because she is part of a team.

Soccer practice the kids played kickball on the baseball diamond instead. I really do not get that but oh well. The practice even went over 15 minutes because he wanted to finish the game. Then as we were trying to hurry home to start dinner the coach came over to tell me that they decided to just do the make up game next Thursday instead of using it as a practice so they can get the season over with.

Well at least that means we can start staying up late on Fridays sooner.
The girls missed their "party night". LOL

Today we planted the garden. I am worn out and my body is starting to get sore too. James tilled the garden on Saturday. Since then it has rained or been too wet. Today it was finally dry enough and starting to pack down some so I wanted to get it all planted. I can not believe how fast it filled up even though we made it bigger than planned. I hoped we would still have room to buy more seeds but now I will have to go without or find somewhere else in the yard to plant. LOL

We planted 3 rows of corn, 2 rows of peas (don't ask James seems to think we need that many), 1 row each of tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and bell peppers. Then we did half rows of onions, acorn squash, pumpkin, and watermelon. For the cucumber row we did half the row with whatever the heck lemon cucumbers are. LOL

We got asparagus seeds too but we will be planting them by the garage with the sunflowers since it says they can not even be eaten for 3 years.

Well I am really getting sore and my hands are cut up and ache so it is time for me to finish my drink and lay down.

Wow, this has been a long day!!! When I woke up the girls brought me cards they made at school and cards they each picked out at the store. Then James and Neona went to the store to get a newspaper and brought home flowers. The girls were going nuts and wanted to hurry up and give me my gift. I opened my gift to find bags of Starbucks espresso roast.

I told them thank you and wondered if they had forgotten that my coffee maker was not working right. My coffee maker had been taking longer than it should to make coffee. Then last weekend when it did the automatic shut off after 2 hours it was still not done making coffee. LOL

James said it was probably clogged with minerals from the water but then he forgot to get me vinegar to clean it out when he got the groceries. I did not want to upset the kids so I just said thank you and hoped that they did not notice that I did not make coffee.

Then all of a sudden as fast as they wanted to open the gifts they took off just as fast. I asked where they were going and they said they were going to go play in their bedrooms. I was a little upset that they had already took off and then they came right back down the stairs.

They said that they wanted to give me my birthday gift too. So they handed me a big box. They got me an espresso and coffee maker combo machine. So now I know why James did not get me the vinegar to clean my old coffee maker. I have wanted one for a long time but I always feel guilty spending money on things just for myself. So I made myself a nice big frothy cappuccino with cinnamon on top!!!

Then it was time to head to the hardware store. We got poles and chicken wire for around the garden since it ended up bigger than we planned. We ended up getting more seeds, weed & feed, and other stuff. James loves shopping so when he saw Dollar General he had to stop there too. LOL

When we got home it had stopped raining and dried a bit so we put up the chicken wire. The garden was still too wet so we planted some pots of flowers to go on the porch of the kids play house and some sunflowers by the garage. We made a bonfire and sat around it for awhile but James could not sit still so he and Abrianna put together the pool table in the garage. They called me into the garage to help them flip it over and then we played a few games of pool.

We then realised that we had not ever eaten so we started dinner. We had steak and pork chops on the grill, real mashed potatoes, corn and biscuits. As I took a shower they made a chocolate cake. They bought mint M&Ms at Dollar General so they put some of them on top the cake so they would bake in. It ended up really good.

Just a quick daily update before I jump in the shower. Autumn and Alexis have a make up soccer game today so we are off to practice at 5:30, game at 6pm, and it should be done around 7pm. I guess dinner will be leftovers tonight. LOL

Today I looked for new ideas for stuff to add to the site. I thought that maybe I should add something for men to the site. My first thought was to add a sports section to the magazine. Then as I looked for some stuff to add I found other stuff. Long store short I added a 15 section newspaper to the site now. LOL

Once I get going I can not stop myself. I race and race to get it all done before the girls get home so I can relax. I can not ever relax when there is something not finished.

If anyone has any interest at all here is my newspaper. I could have added full articles but I do know know if I want to get that involved just yet. So for right now it is just video articles and slideshows. The best part is that the viewers pick up the lastest news in any subject I specify so I never have to do anything to them again.


The Newsroom

U.S. News, Weather, Local News, BBC News, World News, Sports, Business News, Entertainment, Health, Technology, Politics, Learning, Life & Leisure, Odd News, Press Releases

Okay I really do need to hurry up and shower now.

Well this day sure is going by fast. This morning we had to rush more than usual to get ready.

Noelle had to spend the day at the middle/high school today. They have 7th - 12th grade there so she will be going next year. Today her class went to "experience" a day there. So I had to drop the younger two off early and then drop her off. She was excited about the lunch there. She misses being able to choose pizza everyday. Picking her up might be interesting. They never told us where parent pick up is and it is surrounded by three roads and the parking lot looks like only buses can go into it for pick up. When I dropped her off I just quick left her at a stop sign. LOL

I have been so busy with the garage sale that I did not add anything to my site or my community last week. So this morning I quick added a computer and internet section to the magazine and a blog about it on the community.

James has been calling me all day. I think he is bored. He keeps asking me stupid things like have I opened the windows to get fresh air and if I have measured Noelle's window to see if one of the other screens in the house will fit so we can open her window. Apparently he thinks I will actually get something done around the house today. LOL

I suppose it is after 1pm now so I should do something other than sit on the computer. LOL

Yesterday ended up being a really nice day. James was gone longer than we had thought. He brought Josh with him because Josh has not seen much of Wisconsin yet and he loves to golf.

Three men that talk too much means a very long day of golf. Then they stopped for pizza so James could have Josh try "real pizza". This is something people in Racine always do to people that are not from there. Everyone HAS to try pizza at Infusino's. LOL He brought some home with him too.

When he got home it was around 3pm and he wanted to pack up all the garage sale stuff but we got side tracked. We have been piling up sticks in the fire pit but it has been raining everyday. So he wanted to burn them up since it was nice out. As we started to go through the yard deciding on where we wanted to plant things we picked more sticks. Then we ended up just sitting around the fire and roasting marshmallows. I asked if I should start dinner and they decided to just roast hot dogs instead.

As it got later we all went in for showers and then watched a movie. James just bought Golden Compass. It seemed like a good movie but I think I only caught a tiny bit of it because the kids could not sit still and stop talking. LOL

They are all excited about it getting warmer outside and want to plan out all the things that they could do. James wants to set up the tent next Saturday and camp in the back yard. I have tried to convince them to wait a week. James has to do all the tilling on Sunday and he might be very sore after sleeping in a tent all night. I also thing they should wait until we have a fence up or they may end up with the stray cats bothering them all night.

I think we decided on putting the garden about 4 feet past the patio. It will be still mostly to the side of the yard and we need to be able to get between the patio and garden with a lawn mower. From what James was showing me he wanted it will end up bigger than I had thought. I am excited and worried. We have some boards that we had planned on putting around it but they might not be enough now that I see how big it will be. We do have chicken wire in the basement and we have two rows of falling down chicken wire at the field so we might just rip out some of those poles and use them to hold up chicken wire around the garden.

The tomato and broccoli seeds we planted ahead of time do not look the greatest so I do not know what will live. My cat seems to really like eating broccoli. LOL

James has already bought some seeds so we already have....sunflowers, wildflower mix, peas, watermelon, acorn squash, corn, and cucumber. I am going to start a list of what else he has to get. He will definitely have to get some hot peppers for me. LOL

I am also thinking of making or buying planter boxes for under the windows of the kids playhouse. I think we will put most of the flowers by the playhouse. Autumn loves flowers. James buys her flowers more than he does for me. LOL

Today feels weird. It feels like it is Monday and I should have the kids in school. Friday James took off for the garage sale so it feels like the weekend should be over now. James went to Racine this morning to go golfing with his friend Jeremy. Him being gone makes it feel even more like a Monday. He should be back early this afternoon though.

When he gets home I want to get out into the yard and make some decisions on where we want to plant things. We are still unsure on where we want to plant the garden or where we want to put in some areas with flowers. There are only a few flat areas in the yard that are not shaded by trees. One area is to the side of the kids playhouse but it may still get too much shade once the trees fill all the way in. Another area of the yard we are considering is on the other side of the yard and halfway back but it would have to be in front of an existing planting area that has boulders and bushes. A garden would block that from being seen. Our other thought was right up against the patio. I had been planning on putting flowers there but we do not have too many options for where to put the vegetable garden.

I really do not like the idea of having it there but it looks like the best location for dirt and sun and it would keep most wild animals away since it is so close to the house. I would like to make those decisions today when James gets home and cut in some borders to mark off where we will be planting. There is plenty of room at the bottom of the slope and the ground is always wet there but I think it will be too shaded down there once the trees fill in. I was thinking we could maybe plant watermelon and pumpkins down there. I love the fact that the whole yard is surrounded by trees so it is very private but it makes it a challenge when we actually need sun for a garden.

James checked out the little hardware store here in town on Friday. He found that they rent tillers for $21 an hour, so we will be doing that. He was thinking of creating raised beds but then he would have to buy all the dirt and drive back and forth to Madison. As of right now our plan is to till up the planting areas next Sunday. I really want to get started on something right now.

I give up, I have had enough of this garage sale. I think I would rather just donate all the stuff. It sprinkled a bit early this morning but they still had the soccer games. So they rode their bikes there while I did the garage sale.

This morning was a lot colder than yesterday and no one was coming. Yesterday we had the big dog igloo, Little Tikes playground, and basketball hoop out front so more people came. All of those got picked up last night and our garage does not face the street so we only had 5 people come.

James took the laptop to work so I was cold and bored. I can not tell if people in this town are cheap or broke. No one wanted to spend more than 25 cents on anything. I had one of those big adjustable plastic basketball hoops for kids for sale for only $3 and still some guy did not want it because it did not come with a basketball. Are you kidding me? I almost told him to get out of my yard. LOL

Some crabby old man came and kept talking crap about how I did not have anything from WWII or any guns. As he walked around he said, "I bet you wish you had stuff from WWII so I would buy something from you". The he said," you are obviously not hunters because you do not have any guns". He also made me want to tell him to get out of my yard. Instead I asked him why a hunter would be selling their guns.

At 10am I was cold and sick of dealing with people so I said forget it and closed up. All I sold was a video game for $5 and a pair of shorts for 25 cents. I was hoping it would start raining so I would not feel guilty for stopping. As soon as the sky got darker and the drops started to fall I closed up.

The kids are super excited now though. James decided that when the garage emptied out we could set up the pool table in the garage while it is warm out and just add some extra bolts and whatever else it would take to make it not be wobbly.

As I closed up the garage I was telling the girls that we could keep everything how it is in the garage and just have another sale when we get the new yard stuff and sell the old stuff. The girls quickly informed me that we need to get rid of the stuff because they want to set up the pool table. LOL

Okay now I am going to find something fun to do since I wasted all week getting ready for a garage sale for nothing. Well we did make a total of $87 and my house is less cluttered. If we did not have the big stuff to sell we would not have made anything. Now I just have to get all that stuff out of the garage.

So here I am sitting in the garage and it is raining outside!

We have not had that many people come since it is Friday and it is raining. The good news is that I just found out that my wireless signal makes it to the garage! So I can sit out here and not be fully bored. So far we have sold the Little Tikes two slide and tube thing for $50 and the dog igloo for $15. Everything else has just been our 25 cent books and toys.

The slide playground thing sold to our neighbor's friend. The neighbor stopped over and called her friend to come look at it. Tomorrow will be more busy I am sure.

Okay just a few quickies that I found on the newspaper blogs again.

Who we find attractive...

A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face and physique a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.For instance, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features.However, if she is PMSing , or menopausal, she is more prone to be attracted to a man with scissors lodged in his temple and a bat jammed up his ass while he is on fire.

A little girl asked her mother, 'How did the human race appear?'
The mother answered, 'God made Adam and Eve and theyhad children and so all mankind was made.'
Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.The father answered, 'Many years ago there were monkeysfrom which the human race evolved.'
The confused girl returned to her mother and said,'Mom how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?'