I was just checking the online news and was very surprised to see that Chattanooga is expecting snow in the early morning hours tomorrow. 1-2 inches of the white stuff.

I don’t have a lot of hope for this to become a reality. Because we live in the shadow of a mountain, certain weather systems seem to bypass us and are diverted northward toward the Cumberland Plateau or Soddy Daisy. Sure, the mountain might get something, but my little neighborhood? Well, I will believe it when I see it.

(P.S. Damon is still outside working on the front porch. I think it is time to convince him to come inside. Paul Barys says the temp is close to freezing.)

Today at Mom’s group someone asked me how it was going and if I had any plans. I told her that we are just trying to get a routine/ schedule down and that I plan on working more on writing and blogging.

Since jumping into the blog for money game I have been getting a real education in things like SEO, keywords, monetizing, and other topics in the blogosphere. I plan on taking time during Fuller’s nap to get an even better education on what I need to know to do well in becoming a blogul.

One site that has been helpful has been the Apogee Search site. They specialize in Paid Search Management, have been recently certified in Google AdWords.

But my favorite part of their site is their glossary. Since I am such a newbie to this game, it has been an invaluable resource that I return to time and time again.

Last Saturday Damon got the decking for the porch but was unable to purchase the deck fastening system he wanted. So he went online, ordered it and paid extra shipping so it would arrive on Tuesday. He also paid the extra shipping because his wife was very upset at the thought of canceling another event at our house because of an unfinished house project. (No, I have not had my birthday party yet.)

The deck fastening system arrived Tuesday and I have to say that the UPS guy is awesome. We didn’t expect it to arrive until the evening, but it arrived in the morning when we were gone. And the UPS guy left the box on our porch. Which is funny because we didn’t have a porch on Tuesday. We had boards set up for framing and somehow the UPS guy put the box in the middle of the boards. It cracked me up.

Last night Damon worked for many hours in the cold. And this evening he is bundled up and working some more. Our friend Dave is helping and they have made some headway. Wanna see?

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I have a new bathing suit. Pretty funny to get one in January, I know, but this one is from Land’s End Overstocks and it was such a good deal I couldn’t pass it up. I love Land’s End bathing suits.

I’m kicking myself right now because I forgot to go through my ebates account to place the order. I could have gotten 3% rebate for the $30 bathing suit. I really need to download the Moe Moneymaker to remind me to use it when I shop online.

I love ebates, we have been using that site for years. When I got my laptop from Best Buy I also used ebates to get 1% back. They have over 800 online stores that I frequent all the time. They even have rebates to the apple store. (1% at the store, 3% for apple itunes!)

Ok, I need to go download Moe now. I can’t keep missing 3% rebates on music. This is rick-dick-u-lus.

Sometimes I think I am a little slow, and today I think I made a realization that I think I should have made before today.

Fuller doesn’t like to eat when there is company around or when he is visiting others.

The whole time my mom was here a lot of the conversation was revolving around how much Fuller did not eat. Sometimes he would sit at the table long after we were finished, nibbling here and there, but not really interested. If he could have skipped the whole food thing, he probably would have.

This happens when we travel as well. When we go to the lake or to Ohio and Fuller doesn’t really eat well there either. Sure, he will eat sweets but I am not the type of mother to let her son exist on a diet of Oreos and ice cream. I could exist on that diet, but not my son!

We went out to dinner last night, over to Macaroni Grill. He ate a lot of bread and some bites of pizza, but the rest of his 10 inch pizza made it home in a cardboard box.

My mom left around 10 am and since then Fuller has had 6 chicken nuggets, 4 pieces of pizza, and lots of juice. I think he is making up for lost time.

It has been a long time since I have attempted a writing assignment, and this post brought to you on behalf of MindComet, but it is a good one so I thought I should take it.

Assignment: If you could get hold of one email address, whose would it be and what would you send them a message about?

Since this is a post on behalf of MindComet, it probably has something to do with Email Marketing and here is my message… to my 15 year old self.

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