Pam O’Connell

We were planning to take a vacation this spring break to NY to especially see The Little Mermaid on Broadway; but, without my extra income, we decided to postpone it for at least a year.

Sarah is a big Disney fan (like who isn’t) and we decided to get her an Ultimate Charm Bracelet for her birthday this year.  (It’s a supprise so don’t tell.)  She doesn’t know about this blog and I hope she doesn’t Google my name.

She’s going on ten so the bracelet is probably cute enough for her until she gets into to High School five years from now.   I sure hope she doesn’t get one of those nose studs.  Every time I see one of those it looks like a big zit.

Sometimes it’s good to be out of work especially when your kids are out of school for the day.  President’s Day is rarely a day off celebrated by most employers so I was lucky — if you call it luck — to have the day off with my children.

On the downside, it was raining so we didn’t do much but make some chocolate-chip cookies which turned out somewhat burnt, but good nonetheless.

We played Monopoly and Sarah was the Banker.  Britney had a monopoly on Boardwalk so we had to take out loans everytime we landed on her property.  Eventually we broke bank — just like real life — and had to ask the Federal Reserve to back our notes.

It’s funny that these kids actually know what’s going on during this economic collaspe while we parents tend to ignore and put our heads in the sand.  I would recommend Dr. Martenson’s crash course if your head is still in the sand.  After you figure out what how much your money is worth, you can start a Presidential coin collection to display your worthless coins.

It’s been over 2 months and I’m still looking for work.  I had several interviews and they are promising but I would have to put the girls into day care since the commutes would not be local anymore like at my previous employer.

With the cost of day care, I might as well work at the Dairy Queen or HR Block.  The thought of it is so depressing.

I really like blogging and if I could make some money online like Grizzly I would be set for life.  I’m pretty sure that I could have created

20 new sites in December just like the reactolite blog

Grizzly makes it look like it is so easy to make money that I’m going to double my effort at being a work at home mom cause this job search really sucks.   I’ll have to figure out how he gets traffic and links cause nobody visits my blog.

It’s been a few weeks since my last post.  I’ve been busy polishing up the resume and sending it out to friends and to whomever is looking for an accounting professional — and no John, I’m not going to work for HR Block.  Business is tight out there and I’m not very optimistic…

Anyway I had to check to see if I got any comments and of course nobody loves me, except for my two beautiful girls and wonderful husband.  But I did get a few comments about Viagra…  It’s bad enough that I get emails telling me my pecker is too small, now I’m getting spam on my blog saying I can’t get my pecker up.

It’s obvious that these guys don’t even bother to check that I’m a woman and don’t have that type of plumbing.

So come on.  I want a real comment.  I know somebody out there loves me…  Anyone?

I know this is lame but I think MyBlogLog is kinda cool.  I really like how it grabs your posts and tags and categorizes them.

I signed up and it read my blog and I saw that it related one of my posts talking about Britney to Britney Spears.  (And Britney just love to be made fun of like the singer.)

But it’s sorta nice to know who else is out there based on what you are writing about.  I really want to get to know more information about being a WAHM and I’m sure that I can find some contacts using MyBlogLog!

So I’m just newbing (is that a word?) along trying to get the hang of blogging.  Perhaps I should have tried this first on Blogger.com or WordPress.com instead of using one of my friends web hosting accounts.  (He said it would be better this way in the long run.)  So I’ll try to get a hang of it and not to sound like a complete idiot.

Yesterday, we had fun at the park.  It’s good to get away even if it is just to enjoy the company of your family.  Sarah and Britney had lots of fun while John and I took a nearby stroll with that ever careful watch over them.

Tomorrow John goes back to work and the girls are back in school.  I’m going to start emailing out my resume from one of my Cool Pink Laptops and look more into being a WAHM.  I’m getting really excited this year and I know it’s going to be great.

Whatever I had was pretty minor and Britney is over it.  I probably caught somethng different and being so run down from the holidays took it’s toll.

I still have the sniffels but doing much better.   This year I’m either going to find a part-time job or start working at home trying to make some money online.  I think the term is WAHM (Work at Home Mom).

There seems to be a lot of ways to make money, but I don’t really want to sell some sleezy ebook.  Perhaps I’ll try creating some websites.  Wordpress blogging seems pretty exciting and I like playing around with the templates.

Somehow I messed up this template and took of the date.  (Really, John show me how to mess up the templates.)

Anyways, I just wanted to say I’m better and we’re off to the park to play with the girls.

Happy New Years everyone!  I wish everyone a happy and prosporus year.

We didn’t ring in the new year with Britny and now me sick with the flu, so the first day of the year it’s just plain old rest, fluids and advil.

Britny has been sick since the day after Christmas and now I’ve got the sore throat and coughing up some green nasty stuff.   Britny is much better but still has some flem left after about a week.  We didn’t go antibiotics this time since it didn’t really seem that bad with only a slight temperature…

You know, the temperature just enough to make you feel bad but not really bad.  I’ll rough it out since I don’t have to go to work next Monday. (HA, the advantages of being unemployeed.)  I just hope Sarah and John don’t get it.

But they seem to keep their distance from the both of us and use a lot of lysol to kill the germs.

I just found out that my neighbor is going through some rough times.  She is a mortgage broker and her income was cut to about 10% of what it was during the peak of the housing boom.  It looks like she might get foreclosed on.

She really keeps to herself and doesn’t talk to anyone in the neighborhood so we didn’t know about her mortgage problems until it became obvious when she let the gardener go and the grass grew to a foot high.

I just love John. He went over and asked if she need help with the grass and said he didn’t mind mowing it to help her out.  (Now I wish he was more enthusiastic about mowing our lawn. HA)

I think it was his polite way of being nosy.

It’s been a long holiday … most of the time I’ve been busy with my girls shopping trying to find bargains on all the sales going on.

Britney caught the flu and luckly Sarah and John didn’t catch it yet… I’m feeling a little tired so I don’t know if I’m next.

Trying to find some time to write is a necessity just to keep my sanity while looking for work.  I’ll start looking much harder in 2009 when the girls are back in school.

Hello world simply said is much better than Goodbye Cruel world.