Friday, April 25, 2008

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Working On The New Site

So I have been working on the new site for days now. I mean seriously how long does it take to add 13K in products. I am thinking to myself, as I am always either thinking or talking to myself LOL! Do I really need 13K in product? Why not just put up 100 or so. Perfect I am all ready dropping the ball.

I am off to the grocery store, can you say "how much will it be this time"? I am betting 200.00. I will let you know when I get back. In the mean time I almost forgot to post the fact that Live A Stress Free Alcoholic Life Style got a new name and a blog. LASFALS is the new name and the address is lasfals.blogspot.com go check it out and add your comments so we can get everyones ideas on a stress free life!!!

Talk soon!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

A True City Girl Tells A Story

So last night I went out with a new friend Annette. She was talking to me via email the other day and the emails kind of went like this

Annette - is your hubby home yet?
Me- no and looks like he will be gone for even longer
Annette - I think your bored and lonely "we need a girls night out"
Annette - "OK I ADMIT IT, I'M WEAK AND I NEED A NIGHT OUT!! DRAG IT OUT OF ME ALREADY!!"
Me - notice I didn't even have time to say GREAT IDEA... LOL but I finally got to say Great Idea
I was just laughing to myself thinking wow she needs a stress free life like me! Great a new friend would be nice, so we made plans to go out on Friday Night.

we met for dinner and had our kids and sent them packing, I mean if you plan on going to bars up and down main street you might as well walk right! That way we aren't drinking and driving so we were smart that way. We dropped into this little hole in the wall, I had corona she had tequila. We had a couple of drinks and talked and got to know each other. Come to find out we have a lot in common. It was a good evening, so we decided to go to the next bar. I had Corona she had more tequila! Remember that's her drink of choice and she's the one who told me your clothes fall off. I was asking her about that because I was worried maybe I should watch her so they didn't just fall off - LOL - she claims it is a song (sure it is!!! LOL). I had beer only because I am still fighting this stupid cold. So her hubby is coming to pick us up which is perfect beacuse we had been drinking, anyway I start to tell them about a story that happened to us when we first moved up here. So I thought I would share it with you.

I have always been a valley girl, born and raised is Southern California. Had my children in Southern California and my hubby is from Southern California. So we moved up to Northern California on 10 acres. Now we are city folks, rush rush rush. Need everything now. So took a little time to get adjusted for sure. Anyway one weekend our very good friend Rob comes up to visit. By Visit I mean he comes up to party and work his ass off helping us get the property in order. You know there is a lot of shit to do when you have 10 acres to care for. We had to remove about 40 trees to put our house in so we had a massive pile of trees that needed to be cut up and made into firewood. Now let me set the stage for you shall I. Raining out side so everything is muddy and slippery and just plain crappy outside. Kenny (my hubby) and Rob have a few beers - and when I say a few I mean A TON! I must have had a couple (maybe 1 or 5). They are out side in this horrible gloomy weather with chain saws - that sounds scary, a tractor, and of course their beer. So they are moving this stump down the hill, pulling it with the tractor to this spot we call the stump grave yard. I mean what are you going to do with 40 stumps. We have a lot of deer up here and they run around all day and night. So the deer are coming by and see Kenny and Rob and the tractor. One gets a little close and gets spooked, a little guy, Well the poor little deer jumps and by a freak accident breaks his leg. Now I am in the house at my computer I am sure because I am always at the damn computer. Kenny runs in the house out of breath and tells me Cindy you have to come here a Deer broke it's leg it's a baby what should I do? So I run out of the house to see the deer almost falling on my ass due to the slippery mud - had nothing to do with the beer! So I see this deer I am freaking out. I Know, I am gonna call the Deer Rescue People. So I run into the house and grab the phone. I dial 411 - Can I have the number to the Deer Rescue in Placerville. The operator says excuse me? There is no deer rescue how about the animal shelter. I say OK because I know they will have the number to the Deer Rescue. Well it's a Sunday and it isn't open but they have a number you can call so I call it -you know for emergencies. Now picture this in my mind I am thinking that the deer rescue is going to come out with the deer ambulance get this little deer and put him or her on a stretcher take it away and put a cast on it's leg. What the hell do I know about deer anyway. So I call the number it is the Sheriff so I have them come out. They must know how to get to the deer rescue, right? Well here they come walking up with their guns. I am like What The F***!! They proceed to tell us that they have to shoot the deer. I am saying are you kidding me I don't want that I want you to send the Deer Rescue people. They try and explain there is no such place, but I know they are just saying that because they are really hunters. So I tell them no you can't just leave the poor thing alone. They also inform us at this time that we can shoot the deer because it is our property and that it is fine. So we send them away I am just sick at the thought that they want to shoot this poor animal and not put a damn cast on it's leg. So this deer is falling all over the place and it's mother is right by its side. I am heart broken about this and want to blame Kenny and Rob - of course it must be their fault right? So I go in the house, hoping it will all just somehow go away and I will see the little guy limping around for the rest of his life. So Kenny and Rob come into the house - they come in as a team - I am sure they were more worried about what I was going to do to them then that damn deer. They explain to me this deer is suffering and we really need to shoot it. So I break down and say okay we have to do what we have to do. So We all go out there Kenny with his stupid little pistol and Rob right behind him and me standing at the top of the hill yelling you better not miss because I will kill you. Anyway Kenny says he has to get close so he won't miss. But the mother is right there and now Kenny is saying shit I can't shoot this deer especially not in front of it's mother. So he can't bring himself to do it, and I tell him, no problem that's a good thing because tomorrow is Monday and I can find the Deer Rescue place. The next morning the poor thing was dead and we barried it. And we realized at that moment we were NOT country folks by any means.

Okay so here is what I learned from the whole experience! THERE IS NO DAMN DEER RESCUE! We should have shot the damn thing and kept the meat especially when I just had to spend 134.00 on groceries for NOTHING the other day. And City folks probably have no right to move to the country without lessons and classes! And even more beer can make it seem OKAY!

Next I can tell you about the damn day and the lawn mower!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

My Son's Drumline

They took 2nd place in this video. Would put up the champisonships but you can't hear them play with all our screaming. Andrew is the one in the yellow. They rocked it!


Thank God It's Thursday!!!!!

Almost done with the week from hell man. This week has been one of the worst weeks I have seen in a very long time as far as my website goes. Business is down by 75% and I am not exaggerating. So a place for me to rant about it is just what the doctor ordered. Between the every rising prices of food, gas and everything you need to live, all the products I sell have been seeing price increases as well, now we need to raise our prises and that makes shoppers leave even further. What's a girl to do anymore. obviously I need to own a oil well, did you see that a barrel of oil hit $115.00 today. No wonder we are all unable to spend any money everything has to go to gas. I think I am going to buy and electric car. No better yet a solar powered car.



So let me tell you a little bit about what's going on with me, other then the stupid business, we can talk about that later! So my hubby is out of town, he works in the movie industry. Right now as we speak he is working with Johnny Depp. How I wish I was there. I love that guy! He's hot! And from so many women I have talked to they love him to. I have to fight off a bunch of them I can see. My husbands funny, usually he tells me - oh he is a jerk or Oh he beats his dog or Oh he hates kids, when ever I say so and so is hot! You know what I mean. Anyway to top of the fact that I am not there, he has to tell me Johnny Depp is a really down to earth nice guy. So now just shoot me please. I could be on location visiting my husband (lol yeah like that's why I would go) but no I am sitting here ranting on my blog. What's wrong with this picture. I need to get the hell out of here and go visit don't you think? enough about that whole thing makes me sad I am not there!

Better subject so I was talking with another set of friends today and discussing the whole we need to make money and the economy and how I have come up with the master plan on a stress free life! i have figured out away for everyone to become stress free and it really doesn't take to much energy or time. I think I am on to something here and could prove to be profitable at the same time. well profitable in the fact that I won't need to spend any money, so profitable. And you to can achieve this stress free life by doing what I am certain will catch on soon! you guessed it I am back on the "Live a Stress Free Alcoholic Life Style. Let's just call it LSFALS from now on.... So I was talking to my good friend Phyllis today and told her my idea. Which she thought was a fantastic idea! She to is stressed just like the rest of us. As we were exchanging drink recipes for the LSFALS cause she told me how she built a home made stile when she was a kid. I thought to myself this is perfect. Why do you ask? Simple now I have a way to make my booze for cheap!!!!!!! Brilliant and I figured you would like to know as well.... So she told me they took a 5 pound coffee can put a tube in it and potatoes and boiled it over a flame. Now I am sure there is more to it then that, but we're on the right track I think. She said what they got out of it tasted like shit but....LOL so I said great you got vodka. I am going to look up stile making on the web and I will let you know. In the mean time here are our ideas for you to lead LSFALS!

Our Drinks To A Stress Free Life..... (idea's from friends passed on to new friends)

Cindy - Okay rum and diet coke still watching the calories, but I have a great recipe for Pain Killers and they come in different degree's. Considering my stress level I think I need a number 4 which means: 4 parts rum, some ice, and you just wave the guava and pineapple juice over the glass and call it done. Top that off with a few Advil and your good to go.

Phyllis - Martini's she definitely loves martini's - vodka Martini's - i wonder if it has anything to do with the potatoes she tried to make booze out of. LOL And hey if that doesn't work for you just do what we did, bring over 1 bottle of wine and proceed to open another 6 and drink them all between 3 people, through in a pizza or two and your good to go - Trust me it works we have done it!

Laura - my favorite drink is Kettle, Soda, Lemon, however, if you do a couple of shots of Sambuca that always helps! and lately I have begun drinking Proseca (italian sparkling wine but not champagne) in the morning on Sunday's just to start the day off well... yikes! - Me thinks she has a problem LOL

Mickey - The girl is still stuck on Bud Lite.. Her answer to everything is a tall can. Every time she calls she says blah blah is pissing me off I just cracked a tall can.... I think she has an addiction to Bud Lite or everything pisses her off???????? LOL

Jacklyn - Straight shots of tequila, and I mean lots of them. She has assured me that if I feel the littlest amount of stress I can do a few shots and everything will be okay.

Annette - Patron, another tequila answer, however I have been informed by her that you need be careful of this as it can cause your clothes to fall off apparently for no good reason.

Sandy - Pomegranate Martini, the pomegranate juice is high in antioxidents so it cleanses your body giving the vodka more room in your system to remove the stress! She might be on to something added health benefits.


Will have more on the LSFALS stile making later after I have researched this further. next your gonna hear How Sandy wants to be Queen of the United States - She might have something.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Hump Day Is Over Rated

Well it is hump day, or almost the end of it actually and all I have to say is thank god it is almost done. Today was a day from hell with the web store. No orders to speak of as a matter a fact looks everyone is to afraid to buy anything anymore. Let me just tell you about my trip to the grocery store. I just went day before yesterday and I got everything I needed and checked out, I was in total SHOCK. My bill was 134.00 for 4 bags of stuff. And that was with no meat! I just knew they had to have made an error so I am in the car telling my son, get out your cell phone and ad that stuff up. Something is wrong there is just NO WAY that could be 134.00, I didn't even get a beer or a bottle of wine. He added it up and it was right. So after I told everyone I can't believe the cost of my grocery bill I was watching the news. And wouldn't you know it, "Grocery's are up by 25% over the last 2 months". Well what the heck is a person supposed to do? I am now not only gonna drink all day (will have to brew my own hooch) I guess I am gonna have to grow and raise my own food.

Shit I will turn in to Jacklyn a hillbilly. There has to be another way. Got any ideas? I am open to suggestions.

The rice patties are looking pretty good right about now.

Let's Get The day off right

So sitting here discussing with one of my best friends on just how messed up the economy is and how everyone is going out of business and food is high and gas is high and so on and so on. We were thinking of what ways we could make some real money. Real Estate is out, E-commerce is out, and hell no not going to be a grocery store so we think we have come up with a sure fire solution and way to make money. Rice - we are going to grow rice. I can see it now all we need to do is find a place to grow it, oh okay we found that, perfect, we are all ready on our way. Well we have a tractor so we got that covered, of course the cost of gas to get it from one state to the next is going to be what about 500.00 now a days. Okay we can scrap that together. So we got land, we have a tractor oh we need water. Well hell yeah the property has a well, perfect because who can afford the water bill. Now we just have to figure out how we are going to do. I can see it now her and i getting up early in the morning with our huge rice picking hats on, going out into this marshy mess to only say "hey you wanna have a cocktail this can wait". We should be able to harvest a bucket full each day, on a good day. Damn just found out it is to dry to grow rice on the land we were talking about.



Maybe we should really just become authorities on how to drink your way to a stress free environment! I wonder if there is a call for that? You roll out of bed, try not to hit your face on the end table, make your way to the bathroom. Oh my head hurts a bit from last night so make sure to grab the aspirin! Now do your business, I don't think you need to brush your teeth though all the booze is going to kill anything anyway! LOL!!! Now work your way into the kitchen, don't walk into anything, be in touch with your surroundings, don't touch your surroundings by walking into them! Now pull out your favorite spirit, just the sound of that makes it seem okay doesn't it? Pour a nice stiff cocktail. Now sit back and relax, you deserve it! Let all the stress roll off your shoulders! that's it now you can go about your day and continue with 1 cocktail per hour! This should do fine! LOL Now from all my friends here are their favorite Cocktail Recipes!


Laura

my favorite drink is Kettle, Soda, Lemon, however, if you do a couple of shots of Sambuca that always helps! and lately I have begun drinking Proseca (italian sparkling wine but not champagne) in the morning on Sunday's just to start the day off well... yikes!

Jacklyn

Tequila, lots and lots of shots of Tequila. According to Jacklyn if you take a few shots of Tequila and call her later EVERYTHING will be fine!

Mickey

Bud Light, you can never have to many only to few. Husband pisses you off have a beer, kids piss you off have a beer, relatives piss you off have a beer, utility companies piss you off have a beer! Basically just have a beer!

Cindy

Diet Coke and Rum, yes diet coke gotta watch the calories! Have about 6 of those and you wont give a cap about anything! You can even mix it up a bit, have a cold add some vitamin C drink rum and fruit juice!

Okay back to reality for a little while, have to work on my website and figure out why in the hell no one on this planet is ordering!!!!!!!!!!!!


Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Tuesday and still feeling sick

Another day of this horrible cold thing that is going around and I am getting a bit pissy about it! I am feeling like someone should just come and shoot me! I have gotten some great advice from great friends. Tequila, Vodka, any booze should do the trick and kill anything living inside me! Maybe I should try that, only problem is I am to damn sick to get up!

Will write more tomorrow, I am going to come up with a master plan on how to get rich quick!

Monday the day from hell

So I got up as usual today only to find my throat was sore and my nose was stuffy and a felt like I had a fever. But hey that's okay especially when you have kids and work to do. As I stumbled into the kitchen to make my coffee, the first thing I do every morning, I stubbed my toe on a box of trash I have been asking my son to take out for over 2 weeks now. I felt like crap and I wanted to just crawl right back into bed. But no can do when you run a little Internet business on the side. So off to my always cluttered desk I went. Turn on the computer a wow what do you know everyone starts to Instant Message me, hey where are the orders, hey where is my order, hey we have a problem. Hey no duh we have a problem I just freaking got up, I feel like crap and I don't even want to be here doing this anymore. Yes we have a problem. So I started my day as like I always do, check the store, yes we have a few orders, nothing to write home about. In all reality I could have just gone back to bed. I mean after all over the weekend the site was down anyways and so was Google so not only could I get no orders, I had to advertise to get NO orders. But that's a whole different rant! Anyway back to my story. So the day went by pretty uneventful for a Monday really, so I suppose I should be thankful for that much. A few problems here and there, nothing out of the norm. As the day progressed I felt even worse then when I got up. And everything I seemed to do just turned to crap. You ever have one of those days? Well needless to say my business is slow, and i mean slow, what's the problem all day long I am stressing over it. Where are the order show am I going to pay my bills, where can i file a BK, who can take the dogs, where is the husband, why am I sick, what did I do to deserve all this? All these thoughts running through my pounding head. Then it hits me, I know I was a total Jack Ass in my last life, so in this life I am getting the royal screw. That must be it. I started to think, why am I wasting my time, life is so short. I needed to find something better to focus on so here it is a blog, where I can vent all my frustrations and then some. Maybe find some humors things to talk about.

So it's 4:30am on Tuesday morning and I can't sleep no matter what I try. Wonder if it has anything to do with the extra Strong Starbucks coffee I made myself at 10:00pm. Duh ya think? That and the fact that I am so stressed out I can't even see straight. I mean what does a person have to do to make a living these days? I see these people who do nothing and I mean nothing and get money falling out of the ski, what the heck?

So today I need to be up in 3 hours and you can bet I will be a real princess to deal with. LOL i feel bad for anyone who wants to talk to me. I don't even want to talk to me right now. I have just had one of those days, you ever have one where you just wish you could get rid of it completely?

Okay enough about that tomorrow I will let you know just how great my Tuesday is!

Talk soon.