Hello all busy few days. First we received my brothers package, my daughter loved her gifts very much, I will have to get pictures of her with them. Thank you Pat, from me and her. second we got daughters new bedset and she loves it, thanks Mom. Also big news is I got my job at the pharmacy Boots. I am very excited about that, I start Monday the 5th. It will be roughly 18 hours a week, 530pm to midnight. It should at least take care of groceries. It will also help if we decide to stay in this side of the pond. Daughter and I saw The Tale of Despereaux on New Years Eve ( the year turned over while writing this) and we enjoyed it thouroghly.
Happy New Years Everyone!!!
Thank you for reading,
Chris
P.S newest publication is a review of one of my recent Transformers purchases
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1331540/transfomers_animated_toyline_lockdown.html?cat=11
and a critique of an article I read on Bloggled
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1296952/the_nostalgia_trap_a_critique_of_an.html?cat=9
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas
No updates today other than pictures!
visit webshots
http://community.webshots.com/user/prowl26
Love to all, thank you
Chris
Peace... Good will to ALL
visit webshots
http://community.webshots.com/user/prowl26
Love to all, thank you
Chris
Peace... Good will to ALL
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Hello all, Merry Christmas Eve!!
No updates from yesterday, just wanted to update on my most recent publications.
My breakdown of the best gift assortments for Transformer fans!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1309751/great_gifts_for_transformers_fans.html?cat=2
A list of games coming to Nintendo DS in 2009, all of which look fun!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1302515/hot_upcoming_nintendo_ds_games_for.html?cat=19
Here is a link to my most recent work on my Squidoo pages!
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/prowl26
Thank you all,
Peace... One Love
Merry Christmas
My breakdown of the best gift assortments for Transformer fans!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1309751/great_gifts_for_transformers_fans.html?cat=2
A list of games coming to Nintendo DS in 2009, all of which look fun!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1302515/hot_upcoming_nintendo_ds_games_for.html?cat=19
Here is a link to my most recent work on my Squidoo pages!
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/prowl26
Thank you all,
Peace... One Love
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Two days till Christmas
Well it has been another roller coaster of weeks this week and last. Last week daughter started off with a sore throat going into Sunday and Monday, missing Tuesday and going to the clinic. Wednesday she started off to stay home but decided she did not want to miss Christmas lunch at school so she went late. We went to the clinic again Thursday as she looked to have pink eye. Sure enough she did have it yay, lucky her she got to miss the last two days of school. The next few days merely found us mostly hanging at the house as partner was worried she may have pink eye too.
Sunday we were invited to the house of one of the University's bus drivers. We took our first trip to Feltham, not much there. The outing was mostly nice, the driver and his wife had a little cold food spread, they even had gifts for us, which was unnecessary but nice. Daughter even got to meet three dogs, some rabbits and guinea pigs and at least one parrot.
Monday we went to London for a Christmas market on the south bank near the London Eye. It was not as big as I expected but, it was nice, not to cold and not to many people. Daughter got some very cute hand made dolls with her X-mas money and we all had some nice handmade food.
Tuesday we went to Staines to see Madagascar 2. I liked it and daughter enjoyed it, not as good as the first but definitly a good escape. We also went out to eat at a resteraunt called Spur, which was kind of cowboy/ Native American/ Mexican themed. It was good although a bit pricey. We then checked out The Entertainer, a little toy shop, daughter got some quality markers and another stuffed kitty and I got a Transformer. We went to Orang (phone company) and figured out the issue we were having with my phone. Finally we got daughter a few more pairs of tights and came home.
We will likely spend the next couple of days recovering, that and nothing runs either X-mas or Boxing day here. Well that is it for now, Merry Christmas, Happy Channukah (sp?) and Festivus to everyone.
Thank you for reading,
Love Chris
Peace... One Love
Sunday we were invited to the house of one of the University's bus drivers. We took our first trip to Feltham, not much there. The outing was mostly nice, the driver and his wife had a little cold food spread, they even had gifts for us, which was unnecessary but nice. Daughter even got to meet three dogs, some rabbits and guinea pigs and at least one parrot.
Monday we went to London for a Christmas market on the south bank near the London Eye. It was not as big as I expected but, it was nice, not to cold and not to many people. Daughter got some very cute hand made dolls with her X-mas money and we all had some nice handmade food.
Tuesday we went to Staines to see Madagascar 2. I liked it and daughter enjoyed it, not as good as the first but definitly a good escape. We also went out to eat at a resteraunt called Spur, which was kind of cowboy/ Native American/ Mexican themed. It was good although a bit pricey. We then checked out The Entertainer, a little toy shop, daughter got some quality markers and another stuffed kitty and I got a Transformer. We went to Orang (phone company) and figured out the issue we were having with my phone. Finally we got daughter a few more pairs of tights and came home.
We will likely spend the next couple of days recovering, that and nothing runs either X-mas or Boxing day here. Well that is it for now, Merry Christmas, Happy Channukah (sp?) and Festivus to everyone.
Thank you for reading,
Love Chris
Peace... One Love
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Update!
Hello world,
This week has been ups and downs, Sunday we pretty much did nothing as we were still all tuckered out from working daughter's X-mas fair. Monday daughter had a X-mas party at school and seemed to have alot of fun! I stayed home and submitted applications online. Tuesday she stayed home with a sore throat. Later that day I had an in-store assessment at a pharmacy called Boots. It seemed to go well, I am supposed to hear back by this weekend so... fingers crossed. Wednesday, daughter stayed home for an hour before deciding she was fit for school. Just in time for her X-mas lunch at the school, haha! Thursday she stayed home again as she had really blood shot eyes, we took her to the clinic and BAM, conjunctivitis (sp?). So she was done for the rest of the week, two extra days of X-mas break. Hopefully she will be better by this weekend as we hoped to get out of the house a little, we'll see. She on the other hand, is as happy as a kid that gets to miss school for being sick but not feeling sick can be!!
I also found out I was accepted for publication twice more today so I will get up the one that is ready today and then post up the pending one when it is available. I will also provide links to my Squidoo pages which are kind of like, grandstanders for my articles!
Six more days!!!!
Thank you,
Chris
Peace... One Love
Merry Christmas
my newest publication
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1294806/4_great_recipes_for_your_super_bowl.html?cat=22
my Squidoo lenses
http://www.squidoo.com/Nintendo-DS-1
http://www.squidoo.com/The-Transformers-Toys
http://www.squidoo.com/Tom-Robbins
http://www.squidoo.com/hotdstitles
http://www.squidoo.com/Movies-2008
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/dashboard
This week has been ups and downs, Sunday we pretty much did nothing as we were still all tuckered out from working daughter's X-mas fair. Monday daughter had a X-mas party at school and seemed to have alot of fun! I stayed home and submitted applications online. Tuesday she stayed home with a sore throat. Later that day I had an in-store assessment at a pharmacy called Boots. It seemed to go well, I am supposed to hear back by this weekend so... fingers crossed. Wednesday, daughter stayed home for an hour before deciding she was fit for school. Just in time for her X-mas lunch at the school, haha! Thursday she stayed home again as she had really blood shot eyes, we took her to the clinic and BAM, conjunctivitis (sp?). So she was done for the rest of the week, two extra days of X-mas break. Hopefully she will be better by this weekend as we hoped to get out of the house a little, we'll see. She on the other hand, is as happy as a kid that gets to miss school for being sick but not feeling sick can be!!
I also found out I was accepted for publication twice more today so I will get up the one that is ready today and then post up the pending one when it is available. I will also provide links to my Squidoo pages which are kind of like, grandstanders for my articles!
Six more days!!!!
Thank you,
Chris
Peace... One Love
Merry Christmas
my newest publication
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1294806/4_great_recipes_for_your_super_bowl.html?cat=22
my Squidoo lenses
http://www.squidoo.com/Nintendo-DS-1
http://www.squidoo.com/The-Transformers-Toys
http://www.squidoo.com/Tom-Robbins
http://www.squidoo.com/hotdstitles
http://www.squidoo.com/Movies-2008
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/dashboard
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Goings on
Hello all, got a good bit to update today. Daughter and school put on X-mas play Thursday and Friday, she was second in line of narrators, she was not happy as she wanted a bigger part but she did well. I will be posting pictures and videos either Sunday or Monday.
Thursday night we literally, albeit unintentionally, crashed some X-mas festivities at partners University. Back when I had my interview at the campus computer center I saw a flier for an X-mas get together at a place called the Hub on campus. Only being in the lobby of the computer center for a short time I did not see a smaller print line on the bottom of the flier that said in order to book, email so and so. Well, Thursday evening came along and we went only to find out it cost 5pounds to enter, you had to bring a gift for Santa to give to your kid and it was intended for school staff. Oh were we bummed, luckily they did not turn us away although since we did not know about the gift we told daughter she would not get one this go around. She did have a blast though, and while she was having fun I made a quick dash to the apartment (only about a 10-15 minute walk from campus) both to take her school stuff home, we had come straight from picking her up, and grabbed a small pre-wrapped "Santa" gift. When it came time to hand out gifts daughter was extremely happy and surprised to receive something. She got to unwrap (all the other kids were doing it) she uncovered a Nintendo DS game, Pokemon Ranger. She was very excited to get playing upon making it home. We thanked the ladies running the event for allowing us to crash and they said they were glad to have us and hoped we would return next year.
Also on Thursday partner and I were able to make 10 pounds by attending a study in the psychology department. It took us about 20 minutes and it was kind of fun, we just had to push a button when an English word popped up on a screen. Simple enough, we then spent a little of it grabbing a quick cup of coffee so that we could bid one of our friends farewell as he set off to the next stop on his study abroad.
Saturday, we helped out with daughters X-mas fair. We all went in a 9am to help with set-up and we took turns helpung run one of the activity booths to raise money. Meanwhile partner and I took turns walking daughter around doing that and other activites. It was all quite fun plus, I got to eat the biggest hot dog I have ever seen, it was huge. We won a few things in the raffles including some kind of wierd bath thing, a spoken word version of Wind in the Willows, candles of various kinds and more bath stuff. I won a very nice brown leather clutch for myself (which I will give to daughter, she was just saying she needed a purse) and I won a marble race game against a little kid but, gave him the prize candy. I have no idea how much we spent, I probably do not want to know as partner brought and spent most of the money. I also bought daughter a stuffed animal/ Rudolph as it was one of the few items on her X-mas list. All in all I think we all had a great time while there and I will upload the few pictures I was able to snap while there.
We may or may not be going to a fair-trade fair tomorrow depending on how tired we are from today errr... yesterday, as it is currently about 1:30 am as of writing this. We may just stay home and rest.
This past Tuesday we got a grocery delivery, our first from new to us ASDA. Apparently it is somehow owned by Wally World from back stateside. We were getting our groceries from Sainsbury's but grew tired of their online system. I believe after this first ASDA order that they have a much better selection of vegetarian and organic foods, as well as being cheaper as we got quite a bit of food in this delivery.
I have started using another site along with Associated Content, called Squidoo which can help me promote my writing as well as help boost the availability. Plus it had the added benefit of giving me an idea on one of my next topics as both sites have limited to no content on it. I am also looking into websites that look specifically at writing product reviews and doing article reviews as ways to continue supplementing. As far as Associated Content goes I am currently nearing 300 total views of my four currently published articles. I did however get my first rejected article, one of the Content calls they have, asking for favored rum drink recipes. I wrote on my preferred ones and provided recipes but, only one was my own creation, something I noted by crediting sources for other recipes but apparently that was not what they wanted. Oh well, you cannot win them all.
My two Squidoo links are as follows
http://www.squidoo.com/hotdstitles
http://www.squidoo.com/Movies-2008
These links are mostly a way to get increased viewership to my articles but, they are also pages unto themselves. I have already posted my articles to both my Facebook and Myspace accounts as well as Digg. I guess I could probably do my Linked In account also but I do not know anyone on there yet.
Ok well I guess that is all, as always I will continue to keep anyone and everyone updated.
Thank You for reading
Chris
Peace... One Love
Thursday night we literally, albeit unintentionally, crashed some X-mas festivities at partners University. Back when I had my interview at the campus computer center I saw a flier for an X-mas get together at a place called the Hub on campus. Only being in the lobby of the computer center for a short time I did not see a smaller print line on the bottom of the flier that said in order to book, email so and so. Well, Thursday evening came along and we went only to find out it cost 5pounds to enter, you had to bring a gift for Santa to give to your kid and it was intended for school staff. Oh were we bummed, luckily they did not turn us away although since we did not know about the gift we told daughter she would not get one this go around. She did have a blast though, and while she was having fun I made a quick dash to the apartment (only about a 10-15 minute walk from campus) both to take her school stuff home, we had come straight from picking her up, and grabbed a small pre-wrapped "Santa" gift. When it came time to hand out gifts daughter was extremely happy and surprised to receive something. She got to unwrap (all the other kids were doing it) she uncovered a Nintendo DS game, Pokemon Ranger. She was very excited to get playing upon making it home. We thanked the ladies running the event for allowing us to crash and they said they were glad to have us and hoped we would return next year.
Also on Thursday partner and I were able to make 10 pounds by attending a study in the psychology department. It took us about 20 minutes and it was kind of fun, we just had to push a button when an English word popped up on a screen. Simple enough, we then spent a little of it grabbing a quick cup of coffee so that we could bid one of our friends farewell as he set off to the next stop on his study abroad.
Saturday, we helped out with daughters X-mas fair. We all went in a 9am to help with set-up and we took turns helpung run one of the activity booths to raise money. Meanwhile partner and I took turns walking daughter around doing that and other activites. It was all quite fun plus, I got to eat the biggest hot dog I have ever seen, it was huge. We won a few things in the raffles including some kind of wierd bath thing, a spoken word version of Wind in the Willows, candles of various kinds and more bath stuff. I won a very nice brown leather clutch for myself (which I will give to daughter, she was just saying she needed a purse) and I won a marble race game against a little kid but, gave him the prize candy. I have no idea how much we spent, I probably do not want to know as partner brought and spent most of the money. I also bought daughter a stuffed animal/ Rudolph as it was one of the few items on her X-mas list. All in all I think we all had a great time while there and I will upload the few pictures I was able to snap while there.
We may or may not be going to a fair-trade fair tomorrow depending on how tired we are from today errr... yesterday, as it is currently about 1:30 am as of writing this. We may just stay home and rest.
This past Tuesday we got a grocery delivery, our first from new to us ASDA. Apparently it is somehow owned by Wally World from back stateside. We were getting our groceries from Sainsbury's but grew tired of their online system. I believe after this first ASDA order that they have a much better selection of vegetarian and organic foods, as well as being cheaper as we got quite a bit of food in this delivery.
I have started using another site along with Associated Content, called Squidoo which can help me promote my writing as well as help boost the availability. Plus it had the added benefit of giving me an idea on one of my next topics as both sites have limited to no content on it. I am also looking into websites that look specifically at writing product reviews and doing article reviews as ways to continue supplementing. As far as Associated Content goes I am currently nearing 300 total views of my four currently published articles. I did however get my first rejected article, one of the Content calls they have, asking for favored rum drink recipes. I wrote on my preferred ones and provided recipes but, only one was my own creation, something I noted by crediting sources for other recipes but apparently that was not what they wanted. Oh well, you cannot win them all.
My two Squidoo links are as follows
http://www.squidoo.com/hotdstitles
http://www.squidoo.com/Movies-2008
These links are mostly a way to get increased viewership to my articles but, they are also pages unto themselves. I have already posted my articles to both my Facebook and Myspace accounts as well as Digg. I guess I could probably do my Linked In account also but I do not know anyone on there yet.
Ok well I guess that is all, as always I will continue to keep anyone and everyone updated.
Thank You for reading
Chris
Peace... One Love
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
New publications
Hello all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have had to further publications for your reading pleasure. First is a listing of what Nintendo DS games I think will be high on Christmas lists this year. Second is my list of the worst gifts to give any member of the family for Christmas.
-->http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1257615/hot_titles_for_the_nintendo_ds_for.html?cat=19
-->http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1261097/the_worst_gifts_to_give_family_members.html?cat=46
As always read at your leisure and feel free to leave any comments or criticism as I always enjoy feedback.
thank you for reading
Chris G
Peace... One Love
-->http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1257615/hot_titles_for_the_nintendo_ds_for.html?cat=19
-->http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1261097/the_worst_gifts_to_give_family_members.html?cat=46
As always read at your leisure and feel free to leave any comments or criticism as I always enjoy feedback.
thank you for reading
Chris G
Peace... One Love
Friday, December 5, 2008
Two times in one day
Two times in one day!!!!! I have not been using enough exclamation marks/points, so I have just been emailed by AssociatedContent.com regarding a second publication. So i have now had two articles published today. Also, they emailed me with an upfront offer for my first exclusive article. It is only .99 cents but that is more than I made last week so...!! I will post the link for my second article at the bottom. I was so excited, this article is a slightly expanded version of my Proposition 8 post.
Daughter made a Rudolph artwork and a bookmark in crafty kids today, so Rudolph went to hang out near the Christmas tree. Next week she has both a Christmas play where she will be the P/T Narrator and on the Saturday there will be a Christmas Fair at her school. I will be helping out with the fair, set-up and clean-up plus probably some of the running. There is also some kind of Christmas get together for kids at partners University on Thursday so that will be something to do also. I am still also planning on updating our webshots album so..!!
Thank you,
Chris
Peace... One Love
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1256327/proposition_8_in_california.html?page=2&cat=9
Daughter made a Rudolph artwork and a bookmark in crafty kids today, so Rudolph went to hang out near the Christmas tree. Next week she has both a Christmas play where she will be the P/T Narrator and on the Saturday there will be a Christmas Fair at her school. I will be helping out with the fair, set-up and clean-up plus probably some of the running. There is also some kind of Christmas get together for kids at partners University on Thursday so that will be something to do also. I am still also planning on updating our webshots album so..!!
Thank you,
Chris
Peace... One Love
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1256327/proposition_8_in_california.html?page=2&cat=9
My first published article
I was very excited when I awoke and checked my email this morning. I had an email from Associated Content.com saying that my first article a personal list of the top 5 sci-fi/fantasy movies of 2008. I believe any article I post can be commented on so please feel free to critique so I can hone my writing skills. I have several more articles under review and except for the call for content articles I will likely not adhere to any on article type. You can find my first published article at the link below.
Not a whole lot going on this week, I went shopping on wither Tues/Wed for some limited Christmas decorations. I got a tree, some lights and some foil hanging decorations. I also got some candy canes and chocolate ornaments to hang from the tree as well as a couple stocking stuffers. I got away for about 40 pounds so not to bad. Since Woolworths has entered administration (bankruptcy proceedings) alot of stuff has gone on deep discount, even more today as they have hung large 50% off banners on stuff that was already marked down. We ahve also wrapped presents, for the presents from us we reused newspaper for wrapping and I got a small roll for the gifts from Santa (Father Christmas here). I will be uploading some pictures today also so I will include the link to our webshots albums. Wednesday Daughter had cookery and made mincemeat pies (apparently mincemeat pies often do not contain meat) which were delicious, she did a really good job. Today daughter has crafty kids club and I expect is making an ornament or two.
I am still applying for jobs and the Associated Content stuff will hopefully begin to get some views and start making us a little money so.... my fingers are crossed. I have also stopped limiting myself to only looking for part-time jobs as right now i just need something and can worry about hours later. There is talk that some other company/ investor might buy up Woolworths, I sure hope that is true because that would just leave me fighting against another 30,000 unemployed people for jobs.
Thank You,
Chris
Peace... One Love
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/125400/the_top_five_scifi_and_fantasy_movies.html?cat=40
http://community.webshots.com/user/prowl26
Not a whole lot going on this week, I went shopping on wither Tues/Wed for some limited Christmas decorations. I got a tree, some lights and some foil hanging decorations. I also got some candy canes and chocolate ornaments to hang from the tree as well as a couple stocking stuffers. I got away for about 40 pounds so not to bad. Since Woolworths has entered administration (bankruptcy proceedings) alot of stuff has gone on deep discount, even more today as they have hung large 50% off banners on stuff that was already marked down. We ahve also wrapped presents, for the presents from us we reused newspaper for wrapping and I got a small roll for the gifts from Santa (Father Christmas here). I will be uploading some pictures today also so I will include the link to our webshots albums. Wednesday Daughter had cookery and made mincemeat pies (apparently mincemeat pies often do not contain meat) which were delicious, she did a really good job. Today daughter has crafty kids club and I expect is making an ornament or two.
I am still applying for jobs and the Associated Content stuff will hopefully begin to get some views and start making us a little money so.... my fingers are crossed. I have also stopped limiting myself to only looking for part-time jobs as right now i just need something and can worry about hours later. There is talk that some other company/ investor might buy up Woolworths, I sure hope that is true because that would just leave me fighting against another 30,000 unemployed people for jobs.
Thank You,
Chris
Peace... One Love
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/125400/the_top_five_scifi_and_fantasy_movies.html?cat=40
http://community.webshots.com/user/prowl26
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
fixed?
I changed some settings to hopefully re-enable comments to my posts. I am not sure what happened but it may have had something to do with some cross referencing I did to hopefully generate more traffic. Give it a try to see if it works thank you.
Regards, Chris
Peace... One Love
Regards, Chris
Peace... One Love
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