Hi Everyone     On 2nd October, I am participating in the annual Blackmores Run the Bridge (Sydney) 9km fun run to raise funds for Osteoporosis Australia and I would welcome any contribution, great or small, that you could make!   To sponsor me and make a donation to Osteoporosis Australia, please click on my page http://gofundraise.com.au/sallyluxton and donate using your credit or debit card via secure transaction.  All donations to this site are electronically wired to Osteoporosis Australia  via PayPal a secure online transaction agent.    If you are a tax paying Australian Citizen all donations over $2AUD are fully tax deductible. 
  For more info on prevention of osteoporosis, please visit their website http://www.osteoporosis.org.au.   Please forward this to as many people as possible.  Thankyou in advance for your support.     Sally

Hi Everyone     On 23rd September, I am participating in the annual Blackmores Run the Bridge (Sydney) 9km fun run to raise funds for Osteoporosis Australia and I would welcome any contribution, great or small, that you could make!   To sponsor me and make a donation to Osteoporosis Australia, please click on my page http://gofundraise.com.au/sluxton and donate using your credit or debit card via secure transaction.  All donations to this site are electronically wired to Osteoporosis Australia  via PayPal a secure online transaction agent.   Alternatively, if you would rather send a cheque, please   1) make payable to "Osteoporosis Australia" & 2) post to 23 Alkaringa Rd, Miranda NSW 2228 with 3) your return address so a receipt can be mailed to you.   If you are a tax paying Australian Citizen all donations over $2AUD are fully tax deductible.
. For more info on prevention of osteoporosis, please visit their website http://www.osteoporosis.org.au.   Please forward this to as many people as possible.  Thankyou in advance for your support.     Sally

Hi Everyone!

I've been doing "other stuff" since last on.  As you do.  Trying to buy a house, but didn't get that one.  Not to worry, it wasn't the most fantastic house or anything, but the best we had seen in a while.  Nevertheless, things happen for a reason, and could be a blessing in disguise.

Finally got a job where I can work from home!  And none of this clicking to get paid 2 cents an email or any of the other crap that is out there that I just still dont believe can ever give you a decent income.  They are all scams and I've yet to be proven wrong.  More on that in a moment.  I got a job reviewing a subject for a financial services education organisation and really love it.  I used to like my job before I had kids and do miss it but could never give up the time away from the kids to go back to it, so this job is great to be back in some sort of contact with financial markets again.

Now back to the online money making schemes.  You know what I'd really like to do.....if all these people are really making that much money by doing what they do - signing up every one on the internet to click for them....etc, why dont we band together and set up a fund and test it out.  If 1 person can make x amount of thousands per month, then imagine what 10000 people could do with an hour a day for 6 months and donate all that money to wiping out world poverty.

Who thinks that this would work?  I think I'll put this in a group discussion.

 

As you all know, I am trying to find scam free ways of earning money at home on the internet.  So far, all I have come across is a load of crap.  The standard lines are:

Paid surveys

Search the net and get paid

Get paid to read emails

blah blah blah - you've all heard about them and that you can join for free but then when you do and get through all the rubbish - there it is again, asking for your $29.95 or $39.95 all on special though!  Oh you can pay by paypal in some of them.........FAT CHANCE!

Others are just link farms or webrings (see Wikepedia for these definitions). 

So instead of doing a google search for "earn online", I decided to do a search on "scams online" and came up with the reputable pcworld magazine article which describes a perfect scenario on phishing and now I think I've been phished out many a time - although luckily, I never put my credit card online, I usually use paypal, especially on ebay, not that I go to ebay all that often now.

Here's a link to the article http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116186-page,1/article.html .  It's definitely worth a read and if you are registering your name and email on sites for surveys and all the crap I'm experimenting with, make sure you are using a separate free email.  I use my hotmail one for that as then all the extra stuff that comes through will not clog up my personal email where I get genuine emails from friends etc.

If anyone finds any sites that really are worth a look like Emailcash, which I'm already on, please reply to my blog.  I'm very interested.  I really want to know if it is possible to make money online other than via affiliate marketing or by having an actual business online.

Hi - I've been looking for ways to earn money from home and when looking though all the job sites like seek.com.au, jobsearch etc there are just so many "work from home, own your own business, earn lots and lots of money etc etc" , we've all heard the stories but never really know what the business is until we get 3 or 4 emails and long winded blurbs about how much money we make.  I'm so sick of it! 

I want to perform real tasks, utilise my administration skills, my it skills, my knowledge.  I'm not into partyplan, I'm not into network marketing, I'm not into telemarketing, I'm not into cold sales or face to face stuff which starts at recruiting your friends and family.

I am happy to do contract work, temp work, be paid for my real skills.  Sound familiar?  Sorry if I have offeneded any successful network marketers, this is not the intention of my blog.  If it's for you and you have done well out of it - that's great, but it's not for me.

So I have stumbled across this site DoMyStuff.com.  I've listed myself and have found there are lots of things I can do - just have to bid on it and see what happens.  So any other mums out there looking to be paid for "doing something", have a look!  You can sign on to put tasks you need done and also sign on to do tasks.

Good Luck!  By the way, this is not my site, but thought it might help some of you, so put it in my blog instead of advice as it is not really parenting stuff.

Hi all

I've have been rather quiet this week as we were interstate for a holiday with the kids and to visit my family. 

We went to Seaworld (Gold Coast) for 2 nights and what a great time of the year to go!  Still busy but not ridiculous and staying the Nara resort was just so easy with the kids as we could come back on the monorail just for about 30minutes in the middle of the day just to chill out and that was enough to recharge and go again.  The water was cold to swim in but the kids didn't care and it was so cheap!!  We only paid $99 per night and that includes 1 adult pass into Seaworld worth $64 so it's a great deal and you dont have to pay for kids under 4.

Also went up to the observatory deck of Q1 tower - the world's 20th tallest building and has the fastest lift - 80 floors in under 30 seconds! amazing! 

Kids had a great time and if anyone out there is from Brisbane - I am absolutely amazed in the change in Wellington Point.  It's great for young kids and plenty of cafes to eat at and the Wello is all done up.  Wow, what a transformation it has taken over the last 15 years.

 

My husband and I got talking about the birth experiences of both our children tonight, which we did lots and lots immediately following the birth but they are now 3 & 4 so a fair while ago.  I was surprised at how much I dont remember and the strange things I did remember. 

But one thing that sticks in mind and why my husband brings up the topic is that he needs to debrief too, and in some ways, more than I need to debrief about the birth.  My son's childbirth was quite traumatic, and touch and go (as it is for many people, I dont put myself out there by any means) at times.  But I remember little of what happened, yet I only had an epidural.

We often forget that the Dad of the newborn has very important role during childbirth.  He is our support person and he knows, decisions lie with him for whatever may happen.  It's a huge responsibility and if trauma presents, it will last in his memory.  And if something goes wrong with us, even though it's not his fault, he will always feel responsible.  We should give our husbands credit for what they have to go through emotionally whilst we are vulnerable and going through the biggest pain in our life because, we, the women are built to forget that pain.

Hi all

I'm making a card for my parents' golden wedding anniversary and looking for some literature type verses - does anyone know of a site where I can find verses for this sort of thing?