The Steelers Club in Wollongong is proudly donating their lovely Eastern Terrace Room to Lorraine Lea Linen's "Party for kids with cancer" Fund.

Date : Tuesday 19th Aug

Time: 7pm for 7.30pm Start

All host credits AND consultant profits are going to be donated.  We are also donating a further $10 for every party booking we take on the night.

We even have a couple of special guest towel models, Justin Poore and Kirk Reynoldson from the Dragons!!!

Just a gold coin donation to get in and a healthy spending habit for gorgeous linen is all you need for the evening.  Bring your sisters, your mother and your friends to fill a table.  All hosts to book and fill a table of 10 will receive a 40% item on the night!  How good is that!

To Book your table now please call Dionne at the Steelers Club reception on 42272255 or email on dmccoullough@steelers.com.au or minti mail me for more details.

We will also take outside orders!  This means you can have a look on the website to see if there is anything that takes your fancy.  We can put it in with the fundraiser orders so it will count toward the donations.  All you have to do is email me with your order and I will sort it out for you.  Feel free to contact the club or Lorraine Lea Linen to check authenticity, my name is Dionne McCoullough.

www.linenparties.com

www.steelers.com.au

Now, like I said, I have only just started so I have no real loyalties yet so I can be completely honest about my personal start up journey.

Your start up kit costs $590 but you only need $150 up front, the rest they take out of your profits as you do your parties.  You get stacks of stuff in your kit.  A single bed quilt, and quilt cover set.  A Euro Pillow and a standard pillow, heaps of stationary.  Sample pillow cases, A sheet set..... Heaps! 

You need 8 parties with in 4 weeks to start up.  This isnt hard.  I thought it would be but its not.  One of the other ladies didnt really have alot of friends so she took her catalogue to the local shopping mall and showed it to the girls working in the shops and scored heaps of parties!!

There is soooo much support within Lorraine Lea!  Its not just "Here's your kit now off you go" LIke it used to be.  I had a whole day "Kit up"  Where my manager showed my how to set up and how to sell how to do everything really.  I wont lie, there was a lot of work in the first few weeks getting started, It was a bit over whelming but now that I have my kit together and all my catalogues in order, I have 2 days a week where I spend half an hour making confirmation calls etc, 1 night a week where I update my catalogues (usually on the lounge with hubby after the kids go to bed) and then I have my parties.

I originally wanted to do 2 parties a week but I now cut myself off at 3.  It is really not hard to get the ongoing party bookings.  I have been making decent money too.  Its not great, and its not predictable but its "spare money"  Its great if you can live off what you are bringing in now but you dont have much savings or holiday money.  I wouldnt want to include it in a mortgage repayment or anything like that but it is good to have a little lying around for when your radiator blows up.  Last week I made $1000, this week I made $250?

I love it coz I work the days I want and Im home with the kids.  I spent 5 yrs travelling and moving with my husbands work so I was pretty much a 24/7 housewife and mother.  I had no life and no friends.  It was depressing.  So now we are back home I am trying to make up for lost time.  Its great to be out there socialising again.  Meeting new people and contacts. 

If you are interested at all, I can send you a 5 min dvd to watch and that will fill you in on some more details.  Just minti mail me.

www.linenparties.com

I have just joined up with Lorraine Lea Linen.  

To start up I need 8 parties under my belt within a 4 week period.  I have 5 locked in so I need 3 more.

If any of you lovely minti members is interested in hosting a party please let me know.  I need them locked in by this Monday so I can start having parties by mid July.

The website is listed below.  Go on and have a look at their stuff.  There is HEAPS more in the catalogue than there is on the website but even the stuff on the website is gorgeous.  I have a linen fetish so I will struggle not to spend all of my commissions every month.

www.linenparties.com

My 11yr old, David, is getting his "manly hormones" in and I am at the end of a very short stick as to what I am going to do with him. 

I will give you a quick update on what has been happening in our lives so you can all understand where I am coming from.

We have recently moved back to our home town although my husband is still working in our old town which is 5 hrs drive from here, which means, he doesnt live with us through the week.  He comes home on Friday afternoons and goes back on Mondays.  This is what I am pinning my sons latest behaviour on.

Since hubby is away all week, David is strutting his groove thang around my house like a stallion during breeding season!  He thinks he is running the show, ruling the roost and bringing down the house with his new testosterone and I dont like it one bit! 

Do you know what the little punk said to me yesterday?  "What's cookin good looking"  He says this as he's swaggering through the door with his mates and his pimp daddy attitude.  He is a completely different boy when the Big D is home on weekends, he wouldn't dare swinging his bits in front of his old man so why on earth does he think its ok to speak to me like Im the hired help when his dad isnt here? 

I have always been a strong mother as I was on my own with him for 6 yrs.  I was a mother to be feared!  Even other peoples kids feared me as there were no exceptions to my rules and every child that entered my domain followed my rules or copped the consequences! 

So what has happened?  Have I gone soft in my old age or has my son grown out of being afraid of my consequences?

Im thinking its a combination of the two....  I think that since I married my husband, I have often been the softer parent as he can be quite strict and harsh.  I figured my son already copped it once from the big fella so I neednt go there.  Now that Chris isnt around on a full time basis my son no longer fears the wrath of the mamma bear.

Hmmmmmmm what to do...... what to do. 

As I sit here with my Beer (yes I have started beer o'clock just to cope with the demands of my men folk) Im feeling awfully staunch as i envision scenes of me with Daddy's thong in my hand slicing and dicing at my 11yr old terrorists ass as he screams "please mummy I'll be good, I'll be good"  Is that even legal anymore or are they still in the process of outlawing any form of punishment that allows us to have any real control over our children?  Ahhhhh the good old thong.....  I have many memories of my own of the my mum chasing me around with the good old thong......

So apart from flogging the ass off my preteen monster what the fuck am I supposed to do with him?  I have tried sending him to his room, banning xbox, grounding him..... all these things just seem to make him worse!  If he's not sprouting cheeky blurbs infront of his mates he is skulking around the house like a bear with a sore prick!  Some nights I think about all the wonderful things I want to do with him the next day but the minute it gets out of bed it  is bitching and moaning about how its bored and there is nothing to do?  Where was I taking him for the day or who could he invite over? What was all that shit I bought him for xmas then???   I spent good bloody money on buying him enough shit that I wouldnt see him or him from him for atleast 6 months! 

It seems to be all about him for the last 6 months..... He wants to know everything I am doing, who Im on the phone to, what do they want and then he starts telling me things he wants me to tell them??? WHAT^ THA???  How the fuck does he figure that I am, not only, his house keeper and cook but now I am his fucking receptionist, relaying messages??  Oh MY GOD it has turned into a monster!

I thought I had a few more yrs before the teenager in him reared its ugly head.... 

Its amazing how sleep deprivation can alter the way you look at your child.  After the first couple of days, even 3 or 4 it doesn't really matter.  You think "that's what babies do".  But after a week of only getting 4-5 hrs a night you start looking at this creature a whole lot differently. 

I didnt want to play with him, I forced smiles.  It was horrible.  I am happy to report though that after 2 good nights sleep I am well and truly ready for the next round of torture he decides to throw at me  (My mum is talking toilet training already )

I am also happy to report that we have found a home based day care lady to take him 1 day a week to give me a break.  We dont have any family or friends here so I am with the kids 24/7 and it can get a little noisy in my head some times.  So I have decided to kick him out on Wednesdays so mummy can have a noise free day.

I cant wait!!  I am sooooooo looking forward to having a "me" day.  I can go to the hairdressers, I can do some sewing, Hell, I can sleep all bloody day if I choose!  It will be so nice to have those few, sweet hours where nobody wants anything from me!  Now I just have to keep my hubby off me.  I know what this will mean to him........  FREE SHAG DAY!!!  He will think that coz the kids aren't here it will be a perfect opportunity.  I know I should be thinking the same thing but I have to be selfish and say that all I want is 1 day a week to be left alone!  I will have to have a chat in advance I think and warn him.

Well, thats all the latest with us. See you round like a fruit loop[.

Have you ever seen the quit smoking ad where they have those nasty little nicotine receptors with the sharp teeth bouncing around all crazy?  Well, that's what my head felt like every single day.  Like all my thoughts and fears were bouncing off the walls insanely.  Now.... it's all peace and quiet up there.  I can actually listen to my positive (sane) thoughts when I start to think nasty negatives.

Things are alot better with hubby and the kids too.  Im not screetching at my eldest every time he opens his mouth or even looks at me sideways.  Im not having a breakdown every weekend when hubby doesnt help with the house work and most importantly Im not crying all the time from the exhaustion of getting up several times a night with the baby.  It doesnt bother me anymore.... I just get up and do it!  When bubs is having a tanty I dont get anxious anymore either.  I just deal with him.  LOVING THE HAPPY PILLS!!

I thought that the pills would make me all "Stepford wife" and I wouldn't feel anything ever but I feel completely normal, I still get cranky with pms, I still get grumpy when Im tired and I can laugh at my favourite shows.  Before when I got crabby, it all spiralled out of control and my head went dark and closed in on me.  Now, its full of fresh air.  It's so nice to be in control again.

So thank you to all of you who dropped by my blogs to show support.  It really helped to know I was cared about. 

Ive been feeling abit down lately.  I can feel the depression creeping up on me again.  Im trying to fight it and Im trying to get rid of the negative thoughts but bloody hell its hard some days.  I cant pinpoint where it started but I think its just been sitting in the wings waiting to snatch me by suprise again.  It has been a rough 2yrs and I have been fighting it best I can but at every turn there is another shitty thing waiting to get me.  Sure there have been good things aswell and Im sure my problems are smaller than most peoples but they are mine, so ofcourse that makes them 10 times worse.

We have decided to move back near our families which I am having mixed emotions about.  I want to go home for the support and the closeness but at the same time I dont want to go for those exact reasons.  We have been away for almost 4yrs now and we are quite comfortable just dealing with our own stuff.  Families can add so much drama but I think thats what I need right now.  We dont do anything on the weekends, We dont have a life, some drama might be just what I need.  Life can feel so mundane.  I feel like I am always cooking cleaning and looking after kids.  We dont have any friends here and to be honest, I cant be bothered.  I made friends in our last town and I dont know if I have the energy to go through all that getting to know the fast version of people again only to leave.

I have not had a good run health wise since we moved here and I think that has played a big part in things.  First I was pregnant and threw up for the first 6months then I had him and was exhausted.   Then I was on 3 different kinds of contraception which left me bleeding, sick and exhausted for 7 months and over the last month I have had my tubes tied, and just as I was recovering from that I got Kidney stones and just when I had recovered from that I got a bloody head cold!!!  My body is crashing and burning on me and I feel absolutely exhausted! 

Thats what prompted the decision to go home I think. I've had enough of doing everything on my own.  Hubby works night shift so he is not here to help out much and  I pride myself on being a strong independant woman but there is only so much I can do. 

Now we just have to wait to try and get a job.  In the mean time I have to try to stop the never ending stream of tears that well up over the most ridiculas things.  I get angry at myself for letting this happen, for not being stronger, for not being able to cope.  I know I shouldnt beat myself up but, those of you who get depression will understand that "should" is a dangerous word!  "I should be stronger"  "I should be able to cope"  "I should have a clean house"  "I should be perfect" 

No matter how old we get we always want our mummy's in the end.

Any of you that suffer depression from time to time will no that cloudy, miserable rainy days can be public enemy number 1!  I feel so caged.  Me and the little fella usually go for walks to the shop atleast every other day simply coz  I hate sitting around the house all the time.  The walls close in on me.

My poor 11yr old has copped the brunt of it today.  I let him stay home from school coz of the miserable weather and man did I regret that an hour after the bus left without him!  Im very used to my own space so today, not only was it rainy and miserable but my eldest was home as well as hubby (grumpy coz he came off night shift and stays up all day) and the baby has decided to teeth again this week. 

I went bananas.  I dont even know if Im making sense right now.  The big one is sitting on the floor 3meters away from me watching tv with his head phones on but laughing sporadically and it is making me want to rip my ears off!!  I feel like running outside in the rain naked and screaming at the top of my lungs.

Do you think Im ready for the funny farm?  I certainly do. LOL

Recently I put my little fella down for a late nap at 3pm coz he was super tired and there was no way I could keep him off the ropes until 5.30, like I did most afternoons by bouncing around like an idiot and letting him touch "naughty stuff", he was having none of it!  So I chucked him in his cot and he went off to sleep.  He didnt wake up until 5pm.  I was a little worried about what this would do to his schedule and was panicking that he would not go to bed until 10pm (another thing it said in the book). 

Anyway, we had a really happy night, bub was up to have dinner with us for once, he got to see his daddy who is usually still in bed (shift worker) when he goes down for the night and he eventually had a bath at about 7.30 and was in bed sound asleep by 8.30.

The next morning he didnt get up until 8am!!!!!  He started to stir at about 7 but didnt want to get up until 8!

I thought it must have been a fluke but I tried again the next night, and again the next and what do you know, my baby is in the best routine he's ever had!  He goes down for a nap about 2.30 - 3pm and sleeps for anywhere up to 2 hours and he is happy as larry all night long!  Why????  Coz I IGNORED THE BOOK!!!!

How many other ways could my life been easier if I ignored the book?  How much more sleep could I have gotten if I ignored the book?  How much more sanity could I have if I ignored the book? 

Im not saying that I should be your new guru and you should ignore the book and listen to me, I know nothing!  What I am saying is ignore the book and listen to you! 

How much of our own instincts do we ignore when it comes to our own kids?  How many unrealistic expectations do we have on ourselves and our children due to all the information we have now?  I mean, our parents didnt seem to have such a rough time raising us, nor did our grandparents.  They didnt have mothers groups or the internet or virtual parenting groups online.....  They just did it. 

My mum often asks me "how did you kids survive with me putting soft toys in the cot or giving u peanut butter at 6monts or how you still have any teeth in your head with the honey on the dummy trick"  I tell her "dumb luck lady..... dumb luck"  But it's not dumb luck, it was instict that made us survive, nothing but good old fashioned mothers instinct. 

They didnt have u-bewt baby books for the cave men yet they managed to keep enough babies alive to start civilisation and they even left a few "not quite right" babies on the mountain.... (the dingo's really did get their babies).

The books and baby whisperers of our day are convincing us that babies are capable of sleeping through the night from birth and now they can bloody well talk to us too!  Dear God, I have an 11 yr old that wont shut up asking for things, I dont need the baby bossing me around just yet.  I think all these new aged gurus are doing nothing but doing our heads in.  Now we think there is something wrong if our 3month old isn't sleeping through the night so we pay a stranger a couple of grand to come in and make it sleep.  We would be better off using the $2k to go to a spa for the week end! 

Well thats all the preaching I can do for the moment, its 7am and my baby is starting to stir.....  Im off to Burn the book. Ciao!

He was doing just fine.  We had 2 extremely pleasant days where I actually started to like him, as well as 3 sleep filled nights where I was thinkin I was the best mother in the world.  I knew it was too good to be true coz this morning he was back to his old tricks and was awake and screaming from 4am this morning.

Turns out he had to poop, so after a few dummy retrievals and shhh shhhh shhh's he went back to sleep only to wake up every half an hour for the next hour and a half to push out the worlds largest turd.  Finally at 6.30 he was wide awake and ready for action.

So because he was out of routine, or what passes for routine in his world, He has been a nightmare for the rest of the day.  Instead of a 2hour sleep this morning, he slept for an hour and a half, then instead of playing happily he decided to be a shit head and demand to be held or played with,  I tried to stretch him out a little bit in the hopes he would have a good sleep and wake up on the right side of the bed but NOOOOOOOOOOOO. he slept for 45 mins and demanded to be brought out after a failed attempt at resettling. 

Then he did nothing but whinge every time you looked at him side ways.  He didnt want to be in his walker (which he has figured out how to climb out of), he didnt want to be on the floor, he didnt want to be anywhere.

So where is the little war monger now???  Screaming in his cot because I cant think of what else to do with him.  I have tried going in there to resettle him but nothing seems to work.  I need a time out more than he does.

You know, I think I could handle it better if he was a nut ball every single day of the week coz I rekon I would just be able to say "Well, my kid is a nutball, its nothing I did, there's nothing I can do, he's just a ball buster, he'll grow out of it"  But because he has days where he is an absolute angel, I know when he has shitty days there is a really good possibility that something caused it, therefor it can be fixed so I drive my self insane trying to fix it!  Man I hate being a mother some days.

I hate that my husband can just switch it off and have a day off from work any old time he pleases and he still sleeps all friggin day so he can stay in night shift mode, so he can stay up all night, on his own, without any of the kids bitchin and moaning at him.  He can just lay there for 8-10hrs with absolute peace and quiet!  Do you even know how long its been since I had absolute peace and quiet with no one wanting anything from me............  Too bloody long ago that I cant even friggin remember.  GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.......

Shhhhhhhhhhhh...................  I think he's finally gone to sleep in there. OMG I cant believe I actually made the right decision for once.  He's alseep, cried it out and Im the best bloody mother in the world again. 

HA HA BABY, I WIN THIS ROUND!!!

She has set up her own business helping people get jobs.  She writes resumes, cover letters, and does a brilliant job on those horrible bloody criteria things we all hate.  She does the nightmare government ones aswell. 

Im sooooo proud of her, she really does do a good job.  We did a little research and found that some of these people charge over $100 for what she does but she thought that was a rip off and she charges half of what the others charge!!

So here it is folks......  If you want to get back to work and you've been out of the working world for a while coz you've been raising your beautiful kids, drop my mum a line and she will help you get back in the game.  So far, all the resume's, cover letters and criteria's she's done have all made it to an interview! 

Her details: 

Michele Davis

resume8@bigpond.com

You dont have to live in Australia, she can still help you via email so all you Americans and Canadians, she can help you too......  Oh ok...............  if you twist her arm she'll probably help you POMS out too, but only coz she feels sorry for you coz we kick your asses in sport...

This is a website to help parents get some advice and answers to questions.  It's a website to help us to not feel alone in our baby troubles.  It is not high school, it is not a work place and its not a mothers group.  If you need validation from a computer screen and people that dont know anything about you then you have more serious issues that need to be addressed somewhere more qualified.

Come on people, we are all adults here and this is not a forum to make yourselves feel better by making others feel bad.  When people need to leave because other people are voting them down or what have you then there is a problem.

In the real world we dont vote on our friends comments, or vote them off the island for disagreeing with our child rearing ideals, we just ignore them, so why cant we do that here?

Feel free to send me hate mail, feel free to vote me down, feel free to vote me off..........  I wont cry, I wont whinge, I wont chuck a tantrum and get my friends to vote you down, I wont put a note in Q&A saying Im leaving coz you are all just too nasty.....At the end of the day, this website is not my life or the be all and end all of my personality.  Its JUST a website people! 

ps. if you want to whinge about it, do it in your blog!  Not q&A just to maximise the exposure to your dummy spit.  If people want to read about how sorry you are feeling for your self they will read it in your blog.

I was hiding from my kids at the club the other day and I saw an ad on the tv for this new one.... its called Nicobrevin.  From what I can tell it works the same as the antidepressants by cutting out the cravings but without the nasty side effects.  They cost $200 but Im going to give them a shot.  for anyone thats interested, the website is www.nicobrevin.com I bought them off www.pharmacyonline.com as they were $30 cheaper.

Wish me luck!  Hopefully this time I will no better than to think I can just have 1. 

I just read a question by "cookclan" and she was upset by someone voting her comments down.  This is not the only time I have read an article or question about people being upset by the voting system. 

I understand that it's a neccessary part of minti as it helps you to see how many other people agreee with the advice given but do we need to vote on peoples families?  Its a bit much dont you think?  I have had people tell me in my lounge that I have cute kids isn't that enough without having to give thumbs up?

I was feeling especially fine this morning when I got back into my favourite pre-preggers pants this morning and they had a little room in them!!!  I felt great as I have been trying to lose a little weight.

So my wonderful husband comes home and what is my valentines gift that I told him not to buy me?????  The largest chocolate cupcake with a mountain of delicious chocolate icing I have ever seen!!

I say laughing "thanks babe....... there go my favourite pants, I'l just put that cupcake straight on my ass"

He replies "That's ok, I dont care how big it gets so long as you still show it to me"

My poor hubby has gone from being extremely well looked after to being on skid row!  He's been great about it, never chucks a tantrum or gets stroppy with me so that makes me want to shag him even more but I just dont have the energy!

I got my blood tests back yesterday and the doc said my Iron levels were low due to the constant bleeding from that implanon in my arm.  I had it taken out but he said it will be a little while before I feel normal again. 

I cant remember what normal feels like.  I was crook the whole pregnancy and couldnt stand to be touched.  Not even a little touch like a hand on a leg.  My skin crawled!!  Now that my skin has stopped crawling I feel like Ive been smacked ass end by a truck! 

Hopefully I will get back on track again soon, bubs is starting to sleep alot better.  I tell you what though, my spunky husband better look out when my mojo comes back!

Trying to feed him is becoming a nightmare.  He was having 3-4 solid meals a day but has now decided he only wants one.  He no longer likes breakfast and if I try to feed him before lunch time he tries to knock it out of my hand.  If I manage to get it to his mouth the cheeky little shit spits it at me in  a big raspberry then laughs at me! Naughty little thing he is!  So I have given up!

He is now moving around the house in his walker.  We bought him a new one the other week (remember SIL asked for all her goodies back) and it had a few little safety mechanisms on it to stop them from getting up any real speed..... Well, we took them off! LOL  It was hard for him to move at all. 

There was a little wheel on the back that when you move to quick it locks up.  It was annoying as hell coz to move him from room to room we had to carry him or else it took forever.  So since we removed it he is flying around the house.  He loves it! 

Im starting to regret it though, he can now grab at the bin, the teatowel, the washing and (yesterday) all the paperwork in my desk!  He also has a remote fettish!  (typical male)  Goes burko trying to grab the remote for the tv.  I have to hide it when Im feeding him coz if he sees it he goes bananas for it! 

I know all babies go for the grab on everything at some stage but do all babies laugh in your face when they get it! LOL  He is soooooooooooooo bloody cheeky. 

So we have entered a new stage and I have to say, even though he is making my life a little more difficult with the baby proofing and the extra picking up, I am thoroughly enjoying watching him have the time of his life exploring our house and learning new things. 

Usually he would wake up and whinge a little and put him self back to sleep, I would only have to get up at about 5am for a feed then put him straight back down.  But this new cry is an actual cry (he is not  a cryer).  I go in there and instead of being able to stick his dummy in I am actually having to calm him down, sometimes it takes about 10mins. 

He has a bit of a puke stain around his mouth so I kind of think its wind but he is still on the medication, that has worked for him brilliantly, so I really dont know what to do about it.  I have done all the tips for reflux babies as colic is not a new problem for us, I just dont know why it has flared up to a point where the medication doesnt work? 

Has he grown an immunity to it?  Is it the solids that we started at the beginning of the month?  Is it a specific food?  Is he teething?  I have tried to eliminate certain things I thought might have caused the problem but nothing has changed, Its just getting worse.  He is now waking 3 times a night and Im starting to feel like crap again.  Just when I get a problem sorted and I start to feel normal again, something else screws up! 

I watched the movie "click" the other night, and even though it didnt work out for him in the end Im am quite prepared to fast forward the next 6-12months to where bubs can TELL me what the problem is.  I feel so useless at times when I run out of ideas, Im driving myself crazy!

 I emailed them and asked how to apply for a position and was told to register, leave my bank account details (warning bell number 1) and email them my cell phone number.  I didnt give them my bank account details (apparently they needed me to join a certain bank.  I thought this was the scam) but I did send them my mobile number and a fella doing a terrible american accent called me a few hours later.

The first thing he asked was why hadnt I given them my bank details (alarm bell number 2).  I told him I dont know them or anything about them so why on earth would I give out that kind of information. 

I asked how it all works and what exactly the job entailed.  He started to tell me how people from other countries would wire/deposit money into my account (alarm bell number 3).  When I asked why people put money into my account for no reason and what was I supposed to do with the money when I got it...... He hung up on me.

I had an inkling from the start that it might have been a scam as most of them are but I thought I might just get lucky.  Once I realised what was going on I rang the dept fair trading and was told they only handle NSW cases and the phone number the guy rang me from was an over seas number, I would have to ring ASIC.  I rang ASIC and they told me its not their bag either I needed to ring my local police and ask for a number to ring the fraud squad.  So I rang the local police and told the secretary my story, she took down all the details and said someone would contact me in a couple of hours. 

A couple of hours passed and the secretary phoned me back saying she spoke with her supervisor and they said there was nothing they could do about it and that was the end of the line?????

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No wonder these people continue to scam innocent people and get away with it..... there is absolutely no recourse for it!  So I am starting my own.  I say we need to blog our little hearts out about all the scams we have come across and hopefully when someone like me googles "work from home"  they might just come across our warnings. 

So the name of my "PERP" (thats cop talk for perpetrator) is MEDIVA FINANCE COMPANY.  DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!!