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Black Nostalgia

2010-02-22T15:45:00.000-05:00

I was in Ross the other day with my Mother and came across these sneakers. What a blast from the past! I was instantly transported back to third grade when L.A. Gears and British Knights were all the rage. I had four pair that were the shiznit if I do say so myself. I had some plain white ones, some hot pink and limes green Gears, some magenta, black, and white ones, and even the pump up pair in the fifth grade. Am I showing my age? I was almost tempted to buy them just for old times sake, but came to my senses as I have nothing that would match this color combo they got going on here. Besides, they're not the best pair of L.A. Gears I've ever seen. I just thought it was kind of cool to see a brand that was pretty significant to me when I was in Elementary School. But like snap bracelets and Gigapets, the L.A. Gears faded to the background and people virtually forgot about them. Anywho, enough about my weekend discovery.

I've been trying to work on my vision board, but the magazines I had to use hasn't yielded much. I think I might have to find a way to collect more relevant magazines. Living and Town and Country just aren't my cup of tea. I didn't even find much in the Essence mags, although I can't say I'm too surprised there. I never really liked Essence Magazine. It always seems so old fogeyish. I've always wanted to create a magazine for Black women between the ages of 23-35 or so. With things and topics more relevant to us. Also a teen magazine geared towards Black girls. Currently this does not exist outside of Right On and Sister to Sister...and that doesn't count. I remember finding one magazine similar when I was a Teen and I NEVER saw a follow up issue. It disappeared much like the L.A. Gears. I think a consistant mag would be great. Maybe one day I'll get to work on that. But how much do people even still buy and read magazines these days?

I start my PD training next week which I'm excited for. My diet can go back to some sort of normalcy. And the first thing I want is some bacon cheese fries from Outback. I haven't been able to eat potatoes in forever and they are my favorite food.

In other news, I did write a couple more articles in trying to make the most and best of a seemingly crappy situation. We'll see if my efforts produce anything. Check them out below:

How to Create a Vision Board to Focus Your Dreams

How to Choose and Online Journal

How to Start a Bookclub of Your Own

How to Cope With Renal Failure

Also check out my friends articles:

How to Clean Rusty Garden Tools - CWilliams

How to Lose Weight With White Tea - Glorybug

I'm out! Be easy breezies!

Junk Memories

2010-02-19T00:07:00.002-05:00

On a mission to find my long lost books, I ventured into the wilds of my garage and made a discovery that made my heart smile. For a minute I didn't think I'd make it out as I'd found myself in a narrow crevice, feet splayed, and leaning over a very unstable mountain of boxes. But what a simle treasure I did find in there...but more like a re-discovery. After braving the tangles of the home jungle, I emerged, unsuccessful in my quest for books, but toting a throwback cd case.

The case was mostly filled with cd singles I had acquired over my lifetime like:

Heartbreaker by Mariah Cary

On & On by Erykah Badu

and even Wannabe by the Spice Girls

#don'tjudgeme!

But the BEST thing was that it was FULL of my old mixed cd's. And while going through and listening to my mixes, I rediscovered this gem: Latif - Don't Wanna Hurt You!

This dude was def a one hit wonder...but I used to jam to this track. I wonder why he never came out with anything else...but regardless, I'll always love this track. Now I have to make sure I have this in my music library. I also listened to some songs I don't remember by people I could not tell you the names of. Bt it was cool to go through those old tunes...and I'm still working my way through them.

In other news, my PD catheter surgery went great and I should be able to start training soon. So no more waking up at the but crack of dawn to sit in a chair for three and a half hours. Also, I went to transplant training class and have my appointments set up that I will need to be added to the list. I'm hoping something comes through before that then. Man of my family have volunteered to be tested to see if they can give me a kidney. I love my fam! This kidney failing stuff has kind of thrown me for a loop, but I'm trying to keep my spirits up about it and pray for the best outcome. To help with that I think that I'm going to sporadiclly post some encouraging and successful transplant stories. I think that will help me keep my focus on the bigger picture.

Well, I'm outtie for the night! A Different World @ 1:00 and 1:30 am...check it out!

Please make sure you check out my friends articles!

How To Play Power Chords on a Guitar - Thirdstone

How to Earn Cash Using Credit - Alrady

eHow UK Scam: They Really Ought to Be Ashamed

2010-02-18T20:21:00.000-05:00

So after anticipating compensation for use of our articles on the UK Site for 6 months, most eHow 'user's were sorely disappointed. Most people got a drop in the bucket maybe 10% or less of their avergae earnings, which kinda averaged out to be maybe one to two days worth of earnings. They also did not account for or include compensation for the many people whose earnings dropped 40-80% from their US articles. eHow you totally FAIL on compensating people fairly for the use of their articles and for causing their earnings to drop by you manipulating SEO. Unfortunately, even with it's shady practices, eHow seems to still be the best game in town. But I'm still going to branch out. I cannot rely on one site any longer. I especially cannot put my sole trust in a company who has proven to be untrustworthy. The only thing I can do now is keep writing, promoting, and trying to help my fellow eHow comrades rank their articles better.

So I will be doing my part and trying to feature other's websites and articles on my site. Though I don't get much traffic yet, I'm hoping it will help at least a little. eHow, I suggest you get your act together or you will end up alienating and driving away your writers. And lest be real, we made eHow the success it is today.

The eHow UK Scam: The Update

2010-02-07T14:52:00.002-05:00

Le Sigh. TRUSTING that the eHow UK site issue had been pretty much resolved, I began writing articles again for eHow.

How To Wash With a Hemodialysis Catheter
How to Make Valentine's Day Special for Children
How To Create a Lanyard Keychain
How To Prevent Infection in Hemodialysis Catheters

But once again some very observant writers did some investigating and discovered that the newer articles written are all posting to the eHow UK site and are indeed NOT being redirected. Is eHow not tired of screwing up already? The site is already full of bugs, and they've aleady messed up this UK thing royally. You would think they would have measures in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening.

And of course there is yet another uproar in the forums with little to no information and pettiness. I'll let you check it out for yourself. If you cannot follow it's because a lot of the posts have been deleted because they do not agree with the way eHow has handled this whole thing. See the forums here:

The first forum discussion before the so called solution: http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a100Discussion%3a2325f421-54ea-459c-9313-786b7849bbbehttp://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a100Discussion%3a2325f421-54ea-459c-9313-786b7849bbbe

The second forum discussion after the so called solution: http://www.ehow.com/forums.aspx?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3aeHow+GeneralForum%3a100Discussion%3af7351708-e40d-4cf3-b8ce-8d448de8303d

Since the redirection has proved to be a faulty and unreliable fix to this issue, I think it's best eHow just REMOVE our articles and profiles from the UK site completely. I hope eHow figures this out soon, and I hope they find a way to rebuild and restore faith and trust from their writers.

The eHow UK Scam Fallout: My Thoughts

2010-01-31T14:11:00.000-05:00

As part of my making money online venture I signed up for eHow last year to write some articles and earn some residual and passive income. Although I have not broke the bank with eHow, I have earned some cash here and there. But I find that every time I really want to buckle down and concentrate my efforts into writing quality articles to add to my eHow library, some bug, or glitch, or SCAM seems to be going down at eHow. Don't get me wrong, eHow can be a very lucrative place if you put your mind to it, but in lieu of recent events I've become a bit disenchanted with them and am not sure when I should begin contributing again.

Enter eHow UK. About six months ago, eHow set up a 'sister site' in the eHow UK. What they didn't disclose was that they took all of our articles and profiles from eHow USA and completely cloned them on this site. So what, most people are saying. Well they also didn't disclose that all of our clones articles had ads and they played with the SEO so that they would begin ranking higher than our US and the original copies of the articles. So that people who may have been searching for our articles got directed to the UK articles of which we were NOT being paid for. YUP, eHow had set up a site to directly compete with our original articles that were bringing them in money for months, of which none of the profits were shared with their writers or 'users', as we are deemed at eHow.

Well on the eHow forums...some observant and savvy writers took notice of what was going on and began asking questions about the UK site especially after they noticed their income was steadily dropping. And how were they answered? They weren't. They had their posts promptly deleted. But that did not stop them. They made new posts, asked more questions. The main one being are we being paid for the UK articles or not. This is a yes or no question. Management began responding with vague answers like we have a secret algorithm for earning income here. Well duh...we know that..but are our UK article earning configured into this secret algorithm? After months of dodging the questions and having the fire put up their collective asses from concerned writers they finally admit that no we were not being paid for our UK article clones.

In the midst of all of this there were other eHow writers insisting that the UK was not affecting their earnings and telling the concerned writers that eHow had a right to do whatever they wanted with our articles and if they didn't like it they could leave. Very juvenile I know as that is NOT how you solve problems. And telling someone you like getting ripped off or leave is extremely insulting. I mean these people became really nasty calling these people names and being very rude. Insinuating that it is there negative attitude that is causing their profits to plummet and not the very real UK scam that was going on. Making these people feel like they were crazy for thinking the great and illustrious eHow would screw them. Many insisted that eHow was not at fault and did nothing wrong. I've noticed one frequent poster on the issue even managed to make every post about her...and still does. The pro eHow posters pretty much got to say what they wanted while those upset with eHow for this debacle and asking pointed questions had post after post deleted. More dodging.

After learning that we were not being compensated for our UK articles, posters then began to ask if and when we would be compensated for the use of our articles on the UK site. That became another ugly discussion with the back and forth and the deleted posts. Anybody who even mentioned a lawsuit or facts about the UK site, like how the server is located in the US, had their posts deleted. Anyhow, after much bruhaha, eHow just released a video indicating that yes, the UK site did affect earnings and yes, they will be compensating us for our UK articles.

Being honest I'll have to say that I don't believe that for one minute eHow would have said anything, or fixed anything had they not been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It would have been business as usual. And I have a super hard time believing that they didn't know what they were doing to begin with. With that said, I am glad that they did come clean and are taking steps to rectify the situation. But I wonder if all of those folks who insisted that they were not affected by it and were so rude and mean to the posters who were will turn down the extra compensation?

As it is now, there are posters on the board basically telling others how they should feel about it now that eHow is trying finally fix the problem. They have labeled the posters who have decided to proceed with eHow with caution unhappy and bitter. Like they should be jumping for joy that eHow finally decided to do the right thing. Making judgements about people because they have a sour taste in their mouth about this whole thing. The fact is, people have a right to feel and react to the situation the way they want to, and should not be labeled this or that because someone else chooses to have a different opinion.

I personally am thankful and grateful for those 'disgruntled' writers who brought this issue to the forefront. If not for them, I think we would still be getting ripped off. And if not for their dedication to this issue, it would never have gotten resolved, and we would never be seeing compensation. But instead of gratitude they still seem to be getting more grief! I for one am thankful and implore the others to give a rest already. Every one is entitled to their own feelings, thought, and opinions, and nothing makes anyone any more right, wrong, happy or unhappy.

Ain't That A Kick in the Head...errr Kidneys!

2010-01-24T23:10:00.000-05:00

It's been a while since I've been here, but I guess its high time I release everything I've had pent up for months now. After being and feeling SICK for a year now, I finally bit the bullet and decided to go see a real doctor. I made and appointment at the Sickle Cell clinic to get checked out because I knew something was wrong sense I kept getting sick and never fully recovering. I had been trudging on for months and months feeling like crap, and refusing to go the the doctor for lack of insurance and lack of a job.

While speaking to my doctor I laid it all out there for her. Told her every bad thing I had been feeling for so long:

Nausea

Vomiting

Lack of Appetite

Chronic Cough

Super Cold

Low Energy

Swollen Feet

Trouble Breathing...

I think you get the picture. So she sends me for tests and to have my blood drawn. Blood work comes back and she informs me that I will absolutely have to be admitted into the hospital because I have a hemoglobin of 3 and I would need to have a blood transfusion. A normal person's hemoglobin should be around 14 or 15. A person born with Sickle Cell usually ranges between seven and nine when they are healthy. After realizing what my levels were she wondered how I even had the energy to walk into her office that day. Sheer will I guess. I had been living on a decreased level for so long my body prolly just got used to it.

Anyhow, I figured I'd be admitted, given my blood, and released to go home feeling like a new person. Well the good news is that after receiving the blood I did feel MUCH better. I had color again and I could walk without feeling like I was going to pass out and breathing laboriously. Bad news is they discovered that I have renal disease, which is a fancy name for chronic kidney failure.

Apparently my kidneys have only been working at a rate of 10% and the condition appeared to have been something that happened over time. Which means the likelihood of them getting better is slim to none. They must not know about my JESUS though. Anyhow, from now on I would have to do dialysis if and until I had a kidney transplant. So they surgically put a

hemodialysis catheter in my chest so that I can do dialysis three times a week.

I certainly was NOT expecting something like this, but I guess now I have to deal with it. Being honest I have to say that sometimes I just want to throw myself a pity party and bemoan the fact that I'm not as healthy as I'd hoped and that I have to deal with this kidney crap for a while. But its really not my style. So I'm just trying to go forward from here.

Right now I'm doing hemodialysis. Which means I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn three days a week and go to a center to be hooked up to a machine and have the toxic fluids flushed from my body. But I have surgery tomorrow to have a peritoneal catheter placed so that I may start doing dialysis in the comfort of my home while I sleep. This way I can lead a more 'normal' life and still travel and vacations and stuff. I have also been put on the transplant list and hope I will get a match sooner than later!

In other news....I have the MOST ADORABLE nephew you ever did see. Not only that my brother and his girlfriend asked ME to be the Godmother! YAYYYYY! This is also the GREATEST motivation for me to do all I can to get better ASAP! Most of it is out of my hands, but I can pray and trust that GOD will have the perfect solution for me. I hope that you all will pray with me.

Well that's it for now. Will let you know how the surgery went!

IM Report Card - Internet Marketing Reviews and Discussion

2009-08-29T16:46:00.000-04:00

Here is a new, exciting, and very very EASY and FREE way to make money online! The place is IM Report Card! So what IS IM Report Card? Straight from the horses mouth they're mission is to "catalogue, review and discuss every single popular Internet marketing related product, service, person or "guru", and biz-opp."

Unlike other bogus "review" sites run by money-hungry affiliates
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You can also ask questions about a product you're interested in, rate products, add your own comments and share your own experiences - and help others in the process.

IMRC is a community of like-minded people looking to make money online, who are sick of all the scams out there, and who help each other out along the way.
You can be a part of this community to help rate and review products, biz opps, people, and services and give people the real scoop on if a business is a scam or not...and get PAID doing it!

Here is the earning breakdown!

Each 100 Credits = $1.00.

The minimum payout is 2000 credits ($20.00) which is fairly easy to obtain!

If you:

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Rate an IM Report Card Review it = 5 Credits
Grade a Product, Service, Person or Biz-Opp it = 10 Credits
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Hop Up Out the Bed...Get My SWAG ON!!!

2009-08-21T00:03:00.000-04:00

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CashCrate is the Place to Be!

2009-08-13T15:51:00.000-04:00

So as a part of my money making ventures I've joined CashCrate, a GPT site, to make a lil extra cash for odds and ends here and there. Now GPT stands for Get Paid To. GPT sites you can sign up at, complete offers, and earn cash and prizes. The main goal with GPT sites are to make some extra money. For that I have to say that CashCrate is probably THE BEST and probably the most well known GPT. I've already received one payment from CashCrate! And the news gets better!

CashCrate has updated and now offers CashCrate Pro for all of is Silver members. You reach Silver status when you have 50 active referrals! I have yet to reach that status as I've pretty much just started...but it is definitely a goal of mine. I think the new changes on CashCrate is exciting and cannot wait to be able to make use of the new features. One thing I can make use of NOW is the new customized banners they offer!

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If you sign up under me please LET ME KNOW! That way I can share all the secrets with you that will help you maximize your earnings! I want to help you succeed! Many of the secrets and tips I had to learn on my own but you don't have to! If you sign up and need help feel free to email me at jadaloves@gmail.com.

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An eBay Success!

2009-08-13T00:24:00.000-04:00

So since I'm using this blog to chronicle my success making money I'm inclined to share a recent eBay sell that I've completed. A week ago I posted some old Ministry CD's that I had laying around the house. I had no intentions on listening to these CD's again, so I decided to post them to eBay to see what I could get for them. Now if you want to get started selling on eBay, I suggest that you start with items you have around your house to give it a test run and see if you'll like it. Anyways I posted the Pastor Benny Hinn Ministry CD's on eBay and they sold for $31.50! See the pic below!

I had no idea they would sell for that much. So here is some advice if you'd like to try eBay...ministry CD's and tapes seem to be a popular item. So if you find some cheap at a thrift store, or have some you don't use anymore...put them up on eBay and see what you can get. eBay can be an excellent source of income, but you have to do your research and put some work into it. Not everything will sell well and you will have trial and error at first. But if you're looking to make extra dough it's a very viable option. Some people even make their living selling on eBay. You can check out my eBay profile here: http://myworld.ebay.com/jadeanne**.

The Self Sufficient Journey!

2009-08-12T00:07:00.000-04:00

Well this is my first post here at my new blog. I set this blog up for the sole purpose of chronicaling my money making journey. I was recently unemployed and had pretty much decided that I was done with corporate America. I have no desire nor inclination to join the rat race again. I would rather figure out ways to make money doing things I enjoy minus the headaches and aggravation of an office and a cubicle.

Who knows, maybe in the future I'll change my mind and give it another go...but for now...I just don't have the patience nor the motivation. I am however excited about exploring different and new avenues of making money. So follow me here as I explore ways to make money. As I share what works and what doesn't. maybe we can grow and learn about this together. For those trying to blaze their own trail as well...good luck to you! Hear is to happiness, fulfillment, and making that SCRILLA baby!

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