I have always enjoyed Christmas! It is a time when families come together and everyone is happy.

Who am I fooling? At my house it is an absolute nightmare on Christmas Day. The in-laws have never liked me very much and they make it quite clear. But that’s okay; instead of dreading my husband’s parents coming round for Christmas dinner I make a meal of it (literally)…

Last year was a scream. Janet (my mother-in-law) is vegetarian so I used this to my full advantage. When I dished-up her Christmas dinner (which she had spent two hours finding fault with in my kitchen) it looked fit for a queen. And it was, until I poured meat-based gravy over every inch of it!

Of course, I did tell her what I’d done; just not until she had eaten quite a bit of it… It was great to watch her scurry off into the kitchen and see her return a few minutes later with a Marmite sandwich! I am cruel, aren’t I?

Bob (my father-in-law) spent the afternoon breaking wind and telling us all jokes that weren’t funny. Imagine his surprise when I ‘accidently’ stood on his nasal hair remover that we had bought him for Christmas! He got so mardy about it that he could easily have been mistaken for a five year old.

As it became clear that they intended to stay well into the evening, I sat racking my brains. There was no way that I could put up with another three or four hours of their company… And then I had a brainwave. Janet has a terrible phobia about spiders, so when I began to tell them about a tarantula that I had been looking after for my neighbour I could sense her growing unease. By the time that I made up a story about it having escaped from its tank, they had decided it might be best to be heading home.

I can’t wait to see them both this year… I have all kinds of lovely surprises in store!

Sidebar: my friend Emily gave me a chemical peel as a gift. Now I have to say, I have no idea what she was trying to convey me; but after I got over the relative surprise of how unusual the present was, I went and realized that it was actually quite delightful. I would speak well of it to anyone

It never ceases to amaze me when I come across a really useful blog. For anyone who is interested in SEO it is well worth having a look at ‘Doc Croc’.

There are posts on just about anything connected to SEO on here and the best thing about it is that it’s all written in a way that’s easy to understand. There are plenty of SEO blogs out there, but a lot of them are written in such Read more »

Note: I just updated the enigin post with a video.

How do you know if your cat is overweight? Well, first you should be able to feel their ribcage, although thin cats have a little bit of a stomach in between their hind legs. Between the hips and ribs, you should notice a waist rather than a bulge.

An overweight cat is an unhealthy cat. An overweight cat can run into some serious health issues such as liver disease, arthritis, renal disease and heart failure, so it’s important to get Read more »

People who are overweight tend to lose self-esteem and confidence in themselves. They always feel that people are judging them because of their weight issue. They feel as if nobody will ever like them because they are not attractive enough. The first thing an overweight person should realize is that being overweight does not affect the person you are. Your real beauty comes from the inside. You can do something about your weight by joining a weight loss program or Read more »

Writing articles is a great way to make money. Whether you are writing for yourself to make sales with your articles or writing for a private client, it is important to learn the skill of writing fast. With a little practice, you can actually write an article in 15 minutes or under. When writing articles, you do not have to come up with the content all by yourself. Instead, you will go to any article directory (Ezine Articles is good) and browse through the articles there to find one that is relevant to what you want to write about.

Now, you are not going to copy the content from the article word for word as that is plagerism and can get you in a lot of trouble. Instead, you will simply skim through the relevant articles and grab a paragraph or two from a couple of sources and paste them into a text document. Then, use that information to rewrite the content in your own words. The research part should take no more than 5 minutes as there are tons of articles on these big directories. Then take the other 10 minutes to rewrite, add an eye catching headline and submit your work! Be sure to run your article through a good plagerism detector to be sure it is unique.

All of this goes into my savings, we are all heading off for a massive adventure in Berlin and then from berlin we are going to head off around the world. Writing articles is great because it mean I can contineu working whilst I travel! Rock on.

I’ve found that you can now do something call set up you wordpress in order to give kudos to eveyone. The post is here.

I believe it works a bit like this the people achnoledge the people who are doing the carry on of the conversation htey just put a blog post on their own blog and it will link to the correct places so that evveryhine know whats going on.

Quick out the post you might find it useful.

Ed

On another note, I found this post up on the internet somewhere, talking about these guys over at enigin:

Be careful with Enigin¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
They state that you can earn up to 2,000,000 a year, but you have to pay first USD 39000, and YOU CAN´T CONTACT EXISTING PARTNERS¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡(only if they authorize you).
well, If you try to follow their rules they will tell you that you must pay first and then you can contact ¨Sucessful Existing Partners”, unfortunately there is at least 2 partners in the USA and 1 in Canada and all gave bad business experience with Enigin PLC, it´s that coincidence? I couldn´t find any successful partner in the USA.
So I would give and advise to Enigin PLC, you should work in Research and Development to offer better business opportunities instead of just sell exclusive territories with bad experiences.
Im not giving my real personal reference because it´s not necessary, I write this because I want to inform the people about the facts¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Javier Lopez
Irvin, Texas
U.S.A.

This kind of stuff really anoys me actually. It is so easy for people to bad mouth each other, and slag off things that they have had no contact with or infact have had no dealings with. The person leaves no credentials, no real form of proof or suggestion of dierect experience, all he does is alude to it. Now I am not saying that he is talking rubbish. I am not saying that what he is saying is false – how can I, I’ve never met the man! But I CAN say that equally there is nothing to support the truth in this either, and therein lies the inherrent problem with the internet. Anyone can claim anything they like about what something is or is not about. They can say something is complete fact, without ever being challenged to provide either proof or evidence.
Well, I tell you know, this is the one down side to the internet, and I tell you to beware. People can claim all they want that the earth is flat and that we are all rulled by rabbits, and they can claim it it to be all fact on the internet… that doesn’t mean that we are going to go ahead and belileve them.

I found another one as well. here it is:
You will be wasting your money and time even if you spend another minute on their website.
They know how to convice you that everything is ok…. Do NOT beleive a thing they say.
All the products they sell ”exclusively” can be purchased a lot cheapper from the manufacturers. So what kind of territory they sell if anyone can find their products anywhere.
Their business concept is nothing else than what they show on their website. ”Energy Maps” – the four steps!!!! That’ s IT. You do not have to pay them anything. I have just told you what you get by paying them thousands of dollars.
Ask me anything you want and when I have time I will answer you back. Do not do a single step before I answer your questions. I ‘m willing to give you and all the details on the products which are not theirs. I have all the details of the manufacturers so you can purchase them 30% cheapper.
Have a nice NON-Ripoff Day.
Thanks Ripoff report for giving us the chance to warn innocent people before they can beleive to a non existing business dream

I believe in freedom. I believe in freedom, the power that is gives us as humans. I believe that the internet should remain free. If this is the price we have to pay then so be it, but I do find it a huge shame that this is part of what we have to accept as part of a free and open internet.

Anyway this was supposed to be a shout out to the track back. It is a shouth out to the trackback system, so go look at that and stop wasting your time reading me telling you what (hopeully) you already know. That the world IS flat, and we are indeeed ruled by a race or rabbits!