I was talking to a friend at work. She was saving up for a trip to Las Vegas, so I asked her where she was getting the money for that. She told me about a place on the internet that’s called Freelance Job Board. It’s a place where you can sign up to do work online. There are thousands of jobs to choose from and you can make some extra cash for doing them.

I started looking at it and became interested myself. I think that maybe I’ll save up to go with her to Vegas!

I woke up early today as I wanted to get some laundry done before dropping the kids off at the bus stop. Got to work with only minutes to spare and headed right back out at lunch to pick up Sarah’s medicine. I went back to work and had to leave a few minutes early so I could drive Kyle over to the ball field for practice. Next, I went back to the house to pick up Christina and took her to Wal-Mart to pick up supplies for her school project.

Now it’s back to the ball field to pick up Kyle and home to fix dinner. After dinner and dishes I helped Cristina with her project and got Sarah squared away with her medicine and bed and then drove Kyle to his friend’s house that will bring him home later.

Well what do you know, I have a whole five minutes of “me time” before bed!!

One of the great things about the internet is how much time you can save. My boyfriend’s car went out and he needed to fix it quick. The local dealer didn’t have the A/C Compressor we needed. Luckily, we found a website called buyautoparts.com. I liked the way it worked. You just click on the make and model of the car and the part pops up.

The price seemed to be inline with most wholesalers’ prices, and we got free shipping since our order was over $50 dollars. I wasn’t too worried because the parts come with a full warranty. Anytime I need car parts, this is where I go. I glad it was so fast as I’ve been very busy as of late. Sometimes I really like the internet!

One of the reasons we were happy with the house we bought was that it seemed to have a lot more space. How wrong we were! The house has filled up so much I don’t know what to do. I’ve added shelves and cabinets, all to no avail. They are all filled with all manner of junk!

The garage is full of boxes containing things we hardly use but don’t want to throw away. There are things under the bed as well as in every closet. There is a little room in the attic, but it’s such a hassle to get there. I’m going to have to put my foot down and put a halt to the gathering of more stuff!

When I was growing up, things were a lot different. Even though the “sexual revolution” of the 60s and 70s had occurred, our small town was still very conservative. The communication gap between the adults and kids was still very wide. The ability to get useful information about our bodies was limited to rumors and our frugal old gym teacher. This allowed for the use of our vivid imaginations when dealing with these matters.

We used to swim in the pool at Jennies house. One day we noticed that Jennie’s older brother and his friends were laughing at us girls in the pool. Not knowing why, we tried to find out. After much ado, the boys told us that Ricky had masturbated in the pool. This caused much commotion as jenny jumped out of the pool swearing she was now pregnant. We didn’t think it was so, but we couldn’t be sure.

Looking back, it would have been nice to have a reliable source of information about sex I try to talk about it openly with my daughters. I did use a website called healthguru.com, to help illustrate and explain some topics with them. Looking at it together, we were able to eliminate some of the embarrassment that goes along with the subject. It worked out nicely and helped to bring us closer.

Anyway, things are a lot better these days as the kids have access to more information. It’s great to able to use the internet to solve some of the problems of the day. I almost forgot, Ricky got in a lot of trouble!