The crazy lady strikes again for Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I've got some ideas as to what I want to do with my Blogit earnings, as well as whatever I earn off other writing websites (and I've been put on to some others by simply doing a bit of minimal surfing around). Right now, the big "thing" is debt service. I want to reduce the amount of debt I carry, and frankly, every penny helps right now. I'm sick of being so deeply in debt to my landlord, and I'm finally up to writing a great deal for a variety of writing sites. (I just hope my family is... Sign in to see full entry.

In one of my entries recently, I talked about the malfunctioning carbon-monoxide detector. Someone left a comment talking about the possibility that perhaps there was a real problem with carbon monoxide in the apartment. She even mentioned some symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Over the past few days, I've been doing a bit of surfing around the net on the issue. It turns out that low-level carbon-monoxide poisoning is often mistaken for the flu, or at least the stomach flu - nausea,... Sign in to see full entry.

On one of the new writing websites I've discovered, I found a link - actually, a referral, as links are discouraged on this writing site (out of fear of having writiers promote themselves too heavily, rather than providing readers with useful content) - to a site entitled Pink Truth. This is a site designed and written primarily by a former Mary Kay Cosmetics sales director, who became disillusioned with the tactics she saw being used as a part of the Mary Kay philosophy. (Yes, other women -... Sign in to see full entry.

This time around, I'm having problems with our carbon monoxide detector. It's been going off, off and on, for the past 24 hours, driving us crazy for no apparent reason. This is another one of those things I don't feel I have much (of any) control over. Illinois state law changed on January 1, 2007, to require carbon monoxide detectors in all (yes, you read right - all) homes and apartments, near where people sleep. Yet another nuisance alarm going off at the most inconvenient times. What... Sign in to see full entry.