I have a Samsung Slider Phone which is great because I can answer phone calls by simply sliding the phone upwards, and this can be done with one hand if necessary. It has a lot of other neat features on it including a camera with which I can catch those “Kodak” moments of family. However, I might consider getting a free ring tone on it that would go better with my personality.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Four Foods On Friday 57
I’m posting early this week because of Thanksgiving:
#1. What’s your favorite carbonated beverage?
Hmmm…I’m a big tea drinker and rarely drink carbonated drinks. But when I do, I drink either Coke (because that’s what my family drinks) or Dr. Pepper. Every once in a while we have Root Beer.
#2. What’s your favorite spicy food?
That’s hard to name just one! It’s a tie, depending on what I have a taste for: Enchiladas & Queso
#3. How do you handle hot dishes? Oven mitt, pot holder, towel?
Usually a pot holder.
#4. Ice cream. How do you like yours?
With warm pie underneath it….LOL 🙂 During the summer, I like it in a banana split with fresh strawberries, nuts, chocolate syrup and whipped cream on top.
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Here is an article written by a fellow blogger:
Press Release:
This is an excerpt from a white paper discussing how bloggers can earn more money through several different monetization and freelance writing services. It shows that bloggers that utilize Dragon Naturally Speaking can earn more money through these various services and how fast these extra earnings will pay for the software itself.
Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Blogger Break Even Analysis with Average Earnings
Basically, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can help you type so much faster, that you can earn a lot more money per hour.
In this article I’m going to walk you through another scenario focusing on how much extra you could earn. The amount of money that you earn for your writing is not paid on a per word basis.
Opportunities typically have a minimum word count. The minimum word count is typically 200 words for your average article. In general, the average article on a high earning blog pays about $8.3. Sometimes they pay a little less, and sometimes they pay a little bit more, and a few go to extremes on the positive side.
Now if you are paid $8.3 to write a 200 word article, then that breaks down to about 4.2 cents per word. That is about 6 times more than what you can make at textbroker.com.
If you have additional blogs, you might be able to write additional articles on those other blogs.
Tip! – Write some additional articles without any sponsors in between those articles (as is required), and then write some articles at PayU2Blog, and when the work is exhausted there, you can write some articles at TextBroker.com! The trick is working for the company that pays you the most first, then moving on to the next highest margin provider, over and over again.
You will see in the case studies with Adsense that writing MORE articles is actually good for building traffic to your blog!
But if we assume, just to have a comparison to our textbroker.com example, if we assume that you could type articles for fifty minutes straight, earning 4.2 cents per word, and you could type 35 words per minute, you could earn $72.88 dollars per hour. Now obviously, you cannot take 9 articles on a single blog in a single day, but this does point to the rate at which you can earn things with the work that is available. That $72.88 would be the earnings you could make from about 8.8 Opportunities at $8.3 per Opportunity.
So bear with me again with this example. 🙂
So what can faster typing skills do to help you earn more money?
Well if you could type at 150 words per minute with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and you currently type at 35 words per minute, then you could earn about $239 per hour more! (Dragon only costs between $99 and $199 remember!)
Reminder – This would assume that you could type articles nonstop at a hundred and fifty words per minute for fifty minutes. For most of us, that doesn’t mean a whole lot.
But to put this in better perspective, if you earned $72.88 from writing about nine articles, and those articles were each 200 words long, then you would have written a total of 1800 words.
• 1800 words can be typed and 50 minutes at 35 words per minute
• 1800 words can be typed in 12 minutes at 150 words per minute
Dragon NaturallySpeaking can essentially save you 38 minutes when you write nine articles.
Now with those additional thirty-eight minutes, you can spend more time:
• promoting your blog,
• networking with people,
• researching other projects,
• taking on other work from other networks
• build up a new blog to command $8.3 per article!
• Write articles for PayU2Blog
• Go write some articles for TextBroker
• Go write some articles to bring in more traffic and earn more money through Adsense!
You can pocket your $72.88 from twelve minutes worth of work. You can then spend the rest of that hour, working to ensure that the blog you publish those on performs very well. But the point is this, Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save you so much time, that it will pay for itself very quickly.
Your average part-time blogger will easily pay for Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the additional profits that they would earn from using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in less than 1 hour worth of blogging.
Plus just think of all of the time, that you would now have to make yourself and your site even more successful!
Amazing True Story of Squeeky, the Cow-Herding Pig in Texas
I enjoy true stories of amazing people, animals or events. Here’s one about a pig, rescued when he was one day old, that grew up and just started herding cattle all on his own without anyone teaching him. And what does Squeeky get after herding the cows? Pepperoni pizza and Dr. Pepper which are his favorite! Click here to watch the true story on video of Squeeky, the cow-herding pig.
Shop, Cook, Eat
I went grocery shopping, and I was thrilled to save over $41.00 on my grocery bill. I had a $5 coupon towards the turkey which was on sale for 67c/pound, two coupons – each for a free 12-pack of Coke, plus 98% of what I bought was on sale and I was thankful for that. There’s a lot of cooking to be done over the next few days, but my goal is to eat moderately so I won’t need to order Phentermine.
Send a Christmas Card
When addressing your Christmas cards this year, please take one card and
send it to this address. If everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these
wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.
When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include the following:
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington,D.C. 20307-5001
That Time of Year
Well, it’s that time of year again when there are so many goodies and desserts and all sorts of delicious foods to eat. I am really going to try and not overeat and let myself enjoy the foods of the season in a moderate amount. Some people take diet pills such as Anoretix, but those should only be taken after consulting a doctor first.
Check out Buy.com
Have you seen the YouTube videos with Howie Mandel? They are funny and informative at the same time, explaining about the great prices and free shipping that is available at Buy.com. Check out the sale at Buy.com and see what great buys you can find. I saw some fantastic bargains. And if you have a chance anytime soon, check out the YouTube videos.
Holiday Recipes
With Thanksgiving just days away, here are some recipes that might come in handy for someone:
- Fritos Cornbread Stuffing
- Laura Bush’s Cornbread Dressing
- Holiday Sweet Potatoes
- Easy Sweet Potato Casserole (made from canned sweet potatoes)
- Pie Crust: Graham Cracker Pie Crust
- Pie Crust: In a Hurry?….”Mix in the Plate” Pie Crust
- Pie Crust: Never Fail Pie Crust (Make Ahead of Time)
- Pineapple Delight
- Celery stuffed with Pimiento “Cheese” Spread
- Mother’s Holiday Fruit Salad
- Raw Cranberry Salad
- Fruit & Pecan Cookies
- Stuffed Jalapenos – Texas Appetizer
- Sausage Cheese Balls
- Southwest “Cheesecake” Dip
Thanksgiving Tidbits
This cute little turkey was made by our son back when he was five years old. His homework for kindergarten was to decorate a turkey cardboard shape with his family. This is what we came up with. (Surprisingly, the cereal we glued on has lasted throughout all the years. I guess that shows how many preservatives they put in foods.) Click here for Thanksgiving crafts to make with the kids.
The most important part about Thanksgiving is to remember why we celebrate that day and how it got started. It originated as a day to give thanks to God for the bounty of food with which He blessed them. This day of Thanksgiving has lasted through the decades as a day to give God thanks for all our blessing.
For The Guy in Your Life
If the guy in your life is really interested in cars and how to supercharge them, then he would probably really be interested in Superchargerpros.com where they have great prices, a great selection and great customer service. Anyone who has ordered something online knows how important having great customer service can be.
Maybe that certain guy might be wanting to supercharge his car and might be interested in something like a pontiac supercharger, a Buick supercharger, or a Mercedes supercharge. You can tell them about Superchargerpros.com and how they can get a good deal. Have them check it out. Superchargerpros.com is ready to take their order!
Stuffed Jalapenos – Texas Appetizer
Since I grew up and live in Texas, we eat a lot of Mexican food. My stomach can’t take the real hot spice anymore, but here is a recipe that sounds like something our son and son-in-law would like:
INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup pecan pieces
- 1/2 cup Real Bacon Bits
- 1/2 cup chopped green onion
- can of whole jalapenos
Cut jalapenos in half and clean out the insides. Mix the first 5 ingredients and stuff into halved jalapenos.