Good Morning Gang! I just sat down for a java break and wanted to share with you a super inexpensive idea for organizing
your "fishin' coolers"
or pretty much anything else with a handle...
Enjoy!
More to Come from this project as I have time to edit the footage...
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Have a Grand and Groovy Day!
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I'm in a bit of a hurry, but I'm so pleased with the pre-wrap up on this "Mud Room", I had to show you the "Then and Now"s .... these are not the "Before and After"s .... those will include video and tips ...
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I hope you're excited to see the final footage on this room ...
I can assure you I'm excited to edit it and put it together with tips and tricks.
I'm down to 7 hours until I need to be walking out the door on this project ...
please send good vibes ...
Have a grand and groovy day ...
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Happy Friday Gang! I'm working on a job site in Paducah today in the final hours of a remix project while a homeowner is
away and as I often enjoy doing, I pulled up some video footage from the last few days to look over while I was sitting down to have java and a ciggy...
I found this little gem and thought I'd toss it into my little movie maker thing so I could pop a sound effect over my "F" word and release it to the public ... so I've done just that ...
Enjoy!
So am I talking to you kids about my mood swings now?
I guess I am... but I think that's okay... I mean, I practically know all 139 of you like family... that's roughly how many "unique readers" I have on Nucleus of my Noggin now, according to the analytics and stats and whatnot.
I think we established a long time ago that I'm not necessarily shy about the discussion of personal things... now, ask me out on a second date and I'll clam up like there's a mafia hit against me should I make a peep, but personal questions I can handle all day long...
I'm definitely seeing improvement in my moods... I've been seeing a fabulously intelligent doctor by the name of Dr. Call in Brookport, IL. She's a chiropractor who specializes in Nutritional Response Testing. I'm cutting back on sugars as much as I can. I tried Truvia and some of the others, but they're not doing it for me... terrible aftertaste! It'll be easier for me to stick with real sugar and just cut back on it. She's added some supplements to my schedule and that seems to have helped...
I guess the reason I started chattering about that is that it pisses me off that "depression" is something to be "whispered" about. For years I've called it "a funk", "the gloomy gusses", "the blues".... but for the love of Peter, Paul and Mary... let's just call a spade a spade - it boils down to depression.
In general I'm a quantumliciously happy person ... and for years during the time that my marriage was running off in a ditch I learned to put on an Academy Award winning performance of delight and cheer... so I guess now sometimes I don't even realize I'm depressed. In fact, in the weeks following my first visit to Dr. Call, I can truly say that I've realized I was far more depressed than I ever realized... It's been an amazing journey so far and I'm going to keep you folks posted on it because (A.) I'm not shy and (B.) it's good for blog traffic... :)
NOW, about that blog traffic... I first started blogging sometime around 2006 or 2007 and if I remember correctly, my first blogs were on MySpace. I occasionally wrote silliness and a time or two I actually did a serious piece.
One of those pieces centered around the insanity of current cannabis laws in this country and went in depth regarding the astronomical amounts of money spent annually by the U.S. Government to continue the prohibition of cannabis as opposed to the astronomical amounts of revenue the U.S. Government could be profiting annually if they were to regulate and tax it.
It was that week that I made it into the top of the "MySpace" blogs. I reached #1 in News and Politics and stayed there for about 36 hours. If I recall, the MySpace blogs didn't let one embed an analytics tracker - but I do remember that I received well over 400 comments on that blog, which totally addicted me to sharing my thoughts...
So now, three or so years later I still love to write and I've learned that money can be made off of it...
No worries, it's not like Amway and whatnot...
I have several things in place, one of which pays me for views on the ads of their's that are placed on my page. So by going to my page and reading the blog, you're counted as a "view" and after so many "views" I get a few cents. That doesn't sound like much, but it CAN equate to a good little chunk. I've had several postings that have had enough traffic that I made 80 or so cents off of them the first day they were posted.
Now as I've continued to study this and help my mom implement it on her blog I see that the idea of making money really is a very reachable goal. She's aces about posting nearly every day of the world and that of course helps her readership to grow at a very consistent rate and it's starting to show on her analytics and monetizing counters.
I have been lacking the consistency in writing daily to grow my monetizing, but I'm really working on that among a million other things. Some of you may have caught the "superbowl day outhouse video" I uploaded recently and released in a blog. That's another thing I'm working on, "vlogging".
I feel I'd come across much better in a vlog ... and by "better", I mean funnier and easier to understand; not necessarily "more attractive" because I have to admit when I'm on my "entertainment switch" is on full tilt, I make some absolutely outlandish faces.
Exhibit A
Marking that as "public" was one of the most difficult things I've done in some time...
I truly hope you enjoyed it...
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I sit down here nearly every morning to write ...
sometimes I post what I write and sometimes I save it as a draft to be finished later.
Those of you who are aware of my procrastination tendencies won't find it surprising that I have 1,035 blog drafts in my blogger account. It's sometimes tough to post one's inner most thoughts though and that's why I have so many drafts...
Yesterday I received a couple of condolence messages regarding the lost teen love affair as well as a very heartfelt apology from the cat who was in on all of that heartache, some 22 years ago... I fear that people read that and felt sad... and that wasn't my intention. This could mean that I need to take a "writing class" to better convey my thoughts, but it could also mean that I need to explain "me" to "you"...
I came home from working on a home remix last night around 10 or so and texted Mom to make sure everyone was in one piece and accounted for at their house ... and they were ... we continued to text for a few minutes about our blog traffic for the day and I mentioned to her that "if my 15 year old life was so upsetting to people, their stomach is really gonna be turning when I get to my late 20's" because I myself almost didn't make it through that... we "lol"d and "hahaha"d before ending our conversation for the evening, but I continued to feel 'bothered' that people felt "sad".
It was sad ... I mean, it was a story of teenage heartbreak ... and that sincerely was my first real experience with heartbreak, however as we all know - there are many more heartbreaks to face past the age of 15... and no offence, but you; as my readers are going to have to get a little more thick skinned if I'm going to proceed with this.... :^) I mean... for real... we haven't come close to getting to the tawdry and life changing stuff yet....
Here's the key, kids .... I learned a long time ago that almost everything that happens in life has a funny or ironic side... right after I learned that, I learned that if you looked for the funny and ironic stuff you wouldn't be nearly as stressed out and rattled by what's currently happening... aaaand that was when I "became" the Kim Comer Jackson who sits before you now and realizes that "if no one's killed or maimed, it can be fixed..."
In fact ... I've created a design in Flawn Ocho saying just that....
Enjoy!
Have a grand and groovy day!
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The year was 1990... I was a Sophomore at Massac High School and I was in a rather serious 2 month and 9 day relationship with a certain fabulous looking young man who was (and still is, haha) exactly 6 months to the day older than me.
During this two months we did what most kids in their middle teens did... he taught me how to drive a stick shift.. or tried until I almost ran his Escort off into "that deep ditch in the Round Knob curve" and we parked and made out down by the train track because there was no Harrah's Casino here then and you could do that... we spoke of our undying love for one another and the possibility of marriage and children...
These plans were all short lived though when I didn't hear from him on the night before Valentine's Day... I had a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that I never wanted to feel again. Little did I know I was to feel that same terrible feeling approximately 4,583 more times before my 35th birthday...
At school on Valentine's Day, this fellow ignored any opportunity for us to talk without people around to the best of his ability and told me he would stop by my house after school so we could talk... Little did I know that years later I would find a spouse with this same 'charming', evasive quality...
I rushed home from school to freshen up and prepare myself for our chat. I didn't have a good feeling, but with all of my teenage "moon-pie-eyed-ness" I thought maybe this feeling was nothing, everything would be fine and I would go on to marry this boy and live happily ever after...
That was not to be... In a bit this fellow arrived at my folks' house with a chocolate Valentine's bear in hand. He stood in the middle of my parents' living room, pitched the chocolate bear on the coffee table and said, "My mom said I needed to bring you that... let's go outside and talk...."
I was now officially feeling more gut-wrenched than I ever had. I'd "went with" a few boys for a week or so here and there... but this relationship had gone on for over two months!! I couldn't believe I was witnessing it's demise... the next 45 minutes to an hour and a half is a blur of crying and throwing up in my parents' yard...
That day remains one of my most memorable Valentine's Days... and all of these years later, that fellow and I have continued our friendship. I messaged him on Facebook this morning to tell him "Happy 21st Anniversary of breaking up with me in my folks' yard..." and he reminded me quickly that it happened in 1990 and it's actually been 22 years... isn't it something how time flies...
As I was writing and pondering this morning I began to wonder what I wrote on Valentine's day of last year... and then I recalled I had written in the Ocho-rific Song o' the Day that day. In addition to bringing you the link to that blog below, I want to let you know that I'm very close to having some time to focus on bringing the Ocho-rific Song o' the Day back to daily, Monday thru Friday.
Oh what a week it's been! It has absolutely flown by, primarily because of scrambling around to keep my head afloat. I've started to realize that if I had an investor to relieve immediate stress, an answering service and a paid assistant I'd be extremely financially comfortable within a year, tops...
I've almost remedied the answering service problem... One of my dearest friends owns "the answering service" ... and by "the answering service" I do mean the only locally owned answering service in our region. Anywho, I'm going to ask him if we can trade out some marketing, video and whatnot down at the TAS for a very basic answering contract so that I can start advertising without missing calls. I don't like to answer my phone and haven't in many years... I'm not going to start now when such a gem as this is available.
I took a drive to Fancy Farm on Tuesday to handle some business and took some great video footage. In addition to that I've been using the video on my phone a LOT this week as I'm going to start incorporating videos into my blogs as you may have seen *here*... and eventually, I hope to occasionally post "only a vlog".
I have everything charging up now and I'm hoping to leave within the hour to return to work at a remix site at which our homeowner is away for the weekend. We've completed one room and have three other areas in a "ready to remix" state right now. You can see the *Before Footage of *A Den Remix* below...
You can see *After Photos* of the project *here* and I'll be bringing you some video footage of the completed project in the coming week, along with tips, totals and instructions whenever possible.
Today and tomorrow will be spent tying up loose ends in the three rooms that are "mid-remix". I've been so excited for today all week I could nearly scream and I plan to shoot a lot of footage... so if you're a fan of decorating, be sure to bookmark this blog!
Here are a few very random pics from the spaces I'm working on today to peak your interest...
A Catch All Mud Room
A Cleaning Supply Area
A Junk Room
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At some point today I'm also going to run out to "the farmhouse" to collect new footage. We shot the following before footage in one of the bedrooms at the farmhouse last week and I'm SO excited to see the finished room....
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I'm still SO far behind on things I think I'm first, but I am catching up and I can't say enough positive things about the new doctor I've been seeing. More about that later, but in short .. my *gloomy Gus-edness* feels like it's lifting for the first time in years... Have a Grand and Groovy Day! If You Liked It ~ Share It!
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For starters ... I wasn't really interested in the Superbowl (Gasp!) ...
Back eons ago when I was a "wife" I spent quite a few years "giving a rat's fanny" about the Superbowl... sometimes going to Superbowl parties, sometimes hosting a Superbowl party at home... Memories are now swirling in my noggin of preparing dips and wearing a jersey ... it makes me shudder to think about it .... stEPfooord...
In the latter years I've found myself googling for the commercials and the half-time show on Super Monday over my morning java because I don't really care about the football part. I'm up to speed on Football ... I mean, I know what they're doing ... 1st and 10, flag on the play, quarterbacks and whatnot... I just don't care.
Can I tell you what I've cared about? I've cared about my DVR missing "60 Minutes" on Sundays because of the blasted football game .... that's what I've cared about, but no one seems to care that I care. I think "sporting events" should be played on "sports channels" ... but anywho, we were gonna talk about outhouses... ***
As some of you may know, one of my many "gigs" is marketing... I'm currently working with a dear old friend who is a contractor and most of our recent work has taken place at this 109 year old farm house that he's remodeling in Graves County, Kentucky...
When I arrived on Sunday afternoon to shoot some footage, I was reminded that I should have stopped at Fristoe's as I came through because the farmhouse is still without plumbing...
Being the trooper that I am,
I grabbed my video camera and took off for the outhouse...Enjoy!
