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Around here, most of our Christmas wishes are just that - wishes. We do not have very much money around here, and so we rarely, if ever, purchase Christmas presents. This year we have a few wishes, but are pretty skeptical that any of them will become reality in the first place. For instance, we have the digital cameras that BFL and I both want. We know this is not going to happen. If digital cameras show up for Christmas there will be only one of them, not two, and it is a guarantee that it will be BFL who gets one, not me, as it would be her mom who would be buying the present.

Another thing on our wishlist is a Wii. Not because we really want a Wii, but because our favorite Nintendo games such as Mario Kart, a Nascar Kart game, Legend of Zelda, etc are now being made for Wii only, and nothing for GameCube. *sigh*

Also on our list - a PS3. We doubt highly this one will show up at all, nor do we think there is a slight chance at a Wii. However, I do still hold out hope for a copy of Windows 7. :)

I'm telling you. I need to sleep. I slept for a couple hours this morning, a couple hours this afternoon, but I always end up waking up - on my own no less, a couple hours after I go to sleep. Does my doctor do anything? Not really. He tells me to make my bedroom allergen free (hello? I live in a 2 bedroom house w/ 2 roommates. I don't have my own room thanks), change my diet, and get more exercise and I'll sleep better. I've already tried all of those and no dice. So now I sit here wondering how to get myself to go to sleep and stay that way. *sigh* I mean, after all, it's not like eating right and using the dip machine at the gym has ever done any good towards getting me to go to sleep and stay that way. So now to figure out something else since my doctor is vehemently opposed to even attempting Lunesta or any of the  other prescription or even OTC sleep aids. *sigh*

You can sooooo tell that Halloween is upon us. Horror movies abound, (ever notice that if you have a bathtub or shower scene in a horror movie, they never use those walk in tubs - maybe it's because they don't use old people for it LOL), and shows like Ghost Hunters & Ghost Adventures do live, interactive, or both, shows for the holiday. AMC has their Fear Fest going on - although some of the movies we've seen on there have been bloody stupid! (Blood of Dracula? May have been scary when it was made, as with The She-Creature, but now? GHASTLY and not in a good way!)

But Halloween is tomorrow and what stinks is, well, after tomorrow night, all the fun stuff is gone and everyone will be worried about Thanksgiving & Christmas. Yay. Halloween is so much fun, but you know, it'll all be over in just 1 day and 3-6 hours depending on your time zone. ;) *sigh* Another Halloween almost gone. :(

Seriously. I am in one of THOSE moods today. It's been dreary and rainy all day. The rain went away for a couple of days, but came right back. Now I'm listening to it rain outside and wondering if it's going to stop before Halloween. In one way, I hope not, because then we get to eat the candy ourselves. ;) We won't turn on our porch light if its raining because we know no one will be out. You just don't Trick or Treat in IOWA if the weather isn't good.

We have a store down the street from us that sells Mopar performance parts - they're supposed to have some big car show on Saturday afternoon, with the show getting over in time for trick or treating. I doubt it will happen if it's raining though. No one will want to take their mechanical babies out into the rain. Might spot up their paint jobs you know?

I do a lot of writing. Whether it be working on one of my stories that I like to write, an article for Associated Content, blogging, or whatever, I do a lot of writing. I spend a decent amount of my time on my blogs, writing about everything from dental discounts to car insurance. I seriously write about anything. I have written about things that I've literally had to look up the subject so I could actually write an article and know what I was talking about.

What interests me is that people like to slam those of us who write for anyone who pays us. They're more than willing to go to HubPages, eHow, and Associated Content, read the articles and use what they've read, but they'll slam the people who actually do the writing of those articles. Utterly amazing.

I have a friend who spent months getting ready to buy a house, looking at houses, and trying to get all of the required things set up so that her mortgage would be approved. I think the most interesting portion of it was getting all of the home insurance quotes. Especially after we moved into the house and THEN the insurance company she went with decided to actually come VIEW the house and property. You'll love this one...

A week after they showed up (unannounced no less), my friend received a letter in the mail stating that the premiums were going up by $100 per month due to the presence of a "vicious dog" on the premises. We couldn't figure it out. We had one dog each, both small dogs, neither of them vicious or even prone to barking at people. In fact, our dogs were so friendly, we joked they'd help burglars remove what they were stealing!  So she asked about it, and sure enough, the company had pictures of this "vicious dog."

It wasn't either of our dogs, and it wasn't even a dog that was on her property. It was on the OTHER side of the back fence in the alley. It WAS a rottweiler, which at least where we lived in Texas, IS considered a vicious dog based on breed alone (nevermind the fact that I've only met one or two mean rottweilers). But because the insurance person saw it "on" my friend's property, they had to raiser her premiums.

So if you're buying a house, make sure you find out BEFORE you go with a home insurance company what their policy on animals is, otherwise, you might end up paying a huge premium for your dog.

All these ads on TV screaming about how you should buy this brand of product a, and this brand of product b, because that brand is crap - how are you supposed to know what to buy anymore? I realize that the point of advertising is to actually get you to purchase their product instead of a competitor's, but frankly - sometimes it's a bunch of crap.

Take, for instance, the Big Hardee (I'm not sure what they call it in area's where Hardee's is known as Carl's Jr). It is supposed to be a rival for the Big Mac. Well, we tried it the other day, and let me tell you, there was NO comparison. The large-sized combo meal for the Big Hardee left us feeling as though we'd barely gotten anything to eat. When we eat a Big Mac combo we feel like we need to start looking into weight loss options because we feel that full. But yet the ads are saying that the Big Hardee is so much better than the Big Mac. Not in our opinion it wasn't.

So really, how do you know what to buy anymore?

(Disclaimer: I posted the comparison for the Big Hardee & the Big Mac on my own. I am not affiliated with either company and was not paid to make the comparison.)

I guess I am just going to have to face the stark reality. This town has two classes of jobs. The first class is retail/fast food. If you work either of those and manage to get a job in the second class of jobs, if you have to go back to the first class, they will look at you like you've lost your mind and will most likely take forever to hire you. The second class of jobs involve call center work. There are a boatload of call centers in town now, and a good portion of the workforce here works for one of them. It isn't unheard of here to overhear someone saying they've worked for so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so and would never go back to one or all of them. So I am guessing that I am going to have to start applying to these call centers to see if I can get rehired by one of them. It seems to be my only course of action at this time.

The weater around here is really making me wish I could just pack up and go for a while. Find some warmer, drier weather for a change. It's been raining/cloudy here since last Saturday, with a couple of small, melt-as-soon-as-the-daylight-hits snow showers in there as well. It seriously makes me want to find some Outer Banks rentals and just hit the road. :/ Winter may be my favorite season, but I could do without the rain/snow that's coming down. It just makes everyone tired, crabby, and generally blah feeling. :(

Job hunting, for those who are curious, is not going well. There are few, if any, jobs available here. Some of the stores are starting to hire their "Christmas" help, but I'm not sure I want to take the chance of being one of the ones who has to find work again after the holidays. Sure it would take me through the holidays, but really? I'd rather know that my job will still be there for me after the holidays are over. I don't want to have to find another job again.

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