Happy Mothers Day - To all my kids, I love you and am so grateful to be your Mom.
To my grand-daughter stolen from me. I think you are about 10 months old and we think you are named Ada. We love you. You precious missed, adored and ached for. There is no excuse for you not knowing our love, our arms, our happiness to have you. We hope it won't be too long before you know us. I do love you, wherever you are.
To Brad & Loli Johnson to helped to steal and hide my grandchild and convinced your daughter Tonya that it was okay to lie and hide our little grand-daughter and my sons child from us - there is no words for the amount and depths of the hate I feel and the evil you are. Hell is to good for you. Joci & Ryan if you are party to hiding my own flesh and blood, may the God that you believe in know and may it affect you deeply forever.
Posted: 3:47 PM, Sunday, May 11, 2008 by Tammy Dickinson
Hey! Now here is a fun one! This is a real mind-bender!
Do you remember the days of Lode Runner? I do...back in the 80s, playing on my Apple ][e, there I was battling my way through a hundred levels and then I started making my own puzzling levels! What a blast that game was. It was simple, and yet entertained for hours on end.
Shift is like that, too. It reminds me of the simplicity of Lode Runner, but you are not running from people while you try to collect boxes. Instead you have to figure your way through one maze-like level after another to get to the exit on each level...the only way out. It's a black and white game, but on purpose...because you can "shift" back and forth between being black or white, and when you do the maze rotates and and shifts you into the other color...WOW!
Great Fun! Check out the video review, and go try the game yourself at the link below:
Posted: 1:18 AM, 2008-Mar-30 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
It brands itself as "Filler: A Game" but it should be called "Filler: A relaxing, yet intense addiction that is totally free and will keep you glued to your screen for hours!"
Yeah, that's more like it.
A great, soft soundtracks lulls you into a feeling of relaxing, but with all the dodging and quick moves you need to make to stop your bubbles from being popped, the game can get pretty intense. What a great way to take your mind off of your stresses from the day. But be careful! This game can be addicting!
Click this image below to start playing right away! You will LOVE this game! Please come back and comment on what you thought!
Posted: 10:44 AM, 2008-Mar-29 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
"Your enemies have begun an invasion of your country; build an array of anti-air defenses and deflate their dreams of conquest! Gain experience and commander points to bolster your arsenal and hold the front against a relentless armada of bomb-laden balloons! The odds are against you, but a multitude of special weapons, bonuses, and powerful upgrades exist to keep your hope alive."
Wow! I am still surprised by how good some of these FREE online games get! This is a new release by BigFishGames...where they now have over 10,000 free online games and downloads! Amazing!
Just click the image above, or to the right, to go right to BigFishGame's free online game, Balloon Invasion. I had a lot of fun last night, just trying to blow these dumb derrigibles and bothersome balloons out of the sky. As you progress through the game, you get completely bombarded with an arial attack of bomb-dropping floaties that just won't seem to go away!
Good thing you have at your disposal several defenses while you try to plug away at them with your own ack-ack gun!
Enjoy this game as a nice Arcade retreat from other stresses of the day. Perhaps you can imagine some of the larger zepplins being piloted by your teacher, boss, or that cop that pulled you over today...yeah...!
Posted: 10:10 AM, 2008-Mar-29 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
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Comment Spammers Force Project Netsafe to Limit Commenting
My apologies to others who would have liked to post comments on the blog, but with the good PR Ranking with Google, this blog has been targeted for "comment spamming" where comments are used to post links to other sites in an attempt to gain valuable "backlinks" for SEO purposes.
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Posted: 12:18 PM, Sunday, January 13, 2008 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
When you get serious about learning how to make solid cash on the Internet, you start looking around for someone to teach you. Be careful of the posers out there who claim to know how to make money. Some of them will claim to be successful themselves, and will even show you their PayPal accounts, or bank statements to prove they have cash rolling on in. Even if what they did is real, can they teach you how to do it so that it will actually work for YOU? Or are they more like Jim Carey in this awesome skit from In Living Color?
Val Smyth is a true champion, not some wannbe "former" champion. And he's done it over and over again. And even better, he has shown MANY others how to follow in his steps. Here's another video that will show you how you can Roll With The Big Dogs by surrounding yourself with like-minded, SUCCESSFUL, and driven people--like Val--who will teach you everything you need and more about how to successfully market online.
Is he making millionaires out of his students in this new mentoring program? Watch this video by Wes Wyatt, who joined PCN in November, and decide for yourself.
Here's the thing: I have Wes working for ME! And I've got him busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest! That frees up my time to work hard for you! Join the Prosperity Cast Network NOW, and let's get started as quickly as possible. 2008 is the year that we are going to talk to everyone.
So you can either bring your contacts to me yourself, and I will help you get them into the program with you, me, Wes and Val Smyth...or I'll find them without you, and you will be hearing about it from them! Don't let ME beat YOU to them. But I will, unless you join me now, and you put me to work for YOU, instead of me competing with you. :)
Posted: 9:34 PM, Friday, December 28, 2007 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
I've been growing tentacles...on Squidoo! Wanna see my ink?
I started making lenses on Squidoo a couple months ago, just to see what all the fuss was about and I have to say, its really kind of fun. You can't do a blog on it, but you can do a bunch of other things on it so I have been trying it out.
Check them out and rank my sites will you? And let's talk about how to make our blogs and lenses work together.
Their super easy to create once you wrap your brain around them and they can really boost your blogs too.
Here, see what I mean:
http://best.momblogs.ever.com - This was fun to put together and it is on the EVER project too - put yours on here! I'd love to have you show it off on this lens.
http://best.dadblogs.ever.com - Now if you didn't know that there is a thriving huge population of great Dad blogs out there then you are missing out on some really great stuff! Know a blogging Dad? Add him here!
http://best.identityprotection.ever.com - This is my husbands business and it's really awesome - if you own a computer, a credit report, or you breath, you need to look into this - seriously.
http://cutest.kidvideos.ever.com - This is a unique page as they are just starting this kind of page on the EVER project. I think its really fun. You should make one and show it off on your blog.
I have others, but these are some that I have worked on and think you might enjoy.
Oh, and if someone out there knows how to get the Twitter widget to work on a Squidoo page, let me know because I can't seem to make it work and I love Twitter. I'm on Twitter with the name http://www.
Posted: 1:17 PM, Thursday, November 29, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
Live Each Day Like You Were Going To Die Tomorrow - Steve Jobs
One of the most incredibly inspiring speeches I have heard in a long long time. This inspires me even further down the unknown path of my passion. To create songs & to be a trainer, a public speaker. I don't know how to get from point A to point B, but those are my passions. I am 40 and I have been living someone elses life and trapped with the dogma of living with other peoples things, and my heart knows what I truly want to become.
Mom's know that often times our dreams, goals, and hopes are set aside because of the demands that we have in taking care of our children, but I feel I must grab hold now, and they will understand.
So now, with people like Steve reminding me yet again, we are all born with genius...I will work towards my dreams and I hope to find somewhere on my new path, success.
I will try to connect the dots, and I hope to 'stay hungry, stay foolish'.....
The transcripts are on YouTube right next to the video if you wish to read along. Thank you Steve!
Posted: 9:28 PM, Saturday, November 3, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
I am also so much in favor of sharing in what MySpace pulls in a month as well. 'I' bring their traffic.
'I' build their pages 'I' create the content.
'I' I promote it to my friends......
And what do I get for that? Zip, Nada, you got it - they get it ALL!
Weight loss & Dance, Dance, Revolution or DDR as it's known
Okay, I really am considering this....taking advice from a teen that play video games. LOL!
How desperate do you have to be to pull out the kiddies DDR? I'll tell you how desperate,
I DON'T EVEN OWN ONE!! But I just might this week! ha ha, no seriously...
I know I don't have a 'boy's metabolism, nor do I have the advantage of being a teen at age 40, but I DO have the desire to get this freaking weight off & if my 'exercise machine' can double as kid entertainment than that's a win/win in the family budget, eh? LOL!!
**NOTE - I do NOT codone Soda drinking, but if you just have to have one, I do NOT recommend ANY living thing drink DIET SODA - Just so you know, the 2 largest buyers of Aspartame are the Diet Soda industry & the Lumber industry. Hmmm, what does the lumber industry use it for? It is a component of the bonding glue they use to make press board.....Just don't drink it...ick.
Oh, and I am a salad kinda gal, not squishy oatmeal. So I am going to start a yummy lean salad recipe area here on A Mom's World. If you got some that just rock the taste buds & should be included, please send them over & a link to your site so we can give you Kudos!
Posted: 10:45 AM, Monday, October 15, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
When Mom's Blog & Sing - I Love This Lady! What A Mom Says In 24 Hours In 2 Minutes & 55 seconds of Fall-Off-Your-Chair-Laughing Singing of Our Day
Give a staning ovation for the Mom that took the words right out of my mouth! She has got to be my new favorite Mom on the planet right now! LOL! This is so funny! If this isn't you, than I don't know what is.
Thanks to my sister-in-law that showed me this genius Mom! And for the Mom blog So The Thing Is....Blog that brought it to her. Don't you love what a small world it is when passing around great stuff? Think of it as yet one more way to create visitors, capture new people to your lists, entertain, get more backlinks, bond with other Mothers, increase your traffic, and find a never ending pluthera of content to share with other Mom's.
Oh and let's give credit to Anita Renfroe the creative funny Mom that sings this song to the Wiliiam Tell Overture. You go girl! And here is her official site for those that loved her as much as I did!
Posted: 2:26 PM, Friday, September 28, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
Ebay Listing by Mom - Funniest Darn Listing Ever - Us Mom's Get It & She Has Over 170,000 Views!!!
LOT OF POKEMON CARDS THAT MY KIDS TRIED TO SNEAK BY ME
This is an ACTUAL Ebay listing that closed last month! I laughed so gosh darn hard that I had tears rolling down my face! No joke! Okay, yes, this is a huge joke, well not really but us Mom's know how funny an exasperating trip to the store can be with all your Kidlets in tow. Okay, so it's not at the time, but when you read about someone else's carbon copy cartload of fun, you can't help but laugh your guts out that someone else has the same kids that I do!
I myself have 6 kids at home. We have 10 in total. yes, that is correct. 2 are over 20 and out of the house. One is 18 & 3/4's and working and sort of doing College, and one is a 6' 3" Lumberjack that writes his own songs. I miss them ....but I digress....
So I have 6 kids that at any given time that they think I could possibly be leaving the domicile without them, they perk up like a bird dog that heard we just adopted a new Canary. "I wanna go! Can I go? I wanna buy something! PLEEEEEEAAASEEE!" Yeah, you know the drill....and while I'm trying to detach the Velcro children to get out the door, I have to do my 3 point inspection of the minivan as I leave the garage in case I missed one trying to sneak in. You know check all mirrors, in back and under/around the car for toddlers. "Kids, Cats, & Cars" as I tell them, always make sure your clear. Every Mom knows the importance of said drill before leaving the driveway after they lost a bike, roller skate, or anything else WE didn't leave behind our cars.
Take a look at this funny Mom's Ebay listing for the Pokémon cards she is selling that her kids snuck into the basket! ROFL! What a riot! Yes, this is an everyday experience for us, but you guys really have to experience it for yourself to know how truly hilarious this listing really is...:D
And to the genius this is as a list building tool - My hats off to you Mom! Yes ladies and gents, this IS a great marketing tool and dang it, I never thought of it!
I have added this traffic generating Blog to my Link List over there on the right because you can never have too much real life humor from another Mother that sees the funny side of that which makes us crazy at the time. Thanks Mom2my6pack from A Mom's World!
Opportunity Knocks All The Time - Will You Answer?
Opportunity is around you all the time,
but you have to be ready for it.
When your chance comes,
you must be prepared to take advantage of it.
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,
for time and chance happen to everyone.
Take a second look at what appears to be someone's 'good luck.'
You'll find not luck but preparation,
planning and success-producing thinking.
When you're prepared for opportunity,
your chance for success is sure to come.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The tide of opportunity comes to everyone. Even to you.
Have A Great Week!
Posted: 11:30 PM, Sunday, September 23, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
Kid Nation: Hot Reality Show That Every Family Should Watch
KID NATION - CHANGING 'REALITY' TV'S IDEALS
This new show is getting a lot of attention. Both Good and Bad. Why? Well take 40 kids from 8 to 14 and let them 'pioneer' it into a ghost town and recreate a viable working town - on your own.
When my older boys were around 14 I sent them on a 3 day trip from Wyoming to Utah learning how it 'really' was to be a Pioneer and get a taste of what that must have been like. Why would I do such a thing? We have a pansy generation of children that have everything pretty much at a buttons push. They microwave, video game, computer surf, air condition set, CD/DVD play, gasoline skate, YOU NAME IT and our children have learned to be lazy and unappreciative.
I love my children. They are my life. If they would have done something like this when they were this age, I would have camped out like open week for the first Star Wars movie to get them an audition. Why would any sane parent do this? Watch for yourself.
How many parents today wouldn't give anything to help your children appreciate their history, and the blood, sweat, and tears that parents and others have given to their genes, their heritage.
How many parents wouldn't love the opportunity to show children how capable they are? How YES they can! How hard work is not a curse, it's a blessing, and how working together is a life lesson that is probably the most important thing you can ever learn in life - Hard work, Team Work, willing to do what the rest of the others aren't willing to do to get huge rewards.
I love this show so far. I will be watching the future shows and am Tivoing them as we speak.
Its hard not to love these kids and I dare you to watch this and not have it tug on your heart strings several times a show. You go kids! And thanks for those that understand where the heck I truly am coming from.
As for my kids that were able to do a mini trip to experience something even slightly similar - remember who you are, create your reality, rely on yourself and find a way. YOU are greater than technology, negativity, and if you remember all those little lessons I tried to instill in you in Kindergarten, you will know enough.
Love, Mom
Posted: 10:35 PM, Saturday, September 22, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
Neverwinter Nights Cheat List
To make the cheats work, you'll first have to edit a game file with a text editor. Make sure you back this file up before proceeding.
In the game's folder, find the file named "nwn.ini." In the Game Options section of this file, add this phrase:
Debug Mode=1
If you are going to be affecting the character at all, open the "nwnplayer.ini" file and add these lines:
Single Player Enforce Legal Characters=0
Single Player ItemLevelRestrictions=0
This will allow you to play past the module you're on.
Once these things are changed, save the file and start the game. During gameplay, press the ~ key, then type DebugMode=1 in the console that appears. This will enable cheat mode. Now, you can cycle through the codes with the ~ key. Enter cheats from the list below. If you get the message "Enter Target Mode" appears, click on the character you'd like it to affect in order to enable the code. A "Success" message will tell you you've entered the code correctly.
Neverwinter Nights Hint - Snow Globe Quest Made Easy
When playing Chapter 3, Snowglobe quest found out the following help:
Before you enter the globe you have the option of turning/rotating the globe. Doing this will affect the world inside: if you need to talk to the Dryads or Dwarves and they are hostile to you, simply exit the Globe and rotate it, then re-enter it and they will talk to you instead of attacking you.
After you get the Amulet of Ages you will need help from both the Dryads and Dwarves to fix it. If Hodd (Dwarven leader) is hostile exit the globe, rotate it, re-enter it and he should talk to you. Then to talk to Arwyl, you will need to exit, rotate and re-enter the globe to do so. Get her to enchant the Amulet, and you can then use it against the white dragon inside the cave. With the amulet his AC drops and it is way easier to kill him, you still need strenth and health, but it is doable.
Neverwinter Nights Aribeth's Sword and Asheera's Amulet Aribeth's Sword: Before you start the game, if you wish to use Aribeth's Sword your class will have to be Paladin. -OR- When creating your character choose you alignment as Lawful Evil.
Asheera's Amulet: In order to use the amulet that will protect you from the Creator Race, DO NOT enter the Source Stone until you are level 20 otherwise you will not be able to use it.
Posted: 10:49 AM, 2007-Sep-22 by Jim & Tammy Dickinson
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I'm usually not a fan of promoting straight Google anything, but this is good info to know, and why not get it straight from the horses mouth, right?
Choose You This Day Whom You Will Be - As For Me I Will Choose Honor
"Things That Matter the Most...
Should Never be at the Mercy of Things That Matter the Least"
"GOETHE"
MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER
While your character is formed by your circumstances,
your desires can shape those circumstances.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts.
It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.
Nature is constantly at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.
At any time you can decide to alter the course of your life.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be.
Your greatest power is the power to choose.
Posted: 12:01 AM, Saturday, September 15, 2007 by Tammy Dickinson
