I'm Just Saying...........

Yesterday's post was my 200th!

No glitz and glam here. I can't believe I wasn't more prepared for something special. It's crazy how time goes by so quickly.

I'll leave you with this little ditty, as it's kinda been my theme song lately.

I know way too many people here right now
That I didn’t know last year, who the f**K are y’all?
I swear it feels like the last few nights
We been everywhere and back
But I just can’t remember it all

What am I doin'? What am I doin'?
Oh, yeah, that’s right, I’m doin’ me
I’m doin me
I’m livin’ life right now, mayne

And this what I’ma do ’til it’s over
‘Til it’s over
But it’s far from over

We Believe Blogs

I'm guest posting today on We Believe Blogs.

Everywhere you look in Blogland these days there are new blog groups popping up. Blog groups for moms, blog groups for specific religions, blog groups for bald guys. Okay I haven’t actually seen the last one, but I’m pretty sure it exists. The super brilliant masterminds behind We Believe Blogs wanted a place where all bloggers belonged.

So while I may believe this and you may believe that… it doesn’t matter…because we all believe something. We Believe Blogs is all about people uniting regardless of the differences they may have.

What are you waiting for? Click on the link, read my post and then JOIN!

*Comments are turned off*

Bitter Sweet

Today is my last day at my current company. I've been their Senior Accountant and Office Manger for over 2 years now and with the changes that are going on within the company, I felt it was in my best interest to move on.

Now that I'm an adult and with having a mortgage and all, I really need to work in a more stable industry.

Working for Venture Backed Technology start-up companies are just too risky.

Monday, I start a new Adventure. I'm moving on up in the world. I'm going to become the Accounting Manager of a Stable Company and hope to one day soon, become their Controller. It's been a while since I've had such a financially low risk job. I'm hoping it will be refreshing.

Although, I'm excited to start my new adventure, I really will miss my old job.

With this new adventure, I won't be able to be as active as I currently am with my blog. Once I settle in and gain my footing I imagine I'll be back here as active as ever!

So please be patient with me as it might take a day or two to get through all my emails and visit every one's blogs. I imagine, I'll be commenting at night instead of in the morning and throughout the day.

Wish me luck that I end up liking this job. I don't want to regret leaving my old one!



On a lighter more fun note. IT'S FRIDAY!! WHOOTY WHOOTY. I'll leave you with this great song. It's one om fav songs.

I mean who doesn't like Chicken Fried, Cold beer on a Friday night, a pair of jeans that fit just right and the radio up!

So have a drink with me and raise your glasses for a toast!

Please ease the pains of blogging

I stole this word for word from Hormones, Headaches and Hotflashes. I totally agree with her and don't understand why it took me so long to fix these blogger annoyances.

PLEASE READ

You will save thousands of us bloggers, many, many, many hours of blogging time! Not to mention thousands in therapy bills!

Now for a word from Lee the hotflash queen.

**Disclosure. I am citing my own opinions and no other irritated bloggers encouraged or gave me sexual or monetary favors for the writing of this post. I am not responsible for any offended egos in the writing of this post.**

NO REPLY AT BLOGGER DOT COM

How I hate seeing this!! First of all, I can't tell you how many times I have responded to comments from my email, because truly, some of the comments make me laugh so hard I snort, and then hit send only to realize that my email will be floating in never never land for eternity.

Where do these emails go?? Seriously. Where do they go??

I am not the type of gal who is going to respond to a comment in the post. I'm just not. I like to streamline. I like to hit reply on my email and then respond and hit send. Instead, I go to the respective blog to comment...which I do anyway...and then comment on the post they have written, thus not giving me an opportunity to respond to the numerous fabulous and hysterical comments I receive.

PEOPLE THIS MUST STOP! I am sure the blogger fairies are tired of trying to catch all my emails that are sent out there with no home!! So, I am going to teach you all how to change this, and I am going to do it in a way that there will be no more excuses!!

1. Go to your Dashboard on Blogger dot com.

2. Hit your edit profile, right next to your picture, avatar or whatever else you have showing.

3. Scroll down to the line that says : Show my email address and CHECK THE BOX.

4. Hit save.

Now, for those of you who do not want a regular email address to show, go to Gmail, Yahoo or any other number of places and get a FREE, yes FREE, email account and set it up.

I would so like to respond to the funniness that is sent my way.

WORD VERIFICATION

I have attempted to tute you all on how to change this, and apparently, although many of you said you would change it, some of you didn't listen the first time. I have enough issues spelling "verification", much less typing in those dang words after I leave a comment.

I have thought of boycotting those that refuse to change the word verification and have it turned off, but I love all of you too much and the guilt that my mother instilled in me at such a young tender age would eat me alive and I would no longer be able to function and blog, and that would not do, now would it??

The answer....TURN OFF THE WORD VERIFICATION!

1. Go to your Dashboard at blogger dot com.

2. Click on Settings, which is under the name of your blog.

3. Click on Comments, which is on the top of the page.

4. Scroll down until you see this: Show word verification for comments?

5. Click the box that says NO.

6. Click Save settings at the bottom of the page. Please do not leave this page until you have saved settings.

Now, just an FYI...you do NOT get more spam if you do not have word verification. Word verification is a torture device that some moron thought up to annoy and irritate all bloggers.

Thank you all for your immediate attention to both the above matters. And if this pisses you off, please note my disclaimer on top. For those of you that want to thank me, ass kissing works nicely.

And the winner is......

Lucky NUMBER SEVEN!!

LIFE OF A TATER TOT MOM, you are the lucky winner of one of my FABULOUS, handmade chalkboards!

Email me by clicking on the "contact me" button on my left side bar and provide me with your mailing address.

I also need to know which FABULOUS chalkboard, you would like to redeem! The Ladybug, The Frog or the Dragon Fly. Click the link below to view the boards.

http://smellthecoffeelisa.blogspot.com/2009/10/swap-your-crafts-october-edition.html

Thank you to everyone who visited and commented on my 100TH post.

Here is to 100 more!

1 plus 99 EQUALS

What do you get when you add 1 plus 99? 100, that is. Yup this is my 100th post!

I KNOW THIS IS A LONG POST, BUT IT'S FUNNY, SO READ IT! At least I think it's funny! You all know I have got to toot my own horn. TooT, TooT! PLUS THERE IS A SURPRISE AT THE END!

If you would have asked me three months ago when I started this whole blog thing, If I'd ever reach 155 plus followers and 100 posts. PLUS not to mention over 10,000 PAGE VIEWS. Half of those 10,000 are probably from ME, but who's counting. Not me, no Sir!

So if you would have asked me that 3 months ago, I probably would have laughed so hard that I'd tinkled my pants and gave myself rib cramps.

I am shocked and proud to have actually stuck to something for this long. Yes this is long for me! I mean hello, I change my darn blog design every 5 minutes, it's no surprise I can't stick to things?

FOR EXAMPLE - over the past two years I've taken or done the following:

1) H&R Block tax classes - Didn't finish, almost but became bored out of my mind and thought it was a complete joke. I've been doing my own taxes for years, waste of my time. Don't trust H&R block people. Insider tip!

2) Cake Decorating classes - Didn't finish, graduated the first two classes, but who has time to make 50 fondant roses. Not me. I was more creative then the teacher in the class, hello have you seen my cakes? They don't teach you that talent in cake class.

3) Taught myself to crochet - Have yet to finish my gigantor blanket I started MONTHS and MONTHS ago, but I will, hopefully when the weather gets cooler. Umm It's been in the high 90's low 100's all summer.

4) Taught myself to sew - Sure I've finished several projects, but I don't take the time to measure or sew perfectly straight. Who has time for that? Not to mention I have yet to even start The BF's fish bag, to which he asks for on a daily basis.

5) Tuesday Football tracker - Yeah I've already wanted to skip this post 2 weeks in a row now. We will see how many more weeks I can get through or if I can even get through the entire season. That would be a SHOCKER!

I could go on and on and on. Do you see any pattern here? Do you understand now why I'm surprised to have met this mark?

I'm always looking for new and different, anything to stimulate my mind.

I guess what keeps me here is the fact that each post is something new and different. I mean some posts have similar themes, however the content of each post is unique in it's own way.

Not to mention I love visiting other people's blogs and finding out that there are people out there who are WAY CRAZIER than me. Just kidding, but no seriously. Some of you are crazy, I'm the normal one. Does anyone else think blogging is a great form of Therapy. Way cheaper too!

I thought long and hard about what I wanted my 100th post to say. Long and hard being a whole whopping HOUR! You thought I was going to say Five minutes didn't you. Yup no, for an entire hour I sat here thinking, pondering on what I could possibly write about.

Envision: My brain, black smoke, yeah nothing there. Then AHHHHHHHHH I see the light. The grand puba of all posts.

Okay now I'm just building this whole 100th post thing up.

Seriously, lets get down to the nitty gritty! I thought I would elaborate on my blog name.

Smell the Coffee Lisa

I've read a lot of comments by people who think that my blog is about coffee and how they were a bit upset to find nothing here about coffee. Don't get me wrong I love my coffee but that's not what it's all about.

The definition of Smell the Coffee is as follows:

When someone doesn't realise what is really happening or is not paying enough attention to events around them, you can tell them to wake up and smell the coffee.

I think we have all been there, right? No, not you? Well I have, who am I kidding. No one's life is perfect, we all have our quirks and who am I to judge anyone for what they do, who they are or what they have to say. I've always said "to each his own!"

Anyway, after reading that definition it reminded me of a scene in the movie, X-MEN ORIGINS. If you have not seen the movie, I think it's worth a netflix rental.

This is also a Possible SPOILER alert, but not an entire movie spoiler, yeah it might actual spoil a good chunk of the movie.

Let me set the scene:

Kayla is Logan's wife and a school teacher. Logan is the Wolverine (well he's not the "Wolverine" just yet, this is how he chooses his name.) Kayla and Logan are sitting in the living room of their cabin one night and Kayla says to Logan.

Kayla Silverfox: Why the moon is so lonely?

Logan: Why?

Kayla Silverfox: Because she used to have a lover.

Logan: You tell this to the kids?

Kayla Silverfox: No.
[Logan laughs]

Kayla Silverfox: His name was Kuekuatsu and they lived in the spirit
world together.

Logan: Oh, this is a true story.

Kayla Silverfox: Mm-hm. And every night, they would wander the skies
together. But, one of the other spirits was jealous. Trickster
wanted the Moon for himself. So he told Kuekuatsu that the Moon had
asked for flowers; he told him to come to our world and pick her
some wild roses. But Kuekuatsu didn't know that once you leave the
spirit world, you can never go back. And every night, he looks up
in the sky and sees the Moon and howls her name. But... he can
never touch her again.

Logan: Wow... Koo-koo-katchoo got screwed!

So later on Kayla goes to state that Kuekuatsu means Wolverine hence how he gets his name. Blah, Blah, Blah. Go see the movie!

Back to my story! If only we had a little man sitting on our shoulders telling us to Smell the Coffee, whenever we are about to make a wrong move. Oh to believe in rainbows and butterflies. Life would be a lot less stressful. We'd know right away what decisions to make regarding every and any situation we encounter in life, no matter what that might be. Why can't there be that little man, so we don't end up screwed like Koo-koo-katchoo. LOL

So in short, Smell the Coffee Lisa is really just a blog about my life and daily activities. I don't have a specific blog theme or plan, except that it's just about me.

I may not be the brightest crayon in the box. I like to say I'm book smart, not street smart. I'm also oblivious to a lot of things that go on around me. I'm a busy girl with a million things on my mind and often lose focus of my original goals.

But HEY, I'm at least woman enough to admit every now and then that I need someone to say:

"Wake up and Smell the Coffee Lisa!"

GIVEAWAY!

So if you read this post in it's entirety, wow you must not have a life. LOL just kidding, you are my number 1 fan! I'm going to give away one of my chalkboards (your choice) from the swap your crafts post. Since only 1 other person joined the craft swap I've got them to giveaway. You get 1 entry. This shall be super easy for my loyal fans! Yup just leave a comment and I'll randomly have my son say a number and if your post is that number you win! Now aren't I clever, or just lazy. The first to comment obviously is number ONE and then I'll count down from there.

http://smellthecoffeelisa.blogspot.com/2009/10/swap-your-crafts-october-edition.html

click the above link to see the chalkboards!

My only rule! I may not be very good at following rules, however I've perfected dishing them out! Your comment has to have some substance to show that you actually read my post or at least parts of it. Torture, I know! Just commenting, "congrats on your 100th post," yeah umm that's not gonna cut it, the winner will then default to the comment BEFORE YOU. These are one of a kind chalkboards, priceless people so you have to do a little work. It's not like I'm making you link to my blog or post about it. LOL I mean you can if you want to.

Now get a commenting.

Maybe I'll get 100 comments, a girl can dream, right!

George, no not George of the Jungle.

It came and it came so quickly too. Do you remember my post regarding my 100th Follower MAMA MEL? If not go read it!

http://smellthecoffeelisa.blogspot.com/2009/09/shes-my-number-one-100th-that-is.html.

Anyway Mama Mel sent me my Monkey, I named him George, and he is even cuter in person then the picture in my post!! You totally have to get order one of these from her ETSY sight. I've never met Mama Mel, I don't know her, so don't think I'm trying to give her ETSY FREE ADVERTISING. I just like to give praise where praise is due. She definitely deserves this shout out!

What are you waiting for, go check out her blog and her store!!

http://mamamelloves1.blogspot.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7668097

I think, not 100% sure, but she can make custom monkeys. Just tell her what color you would like.

Backing up Blogger

Has anyone used the Export button under settings, basic to make a back-up of their blog just in case blogger ever crashes? I've been noticing a lot of glitches with blogger and don't want to log in one day to find my blog gone. I've already lost my blog roll once.

Any comments on how you back-up your blogger blog? Has anyone turned their blog into a book? How did it come out?

SHE'S MY NUMBER ONE!! 100th that is!!

Mama Mel is my 100th follower!! I love my people and I love her blog. Have you seen her etsy site? I'm so going to purchase this monkey!!

Don't YOU EVEN try to buy it out from under me. OHHHH WAIT YOU CAN'T she's holding it for me!! YES ME ONLY, YOU KNOW WHY?

CAUSE SHE'S MY NUMBER ONE!!!!!

How cute is this ONESIE?? OMG if I had a baby (boy or girl) I'd so sport this on my child. Your childs NOT COOL until they wear one of these. I'm soo cool trust me I know these things!!

So show my 100th follower some blog love!!!!