I do have a lot of great ideas.  Just not enough money or time to do them all.  Kinda stinks at times.

Like, I would love to have a food truck that I would sell cupcakes, cake pops, chocolates, and the like from.  Mostly I would see myself doing catering — special orders, but I would have goodies on hand to sell to walk ups as well.  And I would mostly be parked outside a college campus or something — where people like to eat sweets.  But that’s expensive to get started.  And I would have no health insurance.  Wasn’t someone going to do something about that?

Then there’s the idea of making WordPress/Joomla/Drupal/etc. themes for people who specialize in Home Party Businesses.  That’s a great little corner of the web that does this for Stampin’ Up!  And they are great.  But I have not found one for Pampered Chef, or Lia Sophia, or any of those other Home Party places.  Only if I had more time.

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Then there’s the idea of working with neighborhoods to get a community garden going in each one that everyone in the neighborhood could enjoy.  So many decisions to make — like would it be in someone’s yard so the rotten kids in the neighborhood (every neighborhood has at least one) don’t vandalize it?  Is it safe to have additional traffic in that person’s yard?  Will everyone feel like they are getting their share?  How much “rent” is charged per square foot to cover the costs?  Can we get funding from the city to start it?  So many things to think about…

What about a baby-sitting co-op?  An internet cafe with a laundry mat built in?  And who do I talk to about improving the bus system so people would actually be willing to use it?  Oh the things I think about when I’m alone…

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So I made these cute little turkey cake pops.  I think they are pretty darn cute!

I think these just look yummy and fun!  Have you had one?  I think this should be the next craze for weddings.  I started the cupcake craze, why can’t I start the cake pop craze?  I did.  I had cupcakes at my wedding to my lovely husband and then everyone started doing it.

http://www.familycircle.com/holiday/halloween/recipes/halloween-cake-pops/?ordersrc=google2cakepops&s_kwcid=TC|20467|cake%20pops%20recipe||S|b|9624208138

Maybe I can make some for Thanksgiving for our team?  Maybe decorate them like Turkeys?  lol  Pumpkin flavored!!  It’s a plan.  I saw a kitchen toy that bakes them for you but the point is to have all the icing in them to make them super rich.  My days off this week I think I will give them a try.

We are sick at our house.  Sneezing and snotting around like no body’s business.  Yuck!  I don’t want to go to work at all today.  I don’t know if I have sick time to cover the time so I can’t all out.  UGH!  I hate that.  Plus I went out with my team last night and I would feel guilty if I didn’t go to work today.  We will see what tomorrow brings.

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Today I got my coupon clipping done – so I am ready for grocery shopping tomorrow.  I hate shopping.  I hate that I don’t have enough money to complete the shopping that I need to do.  I hate putting the groceries away in the kitchen that does not have enough cupboard space.  Yes, I am whining.  Thanks for listening! lol  But I do appreciate that savings I get from using CouponSense.com.

After the coupon clipping, I went to Erin’s for Bible Study.  I enjoy visiting with Erin and Sara each week.  I feel normal and OK.  I need to work on giving grace even when it’s not fair.

After Bible Study I went to Beauty Brands and picked up a set of Mini Muppet nail polishes.  Then I went to my favorite nail place, Petite Nails for a manny-peddy.  I feel so pampered there.  But it is starting to hurt when the tops of my feet are rubbed.  Makes ma sad and scared at the same time.  I made a slight mention of it to my Endocrinologist, but he didn’t say anything about it.

I have been doing pretty good with my eating.  And with taking my pills.  Which is a good thing.  Twittering about what I eat and all seems to be helpful.

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Love their salad and breadsticks.

I don’t seem to keep up with anything.  I start blogging regularly and then I suddenly stop!  I do this in my personal life everywhere.  Yet at work I am so organized and follow through to a T.  Hhhmmm…

Anyway, I got to babysit my beautiful grandson today.  We took him to Olive Garden with Sheila and Steve.  He was such an angel. Everyone marveled at how good he was.  He’s an angel baby!!

I think I get so scattered at home because I can.  I am so smart and know so much stuff and like to learn about and how to do so much other stuff that I just go crazy and get started and then realize I have learned something and then am ready to move on to learning new stuff.  I almost feel like John Travolta in that movie….  oh maybe I have a brain tumor.   Well, I’m not going to get that checked out.

So I have been doing pretty good with my eating for me diabetes.  I started a new twitter account to keep track of what I am eating and the meds I am taking.  I have decided that Sundays and Wednesdays I am not going to stressed about being super good about this for now.  Wedensdays is Happy Hour night and Sundays I reserve for family meals and dining with friends.  You can follow me at dphrog on twitter.

I want to get 2 kitty cams – one for each cat – and I think it would make for great images for my blog.  Now you know what to get me for Xmas!  Oh I should start our Xmas lists on here too.  Look for those pages to come soon too.

So I am going to try to write each night before I go to bed.  We will all see how that goes!  lol

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I have figured out how to make a WordPress or Blogger Theme.  And I am now open for business!  For my first 20 themes, I am letting them go for $10 each.  I can use any pictures or drawings you have proper permission to use (and I can tweek any others to make it all yours) for your theme.  I might be able to work with a very talented artist / cartoonist friend to come up with a design, but we would have to check on his fees. I just revamped my other blog: http://www.thephroggysgarden.com.  It’s not totally final, but I think it’s nice looking.  Once I get a few done and figure out how to long they really take and what to ask for and all I will have a form and such — and maybe charge a little more.  So be one of the first 15 for this totally awesome price!!

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If you don’t already have a bog (or website that you can easily update) I can help you get what you need.

First you need a domain name.  ‘creativephrog.com‘ is my domain name for this site.  In the address bar of your web browser you may type creativephrog.com or www.creativephrog.com or http://creativephrog.com to get to my site.  You need one of your own.  You can buy one at my site, http://phroggysbog.com.

Second, if you want a WordPress site, you need hosting so you have somewhere for your site to live.  You buy your own hosting at my site as well.  You will want WordPress hosting.  Here’s a link to that. If you are using Blogger, you have set that up through them.  If you don’t have one or the other yet, I feel like WordPress is going to give you more options.  That’s just my opinion.

Next you need to set up your Blog and get a custom Theme from me! 

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Can you believe it?  And every year I swear I am going to get ready early and not get behind.  I am reminded of my friend Cynthia’s organized Christmas site.  I put a link on the right there for everyone to go to and visit.  I am really going to try to keep up this year.  I should have no reason not to.  I have 3 days off so one of those days can be dedicated to getting ready. I am just not feeling very creative these days.  I have such a mess at my house, I can’t relax and make things.  One year I made a really pretty mirror with coordinating candles for a family gift exchange.  It was really pretty.  I wish I had a picture.  I was very proud of that.  Maybe I should make more.  I could take orders!  hhmm…  I wish my husband had health insurance so I could not have to work in a traditional job.  Some day.

Speaking of work, today I had to call in sick to work because of my head hurting so bad and my stomach still hurting.  I have not eaten since my toast this morning.  I am feeling a little better right now.  That’s why I thought I would jump on here right fast and post an update.  I hate calling in sick.  I have the sick time accumulated.  I don’t call out often.  I just could not think strait.  And beings how I have to give answers to people all night, it might be helpful if I can think strait.  I kept thinking, I am going to do so bad at work and then I am not going to meet my numbers and I finally decided to not go in.  I do feel better right now.  I came home and took a nice nap.  And I took another migraine pill.

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So I spend most of my time not feeling well.  I get tired of admitting I don’t feel well. I get tired of everyone else thinking they know what is wrong with me and what I should tell my doctor.  I know they are just trying to help and are concerned and don’t like knowing I don’t feel well.  I don’t like it either.  Today was another day I spent with a headache and feeling nauseated.  I think this was brought on by one of my diabetes meds.  I don’t take it very often because it usually makes me feel this way but if I don’t take it my blood sugar is too high.  It’s a crazy loop that hopefully will end after I see this next visit to an endocrinologist.

Which if I may vent.  I didn’t have health insurance for a while and had to pay cash for my diabetes meds and doctor related visits.  So when I got a job with health insurance, I got punished for paying cash for these meds.  I was told by my health insurance company that they would not pay for any diabetes related doctor visits for a year.  That year finally went away and that is why I am now finally going to see an endocrinologist to try to get this under control.

So anyway, back to me not feeling well today.   I slept most of the day.  I am ready to go back to bed now even.  I am sitting here waiting for my head to pop off my neck.  It hurts that bad.  I have had about 1600 mg of Ibuprofen in the last 4 hours.  I just took a migraine pill, even though it doesn’t feel like a migraine.  I am just desperate for my head to quite hurting.  I have taken a hot bath and am sitting in my towel in my cold house hoping that will help too.  I hate pain.

Thanks for listening.

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