I Will be Doing Some Paid Blogging on Here… June 13, 2007

Because I am working from home, and I am trying to make ends meet, I need to be able to make money from even my fun blogs like this one!  So, I have decided to do some blogging through some of the “paid-to-post” companies like Blogsvertise.  I have heard a lot of great things about making money this way, so I’m quite excited to get started.  The great news is, I’ll be able to report back on here about the different companies, and tell you my readers which ones are worth it, and which ones to skip.   I hope this’ll be a good helpful process for those of you who are looking to make money this way.

One of the best sites I’ve found that’s out there for this kind of stuff is here – you could spend all night looking through that website!  Well worth reading.

Have a wonderful night,

Hava

My Other Blog March 3, 2007

I have recently started another blog, but this one is different from the others: It is a political blog. I usually don’t get into politics much, but this year, there is a candidate that I strongly care about, and want to see win. Many politicians seem to have a long list of political experience and not much “real-world experience” as I like to think of it. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has made millions of dollars in the private sector as a businessman, showing that he not only talks about how wonderful the American economy, he has experienced it firsthand, and will work hard to preserve it.

On top of his business accumen, Romney has also been a strong conservative in a very liberal state (he was governor of Massacusetts, one of the most liberal states in the country) and under his leadership, the economy of the state did a complete 180. From 2002 to 2006, he not only wiped out the state’s massive deficit, he even managed to have the state running a very large surplus by the end, almost unheard of in this day and age.

Anyway, if you’re not sure who the best man is for the job during this election, stop by my other blog and see if what you read is what you’re looking for. You may just be surprised.

Havs

My New Blog… December 28, 2006

So I have bad news: Someone is actually willing to pay me to blog, and I have taken them up on their offer. Seeing as I am a working fool (I work very long hours at my day job) I really don’t have time to update both blogs. I know most people could already tell that, since I haven’t updated on here since who knows when, but just in case someone is still holding out hope that I’m going to get my lazy butt in gear and start posting again, I’m afraid to tell you that chance has just gotten slimmer than Paris Hilton. When I can blog and make guaranteed money (although admittedly that pay isn’t very high, it is guaranteed pay) it’s hard to make time to blog elsewhere for free, as much fun as it is to blog about whatever topic I want to–my paid blogging job is strictly about jobs and employment, nothing else. I do try to keep my blog from becoming stagnant however, by talking about such “jobs” as being paid to play video games or being an online juror or other wild ideas I read about on the ‘net. Just because I have one topic doesn’t mean I have to be boring!

So if you ever have a chance, please check out my blogs at Families.com–I promise to try my best not to put you to sleep!

Havs

Times flies when you’re having… July 12, 2006

…well, fun would be a stretch, but how about working your tail off? I think that more accurately describes my current life. I am juggling about 17 things right now, and every once in a while, a plate comes crashing down and hits me hard on the head. I am getting this permanent bruise going on up there, and someday, I’m going to learn to wear a hard hat. Difficult to fit headphones over, but I’ll give it my best shot.

But anyhow, I put some blogs together because I was trying to apply for a job working as a blogger (how great would that be!) but the company has not responded yet, and this was sent into them on Monday. They usually respond within the day. So I think that it’s a no go. But I can’t let these perfectly good blogs go to waste! (Yes, I also save all of my leftovers from dinner, only to have to throw them out three months later when aliens from space come into my kitchen, looking to reclaim their own. What’s your point?) I was putting together blogs about being a Primary President (the blog I was applying for was Families.com and they actually have an LDS section, with a subsection for Primary) and although I wasn’t going to post any LDS content on this blog, I am much too lazy to see all of this work go to waste. For those of you who are not LDS/Mormon, the Primary is simply the organization for the children in the congregation. The Primary President is the person in charge of all of the little munchkins who do their best every Sunday to remind all of the adults that Thou Shalt Not Kill is one of the 10 Commandments. Having said that, here’s the first of three…

When I first got called to be the Primary President, I thought for sure the Bishop had lost it. After all, I had to be one of the youngest Primary Presidents to ever be called–wasn’t there some sort of age limit that kept 22 years old from being Primary Presidents??

Although I was in shock, a small part of me had known this was coming. When my husband and I got married and moved from Logan, Utah to Blackfoot, Idaho, I was called to be the Primary Music Leader within a month of us buying our house. I filled that calling until the Primary Presidency was rearranged, at which point I was called to be second counselor in the Presidency. I was in shock when I got that calling, because I figured only incredibly talented and loving and perfect people could be in a Primary Presidency. Why were they calling me?

I found out much later (when I was being called to be Primary President, actually) that Sis. Yancey, who called me to be her second counselor, had actually had just as many doubts about me becoming her second counselor as I had had doubts about me becoming her second counselor. In fact, she argued with the Lord and told him that she didn’t want me to be her second counselor. And then the Lord told her that I was going to be the next Primary President, and it was Sis Yancey’s job to teach me how to do that.

Luckily for both of us, Sis Yancey kept all of this a secret. I imagine if I had been told that I was going to be the next Primary President when I was being called to be the second counselor, I probably would have gone running screaming in the other direction. I probably would have had my house sold by the end of the week and made the move to China by the end of the month. I just wasn’t ready for that kind of responsibility at that point.

In fact, I didn’t feel ready for that kind of responsibility when I actually did receive the call to be President. Luckily the Lord knows me and all of my shortcomings, and He knew that He couldn’t just throw something like this at me. In the months before Sis Yancey’s move to New Zealand, I would have random thoughts pop into my head: “I will handle that (situation) differently when I am in charge.” Or, “When Sis Yancey leaves, it will be up to me to keep things going.” Then I would draw back and think, “Where on Earth did that thought come from?? I’m not going to be in charge. Sis Yancey isn’t going to leave.”

But she did leave, she moved across the world, leaving a mighty huge gap in the Primary structure. The first counselor moved at almost exactly the same time to Las Vegas, leaving me the only one left in the Primary Presidency.

So when the Bishop asked me to talk to him “real quick” in his office, I had an inkling of what would happen. Deep down, I knew that I was going to be the next Primary President. I just ignored that knowledge and instead clung to the idea that they would magically find somebody else to do the job. Anybody else. I was too young, and too dumb, and too unorganized, and too…everything to do something like this. I had no children of my own–certainly that was some sort of requirement to become a Primary President

And yet, I have not only survived these last two years, I have thrived. Through the Lord, everything is possible, and I am living proof of that.

In the cold light of day… June 10, 2006

Do I still want to do this? I signed up for this “blogging” thing about midnight last night. I thought, “Hmm, I wonder if I will still want to do this come morning. I think I will, at least I hope I will!” Well, last night, I must have woken up at least 5 different times, thinking, “I have a blog now! When I get up, I can blog again!” I am starting to realize just how addicting this whole thing is…

I have also been analyzing myself–why do I love to write so much? Where did this come from? The answer: My father, without a doubt. He is a writer through and through. He can take something as dry and mundane as Christmas letters (My child won first place in his class spelling bee this year. He’s a genius! I am filling out papers to send him Harvard straight away; he’ll be the first child to go from 1st grade to college in one fell swoop!) and turn them into something hilarious. I have laughed so hard during one of my father’s Christmas letters that I couldn’t breathe.

The really fantastic thing is that everything he says is true. Well, his version of truth anyway. I think we covered that subject yesterday. My “creative” side most definitely came from my father. Anyway, I think most children say, “I want to be just like my father when I grow up” and for me, that is most definitely true in some aspects. The difference between us though, is that I want to support myself by writing. My father has a “real” job that pays him “real” money, and he only flexes his writing abilities in Christmas letters and e-mails to family members. I want more though. I want to support myself 100% through writing. I want to publish books and articles and columns and do whatever it takes to become a self-supported writer.

Am I asking for too much? Probably. Does that mean I will give up the dream? Never.

Welcome to my blog! June 9, 2006

I have to admit, I have never bogged before. I have heard about it, yes, on TV and on the Internet, but I haven’t read but perhaps 10 blogs in all my life.

So why am I starting my own blog, you may ask? Because I am a born writer. I have been reading and writing since I was a small child, and all through elementary school, I entered into writing contests. In junior high, I even won a whole $75 in a writing contest, and I was so proud of myself. The fame, the fortune, the money that was coming my way! I blew my entire wad on candy and was sick for a whole week.

Somehow or another though, on my way to even more fame and fortune than I had already acheived, life sort of got in the way, and I decided that I needed to find a “real” job, where I could make “real” money. Which I am currently doing. But despite the regular checks coming in, I have found that I still miss my creative side. Where else but writing could you be rewarded for telling the story exactly how you want to tell it, even if it isn’t exactly how it happened? In other aspects of life, this is called lying. In the writer’s world, this is called being creative. I like being creative.

So welcome to the world as Hava sees it. You may not love all my blogs, but I will surely love writing them!

Havs