Lately I’ve been doing a lot of social networking. Mostly for my blogs, and to find other interesting blogs I like to read. But I also recently joined LinkedIn, about a week ago, and I actually knew someone who already had an account and I linked to him. It is a place where you can put up your professional profile and meet others with the same interests, and also potentially find new employment. MoDazzle is a site where you can find lots of social networking sites, you can
Connect to Linked In and Salesforce via mobile, also.

It is so convenient to be able to connect via mobile devices. It makes it so easy nowadays to really keep connected with community and work.

In addition to LinkedIn, they also work with SalesForce and Facebook, another couple of great community sites where we can find a lot of information and contacts. MoDazzle also, if you were not aware, can give you restaurant reviews, and weather information, News, Stocks, and it can even help you find the nearest Starbucks, which we all know is critical!

So check ‘em out.

Okay, these are like the coolest things ever. Check out the Flameless Window Candles on this site. See, we need some of these because the cats can get just about anywhere, and I really am worried they will catch fire or, even worse, catch the whole house on fire.

They even have wall sconce candles, which I love and they really stay out of the way. I’m going to ask my relatives and friends for some of these for Christmas. I love the soft flicker of candle light, safe candle light, in the winter when it is dark most of the time. I love the dark. Love candles. Love firelight. If you are looking for something like this I would encourage you to visit the site.

In fact, I might just go buy some for myself. They are powered by batteries, so absolutely no flames. I can even have one at work! They don’t let us have flame candles here with, I guess, good reason as they don’t want the whole building burning down. We get enough false fire alarms with people burning their toast in the break room.

And not just any old thank you Christmas cards, but cards for our troops. Personally I am not a fan of the war, and I don’t like Bush… but that is neither here nor there. I support our troops, because our troops are human beings and American citizens putting their lives on the line for us.

Gallery Collection has created Corporate Holiday Cards called Soldier’s Angel Cards. And Gallery Collection has donated a greeting card to be sent to each soldier to say thank you, and wish them a happy holidays. You can help by donating to Soldier’s Angels.

Gallery Collection also provides many different business cards. They are such a nice little note to get in the mail every holiday season, for friends and colleagues.

Happy Holidays and Sweet Dreams.

Okay I got myself a new mattress and frame, but I haven’t gotten one for the dogs. I am really looking for a nice dog bed. Something that can be thrown in the washing machine, and is not too big for our washing machine.

Angel, our sweet rescue collie girl who is probably at least 11 years old now, she loves to fix up our beds. She is excellent at it… well, ask her and she will tell you she is. She goes to town fixing up our beds, pushing with her nose at pillows and sheets, and she grabs those darn sheets and pulls them down until they are almost completely off the bed. LOL. We have to fix up our beds every night because she does such a good job.

The bedroom is her safe, and favorite, place. She chews her pig ears in there, sleeps in there, and goes in there when there is thunder or lightening or fireworks and she is nervous. We keep some dog beds in there as well, but she prefers the mattress. We’d love to find a nice squishy comfy dog bed for her that she would prefer.

And I do love to watch the dogs dream, they twitch and run and their mouths move in their sleep. I wonder if having a comfy dog bed makes them even more dreamy? Do they like firm or soft? I think soft… LOL our dogs are so very spoiled, as they should be.

I love to hike. I haven’t hiked in my dreams lately, though. Would be a fun way to spend a dream. I love the mountains, I love the rocks beneath my feet, and I love the sun on my face and the cool wind in my hair.

I also like having good solid hiking boots on my feet. They are so important. I don’t really need hiking boots for Christmas, but they would be a great gift. Maybe my sister needs some… and we don’t hunt, but sometimes Hunting Boots can be used as hiking boots, as hiking boots and are just as good and solid.

So maybe they would be a good Christmas gift you can give!

It is just the time for Christmas isn’t it? Hrmph… well, yes it is. We need new Christmas lights. I think ours from last year have been up most of the summer, and they are falling apart. I need to string them all out and see if any of them work anymore. If they don’t, I seriously want to get some LED Xmas lights instead of the old regular incandescent kind.

They create very little heat and they also save a lot of energy. If everyone went to these over Christmas, our energy consumption would be greatly decreased. And I’m always looking for ways to help the environment!

In this day and age school is so very expensive. College, mainly, but sometimes High School as well. And whenever there is an opportunity to win a scholarship, I advise kids and their parents to take it! There is a greeting cards scholarship contest going on right now for the holidays that you really might want to check into. Every dime can help and college is so very important. Believe me, I went when I was in my 30s, and it would have been easier to finish in my 20s.

The company doing the contest creates business Christmas cards, the kind you get from banks and places every year wishing you a Merry Christmas. They also do Religious Christmas Cards and other types. So check ‘em out if you are interested!