Did you know that Pepperdine University has MBA Programs? Before tonight the only thing I knew about Pepperdine University was that Britney Spears had attended some classes there!

Pepperdine University was founded by George Pepperdine who wanted to help men and women prepare themselves for a life of usefulness in a competitive world, particularly in a business world.

Here is a copy of Pepperdines’ Mission Statement, taken directly from their home page :

The mission of the George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management is to develop values-centered leaders for contemporary business practice through education that is entrepreneurial in spirit, ethical in focus, and global in orientation. As a professional school growing out of the tradition of a Christian University, we seek to positively impact both society at large, and the organizations and communities in which our students and graduates are members. Therefore, we affirm a higher purpose for business practice than the exclusive pursuit of shareholder wealth. We believe that successful management seeks collective good along with individual profit and is anchored in core values such as integrity, stewardship, courage, and compassion.

What does this mean to a student who aspires an education in business with Pepperdine University?

Pepperdine University is Committed to the preparation of both working professionals and full-time students. Therefore, when a student joins Pepperdine’s MBA Programs, the student benefits from a high-quality education that represents a rapidly changing global business setting, both culturally and technologically.

Pepperdine University’s MBA Programs remain flexible in their delivery and incorporation of significant changes of the business world into the curriculum and day to day professional growth.

This translates directly to success!

Be A Business Success

Labels: business, information, Things to learn

I really really REALLY hate Cris Angel. He is dirty and greasy looking. He wears either disgustingly ripped up clothes or seventeen pounds of "bling". He has been linked with "stars" like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

He is very very arogant!

Take tonight on the TV show Phenomenon. I have only been catching bits here and there, but from what I can see it is the American Idol of Magicians.

So this one dude does this trick where by "talking to the spirit realm" he can identify a random object that has been placed in a locked box.

And the crowd goes wild as he writes in mirror writing, what the object is.

So lets all keep in mind how this is a magic trick. As in there is some TRICK to how he can know what is in the box. He is not really talking to a magically supporting spirit realm.

Cris Angel stands up - a feat in itself as he is covered in about seventy lbs of fake looking bling. holdings up a scribbled-on envelope, Chris offers the Spiritually Talkative Magician " One million of My dollars" If he can identify, in detail, what is in the envelope.

In front of a live audience.

Knowing full well that the magician is doing a TRICK.

IMO, Chris thinks this magician is really good and decided to throw him to the media wolves just to get rid of future competition.

Labels: emotional, In My Opinion, information

Are you looking for new blinds? I know I am. My cat attacked the ones in my bedroom and my bedroom gets awesome (sarcasm) sunlight in the morning.

Sigh, If it isn't one pet attacking something, it's another!

I'm going to Check out Terrys Terry's Fabric for my blinds! This time I am getting something other then plain old institutional white vinyl!

Labels: home improvement

Today i tied Smokey up outside so that I could work unhindered on the oldest childs Halloween costume.

talk about down to the last minute!

Unfortunately in the fifteen minutes I had her outside she dug up my poor little apple tree.

The apple tree I have nurtured from a sapling. The one I nursed through a broken limb and protected from over zealous children!

Now I am in mourning for my tree.

must.eat.candy.

Labels: puppy talk, sigh

I remember visiting m grandparents during summer vacation. My favorite thing to do was sit in his golf cart and watch him hit that little dimpled ball. Often me and my cousins would hop out of the cart and hunt for frog on the fairway or hunt for lost balls we could turn in at the club house for candy money.

I have tried to actually golf once or twice, but it seems that no matter how hard I try to hit that ball it plops down a few feet away.

According to Jim Clark, Registered Physical Therapist,

Question: Why do I hit my drives short instead of long distances.

Answer: In most cases you are swinging primarily with your your arms and not getting all your body parts working in unison to hit a golf ball with the maximum force of which your body is capable.

Jim has designed a program for golfers everywhere who want to improve their golf swing. I think I just figured out what my dad is getting for Christmas!

Labels: Games, healthy living, Holiday time, Sport

Yay! Where Was I has it's very first winner!

I had nine entrants in the contest,

Marilyn, Shelli, Fantastagirl, Catch, LauraJ, Not A Granny, Mr.Fabulous, Tug, and Julia

I took all of the names and put them into the list randomizer on Random dot Org.

Labels: contest, excitement, Linky Love

Some parents are absolutely against their children playing with guns. Even water guns. Some parents refuse to have them in the house, whether they are real, or air guns or pellet guns.

Me? I have no choice on the matter. My husband is a hunter. He has guns, and yes they are locked in a safe and the only key is on his key ring. I don't even know where he keeps the bullets.

My boys own ever type of foam dart gun and water gun that there is, the oldest even has a child size bow- with tipped arrows.

Last winter my husbands parents gave our boys a BB gun and they have a blast with it. They don't get to load it with BB's yet, but it makes a satisfying sound when they cock and shoot it anyway. Last night I sent them outside to pick up their toys for the night. One item was forgotten, their BB gun, right behind the car.

Now that my husband has driven over, and destroyed their gun, I think that this Red Ryder BB gun would make a great replacement - just in time for Christmas!

Labels: Holiday time, I'm Important Too, kidtalk

Some people have blogs set up so that only certain people can read them. I do not. Everything I write is public, and so it is with careful consideration I am posting this hear.

Where Was I is relativity new and certain people are still not in the habit of dropping in for a look-see.

And that is good.

You see, my BFF kiss got a new job. It's a much MUCH better job, more money, better benefits, and perhaps most importantly it is a job that will turn into a career.

Sounds good, right, So what is my problem?

The problem is that I am a whine baby. Bff Kissy has been working long hours becuase her store is short staffed. She has been pulling ten to twelve and sometimes fourteen hour shifts for two weeks without a day off.

Sounds bad, right, but what does it have to do with me being a whiny baby?

See. once a week, on BFF Kissy's day off we go for coffee and talk. But the past two weeks she has not had a day off. We planned to go for coffee tonight anyway, after her shift. Even though I knew she would be tired, and that she should be home trying to get some rest, I jumped at the chance to go.

But instead I am here typing in m blog. She called me at 7:30. Right away I started getting my stuff together to head out the door, before I had even answered the phone.

But she called to say she had to work an additional three hours.

And now I am seriously sad. And I do not want her to know. Becuase it isn't her fault the hours of her job suck, and it isn't her fault that the only time I get out of the house is when I go for coffee with her.

Here's hoping she doesn't stop by. She has enough on her plate without worrying about me being a baby.

Labels: sigh

The First time I ever heard about the game of paintball was when my then boyfriend (now husband) was arranging a game for himself and his co-workers on the phone.

When he finally got off the phone I had a few questions. I was really worried because of the gun aspect! He explained about all of the Draxxus protective gear that Paintballers wore - masks and chest pads, specially designed gloves and other smart parts!

Even with all of his special gear, he still managed to come home covered in dye. He was shot in the face, which was, of course, protected by his helmet, the paint bullet burst and he was sprayed in a grill like pattern!

I wish I had a camera back them, because it was an awesome sight to see!

Having three boys, my husband has many things to look forward to teaching them, driving a car, fishing, and of course, paintball! My husband already has a set of customized paintball guns, but he has been searching around for a suitable set of spyder paintball guns for our boys

I think it should wait a few years, but my husband is bound and determined to take our eldest out to the paintball field next summer.

Labels: Games, husband, In My Opinion, information, Sport

This time of ear the spiders have tow choices. Stay outside and freeze to death, or come inside and tr to avoid the Arachnid hunters.

Our cat, and two of my three obs are very willing spider smooshers. The cat pukes each and every time she eats a spider BTW. Why is that?

In any case, I just tucked the boys in, I know it;s late. The husband wanted them to see a movie on TV and promised it would be over at nine. I said OK seeing as it is the eldest's birthday.

The movies wasn't over until 9:30.

Tomorrow will be a nasty morning, that;s for sure.

Back to the spiders. The five ear old went to get into bed and instead raised the alarm SPIDERS! SPIDERS! Both me and the five year old are very scared of spiders, so the now eight ear old had to come to our rescue.

The real problem is that I am now terrified that there are spiders in MY bed!

Labels: ewwness, kidtalk, sleepy time

DO you have a septic tank? We don’t our waste goes into a huge thingy run by the town we live in. My dad has one though. The most disgusting smell you will ever smell is when our septic tank ruptures, in the middle of summer.

NASTY!

Last summer on top of his basement flooding, the busted septic tank got raw sewage over everything. I swear I can still smell it when I go to visit. Insurance paid for my dad to get his septic tank fixed. I wonder if he has ever heard of the Biokube system?

The Biokube system can be added to existing septic tanks, as a replacement for a failing soakaway or installed as a completely new system, where a settlement tank is used in conjunction with the BioKube. The water that is produced can be discharged directly to a ditch / stream / dyke / burn / levee / pond / sea or any other watercourse with Environmental Agency / SEPA consent.

Labels: envinromental, ewwness, healthy living, information

On my blog Bluepaintred, I try to be funny a lot and sometimes that is really hard to do becuase I have to write about what I know, and what I know is me.

My life isn't all shits and giggles, sometimes it really sucks.

I'm luckier than most, though, becuase for the most part I have a wonderful life, with just the normal ups and downs that people are faced with.

Tonight when my husband gets home from work I will have to face one of those downs. I am expecting a letter from m doctor and once I get that letter I have to schedule some tests to find out why I feel crappy, health wise so often.

The letter was mailed Friday Morning and only has to travel 20 kms so I fully expect it tonight.

One one hand I would love to know why I am always sick, but on the other hand I am terrified that it is something really bad. SO far, all signs are pointing towards my circulatory system, and m heart.

And that rather sucks.

Labels: health, healthy living, husband, I'm Important Too, information

Over all, I do like how I look. I have wanted a nose job since I found out the existed, and would love a little lipo here and there and a tummy tuck. Thanks to a previous Plastic Surgery operation, I think my breasts are darn near perfect, and I am pretty proud of how my legs look.

I think that the majority of people DO think the have some part of their body that needs improvement. But I wonder, do they know what to look for in a surgeon and a facility?

I do. From experience. You need to find a surgeon who is willing to take all the time ou need to discuss concerns, fears, cost and the actual procedure, and you need to find a facility that has a high reputation.

Many upstanding publications do reviews on medical facilities and that is a good place to start. For example, Mya, a UK Plastic Surgerycompany was just reviewed, and quite favorably, by the Times!

Labels: health, healthy living, How To, I'm Important Too, In My Opinion, information

Today is the last chance to get into the first Where Was I contest!

Thirty paypal dollars or a PS2 game are at stake people!

All you have to do is link to this blog in a post BEFORE tomorrow!

Please be sure to leave me a comment on this post so that I include you in the draw!

- an ideas for Novembers contest? I was thinking of having a first second and third place winner and using the boys as prizes

Labels: contest

In an environment such as the one my husband works in, work boots - quality work boots are very important. At least once a month he comes home from work telling me of this or that which has been dropped on someone’s foot - but the are fine, their Steel Toe Boots worked.

Danner makes quality work boots, from shoe height to calf high boots, and in plenty of styles. They are competitively priced and best of all, you get free shipping when you spend over 100$

Don’t let your feet pay the price, if you work in a dangerous environment, your entire being, from head to toe needs to be protected!

Labels: healthy living, husband, saftey

FOUR time I asked m son if he had homework. Four times he told me no. One of those times i actually sent him to his back pack to check and he still said no.

What do you suppose I saw this morning when I was digging out his lunch kit?

If you guessed seventeen math problems, you would be right!

My only consolation is that Blue boy is in kindergarten and does not have homework.

But that will all change next year when he goes into grade one!

Labels: kidtalk, sigh

Need a cash advance ?

I know there are some weeks where I wish I could get one. Payday loans are a great alternativeto bouncing checks and selling off personal property - or being placed in the uncomfortable position of asking friends or family for some cash to help till the end of the week.

Everyone always has the best intentions. The never plan on being broke before payday, but things creep up. A child gets ill and you need a prescription filled or our car breaks down and you need it to get to work to ensure you get next weeks paycheck.

Sometimes the only thing you can do is apply for a cash advance!

Labels: I'm Important Too, money

• every time I open this blog I fall in love with the template all over again.
• I took my baby to pick out pumpkins for us to carve into jack o lanterns - he was too sweet.
• watching Smokey sit down and shut up next to a very suspicious Tigger, melts my heart
• Same with watching Smokey attack her tail for following her- sigh.

• I cannot stand the itching. I have hives now from my couch
• I will have to take an anti histamine to get rid of them and I hate how they make me feel
• I want to lose weight, but I know I will not be able to resist the lure of the tiny wrapped packages of chocolaty goodness three days from now
• OMG the itching is unbearable.
  

Labels: sigh, smile

In 1996 my mom was diagnosed with diabetes and since then I have had to have m youngest son as well as myself tested for Diabetes. Thankfully, neither of us have it. Yet.

My biggest fear with being diagnosed with diabetes is how we would be able to afford the testing supplies. The supplies necessary to keep you alive!

If ou have been diagnosed with diabetes and do NOT have insurance, you can get freestyle lite test strips for 30 - 60 % off. A shocking number - 21 million- US residents have diabetes and do NOT have insurance!

Without diabetes testing strips you are at risk for some very serious side effects, from loss of limbs, coma, even death!

Labels: healthy living, information, save money

We inherited a really nice couch from my brother who got it from my grandma. My brother had no room for the couch.

Its soft, tan, and in really good shape, the only problem is when I sit on it, with my laptop, like I am right now, my arm rubbing on the arm of the couch makes me itch like MAD.

I get past it by draping a towel or my ever present fuzzy soft blankie over it, but it still bugs me.

I think that when I take the time to shop for new living room furniture I will have to sit on the couch in the store and rub my arm back and forth for a few minutes. Sure I might look like a retard to the sales people, but at least this won't happen with the next couch I own!

Labels: sigh

A few years ago, my husband and I learned a hard lesson.

You see, way back in 1998 I started University. It was my first time away from home, My first time having to be responsible for myself and I was not very smart with my decisions.

One day while I was walking through the halls, a pamphlet caught my eye and I signed up for a credit card. BIG MISTAKE. It only had a five hundred dollar limit and yet it took me two years to pay it off. (And three weeks to max it.)

You would think I had learned my lesson right there, huh?

Nope.

Fast forward to 2001. My Husband wanted a PS2 game system. We took out a Loan for it. Sigh. The Play Station took us FOUR years to pay off. And you know what? two years after the Loan was paid off, it still had the power to bite us in the butt when we tried to apply for mortgage loans. All those months we were late with payments!

At least I know that if we need to refinance our home, our mortgage has been paid on time every month for the 48 months we have lived in this house.

Yes. We did finally learn our lesson with loans. Take out only what you can afford to pay back!

Labels: information, stories from the past, Things to learn

Today, we celebrated my son;s eight birthday. He doesn't actually turn eight until the 29th, but that's a Monday, so that doesn't work.

We had cake - he made it with his Nana, Friday after school, It was a Dragon and rockin' cool.

In a few hours I will be uploading a billion and seventeen photos to the photo blog, link int eh side bar.

We had him open his gifts, he got another eighty Pokemon cards - uhm note to all : don't answer "Pokemon cards" to everyone who asks what he would like for his birthday.

He also got some sort of test tube alien thing, they are going to try it tomorrow, and a new camera. I bought the camera this summer from eBay.

Then we went to McDonald's - his choice - for dinner and hit the bowling ally for a game.

He said it was the best birthday ever - but he says that every year!

Labels: I'm Important Too, kidtalk, party

I have long wondered, when browsing the classifieds, what being bondable meant. I assumed it meant you were willing to work under a contract, but it is much much more than that.

There are many different types of bonds, Commercial, Contract, Court and Fidelity. Commercial bonds include things like auto dealers and collection agencies. Contract bonds include things like bids and construction, Fidelity bonds include things such as house sitting and home owners association.

Court bonds, though, sound really interesting, so that’s what I spent my time reading about. When you die and have a will, it will go into probate. I remember my mother and father in law discussing the probated will of my husbands grandfather after he lost his battle with cancer. There were things to do, like dissolving his assets - selling his home and vehicles, and donating his clothing. They also had to wait until the taxes for that year had been assess and removed from the estate before it could leave probate.

Being bonded to probate is a pretty important job, not only must you deal legally with all involved, but you have to watch the ethics as well.

I think, now that I have read more into the process of bonding, I am not so nervous about looking at jobs that require getting bonded. And that’s a good thing, because in two more years, my baby will be in school full time!

Labels: I'm Important Too, In My Opinion, information, Things to learn

My poor little gnome wears purple flip flops and a Hawaiian shirt. he is going to be very cold come winter. He has come up with a few ideas to stay warm and would like to share a few with you.

• making a bed atop the stove. Preferably with rabbit fur blankets.
• he would like me to custom make him a robe of purple velvet to match his flip flops
• removing the vent covers and replacing them with a hammock of like size
• having a bonfire in the toilet nightly.

As you can see, my poor little gnome hasn't got all his marbles in a row. uhm. thats not right. What I mean to say is I think he isn't quite right in the head.

First of all, he is plastic and plastic tends to melt in high temperatures.

Second, there is no way I am letting him sneak over the back gate. Creep into the neighbors and and skin their pet rabbits just for a blanket.

And third? Come on, he is a plastic gnome! What do I care if he gets cold?

Labels: Fiction, fooling around

My back has been sore for a few weeks now, and due to a change in work duties, my husband has been having trouble as well.

The other day eh was talking about going for a massage to see if that would help, but he also wondered if maybe he should see a chiropractor instead.

I have neither had a massage nor seen a chiropractor so I could offer him little advice on the matter. I told him I would ask the interwebs.

To be completely honest, the idea of a chiropractor scares me. I mean, thats a spine they are playing with and spinal cord injuries are SERIOUS! But. if something is out of alignment, a massage would just be a stop gap measure, right?

Have you tried one or the other? Both? Which would you recommend?

Labels: health, husband, questions

Today is the twenty fifth of October. You do realize what that means, right? Just two more months until Christmas Morning. Have you started your Christmas shopping? I have a good portion of my Christmas Shopping done thanks to the internet. I live in a small town and getting to the city for shopping isn’t always easy, so the internet has literally saved my sanity!

There is one really, really important day for shoppers when it comes to saving money, and that is Black Friday. Normally you would have to wake up in the dark and stand in line to take advantage of the awesome sales the stores have on the day after Thanksgiving, but with the BlackFriday website you can take advantage of all the bfads in the comfort of our own home.

You can sign up for an email newsletter telling you what items go on sale letting you see what is on sale before the people who choose to wait in lines at the stores! Places like Amazondotcom, and the Disney Store are just two of the many stores that are available for the Black Friday website listings!

Why waste your time in a store where you might not get what you are going for, when you can take advantage of all the savings with none of the hassle? Check out black Friday dot net, today!

Remember, there are less than two months of shopping days left!

Labels: Holiday time, information, save money

Sunny Saturdays make me happy.

Unless I am trying to sleep in. When I am trying to sleep in, they just make me grouchy and since I am always trying to sleep in you can understand why this particular Sunny Saturday was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back!

After a long evening of Playing Balderdash (losing)(she cheated) and Whist ( I WON!) with my cat Noodle, I retired to my bed chamber at the shockingly late hour of nine PM and immediately fell into a dreamless sleep only to be awoken by the annoyingly noisy growing of the neighbors Daffodils.

When you think of daffodils you might not immediately think "Noisy Buggers" like I do, and I agree. Normally, roses and fields of clover are the top noise makers, but the neighbors Daffodils are quite different from normal.

"sunsunsunsun" the scream as they push up from the ground. "Lightgloriouslight!"they shriek.

I would rather awaken to the sound of a vampire trying to bite into a 54,000 volt transformer than the sound of thesedaffodils basking in the sunlight!

I decided that horrible Sunny Saturday that today was the last time I would be so rudely jarred awake by the unfurling of petals eager to dry the nights dew. This was it.

That Sunny Saturday morning, my neighbors awoke to the sound of their daffodils screaming "bladesharpbladerun!ohno!rootsarenotlegs!aghhhhhh!!" as I sliced their cheerful yellow heads off one by one with my shiny blue lawn mower.

Labels: Fiction, fooling around, I'm Important Too, Short Story

Don't forget to get your entry into the fist of what will be monthly contests here at Where Was I?!

All you have to do is write a short post linking Where was I and then comment on this post with your URL!

Pretty darn simple!

The prize is your choice of a new PS2 game ( hitman) or thirty p[aypal dollars, or as a last resort, my middle child who chose to go into the kindergarten bathroom, shut off the water, take apart the sink, unclog the clog that was waiting for the janitor, put it all back together again , turn the water back on and then tell the teacher "nevermind the janitor I am faster"

Sigh.

- Dell 926 All-In-One printer

- Got My New Dell Printer

- Mail Call (mine)

- The Dell Printer Review: Paying it Forward

- Dell Photo All-In-One Printer - a writer's review of the 926 printer

- Beast of a Printer - The Dell Photo 926

Now. If you go over to the PPP boards, and log in, you can vote for you think is the best one!


**this post is up at Paint! as well ***

Labels: contest

A few weeks ago I did a post reviewing the search engine Ask.Com for PPP ( its pretty cool, make sure you try out the map features!)

My post about Ask.Com was chosen as one of the finalists in the PPP Blog Battle Royale II and I won a Dell Printer/Scanner. As part of the contest we had to write up a post about the Printer, and today, all the posts are going up shortly over at PPP.

I feel really good about m review post for the Printer becuase I had a lot of fun trying out all the cool things it can do and writing it up. Plus it made my Husband Laugh out loud, and since I generally try for teh funneh I feel that I achieved my goal.

Be sure to click here and see my review post, and if you are a member of the PPP team, I will edit this with a list of all the posties who also reviewed their Dell Printers. Read them all and vote for the best!

Labels: emotional, excitement, I'm Important Too

Earlier in the week I was shocked by an unexpected duty charge for something I got in the mail. It really threw me becuase we budget religiously.

S'ok though, it all evened out in the end when I got the mail after picking up the kids at school today. I had ordered something, I will not say what, but if you read my other blog, BPR, you will know already(lol)

anyway the item I had ordered came to almost seventy dollars, and since I had read that over fort dollars you are charged duty fees I was expecting to have to pay one, and therefore was expecting hte doorbell to ring an moment with an UPS guy at the other side wanting money.

So I went to the mail box and was shuffling through the bills and flyers when I found a parcel pick up tag. It was the item I had ordered AND there were no duty fees!

WOOOHOOO!

Labels: good news, I'm Important Too, money, surprise

On fridays our TV shows two old horror movies. Its a great idea, but they seem to only show either really bad ones or they rotate between twenty different moves. Since they play two every Friday night, that means chances are good that every six to eight weeks I will end up having to "watch"a re run

I say watch, but it is really listen. I generally sit on my butt playing with the computer listening while the husband scarfs down popcorn with glazed eyes staring in the general direction of the television.

I've never been a real big TV fan. This is not to say I do not like TV, it;s just that it doesn't hold my attention unless it is something I really like. I don't really like sitcoms, unless it is an ongoing story line, but at the same time I am head over heals in love with the cartoon Family Guy.

Truth be told, I would rather sit in a bubble bath with a book than on the couch with a TV.

Labels: I'm Important Too

I find that most of the wonderful things I find online are becuase I have been random link hopping. I found one such keeper last night. It is called lolsecretz.

Its a cross between I can has cheeseburger and post secret.

SOme of the entries, such as the chewed and bloody rabbit foot, are very sad/creepy, but a good 98% of them make me giggle, think or fall off my chair in a puddle of pee.

In the about me section of the lolsecretz blog, the author of the blog sums it up way better than I ever could

Lolsecretz is the meeting of two of the internet's most famous memes– PostSecret (the blog where people anonymously confess their deepest darkest secrets) crossed with Lolcat Macros (the phenomenon where people ascribe poorly spelled human emotions to animals). Enjoy!

If you have been to either Post secret or icanhascheeseburger before and liked it, I really, REALLY recommend this site!

Labels: Linky Love