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What's goin' on, today...
it's the closest I can get to a Blog! And now, Archived
Ailsa... see what I was thinking years
ago! lol!
Okay, I finally DID
start a Blog -- http://buildyourownhousebodylife.blogspot.com/
, which my lovely daughter, Cara,
showed me how to set my blog a while ago, so I have about 70 pages on there,
as compared with about (and I'm just guessing...) a gazillion pages
on here, my main website...and there are a LOT more pictures of me on my blog...easier
to post them on the blog, for me...but you can pop in to see what you think,
leave me a message, maybe make your very own blog, then I'll come visit you,
too!! We'll be friends!! hahaha!
Okay, one day I will figure out how to get a new picture
on here of myself... a much slimmer, blonder Me! lol!
Until then, I have finally made it onto Facebook, and as soon as I figure out
how to set up my new Router, I will be able to 'chat' with you on Facebook --
won't that be fun? There's one lonely picture of me taken last week, when my
lovely daughter, Cara, and I went to a fantastic Sunday Brunch in Marina del
Rey, which I love (Brunch and the Marina!) Soon we'll
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Monday, March 3rd, 2014.... What?? Was the last
time I was on this page really that long ago? About the time I
finally figured out how to write a blog?? hahaha! Sorry about that, Folks!
lol! I guess I've been a little busy, with sooo many changes in my life, and
whatnot...plus, the Blog
is soo easy to do, I suppose I was drawn to that, first... well. hmmm. So, we're
out in Victoria, BC, Canada, now, and it's very pretty. It's a slower pace of
life than we're used to, but I think I can adjust to that... they seem to want
you to 'write letters', and actually put them in an envelop and mail the damn
things, out here - archaic, much? hahaha! I have no idea why it's like that.
And they refer to email as 'electronic mail' - hahahaha! Just say email, get
it over with, what with it being 2014, 'n all....and you are told on their websites,
to call this number... no email address - if an email address is supplied, you
will get a message that 'we don't accept email, please call us between 9 - 4...
holy schmokes, batman, is it 1972, again?? So, that has been a big adjustment
for me, since I like to do as much as I can online, on, what some might call,
The Internet Highway. Is always shocking to me when major companies (BC Hydro,
I'm talkin' to you! lol!) do not partake in technology at it's finest - the
internet, not the old home phone! hahaha! Ah, well. The weather more than makes
up for my technological frustrations, and it is stunningly beautiful, here,
soooo, hopefully I'll be able to feel settled enough, here, as soon as possible,
to find a nice piece of land (come on, now, were you thinking of a different
word, there?? haha1 Me, too! lol!), start to build another lovely new home.
That's always my Big Plan! lol!
Oooh, and it's my Birthday on Friday - so I'm super-excited about
that, but I would like to stop my brain from going over every single year, mostly
in the middle of the night! lol! Birthdays, they bring stuff up, that's for
sure! I hope all is well with you, and you are having a great day! And a great
year!! Hugs from Afar, unless you also live in Victoria, BC! lol! Ailsa
xox
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Saturday, December 15th,
2012... how many more days 'til the Mayan countdown?? Aargh! Is taking
up too much of my thoughts.. and making it okay in me own mind to go ahead and
have how ever many chocolates I want! Although, truth be told, that's pretty
much how I live my life - I just have whatever I want, balance it all out with
oatmeal in the form of my favourite Scottish porridge and my fave Apple Crumble
for One.. the easy one, I canny be bothered making the fancy one, any more...
I'll link you to both in a minute... but on with what's driving me crazy, today...
I can't get my home page to load properly... is sooo frustrating! I just went
in to see the code view, and there's a bunch of stuff on there I didn't realize
was there - hmmmm. The giant problem is that I don't know what is supposed to
be there (especially the hidden stuff), and what should not be there, and what
shouldn't be there at all, but I DO know that my page should load properly,
and I am soo frustrated by it. Aaargh!! Any ideas?? Hmmm, this is when I wish
I had a much bigger brain, full of all sorts of computer wisdom!! Would be great...
must find a webmaster! Okay, I'm going back in to see if I can solve the problemo...
wish me luck!! I'll be back in as soon as I've fixed my annoying problem! Hugs!
Ailsa
xox
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Saturday, October 13th, 2012... Hello,
Baby!! Man, has it ever been a long time since I've been able to get into my
main site (this one! lol! www.buildyourownhouse.ca)... long story short, I had
to leave America (boooo! I loved it, there!), but my Work Visa wasn't renewed,
much to my chagrin (really, I was a Permanent Teacher, so it is still shocking
to me how the whole thing went down, but when the unemployment rate is so high
in the US, it's very difficult to feel like it's okay to really argue the point,
but it was very hurtful on so many levels, and I still own my condo in LA --
I'll be happy to sell it if I can get anywhere around $400,000 for it, then
at least I won't lose any money on it, but at that amount, I won't make any
money on it, either, because, of course, you know me (!), I'm a renovation girl,
so I went in and immediately did over $30,000 in reno on the condo, so it looks
gorgeous! Anyway, I was in a total state of shock when I found out I really
had to leave America, and had to cross the border back to Canada on August 31st,
2011... I had no idea what to do, so I ended up making a bee-line (B-line??
whatever! lol!) back to my hometown, Belleville, Ontario, Canada, which
I thought was a really good idea, because I knew so many people there, having
grown up in the area, but it was impossible to get a teaching position there,
even with all my contacts... and then.duh da duh... I was visciously attacked
in front of the Court House in Belleville - by my horrible neighbour, a female.
Filthy thing that she was - what a monster. So the police were involved, they
did virtually nothing - we weren't safe at all. What a joke. Was ridiculous.
So I started researching jobs in Canada, specifically Teaching Positions in
Special Education, and that led us out to Victoria, BC, Canada, where they have
much better programs for people with Special Needs, and that's really important
to me. So now I am waiting for my BC Teaching Certificate to be processed (is
taking a ludicrous amount of time), but there are other opportunities out here
in BC, so I'm really glad this is where we've landed. I would still love to
go 'home' to California (literally, my home is there!), but it's a matter of
getting another Work Visa, and an employer willing to do that... that's the
tricky part!
So, here's the deal with my
computer, my desktop computer.. when I got to Belleville, the company I chose,
unfortuneately, because they turned out to be hoooorible, I hate them, the bashtards
(they charged me over $450 just to stop their service, because we were leaving
Ontario, and they aren't Canada-wide, like I would've have known that (?!),
or known that I would be attacked (!)... ugh. so I HATE
Cogeco - do NOT use them, choose any other service provider,
but never choose Cogeco, the losers. I've gotta write to the BBB (Better Business
Bureau), to see if that was legal, that ludicrous bill just to end my services
($463!! That's insane...). Anyway, and I digress (!), those idiots were never
even able to hook my desktop computer up, only the laptop. I was sure it would
eventually sort itself out, but that was not to be. So then we moved out here
to Victoria, and I had to get the desktop fixed, completely -- a really good
company in Victoria, BC, Mother
Computers - Chris Kasztner was the very lovely fellow who helped me, and
at no point did he speak down to me - a real problem, as a lot of people have
experienced this, with getting things fixed, like cars or computers... anyway,
Chris was great, and he completely fixed my desktop so now I'm finally back
on my site!! Yahoo!!! I just fixed my Home Page, which had some BIG problem,
so some Search Engines couldn't seem to open the Home Page, so that was really
disconcerting for me, but I just went in and fixed that, so hopefully I'll be
back to normal in no time!
Then I had a very nice email
from an Affiliate Partner of mine, Megan, and she had said that if I posted
my new
Cardstore.com page I did on my new blog, http://buildyourownhousebodylife.blogspot.com,
she would Retweet it for me on Twitter, sooo, that's what it finally took for
me to open a Twitter Account, and I'm so glad I did! Twitter is fun! Who knew??
12 million other people knew, you say?? hahaha! Well, I'm a little slow off
the mark, but I'm there, now, so I'll find tha Twitter button thing for you
to come in and Follow Me, and I'll Follow You Back.... and THEN, I found this
amazing program on Twitter, an Twitter
Automatic Follow Back feature, and to make yet another longish
story slightly shorter, I have developed a really nice little friendship with
the owner of that program, Mike - what a great guy! I want him to make a zillion
dollars with it, it's soo brilliant! Really, he must have a brain the size of
watermelon!! lol! Imagione being that smart!! lol! Is the sort of thing that
really impresses me! So you can check that out on blog, http://buildyourownhousebodylife.blogspot.com.
I'll go get the direct link for you, so you can do it in one step... TWITTER
Auto Follow-Back. I'm excited about my new Twitter Account - I'm
@AilsaForshaw... I'll go see if I can find that button I saw
somewhere, where you can connect straight to TWITTER.
Okay, so that sort
of brings you up to date on what's happening with me : ) Let me know what's
happening with you! Now that I'm back on here, maybe I could set up a new page
where we can share our Building Stories - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and
all the great phots along the road to your new home, or your newly renovated
house... or whatever else you might like to share! It's great to be back!! Yahooo!!
See you sooo much sooner than the last time!! Oh, and if you haven't
been on my blog, http://buildyourownhousebodylife.blogspot.com,
pop in to see all the other developments - it was easy to get into my
blog to work on that! lol! Ailsa
: ) xox!!
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If you are on TWITTER, you'll like this new Twitter
Auto Follow Back program - it's FREE, but I got a one time only
payment of $5, and that automatically Follows Back for me - is fantastic!
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