Making A little Extra Money From Blogging

There's a company that I signed up with a while back called Blogsvertise.. It's a company that pays you to blog about their clients' products.. The average payout is around $9.00 but I have also received in upwards of $50 - $100... The post is usually pretty easy to write. They give you many links that are very informative so that you can choose whether you want the task or not....

In the past month - I have turned down around 15 tasks.. Mostly because I am posting randomness and I don't want to be obligated to write a money producing post.. (call me crazy) at this time... but that doesn't mean that you might not want to... If you want to make some easy money with your blogging visit Blogsvertise

Another small way to make some extra cash is Adsense through google AND Amazon.com.. With Amazon - I earn gift cards... which is perfect for me - I love to read books through my Kindle app on my IPad.. Whenever anyone uses my Amazon link from my blog to visit Amazon and they purchase an item from Amazon - I receive a small commission.... It's that simple..

Having a Face Book page also helps drive traffic to your sites.. Would be great if you liked me on Face Book cuz I would love the traffic and of course I will return the favor!

And The Band Played On - Give Away

A Threat No One Dared Face
A Word No One Wanted To Speak
A Fight For Many, Fought by Few...

And the Band Played On is a movie that I had watched several years ago.. It's a movie about the beginning origins of the HIV and AIDS virus... The movie is full of incredible actors - Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Angelica Huston, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, and many many more.... I bought this movie recently "used" from Amazon.... I wanted my kids to know how far our society has come... I wanted my kids to understand how tragic this disease is... How scary it could be... And I wanted them to know that millions of people... innocent people... babies... and maybe someone they know or will know is infected with this horrible disease... I wanted my kids to learn compassion... understanding... and I believe this movie is an excellent learning tool to understand the human factor of AIDS.. It puts a face to it...

I was in college when HIV/AIDS hit the airways... No one really knew what it was.. What caused it... A fear started to surface... Because no one knew how it was transferred -The people inflicted with this disease were shunned... Kicked out of school, refused medical help, fired from their jobs, and the list goes on... A real panic took place.. I remember watching one news show where an inventor made a revolving toilet seat cover in hopes of protecting people from the virus... Every night on the news there was one story or another about some one with AIDS being refused their basic rights... It was an awful and scary time....

When it was discovered that the virus was transferred by blood and sex - that brought a huge wave a fear.. especially in the unmarried crowd.. People like me... In college.. Newly sexually active.. Our only concern was not to get pregnant... Now we feared for our lives.. In 1986 - I went to a HIV testing clinic... I remember talking to a counselor... Having my blood drawn... Getting a number to hold onto.. Going back the following week giving my number back... Talking to a counselor again.. And receiving my results... Negative.. It was a fearful time...

The video at the bottom is a video from the movie (Elton John) - it's a tear jerker

I am giving away my "Used" copy of And The Band Played On... In hopes that you will share it with others.... To Win this copy -


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Friday Blog Hop

Well this has been a super duper crazy week.....

Monday - both girls got braces...



Monday - my oldest started independent study - high school at home..

The rest of the week was spent passing out Motrin for the braces pain... Helping my eldest setup and adjust to a new way of doing school... Praying for my mom and her new battle with breast cancer.. Keeping up the house.. Keeping up with my job... and Making the meals (I am having my family "fast" from fast food for two months..)

This is one mom who is looking forward to the weekend.. so I can collapse...