Itty Bitty Hooves

More Gifts For The Guy Who Is Going To Have Everything

Oh now here’s something that I know my husband will love for a gift. Anyone who loves to play around with power tools like he does would have to love these Ingersoll Rand air tools. I’m going to go broke by Christmas just on stuff for him. He deserves it though, he’s been putting so much of his money into everything for me. He knows how much I hate winter because of freezing water so he got new stock tanks for all the animals, and heaters to go in them all!!! Now the only problem is they take so much wattage that we keep blowing fuses. That’s kind of crazy really, such little things taking so much electricity.

Christmas Coming Up Fast

I’ve been going over my Christmas gift list and The Time Zone has some wonderful raymond weil watches I think would make great presents for a couple of folks on there. My husband always needs a new watch. He’s constantly banging his on the doors of the ambulance, or the stretcher and busting the crystal, but he NEEDS a good, accurate watch, and my daughter loves beautiful watches.

I never end up getting all my shopping done before Thanksgiving which I say EVERY year, i’m going to do ‘next year’. I sure which I would for a change because it would make these last few weeks before Christmas much less hectic, and I’d be able to actually relax and enjoy the holidays.

Money Managment

With the end of the year coming up, the thoughts of money managment, and tax reporting, and all the wonderful issues that surround folks that have homesteads and all the bills and fees related to it come into play. All of that gets compounded ten-fold when there is more than one business involved. I have two. The farm, and my writing. I have my standard checking account, and a regular savings account for personal use, but then I have a business account for the farm, and an online income account that I can use a debit card, or transfer money from directly into one of my other accounts from where I get paid online. Just adding up all the fees from that is a major headache worthy of Tylenol. Then of course there are all the little slips of paper to be tallied. The receipts from the year. Most of them are for the farm expenses side of the business. Boy there are a lot of those little buggers to deal with. The holiday season is just about here, but it gets overshadowed by the gnawing pain of knowing that after that–the tax man cometh, and you’d better be ready. I am never ready. Not until the seventh hour. I spend the last day right before my appointment with our tax preparer gathering up piles of receipts and plugging them into the accounting program. Every year I say–next year I’m going to do this as each one comes in. That way at the end all I have to do is print out the spread sheet and get in the car to go to the appointment. Every year I keep shoving those reciepts into the envelope that I use to gather all those glorious little tax free slips into, and let them sit until the day before… maybe if I just start now, at least I’ll be able to get it done before the to leave for the appointment.

What To Do With The Past?

It seems like everytime I think about buying a new piece of electronic equipment, especially TV’s that I have to also think about the furniture involved in such a purchase. I really would like one of those new, big plasma flat screens, but what would I do with the huge elephant of an entertainment center that I currenly have housing my cute ‘little’ 32″ big TV? I get attached to my furniture which makes it harder to just say ‘toss it’. It’s not like it’s good for much else. I have a whole bunch of tv stands that I’ve kept over the years and now do duty in other capacities other than holding TV’s, (although some still do), but that big entertainment center just isn’t really suited for anything BUT holding a TV and it’s components. What I’d like to replace it with is one of those wall mounts for the flat screens. The kind that swivels and yet still allows for complete floor space use because it’s up on a wall like a picture.

Sigh.

Re-decorating never ends.

OMG I WANT this!

I use strength equipment every other day in my exercise workout routine. Right now my training equipment consists of a bench that is actually part of another piece of equipment but works well enough for the weights I use, and a rag-tag bunch of mis-matched free-weights. Weider Fitness has some fantastic full-feature resistance training equipment that would give me the chance to get rid of all the slabs of metal that are laying around my workout room and replace it with a sleek piece of machinery that will do all of that for me and GREAT prices, and in some cases FREE SHIPPING! I want it, I want it… oh Santa, where are you?

Branch Out?

I like working from home, but I think I need to broaden my scope a bit. I’d like to learn how to develop a real estate franchise. With the market the way it is now, perhaps this would be the best time to actually get into that, but I really need to learn how. It’s trickier than my usual sit at a desk behind a computer screen and try to eek out a few dollars a day. Maybe if I got good enough at the real estate game I could afford one of those mega-mansions being built all over the place, even out here in the middle of nowhere.

It’s Coming!

Winter is coming with a vengence. Temperatures are threatening to dip below the freezing mark today, and I have no doubt they’ll stay there now for a long time to come. I’m grateful that I got all my outdoor water tanks set up with their de-icers and all, but truthfully I’m ready to take a vacation. Branson Missouri would be nice, but then, ANYWHERE south of the freeze line would be good with me. I would like to be wealthy enough to be able to move everything South for the winter. Just like a bird, although as I looked out my window yesterday morning I noticed that not all birds are smart enough to head South. There was a beautiful trio of blue jays. Huge ones. Big, bright blue birds playing around in my backyard. FOOLS… get flappin’ and head South! Don’t they know there’s a freeze on the way? I wish I’d been born with wings. I’d have been heading out and leaving their silly feathers behind.

Click Here

How often to you see the words ‘click here’? A lot now with the Internet it’s the most common form of new-age advertising, and it works! There’s a reason why it works though. Finding great things, stores, and opprotunities you might never have found on your own if it weren’t for the two little words click here really works for all parties involved. Even if its just a story regarding a post, click here, brings us into a new realm of wider understanding. Click here is the catch phrase of the techno-generation, and IT’S here to stay.

Stylish, and Affordable. You can’t beat that.

I’ve got tons of jewelry, but I sure can’t afford the top of the line designer jewelry that is so beautiful. I do love the designer inspired jewelry that I find. It is still classy and stylish, but a lot more affordable. For me, heck, I NEED affordable. I even like it when guys where jewelry. I think I was ahead of my time for the ‘bling’ generation. Now it’s not that unusual to see guys sporting flash, but back when I was in my twenties if you saw it, they were… well, not manly. But not now. And I think that’s cool.

Write Stuff??? Not at the moment

Ah the newsworthy writer’s strike in Hollywood. Most writers can identify with the plight of the screenwriter. There are similarities in all writing spheres… lots and lots of work, very, very little money. What makes me stand and support the Hollywood writers is that even though those of us in nowhere land who write, whether fiction, or not, or even journalistically, all suffer the larely underpaid status, we are most often ‘kings and queens’ of our own work. We certainly have the evils of dealing with editors and other little nasties, but in the end the credit is ours, even if the paycheck withers at the touch. Like in most forms of the entertainment industry, there are those making gazzillion dollars and looking like the life of glamour and excitment really exists for all of their ’species’, but in reality the larger of their peers live in near poverty to ’suffer for their art’… okay, so some of us don’t necessarily ’suffer’, we still po. In the end, we can still be proud of our names on the credit of the writing… not so in Hollywood, at least not necessarily. Everyone has a hand in the pie of creation in that realm from actor to director, and the writer is the dog at their feet who gets kicked in the teeth more often than credited for their hard work–and they get paid squat by relative terms. So, yes… in spite of staring bland re-runs and lack of inspiring television, or movie fare on the horizon, I stand with pride in defense of my brethren.