I have always wanted to write a novel, but when I site down to write it, my thoughts go faster then my hands and I miss all the good stuff. It’s very annoying and I usually give up after a while, but I have decided that maybe I will try again after takeing Dragon’s typing speed test! This test proved to me that I can really use this product to write a novel, in fact I’m thinking of using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for NaNoWrimo or National Blog Writing Month where you write a novel in one month. I don’t think I could do it on my own, but if I use the Dragon program I may have a chance and actually do something I have been wanting to do since I was a freshmen in high school.

This program is great but it does cost money and I always spend time researching a product before I buy it. I have been looking at Dragon Reviews to get an idea of what others think about it and so far I have to say it all looks great. This would really be useful for me anyway even after trying to write that novel so it would be a great investment that I could use for more projects, like blogging and school papers. This would really save me some time and I would be able to spend more time on my design projects and looking for a job for when I graduate. If your interested you can also take the test I took and then pick up your copy. I’m planning on getting the one for a PC as that is what I have, but they also have a Mac version for those of you who have one of those.

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Do you like to talk? I know I do and I tend to put things together better when I speak them then when I write them out. When it comes to blogging though you have to be able to write well and type fast right? Maybe now you don’t have to, you could check out this new program called Dragon Naturally Speaking I love the idea of this program as I could have a huge use for this. I think for what I need I would just have to get Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard. I sometimes am stuck sitting in my car when I’m doing audits. There is not a lot of room for me to pull out my computer and type up anything, If I had this program I could easily get blog post done or papers done for school without having to wait until I had more space. I also have to exercise a lot as I’m diabetic and trying to lose weight, I could easily get on the treadmill, walk and get my blog post done without having to worry about having the time to do them.

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Preferred is a great program because it allows you to type faster then most people can by allowing you to talk, but it also starts to recognize your voice instantly allowing background noise to disappear. This is also offered in the standard version, but with the preferred you also are able to use another device when away from your PC and you can create shortcuts to help your work move faster. If you are interested in learning more you can check out NYT on Dragon a revew done by David Pogue.

I could possibly use the preferred version at a job after I graduate so it will be a product I keep in mind and will probably invest in before graduation. Anything that will help me to complete task faster and easier will really help me to succeed in both blogging and interior design.

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All I ask is that I have enough money for gas to get to school and food, right now that is apparently too much to ask. I have made $150 so far for next month, that might get me to school for 2 weeks including food while I’m getting there. Pretty much as of right now I get to starve at home. I may get lucky and make more, but at this point I’m not counting on it. Pretty much what I’m going to end up doing is buying really cheap junk food and hoping I don’t gain weight. We are talking chocolate bars and mac and cheese. Things that are high in carbs, but bad on calories. It sucks having to have a set number of carbs, I don’t have a choice to just eat less.

The bad part is we just had a new store open in our area, a clothing store that we really did not need. What I hate is that now instead of maybe getting a job I cant because they just brought people from other stores to this one and because they opened the other stores are not hiring. We already were bad here, Michigan’s unemployment rate is 8.9% Now keep in mind that people like me who are not collecting unemployment because we were not full time, were students or they have not worked at all because of the lack of jobs. It’s horrible and really I don’t think there is an end to this if we continue on this track where we worry more about other countries and not our own. I also think that this bailout needs to have something to do with the little people and I don’t think that these CEO’s of these companies should see any money this year, personally they drove their companies into the ground they need to know what it’s like to have no cash, cut their pay completely and then help them, I don’t think as a tax payer that I should pay for their 5 homes and 3 wife’s and 5 mistresses and 10 kids, their cars, their jets and their country club memberships. You know that is what will happen.

At this point I’m starting to think a depression may just be the thing we need to get rid of these idiots who have made the rest of us have to live beyond our means and now we are the once suffering. Maybe they need to be reminded or learn what it’s like to worry about having food for the next week or what it’s like to not have food for the next week.

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Today I went shopping at a local clothing store and usually they have very good customer service, today it was not as great, unless you were over 50. A new clothing store opened just 2 stores down from this one and they were worried more about what their sales were then helping their customers, unless you were older and they saw you come out of the other store, yes they had someone watching. I had a coupon for this store or I may have gone to the other one after being ignored for 20 minutes waiting for a fitting room.

I have been a customer there since I was in high school and a few of them even know me by name, these women were not working, well one was, but she was the other store lookout so she was outside. I understand they are worried about this store with times being the way they are, but wouldn’t you worry more about the customers you have and not the ones they have?

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Once again I have issues with UPS, when I was a teen we couldn’t have anything shipped ups because you had to have a PO box in my town, the post office didn’t register anything but the PO box as your address. It was not fun and my whole family hated it.

Now I have used them again and they can’t find an address yet again. So now a perishable food item that should have been delivered today will not get there until tomorrow and it will more then likely be a huge globby mess. The worst part is all you can do is call them, but they can’t do anything because the truck is back. Frankly I think someone needs to sue them for being stupid.

I’d love a refund, but the company I bought the item from is not really at fault. It’s UPS. So now I’m out $50 because they can’t figure out a map.

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I got an email from a paid to blog site I have started using and I couldn’t believe what I read for this one opportunity. They were only paying $2 of which you get a percentage and wanted only PR 2 Blogs and above on their own domain. Seriously they are either going to get junk or no one, but these are the advertisers that think Page Rank actually means something. The ones that would rather see their pr increase instead of their traffic and sales. See everyone says Google has issues with paid links. But they don’t, they have an issues with do follow paid links. I know this, this blog is proof that they don’t like it. I was a pr 2. Now I’m a pr 0. I don’t care I keep going. I’m finding the PR requirements to be very annoying as PR does not show the worth of a blog. If it did big advertisers would pay much more attention to that then to what traffic a blog gets and how many readers they have.

Anyway here is my question if you had a pr 2 blog, did paid posting and paid to host your own blog would you do a 3 link 200 word opp for about a dollar. I know I wouldn’t.

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Right now my whole income comes from the internet and mystery shopping. Most of it is from the internet as it just cost too much in gas to do the mystery shopping on a daily basis so I tend to hold out for the big jobs.

The other day someone told me that I don’t make enough from home and that I should find a real job. I told them that I have been looking for a real job, for over 2 years. I’m over qualified and all that fun stuff. They pretty much told me that I was lazy and stupid. This morning I decided to look back at what I made when I worked at Walmartand compare it to what I make now. You want to know something interesting. I make more now then I did working at Walmart.I don’t have to pay to eat out for lunch. I don’t have to pay for gas and I can work around my schedule. I figure since that might be the only type of job I could get right now I’m doing really well. Since I make more then I did why would I want to quit what I’m doing and go back to working for someone else?

I’m sure other people who work from home, but don’t make thousands a month get this too. I guess people just don’t get it. Maybe I’m just not a greedy as they are. Maybe I am and that’s why I’m not going to quit doing the online thing, the potential to make a lot of money is here, I just have to find what works for me.

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