But I have been staying busy w/ Chegg Tutoring, selling on eBay and looking for a better job. I've even been so busy, I cannot finish the last installment of the cheerleading saga that I wrote on this blog!
Everything takes time to do. There's a place that has caused a stir in Oak Forest due to its controversial nature. I might work there, but don't want to discuss just yet.
If I take a job there, you'll find out.
One of the things I often eat in the morning is oatmeal with brown sugar and fruit. Get the water very hot, add the brown sugar, use regular oatmeal and then I add either cut up apples, grapes (if my son, Ted, suggests and is w/ me at grocery store) or strawberries. Apples are in season, now, so the picture above has apples in it.
This looks a little messed up. What happens is in that I make the mistake of making too much oatmeal. There have been times, on Saturday for example, I would make it, eat it, but then it would take until NOON TO FINISH eating it, b/c I would be doing all these other activities: answering emails, reading and sending emails, reviewing or writing on Facebook, tutoring a student on Chegg, dealing with the pool problem at TMA or talking on the phone.
The problem is that you have oatmeal in your bowl for several hours. That's not good b/c it gets cold and your bowl is harder to clean. I'm all for doing dishes quickly since we haven't had a dishwasher since about 1999 (drainage issue).
So, I came up with a solution Monday. Taking 3 hours to eat a huge portion of oatmeal is good for my diet (I skip lunch and lose weight, I've lost almost 10 pounds) but it's a shabby thing to have in the condo unit. So, Monday, I said, "no more!!"
I put a medium portion of Saran wrap on my kitchen counter.
I dumped the remainder of the oatmeal I ate after about a 1/2 hour, 45 min. & voila(!). I had a leftover for later. I ate it this afternoon.
I love working for Chegg Tutoring! I have tutored English and Government/political science. I've advertised on my profile that I can also teach: psychology, sociology, math and history. I minored in history when I graduated from UW-La Crosse. I loved the 2 writing assignments I have received. The first time was talking to a student who is going to college in Michigan. I tutored her to write a marketing campaign for selling a food product at a grocery store. I loved it! I loved the camaraderie with the student, learning a bit more about him or her, solving the problem together and of course, GETTING PAID.
It pays a lot more than when I wrote at Law Bloggers last year. I loved writing legal articles, but I became the victim of my own success. Law Bloggers put me in touch with attorney D. Tyler Roberts. He's a very good lawyer working from his office in Lexington, Kentucky.
I wrote about Kentucky laws when using guns (if you can use a gun in another state, it's very easy to use the same gun in Kentucky), probate laws, and I wrote about the awful shape of nursing homes in that state and investigated on 1 of the most severe fines Medicare levied. The nursing home in Kentucky had an outbreak of scabies. I also wrote about federal gun laws, gun trusts, estates, car and boat accidents (a fatal boat accident on the Ohio River just after 4th of July; it killed 5 people) and an interesting dog bite case in Kentucky.
The blogs that I wrote were on his website; they covered many of his areas of legal practice; they had the desired effect of more clients, and he didn't need anymore blogs from me.
