Little Ladybug

Photo borrowed from botos.com

Little ladybug on my window, you really need to find some food and hurry back into hibernation! Our local weatherman is calling for a huge cold-front Friday night.

I understand you'll be fine, but still...

Well, the NOAA has said our area has a 50% chance of wintry weather.

Yes, I know that's not possible here in SC, my dear, but why chance it?

OK, you take care now, and be careful.

Oh, and Merry Christmas : )

Freelance Editing/Proofreading

I have started editing what people write, from simple blogs to full-blown books. I take the content they’ve written, polish and edit it, then email or mail it back.

This includes blogs, books, journals, classroom materials, manuals, transcriptions, brochures, flyers, screenplays, research papers, and news articles.

If you need this service, email me at MissSlickOne@aol.com with "Editing" in the Subject Line. Tell me what you need edited, how many words there are in your blog (use www.wordcounttool.com for your online needs) material or book, and I will get back to you with a quote.

With simple things like a short blog, I can be done within a day, depending.

Books take about 3-10 days, depending.

(Please do not comment here asking how much I charge, because it depends on what you need done and how long it is. As I stated, please email me with the info.)

I've also gotten exited about getting back into freelance writing. I've been away from it too long... It's all on paper but hope to transfer it to my blog someday soon...

I've been writing books since I was a teen but never finished them, nor talked to anyone about them. I am looking forward to finishing that project as well someday!

"School-less"? : )

That's the word that popped into my head just now while trying to figure out what I was going to write about today - this first day of the holiday season for the kids here in SC : ) YAY! So starts a new couple of weeks, to refreshen, and relax!

My son & I 'celebrated' Saturday by going to his papa's place of work for a few hours. He manages a billiards room, and Zach plays for free against his papa when he visits. He has a blast. I hadn't played in years, and it felt good to 'get back on the table' again. I miss it. Then we had supper with my oldest, bestest friend. She was visiting from NC.

So now it's a time for newness, freshness.

We have the cold weather coming in making the plants go dormant;

We have a good bit of rain refreshing the trees and ponds;

We have berries popping out on bushes for the birds.

New things. Things we haven't seen since last Winter.

I pulled the artificial tree in from the porch last night. Something new in the house. The cats are confused. As they circled it, I had a spray bottle of water in my hands. Cat owners know why ; )

Today I will go through my old ornies and my new ones I received from friends this year in ornament exchanges. New and old mixing. Making a new-looking tree.

I will start cleaning certain areas of the house to welcome my guests on Christmas evening. I'll make some new recipes but mostly old, treasured ones.

Tonight will be a Lunar Eclipse, viewable from all places within the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon. For us Easterners, it will begin at approx. 1:15 am and end around 5:30 am. The old moon closes out, a new one begins. Not really, but it will seem that way; like turning a page of a book, we will turn to a new morning.

Have a beautiful day!

Review for "Jungle Warfare: A Basic Field Manual for Christians in Sales" by Christopher A. Cunningham

"A 22 day power-packed battle plan"

I joined Booksneeze last month and ordered this book (free of charge) in exchange for doing a review on it. It's the only book they had available at the time but I was eager to get started and I love any Christian-based book I can get my learning-little hands on. (Always learning, never-ending!)

Mr. Cunningham uses the field manual his grandfather had from the U. S. Army, and combines its messages with the ways to be a Christian sales person.

Even as a home-based sales person, this helped me. I've been in sales all my life, from behind a counter, to selling housewares in a department store, to direct sales like Avon. You are always selling something, or trying to add something to the sale to make it bigger.

This book will make it bigger. And I don't mean with the ends being money. I'm talking about your mindset, your soul, your heart.

Are you always striving to be a better person yet the pressure of being better in sales keeps you in the wrong mindset? Using your head over your heart? Then this field manual is for you!

It starts every day with a story, a verse, reviewing your battle plan for the day, offering a prayer, recording your thoughts, and writing down your own prayer requests. You can read it at night if need be, but it works better to get your in the frame of mind you need to be, if you read it in the morning. Use it right alongside the Bible and you are set!

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255

Almost Done

I have another week in the book I am reviewing for BookSneeze and then I will post my review here this weekend... maybe Monday. My weekends tend to be busier than I expect, especially in December with all the 'parties'.

Until the wknd...

Sweet and Savory Crockpot Pot Roast - borrowed from A Year of Slow Cooking

Sweet and Savory CrockPot Pot Roast Recipe

The Ingredients.

serves 6

4 pounds beef rump or chuck roast

2 onions, sliced in rings

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

1 cup ketchup (I bought the Organic. the marketing worked!)

2 cups beef broth

2 cups baby carrots (optional--I've made this with or without.)

The Directions.

Use a 6-quart slow cooker. Put the roast into the bottom of your pot, and add onion slices, separated into rings. Pour in brown sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Toss in carrots (if using). Pour broth evenly over the top. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, or until the meat has reached desired tenderness.

If you find your meat isn't quite as tender as you'd like prior to serving, remove it from the pot, cut it into a few pieces, then return to the crock, and cook on high for about an hour. Tough and/or dry meat isn't from over slow cooking--it's from under slow cooking!

Serve over mashed potatoes. I made these---and the kids gobbled it all up.

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Pre-Review for Booksneeze

I am loving this book I'm going to review for them. It's a Christian salespersons field manual! How cool is that? It takes you through a 22-day training which is why it's taking me a little longer than usual to read. I was reading two-days in one night so I could get the review done, but I got a little thrown-off, so I try not to always do it. I want it to help me too, you know! I am a Christian and I am in sales (Avon and everything else I do in life)!

You will really enjoy this book.

Back in approx. a week with the review!