Insane Random Ramblings

At least it’s funny to me. I wear one of those big shirts/jackets every day at work. I’m always cold and no matter how many muscle supplements or vitamins I take, it doesn’t help. Yesterday was freezing in the office. It was at least 10 degrees cooler than outside so I threw my jacket across my shoulders like a shawl like I always do.

I walked around like that for over an hour before a coworker asked me if I realized that it was inside out! It was funny too because I was serious about being cold and trying to straighten the jacket out. Then I kept wondering why it was still crooked across my back. Well no wonder!

Needless to say, my coworkers and I got a pretty good chuckle about that. And I’ll be sure to check more carefully before I throw the jacket on.

It’s ironic that I decided to wear green today. When I first got to work, one of my coworkers pointed out that we both had on green and I still didn’t get it. It wasn’t until another coworker pointed out that none of the people in the office of Irish decent were wearing green that the light bulb went off.

Today is the one day it’s cool to be dressed in green from head to toe and drink green beer (if you drink beer). You can also find corn beef and cabbage at almost every restaurant you visit. Most people won’t worry about finding a cure for hair loss today. Now tomorrow when that hangover wears off, it’s another story.

But today we party and have fun. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

You know like McDonald’s and Subway games. This time it was the game at Rite Aid where you save the pieces to get prizes. Of course I kept getting the same game pieces. However this time, unlike the last few times, I really only went to the store if the item I wanted was on sale and I really needed it. No more reading a thermotox review and then going and buying it on the spur of the moment. The game lasts for one more week but I’m done with it. If I happen to go in there to buy something fine, but I won’t go out of my way.

Now I just have to apply that logic to the rest of those games that I never win.

Well not really patiently. I’m almost stalking the mailman every day trying to see if I got a letter with my money. I’m still not sure whether I’m getting a gift card or a check for the amount. It doesn’t matter either way just as long as it comes. If it were a life insurance check I’m sure I would have had it weeks ago. They usually don’t play when it comes to getting you your cash.

Hopefully I’ll have some good news by the end of the week. If I have to wait over the weekend I’ll probably go crazy.

I’m totally obsessed with eBay right now. Everything in my house that I can possibly sell is getting sold. I’ve already sold 7 things and I still have 3 things that I’m selling right now. 2 of those items will definitely sell but I’m not sure about the 3rd item. I’ll probably just relist that item and run it for a longer time frame. If I win a trip to Florida or anywhere else I’ll be sure to keep that. Otherwise everything else gets listed and sold, hopefully for a nice profit.

Now I just have to figure out what to do with the extra money that I’ll make.

No I don’t plan on providing a day-by-day account of the gift cards on sale. But since today is the first day of their blowout deal I figured I would post about it.

Today’s deal is a $10 Barnes & Noble gift card for 99 swagbucks instead of the normal 125. That’s a savings of 26 swagbucks to spend on something else. I’m not much of a book person but that’s a pretty good deal.

I plan on saving my points for a Southwest or Amazon giftcard. I guess I’ll be stalking the site for the next few weeks.

I love Swagbucks. They’re a search engine that makes searching the internet fun. They give away what they call “Swagbucks” on random searches. Then you save the bucks and turn them in for neat prizes. Starting Black Friday and lasting until January 1st, they’re going to blow out a different gift card every day.

You can even get the same gift card on different days for a different blow out price. So you may get Amazon one day for 25% off then the next week it may be 40% off of the regular price. Now when I say price, I mean swagbucks price because you don’t pay for them.

I really want the SouthWest gift card to go half off so I can get a discount on my next trip. But I surely won’t turn down a discounted Amazon gift card, I can get  a WII fit or a collectible gold coin. They’re both things that I want and have been saving for but to get them with a free gift card is even better.

I can’t wait to see what gift cards will be available.

And I have so many sites to choose from. I love Bejeweled on almost any site that I can find it on. Then I play on PopCap and Pogo whenever I can. My computer sticks and freezes a lot so I have trouble sometimes but when it works, man do I get in the zone. I can literally sit and play some games for hours at a time. That doesn’t even include the sites where I can win prizes for playing. It’s a done deal once I get to those places. I’ll play for free gift cards, a rackmount for my car or anything else that they happen to be giving away. Of course, I have to love the game to play it. I really don’t play just for the prizes although they are a great incentive.

As a matter of fact, I’m off to play now!

Wow. We thought there were only 250,000 people at the parade. Turns out there were over 350,000. That’s a lot o’ people. No wonder I had such trouble getting out of town yesterday.

I didn’t even get to see the parade. : < (

Here’s something fun:

7,301,540

How much money will you be worth?

There are 15 questions. Some of them are pretty weird. I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t save the dog. lolol. Take the test for yourself.