Tuesday, October 25, 2011

#Halloween #HalloweenAtDisneyland - WooHooo!! Oooh, and the CANDY!! You're gonna love it! : > #Costumes #Disneyland


Happy Halloween! 

Halloween At Disneyland - Sooo Much Fun! And Candy!! : )
Captain Cook checking out my 'roses'! lol! That's what they say about Captain Hook - you know, he used to be very handsy, but now only half as much... buh'dum-bum!

Oh, my goodness, soo much crazy fun! Laugh your way through it, then go home and eat candy for weeks after - now that's a Happily Ever After I can get behind! hahaha!


Halloween at Disneyland is THE most fun thing we have ever done for Halloween!! We left about 3:30pm from Culver City to get down to Anaheim for around 4pm... we had heard there might be a bit of a line up, so we planned it so we would be close to the front of the line for when they started letting the 'Halloween Crowd' into the park.  Good planning, because, man, were there ever a lot of people, all dressed up in fantastic costumes... was so much fun just to see all those people... my favorite was a 6'5" guy, very manly looking, wearing a Raggedy Ann costume, and his wife was wearing Raggedy Andy -- now you know they must have a lot of laughs at home! lol!


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I was a Flower Fairy... anything to grant wishes to anyone who wants them! haha!  Dat my thing, granting wishes!!



It was soo much fun, though, doing the whole Disney Experience at Halloween... all the characters were out in full dress costume, so you could get your picture taken with them all... so much fun!

The whole Disneyland park is set up for Halloween, so very cool Halloween decorations everywhere, and then they started the 'Candy Stations'... for free (well, included in the price of your ticket! lol!), but was sooo much fun -- you get in a line up, and go from booth to booth, collecting all sorts of Halloween Candy... they had one side of each booth with 'healthy snacks' (raisins, dried cranberries, apple chips...all sorts of yummy things), and the other side of each Candy Station was my favorite side, they had the 'good candies'.... Ghiraldies Chocolates (soooo delicious!), then all sorts of treat size chocolate bars, jelly beans, gummies, you name it, it was great!  We left with massive amounts of candy!  I'm not sure how much cranberry raisin bread I made form all those packets of cranberries and raisins... oh, and I made a ton of trail mix, too, since I like to mix those little bags of cranberries and raisins in with mixed nuts and a few chocolate chips... yum! 




At the Disneyland Entrance!
We loved Halloween at Disneyland because you have lots of time when they first let you through the gates for the Halloween Celebration to go around the whole park, and go on lots of rides... my favorite ride is the little boat ride with the miniature Fairy Tale Villages... very cute!  I'm not sure why I love the boat ride the most, but I do!!

Ailsa (dat me!!) in the Princess Area -- think I belong here! lol!


Everyone's in a great mood, happy to chat with one another, and the parade is hilarious, as always, but with a nice Halloween twist...my lovely daughter, Cara, loved the Princess area, and we have some hilarious pictures of Cara with the Wicked Witch, since Cara was dressed as Snow White.... so funny! I've gotta find those pics for you! I'll post them as soon as I find them! lol!

Snow white Cara and her Nemesis, the Wicked Witch, who was hilarious!

Absolutely, Halloween at Disneyland is a great bang for your buck, too.  The cost is very reasonable, and you'll be creating Great Family Memories forever.. and if you're dating, man, what a great date that would be!! And we stayed until the park closed... was so much fun!! I'll have to go through my pictures on my other computer and put them up for you to see... but Halloween at Disneyland is definitely something I would put on my Bucket List, if it isn't on there, already... and Christmas at Disneyland, too!!  Clearly, we are big Disney Fans!!




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3 Princesses... 2 real, one pretend?? lol!

My little man, Aidan, with a GIANT Mickey Ghost!

Ailsa and Aidan, ready for some Disney Halloween Candy!

Ailsa and Cara, or Snow White and The Flower Fairy, on our way to Disneyland!

Snow White Cara at the Beautiful Disneyland Castle


Cara's Candy Haul from Disneyland Candy Stations at Halloween!

Disneyland at Halloween, a very weighty place! lol!

Fireworks at Disneyland for Halloween -- spectacular -- get your spot early  before they start! : )

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Dress Up You And Your Little Dog, Too! hahaha!
These wee dogs are just hilarious to look at! If you have a minute, pop in and have a wee look -- you're guaranteed a smile! I know, I know, some folks don't like dressing up their dogs, but it is a lot of fun , and they're soooo cute! One year for Hallowe'en, we dressed our wee dog, Tia, up as Cara's Agent, and that was very entertaining -- mostly for us!

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Is Anyone Making Money Off Their Blog???




Ailsa frustrated, Like da Hulk!!
So how frustrated are you with your highly successful Blog makin' upwards of $10 a year?? (Okay, I'm exagerating for the camera... I'm up to $8.19 for the past year... that's insanity!  I just don't get it, I make money consistently through ads and Google Adsense from my regular website, http://www.buildyourownhouse.ca, no problem (although, would be great to earn a living wage... or, dare I say it, a huuuge amount of money off my website?? lol!), but when it comes to my Blog, I make virtually nothing, even though I had very relevant ads through Google Adsense, which I love, by the way... very effective on my regular website... and I am very happy to have lots of visitors...

(Another quick update.... am I the only one who was taken off Google Adsense, and had no recourse, and it happened out of nowhere? Was scary, and felt horrible... that was a very nice little source of income, for over 10 years, then, whammo, taken away.. I guess there had been a surge in traffic, and I didn't know at the time that sometimes that just happens, with your blog... but that was enough for me to be taken off Google Adsense, and not allowed back on, even though I make a request, every year... frustrating.  and you immediately lose anything you have earned to date, when google Adsense takes you off, too... that's probably a lot of money, worldwide, since it seems like there are a lot of people who have also experienced the pain of being removed from Google Adsense, with no recourse... but you CAN recover, try another affiliate marketing program, one that won't do that to you, and will treat you with respect, and have a real person you can talk to, to resolve any issue, should there ever be one, right?  Right!  That's much better! I would love to be back on Google Adsense, though, if they were ever to let that happen : )


  Yum, Pie!  Internet Pie - go get you a slice o' dat Internet Pie, make your fortune! : )

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So where's the disconnect?  I've seen some amazing Blogs out there, tons of them, and they seem to be experiencing the same thing.  You've got the content, in come your Readers for a wee visit, they tell their friends, and they pop in to have a look around, too... and everyone's having fun -- admittedly, my blog is a LOT of fun to write... and waaaay easier to manage than my website... so I don't want to stop using it, and, in fact, am thinking, today, of creating all sorts of blogs.... one for ever subject I am interested in, soooo, about one more blog.. hahahahaha! Noo, I'm being silly... I'm interested in at least two or three other things than building houses, baking delicous things to eat (or, baking things to give away, more accurately!), and exercise.. why, I'm interested in people, too (and not just good looking, available men, although they do top my list of things I'm interested in! lol!).... but I loooove money (hence the worry about me blog not making any cents....oops, I mean, 'sense'! haha!).  Maybe I'll start some sort of Teacher blog... but I need to be able to monetize all this work, right?

If you have figured out how to make money with your blog, real, actual monetary funds, let us all know -- we want to be rich!!  Or, richer...!! lol!

I'm trying this, today... see if it works on me blog :)



So, for a little update, I started with FlexOffers, a new-to-me affiliate program, and so far, so good.  I really like how they have their affiliate program set up - clear, and very easy to use, not cluttered, like some affiliate programs have become - affiliate programs that used to be really good, then have changed hands soo many times, they've become really annoying, and difficult to say if their tracking really works... but I am very, very happy with FlexOffers, so give it a try - FlexOffers is free, of course - never pay to advertise for someone else - that's just crazy.  Cray cray, if you will - lol!


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Everyone who writes their own blog, or has their own website (or both, like me - lol!), dreams of making it big online, earning enough to support their lifestyle, and work from home - dat da dream, all right! lol!  Good Luck!!  I know you can do it! : ) Ailsa xox



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