March 7th, 2010 by Jeanine
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of shopping online. Not just on ebay but I’ve been trying to find other places too… I’ve found a lot of little online boutiques, and sites where people have come up with random cute products that they sell themselves. I have also come across mbt shoes with a cute selection of shoes. I love shopping from the comfort of my own home especially when the items I buy get delivered right to my door! Hello pajama shopping! :)
March 6th, 2010 by Jeanine
9 MONTHS OLD!
Jayden is 9 months old today! That really flew by quickly. I can’t believe how much he has grown, even just since turning 8 months. It’s incredible how their little personalities change and develop.. It’s amazing to watch. Not only is my baby boy 9 months old but he’s been sitting up on his own with zero help now for a month, he claps his hands, he says Dada, Dad, Ma, Mama, and I swear he says “Hiiiii” after waking up and we go into the room! SO SO CUTE. He’s been rather lazy when it comes to crawling. He doesn’t do it yet. He rolls all over the place. He wants to go to the entertainment stand to mess up the DVD’s on Mommy? he rolls. He wants to follow his brother and sisters? He rolls… It’s too funny. If hes laying on his tummy and he wants to turn around to see someone he will use his hands to scoot himself around. He really doesn’t need to crawl hes got the rolling and the scooting all figured out! He’s also eating pretty much all baby foods including the 12 month ones with chunks of spaghetti, noodles and all that good stuff. Once he finishes off the baby foods we have we will be able to just feed him what we eat at meals and snacks! He’s doing amazing. His 9 month check up and needles is this coming Tuesday. I can’t wait to see what he weighs and how long he is now! My baby is getting so big!
CELL PHONES
If you follow me on Twitter you probably know that earlier in the week Jayden was playing with my Blackberry. Well he had it in his hands for maybe 5 minutes and it turns out he drooled so much on it that it got water damage. I’m talking turning the water damage indicator sticker inside behind the battery bright red.. Not even light pink, or pink… Bright red! It was white before he got his hands on it. It wouldn’t work so I of course turned the blow dryer on it for at least 2 minutes and then quickly turned it off because I knew I’d probably do it more harm than good (yep, I’m smart!) and instead I put it in a zip-lock baggy full of minute rice. I let it sit for over 24 hours and it was still wonky so I left it for another 24. After 48 hours it worked perfectly, not a problem. I’m not happy though, so I decided instead of waiting until it craps out on me again or heaven for bid one of the kids touches it and does something to it I’m just going to get a new phone! I’m getting the LG Eve. That beautiful piece of electronic hardware you see at the beginning of this post. I CANNOT WAIT!
I did a lot of research and at first I was going to go with the LG Xenon but after reading tons of reviews I decided against it. According to just about every review I read yhe screen sucks and get lots of bubbles, and its plastic! It’s not a smartphone and has no apps! The Eve on the other hand has an awesome screen which is touch, it has a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a 5.0mp camera, Apps and much much more. They call it “The Poor Mans iPhone” I was going to wait and buy it out right but its $399.99 and having 4 kids when would I really have that in the budget to go spend on myself? I wouldn’t. So my hubby suggested I wait until my old Blackberry Pearl, that he was using but broke and is now using a crap phone himself was up for a hardware upgrade which would be this coming May and upgrade to the Eve. Well, because I’m so impatient I decided to call the phone company yesterday and see when I’m able to have the upgrade could I upgrade to another smartphone. Turns out I could, and she said it was allowing her to upgrade me RIGHT NOW! Of course, I did it! The only thing is I had to change from a blackberry DATA plan to just a normal smartphone data plan so I have to swap SIM cards with my hubby… so changing the number AGAIN. So annoying. But he gets my Curve, and I get my Eve… so it works out! I also only have to pay $69.99 and I get a $50 mail in rebate too! So, in 3-5 business days it shall arrive at my door! :)
ONLINE JOB SCAM UPDATE
A couple posts below this one is about an online job scam my hubby came across and I posted about it in hopes it would help others and hopefully help them not lose $10 like my hubby did. Well, my post worked! So far 2 people have left comments stating they came across that very ad and after the woman asked them to send $10 for a training package they googled and found my website and my blog about it! Which is exactly what I was aiming for! I’m so excited that I was able to help and keep people aware. If you happen to find my site because of the scam ongoing with the email address servicehelp2010@hotmail.com or workers46@live.com please leave a comment, or email me and let me know! Also, if you could report your experience to the proper authorities these people can be stopped!
March 5th, 2010 by Jeanine
That’s right! Another giveaway! This time I’m putting together a bag of goodies from the Body shop! If you aren’t familiar with The Body Shop you should take a little look at their site! I’m excited to do this giveaway because I just love having bubble baths, and using all their fantastic products! I will be making this bag of goodies myself, and I’m not sure if the products listed above will be available but I promise you won’t be disappointed! I’m running this contest a little longer than the last so more people get the chance to enter! If you have any questions feel free to ask otherwise… GET ENTERING!!!
1. Leave a comment telling me your favorite scents from The Body Shop
2. Follow Me on Twitter and Comment here with twitter name
3. Tweet this: Oh My! @alwaysmommy is having ANOTHER giveaway! http://tinyurl.com/yhdx3d6 - then comment here with link!
4. Blog about this giveaway and leave me a comment with your url
GOOD LUCK!
This giveaway is open to Residence of Canada and the US only sorry!
You have until Friday, March 19th 2010 at 12pm EST to enter this giveaway!
The winner will be chosen at random using Random.org!
March 5th, 2010 by Jeanine
Yesterday Jordan got an invitation to a Birthday Party for March 27th! It got me thinking it’s almost that time again when everyone in my family starts having their Birthdays! First up is JAYDEN! He will be ONE on June 6th! Oh my goodness.. that flew by so quickly! Then comes my hubby on June 23rd, Then me July 29th, Then Ava August 12th, Jordan September 7th and Kyla October 2nd! Starting in June we have Birthdays every month until Kyla’s birthday on Oct 2nd! So I started looking at invitations. I’m not exactly sure what we are doing for anyone’s Birthday. Usually for the first 4 we just do family Birthday’s so Jayden’s will probably just be a small little at home thing, as well as Ava. Kyla will be in school when her Birthday rolls around though.. another thing I can’t believe! School so soon, wasn’t she just born? JEEZE. Jordan’s had some good Birthdays. His 4th we went to Playtrium with 2 of his friends. His 5th we did Chuck E Cheese and his 6th he had a sleepover with his best friend. This year he will be 7… so I want to plan something great! We still have some time though so we’ll figure it out!
If you have kids, what have you done in the past for Birthdays and what do you plan in the upcoming future?
March 4th, 2010 by Jeanine
I’m posting this as a warning. Google is a great tool.. if someone searches the email addresses or key words in this post it might help someone else out.
My husband was searching for some jobs online, to see if he could find something to do on the side when he came across one that caught his eye.
Customer Services Individuals Wanted For Data Entry Positions
The ad said:
working from home or where ever you have INTERNET access
earn $250-$500 per week
full training provided
completely legitimate with the American Business Standards for on line work
you set your own hours
we send the work and explain how to do it
So my husband sent her his resume like she had requested, and she wrote back saying all he had to do was send $10 to her paypal and she would send him the “training guide” so.. not knowing, he sent her the $10 and waited.
A few hours later he received an e-mail with this so called “Training Guide”.. it was nothing more than a bunch of words thrown together (and misspelt) telling him to re-post HER same ad’s on Craigslist, Kijiji, Monster and all these other free ad site to get $10 out of people and keep it going. The job wasn’t a data entry job, it was a scam. Re-posting false job ads telling people they could make all this extra income. When really, they were stealing $10 from people who were in need of jobs or like my husband just looking for something he could do for a little extra spending money online.
When I realized how much of a scam this was. I contacted her from my husbands email address telling her this was in fact a SCAM and I wanted our $10 back or I would be contacting the Cyber Crimes line with the Ontario Provincial Police Department to report her scamming money. She e-mailed me back the following:
non refundable and sorry to say but my father is a cop and he said it may be nice but its not illegal as it states clearly no refund and alos because if you follow the guide you will make the money it promises NO REFUNDS
Of course this just pissed me off even more so I responded with the following:
I don’t care if your “father is a cop” this isn’t a job, its a STEALING. and I will be making the phone call. I called yesterday and spoke to our local police and this is a scam. So you can state non refundable all you want - if I follow the training guide I’d make money? scamming people isn’t a job. I replied to your ad seeking a JOB. A DATA ENTRY JOB. Not so I could re-post the same ads you are trying to steal peoples money. its a scam and a crime. I’m out $10 so therefore I can contact the OPP scam line and paypal to report you. If your father was a cop he’s clearly not a very good one. the guide “promises?” the guide has so many spelling mistakes, and so many promises but it is a scam. good try, and good luck. You had your chance to refund my money, now I am contacting the proper authorities who deal with cyber crimes, scams and fraud.
I called the OPP scam line, and they were pissed. I told the lady on the phone I wasn’t too worried about the $10 I just am irritated this girl is trying to pull this off as a job. The OPP said it doesn’t matter if its just $10. So even if $10 is insignificant to me, and may seem small it is not and they requested all the information I had, and said this is very much a scam, fraud and theft. People are replying to these ad’s thinking they are going to be hired for a data entry job, not told to keep re-posting bogus ads. The lady told me that if my husband had started posting the ads and taking peoples money, and others filed reports like I did he would be doing the same as her and would have to deal with what this girl will now have to deal with.
While I was on the phone with the crime like she sent us this:
guess what like you I bought the guide and like the person ahead of me she bought it look on line you will see hundreds of these if you really think the cops ate worried about $10 you are sadly mistaken hone we live in the real world where real crimes happen and yes |I looked into it after I bought the guide for 15 bucks and they would do nothing for me either
REALLY? My last, and final reply this woman will ever get out of me:
Actually they do care. There is a whole unit for this stuff alone. I’ve already filed the complaint. Yes we do live in the real world and its sad people who are actually looking for jobs get taken advantage of by people like you. They have all of your information, and cragslist and kijiji have been contacted. You may think its petty, and yes $10 is but you posted an ad for a job not for people to join your scam. Say what you will, the complaint has been filed. This is a crime, contact them yourself and see for yourself. Do not contact me again, this is in the hands of the authorities who yes do take this kind of thing VERY seriously, $10 or not.
So any more e-mails she writes me I’ll be directing right over to the cyber crimes unit. I don’t care if it was $10 I found ad’s placed by her with the amount changed to $15 and even $20. So, if she keeps getting all this money… WOW. And not a lot of people actually know about this OPP cyber crimes line. I had no idea, but I’m glad I did contact them that way she can be stopped. She has this ad posted even in the US kijiji and in pretty much every major city’s Kijiji in Canada. I couldn’t even believe it.
I will follow up and keep updating as this is on going. The OPP cyber crimes people take this so seriously, they were very helpful and the lady I spoke to seemed very pissed off over this whole thing.
So, if you come across this ad or others like it BEWARE. Watch out for the email addresses servicehelp2010@hotmail.com , workers46@live.com and her fake company “SERVICEHELP2010″
