Happy Mothers Day

My beautiful daughters greeted me this morning with hand-made cards and pressies as well as strawberry jam on toast made by Isabella, yummy!

Happy Mothers Daythey said with a smile and lots of cuddles too.

Isabella, 8yo, made this card and certificate which is awarded to:

My Special Mum for understanding my feelings and caring for me.

Isabella also made this with Skitch and asked if I would post it on my blog for all mum’s out there:

This one is from Nelly, 5yo, who wrote on her certificate:

On Mother’s Day I will give you a Big Hug and Breakfast, Love Nelly.

Nelly tried her hand on Skitch too and this is what she came up with

So as you can gather, I have two talented little girls who I cherish with all my heart. Not only do they make wonderful hand-made cards, but they are following in my footsteps playing around on my Mac and the tools I use. Some more geek girls in the making

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon out at a local cafe with grandmas, aunts, uncles and cousins. It doesn’t happen often and I am glad we made the effort to be together on this special day.

Blessings to all mothers out there who are reading this and my wish for you is that you had an awesome day and were treated like a Queen ( like my friend Paula says).

Just before I go, I wanted to leave you with this quote from one of my dear twitter friends…

This has been a most Happy Mothers Day in Melbourne. How did you spend your day? All stories are welcome here.

This article appeared on Easter Sunday 2009 in the News Ltd Group National papers.

The last almost 3 years online and what I have learned in that time is one obvious reason. My mentor the Aussie Internet Marketer, Sean Rasmussen (who is basking in the Vanuatu sun as I write this) had a big role to play.

Since announcing a New Product Launch here a few months back, I have been following the Smart Systems Geeky course. Geeky because it’s online and I am, after-all, a Geek Girl Blogger LOL… and note the geeky smile … gasp!

Following a press release, journalist Lorna Knowles from News Ltd called to ask me some questions about my online ventures. Who would give up a chance to be in the National papers I ask you. We had to organise a time for the photographer to come around and take some photos of me. Next came the questions.

Norm from the Herald Sun Newspaper

Lorna asked me about what I do online and so I told her about my various sites and blogs I author, my JV opportunites and Affiliate Marketing. I also do some Social Media and SEO coaching for private clients.  All these efforts combined are my source of income. If you’d like to hire me for your business, use the contact form here with Coaching in the subject line.

Smart Systems and Geekversity

Shaun Stenning and Sean Rasmussen now travel around Australia almost every weekend (aside from Tasmania and the Northern Territory) and due to hit the UK in June, with a two day condensed version of the Geekversity course. What you will learn in this two day event:

FIND a subject you are passionate about as there is more of a chance you will stick with it.

RESEARCH whether it’s a viable business option.

BUILD the website and learn the best ways to generate income.

LEARN how to generate traffic to your site, and

START making money.

Their gags are something else. You have to be there to know what I mean. So how do I get there, Ange…

If you go to Smart Systems and/or Geekversity choose the dates which suit and enter the code AngeToldMe – I have been able to organise some scholarship tickets for the first 100 64 43 27 people to register.

At this stage, I will be at the Melbourne event on the 9th and 10th of May and the following weekend in Sydney on the 16th and 17th of May if you would like to meet me in person.

Remember to also bring your friends along as it’s fun to work on this with someone you know.

I look forward to seeing more geeks out there

I will list them in categories for you so feel free to poke around and refresh yourselves with some favourites, some of my personal successes and some of my personal failures. They are all here.  Have fun and I will keep you updated with how the site is coming along. BTW, if you right click the links to open in a new tab, you can keep this list open

Personal Development

Personal Development and Wealth Creation

What Does Sex Have To Do With Success

Personal Development Can Turn Around An Idea Problem

Do You Think Too Much

My Greatest Personal Challenge To Date

Your Guide to Happiness 101

Falling In and Out of Love

Free Hugs/Humanity

Free Hugs Day in Melbourne

Free Hugs Day Melbourne Video

Humanitarian Initiative

Personal/Kokoda

I am an Adrenalin Junkie

My Excellent Kokoda Adventure:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Your Favourites

Of course if there is something I haven’t listed here that you really liked, please add the post url in your comment so that I can add it to this list.

Enjoy your reading and I’d like to hear your thoughts. I’m really looking forward to a new look Buzzing with Ange and will keep you posted on the progress.

I would like to wish all my readers

a very Blessed and Joyous Holiday Season

This time of year is when families and friends gather together to celebrate the holidays and the spirit of giving is alive and well. I know my two little angels are really looking forward to Christmas morning when they can unwrap and discover new toys and gadgets, clothes and chocolates, books and movies that they have been looking forward to for months.

I received a message today that reminded me of what Christmas means to me most of all. It went something like this…

Christmas is for Love

It is for joy, for giving and sharing, for laughter,
for reuniting with family and friends, for tinsel
and brightly covered packages.

But, mostly, Christmas is for love.

What is Christmas for you?

While you think about it, here’s the Aussie version of Jingle Bells on video and lyrics are below.

Aussie Jingle Bells Lyrics

Dashing through the bush
In a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust
Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side
Singing Christmas songs
It’s summer time and I am in
My singlet, shorts & thongs

CHORUS:
OH, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
JINGLE ALL THE WAY
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
ON A SCORCHING SUMMER’S DAY
JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
CHRISTMAS TIME IS BEAUT
OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE
IN A RUSTY HOLDEN UTE

Engine’s getting hot
Dodge the kangaroos
Swaggy climbs aboard
He is welcome too
All the family is there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbecue!

CHORUS

Come the afternoon
Grandpa has a doze
The kids and uncle Bruce
Are swimming in their clothes
The time comes round to go
We take a family snap
Then pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up

CHORUS

Wishing you all the Happiness in the World and a Prosperous New Year in 2009. Make it an awesome one!

• How to develop the mindset of a millionaire
• The history of money and how the systems control it and why it is important to understand this
• A real life “21st Century Modern Day Education” which enabled Jamie to excel financially, more than what he learned at school or university
• How to re-wire the subconscious mind for financial success
• How to generate instant cashflow, even if you have little money to start with
• How smart investors earn $35,000 per year form investment property – Tax Free
• What you should have been taught at school, but weren’t
• The 4 key skills you must master to succeed in the 21st Century, and how others have used these to earn over $100,000 pa
• 8 ways investors raise money to start investing immediately, even if they have no money

WOW! Well I’m intrigued… are you? Come back soon when Ange returns and she will no doubt tell you all about it. In the meantime, you may like to read Jamie’s book about this list and more for yourself, and then you can come back and discuss it with Ange on her return.

In case you are wondering who I am, Ange has angels who help her out every now and then… especially when she gets caught up like this. I think I should pop in more often perhaps…

Have an awesome weekend everyone.

So here are seven random facts about me that I don’t think I have ever shared here before…

1. I come from a musical family… both my brothers have played in bands and my parents and sister all sing and play instruments too. When I was seven years old, I took up piano lessons and continued for about 12 years. Although I had all those lessons, I haven’t played for a very long time and it’s not high on the list of my priorities these days. If you follow the link to the band, there is a playlist from their last gig where I was asked to join the band on stage and play the tambourine along to the song Black Betty. Imagine!!

2. I have learned how to draw charts of stocks using candlestick bars and can read a chart and follow patterns. Interestingly enough, if you take 5 years of monthly charts of a very well established stock and lay them along side each other, you will see history repeating itself. These days I use software to look at my charts so although the drawing days have gone, the lesson came in very handy indeed.

3. You may have read that I am an adrenalin junkie and I am also addicted to chocolate and cashew nuts… can’t get enough and them and it has to be the right kind of chocolate like Cadbury’s or Lindt… yummy!

4. Unlike Diane, if you read her post, she stated that she cannot reverse park and is having lessons from her son. I on the other hand have it down pat as my driving instructor made sure I did before she would let me go and sit my driving test. Thanks Sabina (my instructor) who also taught 3 of my cousins, my mum and one of my brothers to drive.

5. My most favourite movie of all time is ET. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was about 14 years young and just could not stop crying at the end. I have always had a fascination with Aliens and believe that they are around, just watching us humans and sitting back laughing most of the time. What do you think?

6. Although I love technology, it takes me some time to nut out new software and learn how to use it. I do not like reading instructions and much prefer to go about clicking this and that until I find a way that suits my way of doing things. (Truth be told, most of the time, I can’t follow the instructions!) I do get it after a while. My iPod is great for transferring music and audiobooks or podcasts onto and I wouldn’t be without my mobile broadband to check on things if I am away from my laptop.

7. I volunteer a little of my time online for the worthy cause Invisible Youth Network. Invisible Youth is an organization endeavoring to make a difference by providing human, material and monetary resources for abused, homeless and at risk youth and related programs. Russell Hartshaw who was once homeless himself, is the Chairman and Founder of this organisation. My efforts at recruiting have been very random of late and if you are interested in helping in some way, please do… either by raising awareness of the cause or donating to it if you so desire.

Now there weren’t any rules for this so I am not going to specifically tag anyone, and if you feel like sharing some facts about yourself, link to this so it can be tracked back to the original meme and I look forward to reading up about you.

Have fun!

This video I am posting today is something that makes me feel connected with you. Although we are in different places all over the world, I believe we are one. This project was put together by a community of 40 people who only know each other through cyberspace. Is this something that makes you feel connected too?

I have been away with my family this past week in Perth, Western Australia and not due to return home until Sunday. I managed to slip away for a while to see what was going on online and time has slipped right by me. So here is a quickie post to let you know that I haven’t slipped into oblivion.

Being away with little ones means that you have to get into their world a little and find something magical for them at times so it was timely to come across this wonderful mime Fairy (pictured above) who sprinkled them with fairy dust Those are my girls to the right of the Fairy.

Do you remember as a child whether or not you could see Fairies? I had a conversation with a friend of mine once who told me that very young children often seem to be looking at something we as adults cannot see. He described them to be like firefly’s and that children would follow them with their eyes. I know this may seem a little outrageous to some, but let me know if you have ever noticed this with your kids. I am leaving my mind open as I don’t like to discount things and would love to hear your opinions on whether or not you believe it to be true or not.

This is a list of some online free resources that I use which I mentioned in the interview:

StumbleUpon Toolbar for sending pages to my network of friends when I want to share something with them. Please note that you have to be registered with SU in order to use it. It is also available in IE browser here.

Strip Generator for creating comic strips which are fun to use to add into a post.

Thirty Day Challenge where I met George Kedourie and teaches about how to get free traffic to your blog.

TaggZilla dot com is a follow on from the Thirty Day Challenge and a fantastic resource site for support in with your Internet Marketing.

Off2Trade dot com is a site which you can surf to find free online resources to help your internet experience which have helped me streamline my time online.

HeadSpace2 is a great wordpress plugin for meta-tag generators making it easier to get search traffic for individual posts.

CommentLuv wordpress plugin as it parses the commenter’s latest post from their blog.

PodClass which is a Facebook application for running classes.

Camtasia Studio 3 free download to enable the making of tutorials or videos.

I Want Sandy is a virtual secretary.

Jott – I learned about this from Pearl over at Fresh Perspectives which sounds really great, however it is not available in Australia yet! I’m sure it will help some of you so I wanted to list it here.

I am sure you will all find something useful in this list so let me know what you think of them.

Thanks again to George Kedourie for suggesting this interview.

Among some of the questions he wants to ask me are:

• what I did before I entered cyberspace
• how I got started on the Internet
• what I would never do again in relation to Internet Marketing
• what tips do I have for anyone starting out

This interview is open to everyone and will take place on January 2nd at 5pm EST.

This translates to:

• January 3rd 9am on the East Coast of Australia

Please check Timezone Converter for your time.

If you visit George Kedourie dot com, he has kindly set up an option where you can type in any questions you may have for me, and there will be a recording made for those of you where the time difference is simply not appropriate. Questions will also be taken on the call so I look forward to you joining us.