Have you ever heard of mystery shopping? Well that’s where you go into a store and buy all kinds of stuff from the store so you can tell the company you are working for if the store was clean or if you got good service. Get it?  Well that sounds like the absolute perfect job for me.  BestMark is a company that hires mystery shoppers for different stores to help them gather information that they can’t get on their own usually.  When a mystery shopper goes into the store they are assigned to, they can ask for help and then report back if the associates were helpful or rude.  That helps the stores serve their customers better and weed out the bad seeds that are actually hurting their store.  Great idea huh?  Now if I can just get that job, I’ll have a job doing what I love best, go shopping.

Where has this summer gone.  It’s almost August already.  I have to start getting stuff for school or it’s going to cost a small fortune all of a sudden.  I like to buy a little along the way and that way it just doesn’t seem to be so expensive.  Since I have a summer job, I’m trying to act responsibly and buy a lot of the things my parents normally bought like notebooks, pens and pencils……….you know, the usual.   The books for college are expensive and so is the tuition so any way I can ease the expense some on my parents I’m sure will be greatly appreciated.

I should have written this while I was in school and not over the summer but I just thought about it.  I’m sure I’ll use it again when I start college this fall.  I found a website that has news archives on it.  It’s called Wikinews:Archives.  It has all the relevant news that you might want to go back over if you have a report to write and need some research into something that was in the news.  I found it to be a huge help.  Even if you aren’t doing a research paper and just wanted to see what was going on sometime in the past, check it out.  I have it bookmarked because I never know when I might need it again.

You are never going to guess what I found.  It’s a web site that will actually pay you to write blogs.  Imagine that, someone is going to pay me to write a blog about things I already was planning to write about in the first place.  It’s a payperpost type thing where advertisers make offers to a blogger to write about their services, products, or what ever they want advertised.  Hey, I’m in advertising!!  Sounds important huh?

I was really needing some extra money anyway because with going to college this fall, there are so many things I’m going to need that I really hate putting it all on my parents.  I’ll need new clothes, I can’t start college in what I wore to high school now can I?  Of course that means new shoes too.  Seriously, I’ll need books, and a bunch of supplies and if I can get those on my own, it will help my parents out a great deal.  Books are EXPENSIVE!!!!!

I just found out my best friend and her family are moving to Florida!!!  Her father has been out of work for about 6 months now and with the way things are around here, he just couldn’t find a job other than working at a convenience store or something like that since he got laid off from a big ‘Truck’ manufacturing company (okay, it’s Frieghtliner but don’t tell them I told, okay) and so did a lot of other people around here.  He has family in Florida and they’re selling everything except for what they need and moving to Florida.  That really sucks too because she’s my best friend since we were in 3rd grade.  I sure am going to miss her.  Hey, maybe I could go visit!!!!