A Marvelous Mess #54 and Features!!!

If you live in the Northeast, I'm betting you are as surprised as I am about the way spring is unfolding. So EARLY!! We just had our first BBQ of the year, played outside at the playground, colored with chalk on the driveway, and went for a long walk through the fields. Now, nature might prove me wrong and toss some snow our way, but at the point the forecast looks like warm all week and I can't wait to see my tulips and daffodils opening up!!

Here are my fave's from last week:

Adding a G+ Icon to your blog from Gardners 2 Bergers. Pretty handy dandy!!

and the post I'm going to feature on my sidebar for a week is....

[Cake] Pops of Gold from Chicken Scratch

Perfect for St. Paddy's Day!!!!

Thanks to all of you for linking up last week and if I featured you today feel free to grab a button:

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Now, on to the party!!

Future Fortified

Have you heard of Future Fortified?? It's such an great idea. And, today is the perfect day to share this program with you because, if you didn't already know it, it's International Women's day!!

Future Fortified is a project made by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that has a mission to provide millions of women and children around the world with the nutrition they need to have a healthy life. Their goal is to provide access to improved nutrition for 50 million women and children in developing countries by 2015!!

I love the idea of helping an entire community by treating the health of it members. I think this program has great potential. Please consider visiting this site Here and learning more. 

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf Future Fortified. To thank me for my contribution, Mom Central donated $20 to the Future Fortified campaign.

Become a Tax Preparer

I'm always on the lookout for different ways to supplement my salary. It seems nowadays we all need to have more than one job (at least here in the lower end of the middle class we do). So I'm a blogger and a librarian with a couple other jobs tossed in there for good measure. Here's a job I could NEVER do....but maybe you could!!

TAX PREPARER

*cue the lightning and thunder*

Yup, this one is definitely not on my list of possible income earners. If I had to, I could probably do it. Would YOU want me to do your taxes?? NOOOooooo. 

I see numbers and my brain quotes Monty Python:

RUN AWAY!!!!

But what about you? Would you be interested in a course to become a Tax Preparer?? Here's a site that can give you all kinds of information on tax courses. It's called Fast Forward Academy and they offer courses in becoming an Enrolled Agent and a Tax Preparer. They also offer continuing education classes. 

As a tax preparer, you could make upwards of $100 an hour!! You can work from home, work full time or part time, have a business that will always be essential, and reduce your own tax liability. You should think about taking a tax class. I won't though, okay?? Not even a little bit.