In my opinion, people should be diligent about making sure that they have enough insurance, both for their homes and the vehicles. These are big ticket items that would devastate someone financially if something bad happened to them and the owners could not afford to fix them up. However, in this economy, people need to pay careful attention to what insurance they are buying; they want to make sure to get the best value for their money!
With that in mind, I think it is wonderful that you can get Online Instant Insurance Quotes to help you find out what is available “out there” without having to make a lot of phone calls. I love how you can get Auto Insurance Quotes and Home Insurance Quotes with just a few clicks of the mouse and keyboard! You can get all of the information you need in the comfort of your own home! Isn’t technology wonderful?
I have a very old floor lamp that I was given by a dear aunt. She tells me that she bought it over thirty years ago. I love it dearly, but it has finally given up the ghost. The socket died, and I decided it was appropriate to rewire the entire thing because the plug was the old fashioned kind that just was not as safe as the newer ones. So I went to the hardware store and bought what I needed to rewire the lamp. It took a couple of hours to take it all apart and rewire it, but I did it myself and it turned out fine. I had called an electrician and asked him how much he would charge to re-wire it and he had told me it would cost over $100! The rewiring supplies cost me less than $20, so I’m thrilled that I saved $80 by re-wiring it myself! And I’m thrilled that I kept the lamp from going to the junkyard, so I did my part to save the environment today!
Seth tod me that he has found a fun way to get involved in charity fundraising for his favorite charity. He has a couple of different non profit charity organizations that he is very fond of. One being the Locks of Love charity because one of his nieces has cancer and has lost her hair.
The Locks of Love charity takes donated hair and turns them into wigs to give to children who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. Anyway, Seth has found a program that encourages donation to charity by getting involved in making and fulfilling dares and collecting money from pledges from other people related to the dares. The participants can pick the charity of their choice for the fundraising efforts. The details of this program can be found at the daredealer.com website.
I guess I just wasn’t paying attention to the calendar because I was surprised yesterday to see so many people with ash marks on their heads today. Everywhere I went I saw a lot of people with black smudges on their foreheads. I never really understood what Ash Wednesday was about, the religious significance of it, why it’s done, pretty much anything about it. I remember as a kid I asked my parents about it and they just told me “that’s something the Catholics do on Ash Wednesday.’ And then I said “oh” and left it at that. I’ve thought about asking someone who has ashes on their forehead about it, but did not want to seem stupid. I guess I’ll google it!
I was given a crock pot today by my sister Amy. She had just bought a new one, and thought I might like to have her old one. Paula was thrilled to get the crock pot, too! We’ve never cooked in a crock pot before! Amy gave us the cook book that came with the crock pot, but it doesn’t really have very many recipes in it. Only a few of them sound like anything we’d like to try.
Paula decided we should try to find some crock pot recipes online, so we used a new search engine called Daymix.com that Amy told us to try to find the recipes. The search experience resulted in a few leads on some good places to get crock pot recipes, and it referred us to a few blogs about cooking in a crock pot. One of the blogs wrote about converting recipes from oven to crock pot and from crock pot to oven, which I thought was really helpful!
My brother just moved to a very rural area where his television options are limited. He can’t get cable television at all because no cable company has run their cables out that far. The rooftop antenna only gets two channels and both of them are fuzzy. So he has decided to get Directv installed at his house.
He was annoyed at first that he couldn’t get cable because he thought that the Direct TV was going to cost him more, but he has found a package of DirectSatTV services that he is happy about and he said that the cost of that package is comparable to what he had to pay at his previous house for the cable services. Now he’s actually excited about the service because he says that he is getting a few extra channels that he didn’t have before but had always wanted to get!
I was watching a repeat of the season finale of Monk this weekend. I hadn’t seen it before, so I was glad when it came on. I wasn’t expecting it; I had just turned on the television and there it was! I really like the show, but I haven’t had time to watch it lately. After the show they ran a commercial that said that the Final season of Monk will be this summer! I was sorry to hear that! I certainly will miss that show!
Many people have addictive personalities and don’t even realize it. There are many kinds of addiction, but several of the types are not deemed to be a problem to society. For example, there are “work-a-holics” that just can’t relax; they have to keep busy doing something productive all of the time. A vacation where they are forced to relax drives them crazy! That kind of addiction may cause a problem for the addicts family, but not to society in general; that kind of addiction does not normally lead to crime and/or violence!
Because the economy is in such a bad spot right now, I think that more people are going to be turning to drugs and alcohol as a stress relief mechanism. This is going to be a problem in the long run because it is going to generate a lot more addicts that will be in need of alcohol rehab or a drug treatment program down the road. And before these people realize that they need help a lot of families will be destroyed because of the addiction problems. Yes, we live in a dangerous time, that is for sure!
I was reading on the msnbc.msn.com website “Weird animal news” section that a courthouse in Palm Beach County in Florida is being over run with mice. The story claims that mice are falling from the ceiling tiles, running loose in court while court is in session, and running through the halls. They can be heard scratching behind the walls, too!
Sounds like some Decon is “in order” in the courthouse! That is just plain old GROSS! It’s probably also a major health hazard!
As I was just saying, women have special needs. Especially when it comes to their emotional and physical health. So many of our women are suffering from a lot more stresses than their mothers and grandmothers ever did. Juggling families, homes, and jobs is more stress than a lot of them can handle. Many women turn to alcohol or drugs in an effort to “self-medicate” the stress away. Some of these women end up addicted and what used to help them to deal with the stress of life ends up becoming the most stressful part of their lives of all!
I think that It only makes sense to offer women a specialized alcohol treatment program that caters to their special needs. Generic “one size fits all” programs just won’t do as good a job as an alcohol rehabilitation program geared just for the emotional and physcial needs of today’s women. One of the few places on the East Coast that offer these services just for women is The Orchid Recovery Center. You can check out their website for more information at orchidrecoverycenter.com.
I find it very disturbing that so much of what the doctors “know” is based on research that has been focused on men, with the thought process going that women are just like men, only smaller. More and more the medical profession is discovering that women’s bodies do NOT react the same as men’s bodies in the physiological response sense. And women do not respond emotionally the same way as men do in many cases.
We need to take care of our women. It only makes sense. We depend on them to take care of us, but if they are not healthy and happy they then they can not take good care of us! Then WE won’t be happy either!
Paula’s sister Bethany came over yesterday to go shopping for maternity clothes with Paula. Bethany is about three months pregnant and is just getting over her morning sickness. She’s starting to show now, and is anxious to buy some cute and trendy maternity clothes that she can wear to work.
Paula suggested that they shop online instead of traveling to the big mall and walking from store to store. They found the greatest website for maternity clothes; it’s called kikisfashions.com. They were very happy with the low prices and trendy fashions that they found; they had a lot of cute clothes for under $10! Paula was even jealous of some of the really pretty dresses that they ordered for Bethany!
I read that the New York Post offered a half- ***ed apology for their very offensive editorial cartoon that depicted two police officers shooting a chimpanzee and implying that a monkey could have drafted a better stimulus package. Their apology was sort of “if we really offended you, we’re sorry but if you are only pretending to be offended and are really just trying to stir up trouble for us because you are our enemy, then we aren’t sorry at all!”
Then they go on to claim that they were not targeting the President, but Congress in general. Well, since WE, THE PEOPLE elect ALL OF THEM to office, then WE SHOULD BE OFFENDED that they are telling US that we are pretty stupid to be electing a bunch of monkeys to run our government! And if we ARE that stupid, who is to blame? The NEWSPAPERS who did not give us enough information about the candidates who were elected! If we are to be expected to elect people to run the country, we need to have enough information about them to make SMART decisions, and that responsibility SHOULD lie with the news media!
I think that it is great that so many car manufacturers are developing, manufacturing, and selling a variety of hybrid vehicles. Finally they are starting to respond to what the consumers actually want and need! I’d like to buy a new vehicle in the next couple of years, once the economy settles down a little bit and we are a little bit more confident with our financial status. For now, we are looking at cars like the honda civic hybrid
and the toyota camry hybrid as the frontrunners for our car search.
My brother has been telling me that he wants to buy the new audi a3. I was reading about that car on the website thecarconnection.com and think that it is a nice looking car. I was surprised to read in that review that they seem to think that Americans in general don’t like hatch-backs and wagons. I love them!
I was listening to the radio this morning and the morning show hosts were talking about a television incident involving a German television star, Hans Blomberg. Apparently during a live television broadcast he groped the breast of a woman who was broadcasting the show with him, and she slapped him in the face – right on live television! Her name is Susanka Bersin, and I say good for her! This was sexual assault, and she defended herself!
I’ve been reading blogs from a lot of people saying they don’t understand why Susankaslapped Hans. I was not surprised to see all of those posts were from men! Unfortunately a lot of “us” guys really don’t “get it.” And, because we don’t “get it” it is a rare occasion when we DO “get IT.” You know what I mean? A little sensitivity gets you where you want to go guys! If you want to see the video of the incident, click on the embeded video in this post!
Underage drinking has been a problem ever since I can recall. I can remember when my parents would go out for a “parent’s night out” my brothers and sisters would wait for about ten minutes after they left the house and then head right to the liquor cabinet. They would help themselves to a little bit of whatever was in there and have a party of their own. I never drank any with them, I just watched. I was too afraid of the consequences of getting caught! It’s a miracle that they never got caught. At least I don’t THINK they ever got caught!
And I guess it’s no surprise to me now that my brothers and sisters have become addicted to drugs or alcohol as adults. They just had too much fun getting high! That’s all they ever wanted to do, and it has messed up their lives pretty well. One of my sisters has had to go to drug rehab, while one of my brothers has had to go to alcohol rehab at least twice in his life.
Paula and I have talked at length about how if and when we ever got married we would not even have any alcohol in the house at all. It’s just asking for trouble!
The New York Post newspaper ran an editorial cartoon showing two policemen killing a chimpanzee by shooting him, and then saying “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
I don’t see how anyone could think that was funny in the least. A lot of very smart people worked on the stimulus bill, and there has not been any time at all given to the bill to work, and already some smart-alec guy implies that a monkey could do as good a job as that? Not funny at all.
I sure seem to know a lot of people who are having trouble with their credit ratings! Credit repair is rapidly becoming a serious issue for many of us. That’s not surprising because I know a lot of people who have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay their mortgages, which are the biggest credit rating factor in the equation.
In many cases, in order to be able to take advantage of the lower mortgage interest rates, some of us are going to need to do some research on how to repair credit ratings. So there is an interest and a need for people to learn how they can fix credit ratings from bad to good.
Most people have lifestyles that “push the envelope” as far as living within their means, and when something bad happens, like an accident, or job loss, good credit turns into bad credit in a very short period of time. This can effect people in many ways, including their ability to find a new job if they need one.
My cousin recently moved to the DC Metropolitan area. He sent me an email detailing his adventure on the commute last Friday afternoon. It all started when he accidentally left his cell phone at home. Well, it only got worse from there. He went to work, the day was fine, but when he left for home, trouble started. He had just got onto I-66 when he blew a tire. So, he pulled off to the shoulder. Well, he is young and never paid attention when his father showed him how to change a tire, so he really didn’t know what to do.
And, he had no cell phone to call AAA for help. So he put on his hazard lights and waited for someone to stop and offer help, or at least a police car to stop to investigate. He waited over an hour before someone pulled over to check him out. He was smart enough to turn off the engine, so as not to waste fuel, but he listened to the radio and kept his hazard lights flashing (and with his car, if the key is turned on the headlights are on. I think you can guess where this is going.)
Finally a nice man stopped to see if he needed help. He didn’t change the tire, but he coached my cousin through it so my cousin changed the tire himself. As the job was nearing completion, a DOT maintenance vehicle pulled up to check him out. When the tire was changed, my cousin thanked the guy who stopped first for his help, and the good Samaritan left. My cousin hopped back in the car to start it up, only to find that the battery was now dead!
Thankfully the DOT vehicle was still there, and that man gave my cousin a jump start so he could finish his journey home. He got home more than two hours late, but safe and sound. Hopefully he won’t forget his cell phone again!
Have you ever thought about buying a locking mailbox? Before you do, take a look at this video!
The embeded video in this post is showing average guys breaking into a variety of locking mailboxes. I have to assume that the people who bought these mailboxes were thinking that thes locking mailboxes were keeping their mail safe from theft and vandalism. These mailboxes ranged in price from $30 – $200, but they don’t seem to keep the mail safe from guys like these in the video!
What you really should get, if you want a mailbox that is really tough and will really protect your mail, is the Mail Boss mailbox. It is the toughest mailbox available on the market, and the prices on residential mailboxes range from $115 – $199. They come in several different styles, and colors. This mailbox can be bought on the Internet from the mailboss.net website (they offer free shipping) or you can use their store locator to find a store near you that sells them. I tried out the store locator for my area and found that the local True Value store sells them, so there is probably a store near you that sells them too!
