The journey

Diamond Initial Pendant

2009-11-11T08:54:00.003-05:00

Every year it's tough looking for birthday present for my mom. We look here we look there we look everywhere. A lady of her age has just about everything. Christmas time is the worst trying to buy for mom and dad. Over the years she reminded me that I gave her the same birthday card twice. Hey what can I say it's a cute card with a 3D kitty cat on it. She loves cats. So I tend to lean towards that type of card. This year we found a beautiful Diamond Initial Pendant for her. I didn't realize that she didn't have something like this until she was talking to her friends about how beautiful their pendants are at church.

Fooling the flowers

2009-11-11T08:35:00.001-05:00

Well the winter frost finally got here and that means some of our seasonal plants are done 'till spring but I just couldn't stand the thought of not seeing my white rose tree 'till next May. So my husband and I bought a big flower pot brought it inside, put it in our front sunny side window and it started sprouting new buds so we're hoping we can fool it into having the big white roses all year round.

HDTV

2009-11-03T11:24:00.003-05:00

About six months ago we had a bad electrical storm come through. Our power going on and off is usually not a problem but we weren't home at the time. The neighbors say the power went off and on two to three times but then it went low voltage. Even with our surge protectors, surge protectors are for high electrical surge's. They did not protect our TV or computer from the low voltage coming in on the ground side of the power. Luckily our home insurance covered us. A new HDTV and computer was just what we needed. After the insurance paid us we ended up with two hundred and fifty extra dollars. Time to buy some clothes.

My new layout

2009-10-29T09:40:00.002-04:00

Whew! After so many trials and errors I finally conquer the kind of layout that I want on my page and I am very happy with the result of the efforts that I put into it. Well, see for yourself my friends. What do you think?

Digital frame

2009-10-22T08:41:00.008-04:00

It's always hard at Christmas to buy for my mother and father-in-law. Let's face it. They're seniors in their early eighties so it's hard to find them something unique. For a while there we were stuck on buying them stuffed animated toy animals. Now they're unique and Mom enjoyed showing them off to friends. I think that the most unique family orientated item that we bought them is their digital frame. They're in Florida for half a year. They bring the frame home with them and we load it with all the pictures of the times when they were gone so they can have them for their next six months in Florida.

Maxwell House Coffee

2009-10-22T08:34:00.002-04:00

Did you ever notice the people that like instant coffee can't stand perked coffee and vice versa? I think the perked coffee taste very bitter to me. My husband feels the same way. While on the trip over to the Philippines he discovered that Maxwell House has all in one little packet. It's for the people that liked two sugars, one cream, and mild coffee. As they say all in one. It's taste is incredible. We found even our friends that liked perked coffee loved this little incredible packet. Wish we had more we'll have to wait for the next trip I guess.

Bathroom lighting

2009-10-22T08:28:00.003-04:00

We were very energy conscious these days. Replacing all of our bulbs throughout the house with new energy efficient bulbs. I don't mind saving money but in some cases these new bulbs don't give proper lighting. For instance in the bathroom lighting, its like being around the old fashioned fluorescent lighting. Have you ever seen your complexion with fluorescent? It really doesn't bring a smile to your face in the morning. You be the judge.

Roof leaks starts at the top

2009-10-22T07:45:00.002-04:00

Did you ever touch something that you know you shouldn't? Like the old cliche' opening a can of worms. My husband went out to the repair of the small leak in the roof. he went to the area where it was leaking took off that piece of metal only to find out the water was coming from a different area. You could see where the water had travelled to the edge of the siding. He pulled some siding off you could still see where the water had travelled behind the siding up to the edge of the upper roof and then behind the siding to the next roof. So now by this time he has half a a corner of our house exposed tracking down this little leak that will now take three days to repair and put back together. He slapped his own hand and said never again. He'll do more investigation before he tears things apart.

Inventory software

2009-10-22T07:22:00.003-04:00

It seem very simple at first and it was definitely exciting starting our own business. The inventory that we had was basically three hundred fifty to four hundred items. It used to take only two hours a day to balanced our inventory. After a while we expanded our business. We really needed inventory software. It made our job so much easier not to mention keeping track of inventory that seemed to be missing. We could track what driver had it on its truck last by our driver knowing this I think it kept them more honest or in their toes anyway.

Winter non-moisture

2009-10-13T19:06:00.003-04:00

The winter dryness drives my family crazy if we don't watch out for it. With the house closed up and the wood stove going. We put an old fashioned cast iron tea pot on top of the hot wood stove filled with water. It ads extra moisture into the house along with the dehumidifier we have, helps to keep our respiratory systems in check for the season.

Destin hotel

2009-10-13T18:55:00.003-04:00

The problems we ran into this year I was just so frustrated. it was the timing thing also a lack of communication on my son-in-laws part. We planned a lot of the things months in advance so I guess its possible that he thought it was 9:30 in the morning instead of 7:30 that we're leaving. We were all ready to leave they're were just getting off to bed. Oh what fun that was! Next year we're letting somebody take over at Destin hotel to plan us a weeks worth of total surprises. I already talked to them and fill them in with how many of us and the different ages so set us up with a whole weeks worth of fun.

House husband

2009-10-13T18:50:00.003-04:00

Being I've gone back to work at least on a temporary basis, now my husband is the house husband. You know the opposite of housewife. He's having a little bit of a tough time with it but I think after a few weeks he get the hang of it. I like vacuuming each day he likes every other day. I think he wants to go back to work though because he mentioned to me he does less work at work than he does at the house cooking, cleaning, vacuuming and taking care of Jarred.

Outdoor furniture

2009-10-13T18:43:00.003-04:00

This spring it's time to throw up the old and bring in the new. One thing that we really believe in is buying quality outdoor furniture. We paid a lot of money for out set but it was looking a little dreary. We had it for eight years that's pretty amazing in today's standards. So when we started our search. We know it's going to take some time. We went out looking and weren't very happy with the quality at the stores around us. My husband decided to go online I'm glad he did we're very happy with our new quality furniture.

Dollar store savings

2009-10-13T18:38:00.003-04:00

We we're very surprised the other day instead of turning left into Wal-mart my husband turned right into the Dollar store. Let's see what money we can save he said. We went inside first thing we bought was our cleaners for the house. They're off brand cleaners but what the heck we'll try them and see. Between the cleaners, Halloween candy, and some gloves we bought we figured we saved nineteen dollars for turning right instead of left.

Weight loss supplement

2009-10-13T18:29:00.002-04:00

It's more of a girls thing I guess. Fighting with my little bit of stomach weight, its not that I eat a lot of the wrong things besides McDonald's once a week. In my case its all about being less active than when I used to. I like my vegetables and my rice. With how and where I work I can't get any busier and its too late at night when I get off to work and I'm tired. I don't want to go to the gym so time for the weight loss supplement to kick in and help me through my dilemma. Using the supplement help me lose the extra weight after I had our darling little boy.

Preparing for winter

2009-10-13T18:22:00.002-04:00

Winter seems to be coming early to Upstate New York my husband says it might as well snow and get it over with. You know the only reason he said that is so he could get his winter toys out. We're preparing for it a whole month early. Getting all our winter clothes out, digging all our snow shovel in the shed that had been buried by all the summer stuff thrown in there. After that, change the oil in the snow blower and make sure the belts are good. Time for me to put up all the heavy curtains to slow down the cold. Here we go again...another six months.

Health insurance leads

2009-10-11T11:40:00.002-04:00

We learned a lot about building a web site experimenting with different search engines web hosting company. They've got it down to a science on how to pull your business in. But only a few really go with extra mile to help you out. So finding the right hosting along with the right keywords gets to be a little monotonous. Take for instance for one that we needed at the time was health insurance leads it drove us crazy for a while until we found one site to help us. Feeling better now.

Party-shot Automatic Photographer

2009-10-11T11:33:00.003-04:00

We decided to retire our digital camera the other day and buy a new one. we went to two stores noted for their wide selection. Its so hard to choose. So many different brands with options better this and better that. We ended up buying a nice Sony that I'm happy with. One of the cameras from Sony is called the paparazzo you set it in your room and all by itself the camera turns slowly when it finds a face it focuses and takes a picture all by itself. Now isn't that a little robot for you.

Refrigerator water filters

2009-10-11T11:22:00.005-04:00

Moving in to a new house and in a different county, one of the last thing that we thought about was the city water. You wouldn't think it would be much different from county to county when it comes to drinking water but it is. For a while we ended up buying drinking water each week then we decided to put a filter on our tap in the kitchen. We have two refrigerators in our house because we like buying in volume so when my husband installed the water lines the refrigerator water filters worked great on removing the taste out of our city water.

Winter is coming

2009-10-11T08:46:00.002-04:00

Winter is coming. Its almost here... time to tear apart the closet again. Packing up all our summer clothes is always a big job. Three different closets have to be cleaned out and packed up. The winter clothes are all up in the attic packed and sealed plastic totes. Bringing them down is the job for my husband I guess its time to get him off the couch and up there.

Online directories

2009-10-11T08:31:00.003-04:00

We thought the hard part was over. Building a site for our product we thought was hard, that was easy part. After we're all done we decided to re-design it over and over again. Designing different templates for our site was so exciting. Then after everything was said and done we realized getting people there was almost solely based on a keyword search. By changing the name and some of the content on our site it helped. But the day that we found online directories was the best day. The programs that we found on their site increased our traffic at least ten fold.

Daily toxins

2009-10-11T08:22:00.002-04:00

It's getting too much out of control in today's world the toxins that are getting into our body without us knowing are ridiculous. Chemicals in your shampoo, chemicals in shaving cream, even during your morning coffee the scalding hot water that goes against the plastic walls of your coffee maker. Small toxins are released out of the plastic. They can't conclude that this is enough to hurt you but when you add up all the little percentages of toxins that you come in contact with on a daily basis it's scary.

Best weight loss supplement

2009-10-11T07:36:00.002-04:00

I guess I was trying too hard or maybe not enough patience trying to lose weight always seemed to take too long. A lot of times it's matching the right suplement with the right person's chemistry. Everything I bought to bring my weight down took three to four months. It only took 3 weeks to put it back on again. So for finding the right program it seemed to take forever. But once I found the best weight loss supplement my extra weight seemed to fall off in days instead of weeks. How happy I am with this.

Extra cash

2009-10-11T07:19:00.003-04:00

Shopping around the other day for some new Halloween decorations is always fun. We actually found some skulls that we can put on the side of our walk way. They had all the different programmable sayings. They kind of catches you off guard because when you cross the path it sounds like they were talking to each other. Next was a trip to the pumpkin farm. We discovered all different kinds of pumpkins and gourds then it dawned on my husband that this gentleman selling the pumpkins was making a small fortune every fall selling these. We bought one of every kind and are planning to start our own little pumpkin farm for next year with the dried seeds from these pumpkins.

Industrial computer

2009-10-05T05:58:00.002-04:00

It seems like we fought and fought more. We went out in today's retail market and bought a new bigger better PC payed tons of money for it. After three months it slowed right down because we run so many programs. The PC can't handle it even with all the RAM in it. We de-frag it re-arrange programs to run faster and had only the necessary programs that we needed. But still we find ourself in a mess. What we didn't know was online there were industrial computer and now that we are re-doing all of our fiber optics in our office we're so glad that we've purchased one.