Archive for June, 2008
I work a lot on the road, and I seem to have about ten maps that I cart around with me wherever I go. Though they have been useful for me to get from point A to point B, the one thing that I find is that I always have to pull over to the […]
June 11th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets, Thoughts | No Comments
Having your own business can be a lot of work. Deadlines are always looming, and the only one on your case to get it done is yourself - who sometimes isn’t very motivating at all.
But, there is some freedoms that running your own business supplies, so I am a happy, self-employed person.
Now, you might wonder […]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Websites | No Comments
It is so funny to hear our grandparents talk about back when they were kids. They walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways. We have all heard this before and we all still get a kick out of it. The funniest one I have heard yet, though, was when my dad said that […]
June 9th, 2008 | Posted in Thoughts | No Comments
My best friend has a thirteen year old son who has started babysitting for us. He is really good with the kids and they love it when he is coming over. In fact, they love him a lot more than the babysitter we had coming before him, as the kids say he plays with them […]
June 8th, 2008 | Posted in Parenting | No Comments
As children, we never want to grow up in a life of scarcity. We have high hopes of traveling to the moon, traveling around the world, and doing whatever our heart desires. But for many of us, we will never reach any of our childhood dreams because of one thing.
We don’t think that we deserve […]
June 7th, 2008 | Posted in Life, Thoughts | No Comments
Between my husband and I, we own a lot of websites. It started out as a hobby and then we kept getting more and more and the more we got, the more money we started generating. It seemed like every time we would find domain names, we would buy them and make a site.
As we […]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Thoughts, Websites | No Comments
When my grandma recently had a water filtration sales rep come out to her house to explain their product and services, she asked some really good questions that surprised me. I had no idea that she was that “with it” when it came to dealing with salesmen!
The first thing she asked about the water softener […]
June 6th, 2008 | Posted in Shopping, Thoughts | No Comments
I received an interesting phone call from the bank yesterday. It seems that our merchant account had too many transactions over the weekend and that they were going to shut it down.
Now, I asked why there was an upper limit on the number of transactions, but the person on the other end of the line […]
June 5th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Finance | No Comments
After a party with the boys a few weeks ago my boyfriend’s son wants to find out how to become a limo driver. He and a bunch of guy friends went out on the town and had a limo rather than depending on anyone of the party to stay sober enough to driver.
They went […]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in Employment, Thoughts | No Comments
I used to work for a company that created wooden toys and games. I started out working there as an assembler, but they soon realized that I would be of better value if they sent me out to trade shows to promote their products. I was happy with the change, as it meant that I […]
June 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Employment | No Comments