November 20th, 2012

EonCode Web To Print
My kid brother is the family computer whiz and bless his heart we are all guilty of taking advantage of his technical knowledge and his skills more and more as things are always changing and most of us have no clue when it comes to so many issues that we have with our computers. With that said I am seriously considering getting him the web to print software solutions that he has been chatting up lately but hasn’t had the extra money to purchase it, so with Christmas fast approaching I think it would be a wonderful gift for him and a great way to say thanks for all of his time and hard work that he sacrifices for the whole entire family all year round. He has saved many family members a lot of time and money.
November 20th, 2012 |
Posted in Business and the Like, Dollars & Sense, Facebook, Good Things, Holidays, Life, Relationships, Shopping, Technology, Thank God for Family
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November 12th, 2012
My older brother has been dating his fiance for about 3 years now and are now planning their wedding day to be held this upcoming Spring. He asked his fiance and myself to look around for some wedding bands a few nights ago, so we decided to get together this morning to look around online. It didn’t take long for my soon to be sister in-law to find the perfect wedding bands at all. We were very shocked to see such gorgeous rings for such a great price. I know where I’m going when I need the perfect ring. The heck with the mall, the Internet is the only way to go to find the best products at the best prices and you don’t even have to leave home to find them, you just gotta love how easy the Internet has made our lives these days.
We haven’t had a big wedding in the family for quite some time, it should be a good time for everyone involved. Good food, good music, good people and we can only pray for good weather to top it all off with. That is always the big concern for brides, bad weather can ruin the best thought out wedding plans.
November 12th, 2012 |
Posted in Business and the Like, Dollars & Sense, Fashion, Good Things, Life, Relationships, Shopping, Technology, Us Girls
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May 14th, 2012
It looks like it might be a good idea to go ahead and seriously look into having a home energy audit done on my parent’s house right now before it gets much hotter out and they end up having to pay such extremely high electric bills again like they did last summer from using their central air conditioner. After all their house is over 55 years old and it really needs a lot of work that my dad just isn’t up to considering he is now in his mid 70′s. He isn’t a spring chicken any more and is having health issues as most people do when they get up in that age group.
My kid brother has suggested going online and finding and then hiring one of the local home insulation contractors come over and do the Home energy audit and he is even willing to pay for it, which threw me for a loop considering how cheap my little brother can be. I guess he would rather pay someone to do the energy audit than pitch in and do some manual labor in order to get the house up to speed. But as long as it gets done, I don’t really care how it is handles.
May 14th, 2012 |
Posted in Business and the Like, Dollars & Sense, House & Home Improvement, Technology, The House
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April 4th, 2012
We almost had to pick up my 87 year old mother from the floor when my brother’s fiance told us that she was having a swimming pool put in the backyard in the next month or so for her own personal health reasons. If that wasn’t enough to jump start mom’s heart, the announcing of the $70,000 price tag about killed her dead, leaving this world with her chin dropped and mouth wide open. My mother is aging quickly and is in poor health which is doing nothing but declining, so she is having a hard time adjusting to life and everyone else’s life right now, it doesn’t take much to freak her out, while being very vocal and negative on just about every subject under the moon.
It didn’t take mom long to start pointing out all the time, work and money that it takes to have a swimming pool. What with all of the chemicals that are extremely important, the water bill, the cleaning products, the pool cover, and of course swimming pool liners are a must and those “don’t come cheap” she (my mom) can’t help but blurt out, along with everything else that people buy to use and enjoy the luxury of owning your own backyard pool.
The real kicker was when we were told that she would probably use it for the first year and become bored with it and there it will sit, empty, useless.
April 4th, 2012 |
Posted in Dollars & Sense, Entertainment, House & Home Improvement, Medical, Thank God for Family
| Tagged with backyard, brother, health, pool |