Month: April 2011

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Car fix its.

I used to love to work on my own cars and trucks. Even in my teen years, I tinkered with the old vehicles at the farm and tried to get them running. Learning by watching, listening and by a whole lot of trial and error. I still can work on cars and even my old 84 Bronco truck, as long as it’s not got all the computerized stuff in it. If so…I’m screwed.And I happen to have a truck that indeed has the computerized “everything” in it, as I needed a newer vehicle to drive that was super dependable.

It’s hard to find a good honest mechanic who won’t take advantage of a woman. I don’t care what anyone says. Surfing the net I found a great link and these great people there will even do sorts of trouble shooting for your common auto repair and maintenance,  if something is going wrong yet, you don’t know what to do about it, AND don’t want a repair person to tack on all sorts of other charges on things you don’t really need fixed, replaced or messed with. A great source of knowledge, and help. Especially for a woman.

Recently I had a bad experience with a auto repair shop that cost me a small fortune, which is why I decided to click around the net and see what I could find. I don’t mind this being a sponsored post at all, especially when I find a great deal of info and service. 🙂

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The Seven Deadly sins.

A friend of mine found this for me, after I had asked her what the 7 deadly sins were, as I couldn’t remember them all. Heck I never have been able to remember them. So I guess this is her way of reminding me. LOL!

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The dropping barometer…

I have found that during certain times, when the barometer drops, it messes with my whole body. Today I have a mega headache, and my ears are stuffy. Not to mention feeling a bit sick to my stomach. This has been going on for a long time. I wonder what the weather is to bring next? Considering the weather we’ve been having, as well as other states, it concerns me a great deal.

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Moving Day

A friend of mine is going to move, so she went to her local movers to get some information about the dates, and the size of trucks she would need and all of the moving stuff, I have always hated to do over the years when I moved. I personally have always just recruited a bunch of big guys I know, with big pick up trucks, and had a beer and pizza party for all the helpers later, let them camp out and called it a move.

Elise of course, is different than I am. She is so organized it drives me nuts. I swear she even has her thumb tacks in little containers with a sticky tag on them and labeled, buy color code. And this move was going to be a big one, across State. No big burly guys with pick up trucks for her!! Nope, she went and got her first, local moving quotes, then decided to do some more planning. Such as if using the local mover was a good idea. It turns out, she did her planning much better than I thought…or ever would have thought, even knowing her so well. I usually got boxes at the local grocery stores, or the liquor stores because they have great boxes with the bottle separators in them, so I could pack up breakables and not have them clinking together. Then the other belongings I just put in boxes figureing, I have to unpack the stuff, and put it away anyway, so it didn’t matter what when in which box. Elise is not me. While she was getting moving estimates I sort of was folding her towels and sheets, pillowcases and such. But NOT just throwing them in boxes, as she hadn’t come home with the “proper” ones yet. She called and said she was going with the long distance movers, and that she would get back to me. Oh…she did mention not to touch her kitchen…LOL!

My friend came back to her place from getting her moving estimates, she was very please and showed me everything online. Good Lordy, they do everything for you. I don’t know if I’d like a bunch of people packing up my things, but we’ll see how Elise like this smooth move. She is getting excellent rates, I must admit.

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A Grand Wedding!

I suppose everyone is blogging about the Royal Wedding. I know people who actually set their alarm clock to get up at 5:30 or earlier to watch it. I myself, got up at about 7:00 like normal, and missed it. Course there are lots of replays, but I have to say that due to the fact that I have been known to love hats, that is what I was looking at. LOL! Okay, I was watching most of the wedding on a replay, and had to love ole Katie’s on ABC,’s  input on the whole thing. Her comments had me in stitches a lot of the time. The wedding though, was indeed classy but not over done, and Kate looked beautiful, and not gaudy, as I don’t think she ever could in anything she wore. I wish them both well.

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Disaster

With all the recent tornadoes all over the South, I want to do something, especially for the people of Alabama. I feel all of these families who have lost their loved ones, homes and belongings. I have been trying to contact our local Red Cross here, with no luck what so ever. I had even thought about going down there to try and help any way that I could, and if it hadn’t been for my various jobs I have, I would. I’ve been getting clothes together here, and collecting some clothes from other, hence trying to get a hold of the Red Cross, as sad to say, I don’t trust the Good Will here. I’ll figure out something though. It’s so darn sad and devastating.

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The excitement of Award Shows!

Thanks for the article from Robin Woodard

Every year hundreds of award shows are shown on networks across the world. Many of them have derivatives of the same shows and have special events that tailor to the fan experience. If you have satellite TV from www.directstartv.com, you can sometimes access special interactive content for a specific shows, like The Tony Awards and the Video Music Awards, along with countless others, depending on if the provider has interactive content available. This feature is normally found on Dish Network channels.

One of my favorite award shows is the Grammy awards because of the prestigious awards that are given and the wild performances that happen every year. At the 2011 Grammy awards when Lady Gaga performed her new single “Born This Way,” I was quite amazed at her performance because she seemed to have energy and eccentric taste when it lead up to her performance. She was the most talked about celebrity of the night because of her creative stunt to arrive in an egg like shell to help promote her performance and her new single. I found this stunt very inspiring but some others found it weird however,  because it was something people didn’t understand.

Fashion at the Grammy awards is usually very elegant attire; though sometimes it can be a bit over-the-top. This years Grammy awards (2011) had beautiful attire worn by Miley Cyrus,  the girls from Glee,  Jennifer Hudson,  and even Ryan Seacrest was looking rather nice.

Ryan Seacrest is usually a good host and this year, he did well, like he usually does. In my view,  I would recommend watching award shows because they are entertaining, but also very inspiring. For those out there like myself who love music and are trying to get into the music industry, these award shows provide a sense of hope that one day,  we can achieve awards and the gift of walking on a stage with other stars for the work we have done.  So next time an award show comes on,  watch it. You’ll be glad you did.

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New shoes

I’ve decided to take my younger sister out shopping today. She is having a hard time financially, (aren’t we all) but I have saved a little bit of what I call, “shoe money”. She tries so hard to keep up a cheerful front, and I admire her for it. But everyone deserves a bit of pampering. Especially my little sister.

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Surprise, surprise…

I didn’t read the whole article, but gee…what a surprise, (sarcasm added) Lindsay Lohan is already out of jail after being sentenced to a mere 120 days, last week. This is justice? Pfffttt!!!

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Needing printers ink badly

Okay, so I said I don’t do much on Mondays, but I was sitting here blogging and wanted to check some things out on line about herbs for my garden. Even though it’s raining, I figure it has to stop sometime so  think on the bright side. It’s either make some plans for the garden, or perhaps look up how to build an Ark. Not that I want to take care of all the animals of the world, but hey…I really don’t want to row around, since I don’t know how to row, and just end up going in circles. I found some really great info I wanted to print out, got read to print and found I was out of ink jet cartridges. I hate it with that happens.

I’m tired of paying the costly price of ink at the office supply I go to. It’s unreal. I wanted to see if I could find some cheap ink. Which at the stores around here, is darn near impossible. So, I used my fingers instead of gas and leg work. Online I went once again…surfing instead of rowing at the moment.

I compared lots of online stores that had sold printers ink, but most of them didn’t have the ink I needed for my model of printer, as it is, I must admit a rather old one. Okay, it is really almost obsolete and there for awhile I though I really would have to get a brand new one. I was so happy when I came across a great site, with my brand that I need, at excellent prices…both black and color. I ordered a truck load. LOL! I couldn’t help myself. I love my old printer. I know my dear friend, who has been so faithful to me and helpful over the years. I know, I know…I’m a bit sentimental and also didn’t want to shell out the bucks for a new one right now. 😉