Finding the right kind of gifts for guys has always been a challenge for me throughout the years. So I was really tickled to find at smallflower.com some really unique products by edwin jagger that he has manufactured with a mixture of traditional English quality and style as well as adding to some pretty cool state of the art designs. It will be good to be able to give some gifts to the guys in my life that they just might actually like, enjoy, appreciate and use, instead of just some crap that was bought in haste without much thought or caring put into the whole process.
New Bathroom Flooring Is In Order
My bathroom flooring has become such a disaster that I’ve had just about enough of it and have got to buckle down and find the right replacement bathroom flooring. My brother-in-law, bless his heart, installed the flooring that is in there now and just like everything else that this man gets his hands on, it was a disaster right from the start. He didn’t use the right materials, nor the corrects tools and now I am stuck with the nastiest looking and feeling (yes feeling, it is all uneven, cracking and breaking up) bathroom floor that I’ve ever had the displeasure of stepping on.
This morning I could have sworn that I sliced my foot on the tiles in front of toilet. Thank goodness it didn’t really break the skin, but it came darned close. Having a cut on the bottom of your foot can really ruin your day, that’s a hard place to heal (excuse the pun, if you will) and band aids don’t want to stay on anywhere on feet so I consider myself very lucky that it didn’t go that far.
I am thinking that this time I should stay away from tiles and look for something that comes all in one piece that just needs to be rolled out, cut to size, along with some hard core glue to keep it from coming up and go from there. Instead of running around all over town looking at the various home improvement stores to find what I want and what I can afford, I’ll be spending my time looking online instead. Sounds like a plan to me.
Basement Wet & Nasty
Fix Wet Basement and have it waterproofed, these are my latest chores to be addressed, and ones that I have not looked forward to starting, but has now become necessary, I can only hope that I haven’t waited too long. When I can’t come up with someone that I know or am related to, to give my business to, it has become useful to use the Internet to find what you are looking for, which in this case it did provide me with a company with a website of B-dry.com that looks promising.
They have been in business since 1958, that is half of a decade, a good long time to be in business. An interesting tool is on their website, a tab labeled WET BASEMENT ANALYZER TOOL, which takes you to a page where you click on whatever your issue is and it tells you what could be the cause of your leaking basement might be, which I gave a try and it pretty much confirms what I believe to be the case in our wetness issues.
I have filled out the request for a Free Estimate and hope to hear from someone tomorrow, would like to go ahead and get this ball rolling.
Arts and Crafts Online
We keep hoping that an arts and crafts store will open up here in town. We used to have a Ben Franklins but that closed down years ago so now we have to drive almost an hour to get to a store to buy the arts and crafts that we want and need. Walmart has some items but for the most part we get our art supplies from MisterArt.com which is a great place to get all kinds of arts and crafts supplies at some great prices. Thank goodness for the Internet once again.
Dirty Money
Thought FOR THE DAY
I’m just passing this thought along …..
Have you ever wondered if the one dollar bills in your wallet were ever in a strippers’s G-string or possibly in some bums shoe?
If not, you’re wondering now.
Have a nice day .
(They say money is the dirtiest thing we handle)
Email Marketing Options
Was reading an interesting blog post about email marketing that my sister sent to me in a link on Facebook. As I have mentioned we are in the process of starting our own small family run and owned business and we are looking at various marketing options. The Yellow Pages are out of the question, it’s all about the Internet these days and those advertising options are a whole new ballpark for us. We have a lot to figure out, but we have plenty of time and aren’t going to rush into anything, baby steps, we want to do this thing right the first time.
The Right Tool for The Job
All website owners need an extra informational resource, you know something to help us with optimizing search engines, Online Marketing and web resources. I have found that websiteoffice.com offers me a lot of helpful stuff and even explains to me how to use it all, not the ordinary “we’ll let you download it but you figure it out so deal” This tool has made a lot of my web hosting a lot easier to bear and really less time consuming than going to multiple websites for all the same tools that I’m finding here folks
The Power of Search Engines
You just gotta love how you can go to a search engine, take Google for example, and type in just a few smart keywords such as “commercial litigation lawyers raleigh nc” and come up with some wonderful sites that fit the bill to a tee. I’m not sure if everybody really understands the power of search engines these days on the Internet, but I do know that more and more people are refusing to use the old fashioned paper version of their local residential and commercial phone books such as The Yellow Pages. I know mine go straight into the cardboard recycling bin as soon as I find them on the front porch or in the driveway. Who needs those when you have the power of the Word Wide Web at your finger tips.
Never Too Old to Learn
I have to tell you that I really thought that you had to be an IT in order to gain remote access to a computer, I mean every place that I ever worked at, if you had problems with your desk computer you called Tech Support and they somehow always managed to gain remote access to the darn thing and before you knew it, all was running smooth once again. Well usually that was the case any way. I always wondered how they could do that, but never thought to ask.
I was having issues with my laptop over the week end and was crying to blues to a friend when she told me that her cousin was a whiz with computers and could help me if I allowed her to gain remote access to it. That really through me for a loop and got my curiosity up and running.
After my computer was acting better, a shout out to my friend’s cousin by the way, I went online and looked around a bit on the subject of remote access and found that anyone can get the software that is needed to safely gain access to another computer. Remotepc.com has the means to securelyand quickly access your Internet enabled computer, whether it be at work or home. They even have a demo that is worth the time to check out and learn from if you feel the need to learn more as I did. Now I know!
Trendy Maternity Fashions Online at Kiki’s
My best and closest friend is soon to be a grandmother. Her oldest daughter has just announced her pregnancy and the whole family couldn’t be happier or more excited with the good news. The new baby is due to arrive some time in October, what a pleasant time of the year to bring a new little person into the world. Right before the holidays come into place.
Since her daughter will be in full “bloom” during the hot summer months, the hunt is on for maternity clothes that she will be cool and comfortable in in the heat and humidity. So far kikisfashions.com has been a big hit, they do have some of the trendiest and unique maternity clothes maternity styles for great prices. The days of wearing baggy clothes to keep comfortable while expecting are long gone and good looking clothes at discounted prices aren’t such a challenge to locate and afford these days.
I love this picture that was found at Kiki’s. What a cute shirt on a beautiful expecting woman.
