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The Cubs are Hubby’s choice of teams

Hubby has been a Chicago Cubs fan for ever and a day, his father was originally from “The Windy City” and they both went to the games all through-out his childhood and up until he moved down here right before he met me. As a matter of fact the first time I met him he was sporting a Cubs cap on his head.

I’m thinking of Father’s Day, which will be coming up in another month or so, and I want to get something different this year that will float Hubby’s boat real good.  I stumbled across a web-site www.cubworld.com that offers a nice selection of some cool Cubs gear along with other gifts and baseball memorabilia for die hard fans like him, things that just might put a smile on his face. I will call his Mom in the next couple of days when I have some time to chat and will pick her brain to see what she thinks he may like, she can go on-line and check out the goodies that CubWorld.com has and maybe she will choose something for his Dad for his Father’s Day gift also.

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Bush appears on ‘Deal’ to thank a contestant (and war vet)

I can’t believe that I missed this, bummer! 

Fri Apr 18, 8:02 PM ET

A presidential thank-you is part of the deal for a contestant on NBC’s game show, “Deal or No Deal,” when President Bush makes a surprise appearance.

The episode, airing Monday, features Capt. Joseph Kobes, as he attempts to win enough cash to pay off his parents’ home. But the dealmaking is briefly halted for Kobes, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient who has served in Iraq three times. Bush surprises him by appearing on a screen to express gratitude for his service and wish him luck in the game.

Bush’s message was taped at the White House.

The game of odds, hosted by Howie Mandel, calls for a contestant to predict the amount of cash contained in any of 26 sealed briefcases. The top prize for guessing correctly is $1 million.

No details were released on how Kobes, an Army transportation officer from Sumner, Wash., fared in his quest for the jackpot.

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Myspace madness

I had recently watched on the news that a teenage girl was brutally attacked and badly beaten all starting with Myspace. Myspace if you haven’t heard, is a website on the Internet allowing everyone and to make a profile about themselves and chat with friends, family, and everyone else in the world. Well I think Myspace from the looks of it, is a bad ideal to have simply because of all the beating and rapes that happen all starting with  Myspace. Something must be done here before anything else can happen. My oldest daughter got her MySpace up and running about a year ago and now the youngest one wants one, don’t know if that will happen!

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BIG Boxing news!

It appears that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com Wednesday. that last spring box office records were shattered when Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya met, says that they are close to finishing a deal for a rematch scheduled for either September 13th or the 20th of 2008, which will be viewed on HBO pay-per-view.

And guess what Hubby wants for his Father’s Day present this year, yes he wants some Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr. tickets even though they haven’t even decided where this main event will take place. Hubby says that it doesn’t matter where it will be held, that he will get there come hell or high water and that you can purchase the tickets already at on the web-site of .

I can’t say that I blame him, he has been an avid boxing fan since he was a little boy when he and his Dad would stay up late on nights that any boxing match was been shown on television.

I guess I better check it out and see if I can scrape up a little bit of extra cash so that I can make Hubby’s wish come true, it isn’t often that he ever tells me of anything that he wants for a gift on any of the many occasions that I have to give him something!

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Mommy is going to cook dinner tonight

Today my sister had sent me a few receipts over the Internet that her and her family seemed to enjoy, and I find them to be very different then what we usually eat in my household. My son and I are going to go shopping for the ingredients we need to make something new and tasty that the entire family will love to eat for dinner, plus I think I need to do more cooking, I’ve been slacking in that area lately. By the way I do love my husband’s attempt in “Southern cooking”, but I do think it’s time for mommy to step in and take charge of the kitchen once again, and have a part in sitting down with the family and smiling and enjoying our delicious new food experiences.

Full bellies before it’s time to go to bed of course, I always say, or you wont have a good night’s sleep. My son had told me that he wants to help mommy cook dinner tonight, which by the way I think is an absolute great and fantastic idea. I can’t wait to try out our new food creations, and hopefully we won’t burn the kitchen down in the process!

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Brother-in-law sends good news about his new job

Just received an interesting email from my brother-in-law with the subject line saying “heating and cooling PA”, it’s a darn good thing that I noticed it was from him, otherwise I would have deleted it thinking that it was spam. His email had told me that he had just landed a job with a wonderful company that he sent me the link to, for me to check out. The link is www.lowryelectric.com and after reviewing the site I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is around the Delaware and Pennsylvania area who is trying to find spectacular service with their Electric, heating and cooling needs.

He should do well with this job because he has been working in this field for years and its right up his alley. I hope that he will stay with this company for a good long while so that he can take advantage of the benefits that they offer because his wife is expecting their first baby in November this year and needs to have a job where there is not only great benefits but also wonderful people to work with to make his day go by quicker and feel more satisfied then his previous job.

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Girls night out!

I was thinking that tonight being a Friday night, that I was going to stay home and watch a little bit of TV and relax. Well one of my girlfriends from work had called me a few hours ago and wants me to go out with her to a nice bar/restaurant with two other girls from work.  Well I haven’t had a girls night out in a long time, so I had no idea what to wear, so I asked my daughter to help me pick something out to wear that’s casual but formal. As soon as we got to the mall, she dragged me into an awesome store with beautiful night out outfits all around. I wanted the whole store, but my daughter within 2 minutes of searching brought me a beautiful baby blue night dress with Rhine stones that went around the neck, and my first thought was “Yeah right! Maybe 20 years ago!” But I went into the dressing room and tried it on, and come to find out I wasn’t disappointed at all. I looked in that mirror and felt 25 again. When we came home, I tried it on and did my makeup and hair and went out to show my family I got a response I wasn’t expecting from my husband. He had said how beautiful I looked, and wished me to have a great time with the gals, and my daughter was smiling like she was proud, and my son was surprised. So now Im off to a great night out and enjoying the company of 3 wonderful girls whom I never thought would even talk to me, just for the fact that they are much younger and Im much much older. But I do believe Ill have a wonderful time tonight, and maybe get a few good friends out of it too. 

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Little brother is checking out Personal Loans

My youngest brother, who is still living right outside of the Washington D.C. area has been having the worst luck as of late.  He lost his job right after the Christmas holidays, then his car broke down and now his wife of four years is threatening to leave him if he doesn’t get his act together.

I know how hard it is to find work when you don’t have a car to get you to and from places, granted in the D.C. area there is an abundance of public transportation available but some people just aren’t into that and he is one of them.

I suggested that he go on-line and research some of the companies that are advertising loans even if you have a history of bad credit and I know that there are several out there, it is just a matter of sitting yourself down and checking them out to see which one best suits your needs.

I suggested a web-site that I am familiar with www.personalloanspro.com which specializes in bad credit personal loans.  I’m sure that he would be categorized in the High Risk Personal Loan area, but is alright, all it would take is a few moments of his time to sit down at his P.C. and apply for his free online approval where he would go to their secure server and apply in just a matter of minutes to see if they could help him out in his time of need with one of their Personal Loans.

We all need help once in a while, it is too bad that no one in the family is in the position to help him out, everyone is strapped for cash now a days, can you believe that gas in now $3.59 a gallon. Pretty soon everyone will be needed loans just to pay for gas for their vehicles and to heat their homes with, pretty scary thought isn’t it?

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Daughter wants to check out on-line an Auto Loan

         My Daughter has had her eyes on a certain 1991 Honda Civic, and I talked to her into checking out the Internet to see if they had an Auto Loans website to see if she was able to finance the car. So we checked it out, and come to find out she has bad credit. So I had told her to check it out again, to see if they had a website for Bad Credit Auto Loans, lo and behold she found one www.autoloansmania.com.

The website advertises Auto Loans for Bad Credit “No matter what your financial situation may be, we are here for you!” Sounds good to me, all we had to do was simply tell them what type of loan you were interested in getting approved for. Once you made a selection, you will be transferred to their secure auto loan application. “It couldn’t of been any easier than that” I said.

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Crazy Weathermen

We are trying to make plans for the week-end but the weathermen won’t make up their minds.

At first they were saying that it will rain on Sunday, then it changed to Sunday evening/Monday morning, now they are saying Sunday again, ugh, it makes it hard to plan things this way.

My youngest wants to invite her girlfriends over for a sleep over and I would like to take them to the park and possibly go creek walking with them. We love finding a creek and then walking in and around it while following where it takes us, we have been doing it for years now and the girls really enjoy it. We find all kinds of interesting things along the way and the girls get to see first hand how awful people are about littering, the creek is almost always full of all kinds of trash, which makes us very sad indeed. It ends up a learning experience for all of us in some way or another it seems.