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Life sure is funny sometimes

You know how you can be just going along minding your own business when all of a sudden something comes along and changes everything?  Do you know what I mean?  Well that’s sort of what happened today.  Here I am trying to get these four apartments finished so the people that work for me can move in and what do you know, a whole apartment building was offered to me to buy.

Now I’m not talking a bunch of money either.  I’m talking cheap, as in thousands and not millions like you would think.  Well I’m thinking about it but the first thing I’m going to do is have someone really check the place out and make sure it’s not someone else’s problem they are trying to put off on me.

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Tax time will be here before you know it

Tax time gives me a headache.  If you’re like me and need state income tax help, then this just might be the place you need to go too.  I know some people have to file what they call an IRS innocent spouse form if their husbands are in over their heads with taxes but I know nothing about those types of forms. Thank goodness these guys do.

I need help with the IRS 941 which is payroll type issues.  All of this tax stuff is so far over my head that I know I have to have someone that understands it all like these guys do or I would really make a mess of it.

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Valentines Day is coming!!

I don’t talk much about my personal life and I’m not about to start now.  My personal life is just that, personal but one thing I will tell you is I have hinted around about what I want for Valentines Day.  I always get what I want too, or I better!!

I love a good quality watch about as much as any jewelry I have.  This year, I do need a new watch too. Bulova watches have always been my favorite because of the quality. They last forever and look great too.  Even though I already have three of them, a lady just can’t have too many.  This is the one I want Sugar!!

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Did you hear about this?

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut.

Forced to sit for eight days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the home owner’s insurance company claiming undue mental anguish.  Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

My question is why wasn’t he arrested for breaking and entering instead of getting money for breaking and entering and getting stuck??  What is this world coming to?

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They’re working hard again today

I will be so darn glad when they finish those apartments.  I’m getting tired of all the banging and beating and people all over the place.  Oh well, be careful of what you ask for because you just might get it is a saying I’m always saying.  Now it’s truer than ever.

It will take them about three more weeks and the whole thing should be finished.  I sure hope so because I’m about drained from all of the worrying and excitement of getting it all started.  I just want it finished now and I do mean NOW!!!  I’m sorry but I’m one of those ladies that has very little patience with something I want but people, I have too much patience sometimes.  I guess that’s a good thing.

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Looking for a boat lift?

Living as close to water as we do here in New Orleans, anyone that has property on the water has a boat lift. It’s almost necessary when it comes to the smaller storms that come through here. But if there’s a bigger one, then most people look for Boat Storage. It’s not a bad idea either with some of the hurricanes we get from time to time. Unfortunately even if your boat was in a boat storage unit, it didn’t help. Not much did then.  But like I said, if it’s just a small storm, the last thing you want is your boat in the water where it can get damaged by the dock or the rising tide.

Well the best boat lifts there are come from a company that has been in business for over 40 years.  In fact, Marine Travelift also appears at boat shows all over the world, in Helsinki, Finland and Dusseldorf , Germany just to name a few.  Their equipment was also seen in the last America’s Cup race in Spain.  As you all know, the America’s Cup race is one of the most prestigious regattas in sailing. Marine Travelift has had the honor of providing equipment to these teams that invest large sums of money into their sailboats so that has to tell you that they are the best or these teams wouldn’t have them.

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Pictures from Christmas Angels

Well I got the disposable cameras back from all of the families my Christmas Angel Tree gave gifts to yesterday and took them to a one hour photo place.  The pictures were wonderful, most of them anyway.  I decided to put them on my computer and try and crop some of them and see if I could clear some of them up but my computer started giving me all sorts of photoshop errors. Now when it comes to things like that, I’m lost.  I don’t know a darn thing about fixing errors like that or any kind of error message as far as that is concerned.

Luckily I found a blog that told me what to do to resolve the problem.  It said that one reason why the Photoshop might fail to respond or give you an error message is if it is in conflict with any other program in the computer. I tried re-installing Photoshop since it said that can help to work out the problem the program could be having that makes it give the Photoshop not responding message.  That fixed the problem but if you try it and that doesn’t work for you, check out the blog because it has several ways to fix it.  I hope that helps you if you are having the same problem.

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Well what do you think of our new President so far?

I have heard a lot of what local people are saying about the changes President Obama has made so far and most of them think he’s headed in the right direction.  Most of the country must think so too with his approval rating I just heard about this morning on the news.  He has a lot to deal with and seems to be on the ball.  That’s good because that’s what we need is someone that’s aware of what’s going on.

I remember seeing President Bush’s face when someone asked him what he thinks about the price of gas being nearly $4 a gallon when it was that high.  President Bush looked at the reporter and said “Is gas really $4 a gallon?”  That’s pretty bad when the President doesn’t even know how much gas costs when the gas companies are gouging us like they have been for the past several years.  Oh well, hopefully President Obama will even do something about that too.

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Coupons everywhere

I just told you about a coupon site that I love.  Well I have found another one called Coupons Us.  Maybe you didn’t find the coupons and coupon codes you wanted, which I doubt very seriously, but just in case and you’re still looking for a discount code on something you need, maybe you’ll find it on us coupons. It’s worth a shot so give it a try.

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I just might borrow money for the apartments

You know, it might not be too smart to take my savings and build the apartments over my business.  With the economy as it is, I might need to hang on to my money and just get a business loan.  Sure the apartments will help my business but most of the people that will live in them already work for me and basically will trade work for rent.  Some of them have other jobs and work for me part-time but that’s okay as long as they make enough working part-time to pay for the apartment.

I was checking out online business loans and found one that also provides Franchise Loans. I’m not looking to buy a franchise but it’s good to know there are finance companies that will provide funds for someone that’s looking to buy a franchise.

One thing I did do is get a credit card machine.  I didn’t have one and there have been a lot of people asking to charge or use their debit cards.  Now I can put a sign in my window saying I now accept credit cards and debit cards.  I bet that will help my business too.  In fact, I’m pretty sure it will.  Not to mention, there’s not a million papers you have to fill out with these guys.  It was easy to get everything I needed.