Month: April 2009

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So many need help

With so many people losing their jobs these days, a lot of them are looking for a new career.  I think that’s a wonderful idea too.  So many people have had jobs that are simply disappearing and once they’re gone, they’re gone so going back to school and taking classes and possibly getting a degree or new career is the best chance they have.  I know several guys that are now going to a heavy equipment operator school.   Not only do they train you to operate heavy equipment but they also help you find a job.  That’s a huge plus to this school I think.

One of the guys that I know that’s going to school there even got a scholarship to help pay for his school.  He was working for a textile factory in the south and we all know how fast those jobs are going away.  There’s not much hope of him finding another job in that same industry.  Another friend works in a low paying job and really needed a better job since he’s getting married and wants to start a family.  Well these jobs as a heavy equipment operator pay very well so that was his best chance of getting a better paying job.  Even women are taking classes with them which I think is great.

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I learn something new everyday

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo DaVinci invented the scissors.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. (Do you doubt this?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to “do” this one.)

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You do not doubt this, do you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

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Lots of people waiting for their tax refund

I know so many people that are hoping and praying their tax refund comes soon so they can get out of the financial bind they have gotten themselves into just trying to make ends meet.  Some of them have gotten into trouble because of credit cards and are trying to stop what they feel is the only option which is to file bankruptcy.  The economy has hurt so many good people that have never had financial trouble before and they just don’t have any idea what to do but bankruptcy isn’t the answer all of the time.  There are other options available that not enough people know about.

Finding a quality online bank can be tricky business. The best bank deals can be hard to find. If you’re interested in locking in interest rates you should take a look at this list of the best CD rates. Always remember to stay under the FDIC limits though. It’s especially important with the state our banks are in.

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Didn’t Barbi just turn 50?

Didn’t I see that the doll Barbi just turned 50?  Well she has aged way too good.  To celebrate, they need to make a new Barbi.  A friend of mine sent me this picture and I thought it was perfect and just had to share.

It is about time this happened to her….

fat-barbi

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A lot of places still have water restrictions

The drought we have been going through the past couple of years has made a lot of people more water conscious.  Did you realize that you could save enough water to fill a swimming pool by changing your old toilet to one of the  low flow toilets?  Well you can.  You’ll also save yourself a lot of money if you pay a water bill.

Just imagine this.  A regular toilet uses about 3 and a half gallons of water to flush your toilet while a dual flush kit uses only 2.1 gallons of water.  You conserve over a gallon of water that way.  Now on the average, you probably flush your toilet about 10 times a day.  You’re saving over 13 gallons of water a day.  That adds up quick.

Here’s the best part, you don’t even have to buy a new toilet to save that much water.  The dual flush retofit on most standard toilets saving you even more money.  I like saving money, and conserving water too, don’t you?

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Remodeling is good I guess

I haven’t said anything to my mother yet but I really wish she would leave the beach house alone and not remodel it.  That was Daddy’s favorite place in the world and I can still smell him there.  When I really miss him and need to feel close to him, that’s where I go.  He did a lot of the work on the house himself and it has his special touches like that plug that’s half way up the wall in the middle of nowhere.  I think that’s what you might call a home having character.  I call it what makes a home a home even if it is a vacation home.  I bet that plug is one of the first things Mom will do away with too.

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Now Mom wants to remodel the beach house

My parents had a house in Virginia beach that we have had some wonderful times in.  Well Mom is redecorating her home and now wants to remodel the beach house.  She found someone to do the work on Virginia Beach remodeling after I helped her find someone to do her remodeling on her house.

She’s a pretty smart cookie and figured out how to find someone there if they had a site for around here, then they must around there. She was right.   I’m pretty proud of her being able to find someone on the computer like she did.  I also checked them out and they are not ripping Mom off so she did good.

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More lost in shootings?

What is going on in this country?  I just don’t understand why someone would walk into a nursing home and start killing innocent elderly people like that man in North Carolina did last week.  Now today there’s a man that walked into an immigration office and up to 13 people have died from that shooting.  There for awhile it was people that worked in the post office that was walking into where they worked and killing people and that’s how we got the stupid saying of “Going Postal’ on someone.  Then it was in the schools that students were walking into and just killing as many people as they could.  Now it seems like this can happen at any time at any place.  I just don’t understand what’s going on at all.  Isn’t life precious to anyone anymore?

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Another friend moving away

A good friend of mine lost her job here and found another one in Massachusetts so I now have another friend moving away.  She does have some family up there but needed an apartment.  Luckily she found out about Central Mass apartments from one of her family members.  This web site is helps people to find not only apartments but also to find homes to rent.  One thing I found most useful on this site, as did she, is the fact that you can search for an apartment by area, or by size, or by price and even by price range too.  That way you don’t have to go through a lot of places that you wouldn’t be interested in.

She only needs a one bedroom apartment since she’s single and is open to a couple of different areas.  Luckily she knows something about the areas she wants since she has been there before.  They tell you about the area too just in case you don’t know anything about it.  I found the site quite easy to use which also is a huge help since some web sites like these aren’t nearly as easy to maneuver around.  If you’re planning a move to central Massachusetts, I suggest you check these guys out.  I bet you’ll find an apartment easily there.

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Not a good sign if you ask me

I was just reading where 1 in 10 Americans is now on food stamps.  That’s absolutely awful.  That to me shows how much trouble our economy is in.  It’s not like the tremendous job losses wasn’t enough to tell me that but you just don’t seem to realize the impact of all of those job losses until they start talking about all of the foreclosures and now the use of food stamps.  The article I read said that the average amount of food stamps benefit was $112.82 per person in January.  That’s monthly not weekly either.  That’s barely enough to feed a person for a month.  I sure hope things turn around soon for all of those people and am so thankful I still have my job for now anyway.