Month: September 2010

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The All Mighty Credit Score

It isn’t easy to start working on reaching a good credit score and it isn’t easy keeping it good when you finally achieve one. Life has become so difficult with tremendous credit pressure placed on us each and every time we turn around. People are being turned down for employment due to bad credit scores, now how crazy is that? I can understand the need and the concern for some high ranking and high paying jobs for the employee to have decent credit, but those are few and far between these days.

Due to our government’s screw up and our economy in the toilet, life has become a real struggle for so many of us. So the responsibility of keeping an eye on our precious credit score is up to us and using places like FreeScore.com can make that task a much easier one to tackle. I’ve heard stories, first hand about how a messed up credit report can play havoc on your financial situations, big time. What a nightmare, one that I really wouldn’t want to see anyone have to through.

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The Big Rescue

My nephew called me late last night needing to be picked up in town. Anything after 8:30pm is late around this place and this phone call came in at 10:05pm and I was stupid enough to answer the darn phone. My nephew and I don’t necessarily get along so he was really desperate to lower himself to call me to rescue him knowing that I have to get up early to take care of the farm and all.

But family is family and that is what family is for. So it made for a late night but all is well that ends well.

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How To Start A Fight, Part II

I took my wife to a restaurant the other evening. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. “I’ll have the rump steak, rare, please sir.”

He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”  I replied “Nah, she can order for herself.”

And that’s when the fight started…..

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How To Start A Fight

One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift…The next year, I didn’t buy her a gift. When she asked me why I didn’t buy her one, I replied, “Well, you still haven’t used the gift I bought you last year!”

And that’s how the fight started…..

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My Cousin’s Time of Need With Multiple Sclerosis

I know a few people that have Multiple Sclerosis, but to tell you the truth I don’t know a whole lot about MS but I’ve been doing a bit of research on the Internet and learning what I can. A cousin of ours has been experiencing Ms Symptoms and was recently diagnosed with MS so I figured I’d find out what I can and pass the information along to other family members as well. Knowledge is power and the Internet can provide us with a lot of knowledge, it’s unfortunate that my cousin doesn’t have Internet access, but most of the rest of the family does.

When I find good information I’m printing out what I find and will mail my cousin with what I can find that I think will be useful for him and his wife to use. His doctor wants him to follow a Multiple Sclerosis Diet and to exercise as much as possible. So I found a website allaboutms.com and found a Ms Diet and printed it out and put it in today’s mail to them. It’s a start and I’ll be finding out more as I go along and see if there is anything else that I can do for him in any way that I can. I’m just glad that they don’t live too far away from the rest of the family and I so that we can be there for him in his time of need.

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Cantaloupe

One of my favorite healthy snacks is the good old cantaloupe. There are only a few days that you can cut into and eat a cantaloupe before it gets too soft and mushy. That is always the challenge. I’ve had to throw away way too many melons, all types of melons, not just cantaloupe, that have gone bad throughout the years because I waited too long to cut them up. I’m trying harder to only buy them when i know I can get around to eating them either the same day or the next morning. Longer than that and I’m afraid I’ll be wasting the money.

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TV

The new fall TV season is here and there seems to be a lot of good shows that are hitting the air waves. I’m trying to remember all the ones that I want to check out. All I can say is that I’m grateful for my DVR so that I will be able to record a lot of the ones that I can’t be home to see.

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LA Ink

Kat is a trip on the television series “LA Ink”  this isn’t the type of show that I would normally watch, but for some reason I keep ending up watching LA Ink here and there. It is a drama filled night time soap opera laced with leather and tattoos and foul language and some really freakie people!