Archive for April, 2010

A Pen Pal and A Funny Shirt

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Since I was young, I always had this pen pal from the Philippines. I remember writing her a letter since I was twelve years old. We never missed writing letters since every month. What I mean is we always write back at each other no matter how long the time it took us to reply. We always reply to each other. We always have stories to tell each other. Ten years after, she’s done with college and I was working for a t shirts company.

I had to stop working because I was worked as an assistant in t shirt company right after I graduated from high school. Her latest letter was asking me for t shirt. She said I worked for a shirt company and yet I was not able to send her a shirt. I knew she was just joking. But she has been a very kind pen pal, she already sent small gifts to me and she always has pictures for me about the most important events in her life. I wanted to give her a t shirt but I could not contact my previous company before.

So, I bought her a lot of shirts online from my favorite online store and sent it to her. My pen pal was so happy that she called me and say thank you personally and asked me where I bought the funny t shirts. Her friends loved it too.

Possibly Starting A One Way Link Building Service

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I have often thought about starting up my own one way link building service and running it from my house. I know that some of the one way links companies started that way and some of them have grown really quickly.

I mentioned this one way link building service to my brother and he also liked the idea. He has no idea what one way links are, but I know that I can teach him very quickly and we would make a great team. The only thing that we would have to look into, is upgrading my electric service, but that would not take too much. I am sure that with all the electronics we would need, my current service could not support it. Maybe if we looked into a small business loan, we could get everything we needed including some new computers.

Screen Replacement Was Long Overdue

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I have contacted a few of the screen replacement Tampa companies to see how long it would take them to do some work that I need done on some of my screen windows. Two of the four told me that it would be months before they could get to me. The other two were able to squeeze me in the following weekend for estimates.

They ended up showing up to my home within the same hour, so I had two companies actually fighting for my business I guess you could say. I really think that them showing up at the same time played a huge part in the price that I actually got and settled on.

I can’t wait now to finally have new screens in my sun room that was put in years ago by an up and coming screen room Tampa contractor I found in the yellow pages. I have just really neglected the sun room and the cleaning of the screens which I think played a big part in how quickly the screen deteriorated. For the money that I have spent on the screen replacements and the room to be built itself, I must promise myself to take better care of it.

Not Going To Sell Structured Settlement Payments

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

The whole amount of my structured settlement is going to be enough for me to pay for off all of my credit cards. I am planning on making my payments and then seeing if I can possibly out the rest of the money down on a new house. I may have to look into how to sell structured settlement payments if the left over amount is not enough for the house that I choose.

My friend told me that when her parents did sell structured settlement payments that they had coming, it was the best thing that they could possibly do. They were able to get about seventy five percent of the money that they were owed up front and then the left over amount was actually put towards the interest of them getting the money upfront.

I tried to write down all the good reasons to do that but instead I just figured how much money I would be losing and it was way more than way more than I wanted to lose out on. So, the chance to sell structured settlement payments is something that I may look at again down the line but for right now, I think that I am just going to make it work with what I am going to get very soon.

Good Candidate For Invisalign Braces

Monday, April 5th, 2010

When we moved out east, we had to find a good family dentistry office that we could all go to. I did not like taking the kids to a different dentist than my husband and I so we asked around and found a really good family dentistry office that was very close to us.

The first visit to the dentist, for the whole family since I like us to all get done on the same day, we found out that my daughter was a good candidate for Invisalign braces. I know that you are supposed to wait until the child loses all of their baby teeth but her teeth were so crooked, that I did not mind paying to have them done twice, if that is what it took.

The dentist told us that since the Invisalign braces were not that noticeable, most of her friends would not even notice that she had them. Then, if she did have to have them again down the road, she could go for the fun colorful ones that all the kids seem to like. I was all for whatever he thought was best and whatever would make her smile improve. I knew that it would not be over night, but in time her teeth would start to look normal.