Deep discounts at Big Lots

December 15, 2008

I love to shop at Big Lots. I find the neatest junk there. Their prices are right and I can waste time in there and truly enjoy myself just looking at the variety of stuff they have. I have been able to pick up a lot of scrapbooking items from there even though I don’t [...]

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What will break next?

November 14, 2008

Have you ever noticed that when one thing goes wrong, everything goes wrong?  It seems like everything will be working fine and life is going along nicely and then, bam, everything decides to break all at once.  We’ve been having some of those breaking moments around here.  Living in a house with three boys, those [...]

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Converting crumbled steps into a wraparound porch

November 7, 2008

My house is surrounded with gardens on all sides: flowers in the front and sides, vegetables in the back. Cars driving down the road often slow down as the drivers peer through their windows to catch a closer glimpse of the roses or azaleas or tulips or lilies in full bloom. Gardening has some sort [...]

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Spying on kids and watching them grow

October 17, 2008

In some ways it is hard to believe I have a child in preschool already.  Where has the time gone?  It seems like just yesterday that my husband and I got married and now here we are with 3 little ones, the oldest of which is in preschool.  It’s amazing how fast 6 1/2 years has [...]

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Improving the Vacuum Salesman Strategy

October 17, 2008

We’ve all slammed the door on that annoying salesman that seems to come right at the most inopportune moment. The kids are fighting, the bread is burning in the oven, the phone is ringing. Then a knock comes at the door. “Hi, would you like to see how the new Accu-Vacuum has more suction power [...]

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Corrective Lenses & the Optical Manufacturing Industry

October 2, 2008

In the world of medicine, it seems as though the most common prescription (at least in the United States of America) must be for corrective lenses. It doesn’t matter whether they’re the kind of lenses that set into frames, resting in front of the eyes or the kind of lenses that sit directly on the [...]

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Home Automation in my memories? Not quite.

September 25, 2008

I spent part of my morning creating two 12×12 scrapbook pages focusing on the first house my husband and I lived in.  We lived in Hudson, MI in a house provided by my husband’s work.  It was a really nice house, and, as I sat scrapping the pages, I remembered so many different wonderful things. I [...]

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Promote Your Transcription Business With USB Flash Drives

September 25, 2008

My best friend is in the process of selling her medical transcription business and since times are economically tough, I thought I would look into this venture and see if it was worth my while to invest in it. Having had almost no experience whatsoever in this line of work, I paid my friend a [...]

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