dot com?

I know I have said this often enough in this blog but I think I am doing it this time, I am migrating this blog to wordpress. Maybe with its own domain name when I figured out what to name it. Perhaps it is time. I just need to figure out how to do it and make sure I do it right. I might even get another web hosting account if I can afford it. So, before long this will be another dot com blog. Excited!

staying close to friends

Content by Sol Rosales.

I have loved being able to stay in touch with my friends from college. It definitely wouldn’t be possible without my clear wireless internet Franklin. Today, it is just so difficult to catch anyone on the phone. My friends and I all have full-time jobs and husbands. We really don’t get to see our husbands during the day, so when we get home, we are usually spending time with them rather than having time to chat on the phone. Then there are the other obligations. Everyone that I am close to has always been a real busy body. We tend to spread ourselves too thin. The one thing that is easy about the internet is that you can e-mail at any time without disturbing anyone. It just makes everything that much easier. I don’t know what people did about staying in touch before they had e-mail. Sometimes my friends and I will just confirm plans over the internet and not even talk on the phone. Just ten short years ago, that would have been virtually unheard of!

enjoying the warm weather

The husband and I are celebrating Valentine's Day with the kids in sunny Florida. It will only be for a few days but we are happy we are here. It is sunny and warm and the kids are being good. We could've went without the little terrors but we know we will not enjoy our vacation without them so we brought them with us and we are having fun. We are not spending a lot of money, nor are we going places in the next few days. We are just going to relax, laze in the pool, eat, enjoy each others company, and enjoy the sight and the tourists. It is a good thing we have a room right in the heart of where all the action is because we do not have to drive anywhere. We may not have a lot of money but we are happy. Life is good!

a new phone?

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sprint for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

My husband and I have been on Sprint for years. We started in 2007 after a bad experience with another phone company but we think of that bad experience as a blessing in disguise because it made us look around for a different phone provider and found one that we are absolutely happy about. Middle of last year I upgraded my phone to HTC EVO 4G that I am content with. I thought it was a good deal until I read about Sprint's limited time online only sale. If I waited a few months I could have gotten the HTC EVO™ 3D for $49.99 just by adding another phone to our account. I paid a hundred dollars to get my smartphone. I am happy about it but if I knew this is going to happen I could have waited and saved money. But I did not know so I could not own this baby 

Like I said though, I do not have problems with my phone so it does not hurt as much, lol. We have been looking for a phone for the husband who is due for an upgrade soon so we will see if he will want the HTC EVO 3D or the Nexus S™ 4G which does look well too. He is not a techie person so he will need to practice but I think he should take the best offer. The Nexus S 4G comes free with either a new line of service or if added to our account. These are two good deals that we can choose from. I hope this promotion runs longer so we will be able to avail of it. I have read reviews on the Nexus too and I think I like what I read. It does look sleek too.

What do you think? Which one is better? I think free is better than anything else :)

a little bit of help

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

When I lost my insurance, I started to pay full price for my prescription. It was not easy considering the fact that when I had an insurance my prescription was covered so most drugs I purchase from the pharmacy I did not have to pay a dime. It was hard but we got by albeit with a bit of frustration every time I refill my prescription. The pharmacist was so good to help me lower the price of my prescription after she noticed that I have been paying full price for months. I do not know what she did but instead of paying full price, I got a discount of ten dollars every month. It was a huge help and I have always been grateful of what she did. It is always better when a person gets help when she needs it. That is why I have been telling friends and relatives about the Walgreens Prescription Savings Club which is right now offering a special discount of having only to pay $10 for an annual family membership. This covers everybody in the family including kids 22 years old and younger. While individual may join at $5. This should provide a lot of savings and benefits for any family who will be interested to join. I might let my family avail of this promotion because every little thing that saves money will be a great help for us in this hard times. If you or anybody you know will benefit from joining the Walgreens Prescription Savings Club, do not hesitate to join or tell your friends. You can follow Walgreens on Twitter for more updates or you can like Walgreens on Facebook to get more information as well as updates on whatever promotion the company is running to help us save a little money here and there.

free education

Guest post written by Joseph Finch.

If I didn’t have direct tv dish I don’t think that I would have ever learned to cook. I never grew up working in the kitchen with my Mom. I was simply not interested in cooking and didn’t think forward to the time when I would be married and have a family. I have had to learn how to cook the hard way because we live so far away from my parents. Learning actually hasn’t really been that hard. I learned the basics from reading techniques books but have perfected my skills by gathering a lot of information from, you guessed it, the Food Network aka my favorite Channel. After I got the basics down and started learning expert techniques and also fancy French cooking terms from the Food Network, I have been on fire. My wife says that I rival any classically trained gourmet chef. I would love to go to Culinary school, but it is really expensive. I feel like my training ( and it is good at that) has come from soaking up as much as I can everyday from the Food Network. A simple and free Chef’s education!

free space

We bought an expensive indoor swing for the little girl. She only used it a few times then she started being unhappy strapped in it so we stopped putting her in the swing. It had set for a long time in the living room that I got tired of looking at it. The little man has been swinging in it which makes me nervous because I know it is not made to hold an older child much less get abused that way. It might just give one day and before that happens I decided to tear it down. I mean, disassemble it. I had to figure it out for days what I will need and how to go about doing it and today was just the day I decided to work on that plan. I thought it was pretty easy considering how the screws and stands were getting out pretty fast, until my fingers got caught and one screw refused to budge. I wanted to throw the damned thing away but I could not do it knowing the husband will roast my a#$ for it, lol. He did buy the swing and refuses to disassemble it saying his kids were happy where it was at. Well, mommy was not happy so she did what she could then left what I could not tear apart for him to deal with. He could not do anything seeing the mess I made that he finished what I started mumbling about things I did not want to hear. Lol. Now the swing, or what was left of it, is in a box. I am trying to figure out how to sell it. I am not giving it away because it is fairly new and rarely used. If I can find a way to post it on Craigslist or the local sell and trade I should get about $50 for it which will be my asking price (a third of how much was paid for it). But, I have to convince the husband this is the way to do it. He might not want me to sell the swing for sentimental reason. After all, he did buy it for his daughter brand new because he said he will not let his daughter use somebody else cast-off. I was told after the deed that in no certain terms will I be disassembling anything in the house when he is not present. I said yes. That is, for now, since I am so happy with the space that was freed after the swing was gone.

brand new business

The Author of this post is Solomon Dejesus

When I decided to get my brand new business off the ground it was a really tough call. There’s no way to know whether or not it’s going to work but I’m just excited to be doing it once and for all – I’ve always had a really entrepreneurial streak. I can’t believe there are so many ways to make money nowadays but you know, it’s up to you to decide how you can make bank off of any given idea. Anyway, I’m trying to make my consulting business as professional as possible from the get go because that means I’ll be able to land more clients so I’ve been working on things like getting a smallbusiness.xo.com/ business package and a small office space near downtown I can meet potential clients in. I think it won’t be long before I figure out how to run this operation smoothly and really be the boss of my own destiny. I can’t believe I’m a small business owner after so many years working so hard for “the man”, you know?