Category Archives: Family

Kids Lockers for Twin Boys

Posted by Santi on January 30, 2012 None comments

My sister is getting anxious to get her twin son’s bedroom redecorated as soon as possible, since it really isn’t set up to accommodate 2 kids. I’ve been helping her with the planning and decorating as much as possible. She seems happy with my suggestion of purchasing kids lockers to put in there. The lockers for kids these days have really come a long way and are a great way to help keep all the things organized and put away. With two boys sharing one room they are going to need all the help that they can get.

There are numerous childrens lockers out there in various shapes, sizes, colors, materials and price ranges. So I have been doing a bit of research on my own time trying to find the best match for her needs and wants, while on a tight budget. I love the look of this particular model. The dry erase paneled doors on it make a great way to communicate and it has 4 sections and 8 cubbies all in one. And it comes fully assembled, you just gotta love it.

Student Loans

Posted by Santi on January 28, 2012 None comments

As it has been many, many years since I was in college, and I remember that student loans were the main reason I was able to go to college and I really appreciate the fact that student loans were there to help me. Now that my own children are getting ready to start their college experience I am so very glad there is still a great student loan program for them to use when they are ready to start school.

We have started looking for different student loan programs to get a feel for what is available and what we have found amazes me. Credit Loans has a great web site that has so very much information, it was almost overwhelming at first to see that much information on one site.

This fine web site was able to give me answers to all of my questions about student loans and to help my daughter decide which kind of student loan she would need this fall when she goes to college. The lowdown on student loans, was the most helpful section and encouraged me to go ahead and apply for a student loan for myself and to finish my degree that has been hanging for 26 years. I really want to thank this fine program for helping both of us get set up for our student loans and thanks for having such a great web site.

Sexual Harassment Videos

Posted by Santi on January 22, 2012 Comments Off

One thing that I really loved about working for Nationwide Insurance so many years ago was all of the training that they provided us. Most of it took place at the Regional Office which was over fours away, so that meant that we were usually put up in a hotel and were provided with an expense account which was always such a blast for me and the other employees that I drove down with. I just loved the idea of spending a night away from home in a nice hotel and being able to eat out instead of having to do the cooking myself. A mini vacation for a working mother such as myself.

These days the Internet has made it possible to keep employees from having to travel so much by bringing a lot of training right to them, saving companies a good amount of money along the way. Now a days there are sites like securityawarenesstraining.com that have everything that you need for employees to learn about all kinds of awareness training. They even have sexual harassment videos through this site, and we all know how important sexual harassment training is in today’s work place.

But what they really need is to really take action on people that are still continuing to sexual harass others at work. My oldest daughter seems to find herself being harassed at every place she finds employment. Trying to prove this behavior isn’t easy and she always ends up leaving while the idiots still continue on making money and taking advantage of girls/women. Managers are crooked, video tapes get lost or erased and the abuse just keeps on keeping on, a sad state of affairs. If my daughter wasn’t legally an adult at this point you can bet I’d be sticking my nose into and lighting some fires under some hind ends.

Moms New Face

Posted by Santi on January 3, 2012 Comments Off

You can imagine how surprised I was when on a recent trip back to Oklahoma to see my mom, I discovered that she had some plastic surgery done on her face and it has completely changed the entire way she looked. Cosmetic Surgery was never spoken about around our home, I do not think as I was growing up that I had known any one family member or family friends who had plastic surgery done. Now days it is the norm rather than the oddity.

I must say that my mom looks twenty years younger and I know she feels twenty years younger. I think it has changed her life for the better getting cosmetic surgery done. More and more people are getting cosmetic surgery done everyday and the results are fantastic. Not only movie stars and rock and roll singers but normal everyday people.

Make Yourself Amazing is the great web site my mom has used to get her cosmetic surgery and I think they have a very nice web site with lots of information and assistance for people looking to improve themselves.

The Fixing of Credit

Posted by Santi on December 22, 2011 Comments Off

I got the most pathetic email from one of my nieces begging me to help her get her dream car financed for her. She is currently out of work, lives at home and has serious bad credit issues for someone of her young age. Her folks haven’t got the kind of money that is needed to help put a decent down payment on any type of car, much less this dream car that she has fixated her self on recently. Times are hard, people are losing the jobs, their 401k’s, their homes, not the best of times for looking for family members to help bail you out. We are all feeling the pinch, people are scared and rightfully so, with the economy in the toilet, with no end in sight.

I would rather come to her aid with a plea from her in assisting with “help me fix my credit” issues, that would be an easier request at this point. If she were to try and finance a decent vehicle in these times, I’m sure that she will be stuck with an extremely high interest rate, one that would set her up for failure from day one. She needs to buckle down and get a job and learn how to fix credit reports and earn her dream car the old fashioned way, with a little blood, sweat and tears, instead of dealing with best credit repair service issues at this point.