Category Archives: Opinion

Read The Writing on The Wall

Posted by Santi on February 3, 2012 None comments

Call me old fashioned but……in a world that has become so high tech and the majority of people communicating via emails, twitter, the Internet, texting, Facebook and the like, the art of sending things in the mail is becoming a lost art. Don’t get me wrong I understand why folks are turning to these methods, but things like receiving First Holy Communion Invitations, Baby Shower Invitations, Wedding Invitations and Baptism Invitations as well as Thank you notes that are at least addressed and signed in a persons hand writing means a whole heck of a lot more to me and numerous other people that feel the same way.

The reason I’m bringing this up is that I received one of the prettiest Quinceanera Invitations in today’s mail that I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing and it dawned on me that it had been a long time since I’ve received any invitations in the mail and it really touched me. I’m so excited to attend a Quinceanera celebration in many moons and I’m really looking forward to going. Things have been pretty quite since the holidays have come and gone, so I’m ready for some fun and celebrate such an occasion with some awesome people that I haven’t seen in a long time.

If the price of postage stamps keep going up as frequently as they have been these last few years, I fear that I’ll never receive anything in my home mailbox. I just found out that the price of post cards went up again, which is disturbing, not that I use post cards very often, but if the post card stamps goes up then you can bet that the rest of the postage rates will be following in suite pretty soon. I hear that Saturday mail delivery will soon be a thing of the past, but if that is what it will take to help keep the price of postage down then I’m all for that change. Basically all I get in the mail is junk mail and/or bills so not receiving these items on Saturdays is no big loss for me at all.

 

 

Traffic Mess

Posted by Santi on January 29, 2012 None comments

The traffic today was horrible on my way home tonight I saw five accidents just in the twenty two miles that I traveled. Out of the five wrecks that I saw, four of them included red cars. I have written before about the link between bad drivers and red cars, I feel that as soon as you sit in a red car your IQ drops twenty-five points, add in using a cell phone and a wreck is sure to happen. Drive safely and do not buy red cars.

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.

Women’s Health Issues And More

Posted by Santi on January 21, 2012 Comments Off

I just love having so much information at the tips of my fingers when ever I want or need it. I used to spend a lot of time at the library and at the local Border’s Book Store (which has since gone out of business) but now I don’t have to go anywhere with my high speed Internet access with Verizon.

One of my favorite websites that talks a lot about women’s health issues and various other subjects related with today’s women is Lifescript.com. I always find interesting articles that I can use for my personal everyday situations, so I thought that I would pass the good word about this site along here on my blog. There is always something new and interesting relating to women’s health that is being discovered and I like to try and keep up with as much as I can. If you don’t have your health your life can spiral out of control and make everyone elses life just a miserable and misery really does love company.

You can even find them on Facebook, which is the biggest social networking system going on today. I’m so glad that I finally jumped on board with Facebook and I can’t wait to see what else become possible with Facebook in the future, I mean the possibilities are literally endless.

Friday the 13th

Posted by Santi on January 13, 2012 Comments Off

I find it interesting that so many people have a real fear of Friday the 13th, some people will not even leave their home on that day! I have never had an issue with any Friday the 13th but it seems that a lot of folks have some pretty freaky stories to share about things that have happened on a Friday the 13th. This year we have 3 months that give us a Friday that falls on the 13th, January, April and July.

Did you know that the longest period that can occur without a Friday the 13th is fourteen months, either from July to September the following common year (e.g. between 2001–02, 2012–13, and 2018–19), or from August to October the following leap year (e.g. between 1999-2000 or 2027–28).