With the price of everything going through the roof the only way I can see the family taking a vacation this year is to get a vacation loan. After doing some searching I found a great site to apply for a vacation loan. When applying for these Vacation Loans you only need to have a job, a phone number, and either a savings or checking account and VacationLoan.com will help get you the money you need. It is so nice to find someone who will help in these tough times. Check it out and I think you will be pleased with this site.

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.

My gypsy mother is on the move again, she is selling her beach home and moving to New York City to be near her sister. I know she is having fun in her retirement and I am glad she is happy. I know searching for Manhattan real estate can be a nightmare. She will need the very best agent in the city to help her on this journey.

The agent she is using, Prudential Douglas Elliman is New York’s Largest Real Estate Company, and have 60 offices in the New York area. I have faith that they will be able to assist my mother in her new home search. 1 out of every 5 household does business with Prudential and I am happy to have that level of service for my mom.

It seems every time it rains my windshield wipers quit working, then amazingly they will start by them selves and then stop again. Get in the truck with no rain in sight and they work fine. I think my truck is haunted. It has some other nasty habits but the windshield wipers are the most annoying one for sure.

I love my truck but if I can not get the windshield wipers fixed I may have to get rid of her can not be going on a road trip and have the wipers not work.

I keep hearing on the news almost every day about how the consumers are having trouble with their credit cards. So many of the credit card companies are arbitrarily raising people’s interest rates, or cancelling their cards, or lowering their limits. People are being warned that this kind of thing could happen to anyone, and people are starting to panic over how this is going to have a negative effect on their credit score.

If our economy is going to improve, we can’t put up with this kind of treatment! We need to take the time to compare credit cards and get the best deal we can get by using websites that give credit card reviews. I’ve recently opened up a No Interest Credit Card account that I found by using the Finance Globe website. I’m going to make sure to use it at least once a month to ensure that it is not cancelled due to non-use. I have good credit, and I hope that I will be able to hold onto my credit cards! But, if I run into snags, I know there are places I can go to try to get good deals on other cards!

How does it seem that we always hear about movie stars and athletes that carry guns to the airport and get caught. How does someone with normal intelligence not remember that they happened to have a gun in the one bag they choose to carry on the airplane. The list of people who had this stupid moment in their lives is huge. John Smith of Nowhere USA does not try to carry a gun on the plane why do the celebrities think they get a pass on this law.

Been spending some of my extra time (and there isn’t a whole lot of that to go around these days) online with a buddy who is considering relocating to the big state of Texas. Now this guy isn’t the most computer literate person in the world, so I help him out when and if I can. He is highly qualified in the cleaning and restoration business, with years of experience in this field. His wife’s family lives in the Austin area and they are needed down there to help out with aging parents issues in a very quarreling and totally dysfunctional extended family. No one has a lot of money to throw around to help them with all that goes along with up and moving, thank goodness they don’t have any children that can throw many other issues into the whole mess.

I have spent the evening utilizing Google with phrases like “fire odor removal austin” and “fire damage services austin” and just for grins and giggles I even tried “fish odor removal austin” to see what is going on in that line of business down there and got some names and numbers for him to follow up on. I really like what I saw at http://www.thesteamteam.com/. I’ve sent a few emails out and am using my email to respond to if needed. Hopefully we will get through this and get them up and running as soon as possible. These are good people and I hate to see them leave the area.

This Christmas I have been invited to fly up to New York City to spend the holidays with an old high school friend who I haven’t seen in so very long. She moved up there to the big city shortly after high school and we have been keeping in touch via emails, texting and now there is Facebook that we have been enjoying as of late.

She has never married and has a great social life spending a good amount of time at the Gay bars and the Coffee Shops that are so abundant in New York City, especially in her neighborhood. She works at one of the high end Hotels and has met a lot of people from all walks of life and has made a lot of contacts along the way, which she can’t wait for me to meet and get to know on my trip up there.

Besides seeing a good friend, it will be nice to spend Christmas at one of the finer Restaurants that she is always bragging about eating at, without me having to spend the day cooking here for the whole family, which is something that I always end up doing year after year after year after year…….

On the way into town on Friday, 11-11-11, I just had too stop and say thank you, take a picture, and shake the hand of this dedicated Veteran who does this every Veteran’s Day from dusk until dawn. Something I will never, ever forget and hope that he continues to do this for years to come. God Bless America and least I forget to say “Welcome Home” to all the Vietnam Vets that were never told those two simple words!

We took our grandson David to get his hair cut and while we were there we decided to get our hair cut too. It was raining so hard it was horrible, the lightning was very scary too. We noticed a couple of trees on the way home that had been struck by lighting and I was very glad that we were inside during the worst of the storm I have a very healthy fear of lighting and the damage it can do a good friend of ours was killed while standing on his porch smoking and it was not even raining at the time of that storm.

We took our nephew, David to the zoo this weekend and he loved it. He has been to the zoo several times and he still gets a kick out of it, and for that matter so do I. It has been several years since I have been to a nice zoo and going to the Nashville Zoo was a treat. The weather was nice for an outing we got there between rain storms and the weather was cool and nice. I think David liked the elephants the best, he talked about how big and massive they were and that was his word a pretty big one for a 6 year old, he is growing up so fast it is amazing.

My High School that I attended in Oklahoma I just found out is playing in the state finals in football. The last time I talked to my sister the team was in turmoil and did not look very good and then today she springs on me that the team is in the state finals, I was flabbergasted. I am very proud of the football team at Lavern Oklahoma and I would really like to be there to cheer them on but it will just have to be in spirit, Nashville is a very long ways to travel for a football game.

In August, every year before school starts back in session, we take a huge family vacation, mainly to let the kids have some fun before school starts. This year we are loading up and heading south to Rocky Point Mexico, this has been a vacation spot that I have wanted to go to since I was in school, many years ago.

This Rocky Point vacation is going to be one that we remember for a long time. We booked our travel with a great web site, Oceano Rentals has a vast selection of rentals on the beach and I was very excited with the price it was outstanding. They have everything from rentals to properties that the owners are trying to sell.

We will be staying at Casa de Dolphin Azul it is a beautiful brand new property that has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. It will fit our family of eight in it nicely. The trip will be one that the entire family will enjoy and the entire family has worked hard this summer and they deserve a nice trip before school starts. I think we will try and make this trip to Rocky Point Mexico a yearly trip for the family, it is so very nice to get away for a couple of weeks to a nice place that is right on the ocean.

A couple of times a year we take our business to a trade show and try to spread the word about We Deliver Nashville. This time I am taking our trade show display to Dallas Texas. We have a new set up this year, we have went to a truss trade show display to show our graphics. This allows us to have all the information we want to get out to the trade show on a display wall, I think this method of trade show display will work a lot better than our old pop ups and table mounts stand ups. The Godfrey Group has done a wonderful job on the new display, and it looks so professional, I think it will be the talk of the trade show.

Every year we make a trip to Chicago to see the Chicago Cubs play my team the St Louis Cards, and this year we are going to do something very different. We are going to watch the game from the Wrigley Field Rooftop Club, it is located right outside the walls of Wrigley Field and the view is great. Cubs roof top games are fun and exciting, I can not wait to see my first game from the roof top outside of Wrigley Field, I have been inside Wrigley Field for games, and that is very exciting in its own right, but watching a game from the roof top is going to be a blast.

Wrigley Field Rooftop Club is located right down the right field line and only 454 feet from home plate, it is closer than any of the other rooftops that have seats at Wrigley Field. What is more amazing is that it is closer than some of the seats inside the stadium. This trip is going to be so much fun I can not wait for my Cardinals to beat the Cubs and I will be right there to enjoy it.

The food they offer on the rooftop is fantastic and that is going to add to the party. Good food, beer and most of all great baseball. This is going to be my kinda trip. Next year we might bring a big group to enjoy this view with us.