One day my sister talked to me about how she was starting a venture with a girlfriend that involved creating a local directory/guide to products and services directed at young and expectant mothers. They went to a lot of businesses to sell advertisements to pay for the printing and distribution of the guide. When they were finished with it she mailed a copy to me, and I was quite impressed with the job that they had done. I never did hear whether or not that turned a profit, but she has talked to me about whether or not I would like to participate in the soliciting of advertisements for another guide in a different market.

I told her that I would be willing to help her with the next one, but I’ve been waiting several months to hear exactly what it is that she would like for me to do. At this point I am not even sure what the product/service is going to be; I have a feeling that she might want to pick a different demographic, such as senior citizens retirement and health issues. Considering the aging of America, I think that would be a good idea, don’t you agree?

He has just received the logo mats, and the special made trade show carpet right in the nick of time for this particular Trade Show that he has been wanting to participate it for quite some time. This is a big deal for him. So we will help him with all of that as well as the work that will be involved with the tear down, the packing along with the loading part that I’m sure my back will be screaming at me about the next day.

I hope that he has a good amount of promotional give-a-ways to hand out. I think I’ll take a look-see online and see what new and cool promotional products they have out now a days. They really have some nifty promotional items that you can have personalized.

I can tell you first hand that I wasn’t all that interested in switching insurance companies. I have been with my agent for over 20 years, I actually worked for him for a short time when he first started his agency, so I felt a loyalty to him, big time. But times are hard and money is an issue, so I took a chance and looked around and was surprised to find that I could be paying a whole lot less, $50 a month, with another carrier. It was hard calling my agent and letting him know that I had decided to switch insurance companies, but he was very understanding and told me that I have to do what I have to do in order to get by in today’s economic crisis. He also told me that he appreciated me calling him directly to inform him of my decision instead of calling the 800 number and canceling my long standing policy with the Regional office. It wasn’t an easy call to make but I’m glad that I did.

The one good thing that comes out of this is that many times I end up wearing girls shoes and they tend to be a bit cheaper then women’s shoes. Right now is a good time to buy girls flip flops, dirt cheap since summer is way over and winter is right around the corner. I just picked up several pairs of girls flip flops on clearance for $1.50 a piece, the same ones in women’s sizes were going for $2.50, so I was happy for having small feet right then I can tell you that!

The only thing worse than having smaller than average feet would be having larger than average feet. I can’t see any thing good coming out of that situation, but not having to deal with that I really wouldn’t know. They say that will all bad there is good and with all good there is bad!

Something that I just don’t understand is why our government has decided that all of our personal property taxes are due at the end of December, what with all the other expenses that we have to deal with during the holiday season. This due date should really be changed by somebody, some where and quick like.

I logged onto HOMESECURITYSYSTEM.com to research getting an alarm system while I was watching Rachel Ray today. Before I could finish my research, I had to log onto RachelRay.com to enter an on-line contest. She was having a drawing for something that I absolutely love in her television show kitchen. It is the Carolina blue fridge that is named the “Big Chill”. I would love to have one in my kitchen. It is retro looking. It looks like it was probably produced in the early 1960’s, but is as energy efficient as today’s model fridges. I would redecorate my kitchen if I win this fridge. A couple of years back, I really wanted one and looked into purchasing one. Unfortunately, dealers were really far away. The prices listed on-line placed the retail value at well over three thousand dollars. I just knew that my husband would never go for a three thousand dollar fridge, no matter how much I loved it. Who knows, hopefully I will win Rachel’s fridge and get to do a little redecorating of my own!

I figured in order to Stop collection Calls from coming in that all I had to do was to block the number, wrong!! They just call back with another stinking number, an endless battle. There must be a way to Stop Debt Collectors from calling so much. I really thought that they had to call during normal business hours, but that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

My sister is having the same trouble and she was telling me that she found a website that she is going to send me the link to about a company that is supposed to help with all of these disturbing calls. She promised to send it to me a few weeks ago and I’m still waiting. But to be fair it has been one heck of a couple of weeks, what with the earthquake and then Hurricane Irene, she didn’t have power for over a week, so I’m sure she has a lot of catching up to do, bless her heart. I was lucky all we had was a bit of rain and some wind with only a few things in the yard being tossed around, no big deal.

 I thought well, you know what; I think we’ll take some money out of the stock market and put it in some annuities.  I had no idea that while me tell you it’s a real pain in the butt to get my money -  the companies that had my money did not want to let me take it out – they said they had mailed it to me but I didn’t get it so I had to go through all kinds of hoops to get my money and it was very aggravating (but that really wasn’t the point of this post today.)

 I was noticing that the paperwork for the annuities arrived yesterday and I was reviewing them and found out that they had made a mistake on the beneficiaries so now I have to get the change beneficiary form, fill it out mail it in and hope that I don’t die between now and the time they get it.

 So I went to the cell phone store in search of a replacement telephone that was not going to cost an arm and a leg.  Well I got talked into a Garmin Nuvifone that had several bells and whistles but I thought they were kind of interesting and fun, so I went ahead and bought the phone.  Now the phone is out of warranty and the battery is completely dead and needs to be replaced – it won’t hold a charge anymore.  So I took it back to the cell phone store that I got from and they told me they don’t sell the batteries; I have to buy the batteries from the manufacturer so I went to the manufacturer’s website and ordered a replacement battery.

What they sent me does not fit into the phone so I’m quite aggravated and have not decided whether not to send the battery back and ask for refund (which is what I really should do but it’s an aggravation.) I’m tempted to buy an inexpensive replacement phone the kind you can buy at Walgreen’s for about $15.00 and just use that until my two year contract expires and then upgrade to a better telephone.  What would you do?