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Credit cards – love ’em or hate ’em?

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How do you feel about credit cards? Are you the time of person that pays off your balance every month, or do you just pay the minimum amount that you have to pay? Or worse – do you fail to make some of your payments and end up getting into trouble with the credit card company?

I’ve been all of the above at one time or another. Currently I’m the type who either pays off the balance or more than the minimum asked for each month. It was a very hard lesson to learn.

Lucky for you, Credit Cards GB, has a wonderful site where you can get credit card advice if you are starting to have trouble with your cards, or if you just want to learn more you can read the credit card news for the latest credit card information.

The site lists the many different types of credit cards that you can get, including ones with 0% balance transfers. Check the site out if you want to get a card, or want to learn how to manage the cards you have better.





Turn your spouses into bloggers

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I was exchanging emails back and forth yesterday with a Canadian blogger that I’ve recently met – well met over the Internet I mean – and when I told her how many blogs I’m working on she was surprised and replied, something to the effect that “My husband calls himself a blog widower…” because she spends so much time on her blog and visiting blogs that she enjoys.

I think my husband Chris felt that way for a long time too. I was always working on my blogs, visiting other peoples sites (which I haven’t had much time for lately, sorry!), and surfing for credits to keep my sites running through the traffic engines. I think he wanted to help out a bit but he had no idea what to do.

I slowly started to convert him over to blogging.

First I got him surfing for me while I used our other computer to write out my posts. Then, when he offered to help again, I asked him to start looking for funny strange stories for Odd Planet. He did a good job so I started showing him how to blog the stories, find good photos to go along with them and to post. Now he’s taken over Odd Planet.

He’s a musician too. An amazing guitar player. So I suggested that he start a music related blog. One where he could possibly teach others how to play guitar through video clips and the use of guitar tabs and whatever else he could think of. Well, he’s started blogging on the new site a while back and we’re just about ready to show it off to the world. He’s enjoying writing on his new site too.

So for any of you who have spouses that are starting to feel like blogging widows or widowers – tell them that if they can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s what Chris did and he loves it.

Site of the day

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Hey, I just discovered that I’m the site of the day over at Payperp0st! I should feel special but I think they’re just randomly picking sites from their list of bloggers. Well, whatever the reason I do appreciate the extra exposure.

I guess December is Tricia’s Musings month. The site was featured on Bestest blog of all time as a blog of the day, Mr. Joes Blog in an interview that I did for him, and just this past Friday I did an interview on Blog TO, a Toronto related blog.

I wonder if this is it for the month or if some other interesting thing might happen to highlight my site?

Thanks for the visit if you’ve come from P, Bestest Blog, Joes or BlogTO. Welcome.

The cost of having a baby

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There’s a new heath insurance related product called Maternity card, by AHCO, that was created to help ease the stress and worry over the cost of having a baby. I can see this Maternity card being especially useful for my American readers.

Having a baby can be an expensive proposition when you factor in all of the costs – your doctors visits, or perhaps you are having twins or have a complication to your pregnancy that requires you to be under the care of a specialist? Then there is the cost of the actual labour and delivery itself and your, hopefully, short hospital stay after the birth of your new baby. All of that adds up into the thousands doesn’t it?

The experts at Maternity Card can formulate a pregnancy discount medical plan for you to keep the cost of having your baby from going through the roof. Maternitycard will provide you with a comprehensive maternity package that includes everything related to your maternity care.

If you are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant in the near future you might want to visit Maternitycard.com and have a look at what they can do for you to ease your stress and worry over maternity expenses. This is a time for you to be happy and looking forward to the future – not worrying over money.

It was supposed to be Christmas

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Yesterday, Sunday, was supposed to have been Christmas for me and two of my siblings, and our spouses. It didn’t happen.

I’d been feeling nauseated all week, and then on Friday evening Chris started complaining that he felt nauseated too. When we woke up on Saturday and realized that neither of us felt very good we decided that we’d better call my sister and my brother and let them know that this was a sick house.

Each year we take turns and go to one or the others home for a Christmas get together. It’s not always on Christmas day, in fact it rarely is. My brothers wife’s parents are getting older and since our own parents are gone they usually see her parents every year. My sister is divorced but she usually spends Christmas with her kids who are off to school and no longer live with her full time, and Chris and I usually end up going to his parent for Christmas if we aren’t working. We’re the only ones that do shift work that sometimes ends up making it impossible to see our relatives on special holidays.

Anyway, this year it was my turn to hold our Christmas gathering, but it just didn’t work out. Now we’re going to get together early in the New Year, probably here since it was my turn.

I think it actually worked out for the best anyway. My sister works in the jewelry trade and she’s been working long long hours 7 days a week through the Christmas rush. It would have stressed her to have to stop to come over for a while- even if it would have been good for her. Then there’s my sister in law, she works in retail sales and she’s been working long hours lately too. She had Sunday off, but after she came home from work on Saturday and learned that she’d have a free day on Sunday – maybe that was good for her. She could rest for the busy week ahead.

Ironically enough both Chris and I felt a lot better on Sunday so we probably could have had our get together after all.

So what are your plans for Christmas? Do you travel some distance to get together with family, or do you stay home and either have everyone over to your home, or just have a quite family day?

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