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I want to get out of this place

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Well, the way I’m feeling today I think I’m might just get on a plane and take a break. I’ve always wanted to go to Egypt and even the middle east. Perhaps I should just take a last minute holidays to Sharm or may be not. It’s probably too hot there right now anyway.

I’d be happy enough to just get away to the cottage for a while too. That would be cheaper. Plus it’s the right time of year to do that here anyway. Yeah, the cottage does sound good. I’d barbeque everyday too.

One place that I will not be going in a month is PostieC0n in Florida because the time and place have just been changed! Can you believe that? I haven’t been to visit the P-P forums yet but I’m sure they are going wild. I think there’s going to be a lot of upset people.

You ever feel so fed up with something that you just want to kick things?





Winning and Losing?

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I’ve got big news coming soon … I know I teased you a few days with it but I think I might be able to tell you about it within a few hours, certainly by tomorrow.

The news is coming just at the right time too because I’m pretty fed up with some of the other things that I’ve been doing. I mean … as a way to make money and promote our sites and so on. It’s getting stressful and now I’ve got something like Big Brother watching over me and I’m really fed up.

You know, I’ve been stuck at home sick for 16 months now. Terrible pain and not able to work and still I didn’t get depressed. I just kept myself going and always tried to look at the bright side and make the best of things. Lots of good things have happened during this time period too so I do have a lot to be grateful for … but the only time I verge on the side of being depressed is when this one company gives me a hard time. Like today.

One step forward … two steps back ..

Dinner and a meeting

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Saturday night Chris and I got together with an advertiser that I’d done a post for earlier in the month. It turned out that he lived in the Toronto area, enjoyed my writing, and that he offered me a free lance job writing on his company blog a few times each week.

So Chris and I went to meet with him Saturday night and we had a great time. Paul’s a really nice guy and a very good cook. I must get some of the marinade that he used on the steaks that he served us. The steaks were nice and tender and had a mildly sweet honey taste to them. Mmmmm.

Paul has an electric and acoustic guitar so Chris entertained us here and there by playing some tunes on the guitar.

All in all it was a nice little get together and very nice for me since I don’t seem to get out much lately. I’ll let you know more about the blog that I’ll be writing on soon so that you can come and visit me there too if you’d like.

What did you do last weekend?

BTW very few of you guys clicked on the post that I did for Paul. Don’t some of you do some work in your homes? Redesign a room? Remodeling? Put in a new kitchen or bathroom? Don’t you want to win and earn $5000 that you could put towards your reno projects?

Since I might end up working for this company I can’t enter. I really want to enter though, because as you probably know we’ve got several ongoing reno projects and we’ve documented them from start to finish as we went.

Lower your student loan payments and save money by consolidating

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It’s been a long time since both my husband and were in College and University. Do you believe that we each went to school twice? I’m sure you can imagine how much we had to pay off in student loans as a result. In fact, Chris was the last one to go back to School and for part of his re-education he went to a private college and oh my, the cost of that was way too high. We just finally finished paying it off in 2003.

We were dumb. We didn’t really think about Student Loan Consolidation and we should have considering for a time, we were both attempting to pay off our student loans at the same time, and at one point Chris was paying off loans for both his rounds of College.

If you are in the same boat that we were you should think about consolidating your student loans.

If your student loans were federally funded you can combine all of your student loans through NextStudent borrowers and manage your loan with one easy regular payment. You can also save thousands of dollars on interest, and you might even qualify for a low interest rate of perhaps 4.5%.

When I visited the NextStudent loan page I saw that if you borrowed from them for your student loan consolidation you could actually lower your monthly loan payments by as much as 60%. There are no hidden fees, in fact there are no fees or charges at all, and you don’t get any penalties applied if you choose to prepay or make a larger payment.

I wish that Chris and I had either thought of doing something like this with our student loans or discovered a company like NextStudent when we needed it so badly. I don’t even know if a company such as this was around when we had huge student loan debts hanging over our heads.

If you have outstanding student loans think about consolidating them. You’ll save money and take some of that stress off yourself too.

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