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I’ll never be rich

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Do you ever wonder who the richest people in the world are? I got into a conversation with a friend the other day, and I can’t remember exactly how it started but we ended up talking about not just millionaires, but billionaires. Do you know how much money a billion dollars really is? I was being silly and I tried to look up how much space a billion dollars would take to store but I couldn’t come up with an answer. My guess is that it would probably fill my house.

Bill Gates is, of course, the worlds richest man with an estimated 46 billion dollars according to a 2004 list of billionaires that I found. I guess he’s probably worth even more now. Can you imagine having that much money? I’d be happy to have a spare $50,000. Then there’s guys like George Lindemann Jr. who only had 1.2 billion dollars in 2004. Poor in comparison to a man like Bill Gates. Actually Lindemann was number 494 on the list of 2004 billionaires. Can you imagine that with 1.2 billion dollars in your name that there are still 493 people who are even richer than you?

It’s just mind boggling!

If I earn, let alone have 1 million dollars in the bank in my life time it will be a miracle. Doesn’t that just make you feel so poor? Billions and billions of dollars and here we are struggling to pay the bills.





Staying Safe in our home

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As some of you might remember I’ve talked about Chris and I getting some form of home security for our home. We first started discussing it when we purchased our house- in part because our home insurance rates will drop a bit, and also because my husband is/ was very paranoid about break ins. Lately I’ve become a bit more nervous about break-ins or rather home invasions since there have been a few occurrences in my general area in the last few months.

So, I’ve been looking at ADT Home Security Systems and I came across a system at ADT Security that looks pretty good to me. The company has a good reputation, and their home security products seem to do everything that I’d want out of a home security system.

ADT security is actually a home security service, they offer their home security system free, but you need to sign on to their service to get the free system and all the benefits of having a security service keeping an eye on your home.

One thing that I like is that you not only get home protection with the alarm system but you also get fire a built in fire alarm system that notifies the security service if the fire alarm is triggered. This is an excellent idea. They’re already sending the fire department to your home leaving you to get your family out of the home while help is already on it’s way. There is also a police response service as well – if there’s trouble in your home, or an alarm is triggered the police are notified by ADT.

They also offer a money back guarantee if you believe their alarm system doesn’t work with 100% effectiveness. Plus you can customize your security needs with ADT in order to make sure that you have the home security system and service that you need.

My parent had a similar system in their home and they loved it. I really think that a full home security system and service such as this is what we’ll most likely decide to get to protect our home.

It’s an Honor!

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I just found out a few hours ago that I was nominated in a couple of Categories for the 2007 Bloggie Awards. Thank you so much Anita!

Anita from Say No to Crack was a doll and nominated Tricia’s Musings for Best Canadian Blog, Best Design, and most Humorous. I’m not sure that I have a chance at any of those categories because there’s a lot of fantastic blogs out there, but as the title implies it is an honor to be nominated.

Nominations end today at 10 pm. I’m not sure which time zone that is unfortunately.

You can only nominate your favorite sites once, so if you haven’t already what are you waiting for? Go get your votes in now.

I went and made my choices already. Then I visited some of the sites I nominated and let them know. I haven’t got around to everybody that I gave the nod to yet though, so if you didn’t hear from me it doesn’t mean that I didn’t nominated you.

I noticed that one of the categories is Best Topical Blog. If anyone is going to nominate sites would you consider perhaps putting my Gardening blog As the Garden Grows into that category? I might actually have a chance at that one. 🙂

Ah, just found out that Mrs. Lifecruiser nominated my gardening site as well as Tricia’s musings for the Bloggies too! Thank you!

Linky Love – Musings

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Terri is another blogger that I’ve met through my work with pay/perp0st. When she discovered my site it seems that she got a kick out of the two of us both having “Musings” sites. Yes, that’s the name of her blog.

With Terri you get a Two for One deal just like you do with Chris and I, because her husband Kevin has a blog of his own too, it’s called Shameless Stuff and he talks about weirdness in the world on his site. It can be quite amusing. You should also visit his Bed head a day photo gallery on his Shameless Creations website.

In her blog, Terri talks about a little bit of everything. She has a nice tone to her writing and it’s easily enjoyable. I enjoyed her post where she talked about being worried about telling her mother that they were getting a puppy. Shortly after that post you’ll find one with an interesting picture of an object called a fecalizer. All I’ll say is that it’s got something to do with the puppy. You need to see the photo and read her post to get the full story.

Terri and Kevin have two young boys running around at home, and in her about me section Terri sums up her thoughts on her families direction as “We are creating a life where we work less and enjoy life, love, family, and art more.” That sounds fantastic to me Terri. I hope that you and Kevin can pull it off.

They have one more site, honestly do I know anyone that only has one site anymore? Their new site is called Shameless Reality Show which is filled with interesting stories about their family life, videos – I guess you would call them videocasts or video confessionals where family members take turns talking to their readers/ viewers about their life, happenings and goals. It’s a great site.

Oh dear! There’s even one more site! Kevin is also a healer and he’s created a site called Theta Mind . This new site discusses the powers of the mind, how to focus it’s power, and healing. That’s a very simple explanation of his site, but if you are interested in Healing please do stop by his new site and see if you can learn more about the powers of the mind.

So go and stop by Terri and her husband Kevin’s sites and tell them that Tricia says hi!

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