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No more house guests

January 5, 2007 by Tricia

My home was invaded on Monday, New Years day, by my husband’s brother and his son. They’d come up from Chicago for a family visit last Friday and they decided to stay at our house for a few days while they were in Canada.

They weren’t supposed to come over until Tuesday, and I was not feeling well on Monday when they arrived. No I didn’t party on New Years – I stayed home by myself because I wasn’t well. Anyway, we had a nice time Monday evening and made plans to go to a hockey game on Tuesday evening.

Tuesday night I was so ill that I was actually falling asleep during a hockey game. I don’t think I’ve ever fallen asleep in public let alone at a hockey game! This one had brawls every few minutes too. I have no idea why I was so sleepy but I was, and I found myself nodding off several times. Very strange.

The evening was ruined at the end. My husbands brothers 18 year old daughter was flying in from Chicago that evening. Chris went to pick her up after the hockey game. They called her on the cell phone just as she arrived to find out what terminal she was in. Toronto has three terminals so it’s important to know which one your landing in or picking someone up from. Anyway, she had no clue, so Chris asked her to ask someone and call him back when she was getting her bags.

Well, she never did ask anyone. I had to figure out which terminal she was at by looking up the airlines on the net here at home. So it was a mess of phone calls back and forth and this girl doesn’t like to wait. of course when I looked at her paperwork when she got her it did say what terminal she was landing in. She was just being too dumb or stubborn to look at it.

Now if only that was all that went wrong. It wasn’t. The airline lost her bags! So when Chris and his nephew arrived back at the house – about two hours later than they should have she was in a horrible mood. So bad in fact that she didn’t even say hello to me. That really ticked me off because I was the only person she hadn’t seen in months and she couldn’t even say hello?

It’s not that she doesn’t like me or anything. She was just in a mood. She’s a real princess that one. If she doesn’t get what she wants she whines!

The rest of their visit was ok. We went out to dinner on Wednesday night, and the guys watched some of the World Junior hockey games that we’d recorded on the DVR earlier that day. Speaking of which the Gold match is on today!

Yesterday I had yet another doctors appointment in the morning. Chris went with me and when we came back the gang was just getting up. We’d found out the night before that the airport had found my nieces bags, and they were delivered to the house around noon on Thursday. My niece was finally happy. They left a while after the bags arrived and I went back to bed for a couple of hours because I’d only slept two hours the night before.

I’m just so dragged out. I’m in pain, not feeling well, and I’m totally exhausted but I can’t sleep because of the pain. This was not the time for me to have three extra people in my house.

I have a feeling we’ll be going out of town tonight. Chris’ brother is going to drive back to Chicago on Saturday, so he’s spending Friday night at their parents house, and I think we might go there for a final visit before they go. All I can say though is that if I’m still feeling like crap I’m not going.





Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: brother, Canada, chicago, Chris, crohns, dinner, Family, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hockey, Hockey game, home, house guests, husband, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, Nephew, Niece, pain, restaurant, sick, tired, Toronto, visit

Excellent web hosting at a great price

January 4, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been looking, not too hard yet, for a new web host for my three domains and all my sites. I like the features that I have with my current host but my sites go down in the middle of the night quite often and I want to have as little down time as possible for my sites. Plus, it always seems to go down just when I’m working on a post and I’ll have to wait half an hour before I can publish a new post or I sometimes lose my post altogether. I hate that.

One of the companies that I think might be good for me to move over to is Lunarpages Web Hosting. Their basic web hosting plan starts at $6.95 per month and offers 800 GB of transfer, and 35,000 MB of storage. That’s more storage and transfer than I have now. I currently use about 35 to 40 gb of transfer with my sites. Wow, you know what- This is a good deal. My current plan offers me 200 GB storage space, and 4 gb storage for $12.95 a month. I’d rather pay $6.95 a month and get several times more space and transfer bytes and a free domain too! Yes, you get a free domain when you purchase a hosting package.

So here’s what you get when you sign up for their basic web hosting plan, on top of what I’ve mentioned above of course- you’ll get $700 worth of Coffeecup webmaster and design software, a free domain name and add on domain, an online control panel, MYsql data bases, Online stats, Ruby on Rails support (I think that’s unheard of for a basic hosting package), Fantastico, and media support plus a lot more features. Geez I’m almost ready to hit that sign up button. I really am.

Lunarpages.com has been in business for 6 years. That’s long enough to have established a good name for themselves. They provide a number of services which include basic, windows, Linux, VPS & dedicated hosting services.

One thing that I always look for when I look at hosting companies is their support services. I like that Lunarpages offers 24/7 customer support through telephone services, and I presume online through a contact form. They also have forums and a blog where a member or potential customer could get more information or support from the team and other members. There are a number of online tutorial articles which a member can access as well.

Another thing that I want to know about is how often their servers go down. Lunarpages says that they have a 99.9% uptime and reliable servers that are housed in two data centers.

Here’s something else that makes Lunarpages stand out as a very special kind of web hosting company. One that I think I very well might do some business with. They give webmasters that are stuck in a hosting contract a break. They will add paid time- up to 6 months- to a new customers account if they purchase a 12 or 24 month package.

Here’s yet another bonus that might make you switch or even ditch your free host and get your own domain. You can get a $25 discount off any 12/24 month Basic, Business, Windows or VPS plan. Coupon Code: lunar25off That’s amazing.

Additional domain names or domain transfers are 7.95 each.

Filed Under: Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: basic hosting 6.95, great deal on web hosting, Lunarpages, web host, webhosting

Investing money and saving for the future

January 4, 2007 by Tricia

I have only one experience with buy stalk and it dates back to the days when I first owned my now closed Jewelry business. I was ill informed at the time and purchased what was suggested by the traveling “stock” salesman that came to my businesses door. Now I’m starting to think more about investments and setting myself up nicely for retirement. I know that retirement is a long way off but if I don’t begin to work on it soon I won’t have much when the time comes.

So I’ve decided to start looking at stock options, but first I need to learn more about them, and which companies are worth purchasing stock in. That’s where the stock options newsletter comes in from PowerOptions. They offer members a letter filled with information and resources about stock offerings and other important information about purchasing or selling stocks. The site is also full of resources that I can browse through in order to learn more about trading my stock options.

They also have a system that they call SmartSearchXL technology that allows members to find, compare, and analyze 2,900 + stocks, and 190,000+ options in order to find investments that suit the members needs. Their system will help you find the highest return on option trades.

I haven’t signed up for a membership yet but I might sign up for their 14 day free trial. I don’t even need to use my credit card when I sign up. I like that.

Filed Under: Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Money, Sales and Marketing, Services, Shopping Tagged With: analyze options, compare stock, PowerOptions, SmartSearchXL, trade stock

Kitty comfort

January 3, 2007 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Kitty and doll

Even cats like a companion to sleep with. This picture is fun but something about it feels wrong.

It’s like seeing a baby with a stuffed animal but it’s the reverse. Weird. Does it give anyone else that strange feeling too?

Did you have a great New Years Eve and New Years day? Wishing you all the best in the New Year.

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Filed Under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: cat, cat sleeping with doll, doll, photo, photos, Wordless Wednesday

Strange Amazon sales

January 3, 2007 by Tricia

Ok fess up!

I was just looking at my Amazon account, checking to see if anybody bought anything through my links, or my Amazon store this week and I was very surprised to see what I had sold.

Someone bought:

Grafco® Stainless Steel Graves Vaginal Speculum, Medium (4″ x ¼”)

Speculum

I guess a doctor, or maybe a midwife came through one of my sites and then visited Amazon and bought two speculums. I didn’t even know Amazon sold medical equipment let along those things!

Amazon really does sell everything.

I wonder if it was a Christmas present?

Filed Under: Humor, Make Money, Sales and Marketing Tagged With: amazon, Amazon store, doctor, equipment, medical, sale, speculum, weird sale

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