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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Got up early and took my DH’s truck into town to have it state inspected. The garage opened at 7:00 am, I got there at 7:05 am, and still had to wait an hour and a half before they could inspect it! I tried a few days ago to make an appointment to have it inspected, but all of the garages that do the inspections say that they can’t do that – it is first come, first serve. **Sigh**
Thankfully, their waiting room had a television in it, so I could watch the news while I waited, and there was a pleasant woman in the waiting room that I chatted with to pass the time.
Afterwards, went to Staples to pick up tax preparation software, I have found that I can save a lot of money by doing our taxes ourselves on the computer and filing online instead of paying someone else to do it. Now I just have to wait for all of the forms to come in the mail from all the employers/banks etc so I can start to file them. I’m sure we will get a refund this year.
Tags: am, appointment, inspected, lot, money, taxes, television, truck, wait, waiting
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
This cool car company called Tesla Motors has made a totally electric sports car that can go from 0 to 60 in less then 4 seconds and has a top speed of over 125 miles per hour.
On a fully charged battery the car can operate for about 3 and a half hours and runs on no fuel whatsoever, making it a zero emissions car.
its a really great looking car, and if you have solar panels installed at home it costs you nothing to recharge the battery, so you will never have to pay for gas or to charge the cars battery.
The price tag on this car is at $100,000 per car, but is well worth every penny in my opinion because of the looks and the features and the huge potential savings on fuel.
Tags: battery, fuel, pay, per, recharge
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Let’s face it – I am an animal lover. My life-long dream was to become a veterinarian at the National Zoo. I’ll always wish that I could have done that, but life got in the way, and it just was not in the cards. (Sigh.)
So, I have to content myself with being around animals when the opportunity arises. I was really happy recently when I read in a local newspaper that the American Bald Eagles are making a comeback in the local areas. I think that the Bald Eagle is a glorious bird, and I am so glad to know that their numbers are increasing.
Tags: am, areas, bald, eagle, eagles, happy, local
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
I’m so glad that I switched over to Direct TV. I just hope that we don’t lose power over the weekend due to the up and coming arrival of the hurricane that we have been watching the progress of on our new Direct TV system. I have always wanted a generator for the house just for occasions such as this, but we haven’t had the extra money lately to put into something like this. Right now my main concern is finding a home security system to have installed so I have Googled “home security cordova” to see what kind of deals I can find.
Since the economy doesn’t seem to be letting up at all, there has been more and more home break ins and robberies happening and I just don’t feel safe anymore. Even though we really don’t have much of anything of value around here they could still walk away with some of the electronics and really trash the place searching for more things that we might possibly have and that just wouldn’t be cool. We have worked hard for the things that we have.
In the mean time I’m praying that these hurricane doesn’t hit as hard as they are saying it could hit. Be safe.
Tags: security, system
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Today was a scary day with the 5.8 earthquake shaking up the east coast as much as it did. The worse part was not being able to get hold of anyone due to the majority of cell phones on the blink. At first it didn’t seem to be all that bad but now the news is telling of all the damage and injuries that are being blamed on Mother Natures deed of the day. I’m glad that everyone that I know and love are O.K. and that we don’t have any more scares like this one any time soon.
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