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- Selling Your Soul or Having it Slowly Sucked Away... Sometimes financial decisions feel like they're sucking away a little bit of your soul. But what's the difference between that and selling out?
- How Mrs. Micah stayed sane (relatively) This is mostly an accomplishments post--but it doesn't include our biggest one. We don't plan to spend any money today. None. We did use a little gas, but no metro cards, no purchases, nothing. Tomorrow we're going to use some free movie passes we got. I'd say that would save...
- Selling and Sucking your Soul: Ethics and Finance A few days ago, Denise at Flamingo House Happenings wrote about a conversation she and her partner had concerning soul-selling vs. soul-sucking. Is there a difference? I think so…that some things we don’t want to do suck our souls. Other times, we choose to sell our souls, a la Faust,...
Cards Home Opener Well, the Cards lost today in the cold, but I did get some cool pics of the festivities in downtown St Louis. Fountains of Red Looking at Keiner Plaza, Next Week's Tea Party Location Busch Stadium Around Busch Stadim More from Busch Stadium More from Busch Stadium Bud Light Hummer...
Boyds Bears Dolls-and-Bears -> Bears -> Boyds Boyds Bears are the creation of Gary Lowenthal and his wife, Justina Unger. Before they were married, they owned an antique shop together in 1979, and found that they couldn’t afford the types of antiques they wanted to carry. So in 1982 they started making...- Webkinz Pet Names Hi its Micayla and I want to talk about good names for webkinz. If I were you hear is what I would do in naming a couple of webkinz pets, but not all of them first. I would call my pets name by what color it is. Also by the ...
Choose A Hidden Nanny Camera To Keep Your Family Safe Hidden Nanny Cameras are a choice of many people that are looking for secure and mini cameras for inside their home, although these security cameras are useful in more than just your home as many people use them at work, in the park, camping, etc. The back pack hidden nanny camera is a great hidden camera for camping, jogging in the park or any place you need to carry your items.- Some things I learned helping a homeless person I had served dinner at a homeless shelter once. It was a few years ago. Tuesday afternoon I was talking with a friend about the economy, the bailouts, etc. We differ in opinion on how things should be handled -- he's anti-business and I'm free market -- but I let...
Sarah Palin - Female Teddy Roosevelt??
giving gifts in the office A pet peeve of mine, for a long time, has been the corporate office "pitch in for a gift" routine. If you aren't a corporate employee, what happens is that there's usually one perky busybody in every department who decides to buy a flower basket when co-workers gets sick,...
Wall Street Bull Ousted. Can We Bear it? This is bull! The Wall Street Bull, and, yes, that's me, taking it by the horns -- and hoping it doesn't turn into a bear mid-bonding. [caption id="attachment_344" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Bull's...eye"][/caption] How many times have we heard of it, saw it, fondled its rump? And how many of those...- Video from CES 2009 Looks like we're missing out on a lot of fun at CES in Vegas this year! Lots of new gadgets and tech, of course. Here are some videos people have been putting up on YouTube from CES 2009: CES 2009 Exclusive Evolution of Dance 2 Interview w. Creator Behind 100...
- Taxi Queue at BKK Relocated The promised relocation of the public (metered) taxi queue at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi airport has finally taken place. The taxi queue is now on level two, the same floor as arrivals, so now you can just head straight out the door once you exit customs to find the taxi queue....
Jumping on the Blogging Bandwagon, or Not Bandwagons are lots of fun to jump onto: there are usually a lot of upbeat, excited people already there. Many of them are convinced the bandwagon is taking them to a lovely, special place where their dreams will be fulfulled. And possibly they will be. The problem is, when...
what to do if you like your job but hate your career... ...or vice versa. You may be thinking about changing your career path. Maybe your "career" - the actual work you do - no longer appeals to you. Or maybe the work environment (long commutes? corporate offices? 9-to-5 hours turning into 9-to-8 hours?) has lost what little fascination it once...
Open Up and Let Me In - Transparency in the War on Terror Is there room for total disclosure when the stakes are this high? Is this the answer to the conflict, or merely more fuel for the fire? We need openness, communication...don't we? How are we to build a relationship -- or, for that matter, anything of value -- on lies? [caption...
Veg Recollections The very first vegan I ran into was my high school English teacher, and back then, I have to admit I just didn't understand the lifestyle. Nor did I ever go to the trouble of trying. A lot of it, certainly, had to do with my unwavering belief in everything...- Take this job or else! CNNMoney.com has a somewhat discouraging yet eye-opening article that outlines the problems many Americans are having during this troubled economy. People who have lost their jobs are being forced to take a new job making less money, in some cases a lot less money. After Jarrod Posner, 34, was laid...
- Give a shot of adrenaline to your PR campaign, without going over budget. Guest Post by Michelle Taney Recession chatter is reaching a crescendo; the media is full of reports, Wall Street economists predicted it, and companies are planning for it. Should you preserve your PR budget in 2009? As you consider your answer remember this; businesses are the most vulnerable in tough...
- Success Comes From Striving To Be The Best ...at least as far as authority site building goes. Being the best pays really, really well in many markets. Take your pick from among the places you've listed in your bookmarks. I'll wager there are some millionaires, and billionaires, behind some of the sites you've marked as favorites and visit...
- Demand For Organic Food Outstrips Supply Oh, isnt this wonderful news: WASHINGTON (July 6) - America's appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can't keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation's food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace....
- Preferred Stock Index Funds: The Future for High Yield Dividend Investors? Since Wall Street has thrown us such an unexpected curve ball and subsequently slammed the S&P 500 down ~35% (2008 YTD), most of us are justifiably thinking about readjusting our portfolios, reviewing our asset allocations, or even reducing our 401k / IRA contributions until this financial crisis is resolved. For...
How To Get Her Back. What To Say And Do If you really think that you and your ex are meant to get back together, then you need to learn how to get her back. Learning how to get her back is not necessarily difficult, but it does take some thinking and some planning if you really do want to...
Bull and Bear Markets Consistently Appear in 16 Year Supercycle Intervals If you think the stock market doesn't behave in consistent (possibly predictable) boom and bust economic cycles, this graphic might change your mind. Going as far back as 1886, this chart indicates that bull markets and bear markets routinely plague our economy.  Aptly named Supercycles, they come and go in a somewhat predictable...- The History Of Dream Analysis And How Analyzing Your Dreams Can Help You You’re barreling down the corridor of your high school, naked, when suddenly everything turns to liquid and you sink to the bottom of an ocean only to be faced by a sky-scraper sized octopus that bears a striking resemblance to your mother. Then, thankfully, you wake up. We all have...
Business Card Design: Better Than A Plain Ol’ Business Card Advertisement Going to web conferences is a great opportunity to make new contacts and exchange business cards. Unfortunately, we have an industry filled with creative people who have no creative marketing for themselves. Sure, many have business cards, but one in a hundred have something really cool. These unique...
James Knox Polk Yates 1842 – 1918 Roane County, Tennessee “Polk”, as he was called by his family, was born to parents Miles and Deborah Holmes Yates in Roane County, Tennessee. Without proof, I can only cite my Great Aunt Martha’s memoir in which she says that Miles Yates was a “dandy and a fop” and had...
Here There Be Dragons; and Sharks, and Turtles, and Strong Currents There are surely more remote islands in the Indonesian archipelago, but perhaps none with the allure of seeing the only “dragons” that still walk the earth: Komodo. I'm just back from a five day dive trip through the Komodo National Park, and it has to be one of the great...- A Co-operative Evening... A trip to the local co-op. Balancing organic and non-organic prices can be a trade-off for the budget, health, and the environment.
- Mobile Phones: Add Color to your Personality Thanks to innovating and improved technologies that has transformed mobile phones into computers. Now, mobiles are serving purpose of almost everything that we generally do on computers and laptops. Even advertisers believe they have struck upon the formula for getting their messages across without irking consumers. Several blue-chip brands like...
