Lauren Reagan

I mean really, having a Credit Card is a necessity big time these days. I know that you have to be careful and make wise decisions when it comes to actually acquiring a Credit Card, there are a lot of ways to get yourself in trouble if you don’t do you homework and make good choices. I’ve heard some real horror stories about people having way too many credit cards and getting themselves in way too deep. I only have one Credit Card in my wallet at this point. If and when I was interested in acquiring another one I certainly would use the Internet to my advantage in order to Compare Credit Card Offers that are being offered these days.

There are some good sites out there online that you can use to find the Best Credit Card deal that fits your individual needs and preferences. I’ve heard and seen that Comparecards.com is a good one to use. You can compare credit cards, side by side, take your time and then actually apply for the one(s) that you’ve decided one, quick and easy like. It’s all about the money these days, we have to be an educated and tuned in consumer to get the best bang out of our bucks.

I’ve heard much about the Walden University’s online degree programs that are helping so many people get their degrees which ultimately enables them to make the “big” bucks. In these past few darken years of being stuck right smack dab in a major Depression the “big” bucks is what we are all striving for. In order to learn about Walden I spent some time checking them out online, I found that at WaldenU.edu that they have a very intensive website that took some time for me to absorb. You gotta remember, I just barely made it out of High School. College was never really in the picture for me, back in those days. All my mother wanted me to do was to become a secretary and marry the rich boss, she never really got over the fact that I ended up in the food and beverage industry, a bar wench.

Anyway, I’m thinking of getting into the Social Services field since I have a good heart and know how to talk and deal with people. I think that I am a compassionate human being that enjoys assisting people in any way that I can, been known to literally give the shirt off of my back to some one that needs it more than I do. Anyone that is dealing with people in need most definitely require a HUGE dose of compassion and unfortunately what I have found from personal experience and from thousands of horror stories that I have heard from friends, family and my bar customers, is that the majority of these “professionals” are seriously lacking any type of compassion along with a lot of other qualifications that I think are necessary for this type of career. I think anyone that chooses a career (any career really) should enjoy it to a certain extent and not in it just for the money.

I like to think that I help a lot of people while tending the bar, but the tip jar is rarely flowing over from them all. Knowing that I could be doing the same thing and was guarenteed to go home on payday with a sum that would not only pay the rent on a house of my own as well as the utilities, insurance premiums, taxes, and keep gas, oil and decent tires on the car, well it would be awsome. But at the end of the day if I look in the mirror and like what I see because of what I have done for somebody that day that really effected their lives that day well that is just be the ultimate high.

I have had the opportunity to visit and explore a good many of the states here in the good old U.S. of A. but one place that I never had the chance to go was to Hawaii and honestly I don’t know if I ever will at this point. With so many people out of work and dealing with the horrific economy issues that we have been experiencing these past several year, I don’t see how any body is traveling, but it appears that they are. There are not too many people that I know personally that are able to do much of anything but work their butts off, if they are able to find a job, much less a second and third like so many people are faced with.

Anyway, that is a real depressing topic to be dwelling on, but it is certainly a reality. Sometime I like to go online and just check out places, some times it will be places that I’ve been too, while other times it is places that I would like to have gone. You really get a bird’s eyes view via the Internet, pictures, links, videos galore as well as write ups on just about every topic you would need to know. As I said earlier I have never made it to Hawaii and I love going online and checking out homes for sale in Hawaii, especially the ones right on the water. It really must be as close to heaven as one can get without leaving the United States anyway. And you don’t even want to get me started on places like Bermuda and Jamaica!

Written by Sonny Quinn

New homes are easy to come by in this market, so many of my clients are younger than ever before. These younger generation buyers don’t always know the best things to ask at closings so I do my best to lead them through the process effectively. Sometimes they ask me questions I don’t know the answer to especially since I’m a bit older, so recently when someone asked me about mobile internet I had to defer the question to a college. I hated that feeling so that night I went online and got some MORE INFO for my own reference. The next time anyone asks me anything about wimax or broadband or 4G I’m going to be ready! From what I learned, this kind of internet sounds like a really good solution for a lot of homebuyers and I’m even considering ordering it myself. I like to be as prepared as possible since my business is my creditability. There’s nothing worse than a real estate agent that knows less about the industry than you do!

They say that things happen for a reason. The only good thing that will come out of all of this flood water that has invaded my home over the weekend, is that my carpets will be getting a good cleaning. I’m so thankful that I have a basement, if not for that, my whole first floor could have and most likely would have been ruined and I’d really be ticked off at the world, more than I am even now.

When I first moved in here I had no idea that the basement had leaking water issues, it didn’t take long to find out and that is why I haven’t done a whole heck of a lot down there, although the water that comes in isn’t usually all that much. I use the basement basically for storage and have most things up on shelves and wooden pallets. But not everything immediately finds its way up to where it belongs, such as the case of the nice piece of carpet that I picked up at a flea market last year. I had intended to look up carpet cleaning tips and see if I could clean it well enough myself instead of paying some company an arm and a leg to do it for me, before I laid it out in my bedroom. It was one of those things that just never made it to the top of the “To Do List” that is always being added to.

Of course now it is too late and I have had to call an emergency water damage company to come and save what can be saved. I went online and looked up carpet cleaning services in austin and found The Steam Team at http://www.thesteamteam.com/ they seem to do it all and they are scheduled to come first thing tomorrow morning. One good thing about working nights is that I can usually be home during the morning for service calls like this. I like to be home for service calls like this so that I can watch, learn, listen and ask questions and you never know, I might even find my “dream man” in a uniform knocking at my door, that would make two good things that could come out of this nightmare.