Lauren Reagan

I love hearing from my best friend who moved to Texas almost 4 years ago. I miss her so much, we have been best friends since the 4th grade and you couldn’t ask for a closer and better friendship then what we share. Thank goodness for cell phones, email and Instant Messaging, that way we can communicate almost on a daily basis. We always have so much to talk about, it amazes us both that we don’t run out of things to say to each other.

She bought a Chevrolet Silverado when she moved down there. She wanted a new and reliable car to depend on while finding her way around her new home town. She has found the need to find a reliable car repair and service center in order to get a brake job done that she knows is needed on her fairly new car. The Internet has made that task a much easier one to tackle. She found a great site at repairpal.com that has assisted her in finding a good Dallas auto repair shop.

She isn’t married and has no one to turn to for help with car issues and she needs to make sure that the place that she picks will do her and her new car good, all the way around. With vehicles it is a never ending battle keeping them up and running. I wish her luck.

I know that we all have to abide by rules, laws and regulations, but my goodness these can make for some dry reading. With that being said let me back track to why I am stating this. I have been looking around online to see if it would be in my best interest to switch from cable to satellite. I hear good things about direct satellite tv from numerous people, I also understand that if I do sign up and tell them that one of their subscribers referred them to me that both of us can receive a nice chunk of change for the referral, and I like that offer.

At directsattv.com there is a good amount of information to read over and that is where I found the government rules for installing a dish, that I found so frustrating to read, but I understand the need to have this information available for review. I guess I just like more interesting and a lot more entertaining reading to take up my free time. Silly me.

But anyway I do believe that I’ll be signing up soon with direct tv and see how it goes for there. I’ve had cable so long and I’m due for a change and now seems to be a good time as any. My folks have had direct tv since forever and I’ve always enjoyed what they have to offer when I watch television over there. I’ll be using them as my referral and we can both walk away with some money for the effort.

My first car was a 1967 Ford Mustang, god how I loved that car. She had a 287 under the hood, with a 3 speed on the floor and she could stomp all the other cars in a heart beat. She not only looked good and ran good, but she sounded good too. I got pulled over one time buy a State Cop who said that I had “glass packs” on her proceeded to crawl under her to see. Heck I didn’t even know what “glass packs” were back then. He did seem very disappointed that he didn’t find anything illegal on her and let me go on my merry way, thank goodness!

I ran across an interesting site the other evening that had all types of car and truck exhaust systems and  interesting exhaust tips listed, which I found to be of good reading quality and it reminded me of my run in with the law with my beloved Mustang, back in the good old days. I wish that I still had her. Once in a while I’ll see one some where that looks just like her and it brings back some really cool memories. Maybe one day I’ll find another 67 Ford Mustang that I can buy and I’ll be in Mustang heaven once again.

This darn mess that our government has gotten ourselves into with the economy issue is mot improving one red cent for anyone that I know or am related to. If anything, things are getting rougher and tougher for most of us. So many of us will not even watch the evening news anymore since it is full of such depressing and horrible stories surrounding us. It is no wonder that so many newspapers are going under, what with the Internet bringing us all we need and want to know and nothing but negativity being talked about, who wants to spend any of their hard earned money just read that kind of nonsense?

Instead of spending money on newspapers, more folks are using that money on security systems. The crime rate is steadily climbing with more people becoming desperate to make ends meet and to keep a roof over their head and food on the table.  My folks just had a security video camera installed at their place and they are even considering purchasing a large dog in order to ward off the bad guys. They haven’t owned a cat or a dog in years. Once us kids moved out the welcomed not having any responsibilities to deal with!

Any ADT Home Security Systems has gotten their attention. They did their homework and went online to find the who, what and wheres of what is going on in today’s security industry and they like what they found with ADT. And since they live out in the boonies where they tend to lose power once in a while, they were adamant about finding a company that provided them with a backup battery and equipment guide features as well. I’m hoping that they will feel better protected now and that they can sleep better at night and feel good about leaving home for a few days.

I’ve been told that Google is going to be doing one of their sweeps soon. I have to say that I really don’t understand what all that entails and I don’t think that it really affects me much, but I’d love to learn what these sweeps are all about. As long as I can keep my blog going, I’m happy, I don’t care what Page Ranking my blog gets.