New Home Jackpot

 

Guest written by our friend Gladys Fuentes

My wife and I spent what seemed like forever looking for our new home. It was really difficult for us to make a commitment that big. We are well aware of the fact that we aren’t rich, and we knew that when we bought a new home we would have to live there, no matter what. We were scared that we would get into a thirty-year mortgage, and then decide we made a huge mistake. We didn’t know if we would ever find a place that we liked, and things started to seem hopeless. Then, we found our home. As soon as we walked in the front door we knew that this was the place for us. It was spacious and had all new and modern appliances. The neighborhood is awesome, and we totally got lucky with our neighbors. They are always there to give us great advice, like going to HomeSecurity101.com for our alarm system. We really feel like we hit the jackpot of houses, and are so glad we held out for the right one. I’m really grateful we didn’t jump the gun early on in the search.

Saudi Woman Executed for Witchcraft

DUBAI – Rights group Amnesty International has described as "deeply shocking" Saudi Arabia’s beheading of a woman convicted on charges of "sorcery and witchcraft," saying it underlined the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom.
Saudi national Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was executed on Monday in the northern province of al-Jawf after being tried and convicted for practicing sorcery, the interior ministry said, without giving details of the charges.
"The citizen… practiced acts of witchcraft and sorcery," Saudi newspaper al-Watan cited the interior ministry as saying. "The death sentence was carried out on the accused yesterday (Monday) in the Qurayyat district in al-Jawf region."
Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, has no written criminal code, which is instead based on an uncodified form of Islamic sharia law as interpreted by the country’s judges.
"While we don’t know the details of the acts which the authorities accused Amina of committing, the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion," Philip Luther, interim director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program, said in a statement.
Amnesty said the execution was the second of its kind in recent months. A Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi city of Medina in September after being convicted on sorcery charges, according to the London-based group.
Amnesty put at 79 the number of executions in Saudi Arabia so far this year, nearly triple the figure in 2010.

Can’t get Enough

Guest post written by my buddy Jill Arnold

I can’t get enough of my direct tv and it’s mostly because there are so many entertaining shows on right now about being single and how to get a man. I am single and although I don’t watch the shows to get advice I think it’s really entertaining to see where other people in my position are thriving and where they need work. There’s one on right now called Tough Love and it’s fascinating – it’s all these women living together in a house and the matchmaker just keeps throwing curveballs at them and telling them why they’re not finding love. He’s surprisingly accurate and they just have the hardest time listening but it’s been really encouraging watching the great guys come on the show – I guess there are some good men left out there! I can only imagine what it will be like when I find my true love but until then I’m going to sit at home and watch these shows to my heart’s content, you know what I mean?

Thankful for parents lessons

Guest post from: Winston Stewart

After years of living away from my parents, I am so thankful for the way they raised me. When I was growing up, my parents made me do everything for myself. I would get frustrated and annoyed. I would not want to do it and would always tell them they were the only parents who made their child do everything. At the time, I thought my parents were just being lazy. However, now I am so thankful for all the practice. I live with two roommates who do not know the first things about being responsible. When we moved into the apartment, they expected their parents to make sure everything was working and hooked up correctly. When their parents refused, they were like lost little puppies. Since I already knew what to do, I called and had our water, power and Expert Satellite hooked up. I talked to various representatives to make sure we had the best price. I was even able to get a better deal than the one advertised. It was in that moment I realized my parents were not lazy, but rather teaching me how to live on my own. It just took me a long time to understand and be thankful for it.

A guest post by my good friend Heriberto fuentes

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Posted by Heriberto Fuentes

Following my uncle’s passing, I moved back to my hometown of Irvine in order to help my aunt out. My parents had moved to Hawaii five years earlier and upon hearing of my uncle’s death, they asked that I go live with my aunt to keep her company. After getting my request to be transferred to the Irvine branch filled about a year ago, I moved in with my aunt. Seeing as how I hadn’t seen my aunt since I was a little kid, it was pretty awkward at first. When I remembered that my aunt had been an avid bowler and been the first person to take me bowling as a child, I suggested that we head over to Irvine Lanes for a few games. Once we got there we eventually started to reminisce about those times. It really helped bridge that awkwardness created from over a decade apart from one another. Since then the two of us go bowling regularly. My aunt is a waitress and I work as a sales representative so both of our hours are pretty shaky. Most evenings either I end up having to entertain clients during happy hour or my aunt has to work a dinner shift. We end up going fairly late most times and have to remember to set our home security alarm from security choice. Still, we try to at least go once or twice every two weeks depending on my work schedule.

Going over camping safety with the grandkids

 

Guest post written by Amelia Dowden

I think that the I heart camping gene must skip a generation in our family. My husband and I used to go camping all of the time and were so excited to take our kids camping once they got old enough to where we felt confident letting them sleep in a tent overnight. Unfortunately, our kids have and always will hate camping. But we held out for our grandkids and we’re taking them in about a week or so.

I went online to try and find some good guides for teaching camping safety to kids. I’ve been so many times that I’m sure many things I won’t think to mention! While I was searching for that, I ran across the website http://hearingaids.miracle-ear.com/hearing-locations/florida/t/tarpon-springs/. I showed it to my husband and we decided to schedule some free hearing aid tests.

I did find some good camping safety resources that I’ll use to teach my grandkids a thing or two. I just hope that they take to camping like me and their grandfather have!

IT’s a restraining order not a Hallmark card

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So you had a fight with your boy/girl friend or your spouse. You love them, and you think its all a big misunderstanding, yet they go out and put a restraining order on you, chances are YOU ARE NOT GETTING BACK TOGETHER.

Many times I just want to laugh when I get calls from scorned lovers who just want their mate back, but the other person has moved on and isnt looking back and has gone as far as involving the police or courts. Why would you want someone like that? Why would you want to be in their lives? Apparently the time you two did spend together was forced to an end with documentation that says you can not contact them ever again…Please stop getting mad at me when I give you a reading that isn’t what you want to hear.

I am not a fake reader, I will not tell you what you want to hear. SORRY!

The car shop

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The Author of this post is Velma Baird

When I set up shop here in town as a mechanic I never thought I’d need to get a website or do anything fancy like that. After a few months of slow business, though, I realized that my competitors had something I didn’t: a web presence. I decided to buy a http://www.domainnames.com and have a friend of mine help me set up a simple website and it’s been a great decision. Many of my recent customers tell me they found me online and didn’t even know my shop existed! I’m really glad I spent the money and I’ll never regret ! doing something to further my business. It’s been fun having a place to put pictures of the cars I’ve restored and I’ve even thought about going so far as to offers coupons to new customers on the site to drive business. My designer, Sandra, was great and I couldn’t have done it without her. She’s cute, too and I may even ask her out to dinner!

Hellocupcakeitsme.com great website

I wanted to take a second to tell you all about a great new website called Hello Cupcake It’s Me over at www.hellocupcakeitsme.com I reaally recommend this for anyone who is looking to get into shape on a shoe string budget and for anyone with diabetes!

Wanting greener grass

sometimes we dont see what we got until we walk away from it. Yes the grass may appear to be greener on the other side of the fence, but if you spend some time watering yours it will be just as green.

Take this into consideration before you walk away from a relationship. Remember why you fell in love with that person, and try to figure out where it went wrong and how to fix it.