11/30/2009
I was working at my desk rewriting the rough draft of my first book. I had been hired to work for one of the greatest publishing companies in the world. The only problem was that I worked in the stock room and not upstairs in the publishing room. I thought that if I delivered office supplies to the higher ups, that they might take a look at my first book and tell me what they thought.
I was the number one guy in the office supply room so I could send everyone else to the other less important aspects of the publishing company building and then handle all of the publishers directly myself. I think that most of them knew me by my first name and they all knew that very soon I would be bringing them to look over.
I think that they must be used to people giving them their book to consider publishing but I am sure that it does not usually come from the man in charge of the office supply department of their building. If they like it and they offer to publish it then I may consider taking a leave of absence until it is completed to make sure that I can devote all of my time and energy into making any necessary changes they deem necessary.
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11/24/2009
I had decided to let my kids wear funny shirts for our family portrait. My sister thought that it was a huge mistake but I wanted to have them pick out the funny t shirts that they think best fits them, and wear it. I was excited to see what they would pick out and I hoped that it is appropriate for a family photo.
Now, I was not worried about my five year old son, but my sixteen year old daughter could have picked out one of those funny t shirts that talk about an older subject. I knew I was going to have to have faith in her and trust her to do the right thing.
I sat down with both of my kids and they showed me the funny shirts that they have picked out to wear. I am happy to report that both of them had picked the same color, and they were totally appropriate for our family photo. The funny t shirt that my husband picked out was not funny and the kids kept telling them that, the whole ride to the photographer’s studio.
Our pictures turned out beautiful, and I would not have changed any of the funny shirts that we wore, it is just who we are.
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11/23/2009
My company used to offer us free life insurance, but with the way that the economy is right now, they had to take that benefit away. I had always thought that since I had life insurance through them, that I was prepared. Now, I need to start shopping around with different agents to see what kind of life insurance rates are out there and if I can even afford them.
I think that I heard if you get some no medical exam life insurance that it may be slightly higher than the other policies but it can be put in place much quicker than the rest also. I am looking for something to take effect quickly so I called three different local insurance agencies and asked them what kind of life insurance rates a forty five year old woman would be looking at and they told me that everyone is different and I would have to answer a few questions and then see what the no medical exam life insurance policy for me would be.
I was able to get the three quotes back within a few days and found that the life insurance rates were not as bad as I was expecting. I was going to get no medical exam life insurance for slightly higher than what I had been paying for with my life insurance with my company and I also had additional coverage.
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11/20/2009
I would love to get our whole family some funny shirts to wear for our Christmas card photo. Each and every year my parents, my sisters’ family’s, and my family get together, to take our annual photo at the beach. We all take a year in planning what we want the theme to be. Sometimes we dress very nice and sometimes we just try different things. I am in charge of this year and I think that funny t shirts would be fun.
I forwarded an email onto everyone and gave them the name of the best funny shirts sites that I could find. I asked them all if they could pick out and order funny t shirts for their entire family and that is what we would be wearing for our Christmas pictures this year. Everyone thought that it was a cute idea except for my mother. She said that she thought that her and my father were a little too old to be wearing funny t shirts.
Since my mother did not want to do it, I thought that maybe just the grandkids could wear funny shirts and everyone else could just wear plain t shirts but in different colors. That seemed to make my mother very happy and so we ended up going with that idea.
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