Does any one know much about the crate v18 amp? My dad is big into his guitars and has mentioned this amp several times recently, with his birthday on the way I can only assume he’s not so subtly hinting – but it’s hard to buy or find the best price for something like that when you don’t personally have the first clue about it.
I really hope that holiday prices come down over the next few months. I have been feeling under the weather the last few days and to cheer myself up yesterday went on a little holiday search, it had the opposite effect and actually made me grumpy because, wow, things are expensive at the moment – at this rate I doubt we will be able to go at all, espeically now that we have the puppy and have to take into account the additional cost of putting him in kennels for a week.
I would love to go to the Puu Poa complex in Kauai, Hawaii. It is somewhere that I have always wanted to visit and was really hoping this year would be the year. I will be keeping my eye on flight prices and as we are flexible as to when we can travel I am hoping I will be able to snap up a bargain 
I need to pick up a chinese yoyo if any one knows where I can get one in the UK, I need it for a Chinese event I am attending next week but what I have discovered is that they are quite hard to get hold of around here, if I lived in China then sure, no problem, but they are much more difficult to come across over here, at least within the time frame I have left to get one.
Tags: chinese yoyo, Shopping
Filed under: Grrr, Shopping
There have been a lot of foreclosures in nags head nc over the last few months and years, I know this because my cousin works in that industry and we always chat about how things are going when we have a catch up on the phone – something that doesn’t happen any where near as often as it should. I sometimes feel like I know as much about forclosures as someone who works within that area hehe
Tags: family, Work
Filed under: Loved Ones, Work
I have been looking at double baby strollers this afternoon – no not for me, I don’t have any sort of announcement to make 
One of my friends from work just announced that she is expecting twins and was telling me how they were really going to struggle financially as they had only planned money-wise for one. I said I’d try and find her some bargains online to save her as many pennies as I can
As you probably know by now if you have been reading this blog for some time, my health is very important to me. This time 5 years ago I was obese, a heavy smoker and drinker, I had no confidence and I hardly ever left the house. To say that I was unhappy would be an understatement.
I finally decided it was time to do something about it and find that happiness that I so desperately wanted and I turned my life around.
I lost 100lbs, stopped smoking and drinking, started going out more and challenging myself to do something new and scary are often as possible.
I am now fit, a social butterfly and it has even been said by my friends I am somewhat of an adrenaline junky. I am certainly a lot happier than I was, but am I truly happy? That I am not so sure of.
I still have issues, I still have things in my life that I would like to change or better so I would say that I still need help with Finding Happiness – like most people in the world I assume. Those that are truly happy don’t know just how blessed they are.
Do you think that you can find happiness on your own, is it something you can learn and teach yourself, or is it something that you need help with – either from friends, family, loved ones or even from proffessionals that can work with you in trying to discover what’s holding you back.
I have heard a lot about the benefits of self hypnosis recently and I wondered if it could help with happiness and confidence, it is something I will be looking into more closely in the following days and I might have to give it a chance myself.
Does any one know of a good audio conferencing service that is affordable and reliable? There are so many to choose from that I feel like my brain is going to explode as they are so widely priced and offer so many features and the like it’s hard to really know where to start and which features are important vs which are just ‘fluff’. Argh.
Recently I have found myself getting more and more interested in photography. I have always loved looking at photographs but have never really taken notice of the technical aspect of how they were created. When it comes to taking photos myself I am simply a cheap digital camera or cell phone camera snapper – point and shoot, let the camera do the work and appreciate it if the photo simply comes back in focus.
I have been looking in to what sort of equipment I would need to start out in more ‘serious’ photography and even looked up a few lessons and courses I could take in the local area. There seem to be a lot of choices to suit all skill levels so it is definitely something I will consider. I might try and convince my husband to come to a few classes with me though as I always prefer to do this sort of thing with someone I am close to and comfortable with. However even if he doesn’t want to come with me I am going to go ahead and go on my own as I am serious about wanting to learn more.
I have been doing my research as if I am going to get into this even semi seriously it is not a cheap hobby and there is a myriad of options. From what I can tell in the research I have done so far about tripods Benro is one of the best brands and they are affordable too – I am glad that I looked into it as well as I probably would have just bought a cheap tripod, assuming there wouldn’t really be much of a difference in quality when it comes to them but if you directly compare cheaper camera tripods to a Benro one there is quite clearly a huge difference.
Tags: photography
Filed under: Hobbies
I am thinking of grabbing a couple of bounty hunter metal detectors in the sale for me and my husband – we started going out on long walks last year and always said it’d be fun to take a metal detector along with us, add a little excitement to proceedings and heck you really never know what you might dig up – it could be the millionaire makings of us 
Tags: hobbies
Filed under: Hobbies, Loved Ones
We really need to get a pool fence now that we have the puppy and he’ll be able to go into the complex in a few weeks time. At the moment he has not had his injections so can’t go outside any where other than our back yard but it won’t be long before he can go every where – we don’t want him swimming in the pool!
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