September is here! This weekend is the Labor Day holiday weekend, which means the end of summer to a lot of people. But to me, it means off season rates and big savings at http://www.myrtlebeachseasideresorts.com/
This is the best time of year to book golf packages Myrtle Beach and get away for a long weekend of swimming and golf in my favorite family beach destination on the the East Coast.
September and October are both great months to go to the beach. The weather is still warm during the day and the water temperature of the Atlantic is still warm enough for swimming.
I was reading an article in The Chronicle yesterday about how people who continually update their Education make themselves more valuable employees. In this day and age, when people are so worried about competing in the job market, I think that taking some courses now and then is a good idea.
But many of us have transportation issues, or schedule issues and need to be able to take courses online. Fortunately there are lots of schools that offer online degrees. One of those, Walden University offers a degree in Communications, which is something I’ve always been interested in. I’ll have to check and see if my company has tuition reimbursement benefits for their employees! Getting a college education with someone else’s money is a good thing!
I love being spontaneous. I do try and plan things out but sometimes things just happen and I have learned to roll with them as best as possible. I don’t mind getting a last minute call from someone and running out the door in order to get somewhere in the shortest time possible. I did grow up here so I know all of the roads like the back of my hand and I’m sure that I know each and every shortcut that is possible around my hometown and the cities that surround it as well, so I can get places pretty darn quick if needed.
I love going to sporting events, even though I’m not really active in very many. I do however enjoy playing a game of golf every now and then. My folks brought us up playing golf and I’m grateful for that. It is a nice easy going game that just about anyone can play and they have golf courses and tee times just about everywhere.
My folks just got back from their annual Myrtle Beach vacation last week. They wanted me to come but I couldn’t really take the time off of work and I all ready have a long weekend planned for the last part of September. My mom was telling me last night that they had a good time, the weather was a bit wacky but all in all it was a success. My dad found a website at www.48hourteetimes.com that they had to utilized during their stay in Myrtle Beach. They are a full service hospitality group that helps people with their accommodations and their 48 hour tee times. Since so many people are flocking to Myrtle Beach S.C. this year due to BP ruining so many of the other beaches on the east coast a lot of the hotels and golf courses have been slammed with customers that need some help finding their way around and finding what is available and for who.
I’m glad that my folks are computer literate. Many people their age are a bit timid when it comes to maneuvering around on the Internet, but they have mastered it quite well and use it to their best advantage when possible. And I’m glad that they are spontaneous, that must be where I got it from, a double dose of it, to be sure.
I saw Mike Posner perform this awesome song the other night on the TV. I can’t remember what show it was, probably The Tonight Show. The next day I heard the song on the radio and was really digging it. As soon as I could I went online and went to YouTube.com to find the song and Bingo, had it done in less than a minute.
Boy what I would give to be able to take off and go on a road trip and stay in one of the nicer resorts in Myrtle Beach that Myrtle Beach has to offer. I hear that Myrtle Beach is rocking this summer. Since the oil company BP has let so many beaches be destroyed by their oil leak that people are flocking to Myrtle Beach South Carolina, where the beaches are clean and welcoming.
I’ve checked out the website of http://avistaresort.com and I have to say that I would highly consider staying at their first class Myrtle Beach hotel. They have good golf packages to offer and the good lord knows I love playing a good round of golf. And to play golf near the beach would just be awesome. My parents got me started playing golf at the local Putt Putt, when Putt Putt was still in business. And then we started playing real games and the big people’s golf courses and I was hooked forever.
Maybe by next summer I’ll have accumulated enough vacation time and I can save up a few bucks and check out Myrtle Beach for myself. That’s something to work on.
To say that my aunt likes the movie “Wizard of Oz” would be a gross understatement. She’s actually obsessed and will do anything to buy items in any way related to the movie.
That makes it the easiest, yet the hardest task to buy presents for her birthday, which just happens to be soon. She has almost every kind of memorabilia that exists and that’s what people know to buy her for gifts. Some of her collections include all kinds of figurines, snow globes, afghans and T-shirts. Most of it is in the living room and it’s crazy to see how she’s positioned all of it in there perfectly. It almost makes you afraid to sit down or touch anything.
So after I got my new satellite internet packages I decided to just do my entire gift hunt online instead of going to the mall like I have in the past. I found a set of coasters and I knew she didn’t have movie-themed coasters so I bought them on wildblue internet and had them shipped to my house.
My cousin Lynne sent me an email that her son Jarod is moving across the country and she has been helping him to pack his belongings to get ready. She was helping him to comparison shop moving companies and found a website called EZ removals that provides up to six different quotes from different companies that specialize in helping people to relocate their households.
I can remember how stressful it was four years ago when we moved down here, trying to find the most economical services. The Internet sure is a great source to help people to compare prices and services on just about everything anyone needs in this day and age! And I really like the fact that it can take you beyond your local neighborhood when need be. I think that being able to comparison shop on a wider scope helps keep your neighborhood businesses competitively priced.
I love the Geico website because it allows me to do everything I need to do online. There are times when I need to pay my bill a day or two late and all I have to do is use my wireless internet bundle to get online and push back my automatic payment. I don’t think I’ve ever called the customer service number because the website is set up so well.
I am able to change my policy and what state I am in instantly. I review my new policy online and have paper billing so all I have to do is print what I need and save paper where necessary. One of the best parts of having my insurance with Geico is being able to choose which payment plan and insurance needs I have at any time.
Last month, I switched my payments to quarterly instead of monthly because it was a more convenient way for my family to pay. I actually saved money because I was making a bigger lump sum payment. Usually they charge a small fee if monthly payments are made, so I was able to eliminate this amount.
My bills are almost all online, which makes it easy to get everything paid on time and when ever I am able to. I usually pay them after all of my kids go to bed and it is quiet. I wouldn’t have this luxury if I had to make phone calls or mail payments.
I remember hearing Kermit The Frog sing his hit song entitled “It Isn’t Easy Being Green” it was a heart breaking song to hear him sing back the. Now a days the big buss word is “Green” people are flocking to find ways to become as “Green” as possible and I’m loving it. My parents were from the 70′s era and were totally into the hippie and Woodstock scene. They brought us kids up trying our best to recycle and not abuse our Mother Earth, which we all embraced and learned from.
Today at work we were discussing “Green” issues when someone popped up with the subject of webhosting and how there as many that are doing there part in providing green web hosting sites. He found this information at webhostinggeeks.com, which is a Web Hosting Reviews & Rating Directory that we all took a quick gander at during our lunch break. I have to say that I’m impressed to see that many web hosting sites trying to do the right thing at the right time. FatCow advertises that they are 100% green, which is a mighty big challenge, I’m glad that they are up for it and I hope that more companies soon start to follow suite.
I’m so proud of my mother, since my father passed she seems to be holding up so very well, she is, and always has been my hero. Not too many daughters can say that about their mother. I do worry about her each and every day. I’m sure that she will be with us for a long time, but she certainly isn’t a “spring chicken” if you know what I mean. I try and get over to her place as often as I can and help her out around the place. It is a lot for her to keep up with all by herself and all and my other sisters do what they can as well.
We are currently trying to encourage her to purchase a new address plaque for the front porch. The one that is there now is so old and faded that we are concerned that if she needed any type of emergency assistance that they wouldn’t be able to read it and it could delay any type of help that they could offer her. We have all heard how important it is to have your address plaques and numbers in good order for just this type of reason. And I’m sure that the pizza delivery people would like to be able to read the address sign as well it is hard to read, especially at night and lord knows that my mother likes her pizza nice and hot upon delivery, me too. Putting it into the microwave to re heat it is just nasty.
I think that I will go online and start looking at home address plaques and see if I can come up with some suggestions to show her and possibly get the ball rolling that way. I love my mother and want to keep her around for as long as possible and I hope she knows that.
My mother was telling me that she heard on the radio or read on the Internet that the famous Beatle Ringo just recently celebrated his 70th birthday. She was surprised to find that he was as old as that and it made her feel like an old lady, bless her heart. The good news was that the other still living Beatle Paul made a surprise cameo appearance which I’m sure was an awesome site to witness. I wish my mother could have attended that concert, she really would have enjoyed that being as she is still an avid Beatles fan and listens to their music still quite often.
About ten days ago I bought a couple of pretty bracelets from Ebay. They were identical, and I loved them. The only problem was that they were both two large for my slender wrists. Having only started working in town a few months ago, I had no idea where I could find a local jeweler to help me out. I wanted to take a couple of links out of one bracelet and put them in the other so that I’d have a matching set of a bracelet and an anklet.
I asked the other girls at work where we kept the local yellowpages book, but when they pulled it out from under the counter I saw that the book was over six years old! I don’t think it was exactly up to date on which local businesses were still up and running! One of the ladies told me that there was a jeweler in the shopping center across town, but when I drove past it on my way home tonight I saw that the jeweler had gone out of business. So I’m going to try to find one using the local.com search engine. I’m tired of wasting my time trying to find a jeweler!
A couple of days ago one of the shift supervisors came back into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if there was some illegal use of Rogaine where people could use it to make some kind of new designer drug. Apparently someone had stolen almost all of the Rogaine from our store. We’d never heard of anything like that before! So when I got home I went online and tried to find out what I could about why someone would steal Rogaine. Apparently this is a widespread problem in many stores. People are stealing Rogaine and then selling it on the streets, and then using the money for whatever they want to buy. I just don’t understand why there would be such a strong market for stolen Rogaine – there is a cheap generic on the market. Doesn’t seem like it would be worth the risk of getting caught! But then again, I’m a straight-shooter and find it hard to justify any kind of thefts…..
One of my favorite commercials is where the E-Trade baby talks about the ease of trading stocks online, and then throws up all over himself when he‘s done. This really caught me by surprise, even more so than the baby talking like an adult. I laughed for quite some time after watching the baby vomit on himself, it was just a great shock thriller.
I remember watching the commercial quite well actually. I was enjoying a night in and was watching my Direct.TV satellite TV with my girlfriend when the commercial came on. We were first blown away when the baby opened his little mouth and had sounded like an adult. This was really great entertainment. We really began to lose it when he started talking about trading stocks online. And when the baby clicked the computer mouse and said he just traded stocks, we both calmly laughed a little bit. We both loved the baby so much. And then the unthinkable happened, the baby puked. I thought this was really funny, but my girlfriend was kind of grossed out. I don’t think she laughed too much after that, and I don’t really think she likes the commercial anymore. The puke scene really made the commercial entertaining and enjoyable. I look forward to the next E-trade commercial. I can’t wait!
For several years now I’ve been thinking about buying a Custom Computer to use. I’m tired of having a lot of pre-loaded software that I’m never going to use filling up my hard drive. And this business about buying a package deal where you get a free printer thrown in is just filling my basement with a lot of brand-new never used printers that I may NEVER use. My brother is a self employed IT specialist and he is always buying brand new Custom Computers and Custom Laptops for his clients. And it seems to me that every six months he is buying a new computer for himself! I don’t know what he does with his old computers, but lately if and when I have a problem with my computer(s) at home he tells me that anything older than two years old just isn’t even worth his time to look at it!
He’s been encouraging me to buy a new Custom Laptop lately. He knows I’ve been talking about how sometimes it gets really slow at work and there is nothing to do and I wish I had a laptop with me to check my emails and work on my blogs and work on my continuing education credits. The issue I’m having with that, though, is that I can’t get free wi-fi at work and it would cost me $60 a month to get Internet on my phone OR my laptop. I don’t really want to spend $60 a month on that!
One of the more interesting and challenging aspects of my job is the challenge of doing business with the several customers that only speak Spanish. Although I took Spanish in high school, I haven’t had a Spanish class since 1970! And I haven’t needed to use the high school Spanish again until I started work in this pharmacy.
I was very surprised when I started working here that there was very little support in the way of translation services for the pharmacy. I found myself falling back on what little I remembered from my high school Spanish to try to communicate with our customers. Believe me, it was nothing even beginning to resemble professional translation! I’ve tried to find some local adult education classes to help to refresh my memory to help me to communicate with our customers, but so far I haven’t been able to find one.
Until then, I’ve bought one of those electronic translation dictionary things and used google translate to refresh my memory as best as I can. If I’m going to be our store’s translation service, I need to brush up!
It’s pretty cool that you can go online and find right at your finger tips. One of the gals that I work with is learniOnline Trading ng about the Online Broker business from her fiance and is giving us all tips on IRA Accounts, Mobile Trading and Stock Trading throughout the afternoon. It’s funny how you learn so much from people that you find yourself working with here and there. We do spend a good chunk of our time at work so it’s always a plus to find a place where your get along with the other folks that you are surrounded with each day.
Our customers are always welcome to join in our various conversations and they do once in a while. I have met some nice folks from working at the pharmacy. Most people that we deal with are not feeling good or are taking care of some one who is feeling well and we are all in such a hurry that it is nice to be able to slow down and get into an interesting conversation with people that have so much to say and most of the time have no one to tell it to.
Today was the first time that I’ve had to refuse a check from a customer. Usually when we get a check, we just run it through the scanning machine and it tells us to get the customer’s signature on a separate piece of paper that comes out of the cash register. That paper is basically telling the customer that the check is being transformed into an EBT. The check itself is voided and returned to the customer.
Not today. Today the cash register machine told me that I had to refuse the check due to information received from Tele-check. That is the first time I’ve seen that message! I was mortified, but I remained calm and asked the customer if he had another form of payment available. I explained that the machine was rejecting his check.
The poor guy was so upset. He had no cash, no credit card. I had to send him away without his medicine, which was anti-biotics. I felt so bad. I don’t know if he came back again on a different day to get his medicine or not. But it is times like these that I wish all medicines were free!
