My sister and I have been talking about our energy providers a lot recently and trying to decide if we want to go green. We were using Stream Energy Comparison to see how much her provider differed. We both thought that making more green decisions would be harder than it is. Everyone keeps talking about going green, but really I did not know what people meant when they said it. It just sounded like a catch phrase to me. I think it started with my sister always following me room to room and turning all the lights off. I thought it was annoying at first, but she explained to me that we should conserve energy and lights were a part of that. She convinced me we needed to do it with the lights, the water and even with how much trash we threw away. Now the next step for us is choosing a provider that will allow us to keep saving energy and making green decisions. My sister says that no matter who the provider, it really comes down to decisions like turning out the light.

A business that wants to be one of the top companies listed for a search like that certainly has its work cut out for it! Some of the most technologically savvy businesses would be quick to obtain guaranteed seo services with a company whose sole business is making sure that their client’s web page is near the top of the search. Doing that maximizes the efficiency of the effort; hiring a professional that guarantees results seems to me to be a no-brainer. Why waste valuable time re-inventing the wheel?

I’ve tried loading the Chrome browser because I heard that it runs faster than IE on the Windows application that I have, but I still get those stupid pop up windows. With Mozilla Firefox, however, those windows don’t pop up and it runs fine. I guess the best thing to do is to just stick with Firefox, but that makes me sad because I’ve used IE for such a long time that I was comfortable with it. I really did not want to switch to something else. Anyone else out there know what might be going on with IE?

My sister just purchased a new printer and she is only having to pay $5 for her black ink cartridge, so I’ve got to go over there and take a look at it and see what type it is, how much it cost her and see if that would be do able for me. Hopefully I’ll be getting some gift cards as Christmas presents, since so many more folks are turning to gift cards for their gift giving needs. And I can’t think of anything better to use them on then a more cost effective printer, because I really do use my printer for a lot of various printing, faxing and copying tasks. Five bucks every couple of months versus the thirty five dollars that I’m easily dishing out would be a welcomed change.

I know that her color ink cartridges cost more than $5, but when I need copies immediately, I need them immediately, you know what I mean? If the printing job needs to be a professional one and can wait a couple of days, then I’ll take the job to Super Fine Printing and let them do the work for me; let them do their magic and use their ink and paper and wear and tear on their commercial printers.

When Yvonne suggested to me that I consider using my writing skills to make some money using the social media of the Internet, I thought she was pulling my leg. I thought that in order to make money doing that you had to have a fancy desk job in some high rise advertising company in New York! But then Mary told me that she has been making a little bit of extra money as a copy writer through a couple of advertising agencies and that she works as an independent contractor, and works at home!

I was really surprised to hear that, and to be perfectly honest I didn’t believe her at first. So she sent me some links to an advertising agency’s Home page for me to check out to see that it really does happen! While I was there I also took a look at their Advertiser page and their Publisher page to get a better idea of how all of this works out. The idea intrigues me, that is for sure. In this crazy economy, making money through the social media while being at home sounds like a dream come true!

Living in New England can be really hard on rural mailboxes. During the winter, snow plows often accidentally hit the mailbox which then falls over. When that happens, the post office won’t deliver the mail until the mailbox is put back in place. With a frozen ground, it is often difficult to set a new mailbox in place. So right before the winter freeze sets in my husband and I go over our plans for getting our mailbox plan ready.

I’ve been looking online at various whitehall mailboxes to see if they carry any mailboxes that might be snowplow resistant. I spent a long time looking at all of the different whitehall products that are available for sale online. When I go shopping at the local hardware stores, there are only a few different styles on display. Being able to see all of the different styles in the comfort of my own living room is a lot more comfortable than having to look through a catalog that is chained to the shelving unit at the store!

And then we had to get WordPress installed on the domain as well. To be perfectly honest, I don’t even want to know how that happened; my sister had her son put it on my blog. (Thank you Stevie!) And much to my surprise, this all took several days to accomplish. In this day and time of instant gratification, I expected it to all be done in just a few minutes period of time.  One thing is for sure, I sure wish that I was one of the geniuses that got into the business of the Internet years ago! What a creation and technological marvel it is!