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Expensive break down

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My husband called his parents house earlier this evening to see if his brother ever got there. His brother had been driving from Chicago through the night Wednesday and into early Thursday morning.

He made it, but sometime during the day his car broke down! Actually I’m not sure if it happened just before he reached my husbands home town or if it happened long after he arrived. Either way his car broke down and it apparently cost about $900 to get fixed!

He’s going to need a cash advance! A big one!

What a drag eh? I mean he’s lucky it didn’t happen in the middle of nowhere while he was driving from Chicago, but still that’s an expense that I’m certain he wasn’t counting on. What a way to spoil a holiday.





Veering off topic

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I’ve been getting quite a few offers to write articles for people. I’m pleased about that, but some of the offers just don’t match my sites. I just finished writing a real estate related post on my gardening (home and garden but more garden) blog and it ticked me off.

I should have refused the offer but I hemmed and hawed about it for several days and by the time I decided to do something about it the offer was about five days old so I felt guilty and ended up accepting it. I totally regret taking it though since it really doesn’t suit that blog at all.

I’m trying to really focus some of my blogs so, even though I know some of them are popular with advertisers, I’m going to have to try to fine tune what I write about on some of them from now on.

Do you find yourself veering off topic on some of your blogs occasionally? If you’ve done this you know exactly what I mean and you know it’s kind of difficult to get back on track again, but if you want to keep the readers that you’ve been trying to build up you have to stick to your guns and stay on topic.

More people should use portable water filters

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Have you heard that several cities across the US have banned water bottles? By this I mean the use of store bought bottles full of water.

I’ve always thought that it was such a waste of money to buy bottled water. Sure, if you’re really thirsty and don’t have access to running water they’re handy, but since the water used in most bottles of water is just plain local tap water why pay extra for it?

I’ve always carried my own bottled water from home. We actually double filter our tap water. I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with Toronto tap water. I believe it’s tested regularly and that it poses no danger. Still we filter it on the tap and that filtered water goes into a Brita water filter that we put in the fridge. The water then tastes just like fresh spring water!

For those of you who don’t filter your tap water and or can’t buy bottled water anymore you might be interested in portable water filters. It’s a bottle that has a filter right inside it to help purify your water. I love this idea! I wish more people would use them instead of being wasteful and purchasing so many throw away plastic bottles.

I missed out on a trip to Florida in May

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You know, I missed out on an Orlando vacation back at the end of May. The company was supposed to hold Postiecon at that time and I was going to go. I would have enjoyed a short trip to Florida at that time of year.

Now their event is going to be in November alongside Bloggersworld in Las Vegas. I’ve been invited to go as a panelist since I’m one of the top earners but I haven’t heard a thing as to whether they’ll be paying for my hotel or anything like that. You’d think that if someone wants you to speak at a large event that they might at least put you up in a hotel?

I guess I’ll have to write to them about it and find out what’s going on. As I mentioned in an earlier post I haven’t bought my tickets for my flight or reserved a hotel room yet and this is one of the main reasons why I haven’t. I suppose I could go ahead and make my reservations and if they were going to pay for anything they could reimburse me, but still … it’d be nice to know in advance.

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