by Tricia
I spent the day on the couch! I never do that.
I was exhausted last night but couldn’t sleep because I’ve been feeling awful. I do think I might be coming down with whatever my husband has/had.
I finally fell asleep while on the couch in the early morning hours and I ended up staying there – sleeping – all day. I got up at 4 pm.
I’m bleary eyed and dazed. I feel so out of it it’s almost unbearable.
by Tricia
Have you heard of EPAY yet? I’m really not certain how long EPAY has been in existence so to me it’s new even though it might not be as new a system of making online payments as it seems.
It seems that more and more online merchants are starting to accept payment via EPAY debit cards so this is a payment option to consider particularly if you don’t feel comfortable using your credit card online or for that matter perhaps don’t even own a credit card.
There are many ways that an EPAY debit card can be used. You can easily use your debit card to transfer money to friends or relatives, or to pay for online purchases where a credit card is required. Transfers can be made from any country to another, instantly and without limits.
I suppose EPAY is best known as an international online money transfer system but they offer quite a bit more than money transfers.
EPAY can be used in hundreds of countries worldwide and as I said earlier it’s being used by more and more merchants so it’s worthwhile registering for an account.
There are a few more advantages to having an EPAY debit card that makes signing up for a free account all the more appealing. The debit cards can be given to children or teenagers. The cards can be preloaded with only a certain amount of money so that your child can only spend a certain amount. Personally, if I were to allow a child to have a debit card or credit card I’d feel better about using something like this with a child rather than an open credit card with a high limit. Kids don’t learn how to spend money properly when there are no limits!
Another feature I like about the EPAY debit cards is that when traveling you’ll always have access to cash when you need it. So rather than carry around a wallet loaded with money you could just use your debit card to pay for items.
Visit EPAY today to learn all the different ways that EPAY can simplify payments and transfers for you.
by Tricia
It seems that over the last few days I’ve been on a writing frenzy. I can’t keep up.
I’m not complaining. By no means am I complaining at all. It’s just that I keep getting link requests, article requests, offers to send me samples, and private offers from big affiliate companies. I’m quite happy that all of this is happening, but it’s hitting all at once. How’s a girl to adjust???
Since the work has been coming to me I’ve barely been looking for work in my usual paid blogging haunts. They’ve been a little slow lately anyway which makes all the private offers I’ve been getting all the more surprising.
Perhaps internet advertising trends are changing?
Has anyone else noticed an increase in private offers? Surely a few of you must be getting some new action as well.
by Tricia
I think I’ve always enjoyed wine. In my early wine drinking years I stuck to mostly white wines as I didn’t like the taste or tartness of many red wines. Obviously as I’ve matured my tastes have changed and I now enjoy a good red wine as much if not more than a nice bottle of white wine.
I don’t actually drink a lot of wine. Perhaps a bottle or two between my husband and I once a month at the very most. Now, that our taste for wine has expanded we enjoy trying new wines. The problem is finding out which wines are good ones to try and which ones to stay away from at all costs! Usually we take recommendations from friends, waiters/ waitresses or when we are in the liquor store we’ll sometimes ask the staff which wine might be nice with whatever dinner we are planning.
I haven’t taken to reading many wine sites. They are often dry and don’t give me a good feel for whether I’d truly enjoy the wine or not. Now, having just said that I believe I might have found website that has Wine Reviews that I can trust.
The author of Redneck Wine Review proclaims to just be an ordinary person who doesn’t have any particular training in the tasting of wine and doesn’t have a refined palate. The “About” page on the site states “This blog is a down-to-earth look at a traditionally snobbish hobby of wine tasting and wine rating.”
I actually believe this is just the type of site I’ve been looking for as far as wine reviews go. I mean, look at my past behavior? When I’ve wanted wine recommendations in the past I’ve asked the average Joe who just might have happened to have tried some wines that I haven’t yet had a chance to taste. This Wine Review Blog seems to me to be just like getting a recommendation from the type of people that I’ve always taken recommendations from in the past.
The site is laid out nicely. It’s very easy to navigate and it has a search form at the top if you want to find out if a particular wine or type of wine has been reviewed in the past. I always give thumbs up to any kind of site that makes it easy for their visitors to move around the site easily and find things that interest them.
I don’t have any major suggestions for the site other than to keep doing what they are doing. The blog has been around since 2005 but it seems that it’s really only been a fully active site in the last two months. If the site owner keeps doing what they’ve been doing in the last while I think this could turn into a very nice review blog.
When I saw the title – Redneck Wine Reviews I wasn’t sure if would be a joke site or a real wine review site, but it most definitely is a very good wine review site.
The posts on the site are not all wine reviews. Some are stories about visits to Wine Country and their experiences in the small towns, restaurants, hotels and motels that they’ve stayed in as well as brief discussions of the wines that they had with meals. There are also reviews of wine tasting and wine making areas such as the review that’s currently on the main page of California Wine Hikes.
The wine reviews are short and sweet. The review and description ranges from the type of wine cork, to the make and year of wine, what food it was served with when tasted, it’s aroma, taste and the authors overall opinion of the wine. Some reviews also contain information about how the author came to be trying and reviewing that wine as well.
I believe that, like any food or drink, the taste of wine is subjective. Wines I love you may dislike. The Redneck Wine Review only proclaims to be one persons opinion of the wines reviewed on the site.
If you enjoy wine I think this site is worth bookmarking and visiting every now and then in order to see if a wine has been reviewed that you might like to try.
by Tricia
My husband is home sick today from work. Last night when he got home just after six pm he told me that he’d been feeling terrible all day. He had the runs, sweats, fever and just generally felt dragged out.
He rested on the couch until about 8:30 in the evening. He ate a few crackers but then announced he was going to go to bed.
As you might already know I tend to stay up quite late – often through the night, because of my own illness, so I was aware of him getting up a few times in the night.
At 5 a.m. he got up to get a thermal blanket because he said he was cold. He was burning up with fever. I gave him more Tylenol. It must have been at least the third one since he’d arrived home from work. I also then went and called his work place and left messages stating that he wouldn’t be in for work today.
When he got up this morning he was feeling a lot better but he’s been extremely tired over the last several weeks so he decided to call our family doctor to see if he could get in for an appointment. Luckily they were able to see him.
Our doc is thinking he might have a thyroid problem. I’m not so sure. He’d been on some medication for a while and went off it about three weeks ago – coincidently the excessive tiredness began around that time. I think his tiredness is a side effect of getting off the medication he’d been on.
She had him get a lot of blood work just to be sure nothing serious was going on.
As far as his recent illness she of course thought that was a virus.
Apparently there’s quite a nasty bug going around. I was talking with my father in law last night and he said that my mother in law and her sister both had similar symptoms.
I just hope I don’t get this. I’ve already got abdominal problems and when I get a virus I get really really sick.