How proud my youngest son is...

I know you've heard me talk about my two boys. This time I'm going to tell you about what happened to my youngest son tonight. For starters, he's only 7 years old and he got to play a real baseball game with an 11-12 year old team. They were missing a player and had to have someone fill in. They asked Marcus before they found another one to play that was actually old enough and since they had already asked him, they let him play. He got to bat and play right field. I know it's one of the places they put the worst players, but since he's so much younger than the other boys, it's only fair they make him play that position. I wish you could have seen him. He's so proud of himself. He got walked to first then stole all the way home. Here's a picture of him on third. Of course, I'm very proud of him as well. He tries so hard and loves the game so much, you can tell when you watch him play. He's also hind catcher on his team, and doing pretty good for his first year playing that position. And no it's not just a proud mom talking, I've had other people tell me that. lol Here he is in his uniform and here is a picture of Devin, just to be fair.

I realize I'm talking a lot about Marcus, but it's not often that a 7 year old gets to play with boys that much older than him, but don't think that I'm not proud of Devin as well. They are both good boys and both good players. I'm very proud of both of my children.

I hope you have a great day and God bless.

You won't believe this, I take that back, you just might

I know you don't know this, but Anne McCaffrey is one of my all times favorite authors. I have several of her first edition books here and am trying to get the rest.

Well, I got the bright idea to call some of the local used book stores to see if they might have one or two that I don't. Here's where the amazing part comes in, at one of the places I called, the person had no idea what I was talking about. She said the name wrong, had no idea where the books might be or even what a first edition was. Now I don't expect anyone to keep up with all of the authors out there because there are several and I can't keep up with them, but I do expect a sales person to know the difference between a first edition and a book club edition. I don't feel like that is asking too much of anyone. I had to set here and explain the difference over the phone.

Since I'm Complaining, let me complain about Wal-Mart. A couple of weeks ago, I went there to pick up a few items that I needed for the house. When I got back to the car my brake line broke. Now, that in and of itself isn't why I'm complaining. What really got me was when I went in to use the phone, which they let me do by the way. After telling the associate at the service desk what happened, she offered me the use of their cooler to keep my food from going bad, which I really appreciated very much. But, when I went back with my items that had to be frozen, she was either on break of gone for the day and the people there including one of the managers said that there was no way they could help me with this. The aren't allowed to put customers items in the freezer. That is why I got mad. Not ten minutes earlier, I was offered the use of it only to be told that it won't happen. I called the home office to tell them what happened and was told that the manager would call me, I haven't heard from this person as of yet. Now I'm calling to complain about that. I even go out of my way to not go there. If this is the way they usually treat their customers, I don't see how they are in still in business. Their prices aren't that low and the service isn't worth my time. I can go anywhere else and get decent customer service. I guess Wal-Mart has just gotten too big for their britches. The obviously don't feel as if the customer matters at all. And since they don't feel as if I matter, I can certainly return the favor. I don't want anything they have that badly.

Have a great day and God bless.

You've got to be kidding me!!!!!

I don't know if you've seen the commercials for cashcall.com but I did. I was reading the fine print when I noticed that it said something about a $2600 loan with 99.25 APR. I thought it was a typo but that is the actual interest rate. The rate for Alabama is: $1500/141.42 APR, $2600/99.25 APR and a $10000/70.08 APR. Now you have to realize that this isn't the amount that you actually get. They have to be crazy. Who wants to pay this kind of interest rate? Do people realize how much they will be paying back, not counting the original loan?

Part of this is a fee to get a loan from them. For the $1500 loan, you end up paying back almost $2000. For the $2600 loan, you end up paying over $9000, and the $10000 loan you pay back almost $25000. Maybe I should go into the loan business if this is the type of return I'm looking at, they really are making a killing here. The bad thing is, someone out there will think this is a great thing. They promise to give you a loan without any collateral, but these kinds of loans are out there, you just have to look for them.

I hope someone out reads this and decides not to use this company. It's not worth it.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great day. God Bless.

Isn't it amazing?

Here we are struggling to pay high gas prices and the oil companies are getting richer off our suffering.

You think I'm just saying this because I hate the high prices? I actually have proof of what I'm talking about.

USA Today, stated on Oct 27, 2005, that Exxon-Mobil made profits of $10 billion dollars. On February 2, 2008 The Washington Post had this to say, Exxon Mobil's Profit in 2007 Tops $40 Billion. Exxon-Mobil claims they need these excess profits to keep up with "the massive scale of the energy challenge before us." to quote Kenneth P. Cohen, Exxon Mobil's vice president for public affairs. What challenge do they have? They have the gas that we need, there is no challenge for them. How much do you want to bet that Exxon-Mobil and all the other major oil companies are sitting in their offices laughing at us because of all of this? They know they have us over the proverbial barrel and there is nothing we can do about it.

High gas prices are part of the reason the economy is in such a bad way. Small businesses are sinking because they can't afford to pay the extra prices. Larger companies just pass the extra expense to us because they can. Families are drowning in debt because of these prices. What will it take for us to finally say that enough is enough?

I realize that I seem to be targeting Exxon-Mobil, but I'm not. If you check the links I've listed, you'll see that all the major oil companies are in the same position as Exxon-Mobil. What are we as a nation, going to do when gas prices get so high that we can't afford to go to work? It's almost that high now. And while I love the way our government is supposed to work, I realize that there are a lot of politicians in the pocket of these same companies. They say they aren't, but sometimes I have to wonder. Why hasn't anything been done to help us? The politicians are supposed to be there for that very reason.

To any elected official who might actually read this, prove to me that you actually care about us "little people", those of us that can't afford to go out eat. We're doing good to buy groceries to feed us and our children. You're out there paying $100 dollars or more just for one meal. That is one problem I wish I had.

I'll get off my soapbox for now, but don't be suprised if I start in on something else just as important to me. As a matter of fact, I have the next few posts ideas ready, I just have to do a little research before I write them.

God bless and I hope you have a great week.

Doctor or Dentist

Why is it people are so afraid of going to a dentist but will go to the doctor? I've noticed that my husband is that way. He'll go to a doctor for whatever he needs to but is scared to death of going to the dentist. He may not want to go to a doctor, but he's more willing to. I just had to say that but that's not really what I wanted to talk about.

The main reason I'm posting today is to ask for help. I've written up some articles of incorporation for my program and would appreciate someone going over them to make sure they are correct or if I need to make some changes to them. I'm not an attorney so I'm not sure if they are written correctly. I can't pay anything for you to do this, I wanted to be upfront about that from the start. I really want to make this a recognized 501c3 organization and I know this is the first step. So any help is really appreciated.

I hope you have a great day. God be with you.

May be looking for a blogging software

I've been trying to change my blogger settings so I can publish on my own site, but it won't accept changes so I've set it up so that it's under blogspot. I've posted comments on the help section but have yet to receive any reply, as have a number of people. It's not like it matters where I post things, but it is aggravating when something like this happens.

Now on to other things.

As you know, my husband lost his eye to cancer almost a year ago. We got an acrylic eye for him that now doesn't fit. We found a place in Memphis that has silicone prosthetic eyes and we're going to try it. We'll be leaving soon to go there and see what happens there. If you haven't had your eyes checked, please do so. He had no warning signs at all, just a small blind spot that he would never have noticed if he had not been shooting bb guns with the boys.

Have a great week and God bless.

It's almost here, Again

It's hard to believe that Christmas is almost here again. It seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating Christmas. As I've gotten older, I've noticed that times seems as if it's going faster and faster.

As you know, I'm big on children. That being the case, what are we going to do about all these toys with lead in them? I honestly feel we should boycott any products from China! We, as a nation, need to show these manufacturers that we won't stand for this. How much longer are we going to let these companies get think they can do whatever they want. We have become so complacent that of course they feel this way. We've gotten to the point that we hardly ever stand up for ourselves. We NEED to stand up for ourselves. Our jobs are going out of the US, gas prices are ridiculous, our elected politicians are more concerned with how much they can make than what's best for us as a nation. I strongly urge every citizen to let these people know that we won't allow this to happen. If we don't, it will only get worse. After all, how are we going to buy these products if all of our jobs are overseas or in Mexico?

Think about it and God bless.