Starting My Own Business

Contributed by Milford Woods

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When I quit my job at the beginning of the year to focus on starting my own company, I knew it would be an adjustment. Obviously I’ve had to cut way back on my spending, and I’m doing my best to save every penny I can to reinvest back in to the business. I’m so very fortunate that my husband is the most supportive person in the world, and that he’s making sacrifices right along with me to ensure the success of my business. I don’t know what I’d do without him, actually. We’re no longer going out to dinner as much, and I’ve even starting clipping coupons, a concept that was completely foreign to me about a year ago. At the recommendation of a friend, I looked in to how to Shop Electricity Rates Texas, and discovered that I could actually save money in an easier way than I ever thought possible—I switched my energy provider. It took me a few minutes, and I see a savings every month! I know this won’t last forever, and that one day I’ll be able to make much more money than I did in my last corporate job, so I’m trying to focus on that. I’m also trying to focus on how deliriously happy I am, even in the throes of all of this stress. I know it was the right decision.

Banana From Philippines

If you live here in USA, you will always crave for Filipino foods no matter what. That is why when any of us will hear that there are Filipino stuff available nearby, we always grab the opportunity to go and check for it.

One of my Filipino friends posted a picture of a plate of cooked bananas in Facebook yesterday that she just bought from a Filipino store here in our area.

After I saw the picture, I craved for it, so I went there, too, right away. I even had to interrupt my husband's working on his homework just to take me to the store. Disappointed. The store closed early. I was craving for it too bad that I was thinking about it for the whole night. This day, I had to work morning shift. My husband was in school for the whole day, so it was my dad-in-law who picked me up from my work. I realized I still have the bananas on my head so bad that I asked my dad-in-law to take me to that Filipino store, and of course, he did.

Finally, I got these bananas. Although I have to admit that I was a bit surprised to see that these are packed frozen bananas. The instructions says to either steam it or micro-wave it. I steamed it right away we got home, and had it for snacks before I took a short nap.

Thank you, Lord, that Filipino food are available here in our area. Thank you, Lord, for giving me an understanding husband and a loving family, too.

Children's Hospital

I appreciate the guest post, Jamie Guy

I work for a nonprofit children’s hospital and have worked there for seven years. I do not work on the medical side of things, although I do find that side very interesting. I work in the technology department. When most people think of a hospital, they probably think that most of the staff members are nurses and doctors, but it is amazing how many different kinds of jobs can be found in one hospital. I was recently part of a task force that found a new communications system for our hospital. We needed some kind of telephone and internet system that was affordable for a hospital of our size. We ended up getting T1 Long Island and so far everyone has been really happy with it. The task force came up with the solution fairly quickly, which is not always the norm as far as technology task forces go. I love my job, although I do wish I could have some patient interaction. It is not often that I get to see any patients, but sometimes I get to do some work in the nursing stations and I see patients on the units. Maybe someday I will move to the medical side of things.

Filipino Words Flash Cards

Several of our regular customers were always asking me to teach them my language and so I made these Flash Cards for them while at the same I want them to have funkeep coming to our store to look forward to learn new words from time to time.

As of now, I only put four words, and will add more in a few days to come... and more... and more...

Different Ways Of Celebrating The Easter Holiday

One of the days of the year that is the most ideal time for families to spend together other than the most popular holidays, which would be Christmas, would have to be Easter. The Easter holiday is one of the oldest and most traditional of the holidays that are on the Christian holidays. In fact, the early Christian church decided a long time ago to have the Christian holidays run along side the pagan holidays. This was not a choice at the beginning, but instead they were resigned to do this for fear of breaking the laws of their societies.

They way that we celebrate the holiday here in the United States is rather different than the ways that other people across the world celebrate the holiday with their families. Wherever the holiday is celebrated, everyone can agree that any holiday is the perfect time for families to spend together. Often times people may find themselves to busy to spend as much time with each other as they may like to. There are the distractions of work as well as school that may take away from being able to spend as much time as we would like to we the people that we care most about.

Depending on the family that you belong to, and where you live, there will be different ways of celebrating the day with the ones that you love. One of the most popular traditions, at least here in the United States is the Easter basket and along with it the Easter basket gift that go with it. These traditional baskets can be filled with many different items among them items such as candy or other such items are enjoyed by everyone including the children. You will find it difficult to find anyone that does not enjoy candy and other items like it.

Another item that can be used as a Easter basket gift is things like books or other small toys and things like that. These things may seem like they are small and do not matter too much however the thought that you put into the kinds of gifts that you buy is helpful to show the other person that you care about the things that they care about and that you also pay attention to the things that they like and dislike.

There are many people who decide to make these gift baskets and other gifts all on their own. There are still others who either are not inclined or they would rather choose to buy one of these gift baskets that are already put together in the store. When you choose to purchase one of these items it still shows how much you care about the person that you are purchasing it for and they are still likely to enjoyable regardless of what it is. It is the time and the effort that is put into such things that really shows whether you care for someone. Ore than likely though they will like whatever you choose for them.

NASA Tour (2-12-12)

It was Sunday right after the church service when my husband and I decided to spend the afternoon to somewhere that we haven't been. NASA. It was our pre- Valentine's Day date since we will both be busy on the Valentine's Day, him being in school for the whole day and me being in the store for 12 hours. I don't know what is it with us, but almost every time we go out for a date, it always happened to be a chilly day. With all those scarves. gloves, winter coat and bonnet that I have in house, I only happened to wear this almost-sheer satin jacket that my Aunt Kathy gave me. The weather was not so bad in the morning when we left the house, and also it was cooler up there to where the NASA is, too. I was really freezing to death that I feel like my brain is going to sleep and I was shaking all over. I was browsing through their gift shop and boy, was I so happy to find the bonnet in there. I know I didn't need another bonnet to my closet, but at least this one have a logo of NASA on it. Well, it saved me, and had me going.

We really had a blast. It was a 5 hour tour, and there wasn't enough time for us to see everything. Buses transfers from places to places. IMAX movies, demonstrations, showrooms, and many more. It had me in awe of how vast the universe is. Unfathomable!

It was really a great day! Thank God for the opportunity to experience such things and to had a glimpse of your marvelous work. How great are you oh, God!