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I love mashed potatoes. Not the ones in the box, real ones, you know the kind made with potatoes and milk, then mashed up using a mixer. I am planning on doing some of the cooking when we move, to take some of the load off Krissy, but if I am going to do that then I need some powerful tools. I want the Eclectrics® Mixer, because it is really powerful, and quiet. I don’t really like the loud noises other mixers make, and this one seems to be quiet.

The Hamilton Beach® Mixer isn’t ugly either, in fact I can get it in any color I want. I think I would either get it in licorice or sterling silver though, those seem to be the nicest looking. We have other things to purchase for the kitchen first, but after the other major purchases are done though, I think I am going to pick up a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer. I could use it for more than just mashed potatoes I’m sure, but for now that seems to be all I know how to cook with one of those, so maybe if I get one I will find other things to make with it.

It is 3AM and the phone rings. There was a horrible accident, your mother was just in a horrible plane crash. The engines failed and the plane plummeted to the ground in a flaming inferno. There were no survivors. Your distraught, you need consoling, why would something like this ever happen to you and your family? A million things are running through your head, could you have stopped it, what if she was on a different plane? You start to take the blame for her death, you think maybe you could have prevented it somehow. You fall asleep a few hours later only to be woken up by your nightmares.

You need to plan a funeral, but you can’t even think straight. How would you even begin to pay for the funeral that she deserves? She had money, but how much would need to be given to each child and grandchild, and how much would be left for a funeral? Then you remember that she went to Morris, Hall and Kinghorn when she was living in Arizona (also located in Nevada). They helped her with estate planning so her children would know what to do when she passed on. Thank goodness for them, you think as you walk out of the office with the instructions she left for you, she was really thinking of you when she went to them afterall.

Remember the Street Fighter games? I remember them because I used to love playing them (well number 2 anyway). I don’t remember number 3 that well, either because I wasn’t in an arcade to play it, or I just never heard about it. Well Capcom announced Street Fighter 4 recently. Now all that is released about the game is that it will possibly include Ryu and Ken (this distinction is made from the Ryu and Ken images on the website), and I believe that it will also include Chun Li. There isn’t any official documentation anywhere announcing Chun Li, I just believe that with a new movie coming out that is going to revolve around her, then they have to include her in the new game.

I have been approved for Smorty. It is a place that pays you to blog about your opinion and links back to their website. I like to get paid to blog, it is very easy and being part of Smorty just makes it easier. After you reserve an opportunity, they give you three days to write the post. So say you have to leave, but there is a post you wish to do, you can reserve it then come back later and do it. They make it really convenient for you to blog the way you want to blog. Another great feature about them is that they email you campaign notifications. Say you don’t log in for a few days and you don’t know what opportunities are up, any new ones will be mailed to you so you can login and possibly take an opportunity. You have to be quick though, they go really fast.

I am really excited to be getting a house, but Krissy seems to be more excited about getting things to put in the house. She has wishlists on four or five different sites for the things that she wants. She has everything on there we could possibly need like pots, pans, printer, new external hard drive, she even has the vacuum she wants on there. It isn’t just a run of the mill vacuum either, it is the Dyson Animal vacuum. Normally I don’t think she would want it, but she has been using it since my mother has one, so she has gotten used to the way it works and the way it feels. It does clean up a lot of stuff others don’t.

Buying a house may seem like buying a house to anyone the outside, but it really symbolizes freedom and growing up in a lot of ways. Up until now Krissy and I have lived over someone else’s roof, and now we are venturing out into the world and getting a place of our own, far away from any parental influences, which is going to be nice.

This isn’t just a change of address after all, it is a having a car in my own name with my insurance, paying bills on time each month, paying back a loan responsibly. What we are going into is uncharted territories. I mean anything we do now could possibly affect us years down the road, which is why I am hoping to make some good investments along the way. I guess that is why I have been thinking about having life insurance.

Anything could happen, and if that did could Krissy take care of herself? I mean I am sure she could, but I would like to make sure she is covered for a little while with Life Settlements. Life Settlements ensure that she would recieve 25K-500K if I die. I mean I am not planning on dying anytime soon, but if I did die, at least she would be covered.

I got my car back today. It was a lot cheaper than I was quoted, I got a quote of $991, but the exact cost was $845. It isn’t a bad price considering that they need to take out the engine to put it in, so I am happy. My car sounds a lot better, so I should be able to go to New York whenever the paperwork comes, which will hopefully be soon, because Krissy and I are getting very impatient with this.

I am leaving to bring my car into the mechanic. I just hope that I have enough money to get it fixed, and that I don’t have to take out a Bad Credit Loan. I mean they are fine, but they usually require a cosigner because the main borrower has such bad credit. I tried to looking into secured loans, but that would mean I would need to put my car up as collateral, and I don’t want to do tha, if anything I would just get a car loan. At least with Secured Loans UK I can look at all my options before doing anything drastic, that is the good thing about having websites like those, they show you all your options without pressuring you into anything.

The credit card they sent me was already preactivated and had a $200 charge on it that I was expected to pay. There was also a $40 charge each year for having it. I don’t know about you, but that is ridiculous. As son as I got it, I called them up and canceled it because I wasn’t going to pay that. I didn’t have to for my other cards, why should I have to for this one.

I don’t think I would have minded paying it if I had a higher credit limit though. They only gave me $250 credit limit, and when I got it there was already $200 on the card, so essentially I only had $50 to use. Plus when I called them up to cancel it they told me that I had good credit and I could reduce it by $80, which just pissed me off even more because they are trying to screw me over.

With the prospect of moving soon, I am trying to save as much money as I can, and I am starting to plan on how to save as much money as we can once we are all moved and settled in. The one thing that comes to mind is saving on the electric bills. Now I am planning on having my computer on most all the time, it is what I do now, but in order to do that we are going to have to cut costs elsewhere. I am thinking about instead of using normal lighting for the outside, I might try some LED landscape lighting. It doesn’t cost that much in run and it will really make our place stand out.

I had a lot to do the past few days for work and it was really stressful. I mean I am good with deadlines, but they are just nerve racking. I mean there was no chance that it wouldn’t be done when it needed to be, but just looking at the amount of pages I had to code was just a bit overwhelming. I mean I did the right thing, I didn’t let it consume my life by spending every waking moment on it, I did about four to five pages everyday for a couple of days, while still taking time out to have some fun. It’s just that sometimes deadlines freak me out a bit, to the point of getting so nervous that I have to get it done that day, otherwise I think I never will get it done. I think I am getting better at spacing stuff out and making little deadlines in between, like doing four pages a day as opposed to the fifteen or so that needed to be done in one day. I guess that’s just all you need to do, pace yourself and take a break when you need to.

I have had my laptop for over two years now, but I hardly use it so the battery is still pretty good on it. Krissy though, has one of those huge ones that is good for around eight hours, well now she’s lucky if she can get five out of the thing. Her’s is only a little over a year old, so it isn’t as old as mine. I told her that she is eventually going to need a new laptop battery. They are expensive, but if you can find a good deal on one, then you should definitely snatch it up because good deals on laptop batteries are few and far between.

When I was doing sound mixing and editing for a game in high school, I was using my teacher’s old IBM Thinkpad. That wouldn’t even hold a charge. It would need to be plugged in with the battery in it in order to work, the minute you unplugged it, it went dead. All it needed was a battery, but a new battery for it would have been more than the laptop would have been worth, so it really wasn’t worth it back then. Last I heard that old machine was being donated to a class at Brookdale Community College