Asha Anujeeva

I love to keep a flower garden.  I don’t bother with a vegetable garden, it is so much hard work and so time consuming.  For the amount of veggies we eat around here, it is just more cost effective to buy them at the farmer’s market or grocery store.  Besides I don’t want to deal with trying to protect my food harvest from all of the garden pests that think that my garden is an all-you-can-eat buffet!

In our area, a lot of people have problems with pests coming into their gardens and eating up all of their hard work.  Deer and rabbits seem to be the worst offenders around here, although an occasional raccoon has been known to help himself to the corn crop!  I like the Havahart products that help to deal with unwanted animals in a humane way.  They sell a defence animal repellent spray online at their website havahart.com that repels rabbits and deer.  What repels them is the smell, so they are not harmed in any way.  These sprays are organic and will not damage the environment in any way.  If I were to decide to try to grow veggies I would definitely use this product to try to protect my garden from being eaten up by the deer and rabbits!

My brother is renting a studio apartment and has decided that he needs a washer and dryer.  Well, you can imagine how limited his space is – so I told him that I’ve seen washer/dryer combinations that are specifically for small spaces.  These machines are a combination machine that first washes, and then dries the clothes without having to move the clothes from one machine to another – you put the dirty clothes in, and when the clothes come out they are clean and dry.  I think that is really cool!  If you are the type of person that wants to only do one load of laundry a day, that would be a major convenience to have!

I have become more interested in learning more about the Internet.  Not just how to make money, or buy things from the Internet, but general information like the history of the Internet, the technology behind it, different platforms, programming languages, the whole “kit and kaboodle” as it were.  I find it a very interesting subject.  In my pursuit of knowledge, I have been delighted to find so much information is available for free over the Internet itself!

There are a lot of articles and websites out there on the Internet about how to make money using the technology of the Internet.  One article I read about making money using the Internet suggests that buying multiple domains is a smart business strategy.  I think that makes a lot of sense – it helps to reduce the chances of a competitor getting a similar website and getting accidental hits from consumers that are trying to find you! 

I found a website called webhostingrating.com that goes above and beyond the traditional webhosting rating service of listing what they think are the top ten best webhosts (which is a good thing because their top ten list only has four companies listed!) They have a section of informational articles about things that are related to webhosting, the internet, programming, websites, etc.  This is a good place to check if you are thinking about changing your webhosting service in the near future, to check their suggestions before making up your mind.

I was very interested last week in the news story about “proof” that Bigfoot existed – through the discovery of a Bigfoot body in Georgia.  I was skeptical, however, because Bigfoot is not supposed to travel that far south.  Nonetheless I wondered what was going to happen with the story.  It turns out it was a hoax – it was tested and found out to be just a rubber gorilla suit.  Very disappointing – I’d love for “real” scientific evidence to be brought forward!

My parents have been talking to me a lot about their financial security and their “final plans” for when they pass away.  They have been urging me to look into ways to save more of my own money to ensure my own financial security.  They are terrified that with this bad economy that someone in the family might end up in Bankruptcy.

They told me that they had found a website called bills.com that they wanted me to go to and use the wizard on the website to review my own financial security.  Well, I happen to feel about as financially secure as anyone else could feel in today’s economy.  I have about six months of my pay saved up for a “rainy day.”  I have a 401K plan, and I own my own home.  I always pay my credit cards off in full within a week of getting the bill, I have insurance up the wazoo, and I invest in the stock market.  But just to make my parents happy I went onto their website to see what the website had to offer me.  I saw that it was supposed to have a wizard about saving money, so I thought that I would use it to see if it might give me any tips on saving money.  What it did was direct me to a site that was intended to help people who are in debt to get out of debt, which is not what I needed for my purposes.  I’m sure it is a perfectly wonderful site for people who need that kind of help.