Asha Anujeeva's Attitude

Our keeshond Dutch is getting older now, and I can see his muzzle graying.  He slows down quicker when we go for a long walk together, or when we play fetch. Boy does that dog love to play fetch! He doesn’t care if it’s a stick or a ball or a frisbee, he loves to play fetch!  And he loves children, too. He will let them pet him, and tug on his fur and he’ll just lie there and take it. If it gets too bad he’ll get up and go hide under a bed somewhere. He’s never bit a soul in his life. But he’s a magnificent “watch dog” he will bark and growl at strangers until I tell him it’s ok! And the strangers ARE afraid of him because he looks so much like a wolf! They don’t know how gentle he really is, and that’s OK with me!

Lately I’ve been spending some time reading about health issues realted to his aging process.  I want to make sure to keep him in the best possible health and make sure he lives a good long time!  I’ve found a site called Petwave that has a lot of informative articles about Pet Health that I plan to spend a lot more time reading!

I love our keeshond Dutch. He’s been with us since he was a two month old puppy. We bought him from a breeder that showed keeshonden in another state and had to drive for four hours one way to go get him! We had bought a crate with us to make sure he stayed safe for the drive home. Well, we fell in love with him immediately, and he with us. He has been a good, faithful gentle dog. He is a well trained dog, we trained him really early. I love to see him do his little tricks like catching a frisbee and rolling over.

I find this to be an interesting time, this recession, leading to depression time. Many businesses will be scaling back, many will be closing down. Some of these will be large companies, some will be small businesses. However I see that this will also be a time where more people will open their own small businesses, largely because they were laid off from the other companies closing down and they can’t find other employment. They will be forced to start their own small businesses.

When running a small business, many times the business will need one or more small business loans. Whether for start up costs, or to invest in more capital, the need to obtain more money to invest in the business will be there from time to time. That is when the savvy business owner will do some serious comparing of companies that provide financial services.

The Merchant Advisors Company’s website at www.onlinecheck.com offers small businesses the help they need to set up a merchant account to accept credit cards, and can assist with obtaining financing for other business needs. They also offer a service that enables the small business to accept check payments by telephone! Now I think THAT is an innovative service!

i was reading on the Internet about the big controversy over the Indian firms Satyam, and how that is going to effect many US companies that have used them to outsource their work. Many companies moved their work from the USA to India because it was saving them 15% to 20% of their labor costs.

I understand the desire of a company to save money on their labor costs, but this outsourcing to other countries is one of the big reasons that our economy here in the USA is in so much trouble. I would really like to see these jobs coming back here. I know that other countries are suffering economically, but charity is supposed to begin at home, isn’t it?

Do you like cash back rebates, comparison shopping, and online shopping deals?  I sure do!  I don’t know anyone who doesn’t!  My brother’s girlfriend just sent me the link to a website called extrabux.com and told me to check it out. 

So I went to the site and found that it is a shopping site that gives you cash rebates right into your paypal account when you shop through them at one of their 800 member stores.  What you have to do is sign up for an account, then when you want to shop you go through their website.  When you buy from one of their merchants you get some cash rebate money!  They also have discounts, coupons, and specials to make shopping even cheaper!  I was looking at their list of merchants and found several that I like – Fashion Bug, Zappos, Ebay, Petco, Pacific Sunwear, and Spencer gifts just to name a few.  Different merchants offer varying amounts of cash back rebates, but every little bit helps, right?  Check it out for yourself!