I was looking for a video on you tube of Aretha Franklin singing “I’ve got the music in me” but couldn’t find one! While looking, I found this version of her song “Think” that was adapted and changed to be a message about drinking and driving! I’ve never heard this version, I thought it was great! I hope you enjoy it too! AND take the message seriously too!
For as long as I can remember I’ve loved reading about foreign countries. The exotic cultures simply fascinate me! Ant the beautiful photos are so inspiring me! And I love to watch the Travel Channel whenever I get the chance. I’ve been saving my pennies for years now, hoping to be able to save up enough to travel around Europe. If I’m lucky I should be able to find some cheap holiday deals to get me there in the next year or two!
Over the past several years I’ve become friends with quite a few people from Spain and from Greece and they have regaled me with tales of how beautiful their countries are. And they tell me that if I go to their home towns that they have relatives that would be more than happy to let me stay with them for a few days as an honored guest! Now how nice is that?
So I”m focusing now on trying to figure out the best value in Hotels in Alcudia Spain, and the best value Cheap Holidays in Greece to see what I can come up with. I’m using the website www.ulookubook.com – it seems to have everything I need!
Seeing Mount Olympus has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember! I’d love to get over there this summer if it is at all possible!
My dear great-aunt decided it was time for me to be more creative and gave me a ton of fabric that she had collected over the years. She said that it was time to pass the torch of fabric collecting on to a younger family member! Some of this fabric is beautiful and I can see why she would be attracted to it. Some of it though, is just plain ugly! Naturally she didn’t put any labels on any of it telling me what the content is, or the yardage, so I guess the first thing to do is measure it all out and pin small notes on them telling me how much fabric there actually is! Then I have to figure out what to actually DO with it!
This is such a volatile time in the housing industry, and in the employment uncertainties that I really think that this is not a good time to buy a house if there is any chance at all that you might lose your job. Now if you are independently wealthy and it doesn’t matter if you work or not, well then go ahead and buy a house! But if there is any chance at all that you might lose your job, I think that looking at homes for rent is a better option. That way if you lose your job and can’t make the rent payments and get kicked out, well then at least you haven’t lost a huge investment (as in a large down payment!)
One of the things that you really need to be careful of, in renting a home, is determining what repairs the landlord is willing to take on in the event something breaks down. For example, if the furnace breaks down, who pays to fix it? Kitchen appliances, etc?
One of the first apartments I rented I thought that the landlord would keep the lawn mowed in the summer and the driveway shoveled in the winter. It was a rude awakening to discover that the landlord was not providing those things! The first hint was when there was a big snowstorm just a couple of weeks after moving in and my car was buried deep in the driveway. I called the landlord to inquire when she was going to send a plow truck over to plow the driveway and parking lot. Her answer was that she wasn’t sending anyone over – that was my responsibility! Well, there was nothing in the lease agreement one way or the other so I was quite upset over that! Thankfully I was withing walking distance to work, so I hoofed it to work that day. And the next. After a while one of the other apartment tenants decided to arrange to get the driveway and parking lot plowed out. I offered to chip in some money to pay the fee, but he didn’t want any. He even shoveled out my car for me! I lucked out that time!
Every time I am driving in my car it seems that I hear this song on the radio. It is very catchy and it makes me want to dance! I just got home a few minutes ago, having freshly heard it on my radio and decided to look it up on youtube. Up until tonight I didn’t know the name of the song, or the artist. Tonight I found out (the announcer FINALLY said it!) and so now I am putting it on my blog for posterity! Hope you like it as much as I do!