Amy Currioman

One of the things that I find very interesting about living in a rural area is how much time is spent with neighbors discussing things like cell phone coverage and television providers.  I can remember when there was no such thing as pay television (except in motels!)  Everyone simply had bunny ear antennas or rooftop antennas for the free local channels.  And there were only a few local channels – the big networks and a public television!

So I find it amusing when I see and hear so much promotional material about different television offers!  Direct TV  commercials abound on just about every single channel I get on my television!  My brother has Directtv and tells me that he loves it because he is always watching some kind of race going on somewhere!  And there are many different Direct TV Packages available to satisfy almost anyone’s interests and budget.  What an amazing difference in television technology there has been since I was a child sitting in front of the old black and white television show watching Ranger Rick, Captain Kangaroo, and Bozo the Clown!

Do you ever feel hungry but don’t want to eat anything? That happens to me all the time! My stomach is growling and my hands start to tremble, and I even get a hunger headache! But I don’t want to eat anything – nothing appeals to me! This is a dangerous time because now is the time that I would probably grab some empty-calorie type of snack just to head off the hunger pains! I’d love to be able to grab an apple – we were given a ton of them recently, but for some crazy reason ten minutes after I’ve eaten an apple I feel hungrier than I did before I ate it! Sounds crazy, right?

While I was putting the boxes of items on the new storage shelves I tried to take a peek inside them to see what was in them.  I wanted to use a marker to write on the outside what was inside to make it easier to find later.  It really has been a mess down there!  I was pleased to find several boxes marked “Planters” and “Garden Statues.”  I’ve been wondering where my favorite Decorative Planter had gone to when we moved down here three years ago!

We’ve been putting off buying any new Outdoor Planters until we found our “stash” of planters, and now that we’ve come across it we can sort through them and clean them up and see if any are salvageable to use on the front porch or back deck next spring.  Now I’ll be anxious for spring to come again and it isn’t even winter yet!

We recently bought several of the 5 shelf plastic heavy duty storage shelving units to put in the basement to help to de-clutter it. Well, today I decided to march down there and start the de-clutter battle. I put together four of the units and started piling boxes and boxes and boxes on them! Although I would ultimately like to organize them, my mission for the moment is to clear up floor space as much as possible. It’s going to look pretty good when all is said and done!

In today’s technological world Online Trading seems to be a very popular way for the investor to be involved in Stock Trading.  I think that having an Online Broker would be a very convenient way to deal with investing!  There have been many times when I wanted to talk to my own stock broker and had to leave messages on his voice mail and wait for a return call – sometimes several days!

With doing stock trading online, you don’t have to wait for a return call – you place your order and “poof” it is done the same day!  And the fees for trading with an online trading firm are often much lower than the fees for a “regular” stock broker!  And nowadays you can get just as good advice about stocks online as you can with a “real” person.  In fact, sometimes the advice is even better because it is impartial and just relays the facts and figures.