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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Oct 28 2011

I love my microwave oven!

by Mary Anne

I love it so much that I have two of them!  When I don’t have the time to cook dinner in the crock pot, or in the “real” oven, I put my microwave ovens to work to whip up dinner in practically no time at all!

There are so many convenience foods and “helpers” and “kits” in the grocery stores now that it is easy to fix a good meal with most of the cooking being done in the microwave.  Most every box has instructions on it for preparing the meal in the microwave.  And there are a lot of cookbooks available that are written especially for the microwave.

What I especially like about using the microwave is that I can cook, serve, and store in the same dish most of the time. 

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Oct 28 2011

Sharing can increase profitability

by Mary Anne

Sometimes I think that we are very close to living the life of the popular television cartoon family from the 1960′s “The Jetsons.” So many science fiction concepts that were simply wild imaginations are so close to reality that it really is lending credence to the statement “if we can imagine it, we can do it.” One of the things that this new information age has brought forth is the concept of sharing office space.

There are great opportunities for small businesses to lower their costs by taking advantage of serviced offices chicago. These serviced office spaces chicago are set up so that different companies can send their employees to the location and use the facilities, just the same way that they would use their company’s brick and mortar office. This allows for more employees to actually produce more work during their work day than it would to have them spend a lot of time on the road travelling from place to place.

This also allows for more people to not have to dedicate a room in their own home to being a home office, giving them more space to actually live in their own homes. Not everyone has the luxury of having a spare bedroom that they can convert to a home office!

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Oct 27 2011

Eyes

by Mary Anne

A few years ago my brother had his eyes “done” with Lasik, and he has been encouraging me to have my eyes “done.”  The biggest reason I haven’t had them “done” was the cost factor – my insurance won’t cover it. 

However, with the thought in mind that my eyeglasses are getting more expensive every time I buy them, I have been giving serious thought to Lasik surgery, as I think that eventually the cost factor will end up being a mute point!

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Oct 26 2011

Lots of help out there

by Mary Anne

Post by Linda Washington

When I was a teenager, my parents refused to let me go to college to pursue the degree that I wanted to go after. They said that it was more important for my brothers to get their college degrees, and that they expected me to go to secretarial school to become a secretary and then fall in love with (and marry) the wealthy boss of the company that I would be working at.

The school counselors were of absolutely no assistance whatsover in helping me to look for any kind of financial aid information; saying that if my parents did not want me to go to college then there really was nothing that I could do about it. (This was back in the dark ages of the 1970′s when women were still second class citizens.)

Well, let me tell you women out there – the times have changed drastically! Finding grants and scholarships have become very easy with the use of the Internet. I swear that I was born before my time, because now it is so simple to find grants for just about any subject. My youngest son was given several grants for engineers so he could pursue his engineering degree, and I’m helping my niece look for physical therapy student grants so she can pursue a career in physical therapy.

I have to admit, that I am very jealous of the opportunities these young people have that I never had.

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Oct 24 2011

My hearfelt prayers to Turkey’s earthquake victims

by Mary Anne

I have been hearing about Turkey’s recent earthquake, and the devestation it has caused. What terrible, tragic news. Seems as if every time I turn around some terrible disaster is hitting someplace! Sometimes I wonder if the tragedies are coming faster and harder than they used to, or if I’m just now becoming more aware of them. If it’s me, I wonder if it is just because I’ve been so focused on my own little corner of the world that I haven’t paid much attention to anything beyond the boundaries of my own yard, or if it is because the information age is making it so much more “in your face” than it used to be.

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