Katy’s Weblog
VeggieTales is the creator of Snoodles. Snoodles are small teardrop-shaped creatures with wings – very cute. In today’s episode (NBC 9:00am PST) a small Snoodle meets the one who created the Snoodles. In their conversation, a great truth was clearly presented in rhyme:
The young Snoodle pondered the things he’d been told.
Then wondering something, grew suddenly bold.
First it’s my knee problem. Now it’s a cholesterol problem.
My blood tests showed my cholesterol at 237. Yes, that’s high. My HDL good cholesterol is 55 – that’s good, and my LDL bad cholesterol is 151 – that’s not so good.
I have a family history of cholesterol problem. My brother and sister are on medication and they exercise much more than I do.
When I think about our financial situation, I get worried.
Our main source of income is from real estate sales. Everyone knows that real estate sales is down. If we were just real estate agents, I wouldn’t be worried. We have reserves to live on even if we don’t make a sale. We live frugally in good times as well as bad. But as owners of the company, we still have to pay overhead expenses even if there is no income. Office expenses are much higher than my personal expenses. That is what worries me.
The Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson is a fantasy adventure set in China in the days when Imperial Emperors and dragons existed. The heroine is a little slave girl who discovers her destiny as the true dragon keeper by helping the last of the imperial dragon, Danza. They journeyed together to the ocean to hatch…
Hours of fun with a ziplock bag and water?Amy and I used that to magnify things around us, including ourselves. It looked so cute we took some pictures. It makes us look like we have big cartoon eyes. Believe it or not, we spent a long time using our imagination playing with a bag with water.
I love my kids!
A year-long study by the Business and Media Institute found that news reports about the American economy have been grossly distorted with twice as many negative stories as positive ones. Moreover, the negative reports were often aired in full-length segments, where as the positive stories only got a brief mention. The worst offender of the big three networks was CBS – fully 80% of its reporting on the economy was negative.
(from Gary Bauer‘s End of the Day report)
In our little suburban town of 30,000 people, the annual Walnut Family Festival held last Saturday is one of the highlights of the year. The local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troups, Little League and soccer teams, City Council members riding in vintage automobiles, local businesses, the water department, and a “clean” trash truck from the waste disposal company were some of the participants featured in the parade.
Say, you’re 22 and spend $5 a day on fancy coffee. By retirement (62, for example), you’ll have gulped away $72,800! Put it in an IRA instead, and with interest, you’d have $179,256 (based on 4% APY).
Coffee is no good for you anyway.
Google saved me a lot of money this week.
1. The office printer Phaser 8200 wasn’t working. The code on the machine says to call for repair. So I called an authorized repair shop. Can you believe they charge $150 per hour – the hourly charge begins when the repairman leaves the shop to the time he returns to the shop! I decided to see if we can fix it ourselves.