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One of my dreams since I was a young child was to own my own business.  For some kids, that is mostly a common dream, but I wanted mine to be slightly different - I wanted to be in a position to help other people.

At an early age, it was evident that I would work in the health industry in some capacity, but I really didn’t know exactly what I was going to do.  It was at this point in my life I was introduced to wheat grass (and later I would use barley grass) and I thought that I could help the world with alternative medicine.

What I didn’t realize is that years later, I would be placing orders for chlorella and spirulina for my new health food store.

Needless to say, it has been a great journey, and I can’t wait to see how well the store does in its’ first week.

I was recently introduced to a live action roleplaying club in my home town.  I had never tried it before, but with my experience playing Dungeons and Dragons as a youth, I thought that it would be something that I would be interested in.

Since it was my first larp game, I had to be explained how things worked and what to expect.  I thought that it would be similar to the pen and paper roleplaying games that I had played in the past, and I was right.  But, instead of just imagining things in my head, we actually acted it out which was a new experience for me.

I was particularly impressed by the larp costume armor that some of the players had - it was really quite amazing.  After the game, I asked to try some of it on, and it was a lot heavier than I had imagined.

Needless to say, I think that the traditional roleplaying games will be less satisfying now - there is just something about playing the game in real life.

When my friend told me about the cheap car insurance rate that he was getting, I was completely shocked. His car was a lot newer than my own and he had been in three accidents. I had a clean driving record and I was paying more than double to what he was paying.

I decided that I was going to ask my insurance provider about this and demand that I get cheap auto insurance as well. They basically told me that I was paying the lowest rate that they could charge and if I didn’t like it than I could go somewhere else.

That is exactly what I did. I went to my friend’s insurance company and got a great rate. I now also buy my classic car insurance through them and I am paying less to insure both of my cars than I previously had for one. I could not believe that they pushed my business out the door.

For the past few summers, I have taken a job at a local greenhouse.  Not only does it let me get out of the house, but it allows me to learn how to take better care of the plants I have at home.

The greenhouse that I work at provides a number of training seminars over the growing season to the staff so that we are better prepared to answer the questions that our customers ask us.  We have studied many subjects in the past including tree selection, lantana care, proper amounts of water to give plants.

But today, our training session covered the topics of traditional landscaping designs versus the new landscaping design ideas.  We were presented with a number of real world examples in the presentation and we will be better equipped to give good advice when it comes to landscaping.

Well, my break is over… time to get back to work.

As I have been trying to make my way up the corporate ladder, there have been many tasks that I’ve been assigned to do for my superiors.  I’ll admit that some of them have not been very pleasant whereas others have just made me feel like a gopher.  Irrespective of my feelings on the matter, I know that by catering to my superiors that I am paving my way up the corporate ladder.

A good example of the things that I’ve had to do would be exactly what I’m doing today.  You see, my boss asked me into his office early this morning with a list of errands for me to do.  Unlike last week when I was filling out business forms, today my task was going to involve running errands.

I was asked to deliver some company registers to one of our clients in town as well as to take care of mediating a couple of the company resolutions that we are presiding over.  These tasks are going to take up most of my day and will mean that I won’t be in the office for most of the day.

I am hoping that by being eager to please my superiors that my path up the corporate ladder will be quick and easy.  I guess only time will tell.

As the owner or a men’s clothing store, I feel it is my duty to be able to provide quality clothing at reasonable prices to as many people that walk in the door.  Sure, that isn’t always possible, but we do our best to cater to every customer.

We recently renovated the store and added a new section specializing in men’s suits and accessories.  It was a smart move on our part as now we were able to cater to both shoppers who are looking for casual wear as well as formal wear.  With the added lines of formal clothing, we also decided to carry additional accessories that would make excellent up sale items for our sales staff.

Some of the more popular items that we have added include designer cufflinks and engravable cufflinks.  We thought that we had everything covered but there been a number of requests for wedding cufflinks and we will be getting those as well.

It is great to see that the renovations have increased our revenues and allowed us to achieve our goals of catering to as many types of customers as possible.

I recently figured out that there are only really three steps to planning a vacation.  Now that might seem a little simplistic, but let me explain it to you and you’ll see what I mean.

The first step in the planning for cheap holidays (or expensive ones), is picking the destination.  For example, if you’re going to Icmeler Turkey, that’s it - you know where you’re going to go now.

The second step is arranging your accommodations, how you’re going to get there and how you’re going to get around while you are there.  Basically this step includes finding your lodging and transportation to and from the destination.  Continuing with our example, you might be looking for cheap flights to Turkey as well as a cheap hotel.

The third step is really not much of a step at all.  Simply put, step three is going on your vacation.  The first two steps to care of all the planning and step three allows you to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

I’ve received a lot of strange birthday presents my lifetime, but I would have to say the one I received this year was the weirdest.  Well maybe weird was in the right word, but the present I received wasn’t really the right thing to give me.

You see, my brother has been struggling with credit card debt for a long time now and he decided to buy me a book on how to reduce credit card debt.  Funny thing is I don’t even have a credit card!

Needless to say I did read the book in its entirety.  It was a very interesting read and I learned about poor credit debt consolidation loans as well as how to follow the many debt diet plans available.

I will take it as a sign that he bought this book so that I could help him out that I think we’ll go out for coffee next week to talk about it.

I have always been one that needed to find the best deal possible on whatever I do.  Whether that be getting a discount on a car purchase or getting cheaper concert tickets, I am driven to get a deal.

So when our family went down to Disney World, I didn’t want to have to pay full price for the Disney World tickets.  This is going to be especially important considering I wanted to visit at least a couple of the attractions and I knew that without a deal, I would have to buy new tickets for each one.

When I explained my situation at the ticket office, the clerk suggested that I could take advantage of Disney Hopper tickets-it was a simple add-on to the tickets I was going to buy that would allow me to visit as many attractions as I would like in one day at all I would have to do is buy tickets one time.

So that is exactly what we did and we saved a bundle on money doing it.  If you are heading down there, you can click here to learn more about purchasing Disney Hopper tickets.

I figured that planning ahead for a trip to Las Vegas would give us the opportunity to find and take advantage of Las Vegas hotel promotions and keeps some money in my pocket.  Learning from my wife’s experience of working in hotels, if you just walk in and get a room you can expect to pay a lot more.

We already have a great deal on plane tickets and I thought if we would be able to get a better deal on the hotel rates that we would have some extra spending money while we are there.  So we have been going online to see if there are any promotion code that we can use to get a cheaper nights stay.

So far, we’ve been very successful at finding MGM Grand promotion codes and Mirage promotion codes but we haven’t been able to decide which one we would like to stay at.  They’re both fine hotels and it might end up that we both nights at each one of them.

We are going to sleep on it and make her decision tomorrow.  Though the trip is still far away I feel a lot better knowing that we almost have everything set up so that we can enjoy our trip and not be stressed out about it.