It's raining laptop for 30 days!

Yesterday, a good friend of mine was telling a funny story about her encounter with a mouseless laptop. She can make it look like having less knowledge of some things are that cute when she tells it with her funny lines with matching actions.

At this age of technology, she still doesn’t know how to use a touchpad. I am proud to say that my eldest daughter who is just in pre-school knows already how to use a laptop even without a mouse. Mind you guys, she can even surf the internet on her own. She knows what to click and what to type in the browser.

With this development, my husband and I thought of buying an extra laptop for the house which will be used by the kids. But why buy a laptop when I can get it for free? While I was doing my usual browsing of sponsored opportunities for Socialspark and Payperpost, I saw this great deal about Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway.


What caught my eye is that it offers one of the best treats: You are automatically entered to win one of 30 HP Compaq Presario C770US Laptops when you order one of the following online:
1. Charter High-Speed® Internet at $19.99/mo for 6 months
2. Charter Digital Home™ and High-Speed Internet at $69.98/mo for 6 months or Charter Digital Home™, High-Speed Internet
3. Charter Telephone® at $99.97/mo. for 12 months
The laptop that a winner can get is over a $600 value with the following specifications:
New HP Compaq Presario C770US Notebook
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor
15.4" WXGA Screen
2GB RAM -160GB hard drive
DVD Burner
Built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet
Plus a NEOtec Laptop Backpack!
It doesn’t just stop there because all online orders right now also receive a Shell gas card valued up to $100. Today or tomorrow might be your lucky day in the Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway.

Patch it up

Now that my eldest daughter is already 6 years old, we have a lot of things that we can do together. Things that you usually enjoy doing together really make the mother-daughter bonding stronger and better. Sometimes I play with them with their toys but I usually get bored and I am not that imaginative. With my present preggy condition, I have limitations on what I can do. That makes it harder for me to play with my kids. Sometimes I feel guilty that I can’t seem to balance the attention that I give to my 2 kids. I get more worried when I think about dividing my time when Paige comes out of this world.

I guess there will always be things that one can do to make up for a quality time. Learning and fun can be best achieved when the mother and child both like what they are doing. It is just a matter of discovering what it is. For us, we found something that really makes it worth the while. Patch it up is how we do it. At first I thought it was a game board but when I looked closely at the picture I realized that it contains art materials like beads, threads, glitters that are used for patching up torn clothes or if you want to revive your old bags. You can be creative and imaginative in designing, sewing and patching your tops, jeans or other accessories. In the process of helping out my child, I also discover some things about her that one can’t usually find out in normal conversations. This is a good bonding exercise that you can try out without sweating it out.

Shrimply irresistible

I just love shrimps and I have always been drooling for tempura especially Ebi tempura. I guess it is obvious that I would be voting for the Japanese Tempura Shrimp recipe of Mark Holley from Texas. How can it not be my favorite? From the recipe itself I can almost visualize and taste the shrimp tempura together with the wasabi potato cake, seaweed salad, tobiko and the spicy chili sauce. It is just shrimply irresistible! The recipe of Mark is easy to follow and it can be done for all occasions. The recipe is just a click away, just type in www.GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com and you are sure to cook off those shrimps or prawns.

To make it more palatable to the kids, one can make a sweet sauce to fit the taste buds of your young ones. Also make sure that you will be cooking and serving only domestic seafood which is not only fresh and tasty. One can be sure that it is the finest and being managed in a sustainable manner. It may not be common knowledge but the benefits of buying domestic seafood denotes quality, healthfulness and safety supply. The benefits of eating domestic seafood are clear: it's a high-quality protein source, low in saturated fat and rich in polyunsaturated fats, particularly omega-3 fatty acids. There are possible additional benefits of domestic seafood linked to brain and visual system development in infants, and reduced risk for certain forms of heart disease

From the website I’ve mentioned earlier, I am sure that you will find a great deal of seafood recipe that you can try and cook off. Why? There is an ongoing contest that will showcase 14 chefs from 14 different states. The Louisiana Seafood Promotion & Marketing Board (LSPMB) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) kicks off the Fifth Annual Great American Seafood cook off on Aug 2-3 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. Only one chef and one state will walk away with the title of King of American Seafood.
It’s going to be fun and at the same time you will learn a lot from the best chefs on how to cook off the different kinds of seafood that will not only satisfy the nose and eyes but will also fill your stomach with those succulent domestic seafood. So what are you waiting for? Go and check-out www.GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com and vote for your favorite recipe and you will have a chance to fly to New Orleans!

Baby found safe in her newfound family

I thought it is only here in our country where young hopeless and helpless mothers abandon or throws their newborn baby just like a doll. I have read somewhere that there's also a same incident reported in the city of La Plata, Argentine. A farmer found an abandoned naked baby girl last Thursday. To his astonishment, the baby was being kept warm among his dog China's puppies. Fabio Anze, the farmer, notified the police and the baby was rushed to the hospital.

Upon examining the baby, the Director of the Melchor Romero hospital - Mr. Egidio Melia, released to the press that the baby was just a few hours old when she was found, and was in good health although she had some bruises. It seemed like the puppies understood the baby's situation and that the poor creature need warmth since nighttime temperatures are chilly although not freezing in the Southern Hemisphere winter in the rural area around La Plata, 40 miles south of Buenos Aires.

They've located the 14-year old mother who abandoned the baby but it was not clear to the police whether the mother left her baby in the dog's pen or whether the dog found the baby outdoors and carried it in to join her puppies.

Bills IQ - the end your financial nightmare

One real nightmare that we have to face in these trying and difficult times is to be in the mud of debts. I have learned from my parent’s mistakes and I have made it a point to stay away from being financially drowned by debts. God is good to me because he has taken care of me and my family from such nightmare.

I must say that I am lucky because I know some friends who have been encountering financial plights right now. This has been a very exigent time that the world is going through and you must be able to keep up in order to survive the test.

I have a friend who has been in such a situation for such a long time now where her debts are way above her head. She owes money from almost all of the people she knows and she has even maximized all her credit cards. We wanted to help her but we don’t know how she got into that mess. She has not been vocal about the things that are going on with her. Prayer alone would not suffice so we thought of talking to her so we can understand the root cause of all her financial misery. We found out that she has been borrowing money to pay her other debts. She is joggling funds and this vicious cycle must stop or she’ll never be able to get out of it.

As friends, we are helping her in our own way. We may not support her through money but we can guide her through BillsIQ. In BillsIQ, there is a quiz online that one can take for free. The quiz helps you understand your own state of financial health in terms of Debt consolidation, Debt relief and, Debt help. It also helps you find out where your weaknesses and strengths are in managing your finances. A great deal about it is that there are tips and suggestions on how you can better improve yourself in dealing with your current situation. Prayer alone would not suffice in uplifting yourself from the pitfall of financial anguish. One has to have a will to be able to make it through.