heidi78marie's posterous http://heidi78marie.posterous.com Most recent posts at heidi78marie's posterous posterous.com Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:32:09 -0700 Times Goes Too Fast http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/times-goes-too-fast http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/times-goes-too-fast I can't believe that it's already almost the end of March. Time goes way too fast. Seems like it was just Christmas. I'm flying home to Washington in May. It's going to be here before I know it. I need to try and safe up some money so that I have some play cash for my trip. It will be nice to visit with my parents and see a couple friends. I don't get home near enough. Hopefully someday I'll be running my own business and making enough that I can take trips back home, or wherever more often. The last time I flew to Washington was over a year ago. It was a year from this past October actually. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to it. I need a good break away from daily life and work. Tonight I'm working on one of my new sites. It's called natural cure for hair loss. I just finished up a couple posts about female pattern baldness and hair regrowth for women. I outsourced a couple articles for it which I'm going to post over the next couple of days. I prefer outsourcing my articles when I can afford it because it takes me too long to write them myself. I'd rather spend that time on other things. I also need to work on my local bail bonds sites this evening as well. I have a couple packets I'm working on that I want to send out on Monday.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:00:52 -0800 My Friends DJ Business http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/my-friends-dj-business http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/my-friends-dj-business So I talked to my friend from back home this afternoon. Sounds like his business is doing a lot better. He's working really hard to do more promoting than he has in a while. He's a disc jockey. He mainly does weddings, some school parties and dances, corporate parties, hypnotizing and some club gigs. Things had slowed down for him a lot and he was talking about getting part time job a few months back. I hate to see him get a part time job barely making anything when he has such a great business which he loves. I envy anyone that does what they love for a living. He's getting busier though now and I have been trying to help him with his online marketing. He has a great website, just not very much exposure for the terms people are actually typing in to find a local disc jockey service. I set up a couple small sites to try and get his name out there in the surrounding cities. So far I've set up Wedding Dj Snohomish, Wedding DJ Arlington, Wedding DJ Bellingham and Wedding DJ Mount Vernon. I tried building a site for Seattle as well, Wedding Djs Seattle, but there is quite a bit of competition there. A lot of disc jockeys have websites that rank pretty well in Google. I hope that I can help him target some of these smaller cities though. I'm going to try cover all of the smaller cities in Western Washington. I know he's a great disc jockey, he just needs his name out there. Then once I'm done with most of the wedding sites I'll try and do the same thing for hypnotist phrases people might be searching for. I haven't seen his hypnotist show, but I hope to see it soon.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:15:55 -0800 My Sister Got All the Creative Genes http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/my-sister-got-all-the-creative-genes http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/my-sister-got-all-the-creative-genes My sister has always been great at decorating her home. Everything always looks so nice and put together. I think she got the all the creativeness from my parents. I, however, did not. I'm ok at it, but nothing like my sister. She's also great at crafts and all kinds of things. She just has a great eye for that kind of stuff. She recently redid my nephews room. It's adorable. She picks the perfect furniture, kids wall paper borders, bedding and lights. Any little boy would love it. The nursery is adorable too. Even her living room and kitchen. Everything from the flowers, plants, wall decals, wall paper borders and paint. You can find all kinds of great quotes printed on the walls through out the house. She also decorates for each holiday and seasons. She makes these cute wreaths to hang from the kitchen chairs and changes them up for Valentines day, Easter, winter, Christmas, Saint Patricks Day and any other holiday you can think of.

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Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:02:06 -0800 Building Local Bail Bond Blogs http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/building-local-bail-bond-blogs http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/building-local-bail-bond-blogs I've been working really hard on a network of bail bond websites. Once they are all ranking well I hope to rent them out and feature a quality bail bond company in the area. So far they have all been getting few visits each month. Not a lot, but those that are visiting them are pretty targeted because the terms they use to find my sites are those someone in need of a bail bond would type in. I'm struggling with a couple of them though, for instance my Utah Bail bonds and Cache County Bail Bonds sites. Most of them all rank well on page 1. Some of them even have multiple listings on the first page for their specific term. The sites have information about how you can get a bail bond, what bail bonds are, how to contact a bail bondsman and more. Many people in need of a bail bond don't know anything about them or what to do if they need one. I'm trying to add as much information and resources as I can so that they can feel more comfortable when they do contact a bail bond service. I'm going to keep working at adding more content to them and hopefully my Utah County Bail Bonds, Summit County Bail Bonds and Sanpete Bail Bonds sites will move up into better positions. I'm looking forward to finding a great company to feature on all of these sites. That way when visitors find my sites they'll have a great recommendation to a company they can trust.

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Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:19:44 -0800 Another late night http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/another-late-night http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/another-late-night You would think I'd learn my lesson by now, but no, here I am. It's 1:10 in the morning and I have yet to get to bed. I need to get the ferrets put up, get coffee ready, brush my teach and get my butt into bed. I just get carried away working online and before I know it, time has flown by. It's funny because I've been tired and exhausted all day and now I am full of energy. Why waste it by going to sleep? I don't know, I need to get on a better schedule. If I got to work earlier, then I could leave earlier, giving me more time during the actual evening to get things done that I want to do... not at 1 in the morning. ha ha, just caught my cat climbing into the big bag of cat food. Had to go pull her out and roll it up. You'd think they were starved because they are always ready for more food... more treats .. and more. I think it's time for all of us to get to bed. Anyhow, I've just been working on one of my sites. I've neglected it over the last month or so, so I needed to spend some time adding some new posts. Its my site about preventing and reducing stretch marks. This particular post was about treatments that help reduce stretch mark scars and how to choose the best treatment for you. I don't have too many posts on this site yet, but I plan to keep adding to it. Hopefully I'll start getting some decent traffic to it soon, but I still have quite a bit of work to do with it. I love researching different things and building blogs based off them. I've learned quite a bit over the past two years. I never would have thought I could create a blog a few years ago. Maybe one of these days it will start paying off for me. {fingers crossed} I know if I keep working at it, it will pay off. It takes work, but I enjoy it. I just wish I had more time. I can't stay up until the wee hours of the morning all the time. Like I've said in many other posts, I'm always so exhausted when I get home from work that I have a hard time doing anything. Well, I'd better wrap it up here. Time for some much needed sleep.

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Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:23:39 -0800 Wow, no sleep http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/wow-no-sleep http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/wow-no-sleep I should have known better. I stayed up way too late last night. I think I finally laid down at 4:00, back up at 8:00. I will definitely be needing a good nap today. I have my dart tournament tonight and I promised I'd be there. I didn't go the Thursday before Christmas because I was still out running around, trying to get my shopping done. It should be fun though, as long as I can get some rest later today. At the dart tournaments we play 501, double out. And we draw names for partners. I'd say that I'm not a great player, but I'm not bad either. You would think I'd be great after playing for so many years, but I have on nights and off nights. I just can't be consistent. I don't know whey. There's some guys that won't play for 6 months and then come in and throw like it was yesterday. I don't get it. Lucky them. lol I'm not super competitive either, I just like myself to feel like I did a good job, whether I won or not. Some of the players are REALLY competitive. They get really mad when they don't win. Some players don't even want to be partnered up with them because it can be really nerve-racking. Dart night is pretty fun though. We play starting in October through May and then it ends for the summertime. Well, I'd better go drink some coffee. I sure need it.

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Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:23:15 -0800 Helping A Friend http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/helping-a-friend http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/helping-a-friend So I have a friend that has his own DJ business. He does weddings, dances, teen events, corporate parties and all kinds of things. I think he even knows how to hypnotize people. Anyhow, I posted previously that he's had a pretty slow year. I know a lot of people are going through that right now. I also know that he doesn't have much of a presence online. If you search for him for terms that people would normally search in the local area, such as Wedding DJs Seattle or DJ Everett you don't find him. I found his facebook page after doing a little hunting, but I haven't ran across his website yet. He has a good website, but like many businesses it's not really optimized for any search terms. The only way someone would find it is if they had the exact website address. Many small businesses are in the same boat. They don't know any different. They pay all this money to have a great website built, but they don't know there is more work to be done to actually get it ranking where they want to be found. I'm trying to do this for my friend. I've been working at if for a couple weeks, after my day job that is. I have one main site which I'm trying to get ranked for the big city in his area. The term actually gets about 5500 searches a month. Right now I'm floating around page 3 so I have a bit of work to do. I need to get him to page 1 of Google. Then I created a bunch of smaller sites focusing on the smaller cities. These are doing great, many of them are on page 1, ranked in the first place. They just don't really get any search volume. If anyone did search those terms though in those particular cities, they'll find him for sure. It's a project, but if I can get him more business I am going to be so happy. He loves what he does and I totally envy that. I hate seeing him feeling like he needs to get a part time job making minimum wage just to make ends meet. If he just had some good online exposure, I'm sure things will pick up for him.

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Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:13:49 -0800 Still Trying to Nail Down Our Workout Schedule http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/still-trying-to-nail-down-our-workout-schedul http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/still-trying-to-nail-down-our-workout-schedul So I would have thought that the holidays would have been a great time to get really into the working out and gym groove, having some extra time off. So I was wrong. I'm disappointed with myself. At the same time, I don't want to get too down on myself because I know I am going to get really committed. My boyfriend and I just need to nail down a schedule that is going to work for us. Whether we go in the mornings or after work, we need to have it planned out. What days, what times and just do it. We told our training we'd go 4 times a week. I thought that would be a good goal to shoot for. If we had said 6 days a week, then we would end up getting made at ourselves and feel like failures when we didn't make it that many times. With 4 days, it seems more doable, and if we go 5 or 6 times, that's just a bonus. That would feel like we did an awesome job that week. I'm just not sure what schedule is going to be better. I'd prefer mornings, because there are so many less people there. The evenings are pretty packed. If we were just getting on a cardio machine that would be different. With using the other machines though I don't think I'd like it when it was busy. Plus, I really don't want to look like a fool. I know we won't, but you can't help but feel that way. I'm excited though, as I've said before. We've been eating a little bit healther, and I've been trying really hard to drink more water, no soda. I can already feel the difference. It's amazing how drinking more water and cutting out soda can make a difference in feeling bloated. I normally feel bloated all the time. I don't feel that way near as much right now. Anyhow, the new year is going to be the beginning of a great weight loss journey. I can't wait!

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Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:14:00 -0800 A Good Friend Of Mine http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/a-good-friend-of-mine http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/a-good-friend-of-mine

Work is slow for everyone these days. I am lucky to have the job that I have right now. I've been with the company for about 6 years now. About 1-2 years ago they cut back quite a bit. Many people just in my department were laid off. I know my boyfriend has been out of work  for months at a time over the last two years. He'll be on a job for 2 months and then out of work for 4 months and that just seems to repeat itself. A good friend of mine from back home has seen his business slow down as well. He's a disc jockey for weddings, corporate events and clubs. I set up a site for him, DJ Everett, to help get him some more exposure in the local area. I think if he gets his name out there some more there will be a lot more business coming his way. Many small businesses need to look at getting more exposure online. That's how people do most of their searching these days. I know I don't pull out the yellow pages anymore. I go online and search for the businesses I'm looking for. Whether I'm looking for a local auto shop, the closest tanning beds, gyms, flowers, party djs, or anything, I go online to find it. A lot of small businesses don't even have a website and those that do have websites they still aren't being found. I'm hoping I can help my friend by setting up some sites targeted at those keywords people are really searching for that I can bring in some more business for him.

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Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:38:50 -0800 Finally Hit The Gym http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/finally-hit-the-gym http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/finally-hit-the-gym So we finally started going to the gym! Horray. I am so happy that we finally got in there. We got a free training session since we were new members. I ended up signing up for a trainer which I'm really excited about. We're going to see her once a week. I wanted to have someone tell us what we needed to do. What machines to do, when to do them and when to change it up. I'm just trying to figure out what kind of schedule we'll do. It's so busy in the evenings, but getting there in the morning isn't easy. I'd like to get most of my workouts done in the morning, because then it will be done and over with. It's too easy to put it off when you don't go until the evenings. Plus, once I go to the gym after work then my nights pretty much shot. If I could just get in there at 6:30 each morning then I should be able to get to work at a decent hour. I'm excited about having a trainer. I had my first real session with her on Friday. Man oh man am I sore! We did a full body work out. I'm surprised though, my legs and abs felt perfectly fine. It's my arms though. Oh my goodness do they hurt. Not just a little sore, but extremely aching pain. ha ha. I need to get in there tomorrow to do the full workout again. I'm just hoping that the soreness eases off enough by tomorrow that I can do it. I've been taking tylenol, using icy hot and taking hot baths, but I don't know that any of it is really helping. Oh well, I know that is part of working out. If you're not sore, then your not working hard enough. I don't think I'll be quite AS sore though in the future. It's just because I'm so extremely out of shape. Can't wait though, I'm going to start losing weight and feeling so much better. I can't wait to have more energy too. I'm always so tired. Looking forward to having the energy just to do simple things, like going to the grocery store after work, or getting online to work on some of my sites. Right now I just feel like crashing when I get home. Sometimes I feel like laying my head down on my desk at work by 2:00.

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Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:29:49 -0800 Christmas Tree Is Coming Along Nicely http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/christmas-tree-is-coming-along-nicely http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/christmas-tree-is-coming-along-nicely Decorating is coming along ok. Taking longer than I had hoped. I enjoy decorating, but I wanted to get it done sooner and have the house cleaned so that I could spend more time enjoying it during my long weekend. Instead I spent a good chunk of Friday cleaning, Saturday I did more cleaning and started decorating and today I'm still working at it. I got the tree up last night, put together that is. I didn't start on the lights until this morning. Two of the strings from last year didn't work for some reason. Hate it when that happens. I tried putting a spare light in to find where the problem was, but all of my spares had bigger bases and wouldn't fit. Funny how that works. I think companies do that on purpose. They all have different sizes so that you can't mix and match extras when needed. If your strand goes out and you don't have the specific spare to that set your screwed. LOL Anyhow, I got about half way down the tree and we made a run to Smiths. I got two sets of 150. You'd think that would have gotten me through the tree, but nope. My Mom always did her lights from the inside out on each branch rather than just wrapping them around the outside. When you have lights all through the branches the tree glows more and the ornaments stand out more. The whole thing sparkles when your done. I love it, but it is the biggest pain in the bum to get the lights on. I'm done now, thank goodness. My boyfriend ran back to the store for me and got two more sets of 150. Would you believe that I still have 1 branch without lights? Oh-well, that branch will be at the bottom in the back so it really doesn't matter. Now I'm working on the ornaments. I usually start with all the gold, green and red balls. Then I move on the the different ornaments. Most of my Christmas ornaments are hand-me downs from my Mom. I love them all. They are all pretty random and some are really old. I'm trying to take just as good of care as my my Mom did with them. Well, I'd better get back to work. Just wanted to take a quick break.

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Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:14:29 -0800 Time To Decorate http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/time-to-decorate http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/time-to-decorate So today I'm going to start decorating. Hopefully I don't create too much of a mess in the process. I actually tried getting some cleaning done first because I don't want to start with a messy house. Just nicer when things are clean and organized. I still have a bit of vacuuming and dusting to do, which really should be done before I start pulling all the decorations out. I have all kinds of decorations. Many of them were given to me by my Mom. She had a pretty big house to decorate when I was young, so now that she's starting to downsize she's giving me quite a few of her decorations. I got quite a few when I first moved out too. I'll probably start with the tree. I have an artificial Christmas tree that I put up each year. So much easier and cleaner than getting a real one. I also have a big artificial Christmas wreath that I made when I was young. I didn't make the actual wreath, but I decorated it with lights, bows and berries. I have been collecting a few pieces each year to a little Christmas village too. I have a hard time with it though with my animals. Well, mainly my cats. They think they need to walk through it the second I have everything in it's perfect place. It never lasts very long. It's nice once it's all set up though. One thing I don't have is a train for my tree. My boyfriend thinks they are annoying, but I like them. I remember my grandparents always had one running around their tree. My parents had one too, but for some reason, theirs would start all by itself in the middle of the night. You'd hear the choo choo whistle and it chugging along. There's a Disney Christmas Mickey Mouse train that I really like, it would look nice under the tree. If I don't get one this year, I'll definitely get one next year. Well, I'd better get to work. Lot's to do today. Hopefully my boyfriend let me play some Christmas music while we're working.

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Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:44:27 -0800 Snow Is Here http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/snow-is-here http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/snow-is-here Snow is finally here for good, unfortunately. We had a pretty big storm the other day. Not quite as big as they thought it was going to be, but it was enough to give us a few inches that isn't melting away. That's the only thing I don't like about where I live. The snow lasts forever here. Seems like we get snow in October and it doesnt go away until May to June. Our summer lasts for about 3 months and it's gone. Not much of a fall or spring. The skiing is great though. We have several different mountains to go to. I haven't been in quite awhile, mainly because I've felt so out of shape. I know once I start having more energy skiing will sound more fun. We'll have to hit a Utah ski rentals shop first though for my boyfriend. He has a snowboard, but he doesn't have any other gear. When he's gone, he's just worn my ski pants, so if we go together, one of us will need a pair. I have all of my equipment. My family did a lot of skiing growing up, so I have skis, poles, ski clothes, goggles... everything I'd need. That is, if I can fit into them. LOL Hopefully within the next 2 months everything will start fitting better. I used to love skiing. I'm not the type to go if the weather is nasty though. I don't like feeling cold. I never have.

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:46:46 -0800 Big Winter Storm Warning http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/big-winter-storm-warning http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/big-winter-storm-warning So we're supposed to be getting a HUGE storm today. My work told everyone to leave by 3:00 to ensure everyone had time to get home and safe before the storm hit. It's here now and it looks nasty out. The sky is black and wind is blowing like crazy. My boyfriend had to go run an errand so hopefully he'll be back soon. I hate him out driving in this craziness. You never know when someone else is going to lose control of their car and hit you. You could be as careful as you could possibly be and still get into a bad accident. It's super cold out there too. The wind feels like ice. Flights are getting canceled too. Glad I don't have any family trying to fly in for Thanksgiving. I'm sure a ton of families are being affected by that.

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Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:51:40 -0800 Time To Go To The Dentist http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/time-to-go-to-the-dentist http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/time-to-go-to-the-dentist So it's almost time to go into the dentist again. I've been pretty good about going in every 6 months for the past couple years. I've been fortunate to not have a lot of cavities growing up. I don't think I had my first one until about 23ish. I had one, then six months later I had another. Then I waited about 4-5 years before going in again and bamm, 6 cavities. They filled them all at once too. My face was a mess. Way too many fillings to get done in one setting. Thank goodness I wasn't planning on going back to work that day. The dentist I have is pretty nice. I had to go the the salt lake city orthodontist for a long time when I was young. I had braces for about 3 years I think. I also had surgery to my jaw. That wasn't fun, I'll tell you that. I'm glad I did though, now I just need to take care of them.

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Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:11:24 -0800 House Fire http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/house-fire http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/house-fire Our neighbors house caught on fire this afternoon. Scary to have that happen so close to home. It started from the guys car and spread to his house and then through the connecting duplex. Luckily everyone got out safely, including their pets. It spread so fast. I think it was one of the biggest black clouds of smoke I've seen coming out of a house. The duplex on the other side, which isn't attached had it's siding completely melted off. If it had just been a little bit longer it would have spread to our house. I guess who ever called it in said it was a car fire, so only one fire truck was on it's way. When they got close and saw the cloud of smoke they knew it was bigger than a car fire and they called in for another truck to come out. That's whats scary about living in duplexes, or apartments for that matter. Someone else might leave their stove on, have a faulty wire, or who knows and it can spread through your home before you know it. You don't have total control over what other people do.

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Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:16:00 -0800 Starting Christmas Shopping http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/starting-christmas-shopping http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/starting-christmas-shopping Well, it's about that time to start Christmas shopping. I have no idea where to start. My sister and Mom told me not to go overboard. THat's no fun. I don't think I go overboard, they just know that I don't have a ton of money. My sister wants me to get them the pillow pets, which will be cute. I should probably go ahead and order those so that I have them. I'm not sure what else to get Kota. He didn't give me any ideas. Dang. I think it's starting to get harder as he gets older because I don't know what all he has. He's been really into Bakugan, but I'm not sure if he's as into it as he used to be. He loved the webkins for quite a while too. Wish I knew. I like getting things that I know they really want rather than getting something just to get it. Zane will be 1 1/2 at Christmas. He's now at that age where he's playing a little more. Last year I pretty much just got him a bunch of clothes because he was only 6 months old. For my parents I think I'm going to give them one of those flip cameras. I couldn't decide whether to give it to my sister or parents. I got a brand new camera from work, but I already had one, so no need to keep the new one. I'm getting my sister a copy of a magazine that she wanted. I don't know what to get my brother in law either. They are both very into fitness now, but I think they pretty much have everything they want. I was searching through Amazon the other day looking at toys, Christmas decorations and different things. There are a lot of really cute Disney theme stuff for kids rooms, like wall decals, furniture, comforters and so much more. I started looking through the toddler princess beds. There is such cute stuff these days. I had a really nice room growing up, don't get me wrong. But one of the princess beds would have been so fun. Any little girl would be super excited to have something like that. One of them even looked like a little castle. I had a pound puppy tent though that fit perfectly on my day bed. I loved that. I think just having a hideaway is fun for any kid. My nephew loves to build tents too. Well, that time again. Better get back to work.

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Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:13:43 -0800 Repairs Can Add Up On You http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/repairs-can-add-up-on-you http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/repairs-can-add-up-on-you I never know what to do when things need to be fixed, or who you need to call. I need to contact someone about getting my brakes on my car redone. I also need to get my car door window fixed. We have several things in the house that need to be fixed too. We have a few broken windows, carpet is pulling up, leaks in one of the faucets. Seems like the list could go on and on. I looked in the phone book for plumbing salt lake companies, but I think my boyfriend should make that call. He's been meaning to get my car in too for it's brakes. Crazy how different repairs can start adding up on you. I think part of the reason we put it all off is because of the money. Problem is though, that if you put it off too long it can end up costing a lot more to fix than it would have if you had fixed it right away in the first place. A lot of things you can even fix yourself, but you don't want to do it wrong and make it worse.

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Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:34:07 -0800 Good Start To Monday http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/good-start-to-monday http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/good-start-to-monday I am happy to say that I felt pretty good coming into work today. Since I took care of that issue that had been eating at me for so long, I really feel much better. Usually on Sunday nights I start dreading work, but I felt quite a bit less stressed this weekend and this morning. What a great feeling. I came in today feeling like I was going to have a great day, get loads of work done, stay productive and leave at a decent time. I don't want to leave everyday drained like I usually do. We're still trying to decide if we're going to go to the gym in the morning or after work. If I can leave at a decent time, then after work wouldn't be so bad. Maybe we'll alternate and go in the mornings 2 days a week and then after work 2 days a week plus the weekends of course. I want to start taking some classes too, so maybe we'll go in and do cardio & weights on thsoe days and then I'll stop in for 1 or 2 classes a week as well. I just know that I"m going to be so sore once we get going, but I know after a couple weeks I'm going to feel a million times better. I need to go grocery shopping too and figure out what kinds of healthy foods to eat. I'm not quite sure which is going to be harder, eating healthy or making it to the gym regularly. I guess we'll see.

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Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:01:16 -0700 Ending Up With Stretch Marks After Weight Gain http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/ending-up-with-stretch-marks-after-weight-gai http://heidi78marie.posterous.com/ending-up-with-stretch-marks-after-weight-gai Another thing that really sucks about gaining weight is stretchmarks. You think stretchmarks are only for pregnant women, but anyone that gains weight quickly or even loses weight fast can get stretchmarks. I have some around my waist. I've never had any kids, but I've gone up and down in my weight a lot over the last 10 years. They say the best time to try and get rid of them is within a year of getting them. Hopefully I'm not a lost cause because I don't know when they truly happened. There are all kinds of creams that help prevent stretch mark scars and help get rid of them after they appear. I've read about them for pregnant women. I would assume they would helpful for anyone though. I might check into it further. I'm hoping to lose about 50 pounds so once I get rid of my weight I definitely don't want stretch marks showing.

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