Posts Tagged ‘Family’

You don’t own me…

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Today I came across something pretty interesting. The topic of stem-cell research is a hot-blooded issue with many people, none of which who seem to care about the female’s perspective of things. Men are too thrown into the world where they think they own everything, when it comes to the female body – however – the issue is much larger and females don’t seem to be at liberty to discuss it openly. This goes back to the Neanderthal times when women were supposed to obey and the men ruled the world. Well, to be honest, screw you if you think like that.

So where’s this coming from? I came across a website for Cryo-Cell Innovative Stem Cell Solutions and I have to say that I whole-heartedly 100% agree with their logic. It’s a very simple logic too, Cryo-Cell’s “Protect Baby, Protect Mom”. Umbilical cord blood stem cells are a 100% match for the child, and there’s also a 1 in 4 chance that your newborns cord is a match for siblings as well. Stem cells have been used in over 8000 transplants worldwide and has treated over 70 diseases. So while it’s still considered an experimental procedure, I really don’t understand why everyone looks down upon it? The government can spend billions of dollars on a war we’re not even supposed to be in but they can’t kick some money aside to help the future of our country? If a child dies due to something that’s easily fixable (found through this research) why is the mother just supposed to deal with the loss of a child knowing that it would have been 100% possible to change the outcome of the situation? Yes, an experiment is an experiement but if there are documented cases of this working – what’s to experiment?

Now, I don’t see myself having children – mainly because I can’t stand other peoples kids, why would I want my own? However, there are some people out there that were just made to be parents, so here’s something for you if you fit in that category. “Protect Baby, Protect Mom” Special Limited-Time Introductory Offer. If you’ve ever stored cord blood stem cells with any bank (privately or publicly), you can qualify for Cryo-Cell’s Returning Client Pricing. With their offer, you can receive two services for less than the price of one. It’s alot to read into, it’s a lot of money to be spent, but take the time to look through everything they have to offer, if you’re truly interested in protecting your children than this is the route to take.

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It’s been fun…

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I’m still visiting family, an issue with our car left us up here a little longer than we’d originally planned.  It isn’t too bad though, my father enjoys having me here, I’ve been in touch with a lot of friends and family over the course of the last few weeks so it’s been nice to catch up on things.  I’ve spent a lot of time with Lucy, I met up with Colin and his new baby boy (too damn cute).  I’m itching to get in touch with my friend Pat but he’s currently on tour and hasn’t really been in town.  His band, Stealing Jane, is doing very well right now.

I’m actively searching for a job up here.  I love Delaware but New York is really the place for me.  I was born here, raised here, and have so many things going on up here that I really don’t want to leave.  I truly appreciate everything that I have in Delaware, it’s just not “home” for me.  So I’ve gone through every job related website; Monster, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, SnagAJob, Craigslist – you name it, I’ve been to it.  I’ve put in applications for companies located everywhere from New York City to very fart out East on Long Island.  I haven’t gotten any phone calls yet, but I’m hoping to hear something soon.

I have some pretty big plans, but they all require a very solid income.  In order to live in New York (in your own apartment, utilities, food, whatever) you need to make at least $40,000 a year to have some kind of a savings account being maintained as well.  I’m not really too keen on living paycheck to paycheck so making anything from $40,000 a year, and up, is the route that I’m looking to take.

I’m putting in an application with Human Resources at the local hospital.  My father works there ,most of my family is employed there, and my Mom worked there for many years so they kind of know us.  I’ve also put in applications at a few different companies around here, mainly part-time kind of BS work but that would give me enough money so I can put some into a car.  I believe I’ll be moving first and then Sean is going to come up later on.  With this, I’m going to need my own means of transportation and with car insurance, and car payments, plus my other bills I figure about $700 a month in bills going out to cover everything.  A part time job of about $200 a week should be able to cover that.  After that, I can still push the applications to higher paying jobs and continue with part-time work on the weekends so I can bring in some extra money to handle food and making sure Bella is OK with her vet checkups and food as well.

It’s a big deal, a very big deal.  I’ll stay with my father until I can handle being out on my own.  After that I’m really not sure of what I’ll need to do to maintain it after the 40-hour work week but damn am I going to give it all I’ve got.  I put it many applications down in Delaware, for jobs all over Sussex County but I’ve been unable to hear anything, even for the stupid $7 an hour part-time retail work.  It’s pretty damn annoying.

In any event, I need to float around on some sites and put in some more applications.

: crosses fingers :

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Still Moving

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I’m still in the process of moving.  I now have about 30% of the accounts transferred over.  Hopefully by Wednesday (it’s Thursday now) everything should be completely transferred and then Sean and I can take on the daunting task of completely revamping everything.  I really should be doing that now but I’m very content with the current layout on agn-solutions.net.  The revamp would be the backend.  The new script we’re going to use is connected to the WHM so everything, account wise, is going to basically be automatic.  That works great when it comes to new customers, but when it comes to integrating the old ones we’re bound to have a little bit of an issue.  I will hopefully be able to get everyone setup without any problems, and it would definitely help with those of my clients who have multiple domains hosted with me. I think my top one in that regard owns about 15 domains with me, so that should be interesting. It will certainly take a while but the amount of effort put in should certainly pay off in the end.

In other news, I have a few new projects under my belt.  Hopefully it will bring in a decent amount of money in upcoming months so that Sean and I are able to go forward with our plans and possibly move up to New York.  I’m more comfortable up here, it’s very easy for me to concentrate on things as well.  He’s noticing the same thing, even though he’s not used to “city living” with all of the street noise, he’s still able to put his head into work with absolutely no problem at all.

A perk would be that my grandmother has an available apartment, the downside would be that it’s $1,000 a month.  However – everything is included (heat/water/gas) so there really would be no issues there but the fact that in order to just live would cost us about $1600 a month (after cable/internet/phone and food) is a bit of a damper.  Not to mention car insurance and gas prices in New York are a little extreme.  So it’s a lot to think about but I think if we can both get to the point where we have about $4000 a month (in total) coming in – we should be absolutely fine.

He’s been on my iMac for the last week ( I brought it up with me ) and now he’s absolutely in love with it and wants to get one of his own.  While I can’t afford it right now I’m certainly thinking of getting him one in the future.  An iMac for an iMac – heh.

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Snails are passing…

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

While I wanted to slowly move everything over to the new host, I was hoping that it wouldn’t take over three weeks.  So I’ve decided to cash in on my 30 day money back guarentee and I’ve already got myself signed up with a new company that seems to have half a brain.  The downside is I typically would prefer to work with a company that’s located in America but I think Canada will do just as well at this point in time.  The resources that I need are pretty minimal so having to pay out of the nose for things just doesn’t seem like the logical thing to do right now.

There were a lot of server issues with this move, the back-ups weren’t properly created so it set a massive server load that I’ve just spent the last hour fixing.  I had to go through all of the accounts individually and remove the backups.  I also made it a point to change my password.  Hopefully I can get everything moved over (again) within the next day or so (personal-stuff wise) so that the company can take care of the clients for me.  I’d rather move my own things personally because it gives me an excuse to clear things out.  When it comes to the clients I like to leave that stuff up to the professionals.

I’m up in New York for a couple of days.  I came up here to see my father and sister for their birthdays (3 days apart – shopping this month has sucked).  I was looking forward to going down to Ocean City, MD for the fourth of July but Sean informed me of the unwanted house-guest for the 4th so we decided to stay up here and look for alternate methods.  Maybe we’ll wind up going down to Morgan’s Park or something, I don’t really know.  Either way we’re looking into firework alternatives so I guess we’ll just play it by ear.

For now it’s knocking on 4am, and considering I need to be up in 4 hours I guess it’s time to get some sleep.

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Relocating to DelaWHERE?

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The past week was pretty hectic. Sean’s aunt was here with her kids and she spent the bulk of the week looking at different properties because she’s hoping to move down here soon. Unfortunately her current mortgage company has decided that it’s time to foreclose on her home and she’s hoping to get out of there with a new home down here so that she doesn’t wind up on the street with two disabled children. She can’t afford her mortgage, no one can afford them anymore. She’s also been looking into Mortgages down here in hopes to find something with a lot less interest that will work with her current income. Right now it’s down to the choice of “Do I feed my children or do I keep the roof over their heads?” It’s really a lose-lose situation when you think about it.

She’s found a few pieces of property that she’s interested in, she also knows what model home she wants built on the property as well. She’s not going to go crazy about how much the house is worth, she just knows that she needs at least four bedrooms in order to cater to her 3 children and her father. It’s a lot of work and she does have a pretty large family to think about right now. I just hope everything works out for the best.

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