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http://growingburgetts.blogspot.com (Hannah)
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| The Death of Xanga I have been blogging faithfully on Xanga for almost four years now (thank you Abby!), and it is time to move on. I started a blog on Blogger recently and though I planned to use it only as a mirror of my Xanga, but I fell in love with the simplicity and the professional feel of it. It is not cluttered like Xanga with tons of colors and advertisements and buttons and profiles and such. I just want to blog. I want to have a journal that my family and anyone interested in the world can read and eventually my great great grandchildren. So this could be the end. I have tried to keep up on Xanga but recently have started blogging only on Blogger. I will not let go of my Xanga because I still want to receive my subscriptions and comment on friends' blogs. But if anyone would still be interested in reading my blog, you can find me at http://husbandfatherservant.blogspot.com So let me formally list my reasons for switching: 1. Blogger is a simple blog, no other clutter. 2. It allows me to list blogs I read, even outside of Blogger. 3. I can enter email addresses to automatically have new posts I write sent to anyone I know who wants to read it but can not keep up with it on the internet. 4. Anyone can comment, not just members of Blogger. 5. I can send text and photo posts from my phone directly onto my blog. 6. Though there is no archiving capability, I can view my entire year of posts and save it to my computer without having to spend money to do it. 7. I can add my own html elements without having to pay. | | |
| Apartment Hunting
Let the hunt begin! We are officially looking for a new apartment. I
started from Rent.com and Hannah has been checking out the newspaper
listings and we have a few leads. There is a really incredible church
in Quakertown that we might consider attending, so we want our next
apartment to be near there. There are some nice one bedroom apartments
in Quakertown that are in our price range, but we really need two.
Regardless, we are going to see one tomorrow.
Also, there are some REALLY REALLY REALLY nice ones in Pennsburg. They
are spacious two bedroom apartments that are less than the one bedroom
apartments in Quakertown! They have heat, hot water, water and gas
included and high speed internet access available! I called and the
said they have "limited availability" but that they would give my
number to someone who knows more detailed what availability is looking
like. So we should be getting a call from them sometime next week. I
drove by them today and absolutely loved what I saw from the outside.
They are also just blocks away from a beautiful new Super Wal-Mart and
a Weis and just two blocks from 663 which leads right into Quakertown.
Also they are only fifteen minutes from work!
So we will see what happens, but I hope we can find a good apartment
soon. We "settled" for our last two apartments and I am really hoping
we can find one this time that we really love so we can be settle down
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| The Death of Blogging Blogging among my friends has almost entirely died... and it makes me so sad. Three years ago almost all my friends had blogs and I read them daily and knew what was happening to them and what they were learning in their lives. I felt connected to them and almost felt like I knew some of them better than when I was in school with them. But then something happened- MySpace. MySpace was the first big "social networking" site and all my friends immediately jumped on the bandwagon. But it at least had a blogging capability. Then following the MySpace craze, there came the "Facebook" craze. Facebook allows people to write "notes" but there is no real blogging capability. And as my friends got into the social networking sites, they left their blogs. So now what I know of my friends are a bunch of random one-line status updates and infrequent notes. How were they able to leave blogging so easily? I seriously doubt they all keep written journals, so how are they recording their lives? I want to leave something that my children and grandchildren and great great great grandchildren can read, not to mention my current family and friends. On my blog I can record the everyday happenings of my life, the current state of the world, what God has been showing me and what I have been learning. I know I could never consistently keep a handwritten journal, but I find it simple to keep a blog. In fact, I NEED my blog. I NEED to be able to write and let out my thoughts and emotions, even if no one else is going to read it except me. I would have to say that blogging blows my mind, it is just brilliant. I do not know what it is, but it is so easy to be totally and brutally honest when writing on my blog. I would go so far as to say that my blog is more "me" than me. When you see me, you see what I show you on the outside. You can see my skin color, my clothing selection, hear me speak of this and that; but though I try to be perfectly honest in all parts of my life, it is a game to an extent because we all want to look "good" on the outside. But when you read my blog, you see inside me. You see what makes me me. You see why I am passionate. You see why I care about what I do. So what is my point? I guess that simply put, my blog is me. And I wish that my friends felt the same way about blogging. | | |
| Hannah and I are now covered under AFLAC! I hate the thought of
spending more money, but this looks like something we really need. A
friend recently went in for quadruple bypass surgery and had a rude
awakening when he realized that Walkers has no disability compensation
for employees. That got a lot of us concerned and we were told that if
we wanted any disability insurance, we had to get it through AFLAC. So
the AFLAC people came on Friday to present us our options, then they
came today to sign us up. I signed up for three plans:
Accident - Immediate cash given
if you go to the emergency room because of an accident, then cash
depending on what procedures need to be done and how long in the
Hospital.
Disability - Disability insurance which will reimburse 66% of your paycheck for up to 3 months because of a medical disability.
Dental - Cash back for cleanings and dental procedures.
I am glad we signed up for these, I think they will be worth the money. | | |
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