We are taking a ten day vacation this summer. We couldn’t resist the deals available on the internet for cheap travel to places we’d always hope to visit. With the tax money we got in April, we are planning the trip of a life time. We will fly to Orlando where we have reservations to pick up Orlando rental cars. We will go to Sea World and the Magic Kingdom because we’d never been to either park. Next, we will visit Universal Studios and spend a day driving to the coast of Florida to see Cape Canaveral.

From Florida, we will board a cruise ship and boat to the resort town of Cancun. The three day cruise to Cancun will give us plenty of time to relax and enjoy the amenities the ship has to offer. From the shows to the fabulous restaurants, we are excited to experience the luxury of cruising.  Upon arrival in Cancun, we will go to the Cancun airport car rentals and secure a car to take us to the resort and spa. We got great room rates and discounts on spa services. We will get a sunrise massage out of the beach and sip cocktails watching the sun set over the crystal blue waters. We are so excited for our trip that we can’t resist packing our suitcases now and we aren’t leaving for another week. Bon Vogage!

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Work is stressful for a lot of people right now. Stress tends to cause a lot of problems in the office and results in lost profits for the business. You may want to think about spending a little bit of money to de-stress your place of business in order to maintain profits during stressful times.

Methods of adding some peaceful feelings to your office include:

• Create a room of rest. Take an office and turn it into a really restful employee lounge. Fresh water with sliced oranges or cucumbers in it, a few super comfortable couches and the other little touches that you might see in a place like a day spa will make this a truly relaxing rest area.
• Install a couple of wall water fountains. Running water adds a true sense of peace to any space. Putting a few wall fountains in strategic locations throughout your place of business could be worth their cost.
• Hire a masseuse to come in monthly. Footing the bill for free 15-minute chair massages to the people who work for you is a great way to reduce stress in the office. Doing this just once-a-month could create real changes in your company.

Business owners should be looking out for their businesses right now by looking out for their employees. Reducing stress in the office is a key part of this.

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Having just purchased the third pick up truck in my adult life, I have FINALLY gotten smart and realized that the investment in a bed liner will pay dividends over and over again.

photo credit: Hugo90

My first truck was used, so I really didn’t thing much about the bed or how it might wear. I was sure that it would last as long as the rest of the truck did. Boy, was I naive! Not only did it start rusting within a couple of years, but I actually had some gouges form after a particularly rough couple of jobs I had worked on.

My second truck purchase really didn’t fare much better. I spent no extra money on the truck bed and while it didn’t rust out like the first truck had, this one just got so beat up that I was literally embarrassed to go to a job site with it.

The great thing about that second vehicle was the fact it had a bull bar on the front. And those bars helped me out in a number of situations over the 5 and a half years I drove that truck around.

Now, on my newest truck, I was sure to get a quality bed liner installed as well as bull bars and a power winch for the front. I may drive this truck for the rest of my days!

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Have you ever had a Diet Cookie?  They’re actually pretty good.  They’re nothing like the tasteless rocks that used to be sold in the super markets.  Matter of fact, I first was introduced to these while on an actual commercial diet.  Now, I see things like “breakfast cookies” in King Sooper’s that are fat and full of fiber and nutrients. 

I bet diets like Diet Miami don’t have these.  I’m always afraid of those diets from Florida or California because my impression is that those have a lot of weird drinks, fruits and salads.  Fine, but I also need breads and carbs, not to mention proteins.  And I’ve been on diets before where the desserts were nothing more than a morsel, which I appreciated because prior to that there were no desserts whatsoever.  But these now that are kinda large and filling plus having fiber, now that’s nice!

I’d rather eat a few cookies a day than just drink liquids two or three times a day.  Some of those diets are like that.  I used to like those shakes, but boy I couldn’t drink more than one a day.  My stomach feels squirrely and unfulfilled.  I’m hoping that this will feel a lot better.

I was just searching randomly through videos on YouTube, and discovered something that worries me: Apparently, Golf Dads are running rampant on the Internet, just like Soccer Moms are on the field.

I’m not crazy about the idea of pushing child athletes to excel in sports — or anything, really, for that matter.  Supporting your kid’s interests and getting him some golf training is one thing; and if you want to take video footage of your kid golfing, more power to you!  He’s your kid, after all, and these are memories you will cherish.

But what I don’t understand is why parents push their kids into things.  When I was a kid, it was that way with my sister, my mom, and gymnastics.  My sister was the star gymnast, quite motivated on her own, but that didn’t stop my mom into making it almost a personal affront to her if my sister didn’t do well at a meet.

YouTube is almost scary, how it attracts parents living vicariously through their child.  For every cute video of a little kid golfing, like the one below, you can find several from parents bragging that their kid is better than Tiger Woods.  Oh, and if you really want a good laugh, read some of the comments to these videos — and the parents’ responses.  It’s amazing how uptight some of them are!

Find a happy medium with your kids and their hobbies.  I mean, encourage your kids to pursue their hobbies, and help them stick with it, but don’t push them too hard or you may actually create an aversion to the sport.  Let them enjoy learning and playing now, and maybe later on they’ll choose to become really competitive, maybe even start looking at golf careers — but let that be their choice, not yours.

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