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A few weeks ago Melissa and I went and saw Dave Ramsey in Grand Rapids. This is the third time we have seen him live. But we haven’t read his books or went to FPU (Financial peace university). After the first time we started working on our budget and debt, in our own speed and own way. Well we have been able to pay off all but two debts (college and the RAV4) its taken way longer than it should have. So In April we will be attending FPU and kicking these last two debts to the curb. Then it will be on to baby step 3

Wish us look and I’ll update the site on our progress. We did a budget this month, but it wasn’t a REALLY tight one, we cut back but not a lot, maybe once we start the class we’ll see other ways to cut back. Right now it looks like it will be about 24 months before we have both debts paid off. I’ve been downloading Dave’s podcast and we listen to it during dinner. Why are we waiting until April to start? Well I have training this month for Sharepoint and its in Vegas. Melissa’s coming with me and we had this planned and paid for before we decided to go to see Dave Ramsey again.

I few weeks back I posted the country version of uncle kracker’s song “smile” I also posted some links about learning to play the guitar.

Well this video today combines them both. A guitar lesson for the song “smile” Enjoy.

If any of you learn to play this song and post yourself playing it on youtube, drop a comment here so we can all see it.

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Recently there seems to be a lot of sites popping up with groups of Entrecard sites to help you speed up your 300 drops.

Entrecard has always had the reputation of creating high bounce rates, will these sites only increase that or since its easier to drop on 300 increase exposure for sites?

I’m listing five six I’ve found to be easy and good quality, leave a comment if you have more or an option on EC

1. EZ Drops
2. In the Zone
3. Drop 2 It
4. Not John Chow
5. I am Buraot
6. 300 drops – Sabra Duffiney

Happy Dropping

Update: I just number six today and had to add it to the list

an aging actor oh so furious

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I know this last month a lot of my blogger friends have stopped using EC either because of the ‘ghost dropper’ incident or because they just don’t see the value anymore. I know I don’t drop like I use to but I still enjoy a decent amount of traffic from Entrecards and sill find new blogs to follow and comment on.

So here are my top droppers for February

• SPAIN TRAVEL BLOG
• Ramblings of a Haemophiliac
• My Outsourced Brain
• Beyond Feron
• Jean sQuared
• Patsy’s Words of Wisdom
• The Snoring Queen
• Wirez and Circuitz
• Whateverebay
• Work At Home

Thank you EC droppers

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Just got this in an email from the GOP

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After pledging to listen to Republican ideas at this Thursday’s photo op- er, "bipartisan health care summit," President Obama has decided to stick with the Senate Democrats’ health care legislation, a bill that Americans have already rejected as a massive restructuring of our economy that is a short walk down the road to government run health care. He’s rejected alternative methods of tackling our health insurance crisis before hearing them. He’s betrayed the American people’s trust.
President Obama’s liberal allies on Capitol Hill are going to try to jam this unwanted monstrosity of a bill down your throat. But you’re not powerless. You can stop the march of liberalism by signing this petition urging President Obama and his allies to join with Republican leaders to start over on health care reform.
It’s time to do away with bills crafted in the dead of night behind closed doors by a team of statist liberals. Instead, we must develop sensible bipartisan legislation that respects individual rights and the Constitution of the United States. It is more important now than ever to send a clear unambiguous message to Washington. Sign the petition today to make your voice heard!
Sincerely,
The GOP Action Team

SIGN THE PETITION

EMAIL TO A FRIEND

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These are my links for February 8th through February 19th:

• Online Guitar Lessons – Guitar Tricks – the Fast, Easy, and Effective Way to Learn Guitar
• Yoono – Connect to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, AIM and more…in one place
  Update your status across all your services at once
• Las Vegas NV Hotel, Casino and Restaurant Reviews – RateVegas.com – Have a question about Las Vegas? Planning a trip and not sure about a specific aspect of your hotel choice, restaurant idea or evening plans? Not sure how to get into a nightclub? Wondering what the '$20 trick' is? We answer all these questions and much more.
• Top Ten Las Vegas Tips, plus our How-to-Gamble guide – Welcome!
  I'm Michael Bluejay, and I'm here to share what I know about Las Vegas and gambling. You're in good hands: I recently had the cover story on money management for Casino Player magazine, and I'm good friends with the Wizard of Odds.
• Entrecard Quick Drop Tool – ~ Drop Faster by dropping in ZONES Above the Fold
  ~ Each button opens ten sites in tabs (Firefox, Chrome, Opera)
  ~ Each site has an EC widget in the same area of the page
  ~ All Drop Buttons Above the Crease ~ No Scrolling to drop
  ~ Buttons display when they are Done
• Load2All.Com – Free File spreading engine and splitter ! Unlimited File size, splits your files to parts, gives you one link , HotFile, NetLoad, GotUpload, FileFactory, RapidShare.Com, Storage.To, Uploaded.to, MegaUpload, SharingMatrix, DepositFiles, 2Sha – There is no file size limit! UNLIMITED! If you exceed the limit of one of mirror,
  we split your files to rar parts, upload it to 17 different mirror and give you ONE link!

Uncle Kracker – Smile (Country Mix)

From Kid Rocks former DJ comes more laid back tunes. Enjoy

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"Weird Al" Yankovic – The Eminem Interview

I saw Al in concert a few years ago in Muskegon. They played some of these interviews as the opening of his show. Good stuff.

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These are my links for January 26th through January 30th:

• All Things Seen and Unseen » Highlight Author Comments – Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files, etc. All you do is provide a snippet of CSS styling to be applied to author posts.
• Free Stock Images for Your WordPress Blog from Freebie Images – Get Free Stock Images for Your Blog
  Spice up your blog with professional, high quality, free stock photos & images! With its smooth Drag and Drop interface, blogging has never been this easy!
• Las Vegas Travel Guide with Tips and Information for the Tourist on Las Vegas Hotels Free Rooms Shows Attractions and Activities – A helpful guide for those planning to visit Las Vegas
  with tips, tutorials, lists, diagrams, info, links, & live cams
  on hotels, shuttles, shows, attractions, gaming, tipping, & more !
• MMO Stories | Making Money Online Social Network –
• Chat Catcher » Capture blog comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, and Identi.ca –
• My Blog Guest –
• WP Robot – Premium Wordpress Autoposting Plugin –

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I can’t believe my little girl is 3 1/2 and we are looking into pre-K for her already. I remember when she was born, it seems like yesterday she just started to walk. Wow, the miracles that are children, they can only be a blessing from God.

Brad has started standing by himself yesterday. Its funny because he gets a big grin when he’s standing there like he knows he’s doing something new and special. He’s eating normally food like a champ, but doesn’t have any teeth yet.

I look back over the last 3+ years and realize how much kids change you, everything changes, your world gets turned upside down and you realize it doesn’t matter.

We are planning Brad’s first birthday, its going to be a monkey theme

So before you go to bed tonight, grab your children and give them a big hug. Forget about whatever stress or issue you might have had for the day and just remember how special your kids are and how luck we are to be parents.

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