In the past pornography didn’t bother me and I never saw anything wrong with it.  If those women chose to allow themselves to be photographed or make a movie in the buff, what harm did it do?  But for the past five years or more, I have found that it is very demeaning to me personally.  There is no way that the everyday woman can compete with young girls who have never experienced childbirth and who have never had a weight problem.  They are not the norm for body shapes and the majority of women cannot hope to compete with the pornography pictures that are so abundant on the Internet.  I can’t help but feel as though I am being compared to these girls and I will never look like them in any way.  I don’t appreciate this porn because it makes me feel like I am lacking and just not good enough and I doubt that I am the only woman who feels this way.

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Halloween Invitations

It is not too soon to start considering your  Halloween party invitations and you can find some really original ones online at The Party Starts Here dot com.  This is an example of some of what they have; I thought this one was really cute.  You definitely can’t find anything special in the way of invitations locally.  I never have anyway.  The cost for the one shown is $17 for a set of 10.  Minimum order is two sets.  Take a look.

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In 2005 I applied for  social security disability while living in North Carolina, but was turned down.  While thinking about filing the appeal, my family moved to Kentucky.  I thought you had to reapply in a different state, so I didn’t file the appeal and I lost thousands of dollars of past payments.  Well, this is absolutely normal for me to do something like that; I am so ignorant about many things.  But had I gone ahead with my appeal, I would have sought out an attorney, because that is usually the only way a lot of people can be successful in their applications.  Because funds are so low in Social Security, I’ve heard that they turn almost everybody down the first time they apply.  A company called Allsup has a 98% success rate with getting people approved.  They also have 25 years experience doing so.  Federal law stipulates how much money an attorney will receive for helping you get approved and all of them do not ask for money up front.  They don’t get paid unless you win, and this is a great motivator for them.  Good Luck with your efforts and don’t give up.

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Doing laundry can be such a daunting and thankless task, and over the years it has become even more so for me.  One of my children has been in the situation many times of not having a washer and dryer to now where they are not allowed to have washers and dryers.  She isn’t in the situation of being able to afford the high costs of laundromats so she brings her clothes to my house and I end up doing them for her.  I’d like her to do them but it takes so long to do her clothes that the kids about drive me crazy.  So instead I do them for her in the relative peace and quiet of my home.  This time I’ve been given three tall baskets of dirty laundry and due to the way that my laundry vent has been placed in this apartment complex, it takes twice as long to dry clothes as it should.  Then of course I need to do our laundry too.  It never ends!

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Lately I’ve been looking around for insurance and usually this involves getting a life insurance quote from various companies.  Naturally I am doing this online because this is the easiest way to do it but not always the best way.  However, I’m never sure what company to look for, so I visit sites that offer to find an insurance company for me.  Wholesale Insurance dot net is one place that a person could look, but not if they use tobacco.  They have no classes for tobacco users, and they have four different categories for people looking for life insurance.  These classes state things like minor health problems, length of time not smoking, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, cardiac conditions etc as qualifiers.  A few days ago I was looking around for some life insurance for my husband and I don’t know if I dreamed this or if it were real, but the figures were up close to $800.  It really pays to look around and get quotes from different sources.  But here’s one you can start with.

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I have been griping about the dog rescues for some time now for the simple reason that they want hundreds of dollars as adoption fees for their animals.  These are usually breed specific dog rescues, and their response to a complaint about their charges is that the vet costs money and if the potential adopter can’t afford that much, then maybe they can’t really afford to adopt a pet anyway.  Bull.  They just saw a way to make money off of the misfortunes of others and their ex-pets.  Now a rescue center in Pennsylvania has been raided and charges made against a dog rescue shelter.  The owner’s home was filled with dog cages and many of the dogs needed serious vet care.  These people are no worse than those who run the puppy mills.

P.S.  Another dog rescue group in Canada was also raided with the result that hundreds of dogs were rescued and being assessed and treated by their local humane society.  These people ought to have to be responsible for the costs of having these dogs treated.  And they also should be held responsible for the costs of spaying and neutering these animals.  All humane socities seem to require spaying and neutering; although the reasoning behind this is sound.  Bad thing is, if your dog escapes your home or back yard and is picked up by a shelter, they will cost you to retrieve them and still be required to be “fixed”.

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It’s interesting to research your ancestry but there is a new twist to doing so. Now you can have your ancestry dna researched to gain even more information, but this doesn’t just give you your recent past (as in 100-200 years), but also researches way, way back to see exactly where you come from.  I’m not exactly sure how this works, but they use your DNA to gather this information.  They say that they can go back as far as 50,000 years simply by matching your DNA to others.  Do they gather DNA from mummified bodies?  Only they know for sure, but if you’re interested in finding out, follow the link that I gave above.

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No matter what we do there is no way to prevent age spots nor wrinkles as we age.  There is a way to remove these effects from our bodies which would require some form of microdermabrasion or laser treatments.  Last year during the viewing for my Mother’s funeral I saw a lady that I had not seen for over 30 years, a friend and ex-neighbor of my family.  The amount of age spots that she had on her face and upper chest were numerous and all you could see were those spots.  I seem to recall that she was a sun worshipper as she was always very tanned (we lived in Florida at the time).  But on the other hand, my Mother had once spent a lot of time doing picking in the field, before she went back to High School and received her diploma.  And she had very little age spots except on her hands, but even there they were not large or numerous.  My Mother got very dark from working out in the sun and even 30 years afterwards still had held onto this darker coloring (we are Caucasian).    Age spots and wrinkles are a part of life, but not one that people have to put up, if they can afford to visit a dermatologist.  A laser can easily remove these age spots, but I am not sure of the cost nor whether or not medical insurance would cover it.  I somehow doubt that it would.  Get more information on this subject at Healthy Skin Portal dot com.

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I bought a used Apple Iphone for $99 from AT&T and it worked just fine.  But I was not pleased with Apple because they were too cheap to print out a manual for a phone that cost a lot, especially last year when they were $400.  Even cheap phones give you a manual.  Then I dropped the phone and even though it was in a case, the display quit working.  I had to drag out my old Razor and charge it up so I’d have a way to call someone. The cordless house phones always seem to be dead.  So today I bought a corded phone that also came with a cordless handset.  Now I can actually answer my phone.

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I’ve been keeping my eyes open for some outdoor furniture for my new apartment, only when it starts turning colder the stores no longer offer them.  This has been very aggravating to me as I would have liked a set way back in November.  I should have known to check online, but honestly it just did not occur to me.  Yeah, its like that at times, these senior moments come and go and they are so frustrating.  Anyway, I found this set at a place called Cozy Days.  This particular set is priced at $2,499.00 and this is after a $401 dollar discount.  This outdoor furniture is high in quality and you couldn’t ask for better.  Take a look at their selections for your next outdoor furniture set.

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