Disappointing loss for the San Diego Chargers

Yesterday my home team was playing the Denver Broncos for the AFC championship. Everyone here in San Diego was really excited because it's been a long time since the Chargers were in the AFC playoffs and most San Diegans were looking for the Chargers to win. Sad to say that the Chargers ended up losing the game 24-17.  I watched the 3rd quarter and they were losing 17-0 so I changed the channel. They played very poorly and it didn't look like the Chargers that I know of. Obviously Chargers fans are not happy and will have to wait another season. I personally didn't want to get my hopes up too high because they seem to do this every year and let us Charger fans down so do you blame me for the way I feel? At work the other day, my co-worker larry and me where discussing about the upcoming playoff game with another coworker who was expecting the chargers to win but Larry and I were doubtful that San Diego could pull off such a win and I guess we were correct on this one. I'm sure a lot of people lost a lot of money on the chargers. How do you feel about the San Diego Chargers losing? 

Sea World theme park

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This year my family and I want to take the kids to Sea World but we just can't find it in our budget to make it happen. Sea World keeps sending me emails about special offers for me and my family and it looks really tempting but I told my wife we just can't do it and maybe next year we will do it. My son keeps bugging me to take him to Lego land and my daughter wants to go to Sea World. Although I'm not the kind of father to deprive my kids of having fun, when it comes to a decision of eating or having fun at a theme park, I would rather eat. I  think next year after the tax season is over, we're going to be in a much better position to take our kids to Sea World. I can't wait because my wife and I love Sea World too!

My little boy’s sore throat story & cold sores

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Of course, it is always a joy in the family to have kids. Having two awesome kids means double the joy but sometimes our two sources of joy can become sources of worry. Our little man in the house is just so active recently and he can’t put himself in a place for few minutes; he needs to do something to keep himself busy. It’s no wonder that one day he came home with a sore throat and cold sores. When I asked how he got it, he said he was just cheering for his friends who were playing football in their P.E time in school.

Thankfully, I found refuge in Dr. Jim and Bob's Fun & Helpful Health Advice in Blue Shield of California Facebook page. Blue Shield is a non-profit company that offers easy access to alternative care, like chiropractors and acupuncture. Aside from that, they also provide easy access to great doctors and they also offer a wide range of affordable health plans.

Dr. Jim and Bob is a dynamic duo that posts helpful solutions to health problems. Apparently, they spend time scanning the web to look for some health problems of which they will answer. They offer informative and entertaining approach in discussing some common problems we encounter every day. The good thing is that, they present their videos in such a way that you will not only learn but these guys will also entertain you. 

Universal Studios Hollywood

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This was the surprise that I promised to my children after his graduation. My son is doing well in school and he earned good grades, we thought he deserved to have a nice surprise. Since my wife haven’t seen the Universal Studios Hollywood yet, and I know how much she would love to visit the place because she mentioned it to me a couple of times, so taking my entire family into this amusement park for our summer vacation would be the coolest idea. We toured the park in two days but we will go back there within this year because we were able to avail their special offer “buy a day ticket and get the rest of the year for FREE”. My wife of course enjoyed her thing which is taking pictures of us and the things she find interesting. She has a lot of pictures; I believe she had over 1000 pictures that include our a-day tour at the Disneyland and California Adventure. Photos above were some of the nicest photos she took from us. I personally enjoyed our Studio Tour; it’s an hour tour where we get the chance to see movie locations and etc. We went through the world’s largest, most intense 360 3-D experienced and that is the KINGKONG, where we were caught in the midst of a terrifying struggle between a 35-foot T-Rex and the 8th wonder of the world- King Kong. It was such an amazing experience that I would recommend each one of you to experience it first-hand if you happened to visit this park.

Searching for affordable Orlando Hotels!

I love to take my family into a place where I know they will have fun and enjoyment. My wife always tells me how fortunate she is to marry me, but guess what, I am fortunate that she is my wife. My wife, kids and I had been to the SeaWorld, Legoland, Disneyland and Zoo’s, but not in the Universal Studio yet. I was thinking, if I will take my family to the Orlando City of Florida sometime of next or two years from now I will certainly take them to the Universal Studio Orlando and Disneyworld. I was watching a video on Youtube about Orlando tourist’s destination earlier and it looks like they have more fun over there than here in California.

I seen a video of Disneyworld too and it seems like the park over there is huge and bigger than Disneyland. What I find it so interesting is that the park is surrounded with water and it looks almost like an island to island. By the way, Orlandoescape.com has great deals for Orlando vacation package and I would like to inquire more about their special offer. I think I will book our hotel accommodation at their website for us to be able to save some money.

Paula Deen

Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy

My grandmother loves watching Paula Deen on the food network. She loves to cook southern food, so she likes to cook most of Paula Deen’s recipes. She says that she watches her show at the same time everyday and tries to write down all of her recipes. However, she said that sometimes she does not write fast enough and she does not get all of the ingredients written down. I told my grandmother that she should be able to look up all the recipes online. She said that she does not have the internet and she does not even know if she can get the internet at her house. I told her that she should Get Wild Blue internet. She asked me more about it and I helped her schedule it to be set up. After she had internet at her house, I showed her how to go to Paula Deen’s website, as well as a bunch of other websites where she could find recipes. Now, every week my grandmother calls me and tells me about the new recipe she is trying and how happy she is that she has the internet.

Trip to hollywood

Last week I was able to take 4 days off from work and take the wife and kids to Hollywood, CA and see some famous tourist places. We also visited Disneyland. We stayed at the Hollywood Hotel since we have been there before and were familiar with the location in relationship to were Hollywood blvd is. We visited the famous Beverly Hills parks with the sign. We also visited the greystone park. It's a historical park that was once a mansion for entertaining famous celebrities. We walked through downtown hollywood taking pictures of famous t.v. characters. My kids enjoyed the mickey mouse diner with all the toys for sale. We took the tour bus for 2 hours and seen many movie stars houses but most of them are hidden behind bushes and large trees. We had a great time but we wont be staying at the Hollywood inn again. We had problems with the tv reception and the bath tub draining and noises from people in the hotel room above us.

VIDEO CHAT WITH MY PARENTS

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I have enjoyed using my clear internet service to video chat with my parents. My husband and I recently moved two thousand miles away from home. That is a really long way away! Especially when you haven’t ever lived more than two hours from your parents! I taught my Mom and Dad how to create Gmail accounts. Of course I had to walk them through step by step about how to use the video chat function, but once they got it, they love it. I chat when them about three days a week. I have given them a tour of the house. They also like to see my dog, Henry, on gchat. He lived with them for a while and I know that my Mom really misses him. I’m glad that we have so many technologies today. If it had been twenty years ago, when you still had to pay for long distance, I don’t think that I would be able to live so far away from my parents. I know that sounds silly, but I don’t think that I would have been able to move that far away if it weren’t for everything that we have now!

Superbowl win for the New York Giants

Yesterday when I went to work I was able to catch a quarter or two of the New England Patriots New York giants Superbowl game. I was hoping that the New England Patriots would win but was shocked when it came down to the wire and I learned that New York Giants won again. That really disappointed me a lot. I really thought the Patriots would pull this one off but you can't win a Superbowl when you keep dropping passes to your wide receivers. For New England it was too many missed opportunities and New York played much better. This was the second time that New England has lost to New York in a Superbowl contest in the last two years. I'm a San Diego chargers fan because I live in San Diego but I also grew up in Massachusetts so I have some New England history in me too. I don't know what to say about two of y favorite football teams since both of them didn't walk away winning. Oh, well. I guess we'll have to wait for the next season to come.

Disneyland and friends

Today I'm excited to go to work and find out if my request for paid time off (PTO) on the weekend of February 18, 2012. I wanted to take that weekend off to take the family to Beverly Hills and Disneyland since my son will have 4 days off that weekend. We went to Disneyland last year but it was only for one day but we still had lots of fun and now we want to return. I can remember when we first arrived there and made our way to the park entrance, we immediately saw mickey mouse and my wife said "let's go get some picture taken with mickey mouse and the kids" I was reluctant and told my wife that we can do it later. Big mistake. We were only able to find mickey mouse one more time but took forever to get pictures taken with mickey mouse and it was hot, very hot. All in all, we had a very fun time and my kids loved the different rides. Here's some picture of me and the family at our day in Disneyland. Hope you like them.

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Broken Leg

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Ever since I broke my leg I’ve been spending a lot of time at home trying to recuperate. I’m more or less bedridden and it’s been tough since I’m such an active person but I can tell you guys what’s helping me get through it all: QVC! I got a satellite system from http://www.direc4u.com/nv/l/las-vegas/>last month and thank goodness for that, because it’s really helped me get by these last few months stuck at home. I have developed quite an affinity for the Home Shopping Network as well but QVC is really where I spend a lot of my time. I don’t order too terribly much which is good since it could be expensive but I have gotten a couple of things like some jewelry and a dog carrier for Lola. I don’t know what I would have done these last few weeks without the TV and ever since the accident, I’m not sure I’m going to get back up on a mountain bike again anyway, so I guess we’ll see if this continues!

Family fun at Sea World

I took the kids and wife to sea world the other day and we all had a great time. We took them to the snow and my son was enjoying himself immensely and my daughter started to get into the snow for the first time. We only have till the end of the month and our membership pass will expire so I want to take the family several more times. I could see my son was excited as we drove to sea world because he was talking so much about shamu and all the rides like the "Elmo's flying fish ride" and "Abby's tea cup ride". My son wanted me to take him to climb the "net climb" over at the "Bay of play" for the kids. Not only did father and son climb the nets once but we did it three times. I was beat after the third time. The kids like to play a game were as there's these plastic ducks swimming in a pool and they must pick one to win a prize. They both won rubber ducky's. We took a ride on the sky ride and got a bird's eye view of san Diego. All in all, we had a great day and look forward to one more day of fun at sea world before the year. I hope you like the video of the sky ride.

Phone Orders

Guest post by Gerard Mcdaniel

Phone orders are such a huge part of my business but to be honest with you, I hate being on the phone. I can’t stand having to talk to telemarketers or even my own vendors and I have a hard time dealing with clients that way and would much prefer online. But since so many of my clients are elderly they prefer to call in and speak to a real person so I do what I can to make sure that will happen when they call me. I got business voip service to make the connection better and I even had someone come out and reconfigure the answering service to make sure everything was taken care of on that end. I’ve been trying to push online purchases hard but until that day comes I guess I just need to suck it up and get better about talking on the phone, particularly when just about every phone call makes me money! Who would have thought that would be the case in this day and age?

@ The fair

I took my family to the big fair here in San Diego 6 months ago and they all loved it. My children loved the rides and my wife loved the different kinds of foods from the many pop up displays and pop up booths inside the fair. There were all kinds of hotdogs and steak all over the place. I told my wife that we will have to go back there next year. We wandered inside the fair for 8 long hours and it was already late at night when we got home. The last place we went into at the time was the trade show pop up displays from all kinds of products.

It was too bad that we weren’t able to see all the displays because they were already closing when we got inside. We didn’t know that the fair had that kind of show where we can get and take advantage of the free samples. My wife loves that kind of pop up trade show displays because she can take home all kinds of nick-knacks with her. She likes collecting little items and sends them to her parents in the Philippines. We got tote bags, ball pens, key chains and etc… It was fun!

Day of fun at SeaWorld & Chuck E. Cheeses

I've been promising my wife and kids for over a month and a half that I would take them to Sea World and Chuck E. Cheeses on my day off but I've been putting in so much overtime that I've neglected to hold my promise to my family. Well, today I decided not to work overtime on my day off and spend some quality time with my family. I took them to Sea World And my son got to play with the snow in the snow world at Sea World. My son Ethan had a lot of fun and he started to complain about his hands being cold. My daughter Briannah on the other hand was reluctant to walk onto the snow but with a little help from daddy, She was able to explore but only for a little while. My son was making snow balls and snow castle. We went to the Sea lion show, the pets rule show with it's many dogs and kitty cats, and last the Shamu show. We ended the night by visiting our friend because she called to invite us over for dinner. It was perfect timing because we were so hungry. One night down, one more to go.

Dare Devil

Contribution by Prince Raymond

I was once told by an old man in my neighborhood that time flies and if you’re not careful life will pass you by. Throughout my life I tried to constantly remind myself of what the old man said and I tried to live by those words. Most of my youth was spent living life to the fullest and I feel like even now in my early forties that I have lived a complete life already. I never turned down a chance to take a risk, like going skydiving or riding a really scary ride at the amusement park nobody wanted to go on. Basically, the old mans words drove me to do some fairly crazy things but I have never looked back on anything I’ve ever done and regretted it. As I get older I realize more and more that the old man was right and that life can and will pass you by in the blink of an eye. The older you get the faster life goes and if you don’t live it to the fullest it truly will pass you by. I was recently telling my wife this story of what the old man had said to me and she totally agreed. While we were talking about all the good decisions we’ve made throughout our lives she mentioned http://www.CableTelevision.com/ and I was extremely happy she did. Now, I just have to make sure we get our tickets for the next iron man competition.

Day of fun at sea world

The other day I had the day off so after picking up my son from school, I took the family to sea world. We hadn't been here in a while so it was fitting that we visit at this time. I needed to get the kids out of the house anyways and they had a great time. My wife and I love to visit turtle reef because it has so colorful tropical fishes and the aquarium is so full of life. I took this picture with my cell phone camera. I just love the yellow fish. At the time of this picture taking, there was a school of yellow fish swimming back and forth and it was so beautiful. What do you think?

Another trip to legoland

The other day we went back to legoland for a second time to take advantage of the 2 day pass we paid for. We visited the rest of the rides that we hadn't been on the first time we went. Although this time I didn't get wet with the kids. It was really all about the kids having fun. They wanted to visit mini town again so they can play in the playhouse and slides and they took many train rides on the train. We wanted to save money on food so this time I cooked Cantonese fried rice and brought it with us. Food can be so expensive at legoland.

Kids having fun at sea world

The other day I took the family to sea world again because wee have season tickets and my children had a great time. Here is a picture of them posing with none other than Elmo and Zoe from sesame street. They really enjoy going on the different rides at sea world. Now when we are at home my son keeps saying he loves shamu and he misses him. Hehehehe. Kids are so funny. I told him we'll go back to sea world some day when daddy is not busy on his day off. My daughter just wants to walk every where and never gets tired. If we try to pick her up, she will just cry.