Top Droppers for August 2009

Another month has passed again and I want to thank all of you who patiently visited and dropped their ec to my site. This time around I'm listing here the top fifteen. Thanks vm!

Lainy's Musings

Symphony of Love

Jean sQuared

Fledgling Blogger

Wirez and Circuitz

Cinnamon Spice & Everything Nice

Guitarbench.com

Denford Magora's Zimbabwe Blog

Wii Mommies

Momspective Reviews

Beyond Left Field

Hello Kitty Gifts

Momspective

Grampy and You!

Our Journey to Forever

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Ten Things I Hate About Traveling

I love to travel even if I only travel around my country I just love the feel of hopping from one place to another meeting new friends, learning different cultures and seeing beautiful places. But traveling is not always fun and easy, sometimes it tires your body too much you can't go on traveling for more. Anyway here are the Ten Things I Hate About Traveling (this is for land travel only):

1. Heavy rains, on long land travels it's dangerous because the road is wet and it's easy for the car to slip.
2. When the kids are restless and ask for impossible things or things located in the compartment. You have to stop to get what they want.
3. Heavy traffic
4. Long lines in the stop over station comfort room
5. Reckless drivers
6. Delayed departure
7. Can't bring all my necessities (I'm a heavy baggage traveler)
8. When the car breaks down on a deserted road
9. Forgot/Left some important things
10. Can't sleep when hubby is the driver on a midnight long distance travel trip (He might sleep too if everyone is sleeping)

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:Today's Flowers #55 - Magenta Orchids!

Click the image to enlarge and see the full beauty of the orchid

My theme of flower for this week is magenta that's why I've chosen this one from my friend's garden. This is actually the neighbour of my peach orchids entry last week, they live in the same garden :-) I'm actually a lover of pale ans pastel coloured blooms but this one got so much color that you can't just pass by, I stopped and looked at this one and took a shot. I thought that this flower deserve a shot as it's really beautiful on closer look. The color is so vivid!

P.S. I just created the name of this one from its color, I don't know the name of this orchid!

Happy Monday! Visit more beautiful flowers at Today's Flower => here.

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Start Spending Smart

I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was in college and through all those years I always spent a lot of money just to have fashionable eyewear. Now I’m glad that having My favorite high fashion eyeglasses don’t have to be expensive at all as Zenni Optical has the widest selection of stylish $ 8 Rx eyeglasses. That’s having quality, fashion and economy in one best deal. So if anyone will ask me How You Can Start Spending Smart I will tell them to start visiting Zenni’s site and start counting the discounts that they can get with their purchases.

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Friday Fill-Ins # 139

And here we go…

1. He was a humorous friend!

2. December camp meeting fellowship is what I look forward to most this time of year.

3. My best friend lives next town, I'll see her tomorrow!

4. I can be a deadline beater to be honest with you, it came from my experience of doing technical bid with nerve shattering deadlines to beat.

5. Appearances can be very deceiving.

6. The last person I gave a hug to was Josh, when we both went to his school to attend their Linggo ng Wika program.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to resting my sick body (I just did this FF and will rest now), tomorrow my plans include doing all my online due tasks and meeting bes JennyL and Sunday, I want to wake up 5am as I have to prepare our things early as hubby is the MC of our Sunday service!

For more Friday Fill-Ins entry just click here

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Choosing the Best Web Host

The first time my offline friends knew about my blogging two years ago they keep asking me questions that puzzles their minds when they hear blogging. I started out in free web hosting then after few months I decided to buy my own domain which introduced me to a lot of flexibility in terms of blogging. I was very excited then because I got the domain name that I wished, of course my own full name.

My colleague who knows a lot of things about domains, websites, webhosts and other web-related things was not familiar with blogs then so I introduced him to the world of blogging. He’s a website developer but never gotten the time to start his own blog. Sometimes he helps me with codes and when I had a problem in redirecting my free blogs to my domains. As of now I have two web hosts which are included in the top 10 hosts listed in WpDesigner but I'm constantly checking the list for personal reason.

We’ll never know the capacity of each web hosts if we didn’t make some research or if we didn’t read reviews. Well WpDesigner selected these top 10 hosts to help the readers know certain things about the webhosts such as reliability, price, customer support, control panel, ease-of-use and server-up-time. It’s really a big help for anyone interested to have their site or blog hosted by a reliable webhost. Who wouldn’t be?

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:WW - Bedimpled!

I heard someone says that dimples is a result of some irregularities or abnormality in the blood or genes. I don't know if it's true or not but all I know is I find them very cute on babies and pretty on women. Even some men have it and most of them looks very handsome with dimples be it on the cheeks or slightly longer on the jaw. I really like it and when my kids inherited it from their grandma I was glad because every time they smile I find it so cute.

This is Shaina my granddaughter (daughter of niece to my first cousin) who smiles at me with her dimples on during our visit in Laguna. See her in deep thoughts in Beyond Horizons.

Happy WW visit more entries -> here.

Wordless Wednesday

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Cooking Coupons and More!

Women love shopping and if you’ll only be on mall-wide sale you’ll notice that major shoppers are women and sometimes the men are there only to carry their shopping bags. I think its part of our system and it’s hard to get rid of it. Personally I’m tired of going out to go to malls for sale items and discounts because you’ll have to round up the whole area in order to be sure that you got the best discounted items. Now I’m more comfortable with online shopping especially when I get bargains, discounts and deals. I’m happy enough to avail discounted prices especially on the things that I love buying.

Many women love using coupons as they find it so helpful to maximize their budget. Imagine the amount you saved if you add all the discounts you availed. Now I’m sharing my finds where you can use your Cooking coupons. I’m eyeing this cinnamon glossy stand mixer for my baking moments.
I love cooking and baking so my interests in searching for great deals lie also on the kitchenware that I need. For Mommies out there who share the same hobbies you’ll be interested to know that there are other kitchen equipment and items that you can buy for less using C Kitchen coupons to avail of discounts. Women especially mothers would love to collect their kitchenware at the best deals that they can find and coupons will be a great advantage in their shopping. Let’s shop now!

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New Changes in EC

I've just received an email from EC, an info update on the new changes that management will implement next month. The letter stated that there will be changes in giving ec credits to the recipient. Starting next month the credit will only be given to the dropper unlike the present rule that both the dropper and recipient gets one credit for each drop. Oh well I'm just relieved because I was anticipating a worse situation. Thanks that it's just a small issue, but then again is it small?

Here's their advisory:

We hope that you have been pleased with Entrecard’s progress. The management team has been working hard to improve Entrecard and we thank you for your patience.We have noticed that the total number of Entrecard credits in the system has grown rapidly. This has been due to the fact that more credits are being created than credits are leaving the system. If this inflation continues, Entrecard credits will be worth less and less. To ensure a stable credit economy and reduce the outstanding credits, Entrecard will no longer give Entrecard credits to the person receiving a drop. In other words, instead of awarding 2 credits for each drop (one to the dropper and one to the blog site owner), only 1 credit will be given to the dropper. This change will be effective September 1, 2009 and will last until further notice.

We have explored many other options to deflate the credit economy and we have found this route to be the easiest and fairest way to resolve the problem for the time being. While this may seem like a set back, it has its advantages. In the long run, the prices to advertise on blogs will decline making advertising more affordable.

While we recognize your concerns, please understand that it is one of our goals to have a healthy Entrecard credit economy. This is a huge change we're making and we will continue to monitor the credit economy. We will continue to make changes as necessary to accommodate a healthy Entrecard economy. Thank you for your support and understanding.

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Some Household Needs

It’s always nice to have more free time in the house, this way you’ll have time to arrange or rearrange house to your heart’s desire. I really enjoyed my new status now as a work-at-home mom because I’m the manager of my own house and I can fit in various house jobs in shorter time. Since my daughters are old enough they help me every now and then with small minor tasks in the house. Now as I’m trying to rearrange appliances I noted the ones that need repairs like the old wooden cabinets, kitchen cabinet and many others. After the rearrangement I realized that I’ll shall need tv stands also to organize things up. Of course I’ve searched online for this and quite satisfied with my finds.

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