Best Friends are Angels

Sometimes we’re hoping for angels to guide us in our everyday lives but we’re not aware that God send us best friends to be with us always. If you have a best friend or best friends in life it’s like God has send an angel to watch over you. I have many friends in life and some of them turned to be the best that I could ever have. I treasure them more than jewels because they’re there to laugh with, cry with, work with, solve problem with, walk with, chat with and anything that I want to do. They’re just there to give me company and advices when I’m in trouble. I know that God loves me because He has given me best friends in life.

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Best Time to Work

Early morning is the best time to work on my tasks. I wait for the kids to be fetched by their service vehicles and then I’ll be free to work on my blogs. I wake up at dawn to prepare breakfast and my kids’ lunch food because I want a longer time for my kids to be able to eat their full breakfast before they go to their respective schools. Well it’s actually the nicest time to work on all my due tasks but I just have to use the blinds in mid morning because I don’t want the sun peeking through the windows when I’m working. The sun’s heat when directly exposed is bad for the health and being exposed inside your house is as bad as outside. Besides it’s not only your health but the interiors of your house also that can be affected because they will look old and wear out easily.

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Parting with Used Textbooks

I love reading books and I remember buying second hand books in Avenida when I was in college. I can support my hobby if I buy used books so I made it a point to visit that particular street where used books were sold at very low price. I have other school friends who went with me because they were also fond of reading books. I was telling a story to my kids about my quest for my favorite books and finding them on the sidewalk of busy street in Manila. 

I’m glad that there are people who sell their old and used books because some other people can enjoy reading and collecting books at very affordable prices. What my friend like now is to sell textbooks that she didn’t want to keep anymore. She has collected a good amount of new books lately and organizing them now when she found out that she’ll be running out of space. She had to part with her textbooks or she will not be able to arrange her new books on the shelf.

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Homemade Facial Cleanser

Everyday we clean our face from dust, oil and all dirt that we came across when we go to work or do some errands outside our home. Sometimes it’s not enough that we clean them with the regular soap we have. This homemade cucumber facial cleanser will certainly help to clean stubborn dirt from our face.

Materials/Ingredients:
Cucumber Juice
Milk

Procedure:

Extract juice from the cucumber by using a juicer. Get a small amount of juice and mix with milk enough to clean your face. Dub a little amount of the mix using a clean cotton balls and gently wipe your face. Then wash your face with lukewarm water. 

After doing this regimen you'll feel not only clean but fresh as well.

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Safety First

In looking for a job we must ensure that we don’t only think of the compensation that we will be getting from our job but our safety as well. This is true especially on manufacturing companies which operates using various heavy equipment and machines. I visited many factories on my kids’ educational tour and I’ve observed that they have strict rules on operation to be sure no one will get hurt and to avoid occurrence of machine accidents. If only the companies in the last decades were careful enough with their usage of asbestos there would be no cases of malignant Mesothelioma in this present times.

This disease was diagnosed as the result of exposure to asbestos. Sad thing about this case is that it can be avoided if only the companies have proper guidelines and warning about the bad effects of exposure to asbestos. Better avoid companies like this when you apply for job. Ask about the company’s background, business and history of labor cases before you start working for them.

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Hard Work for Small Pay

I’m buying from my favorite store for my spices, flour, cornstarch, cocoa, baking powder and other baking supplies when I noticed one staff that doesn’t seem to figure out how he’s going to transfer sacks of their goods from delivery truck to their warehouse. He’s doing it alone because everybody was busy on customers. Anyway he’s using one of those industrial hand wheels I’ve seen in office warehouse and it looks that it’s not enough to make his work easier.

He really needs another staff to help him. I told the guy serving us that my order can wait for 5-10 minutes since DH was not yet around. I’m glad that he got the signs and proceeded to help the other guy. I can’t stand the sight of too much labor done by one person. I was imagining things on how DH was doing his work on his warehouse in his previous job. There are many hard works rendered for just a small or minimum salary pay.

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Tired from School Conference

I was tired from watching over Gen who participated in the District School Conference about Journalism. It was a competition for writing about different aspects of journalism including news, feature, editorial, sports, copy reading, headline writing, photo journalism and many others. Actually I was only there to bring my daughter’s lunch but I suddenly got lazy going home alone and besides some of my Mom friends were there so I stayed awhile which took me until the end of the program. They were being taught about the different aspects of writing before they will be given a certain amount of time to do their write ups. I enjoy the lecture because some of the tips and guides can also be applied in my online writing job. I was knocked down after reaching home and had the energy to work late in the evening.

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Projects Are Abundant

I saw my brother’s current residential contract project and I like the almost duplex style of the house. It’s a two-storey house with two main doors and two gates intended to be useful when they want to convert it to a duplex house. I’ve observed that Bro has really putting the project to the top of his priority just like any engineer who has given his desired projects. I wonder if brother will be able to get a contract for vertical projects like multi-storey office centers, steel buildings, school buildings or any other bigger projects than residential. Anyway residential projects are abounding for my brother right now so there’s no need to wish for more. God knows when to pour out his blessings.

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Walking Is Good For Me

We were using my brother’s car now because it’s just parked in their house and no one’s using it. But every time we used it we parked it in their garage and we just walked from brother’s house to our own. I always accompany my hubby in parking the car there because it’s always a good walk for us after that. I really enjoyed the walk yesterday night because it brings back my healthy exercise habit of walking.

I’ve been negligent in exercising for 2 months already and I want to go back to my old routine so I can shed some excess pounds along the way. I heard about what HCG injections Austin can do to make weight loss easier but I’m still comfortable with the old conservative way of getting slimmer. I’m more at ease with having healthy diet and regular exercise as the first thing to do to be fit. I know that with discipline and determination I can go back to a slimmer and more fit physique.

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What Happened The Year I was Born

In 1967, A Gallon of Milk Cost $1.15

Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into wore

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice

The first home microwave is released by Amana

Dave Matthews, Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Vin Diesel, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith are born

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series

Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

Disney's The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published

Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"

For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published

The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking

Whew these are lots of information and of course I'm not supposed to know these as  I was just brought up in the world then,  I was even born in the last days of 1967.  What amazed me most is the FCC's orders about including a warning about the health risks of smoking in which the message obviously wasn't properly understood by people as they continued with their vices leading to many cases of emphysema and lung cancer these days. Anyway I'm lucky though that milk wasn't so expensive those days :-)

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