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Feet'/><category term='Listing'/><category term='paintball'/><category term='Sarah Palin'/><category term='Fantasia Barrino'/><category term='Books'/><title type='text'>LIFE'S JOURNEY</title><subtitle type='html'>Authors' thoughts, experiences and reviews about different shades of life, products and services.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>604</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7197283612776086077</id><published>2011-12-29T11:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T11:32:26.750-05:00</updated><title type='text'>﻿Celebrating New Year’s Day – A New Calendar and a New Start</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Year’s Day is always a time of resolutions and renewal in our home. We take this chance to start fresh and change things which we have not been happy with the previous year. While some things cannot be changed, such as medical issues and the nagging car repairs that come at the most inopportune time, there are many things about our lives which we can change when we set our minds to the task.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of days before new year, we often play &lt;a href="http://www.bingkay.net/2011/12/new-year-songs.html" target="_blank"&gt;songs about New Year&lt;/a&gt;. Music has always been a part of our lives and&amp;nbsp;New Year celebrations seem to be incomplete without listening to our few favorite New Year songs. &amp;nbsp;Most of us in the family also likes to read &lt;a href="http://www.famousquotes4life.com/category/new-year-quotes" target="_blank"&gt;New Year's quotations&lt;/a&gt; and share them with each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first tradition we have at our home is that of buying a wonderful and decorative calendar to hang on our wall. Sometimes we are given one for the holidays, other times we purchase our own. Every New Year’s Day I remove our old calendar and hang our new one. In the process, I first copy over any important family dates such as birthdays or anniversaries which I need to remember throughout the New Year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people set out to celebrate New Year’s Day by making resolutions which they really don’t have any real desire to fight to keep going throughout the year. If you have ever been in a health club or gym in January, then you know how many people can be there that you will never see again come February. It would be almost funny, if it wasn’t so sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;!--google_ad_client = "ca-pub-4899219285187716";/* 468link bluehvac */google_ad_slot = "5607240622";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 15;//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key to making your New Year’s resolutions and having them become reality in your life is to start small and really dedicate yourself to what you want to change in your life. If you are overweight, or even simply want to get into better shape, start with eating better and walking around your own neighborhood before you shell out the big money for a membership to a gym.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another good way to spend your New Years Day is to take the opportunity of the New Year to clean out and purge your living quarters. It is very common to bring home your gifts from holiday celebrations and then have no where to put them. By doing some much needed de-cluttering and purging you can have space for all of your new treasures and make some nice donations of your unused items as well. Two of the best places to get rid of your unwanted items are through your local thrift store or freecycle.org. Thrift stores will generally take just about anything which they can re-sell to others. With freecycle.org you send out an e-mail to your local area and the person interested in what you have to offer will come pick-up your unwanted items. Both your thrift store and freecycle.org are good ways to keep your unwanted items out of the landfill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our home, we spend New Years Day first transferring the calendar, and then we move into the kitchen where we go through all of our cabinets and take a good inventory of what is in each of them. For things we have a lot of, we make an effort to use some of it up in the next few months. For things we will need to purchase we put them on our master shopping list. While we are in the kitchen we also try to find items which make good donations to our local food pantry. For instance, if I have been getting great buys on soup and have 30 cans of it, I will usually give half to our local food pantry and keep the rest to cover us for the rest of winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On addition to some of the suggestions above, it is always a good idea to look at the New Year as a time of renewal and a time when you can make changes to your life. However, rather than having lofty resolutions which you cannot keep, start small and make goals to change things over the next year or even longer. By making realistic goals you can change the things in your life that you choose to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7197283612776086077?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7197283612776086077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/12/celebrating-new-years-day-new-calendar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7197283612776086077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7197283612776086077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/12/celebrating-new-years-day-new-calendar.html' title='﻿Celebrating New Year’s Day – A New Calendar and a New Start'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5799679548205382794</id><published>2011-12-13T10:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T10:59:28.744-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Don't Think About it!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Guest written by our friend Trent Horton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;I didn’t think I would move to &lt;a href="http://www.hawaiitripreport.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hawaii&lt;/a&gt; but you know, you never know how life’s going to turn out. After a vacation her when I was 24 I came back to get married – I met my future husband at a beach bar while I was partying hardy! We’ve been together now for 6 years and we’ve decided to buy a bed and breakfast. I can’t wait to get this place all fixed up and make it our sole source of income as right now my husband still works fulltime at the coffee plant. I got &lt;a href="http://www.wirelessinternet.net/" target="_blank"&gt;wireless internet Honolulu&lt;/a&gt; for the home and I hired some contractors to come and make it as nice as I know it can be and I’ve been taking classes in hospitality management at the University of Hawaii to make sure I’m ready. I love that there are so many opportunities available in the hospitality industry here and that we’ve got such a bright future. We’re young and love taking on new challenges like the one before us!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5799679548205382794?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5799679548205382794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-think-about-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5799679548205382794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5799679548205382794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-think-about-it.html' title='Don&apos;t Think About it!'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3011195178659421431</id><published>2011-04-21T21:09:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-21T22:06:55.063-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Truck Insurance</title><content type='html'>Do you have a truck? Do you have &lt;a href="http://www.truck-insure.com/"&gt;truck insurance&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finding your automobile insurance coverage charge entails factoring within the variables concerned in rate calculation and using the information you gather about your personal driving habits and, remarkably, the driving habits of your friends. Based on the area in which you reside, you may discover the premiums in your car insurance dictated by government or composed of information according to your own individual use. Typically, the latter choice is the most commonly employed regular, but you will find exceptions in factoring car insurance prices available in numerous states.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There's a full-service truck insurance agency designed for the trucking business called &lt;a href="http://www.truck-insure.com/"&gt;TruckInsure&lt;/a&gt;. They offer truck liability protection, truck cargo coverage, and truck worker’s compensation insurance coverage ideas, in addition to other types of insurance in Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you're thinking of getting a truck insurance, you should visit their website to learn more about their services. They specialize in saving you money on your &lt;a href="http://www.truck-insure.com/"&gt;truck insurance&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3011195178659421431?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3011195178659421431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/04/truck-insurance.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3011195178659421431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3011195178659421431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/04/truck-insurance.html' title='Truck Insurance'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5498708168655830384</id><published>2011-04-02T09:08:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T09:14:14.123-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rescue'/><title type='text'>Dog Rescued Video in Japan</title><content type='html'>Have you seen that video of a dog rescued at sea off the coast of Kesennuma, Japan, on Friday? Here it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p1PkubDACVk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the  news, the dog is believed to have survived for three weeks after being washed away by the killer tsunami in Japan that was triggered by the March 11 earthquake. The dog was found drifting on a roof by coast guard members aboard a helicopter involved in the day's search for those still missing after the disaster. It took several hours to catch the dog and bring him to the safety of a coastguard vessel. The dog's collar has no clues about the owner such as address and contact numbers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5498708168655830384?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5498708168655830384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/04/dog-rescued-video-in-japan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5498708168655830384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5498708168655830384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/04/dog-rescued-video-in-japan.html' title='Dog Rescued Video in Japan'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/p1PkubDACVk/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4102837980080847921</id><published>2011-03-31T21:28:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T22:02:33.145-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='best bra'/><title type='text'>Wearing The Wrong Size Bra</title><content type='html'>This post is for women. I wonder if you know your right bra size. Have you had yourself measured by an expert? &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numerous girls do not start wearing the right bra and continue doing this most of their lives. As teenagers are constantly growing, the strains that can be triggered by a poorly fitting bra can result in issues with posture and back again pain later on. It is recommended that you ask the bra expert and should be measured a minimum of twice a year or after each and every evident growth. Women in general need to find that &lt;a href="http://unbelievabra.com/" target="_blank"&gt;best bra&lt;/a&gt;. A first bra isn't an all-rounder, it is not appropriate for every occasion. Nowadays, Bras can be found in many types; assistance, sports activities, wireless, underwired, &lt;a href="http://unbelievabra.com/" target="_blank"&gt;seamless shape wear&lt;/a&gt;, backless, strapless, &lt;a href="http://unbelievabra.com/" target="_blank"&gt;bra and cami with cleavage cover&lt;/a&gt;, and the list goes on. You should really possess a selection of bras, every one to get a specific exercise and function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most essential factor to remember is comfort. Make certain the bra strap doesn't cut into your shoulders. Make certain your breasts do not hang from the bottom, sides or top of the bra. Support is not only for large cup measurements. Smaller cup sizes require assistance too, to avoid unsightly long term stretch marks. A simple coaching bra, or Sports activities Bra will probably be ideal for the fist 1, and they're obtainable in all sizes from small, medium to big. 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If your breasts are bigger than typical and need a complete fitting bra, you then ought to wear one, no matter what your age!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4102837980080847921?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4102837980080847921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/wearing-wrong-size-bra.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4102837980080847921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4102837980080847921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/wearing-wrong-size-bra.html' title='Wearing The Wrong Size Bra'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4146365515007846581</id><published>2011-03-31T19:18:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T19:20:59.342-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Homemade Garlic Knots, My Way</title><content type='html'>Guest post written by Kathleen Stephens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I rarely ever exactly follow recipes that I find in cookbooks or online. I like tweaking them at least a little bit or adding an extra ingredient there to really punch up the flavor and put a bit of my signature on it. A lot of the recipes that you find online in cooking blogs though are basically just that, regular recipes with little twists to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was online the other day trying to figure out something to fix for dinner that night and when I was in the middle of that search, I came across some information about high speed internet. After I decided to &lt;a href="http://www.getclearwirelessinternet.com/order-high-speed-clear.html" target="_blank"&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt;, I signed up for a package ! found on that website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came across one recipe for &lt;a href="http://thekosherfoodies.com/ssss/garlic-knots/" target="_blank"&gt;homemade garlic knots&lt;/a&gt; and I had honestly never had them before. Of course, I also had to add in a few different Italian spices to really take those knots to the next level and I was pretty impressed by it all. So I'm going to hold onto this recipe and add those spices to it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4146365515007846581?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4146365515007846581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/homemade-garlic-knots-my-way.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4146365515007846581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4146365515007846581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/homemade-garlic-knots-my-way.html' title='Homemade Garlic Knots, My Way'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7744780518866508228</id><published>2011-03-31T08:22:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T09:22:19.439-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='auto insurance'/><title type='text'>Cheap Auto Insurance Quotes</title><content type='html'>Automobile insurance prices are going up. For many year, it has been that way. Auto insurance is tricky business and the companies not only want to protect you, but also their bottom line in the end. So if you are all looking for an affordable and reasonable price for auto insurance. It is therefore important to search for information and find &lt;a href="http://www.cheap-autoinsurance.com/"&gt;cheap auto insurance quotes&lt;/a&gt; to  save money on their auto insurance. If you have a connection to the web and a computer, you can easily find cheap car insurance coverage. With much more and much more businesses turning to the internet to services their customers and increase product sales, it is no wonder you see an insurance coverage guy on every virtual corner. Not just are most of the major businesses online these days they now offer insurance coverage quotes and the capability to purchase your coverage right from their web sites. This makes your look for cheap car insurance coverage a great deal easier. 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In numerous times, you can conserve countless bucks in premiums by going with another business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7744780518866508228?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7744780518866508228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/cheap-auto-insurance-quotes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7744780518866508228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7744780518866508228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/cheap-auto-insurance-quotes.html' title='Cheap Auto Insurance Quotes'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-952682648128053900</id><published>2011-03-31T08:02:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T08:21:02.694-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Love'/><title type='text'>Personal Development Journey</title><content type='html'>Personal Development is a &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;journey&lt;/a&gt;, an internal journey and you will not get there overnight. But because everybody on this planet is on her own distinctive journey, one day we will all get there - everyone at her own tempo. It's a procedure heading along "your" route which retains changing based on your view and point of view of life. The adventure of personal advancement will probably be much fun but there will be also times when you rather would like to flip about and go back again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/images/silhouette" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" width="250" height="375" src="http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll151/lvndrwmn/Silouette.jpg" border="0" alt="Sunset Pictures, Life journey" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Personal Development has to do with trust. Trust in yourself, your feelings, trust in existence, in life as such. Nothing never goes wrong, everything has it's cause and effect, it's purpose - it is just us who don´t understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There might be particular habits you're well acquainted with plus they leave you and some thing new arrives into location. You may loose your job because your attitude in the direction of your self has altered and also you don´t fit in that task environment anymore. It is extremely important not to become afraid of modifications. At initial sight they might appear as if they were unfavorable and we're going to endure but that is only simply because we can't see the entire image. Our view of existence is limited and directly associated to our past and present experiences and also the way we live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you walk the road of Personal Development, you've currently recognized that your possible is far greater than you once thought. You've definitely had glimpses of a different life, other prospects and potentials. PD opens up a new world of feasible existence altering perspectives so that at occasions it may be challenging to determine which method to go. Realizing the greatness of a human being (your self) has an instant effect on how your relate to yourself as well as your environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Issues like broken self worth or fear of expressing our thoughts and emotions without thinking concerning the feasible consequences will be resolved on your way and for the very first time you will style the utter feeling of personal freedom. The liberty from oneself. But this really is like taking the 2nd step prior to the first. At first within the beginning everyone who engages herself consciously in personal development needs to ask a few questions:What does my life imply to me? What are my goals? Which desires are heading via my mind? What do I concern probably the most? What exactly are my routines? Which ones have proved useful and which should I drop? What do I expect of myself? Am I responsible or do I throw duty on others? What exactly are the issues I enjoy doing the most? At which moments do I feel happiness and joy?...and many others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within our daily lives we're affected by everything about us. Viewing Television, studying the newspaper, heading out to dinner. Our lives are overcome with media and information and it's hard to find a quiet place or time for you to pay attention to the inner voice which is really a valuable resource in our personal advancement journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personal Development is about celebrating your existence. It is about studying and schooling, taking the following step necessary. You're likely to realize what a fantastic gift life has offered to you and the only responsibility you have is to attain and fulfill all your dreams.True success and happiness originates from within and is residing the life you really desire to reside - spiritually, physically, relationally and mentally. 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Are you ready for it? I know it's the day after tomorrow. I'm just giving you all a head on, incase you forgot about it. To those who are not so familiar with April Fools Day, here's a short fact about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-for-april-fools-day.html"&gt;﻿April Fools Day&lt;/a&gt; isn't formally considered a holiday but it is certainly a significant day that's observed in numerous nations, every year, on the first day of April. It is a single day for enjoying hoaxes and practical jokes of diverse sophistication on others. The intention of those humor is to bring embarrassment to the easily fooled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/msvevans/aprilfools.jpg" alt="April Fools" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to superstitions, sensible jokes are meant to be enjoyed before noon, understanding that these which are carried out later on will bring bad luck to the perpetrator. This constraint is broadly dropping it's worth as a superstition as it is believed to have been conspired up by annoyed parents and school teachers who were wanting a respite from the day of pranks, also due to the reality that many major hoaxes in the past have appeared after noon. An additional superstition is the fact that anybody who fails to reply in the proper spirit of tolerance and amusement to the jokes played on them is also stated to become liable to are afflicted by poor luck. Less strong sources indicated that becoming tricked by a fairly woman will be accompanied by marriage, or at bare minimum a friendship with her. That seems like a great deal if she's truly pretty and it is not just April Fools. Like relationships some people believe that being married on April Fools' Day isn't a good concept to get a guy, and that forever within the long term he will probably be dominated by his wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The origin of April Fool's day is not obviously recognized, however it is usually accepted to have come about consequently towards the modifications in the calendar system. The brand new Year celebrations utilized to start on twenty five March and last for a week, ending on one April. In 1582, King Charles IX of France introduced within the new Gregorian calendar, through which the brand new yr started on 1 January. Unfortunately, some people didn't listen to about the alter, and many other people simply refused to break the tradition. These individuals grew to become the object of so-called 'fool's errands' and tests of gullibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, are you &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-for-april-fools-day.html"&gt;ready for April Fools day&lt;/a&gt;? Brace up for those jokes and lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might be interested to read on some quotations about foolishness and fools I posted two years ago. Click on the link and enjoy those &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/foolish-fools.html"&gt;April Fool's Day quotes&lt;/a&gt;. You can also share some to your friends via twitter or Facebook.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1649961069640606219?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1649961069640606219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-for-april-fools-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1649961069640606219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1649961069640606219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/ready-for-april-fools-day.html' title='Ready for ﻿April Fools Day?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6475295287654778264</id><published>2011-03-27T09:49:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-27T10:23:21.183-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kindness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Persola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lifestyle'/><title type='text'>True Wealth</title><content type='html'>Danny Thomas once said, "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is then best to share blessings and good feelings with other people and you will achieve a legacy of kindness. Share nothing and people will, do their greatest, to forget you. When my life is over, I will only depart memories, in the minds of others, and I want them all to be great ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t113/cutechevygurl88/holding-hands.jpg" border="0" alt="holding hands, kindness" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So, just how much ought to you give? It could start with, “heart felt”, kind words, a being aware, a card, or perhaps a flower. You will discover that your gifts or donations will not cause you to be bad. As a result of this, you'll see many people, normally, return kindness for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You need to also consider the time to become polite to all the people who perform solutions for you, every day. Lots of people don't bother to say hi there to the maid, janitor, parking attendant, or support clerk. When you do, you may even learn their name, and you'd be surprised how many of them will go from their method to give you great support, just by fixing them by their initial title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you set up sincerity and believe in exactly where ever you go, you'll be loved by your fellow man. It's really that simple.  As Mohammed said, "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6475295287654778264?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6475295287654778264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-wealth.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6475295287654778264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6475295287654778264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/true-wealth.html' title='True Wealth'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6954474953822433808</id><published>2011-03-25T18:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-25T18:38:17.192-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><title type='text'>Sports Betting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Do you &lt;a href="http://sportsbettingspot.com/"&gt;bet on sports&lt;/a&gt;? 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That is why Sports activities Betting Press is continuously monitoring a large range of on-line sportsbooks and keeps the customers updated concerning the ones that are consistenly scoring at a satisfactory level for sports betting fans, increasing above all other sportsbooks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A great sportsbook will handle your privacy in the greatest degree, have several ways to deposit money, have a responsive consumer services, offers a large range of occasions to location your bet on. You may believe that sportsbooks providing massive sign up bonuses be a great location to wager, but usually those would be the ones that just walk away together with your cash. There are some exeptions of course.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;NFL betting, Worldwide soccer betting, basketball betting, baseball betting and betting on boxing occasions are some of the most well-liked events sports bettors location their wagers on. 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Please Seek help!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7062047114720316265?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7062047114720316265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/treat-addiction.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7062047114720316265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7062047114720316265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/treat-addiction.html' title='Treat Addiction'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oltYBW2ybXw/TYdak8JFGfI/AAAAAAAAD5g/OR33twrclV4/s72-c/drugs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8364032192311256752</id><published>2011-03-17T08:45:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T07:01:19.734-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Loving Heart</title><content type='html'>How often have you had the encounter of connecting with somebody - a friend or a possible partner - who turns out to become an uncaring individual? At initial you think this is really a truly good individual, after which down the line you discover the person is self-centered, narcissistic, angry and uncaring. You wonder how you could be so wrong, and what are you able to do differently next time?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="500" height="320" src="http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/Empathy_Love/Love/love-wallpaper22.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Individuals appear to determine extremely early within their lives whether or not they want to care about and also have compassion for others’ feelings. Consequently, individuals have different ranges of the enthusiasm to really feel others’ emotions. A number of us profoundly feel others’ discomfort and joy, whilst other people don’t. Some people can recall &lt;a href="http://icareandilove.blogspot.com/"&gt;caring&lt;/a&gt; about others’ discomfort and joy from a extremely youthful age, while other people remember becoming worried mainly with their own feelings and needs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The people who have selected the deeper level of compassion are often those that turn out to be the caretakers, whilst the much less compassionate people turn out to be the takers. Caretakers are individuals who have learned to consider responsibility for others’ emotions and well-being, while takers are individuals who expect others to take duty for his or her feelings and well-being and frequently blame others when they don’t take on this responsibility. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you're a compassionate person who easily feels others’ emotions, you may find yourself drawn to individuals who are in discomfort. 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The issue is the fact that this individual may not treatment about your emotions as a lot as you care about his or hers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8364032192311256752?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8364032192311256752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/loving-heart.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8364032192311256752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8364032192311256752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/loving-heart.html' title='The Loving Heart'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss11/Empathy_Love/Love/th_love-wallpaper22.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6351025645680436259</id><published>2011-03-16T21:50:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-16T22:50:39.414-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Moving to Virginia</title><content type='html'>Do you know anybody who's &lt;a href="http://www.movers.com/long_distance_movers/va_virginia_state.htm"&gt;moving to Virginia&lt;/a&gt;? Moving is one of the most stressful times in the average persons life. Whether you are moving across the country or planning a local move, the organization, planning, and work involved can be stressful. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As we all know, changes are the only thing that stays eternally inside an individuals life. Barely anybody can detect having a life which has no changes, adjustment and moving. To share this burden of moving we have &lt;a href="http://www.movers.com/moving_companies/va_virginia_state.htm"&gt;Virginia moving companies&lt;/a&gt; to help and make the complete agreement just a little calm on our shoulders. Hiring a company to move you is something that you may want to consider if you've got enough money to do so, and can't afford the time to do it yourself, or its impossible for you to pack and move. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A truly successful long-distance Virginia move requires the help of experienced &lt;a href="http://www.movers.com/long_distance_movers/va_virginia_state.htm"&gt;Virginia movers&lt;/a&gt;. It is never a puzzle using the movers of this business even if you are moving alone or on industrial and corporate level. There are also more and more 'complete' package companies springing up, designed especially professionals - allowing them to move to their job, without the hassle of it all. These companies do it all - from finding a suitable house within your price range and requirements, to packing you and moving you in. Some even unpack at the other end for you. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you are moving out of US, you can also find &lt;a href="http://www.movers.com/international_movers/va_virginia_state.htm"&gt;Virginia International Movers&lt;/a&gt;. Even though moving internationally is kinda hard, pre-planning a move helps a lot. It is believed to be the most important aspect of an international move. Check out &lt;a href="http://www.movers.com/"&gt;http://www.movers.com&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6351025645680436259?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6351025645680436259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/moving-to-virginia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6351025645680436259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6351025645680436259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/moving-to-virginia.html' title='Moving to Virginia'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6622342264843757400</id><published>2011-03-11T10:09:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:33:49.698-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><title type='text'>Find A Favorable Debt Consolidation</title><content type='html'>There are &lt;a href="http://www.debtconsolidationinfo.org/"&gt;debt consolidation&lt;/a&gt; services for households and individuals alike. If you are an individual, then the debt consolidation services will setup a program that works with your individual income. A large number of of the services offer private counseling; and others even include things like mental assistance while offering you a plan that will aid you reduce your credit card debts in a well-timed manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k547/debtreliefprograms/Customer1.jpg" border="0" alt="credit card settlement, debt consolidation" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A great number of the online credit relievers will set minimizing your financial debt first while they work with your individual situation. They might look for the very best remedies, while walking you through the important information at the same time. If you currently have business or personal debts or both, then the couple of debt consolidation counselors will identify a way to combine the payments into one monthly installment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few &lt;a href="http://www.debtconsolidationnonprofit.org/"&gt;debt consolidation&lt;/a&gt; services offer to help people to lessen their bills in both business and personal debts to help them to avoid bankruptcy. The experts will negotiate with your contracts or else your financial obligations to get the best solution for paying off your debts. Many online debt consolidation experts have degrees and experience in one or more fields, including law, psychology, and finance with additional expertise in "lenders credit arbitration."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you combine all the knowledge, expertise, and degrees, you will see that some of the debt consolidation experts have what it takes to work out secured and unsecured debts and creditors. Some of the debt consolidation experts will even combine their expertise-- coupled with their well-laid out personal plans--to cultivate a strategy that will take down the account balance payable per month. If you are overwhelmed with debts, then the debt consolidation experts might be of excellent benefit. However, before you receive this expert consultation, you must first find the right debt consolidation company, since some organizations for debt relief are not what they appear. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To learn more about debt consolidation, be sure to read more information about it. You can also visit &lt;a href="http://www.anewhorizon.org/"&gt;http://www.anewhorizon.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6622342264843757400?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6622342264843757400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/find-favorable-debt-consolidation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6622342264843757400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6622342264843757400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/find-favorable-debt-consolidation.html' title='Find A Favorable Debt Consolidation'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3718022364316457100</id><published>2011-03-11T09:01:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T09:45:46.856-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Love'/><title type='text'>When Opposites Attract</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;When working with magnets you'll quickly learn that polar opposites attract. This indicates that the negatively charged pole will probably be drawn to the positively charged pole and also the two will connect with each other with very small user effort. The same rule applies in chemistry. Negatively charged particles will probably be drawn to positively charged particles. Why? Simply because the negatively charged particles have some thing that the positively charged particles want.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The exact same is accurate of people. Occasionally individuals who are extremely similar join with each other and reside a happy living; they appreciate the exact same songs, have the same values and do the same actions on Friday nights. They have the exact same group of friends and go to the exact same church every Sunday early morning. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bingkay.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="250" style="float:left;margin-right:10px" height="200" src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w281/HyoorinP/OPPOSITE_ATTRACTS_by_Raykosen.jpg" border="0" alt="opposite attract love" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Occasionally this is simply not the case and two people who find themselves polar &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-opposites-attract.html"&gt;opposites&lt;/a&gt; are attracted together. Usually this is due to the fact one or the other of them has an issue that the other wants. A person who is normally very skeptical and pessimistic may be drawn to someone with a sense of eternal optimism. An individual who has invested their whole life following the rules influenced by society for appropriate conduct may be drawn to a free spirit who is content to live their &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt; the way that they think acceptable, regardless of the opinions of others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Such fits sometimes may turn out to be volatile, leading to a blast at the and the secondary damages that go along with it. Sometimes they could balance the other person, like the situation of the positively and negatively charged electrons; the particles are neutralized whenever they are mixed together. These types of matches have long since stumped psychologists and others examining these relationships from a purely subjective viewpoint. How can two people who have nothing in common develop a strong, successful relationship? What they do not fully grasp is that it is simply a different example of nature's own selection principles working.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Forming a connection with somebody that is your polar reverse is not always going to be simple and easy, no matter how well you complement each other. You are likely to have different viewpoints on different issues and various lifestyles on top of that. The most significant factors in these kinds of relationships are patience and understanding. Remember that you knew they were completely different from you when you chose to engage in this relationship; you cannot expect them to change now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Before you choose to completely commit to somebody who is your opposite there are a few concerns you are going to need to address. What are their variations in the things that matter? Can you be pleased with these dissimilarities? If the response to the second question for you is no it would be wise to relax and take a step back from the relationship before committing to something that you cannot step back from. If, however, the answer is yes prepare to enjoy an entire lifetime that, while it will never be smooth, will certainly never be boring. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3718022364316457100?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3718022364316457100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-opposites-attract.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3718022364316457100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3718022364316457100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-opposites-attract.html' title='When Opposites Attract'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1638128989667589733</id><published>2011-03-10T22:14:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T22:27:53.245-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money making'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogging'/><title type='text'>Blogging for Money</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 151px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TFSEGLHcnKE/TXmWfGwuFwI/AAAAAAAAD40/i714NCV4I-A/s400/blogging.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="blogging for money" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;A blog gives an awesome chance to everyone to express himself/herself on the web. We really feel that we are sharing our deepest thoughts and ideas with people of the world. Writing a blog is bringing the world nearer to each other like never before. In certain cases, a blog is a excellent therapy treatment for venting out anger, frustration and other unfavorable feelings, which can otherwise damage the mind and body. A blog can make contributions to very vibrant conversation. A blog generally is a great platform to get to know people and talk. A blog is a excellent method to help budding talents show case their work to the world. Let us not make blogs only as a money making tool. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now imagine having the beautiful satisfaction of blogging plus having the cool reward of &lt;a href="http://www.yousaytoo.com/"&gt;blogging for money&lt;/a&gt;. Blogging is an excellent way to earn that side cash. Webmasters can make additional money blogging via marketing programs, sponsorships, affiliate applications, merchandising, Adsense, and more. Advertising choices for all those creating money through weblogs have already been skyrocketing more than the previous year with the most well-liked technique through contextual ad applications like Adsense that pay-per-click. There's also some wonderful adsense sharing community to join like YouSayToo.com where you can freely share anything to the world. If you feel like blogging about your favorite defense and strategy game like &lt;a href="http://www.yousaytoo.com/bokonon/age-of-war/6246"&gt;age of war&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.yousaytoo.com/shutupandrun/box-head-2-player/8750"&gt;boxhead 2&lt;/a&gt;, it is very easy to do so. Blogging for money has become the latest craze. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1638128989667589733?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1638128989667589733/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/blogging-for-money.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1638128989667589733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1638128989667589733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/blogging-for-money.html' title='Blogging for Money'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TFSEGLHcnKE/TXmWfGwuFwI/AAAAAAAAD40/i714NCV4I-A/s72-c/blogging.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1536486798100265971</id><published>2011-03-08T09:41:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T10:21:16.770-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trading stock online'/><title type='text'>Finding an Online Broker</title><content type='html'>Most of the stock transactions being made today, are administered online. It has become very important to select an excellent &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/" target="_blank"&gt;online broker&lt;/a&gt; to assist you, based on your particular investment needs and preferences. Over the years, more and more companies are offering online brokerage services, which makes it very difficult to select the best online agent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" width="320" height="240" src="http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/patrick1gall/EquityTradingCapital.jpg" border="0" alt="Stock Trading, Online Broker, Trading Education Career - Equity Trading Capital" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; If you’re just starting out on the way to &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Stock Trading&lt;/a&gt; or on opening an &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/" target="_blank"&gt;IRA Accounts&lt;/a&gt;, opt for an internet broker that provides complimentary services, such as free investment tips, investment-planning software and the latest sock quotes. These services can assist you to understand the basics of stock investments. When you finally become knowledgeable about the intricacies concerned, you can start taking stock investment judgements by yourself. You also have to evaluate the promptness of the online brokerage websites, particularly during the peak hours, to check how lengthy it takes to load a web page and process a deal. In by doing this, you are able to ensure that the site is free from technical problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may also want to check if the site offers additional services.If you have other priorities and can't remain online for long, you might want to look for a online broking site that provides additional services &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mobile Trading&lt;/a&gt; and great customer service. It is also essential to undergo the service charge and terms and conditions of the different websites, to select the most cost effective online broker. You furthermore may need to investigate on the track records of online brokers to check the quality of services offered by the company.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Each one of these suggestions will help you in selecting the most appropriate online broker and the most cost effective services. The web broker takes care of your deal requirements, enabling you to concentrate more on deciding on the right kind investment possibilities, to maximize your profits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1536486798100265971?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1536486798100265971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/finding-online-broker.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1536486798100265971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1536486798100265971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/finding-online-broker.html' title='Finding an Online Broker'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7779093549442993191</id><published>2011-03-08T08:54:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T09:12:45.835-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cleaning'/><title type='text'>Professional For Cleaning Your Carpets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 115px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jka8ghPY_84/TXY1kppoDSI/AAAAAAAAD4M/RqRgk9QMOso/s400/carpet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581707691944316194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;No matter how much care you take of your carpet, there comes a day when it demands a professional in carpet cleaning. It’s true that keeping your carpet coated with Scotchgard and cleaning spills the moment they happen will keep your carpet cleaner for a long time, but in due course a time will come when your carpet has to be properly cleaned using steaming and hot water extraction methods. You may be shifting out of a house or planning to throw an grand party and a significant decision you may find yourself making is whether to wash your carpet yourself or get it done by professionals. I am sure that your carpet and upholstery represent substantial investments in design, function, and image. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are both advantages and disadvantages linked to cleaning your carpet yourself. Probably the most vital disadvantages is that you do not know what types of results you will get since you are no skilled on carpet cleaning and take action a maximum of once in 2  years. Knowing what chemicals to use and in what amount are a few things that you may not be very certain of. On the other hand, hiring a carpet cleaning machine that you simply do not know the way to operate properly may end up leaving your carpets damp and susceptible to molding. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like other investments, they require careful, knowledgeable maintenance to provide lasting service and beauty. In Austin, there's an awesome company that does great business in carpet cleaning called TheSteamTeam. If you're looking for services for &lt;a href="http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-carpet-cleaning/" target="_blank"&gt;Carpet Cleaning Sunset Valley&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-carpet-cleaning" target="_blank"&gt;Carpet Cleaning Lost Creek&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.thesteamteam.com/austin-carpet-cleaning/" target="_blank"&gt;Carpet Cleaning Spicewood&lt;/a&gt;, you should check them out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fGTHrP25iJU/TXY5KTyYoOI/AAAAAAAAD4U/ijqs-oapODA/s400/carpet3.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 113px; height: 168px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581711637445386466" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One thing that you should consider when cleaning your carpet yourself is to use chemicals that are not really damaging for you and your children. It is advised that you simply keep your kids out of the house for a minimum of one day after the carpet cleaning since chemical substances in carpet cleaners can bring on asthma and allergy attacks in some people. Just be sure you read all the warnings and safeguards specified on the carpet cleaner packs and follow them to a T.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Doing business with an expert team of carpet cleaners save  the inconvenience of doing the job yourself, you will also be guaranteed a good job and a very clean carpet for months to come. This way, you will not have to stress about handling dangerous chemicals, handling a carpet cleaning machine or getting your carpets spoiled. Make sure that you hire a company that is recommended by a lot of people as opposed to engaging with just anybody who says he can clean a carpet and you will wind up with nice and clean carpets.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7779093549442993191?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7779093549442993191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/professional-for-cleaning-your-carpets.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7779093549442993191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7779093549442993191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/professional-for-cleaning-your-carpets.html' title='Professional For Cleaning Your Carpets'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jka8ghPY_84/TXY1kppoDSI/AAAAAAAAD4M/RqRgk9QMOso/s72-c/carpet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6951803657288813118</id><published>2011-03-06T08:38:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T08:41:28.646-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anxiety and Suicide'/><title type='text'>Anxiety and Suicide</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Anxiety disorders affect millions of people across the country, and one of the most dangerous things about these disorders is that they can lead to thoughts of suicide if left untreated. If you are currently having thoughts of suicide, even on an occasional basis, ask for help. You can do this by calling a doctor or just talking to friends and family members who may be able to help you. Anxiety disorders are not the end of your life—&lt;b&gt;you can overcome them&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you’re having thoughts of suicide, there is nothing other people can do to make you feel better about yourself. However, they can give you the tools needed to do that. Lots of people kill themselves every year using suicidal methods like hanging, shooting, cutting, and overdosing, but these deaths are a real shame, since every single person has value in the community. You may feel hopeless right now, but there are people who can show you how to feel better. Although it is very difficult to deal with anxiety, others have gone through the same thing and can teach you methods for overcoming.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com/images/anxiety" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="500" height="250" src="http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/indiealterchick/Anxiety_by_TrashDoLLs.jpg" border="0" alt="anxiety" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Call 9-1-1 or your local suicide hotline immediately if you are having thoughts of injuring yourself, for whatever reason. You are not alone in this ordeal, or else these phone lines would not exist. You can call anonymously in order to simply talk to someone about your problems. There is no pressure to do or not do anything—it is simply a tool to talk to someone and hear new ideas. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pain and sadness is normal in every single person’s &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com"&gt;life&lt;/a&gt;, although many people hide it very well. However, if you find that your anxiety disorder is causing too much pain for you to bear, you can do one of two things: work to reduce the pain or work to increase your skills and resources for dealing with the pain. Although you may feel alone right now, millions of people are getting the help they need and living happy lives. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If nothing else, take some time to think about things. Even if you’ve had a horrible day, give yourself a few hours or days or even weeks to make a decision on ending your life. In that time, consider all of the options available to you and think about the other people your suicide will hurt. Suicide is not the answer to relief from pain in most cases, so by truly examining your feelings, you can work towards happier days. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6951803657288813118?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6951803657288813118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/anxiety-and-suicide.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6951803657288813118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6951803657288813118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/anxiety-and-suicide.html' title='Anxiety and Suicide'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7445583538268766889</id><published>2011-03-03T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T14:42:00.124-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Love'/><title type='text'>﻿Why does love drive people crazy</title><content type='html'>If you talk to two persons - one who has never felt love, and other who is deeply in love, you will find them talking in a very different way. If you ask a person who has never loved about what he/she felt about the other's talk, the answer will be- crazy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seoandtrafficbox.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/xx279/jeniferqm/aw.jpg" border="0" alt="love journey" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Is it true? Does love drive one to madness? It may not be madness as understood by psychiatrists, but a madness of emotions. Is that right? Why does love do that? To understand this, we have to explore more about love or romance. Is it friendship? Is it physical attraction? is it just liking for each other? What is love and what is this relationship all about? Love combines all these and goes much beyond in bonding. Lovers are bonded to each other emotionally and totally. A lover cannot imagine of a life without his/her beloved. A lover will suffer like a fish suffers without water, if he/she is separated from the beloved. Love becomes the whole life. Love gives life. Love becomes the reason of life. Life begins and ends with love. That is love. And that's why people call love mad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How and why a lover feels like this for one's beloved is beyond any logical explanation. There is no arithmetic sum that can decide this. It is all emotional. And the emotions are so overwhelming that they engulf the whole personality. Why does a flower look lovely to all of us? Why are we attracted by the sight of a beautiful sunset? Why do we love to walk on the beach? Do we know? Can we answer these questions? Our only answer may be that- I feel happy doing it. A lover feels happy, rather so happy in love that it cannot be compared with any other happiness. One forgets one's pains, one's pleasures and one's existence when in love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fall in love if you still haven't and feel the madness. You will get a clue to why true lovers are called mad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7445583538268766889?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7445583538268766889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-does-love-drive-people-crazy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7445583538268766889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7445583538268766889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-does-love-drive-people-crazy.html' title='﻿Why does love drive people crazy'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1502184268128097309</id><published>2011-03-02T12:13:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T12:22:39.122-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life quotes'/><title type='text'>Personal development</title><content type='html'>How's your inner journey? The &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;journey&lt;/a&gt; that we call, personal development. Do you trust yourself? Do you believe that there exist some reasons on everything that's going on with our very own existence? The sense of purpose, the cause and effect of everything we do. The reason why, we're even here.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af208/12lindaterry/OUOTES/Journeya0-1-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you realized your potentials? Embrace life's challenges. Celebrate Life!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1502184268128097309?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1502184268128097309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/personal-development.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1502184268128097309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1502184268128097309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/03/personal-development.html' title='Personal development'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i1008.photobucket.com/albums/af208/12lindaterry/OUOTES/th_Journeya0-1-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-453149584803678522</id><published>2011-02-28T08:36:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T09:05:23.233-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flammable cabinets'/><title type='text'>I need flammable cabinets</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://gi148.photobucket.com/groups/s22/NIUW6I6Q7S/jc_bv_bw_safety_flammable_cabine-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Safety Flammable Cabinets" /&gt;I am seriously thinking of getting a &lt;a href="http://www.flammablelockers.com/"&gt;Flammable Cabinet Storage&lt;/a&gt; for my flammable substances like fuel and solvents. I understand the importance of safety and precaution. It is essential for everyone to take smart steps in storing these kinds of items  in the right container. The best way to avoid harm in our property, office or home is to first and foremost, keep everyone protected. It is wise to store flammable items in &lt;a href="http://www.flammablelockers.com/"&gt;flammable lockers&lt;/a&gt; and cabinets designed specifically to hold these types of substances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone has a duty to provide a place for family and friends, or all people for that matter, from unnecessary risks and hazards. It’s essential to take steps to maintain everyone at home, who works for your company and who visits your place of risky equipment safe and protected at all times, all safe and secured. If you retain flammable substances at your home or workplace facility, it’s impossible to underestimate the importance of proper flammable storage. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We should not chance it.  We should not skimp with regards to &lt;a href="http://www.flammablelockers.com/"&gt;flammable cabinets&lt;/a&gt; storage needs. I know we can get high quality and unique flammable cabinets and lockers for affordable prices. They are available of every size, finish, style, and material. Aside from that, safety is more important than anything else. We can’t afford not to have top quality storage solutions especially created for flammable containment. We cannot take risk when it comes to safety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-453149584803678522?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/453149584803678522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-need-flammable-cabinets.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/453149584803678522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/453149584803678522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-need-flammable-cabinets.html' title='I need flammable cabinets'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6449644080803811790</id><published>2011-02-27T09:56:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T10:42:12.349-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Delicious Chocolates and Candies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k102/yunho_mylove/candy/Chocolate-1.jpg" width="500" height="320" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who have a sweet tooth, and have a passion for chocolate and &lt;a href="http://www.sees.com/"&gt;candy&lt;/a&gt;? If you raised your hand, that makes us two. But really, I know tons of chocolate and candy lovers in the world. Can others blame us? I mean really, who does not want to eat delicious chocolates and candies and enjoy the delicious sweetness melting in your mouth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I usually buy chocolate and candies. Family and friends always send them as gifts on special occasions and even on days when they just want to let me know I am loved. I spend many delightful days relishing the deliciousness of their choices. My most favorites are the ones from See's Candies. If you're not yet familiar with them, here's a quote from their website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;See's Candies is a premiere chocolate candy store that has been specializing in high quality chocolates and friendly, old-fashioned service since 1921. See's has maintained an excellent reputation by producing the best possible boxed chocolates from only the finest grade raw ingredients. We offer over 100 varieties of candies and chocolates in all. Whether you're looking for custom chocolate assortments, nuts &amp;amp; chews, or decadent chocolate truffles, at See's there's something delicious for every candy lover!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm loving their products. If you're interested, check them out. You can order them online and you can also find shops and retail stores in the United States. See's Candies also have International Shops.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6449644080803811790?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6449644080803811790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/delicious-chocolates-and-candies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6449644080803811790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6449644080803811790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/delicious-chocolates-and-candies.html' title='Delicious Chocolates and Candies'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k102/yunho_mylove/candy/th_Chocolate-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8065823785866962584</id><published>2011-02-20T16:40:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T16:49:25.891-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trading stock online'/><title type='text'>A Guide to Stock Trading</title><content type='html'>Thinking of &lt;a href="http://aguidetostocktrading.com/" target="_blank"&gt;trading stock online&lt;/a&gt;. It’s a exciting endeavor, to have the ability to go online to any computer anywhere in the world and track your money twenty four hours each day, seven days per week. Before you set your sights on the stars, however, be sure to really be aware of you options. Take some time to really look into what professional experts and successful investors are talking about to give yourself a good chance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="500" height="350" src="http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af311/ifhul99/advancedeclinelineunchangevolume.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://aguidetostocktrading.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Online investing&lt;/a&gt; is tricky enough without having to deal with a sea of sharks out there, and they are out there. Carefully read through the articles or reviews and information posted and evaluate the options available to you, your risk tolerance, and even whether &lt;a href="http://aguidetostocktrading.com/" target="_blank"&gt;online stock trading&lt;/a&gt; is right for you. Many people are truly finding profit in the online trading revolution, but of course there will always be the few who insist on a broker that can return a voice mail and deal with them directly when the necessity arises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This amazing technology wasn’t even available to most of our parents, and of course their parents wouldn’t have imagined it in their wildest dreams. The future is there for those who want to make the most of it. Take your time, get informed, and when you’re ready you will swim. More tips and information about Stock Trading at http://aguidetostocktrading.com.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8065823785866962584?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8065823785866962584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/thinking-of-trading-stock-online.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8065823785866962584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8065823785866962584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/thinking-of-trading-stock-online.html' title='A Guide to Stock Trading'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5810752406627257187</id><published>2011-02-17T11:48:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T12:09:51.747-05:00</updated><title type='text'>dvd duplication services</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" width="200" src="http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af91/Visuallntention/visuallntention2O1O/CD.jpg" border="0" alt="dvd duplication services replication" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have been wondering about &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/dvd-duplication-services.html"&gt;DVD duplication services&lt;/a&gt; and been thinking which offers the most competitive pricing around the web. I know there are a number of replicated DVD ROM product. If you're not so familiar with dvd duplication process, I am talking about the process where you  &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;burn&lt;/span&gt; or duplicate your dvd duplication content directly onto your pre-existing blank DVDR media. I have signed up from different sites that offers dvd duplication services to learn more about future specials and discounts. I may purchase a cheap cd replication software later. I have a lot of files needed to be saved on DVD and CD's, so I thought DVD duplication is essential to assure myself that my important data will never be lost. I know that compact disks can often accidentally be erased or becomes unreadable, or even be damage but I don't want that to happen to my disk with extremely sensitive data. I have to do some dvd duplication to have multiple copies exist should this happen.But, before purchasing any duplication software, I have to know the different dvd duplication prices these sites offers. After all who does not want to save money? I am always on the look for coupons and special promotions, free samples and discounts before I really purchase something. I am sure I will find the cheapest cd duplication soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5810752406627257187?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5810752406627257187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/dvd-duplication-services.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5810752406627257187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5810752406627257187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/dvd-duplication-services.html' title='dvd duplication services'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af91/Visuallntention/visuallntention2O1O/th_CD.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6028643323471225849</id><published>2011-02-17T07:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T08:04:39.213-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Do Something Kind</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Be The Change:&lt;/b&gt; Do something kind for a neighbor today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gardeningxyz.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo200/wayame08/kindness.jpg" border="0" alt="kindness life journey poem" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of international crises such as pollution, country wars and famine, kindness may be easily dismissed. Even so, kindness is the greatest need of all. Kindness toward the needs of other people who find themselves suffering, the natural environment, toward other nations, and everything around us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6028643323471225849?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6028643323471225849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-something-kind.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6028643323471225849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6028643323471225849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-something-kind.html' title='Do Something Kind'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4046000984769793582</id><published>2011-02-17T06:34:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T11:10:53.478-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Highly Rated Software Developement by Bologel</title><content type='html'>I was excited knowing more about &lt;a href="http://bologelsoftware.com/"&gt;Bologel Software Limited&lt;/a&gt;. They create applications that really work! Have you heard about them yet? Bologel company is composed of a team of computer programmers who are highly specialized in desktop applications with superior performance. They have very good feedbacks from people who use their products.  &lt;a href="http://bologelsoftware.com/"&gt;Bologel Software Limited&lt;/a&gt; is an innovative leader in software development for the mass end consumer market and is constantly meeting the ever increasing challenges in developing great applications.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="500" src="http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g385/paulavirgo/DSC_0197.jpg" border="0" alt="keyboard" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bologelsoftware.com/"&gt;Bologel Software Limited&lt;/a&gt; is constantly progressing to meet the ever growing demands for quality desktop applications and  is gradually gaining ground among the top players in this field. What's more awesome about them is their being so responsive to the trends and always willing to hear out a new opinion on how apps can be optimize for the customers work. They listen to every idea or feature their users suggest. So if you have been thinking of some desktop application feature, you may want to seek their expertise on this field and gain a lot with your partnership. You never know, your brilliant idea might become the next new app or feature you can actually see and use. Check them out at &lt;a href="http://bologelsoftware.com/"&gt;http://bologelsoftware.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4046000984769793582?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4046000984769793582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/highly-rated-software-developement-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4046000984769793582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4046000984769793582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/highly-rated-software-developement-by.html' title='Highly Rated Software Developement by Bologel'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5692053735629950754</id><published>2011-02-14T11:16:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:32:58.681-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy valentines day'/><title type='text'>Happy Valentines Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sis/99952731/" title="Red and Chocolate, My Favorites! by Sister72, on Flickr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/99952731_a4230e19cc.jpg" width="500" height="401" alt="Red and Chocolate, Valentines Day!" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; "&gt;As the popular saying goes, &lt;i&gt;"Love is a many-splendored thing"&lt;/i&gt;. Indeed it is! and some people will do almost anything to find that special someone in their lives. Even if you're single and not in a relationship, Valentine's Day as a perfect time to Love Yourself Completely and being happy allowing ourselves to connect more and feel good about our &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com"&gt;life journey&lt;/a&gt;. We find the many meanings of life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; "&gt;So, Happy Valentines Day Everyone! Remember, A happy heart is a loving heart!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5692053735629950754?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5692053735629950754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-valentines-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5692053735629950754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5692053735629950754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='Happy Valentines Day'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/99952731_a4230e19cc_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2044878947973729712</id><published>2011-02-10T09:59:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T11:03:25.578-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Investment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold'/><title type='text'>Want a Gold Spot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/riggsstokes/GOLD%20PICS/gold_coins-6908.jpg" width="300" height="220" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Do you know how much is the &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts"&gt;price of gold&lt;/a&gt; nowadays? It's interesting to know how much is any gold coin worth. A lot of individuals, families, and institutional investors are preserving their wealth and growing their assets for generations to come by investing in gold. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm one of those people that value the importance of gold and think that gold is the ultimate asset.  There's a reason why gold has survived every economy history has ever witnessed. If you have been following the media's interpretation of markets, &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/"&gt;gold prices&lt;/a&gt; go higher as time goes by. As stocks and other paper investments weaken, the price of gold rises. According to goldcoinsgain.com, people who had purchased $25,000 of gold bullion coins in the early 70’s and held on to it during economy crisis, the inflation, the devaluation of the U.S. dollar, the sad recession and a real estate bubble they could sell that gold today for $524,999.00.  Can you imagine the growth of the &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/Gold-Prices-Gold-Price-Price-of-Gold-Gold-Spot-Current-Gold-Prices-Gold-Charts/"&gt;gold spot&lt;/a&gt;? Incredible! Gold is such a stable and profitable investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2044878947973729712?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2044878947973729712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/want-gold-spot.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2044878947973729712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2044878947973729712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/want-gold-spot.html' title='Want a Gold Spot'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/riggsstokes/GOLD%20PICS/th_gold_coins-6908.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1286355018353978031</id><published>2011-02-10T07:38:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T10:49:33.084-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nature Speaks</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad128/porabb/17wwwcute-picturesblogspotcom.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousness. I love the sound of silence for it is when everything is quiet that I get to think deep and realize the importance of life. It's during those quiet moments that I get to weigh about the different aspects of life, decide which, who, what matters and not.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1286355018353978031?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1286355018353978031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/nature-speaks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1286355018353978031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1286355018353978031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/nature-speaks.html' title='Nature Speaks'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-939321106594678128</id><published>2011-02-09T08:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T10:37:03.936-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Security Gadgets'/><title type='text'>Ensure Safety</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1952/1952593b57pkcehfs.png" width="248" height="156" border="0" /&gt; Security is one of the top most priority for everybody nowadays. People are finding ways to secure their properties. Notice the newest models of cars nowadays? They have security alarm. Some people have security system installed in their homes to ensure their family's safety. Business establishments have security cameras around, computers have anti-virus and &lt;a href="http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/pc-computer-spy.html"&gt;key logger&lt;/a&gt; to keep them safe and even phones now have phone privacy protection wire tap detection.  Some people, especially women, always carry &lt;a href="http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/pc-computer-spy.html"&gt;Self-Defense Pepper Spray&lt;/a&gt; in their bags to help them protect themselves from people with bad motives. It is true, security is essential every where, even online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the development in the technology, we now have high tech gadgets and electronic devices that helps and provides you with complete security. We now have surveillance kits, computer safety softwares, GPS tracking, &lt;a href="http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/covert-hidden-spy-cameras.html"&gt;security cameras&lt;/a&gt;, counter surveillance kits, stun guns and more. I personally am interested in purchasing  a spy camera. I found some awesome security gadgets online at BrickHouse Security. These security related devices have help save a lot of people. Surely spending money for security and privacy purposes never goes to waste. They are vital.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-939321106594678128?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/939321106594678128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/ensure-safety.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/939321106594678128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/939321106594678128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/ensure-safety.html' title='Ensure Safety'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5028810413433292001</id><published>2011-02-09T08:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T09:09:45.679-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Resources of Positivity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/672/672397jfsx4vb06a.gif" width="80" height="126" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am creating a collection of resources containing lists about happiness or things to be happy about. I found the said inspiration from &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"field guide to happiness"&lt;/span&gt; book. This will help be grab a positive language when I'm feeling down about some things in life. Have you ever tried reading about &lt;a href="http://www.famousquotes4life.com/" target="_blank"&gt;inspirational quotes&lt;/a&gt; when you're a little upset at some areas in life? I have and it always works like wonders to me. After reading happy and positive ideas from other people I am able to turn around the feeling of negativity. My own list will someday share and inspire others who are feeling blue. I will be posting this list soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5028810413433292001?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5028810413433292001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/resources-of-positivity.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5028810413433292001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5028810413433292001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/resources-of-positivity.html' title='Resources of Positivity'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3125576594089253100</id><published>2011-02-08T09:15:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T09:43:43.729-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dieting'/><title type='text'>Losing Weight</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/2240/2240985lllwdu7b8o.jpg" width="502" height="480" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; My favorite motto, "Be Healthy: Eat Well, Live Well". This year, I am determined to lose weight and focus more in doing more exercise and diet. I have learned that controlling calorie intake, that is, portion control when eating my favorite food, plus having a good weight loss system helps shed the pounds. There are also some &lt;a href="http://www.shopbestdiets.com/"&gt;weight loss pills&lt;/a&gt; that helps burning our body fat much easier so our weight loss efforts go a long way. I am all for living a healthy active lifestyle. One must do the necessary work. Getting help from supplement pills makes losing weight faster and you also become healthier and more energetic. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As you all know, I love reading positive inspirations about different aspects in life. So when I am in focus about something I collect motivational ideas about it. With my losing weight, I like to connect and read blogs of other people and connect to those who are also trying to lose weight. Not only that it motivates and inspires me to do better, it also makes losing weight fun. Through my online reading, I found an article about the &lt;a href="http://www.shopbestdiets.com/"&gt;best weight loss pills&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.shopbestdiets.com"&gt;ShopBestDiets.com&lt;/a&gt;. If you are also trying to lose some pounds and interested in taking quality weight loss pill to help you reach your weight loss goals, you should read the said article.  Nobody said losing weight was going to be easy, but with a healthy lifestyle of diet and hard work, we can do it! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3125576594089253100?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3125576594089253100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/losing-weight.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3125576594089253100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3125576594089253100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/losing-weight.html' title='Losing Weight'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8475317693342135894</id><published>2011-02-06T13:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T09:13:37.094-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebies'/><title type='text'>Love Samples</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloggingandmore.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/msvevans/dog-foodsavings.jpg" border="0" alt="Freebies Dog Food" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.yestosavings.com/" target="_blank"&gt;YestoSavings.com&lt;/a&gt; for this freebie lead. I visit the site often for freebie samples, great savings deals and coupons. I ordered a &lt;a href="http://www.yestosavings.com/free-sample-beneful-incredibites-dog-food" target="_blank"&gt;Free Sample Beneful Incredibites Dog Food&lt;/a&gt; couple of weeks ago following their lead, and forgot about it. I was surprised when I got this in my mailbox. My baby dog loves this food. She's a little picky with food, so it's really good to find something she likes eating. You'll only know if and when you try! One of the reasons why I love &lt;a href="http://www.yestosavings.com/"&gt;freebies samples&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8475317693342135894?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8475317693342135894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-samples.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8475317693342135894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8475317693342135894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-samples.html' title='Love Samples'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3566467511605890426</id><published>2011-01-29T10:21:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T13:57:44.634-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Online Trading</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i873.photobucket.com/albums/ab295/Alex-JM/finance_stock_market_238814_tn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Are you interested in &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;Online Trading&lt;/a&gt;? If you are, check out firstrade.com, theleading discount online brokerage firm offering online and mobile trading of Stock, Options, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Bonds and more range of investing possibilities. Some &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;Online Broker&lt;/a&gt; have fees that are way to high. Firstrade has a very comparable rates to others. They have variety of product options to fit every investor, different types of mutual funds and unlimited account protection, low commissions, low margin rates and no minimum deposit. They also offer free dividend reinvenstment, no inactivity or maintenance fees and no hidden fees and have awesome customer service. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstrade offers many offers and promotions. You should visit their website to learn more and find wealth of information about online trading. If you're not new to &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;Stock Trading&lt;/a&gt; and have an account in other online trading service, if you decide to move your current investments to their company, you can easily transfer your account and it's free of charge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3566467511605890426?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3566467511605890426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-you-interested-in-online-trading-if.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3566467511605890426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3566467511605890426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-you-interested-in-online-trading-if.html' title='Online Trading'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2035147291608093245</id><published>2011-01-15T12:26:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T12:44:59.931-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Life and Hope</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.famousquotes4life.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/msvevans/Inspirational%20Quotes/iq2.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Inspirational Quotes, Facebook Myspace Comments, Free Motivational Pictures"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.famousquotes4life.com" target="_blank"&gt;More Inspirational Quotations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2035147291608093245?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2035147291608093245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/01/life-and-hope.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2035147291608093245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2035147291608093245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/01/life-and-hope.html' title='Life and Hope'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/msvevans/Inspirational%20Quotes/th_iq2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5542512287883113225</id><published>2010-12-18T15:54:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T16:26:08.895-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Local Search Engine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/TQ0m3nYfYMI/AAAAAAAAD1k/TVlMPZMYSbY/s1600/local.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 163px; height: 77px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/TQ0m3nYfYMI/AAAAAAAAD1k/TVlMPZMYSbY/s320/local.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552136652524052674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been pretty much using this cool &lt;a href="http://www.local.com/"&gt;local search&lt;/a&gt; engine when searching for local products and services. This awesome site is like &lt;a href="http://www.local.com/"&gt;local yellowpages&lt;/a&gt; for finding local businesses and services. It is called Local.com, one of the fastest growing local search sites and networks in the U.S. It has helped me a lot in my searched. I like it because it allows users like me to visit one site to view the contest from all the other sites. Another cool thing is that users can find accurate driving directions, business contact information and hours of operations of the different local business and services. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can use a lot of their services. If you are in a new place and are looking for &lt;a href="http://www.local.com/"&gt;local restaurants&lt;/a&gt;, you can just search the site. You  can also aggregate reviews from multiple sites and can also write your own reviews and contribute to help other users.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If I a business, I will definitely partner with local.com to maximize my revenue with local search ads. I noticed, they have a great Local Content Solutions. Business owners can write about their site in general and drive traffic to their site's homepage. I'm just saying, it's really a cool site.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5542512287883113225?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5542512287883113225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/local-search-engine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5542512287883113225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5542512287883113225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/local-search-engine.html' title='Local Search Engine'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/TQ0m3nYfYMI/AAAAAAAAD1k/TVlMPZMYSbY/s72-c/local.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3307376878138044377</id><published>2010-12-13T13:56:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T14:20:24.659-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Address Plague'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Custom Address Sign for Christmas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 193px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/TQZsdIm8gsI/AAAAAAAAD1c/bIiWC0POdnA/s320/addressplaques.jpg" border="0" alt="custom address plaque" id="address plaques and numbers" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I ordered one of my friend a custom &lt;a href="http://www.justaddressplaques.com/"&gt;address plague&lt;/a&gt; for Christmas. I am sure she and her husband will love it and will be thrilled with their home new address plaque. I am sure they'll get a lot of neighbors compliment on it. It looks fantastic. The plaque is really beautiful. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In case you are thinking of getting wall address plaques for yourself  or for your friends too, I got it from justaddressplaques.com. The site has the largest selection of &lt;a href="http://www.justaddressplaques.com/"&gt;address plaques and numbers&lt;/a&gt; in different styles and colors. They never fail me in giving a beautiful &lt;a href="http://www.justaddressplaques.com/"&gt;address sign&lt;/a&gt; as a house warming gift to some of my friends. Their products are just gorgeous!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3307376878138044377?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3307376878138044377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/custom-address-sign-for-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3307376878138044377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3307376878138044377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/custom-address-sign-for-christmas.html' title='Custom Address Sign for Christmas?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/TQZsdIm8gsI/AAAAAAAAD1c/bIiWC0POdnA/s72-c/addressplaques.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-9012676106699708524</id><published>2010-12-12T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T13:53:09.070-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Christmas Cards for Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img width="500" height="350" src="http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj288/cardsbypaula/Xmascards29101.jpg" border="0" alt="Christmas cards" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are you ready for Christmas? It's only twelve days before Christmas eve. &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-cards-for-christmas.html"&gt;Christmas&lt;/a&gt; is my most favorite holiday season.  The joyful celebration makes me smile. There's just so much joy and love in the air during Christmas season. I love seeing kids with their bright eyes and happy smiles. I also love the awesome feeling of sending and receiving Christmas cards from friends in far away places. I just finished writing cards for my &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2007/02/blogger-friends.html"&gt;friends&lt;/a&gt;. Some of them I have to send via postal mail, across the miles, to other states and other countries. Its a good feeling preparing and writing down my thoughts and expressing wonderful feelings for them. Oh how blessed am I to have them in my life. How about you? Are you done writing or sending your &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-cards-for-christmas.html"&gt;Christmas cards&lt;/a&gt; yet? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-9012676106699708524?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/9012676106699708524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-cards-for-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/9012676106699708524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/9012676106699708524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-cards-for-christmas.html' title='Christmas Cards for Christmas'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8753825380676647680</id><published>2010-10-26T11:23:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-26T15:06:54.360-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Love Myrtle Beach</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/jadeempire/images/beach.jpg" border="0" alt="Beach" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday was a long tiring day! I was sure beat. I came home and slept pretty early, but woke up still feeling tired and a little sluggish. It sure makes me wish I am staying at this beautiful resort hotel called &lt;a href="http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=1191290"&gt;Myrtle Beach hotel&lt;/a&gt; and walking barefoot across soft sand or lounging at poolside or just having fun with my awesome friends, playing a few rounds of golf. I can picture myself and my friends having a blast. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I sure am looking forward for this coming Friday. A number of my friends have been checking this site &lt;a href="http://avistaresort.com/"&gt;http://avistaresort.com&lt;/a&gt; and found amazingly cool vacation deals in any &lt;a href="http://avistaresort.com/accommodations.cfm"&gt;resorts in Myrtle Beach&lt;/a&gt;. Their rates are very affordable, plus they mentioned we can get great great savings from their special packages. It's definitely a place to have some relaxing and fun adventure. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8753825380676647680?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8753825380676647680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/10/love-myrtle-beach.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8753825380676647680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8753825380676647680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/10/love-myrtle-beach.html' title='Love Myrtle Beach'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3617755852915313322</id><published>2010-10-25T09:55:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T10:05:12.589-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life quotes'/><title type='text'>Resilience</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab177/OWENANDJESS4LIFE/LIFE%20QUOTES/954088908070437859f85be.jpg" border="0" alt="life quotes, journey" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Do you have the power to adapt to stressful circumstances in life? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3617755852915313322?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3617755852915313322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/10/resilience.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3617755852915313322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3617755852915313322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/10/resilience.html' title='Resilience'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab177/OWENANDJESS4LIFE/LIFE%20QUOTES/th_954088908070437859f85be.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7373102601894199528</id><published>2010-09-29T11:33:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-29T12:23:35.699-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rain Barrels Please</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/FindStuff2/Photography/Rain/rain_theme_by_sielojramu.jpg" border="0" alt="rain" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After such a long mostly dry, humid conditions, it finally rained in our area the other day. It was a heavy downpour I wished I have some &lt;a href="http://www.simplyrainbarrels.com/"&gt;rain water barrels&lt;/a&gt;. You can just imagine how happy I was for my plants and for the ground. The rain sure quench their thirst and nourishes them and infuses water into our springs, rivers, and keeps the wells and other water resources from drying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Watching the rain, i remembered what I and my mom used to do during rainy season. When I was a kid, my mom taught me about &lt;a href="http://www.simplyrainbarrels.com/"&gt;rain harvesting&lt;/a&gt;, an excellent way to save the enormous amount of rainwater that would gone wasted otherwise. We had big vegetable garden, so we saved rain in a number of huge &lt;a href="http://www.simplyrainbarrels.com/"&gt;rain barrels&lt;/a&gt; and use it to water our crops. A practical implementation of smart water use. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Needless to say, I started searching online for &lt;a href="http://www.simplyrainbarrels.com/"&gt;rain barrels for sale&lt;/a&gt;. I thought I am going to start doing it again. Later, I found every size, finish, style, and material of rain barrels at simplyrainbarrels.com. If you're looking for one too, go check them out. I think you'll love their products and  their customer service is great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7373102601894199528?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7373102601894199528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/09/rain-barrels-please.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7373102601894199528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7373102601894199528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/09/rain-barrels-please.html' title='Rain Barrels Please'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2041625523067012226</id><published>2010-09-04T13:26:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T15:51:28.722-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web Hosting'/><title type='text'>Superb Internet Services</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz51/maggiegwynn/Web%20Hosting/Web%20Hosting%202/1139313_network_server_1.jpg" alt="Web Hosting" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Looking for a &lt;a href="http://www.superb.net/dedicated-servers"&gt;dedicated server&lt;/a&gt; to host your website and have it run smoothly? Get a true competitive advantage in web hosting,  one that is focused on reliability, cost efficiency and &lt;a href="http://www.superb.net/managed-hosting"&gt;managed hosting&lt;/a&gt; and ensure 100% uptime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out Superb Internet. Their web hosting packages are among the most competitive in the hosting industry  and gives the best efficiency and performance available. Aside from that, they offer a true 100% Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their customers. That means your  websites are guaranteed to be up and running, without fail, or you get  significant credit for any downtime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you already own your servers for your web-based businesses, but want to place your hardware in an enterprise-class facility with adequate space, temperature control, and security, you can avail their &lt;a href="http://www.superb.net/colocation"&gt;colocation&lt;/a&gt; service, that gives you control over your server while offering the speed, reliability and security you need. Check them out at www.superb.net.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2041625523067012226?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2041625523067012226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/09/superb-internet-services.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2041625523067012226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2041625523067012226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/09/superb-internet-services.html' title='Superb Internet Services'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1159572040636177969</id><published>2010-08-17T09:53:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-17T10:37:17.917-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Listing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lifestyle'/><title type='text'>Happy List Yesterday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae340/princedinakar/business-list.jpg" border="0" alt="life list" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I'm following the book entitled "Field Guide to Happiness" written by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph.D. It's a book about finding happiness in its natural habitat.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am liking the book so much, so I will be following the exercises mentioned in the book and will be starting to stay focus and pay attention to the simple, yet happy details of my everyday life. Do you want to join me in this new &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com"&gt;journey&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first exercise is to keep track of things we are happy or grateful for. I have a gratitude notebook but I don't write everyday. Maybe I'll start writing every night before I sleep, so I don't get lost and forget the next morning. Sounds like a plan, right? If you wanna join me, here's the first activity, write a: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;List of Things You Were Happy About Yesterday&lt;/span&gt;. You don't have to share what they are. But hey, thinking about good things that makes us happy, makes us happy again. Isn't it? I think we're off to a good start. Let me grab my pen and start writing before I forget it. You do the same :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1159572040636177969?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1159572040636177969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/happy-list-yesterday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1159572040636177969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1159572040636177969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/happy-list-yesterday.html' title='Happy List Yesterday'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3362642805029848479</id><published>2010-08-14T18:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T16:56:06.430-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>What I Love This Month</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.famousquotes4life.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 300px;" src="http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r165/roseanne1996/candleofhope.jpg" border="0" alt="life journey, hope, rainbow colors, beautiful colors" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's only almost the middle of the Month yet but I am excited to share that this month has brought so much hope. I slowly but surely feeling better again, feeling the fresh air, the beautiful trees, the green grass and the birds singing. I am feeling the love of my friends and grateful for that kind of blessings. Come August 24, I will be travelling and spending 3 weeks in another country for pleasure. Wohoo! I am definitely feeling better.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3362642805029848479?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3362642805029848479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-i-love-this-month.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3362642805029848479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3362642805029848479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-i-love-this-month.html' title='What I Love This Month'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3996782766598135131</id><published>2010-08-12T18:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T19:33:08.099-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gardening'/><title type='text'>Container Gardening</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv210/joanpaul1113/ContainerGarden.jpg" border="0" alt="container garden" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I have a number of garden beds that I want to redesign and do over. I thought about it for a while now. The weather here has been so hot and affected some plants I planted. I am thinking of getting some &lt;a href="http://www.eplanters.com/"&gt;outdoor planters&lt;/a&gt; and some additional &lt;a href="http://www.eplanters.com/"&gt;indoor planters&lt;/a&gt; for my inside of the house. I am thinking know that it will be more easier for me, if and when weather get's a little harsher for the plants because garden planters can be easily moved or replanted. A pretty plant in an &lt;a href="http://www.eplanters.com/"&gt;outddor planter&lt;/a&gt; for example, adds color and can define more style to your balconies, decks, patios, entranceway or home landscape. Container gardening helps spread the joys and rewards of gardening our favorite plants and a great way to add natural beauty and architectural interest. I have always love container gardening. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are some plants that we really really love but not suited to our yard soil conditions. Now, we are able to plant them in an &lt;a href="http://www.eplanters.com/"&gt;indoor planter&lt;/a&gt;. That brings more beauty and freshness inside the house too. The right choices of both planters and plants will make a big difference in our home landscape and we can always have more fun and success in our gardens. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3996782766598135131?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3996782766598135131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/container-gardening.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3996782766598135131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3996782766598135131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/container-gardening.html' title='Container Gardening'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3593474974267337052</id><published>2010-08-05T20:54:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-05T21:37:45.549-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Got Nothing To be Guilty of</title><content type='html'>You may call it a Coincidence but it is making me feel so good thinking that someone very dear to me who recently passed away was there during one Medical procedure I had to go through in the hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I was lying there on my bed, waiting for my doctor to arrive, with all the medical equipment wires, IV and oxygen hooked on me, I noticed that, "Guilty" by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb song was playing. It is one of the few songs that he always called "our songs". I was talking to him in my thoughts and wished he was there with me before I heard the song. Boy! did I ever smiled :). I felt so good thinking he was there with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guilty - by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PGc3A5yXRhA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PGc3A5yXRhA&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;"...You gotta be mine, we take it away. It's gotta be night and day, just a matter of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we got nothing to be guilty of our love will climb any mountain, &lt;br /&gt;near or far, we are, and we never let it end. We are DEVOTION. And we got nothing to be sorry for our love is one in a million. Eyes can see that we got a highway to the sky. I don't wanna hear your goodbye..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was very comforting.. and I am still smiling thinking about it. God! I love that man.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3593474974267337052?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3593474974267337052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/got-nothing-to-be-guilty-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3593474974267337052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3593474974267337052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/got-nothing-to-be-guilty-of.html' title='Got Nothing To be Guilty of'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5569758123092883881</id><published>2010-08-02T17:53:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-02T19:06:30.991-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fun'/><title type='text'>Beach Holiday</title><content type='html'>What's the temperature of your place today? Our place has been so hot and humid these past couple of weeks. I would love to be in a beach somewhere and enjoy the breeze, the beautiful sand and have fun. I love the beach. I am currently checking &lt;a href="http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com/"&gt;http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp291/cancunjohnston/WALLPAPER_beach_800x600.jpg" border="0" alt="beach" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many times, I think I mentioned that I am really considering of taking a relaxing vacation with a great beach and a great place to play my favorite golf. Friends are telling me to stay at &lt;a href="http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=2097246"&gt;Myrtle Beach hotel&lt;/a&gt; after them  getting a good deal on a room and enjoying an amazingly beautiful view. It was their first time in Myrtle beach but they really liked the hotel. They said they have plenty of room, nice views and very close to the beach. They were so impressed with everything. So now I am checking for a beautiful and affordable place to stay at &lt;a href="http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com/guest-reviews.php"&gt;Myrtle Beach best hotels&lt;/a&gt;. It sure looks like these hotels are great places to stay. Who will not enjoy a great beach holiday and playing a few rounds of golf? It sure is a perfect place for you, me, our family and friends. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Do you plan of having a beach holiday this summer too? Check them out too. I know booking a golf package can easily be done in their website and if you register your email address, like I did, you will receive discount alerts and special promotions reserved for online users. Cool savings!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5569758123092883881?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5569758123092883881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/beach-holiday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5569758123092883881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5569758123092883881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/beach-holiday.html' title='Beach Holiday'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1321582970456728299</id><published>2010-08-02T16:34:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-02T17:15:33.850-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='showbiz news'/><title type='text'>Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/entertainment/file-photo-actress-lindsay/image/9480449?term=Lindsay+Lohan" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://view3.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9480449/file-photo-actress-lindsay/file-photo-actress-lindsay.jpg?size=380&amp;amp;imageId=9480449" border="0" width="380" title="File photo of actress Lindsay Lohan arriving at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles" height="564" oncontextmenu="return false;" ondrag="return false;" onmousedown="return false;" alt="Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles in this June 6, 2010 file photo. Lohan was released from jail early August 2, 2010 after serving 13 days of a 90-day sentence and taken straight into a rehabilitation program, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files  (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT CRIME LAW)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/lindsay-lohan-released-from-jail.html"&gt;Lindsay Lohan&lt;/a&gt; as an actress. I am a big fan of most of her movies.  I just don't know about her personal life. Are you a fan of her? Reports said that actress Lindsay Lohan was released from jail after serving 13 full days of her 90-day sentence. The said sentence was given for violating her probation stemming from Driving Under the Influence in 2007.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1321582970456728299?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1321582970456728299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/lindsay-lohan-released-from-jail.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1321582970456728299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1321582970456728299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/08/lindsay-lohan-released-from-jail.html' title='Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3771718078660216543</id><published>2010-07-31T09:07:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T17:46:49.053-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fun'/><title type='text'>Major Event Tickets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t28/V-U-K-A-N/Tickets.jpg" border="0" alt="concert tickets, sports, theater, life" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ever wonder where and  how you can get the best price for the best tickets for amazingly fun events? Finding tickets to a popular event is not as easy as it seems. I come online and go to an amazing site called &lt;a href="http://www.acheapseat.com"&gt;acheapseat.com&lt;/a&gt; for concert tickets, sport tickets, theater tickets and more, a professional ticket broker with access to many events tickets across the country.  A Cheap Seat have every ticket to every major event like the hottest deals on premium &lt;a href="http://www.acheapseat.com/hollywood_bowl_tickets.html"&gt;HOLLYWOOD BOWL TICKETS&lt;/a&gt; or different shows at every place. That's where we get our tickets at very good prices in a nationally competitive environment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some of the hardest tickets to get from many box offices are the &lt;a href="http://www.acheapseat.com/great_western_forum_tickets.html"&gt;GREAT WESTERN FORUM TICKETS&lt;/a&gt;. These tickets are always gone quickly. To save ourselves from disappointments, I and my friends  guarantee ourselves the availability of tickets by getting it at acheapseat.com. So, if you are also bound to save more than just a few bucks, try visiting their site and get the premium tickets for your events without the hassle of standing in line at the box office. Plus you can get access to tickets that are not usually made available to the general public like &lt;a href="http://www.acheapseat.com/lambeau_field_tickets.html"&gt;Lambeau Field Tickets&lt;/a&gt;. A Cheap Seat provide us with the hottest deals on premium tickets every day by negotiating great prices on many tickets and then we pass those savings on to us. They are also very eager to provide everybody with great assistance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3771718078660216543?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3771718078660216543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/major-event-tickets.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3771718078660216543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3771718078660216543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/major-event-tickets.html' title='Major Event Tickets'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6291440442100730743</id><published>2010-07-31T00:20:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T00:21:27.832-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes No</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://gi159.photobucket.com/groups/t155/LGZS6RA8OP/215841.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;How True!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6291440442100730743?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6291440442100730743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/yes-no.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6291440442100730743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6291440442100730743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/yes-no.html' title='Yes No'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3218475526257163665</id><published>2010-07-30T14:06:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T14:44:16.546-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Earn Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Investment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gold'/><title type='text'>Investing in Gold Coins</title><content type='html'>Have you ever consider the options for investing in gold coins, such as &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-bullion-coins.html"&gt;bullion&lt;/a&gt; and gold coins? I know that at today’s lowest discount price, you can buy gold coins or &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-bullion-coins.html"&gt;gold bullion&lt;/a&gt; from Aurum Advisors, America’s &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=" com=""&gt;gold IRA&lt;/a&gt;, gold coin investment, and gold price providers to household and institutional investors nationwide. I am not so familiar with gold investing. There is a lot to learn about to ensure that wise investment decisions are made every step of the way, so I am reading more about it and I also signed up to receive a FREE investment gold guide at goldcoinsgain.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt; &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n390/azfabster/gold-coins.jpg" border="0" alt="gold coins picture, life journey, life investments" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember my dad always wanted to &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-bullion-coins.html"&gt;buy gold bullion&lt;/a&gt; so I was always interested about it since I was young. Gold is one of the precious and the oldest metals and most durable wealth-preserving asset in the world. It's a hedge against all types of uncertainty, so maybe i'll &lt;a href="http://www.goldcoinsgain.com/gold-bullion-coins.html"&gt;buy bullion&lt;/a&gt; soon. Who knows? I have not heard of gold devalued. Its rate is increasing day by day and gold has been proven to be one of the safest investment that anyone could have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3218475526257163665?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3218475526257163665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/investing-in-gold-coins.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3218475526257163665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3218475526257163665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/investing-in-gold-coins.html' title='Investing in Gold Coins'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7774804058399859637</id><published>2010-07-30T11:29:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T11:37:08.099-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Idol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tv show'/><title type='text'>Kara DioGuardi Fired from American Idol?</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://view.picapp.com/pictures.photo/entertainment/2010-vh1-something-awards/image/9384378?term=Kara+DioGuardi" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://view1.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9384378/2010-vh1-something-awards/2010-vh1-something-awards.jpg?size=404&amp;amp;imageId=9384378" border="0" width="404" title="2010 VH1 Do Something Awards - Arrivals" height="594" oncontextmenu="return false;" ondrag="return false;" onmousedown="return false;" alt="HOLLYWOOD - JULY 19: TV personality Kara DioGuardi arrives at the 2010 VH1 Do Something! Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium on July 19, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for VH1)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2010/07/29/american-idol-kara-dioguardi-judge-jennifer-lopez-steven-tyler-fired/" target="_blank"&gt;TMZ&lt;/a&gt; reports that Kara DioGuardi has been fired from American Idol.  I heard Ellen DeGeneres also left the show and hours after that, comes this report that Kara DioGuardi has been fired. Hmmm..I wonder who will be the final judges next season. I heard they will back to a three-judge format. I am not a big fan of this show no more but it's great to watch once in a while and see contestant's dreams come true. I guess we'll find out next season.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7774804058399859637?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7774804058399859637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/kara-dioguardi-fired-from-american-idol.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7774804058399859637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7774804058399859637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/kara-dioguardi-fired-from-american-idol.html' title='Kara DioGuardi Fired from American Idol?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8812058387557105815</id><published>2010-07-27T09:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T11:29:34.674-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='places'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Golf'/><title type='text'>How About A Beach Golf Vacation?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right;margin-left:10px" src="http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac272/Rev6v7/Golf/golfball.jpg" border="0" alt="Golf Ball Pictures, Images and Photos" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I sure am looking forward to have some fun and relaxing time with my friends. These past two months were just extremely stressful for me. I am looking for an awesome place to enjoy and maybe play some golf. I am actually checking on &lt;a href="http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net/golf_packages"&gt;Myrtle Beach golf packages&lt;/a&gt;. I heard a lot of good things about it from my friends friends and wow! I see a lot of specials are a great option for any vacationer and perfect for those who want to play a lot of golf at a great price. My friends told me that this site which is located at &lt;a href="http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net/"&gt;http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net&lt;/a&gt; lets you book your tee times and accommodations at the same time. I sat online and see their amazing reviews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who would not want to enjoy some of the most pristine beaches? They say at Myrtle Beach, the beautiful sands are complimented by the gentle shore break and soft relaxing breezes. Plus, it has fair share of beachwear stores for high-end shopping as well to find more than just a souvenir to bring back from your Myrtle Beach vacation. Awesome! I also learned that &lt;a href="http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net/golf_courses"&gt;Myrtle Beach golf courses&lt;/a&gt; are sure to challenge and impress both the novice and experienced golfers. No wonder so may golfers flock to Myrtle Beach year end and year out. I think the place has much to offer, for those wanting to get away for vacation like me. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I think I just found an amazing place for all golf enthusiast or for anybody who is an ardent fan of this sports activity. There are numerous things to do at Myrtle Beach to be able to enjoy a hard earned happy and relaxing vacation.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8812058387557105815?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8812058387557105815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-about-beach-golf-vacation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8812058387557105815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8812058387557105815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-about-beach-golf-vacation.html' title='How About A Beach Golf Vacation?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac272/Rev6v7/Golf/th_golfball.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2307119214449170854</id><published>2010-07-26T09:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T09:40:33.100-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><title type='text'>Overdue Books</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i355.photobucket.com/albums/r449/colin136_photos/iphoneibook.png" border="0" alt="books, life journey, life poems" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was wondering why our local library was calling me about overdue books. When I finally checked my account, I was surprised to find out that all my books were one week overdue and because I always borrow a lot of them, the book overdue charges add up. I got a huge amount to be paid. Yikes! I know it's my being careless. It would have been so easy to log in their website and extend the books online, but my mind these past few weeks are too occupied and there's just too much for me to do. Eventually forgot about it. My bad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you borrow books from your local library too? Don't forget to check your return date :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2307119214449170854?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2307119214449170854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/overdue-books.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2307119214449170854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2307119214449170854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/overdue-books.html' title='Overdue Books'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8974617003026907720</id><published>2010-07-25T23:36:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T16:10:15.432-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cancer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mesothelioma'/><title type='text'>Surviving Mesothelioma</title><content type='html'>I found an awesome book that will be a great help for people who have &lt;a href="http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/"&gt;Mesothelioma Cancer&lt;/a&gt;. This book is entitled &lt;i&gt;Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers: A Patient's Guide&lt;/i&gt;. This best-selling Mesothelioma book is written by Paul Kraus that offers practical advice. It is a moving story about a person struggling to survive &lt;a href="http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/"&gt;Mesothelioma&lt;/a&gt; Cancer. Are you familiar with it?  Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/brooknbyron/plmesothelioma.gif" border="0" alt="pleural mesothelioma, life journey mesothelioma cancer" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you or anyone you know have a loved one or a friend that is suffering from  this rare form of cancer, please visit http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com so you can get a free copy of this book. For a limited time only, free copies of  &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.survivingmesothelioma.com/"&gt;Surviving Mesothelioma&lt;/a&gt; and Other Cancers: A Patient's Guide&lt;/i&gt; book are given and available to newly diagnosed mesothelioma patients. This book is a recommended reading for anyone struggling with Mesothelioma. Make sure you get your free copy today! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8974617003026907720?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8974617003026907720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/surviving-mesothelioma.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8974617003026907720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8974617003026907720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/surviving-mesothelioma.html' title='Surviving Mesothelioma'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8208114051145982891</id><published>2010-07-24T20:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T09:39:53.870-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mailbox'/><title type='text'>Want a Safe Mailbox</title><content type='html'>I am checking out some &lt;a href="http://www.mailboxixchange.com/Locking-Mailboxes-best_selling0-p-1-c-71.html"&gt;l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mailboxixchange.com/Locking-Mailboxes-best_selling0-p-1-c-71.html"&gt;ockable mailboxes&lt;/a&gt;. I need high quality and secured &lt;a href="http://www.mailboxixchange.com/Locking-Mailboxes-best_selling0-p-1-c-71.html"&gt;locking mailbox&lt;/a&gt; that will last for long to ensure that everything in my mail are safe and protected. I searched it online and happy to find some quality and affordable mail boxes at mailboxixchange.com.  They are one of the top sellers of quality locking mailboxes that has been helping a lot of homeowners, businesses and other establishments keep their mails to be safe and secured. They provide affordable and high standard quality of &lt;a href="http://www.mailboxixchange.com/Locking-Mailboxes-best_selling0-p-1-c-71.html"&gt;locking mailboxes&lt;/a&gt; products and have a great selection of beautiful address plaques and numbers and curbside decor.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As I am sharing this with you, it came to my mind that these awesome products can be a great gift to some of our friends. Awesome! I just answered one of my questions. One of my friends been really helpful couple of weeks ago when I was really feeling down. I realized that her birthday is coming up and i am thinking of getting her a cool present. How about an awesome curb side decor? or a very secured mailbox? plus of course some women's stuffs. Can't forget that one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8208114051145982891?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8208114051145982891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/want-safe-mailbox.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8208114051145982891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8208114051145982891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/want-safe-mailbox.html' title='Want a Safe Mailbox'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8287225339092950368</id><published>2010-07-23T19:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T09:39:36.121-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie quotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life quotes'/><title type='text'>Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;I love this movie quote....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;- Movie Quote from 'Rocky Balboa'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8287225339092950368?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8287225339092950368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/life.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8287225339092950368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8287225339092950368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/life.html' title='Life'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5725264706941560758</id><published>2010-07-22T17:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T09:39:13.043-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Trading'/><title type='text'>Online Trading</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left;margin-right:10px" src="http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1522/1522547w681jrzuib.jpg" width="110" height="200" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I am wanting to try &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;online trading&lt;/a&gt;.  I have not really gotten into investing much and I think it's about time to set up some investments under my name. I know that there are a lot of online brokerages but I don’t want to  just jump into stock trading and pick the one with the cheapest commissions, without reading the different fine prints services offered. I һаνе never hired a stock broker, οr even traded a single stock fοr tһаt matter but hey, it's never too late to learn. Is it? &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liked tһе advantages of online &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;stock trading&lt;/a&gt;. Having tһе power tο see real time gains and losses οf stocks being traded helps us tο spot and foresee stock price variations and helps identify wһісһ way tһе stock prices һаνе mοѕt potential tο go. I was told about First Trade, an online brokerage firm that allows customers to trade Stocks, Options, Mutual Funds, ETFs and Fixed Incomes at competitive costs. The site offers many different investment choices. They even have  &lt;a href="http://www.firstrade.com/"&gt;Mobile Trading&lt;/a&gt; where you can trade on-the-go. I am enjoying their community forum too. I'm able to ask a lot of questions. I want to bе sure that I fully understand аƖƖ οf tһе inherent risks associated wіtһ online stock trading before picking a stock. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5725264706941560758?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5725264706941560758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/online-trading.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5725264706941560758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5725264706941560758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/online-trading.html' title='Online Trading'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8698099285212337931</id><published>2010-07-21T16:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T18:16:43.021-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Life is too Short</title><content type='html'>Someone so very very dear to my heart passed away last month. I never knew this pain existed. I been in a roller coaster ride of emotions since then. Some days I feel better, some days I have to drag myself out of bed. I and the rest of his friends who love him so much are still in shock over this and wishes that this is all just a dream. If there's one great thing I never regretted is that I said what I meant wholeheartedly. I said everything I want to tell him. I'm always a very vocal person and I say things when I wanna...everyday. Be it "I love you" or "I am mad at you". He left a lot of great loving memories and it has been bitter-sweet remembering all those. There's not a day goes by that I don't think of him. And I am sure my heart will never be the same again. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The reality of life hit me once again. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Life is Short!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; And although we hear this statement often, most of the time we really never give deep thoughts about it until we lose someone we deeply love. This reminds me of a great quote. You probably have heard, seen, or read this quote before but I just want to share it here as a reminder and for other people who may not have read/heard about this before. Life is a &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;journey&lt;/a&gt;. A journey too short to wake up with regrets. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1440/1440543v61n79l7vu.jpg" width="264" height="198" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#336666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;Life is too short to wake up with regrets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;Love the people who treat you right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;Forget about the ones who don’t.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;Believe everything happens for a reason.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;If it changes your life, let it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;Nobody said life would be easy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;They just promised it would be worth it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, treasure your relationships. Treasure the people that genuinely care and love you. These are the people that matter. These are the people that you should be spending time with and give value, and let go of those people that don't seen to care. For the time that you spent to those people that are not deserving are the time stolen and could be given to those people that truly cares. Make your life worth living. We only have one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8698099285212337931?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8698099285212337931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-is-too-short.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8698099285212337931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8698099285212337931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-is-too-short.html' title='Life is too Short'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4553736822933833903</id><published>2010-05-17T16:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T16:07:22.254-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rima Fakih'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miss USA 2010'/><title type='text'>Miss USA 2010 Winner</title><content type='html'>It is Miss Michigan, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rima Fakih&lt;/span&gt;, 24 years old Lebanese-American, who won the Miss USA 2010 Title held lastnight in Las Vegas, Nevada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=Miss%20USA%202010&amp;amp;iid=8826676" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/e/9/c/9/Rima_Fakih_crowned_8e71.JPG?adImageId=12891690&amp;amp;imageId=8826676" alt="Rima Fakih crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas" border="0" width="500" height="700" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih reacts after she was crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, lastnight, May 16, 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=Miss%20USA%202010&amp;amp;iid=8826675" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/c/8/6/a/Rima_Fakih_crowned_c27d.JPG?adImageId=12891520&amp;amp;imageId=8826675" alt="Rima Fakih crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas" border="0" width="500" height="661" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rima Fakih, 24, of Dearborn, Michigan, reacts after she was crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 16, 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=Miss%20USA%202010&amp;amp;iid=8826668" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/d/6/8/0/Rima_Fakih_crowned_5f61.JPG?adImageId=12891528&amp;amp;imageId=8826668" alt="Rima Fakih crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas" border="0" width="500" height="729" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rima Fakih, 24, of Dearborn, Michigan, reacts after she was crowned Miss USA 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 16, 2010.&lt;div 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Winner'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5467465205603424385</id><published>2010-05-01T10:40:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T10:41:08.917-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(132, 179, 32); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;Tigers love to tug on purple ducks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5467465205603424385?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5467465205603424385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/05/thoughts-experiences-and-reviews-about.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5467465205603424385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5467465205603424385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/05/thoughts-experiences-and-reviews-about.html' title=''/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3980122194774716310</id><published>2010-03-10T19:09:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T19:20:14.725-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tattoo'/><title type='text'>Tattoos In A Foreign Language?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.vevans.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/678/678993w6iup09xpk.jpg" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" border="0" height="279" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A friend of mine was asking if I'd consider having a tattoo in other language like Japanese. I paused for a minute and asked back, why the in the world will I have a tattoo in other language anyway? I am not sure I'd trust someone to just put it on me without checking first what those means. I have to have someone I really trust confirm. But still I don't get it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like tattoos, but I don't have one. I am not sure I'd be brave enough to have one. It's cool when you're younger but I don't find it cute when one get older and still have them. But then who knows? but if I ever did, I'd make sure that I knew what my tattoo means. Would you not?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3980122194774716310?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3980122194774716310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/03/tattoos-in-foreign-language.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3980122194774716310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3980122194774716310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/03/tattoos-in-foreign-language.html' title='Tattoos In A Foreign Language?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1912150238100198300</id><published>2009-05-25T00:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-25T00:01:00.673-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Memorial Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl9.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1276/1276479swrx9x5pq0.gif" width="476" border="0" height="383" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's take a moment to remember all our brave fallen heroes who sacrifice so much to preserve our freedom and thank all our military people who protect our interests around the world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1912150238100198300?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1912150238100198300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-memorial-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1912150238100198300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1912150238100198300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-memorial-day.html' title='Happy Memorial Day'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6647042231126461628</id><published>2009-05-05T11:18:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T11:27:23.808-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lifestyle'/><title type='text'>Loving Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Busy. Busy. Busy... but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/300/300361vja2swttfa.png" width="400" border="0" height="206" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No complains. My master leads the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:130%;" &gt;Life can be so crazy &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;eh&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what else can we do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: courier new;font-size:180%;" &gt;Live the life you love and love the life you live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;♥♥♥♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6647042231126461628?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6647042231126461628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/loving-life.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6647042231126461628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6647042231126461628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/loving-life.html' title='Loving Life'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7172377440767304287</id><published>2009-05-03T08:04:00.011-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T08:53:01.384-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricky Hatton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxing. Manny Pacquiao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxing'/><title type='text'>Video: Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton Boxing Fight</title><content type='html'>I am a big fan of these two great boxers, Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton. I have nothing­ but great admiration for Ricky Hatton, even before he fought Manny Pacquiao. I have seen him in his best fights and he's an awesome boxer.  Last night, May 2, 2009, the much awaited boxing fight was held at the MGM Grand Las Vegas at Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Watch the video below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video: Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton Boxing Fight (May 2, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="540" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DYmgamb7sjM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DYmgamb7sjM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="540" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will always be a fan of Ricky Hatton even though a handful of his excited fans booed our Philippine anthem. I know that those disrespectful fans didn't represent an entire people. Ricky Hatton is an awesome fighter, as well as &lt;span class="story_main_body_font"&gt;boxing's pound-for-pound champion,&lt;/span&gt; Manny Pacquiao. They just didn't match well. Obviously Pacquiao emerge superior and Ricky Hatton was unable to hold for very long . I wish the other fans of Ricky Hatton will stop being sour losers.  Ricky Hatton was more gracious in defeat than his bitter fans. It's only a boxing fight. We all­ know that Ricky Hatton is a very good fighter. It's just that, unless it's a draw, only one will be declared winner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Life's Journey&lt;/a&gt; says, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Mabuhay Ka Manny Pacquiao!" &lt;/span&gt; and for Ricky Hatton, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"you will always be remembered as one of the great boxing fighters"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, what else can I say? I am a huge fan of both, Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7172377440767304287?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7172377440767304287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-manny-pacquiao-and-ricky-hatton.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7172377440767304287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7172377440767304287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-manny-pacquiao-and-ricky-hatton.html' title='Video: Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton Boxing Fight'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5323677959921655949</id><published>2009-04-16T07:56:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T08:23:12.121-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Britains Got Talent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Susan Boyle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Susan Boyle's Dream</title><content type='html'>I was watching online videos and got so surprised about this Britain’s Got Talent contestant named Susan Boyle singing &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;‘I Dream A Dream’&lt;/span&gt; from Les Miserables. She remind me of that an unassuming mobile phone salesman named Paul Potts who also wowed judges and audience alike in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are really a lot of talented people out there, who just don't have the right opportunity to showcase their talent and be discovered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch her amazing performance below and see why judge Piers Morgan said; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;her "stunning" performance was "the biggest surprise I've had in three years of this show"&lt;/span&gt;. Play the video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="339"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x8ymn0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x8ymn0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="420" height="339"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x8ymn0" target="_blank"&gt;Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/dwarthy" target="_blank"&gt;dwarthy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5323677959921655949?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5323677959921655949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/susan-boyles-dream.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5323677959921655949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5323677959921655949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/susan-boyles-dream.html' title='Susan Boyle&apos;s Dream'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8856492268344004253</id><published>2009-04-12T08:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T08:02:00.471-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greetings'/><title type='text'>Happy Easter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/2061/2061364qxkpjpdg9l.gif" width="428" border="0" height="435" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hoping you all are having a great Easter celebration and joy with your love ones and friends. Keep the faith burning!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8856492268344004253?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8856492268344004253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8856492268344004253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8856492268344004253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter.html' title='Happy Easter'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2542582571063728931</id><published>2009-04-01T10:07:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T10:29:48.300-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lifetyle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='April Fool&apos;s Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fools Quotations'/><title type='text'>Foolish Fools?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bingkay.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; width: 165px; height: 202px;" src="http://dl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1085/1085671mz85ul6846.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Since its &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April Fool's Day&lt;/span&gt;, I thought of sharing some quotations about foolishness and fools. These are what famous intellectuals had to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Plato, a classical Greek philosopher and famous Mathematician,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you still recall,  Plato is a student of Socrates, one of  the founders of Western philosophy. Plato is also the mentor of Aristotle,  another popular philosopher and great ancient Mathematician who said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the founding fathers of the United States of America, the popular  author, activist, statesman, diplomat and scientist, Benjamin Franklin said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"Wise men don't need advise, fools don't take it."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you think you're wise enough,  Don't be too confident because you may be wrong.  Here's an African Proverb for you. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you still think you know everything? &lt;img src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/355/355313e0utenk2vc.gif" width="18" border="0" height="18" /&gt; William Shakespear, an English poet and playwright who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;img style="width: 26px; height: 26px;" src="http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/742/742468m9g2d9dg9a.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your day. If you wish to pull some silly pranks to your friends and love ones, remember what Abraham Lincoln said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Don't let your humor leave a sour taste this April Fool's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to read more quotes about fools, visit this &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://famousquotes4life.blogspot.com/search/label/Fools%20Quotations" target="_blank"&gt;fools quotations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; page and have fun!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2542582571063728931?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2542582571063728931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/foolish-fools.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2542582571063728931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2542582571063728931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/04/foolish-fools.html' title='Foolish Fools?'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4362369257015176053</id><published>2009-03-24T19:02:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T19:37:51.154-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asian Shaved Ice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dessert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Talk About Asian Shaved Ice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/81226325@N00/223114705/" title="Asian Shaved Ice (Vol.7) by Eat-My-Heart-Out 你吃,我看, on Flickr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 465px; height: 465px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/223114705_ef7cfe9a81.jpg" alt="Asian Shaved Ice (Vol.7)" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Asian Shaved Ice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this beautiful gallery of Asian Shaved Ice. They all look enticing, perfect delight on a scorching hot day. Shave ice is a mixes the delicious refreshment of ice cream with great tasting variety of colored sweets and fruits. Some people flavor it with sweetened syrup of various colours and flavours, some uses milk while others uses red bean sauce. The Filipinos call it &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Halo-Halo&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;literally means "mix-mix"&lt;/span&gt;), Singaporeans call it &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ice Kachang&lt;/span&gt;, Koreans call their shaved ice as &lt;em&gt; Bingsu&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;kakigori&lt;/em&gt; for Japanese while for Taiwanese it’s called &lt;em&gt;baobing&lt;/em&gt;. Thailand's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nam Kang Sai&lt;/span&gt; has it's toppings  or delicious mixes  in the bottom and the shaved ice is on the top. Asian Shaved Ice has different mixed ingredients per Asian country, yet they're somewhat similar and they're all deliciously addicting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you eat this kind of dessert? What's your favorite Ice treats flavour?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4362369257015176053?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4362369257015176053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/talk-about-asian-shaved-ice.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4362369257015176053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4362369257015176053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/talk-about-asian-shaved-ice.html' title='Talk About Asian Shaved Ice'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/223114705_ef7cfe9a81_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3073295335900370455</id><published>2009-03-23T07:19:00.014-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T09:24:59.564-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bill O&apos;reilly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English To The Max'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Love Dare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Online Coupons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Becoming a U.S Citizen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fireproof'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='money saving'/><title type='text'>A Book Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 214px; height: 283px;" src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i15/bingkay_2006/v002.jpg" alt="Life Journey Books" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I got me books to read. I ordered two of these books at Amazon.com last month but for some reason, I believed the first package got lost. I had a tracking number and it showed where the book was but after certain date, it has no updates. I had to call Amazon after so many weeks of waiting, and they sent me another package. It was odd because I normally order stuffs from them. I never had problems with them until this order. Anyways, it's all settled and I'm still ordering stuffs from them ☺. I got Bill O'reilly's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity &lt;/span&gt;for my husband. He's not really into reading but he likes to read books by Bill O'reilly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am currently working on my US Citizenship application, so I bought the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Becoming a U.S Citizen&lt;/span&gt; by NOLO to get more information in filling up the application forms and about the other important details. When I was working on my K-1 Visa or Fiance' Visa, the 2nd edition of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fiance' &amp;amp; Marriage Visas&lt;/span&gt; book by NOLO has helped us a lot. I ordered the book from &lt;a href="http://www.nolo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;the official website of Nolo&lt;/a&gt; and was able to save some bucks. Searching for coupons online has been part of my online shopping. Before I buy something, I usually use the search engine to search for coupons for that specific product that I'm wanting to buy. It saves me money every time. There are times when you can't find coupons for a specific product, especially when there's no promotions at that time but believe me, there are bunch of online coupons you can use for more savings. You'd be surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, one day when we were doing our grocery shopping, I got the book Learning Express' &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;English To The Max&lt;/span&gt; (1200 Questions to Maximize Your English Power) from Sam's Club.  English is not my first language and I was really not into our English classes, until maybe around 3rd year college. It was a shame because I remember our class always having the best English teachers. You can't just blame the teachers you know? Especially when students don't have much interest about the subject. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the subject. It was just boring for me &lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;(that time)&lt;/span&gt;. I am more into Math. Today, I am into anything and everything. Self-improvement is never too late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/678/678784fm9aze693x.jpg" width="100" border="0" height="100" /&gt; What's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Love Dare&lt;/span&gt;? I have not started reading it but I have an idea what the book is about. Last January, we were watching the movie &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fireproof.&lt;/span&gt; Have you seen it? If you haven't yet, watch it. It's a great movie to watch. Watch it with your special someone, whether you are married, in a relationship or single. The movie &lt;em&gt;Fireproof&lt;/em&gt; has a very strong message and tackles important issues not only about marriage but about relationships in general.  The story of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fireproof&lt;/span&gt; gives so many lessons. It has become one of my few favorite movies of all time. It was in the movie when I learned about &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Love Dare&lt;/span&gt;. It will rekindle or remind yourself about your &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;commitment&lt;/span&gt;.  Will you be able to withstand problems when it come to your relationships? Sometimes after so many years in a relationship, two people who use to be so in love with each other drift apart.  Will you be able to hang on with your promises and demonstrate your love over and over again to a person that's no longer receptive to your love? Will you remain strong? Are you committed enough to withstand everything? The movie tag say, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Never&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Leave Your Partner Behind&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;/span&gt; And I say, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amen&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all for today. I hope you all have a nice day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3073295335900370455?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3073295335900370455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-week.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3073295335900370455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3073295335900370455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-week.html' title='A Book Week'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7472454650300108167</id><published>2009-03-22T19:14:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T07:15:37.214-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I Told You So'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>I Told You So</title><content type='html'>I heard this song on American Idol last week when Carrie Underwood guested and sung this song with Randy Travis. I fell in love with it this song. Carrie Underwood version is simply beautiful. This song kinda make me sad but I love listening to it. It has a beautiful melody and the message is kinda piercing my heart. Aw! I wont be the one singing though, I'd be the one that says &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I told you so........"&lt;/span&gt; except that I have &lt;span&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; found somebody new. Play the video below to hear the song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_PDLUGTK4sU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_PDLUGTK4sU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I Told You So &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Carrie Underwood)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Suppose I called you up tonight and told you that I loved you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And suppose I said "I wanna come back home".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And suppose I cried and said "I think I finally learned my lesson"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And I'm tired a-spendin' all my time alone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;If I told you that I realised you're all I ever wanted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And it's killin' me to be so far away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Would you tell me that you loved me too and would we cry together?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Or would you simply laugh at me and say:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;"I told you so, oh I told you so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;I told you so, but you had to go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;If I got down on my knees and told you I was yours forever&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Would you get down on yours to and take my hand?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Would we get that old time feelin', would we laugh and talk for hours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;The way we did when our love first began?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Would you tell me that you'd missed me too and that you'd been so lonely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And you waited for the day that I return.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;And we'd live in love forever and that I'm your one and only&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Or would you say the tables finally turned?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Would you say:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;"I told you so, oh I told you so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;I told you some day you come crawling back and asking me to take you in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;I told you so, but you have to go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;"Now I found somebody new and you will never break my heart in two again".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl2.glitter-graphics.net/pub/439/439872zev6untzyt.gif" width="495" border="0" height="48" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Don't you love the song? Sad &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;eh&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7472454650300108167?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7472454650300108167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-told-you-so.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7472454650300108167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7472454650300108167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-told-you-so.html' title='I Told You So'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7186865946709913394</id><published>2009-03-11T16:40:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T16:43:24.530-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Idol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Danny Gokey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adam Lambert'/><title type='text'>Adam Lambert's Black and White</title><content type='html'>I was watching the first performance night of American Idol Season 8 Top 13 lastnight. My favorite performance lastnight was that of&lt;br /&gt;Adam Lambert. It was Michael Jackson's week  and he sung the song entitled Black And White with an enormous stage presence and voice.  Actually, I think the American Idol judges done a really good job in the selection process and I think all the Top 13 contestants are really good. My most favorite this year is Danny Gokey but I also like Adam Lambert and he just blew me away lastnight. Check out his performace lastnight. Watch the video below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American Idol Adam Lambert sings Michael Jackson's Black And White (March 10, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j_mqbc9COK8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j_mqbc9COK8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn't he just awesome?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7186865946709913394?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7186865946709913394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/adam-lamberts-black-and-white.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7186865946709913394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7186865946709913394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/adam-lamberts-black-and-white.html' title='Adam Lambert&apos;s Black and White'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-989212201542184972</id><published>2009-03-08T07:30:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T07:55:43.536-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daylight saving time'/><title type='text'>Spring Forward</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bingkay.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; width: 66px; height: 248px;" src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1064/1064994xbnsgh5rif.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Have you changed your clock time yet? Lastnight we're supposed to set our time &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(again)&lt;/span&gt;, one hour forward. I think my husband took cared of it already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I'm excited for the coming of Spring season. I missed the beautiful flowers in my garden. The tulips and daffodils, along with the colorful pansies are blooming good but the garden still looks lonely. I'm used to the changing of the season. I guess i'm just being so anxious and wondering if the Perennial flowers that we planted last year will come back again this spring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, I'm just posting to remind you about the Spring forward time. Have a great day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-989212201542184972?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/989212201542184972/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-forward.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/989212201542184972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/989212201542184972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-forward.html' title='Spring Forward'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5909135603216523013</id><published>2009-02-22T10:45:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T11:19:00.082-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jared Padalecki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv series'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jensen Ackles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Supernatural'/><title type='text'>Supernatural Weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1652/1652650yeobaum82v.png" width="300" border="0" height="379" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I didn't do much this weekend. I just painted some gnomes  and garden statues, cleaned the garden a little bit and trimmed some plants. I got motivated in re-painting some of them because all of the tulips we planted last fall, are blooming. I created a couple more jewelry beads and have them ready for sale too. Other than that, it's all a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Supernatural&lt;/span&gt; weekend. I spent most of my time in bed watching all of Dad's most recent recorded episodes of my favorite series. I watched eight episodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like these two brothers, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(I got a crush on them...shhhh!)&lt;/span&gt;, Dean and Sam Winchester &lt;span style="font-family: courier new;"&gt;(played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki)&lt;/span&gt;. These brothers are always on the road fighting creatures from horror stories and urban legends. It's entertaining and I love every episode's wicked sense of humour. How I love Supernatural.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5909135603216523013?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5909135603216523013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/02/supernatural-weekend.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5909135603216523013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5909135603216523013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/02/supernatural-weekend.html' title='Supernatural Weekend'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-877318252474232947</id><published>2009-02-18T18:02:00.016-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T23:06:45.174-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vacation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Helen'/><title type='text'>Things to do in Helen, Georgia</title><content type='html'>We had one week sweet escape. We went to Suwanee, GA  and spent our valentines day at Helen, Georgia. For 3 days, we enjoyed  several activities at the beautiful small town, an Alpine village in North Georgia. It's a great vacation spot year-round. The three days at Helen, Georgia were too short for me. We were wanting to see more and have more fun but we have to go back home because of work. I must say that we did enjoy our stay there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertlz/3141935717/" target="_blank" title="Memories of  Helen Georgia by Robert Lz, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/3141935717_28b4fbda77.jpg" alt="Memories of  Helen Georgia" width="500" height="348" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you and you're friends are wanting to visit Helen, Georgia, here are some things you can do there. I am sure you will enjoy the place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Things to do in Helen, Georgia&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" title="Water Tubing, Pink Tubes Ride Longer, Helen, Georgia by cajunlil on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 272px; height: 207px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/751813226_b72193c479.jpg" alt="Water Tubing, Pink Tubes Ride Longer, Helen, Georgia" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 1. Enjoy the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cool River Tubing&lt;/span&gt;. This is one of the most popular things to do in Helen, GA. This is a very fun activity  but you can't enjoy this much during winter season, the water will be way too cold.  You can have a very relaxing and exciting time floating down the scenic Chattahoochee River for one or couple of hours. The Chattahoochee River runs through downtown Helen. In fact, many restaurants have decks over the rivers, people can enjoy dining and the view of the river. You can check out more about this at &lt;a href="http://www.coolrivertubing.com/main.asp" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.coolrivertubing.com/main.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/" title="Me at Unicoi National Park close to Helen, Georgia"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 179px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SZyj_cDcdHI/AAAAAAAADHs/T6oXVfX2LUA/s320/suwanee-helen+007.JPG" alt="Unicoi National Park, Helen, Georgia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304294771393328242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 2. Visit &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unicoi State Park&lt;/span&gt;. Unicoi is one of Georgia's most beloved state parks. It is located two miles from the Alpine village of Helen, where we stayed. If you're an outdoor person, you will surely enjoy hiking and biking on the scenic mountain trails. During autumn, the park gives very colorful views. There are numerous picnic tables located throughout the park. We paid a  pass good for one day that cost $3 at the self-pay ticket booth. The park pass payment is per vehicle. You can find great information about Unicoi at &lt;a href="http://www.gastateparks.org/info/unicoi/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.gastateparks.org/info/unicoi/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattgeorgia/3168676723/" target="_blank" title="Anna Ruby Falls by MattGeorgia, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 171px; height: 251px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/3168676723_008cab476d.jpg" alt="Anna Ruby Falls" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 3. Head on to the beautiful &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anna Ruby Falls&lt;/span&gt;. Located just north of the Unicoi state park, &lt;span class="medium"&gt;you'll find the rare double falls. You will enjoy some pleasant and clear mountain scenery and have your camera ready for these awesome falls. &lt;/span&gt; You can also enjoy picnicking, or go more hiking for more nice views to watch. There is a parking fee for cars. If I remember right, it cost $3 also. It's well worth visiting. The fee and pass for Anna Ruby Falls is not valid for Unicoi State Park. Please check for the updated fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8177037@N06/920021951/" target="_blank" title="View from Brasstown Bald summit by stevesheriw, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; width: 290px; height: 219px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1230/920021951_e1db9e6f5a.jpg" alt="View from Brasstown Bald summit" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Reach the summit of The &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brasstown Bald&lt;/span&gt;. You can drive to up to the Brasstown Bald and walk a couple of steps to reach the summit. The scenic overlook is just amazing. Different season gives different views. Whatever season it is, the view is just wonderful. It would be better if you go there not during foggy days, so you can really enjoy the view but, if you're in Helen, Georgia be sure to really visit this site because even if you go there during foggy days, reaching the summit will still be unforgettable. Brasstown Bald is is Georgia's highest mountain. It is rising 4784 feet above sea level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Enjoy panning at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dukes Creek Gold and Ruby Mines&lt;/span&gt;. Yes you can pan for gold and screen for gems like rubies, sapphires and emeralds. The mine is run by  extremely nice and helpful attendants. They know a lot about gems and precious metals and the industry. They'll show you  how to pan for gold and gems. You pick a bucket that are reasonably priced according to what types of stones are in there. You sift through it and pick out the stones. Take a peek at their website's photo gallery at &lt;a href="http://www.dukescreek.com/gallery.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.dukescreek.com/gallery.htm&lt;/a&gt; and see what treasures some of their customers found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobkrejci/2478853569/" target="_blank" title="Giant Train Set, Charlimagne's Kingdom, Helen, GA by Jacob...K, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; width: 223px; height: 293px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/2478853569_9e6fd2e7ae.jpg" alt="Giant Train Set, Charlimagne's Kingdom, Helen, GA" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 6.  Enter the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Charlemagne's Kingdom&lt;/span&gt;. You will see the largest model railroad in Georgia. I enjoyed watching it myself. The scaled miniature Alpine model landscape and railroad layout is amazingly beautiful. You'll love the railroad track, and the tiny electric trains running around and the tiny hot air balloons floating, the cute ring circus, mountains, lakes, rivers, and villages populated with replicas of buildings that can be found in Germany. When you're done watching the beautiful railroad model, you can buy nice gifts at the gift shop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soapywater/1436800926/" target="_blank" title="Mini Golf, Helen, GA by soapywater, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; width: 267px; height: 203px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1436800926_e9a852232f.jpg" alt="Mini Golf, Helen, GA" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Have fun playing mini-golfs. You can visit &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alpine Helen Mini-Golf&lt;/span&gt;, a  18-hole miniature golf course located at the south end of Helen. We really enjoyed our visit here. We played miniature golf at night and there's not much people during that time. There's an ice cream parlor beside this mini-golf place called Scoop De Scoop Ice Cream Parlor. You can visit their website at &lt;a href="http://www.helenalpineminigolf.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.helenalpineminigolf.com&lt;/a&gt;.  Another fun place to play mini-golf is at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pirate Cove Adventure Golf&lt;/span&gt;. The place is also beautiful, a good place to take pictures too under cascading waterfalls. It has some huge pirate statue around the golf course. We did not enjoy our games here because there were a lot of people playing. We were actually in a hurry to finish every course because there were other people waiting for their turn. It was crowded but other than that, the place is really nice. I guess we had a bad timing, maybe playing mini-golf during  daytime was a bad idea.  There are many Pirate Cove Adventure Golf around the country. The one in Florida is really nice too. Beautiful landscape. We enjoyed playing there during our vacation last year. You can learn more about Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at &lt;a href="http://www.piratescove.net/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.piratescove.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Visit the historic &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nora Mill Granary&lt;/span&gt;. I learned that this grain mill and shop first opened in 1876. Did you know that the original water mill is still in operation? Interesting. You can tour the facilities and see the water-powered process. You can also purchase corn mill, grits, and biscuit-and-gravy mix. There's an on-site gift shop where you can purchase some gift items for your love ones and friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. See the Bears at the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Black Forest Bear Park&lt;/span&gt;. It's interesting. The bears are adorable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Enjoy the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;specialty shops in Helen, GA&lt;/span&gt;. There are a lot of awesome shops around. You can also relax in a beer-garden, enjoy German bands, food, and more fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Don't miss the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Horses&lt;/span&gt;. You can ride on the horse and carriage around. I miss this one and some other things. It was so crowded last Valentines week but I'm definitely hoping to visit Helen, Georgia again. Hopefully in another season, maybe Spring or Fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/73377961@N00/2670873633/" target="_blank" title="helen-horse&amp;amp;amp;carriage by Knight of Roses, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/2670873633_f1bb985cc5.jpg" alt="helen-horse&amp;amp;amp;carriage" width="500" height="305" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. If you want to witness the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oktoberfest&lt;/span&gt;, make sure to visit Helen, Georgia starting middle of September. I learned that the entire town participates in the Oktoberfest. You'll love the cold beer and hot off the grill German-style wursts (sausages). The fun and memorable parade is an awesome attraction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of things to do in Helen, Georgia that I have not mentioned yet. I'll write Things to do in Helen, Georgia 2 and more pictures soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-877318252474232947?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/877318252474232947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/02/things-to-do-in-helen-georgia.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/877318252474232947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/877318252474232947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/02/things-to-do-in-helen-georgia.html' title='Things to do in Helen, Georgia'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/3141935717_28b4fbda77_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5293297817186217485</id><published>2009-01-25T14:44:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T14:57:00.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wind Of Change</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 499px; height: 340px;" src="http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn19/girly_girl_graphics/Quotes%20or%20Sayings/019original.png" alt="Life journey" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sometimes the wind of change brings more joy and better fortune than we can even imagine. I don't like changes especially to something I get use to already but if the sudden changes bring peace of mind and happiness to more people then I'll embrace the changes with all my heart. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5293297817186217485?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5293297817186217485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/wind-of-change.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5293297817186217485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5293297817186217485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/wind-of-change.html' title='Wind Of Change'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn19/girly_girl_graphics/Quotes%20or%20Sayings/th_019original.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7335630024958589286</id><published>2009-01-22T19:29:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T20:03:31.991-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Exercise'/><title type='text'>Calorie Counting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1454/1454034hwrt5313rf.gif" width="150" border="0" height="190" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I am watching what I am eating and counting food calories. Call me shallow, but I just recently started my regular exercise using our stationary bike. I'm riding the bike 30 minutes in the morning and another 30 minutes in the evening. I'll eventually increase the length as days go by or probably add other exercises too to get and maintain my ideal weight. I feel better when I weigh 112 pounds. Right now, my weight is 129 pounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I normally don't care about how much calories, salt and fats my foods have. But I realized that 30 minutes ride under a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;riding in a park&lt;/span&gt; program will only burn around 170 calories. Do the math! it takes a little longer to burn calories equivalent to what &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a can and a half&lt;/span&gt; regular soda drink contains. Now, that thought made me minimize my soda intake. Today, I burned 329 calories. I know, it's small. I intend to increase it everyday, and minimize food intake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope I will not get lazy and get tired from this exercise. I'm already tempted by the idea that I sweat more just doing my fun dancing than riding in my stationary bike. I just want this exercise to be part of my routine. Wish me luck guys! &lt;a href="http://www.bingkay.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl9.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1233/1233539a651j1xm1d.gif" width="17" border="0" height="17" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7335630024958589286?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7335630024958589286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/calorie-counting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7335630024958589286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7335630024958589286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/calorie-counting.html' title='Calorie Counting'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3721697744388575465</id><published>2009-01-21T14:56:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T15:07:45.452-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Income Tax Return'/><title type='text'>Income Tax Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1657/1657853qfmhh9iusd.gif" width="50" border="0" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I had a slight headache after printing all my 2008 Paypal transactions. I printed all my online income for the entire year, getting them ready for the incoming filling of income tax return. While doing so, I have thought of a more organize ways to do for next income tax filling. I was not very detailed and organized with my paper works last year and I vowed to make this year an easy one. Good thing that I can gather a copy of most of my records online. I'm almost done, I just have to add some of the other stuffs and when I get ready, pass it to my husband and process it online. We usually submit our ITR by February, every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you started your income tax return paperwork yet?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3721697744388575465?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3721697744388575465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/income-tax-time.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3721697744388575465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3721697744388575465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/income-tax-time.html' title='Income Tax Time'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6714099118036069307</id><published>2009-01-13T18:47:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T19:21:55.191-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Idol'/><title type='text'>Get Ready For American Idol</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://dl2.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1036/1036372dtc8x4c59d.jpg" width="236" border="0" height="235" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Are you ready for the new season of American Idol? I am. Tonight, American Idol is back on Fox channel. This is their eight season. I am excited to see the audition. I know it'll be fun to watch another set of hopefuls  and I'm sure there will be funny moments, as usual. I am also excited to see the new idol judge, Kara DioGuardi. I still wonder how they are gonna settle their pick. You know there will be 4 idol judges now, and I wonder what happens when two judge says "no" and the other two says "yes". Who has the final say?,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not really a TV person. Unlike my bestfriend Marie, I am not fond of  watching soaps and other TV programs but I am crazy for a couple of programs, like Chef Ramsey's Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares and this, American Idol. I'm loving it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="oneBlogText fullTextContent"&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So Let's hear it tonight...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6714099118036069307?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6714099118036069307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/get-ready-for-american-idol.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6714099118036069307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6714099118036069307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/get-ready-for-american-idol.html' title='Get Ready For American Idol'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7542416562668053209</id><published>2009-01-07T06:48:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-07T07:05:32.343-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emotional Eating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dieting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Emotional Eating</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://dl4.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1586/1586184yhmgogoduh.png" width="118" border="0" height="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Are you an emotional eater? A lot of people are and I think I'm one of them. When emotional turmoil hits me and I am facing difficult situations, I usually turn to foods. And the result? I gain weight. I'm glad that my body structure helps me a lot. I never go beyond 133 pounds, but me being short, I still look a little heavier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're also an emotional eater, you might find this article entitled Emotional Eating: 3-step Cure helpful. This blog post written by a life and wellness coach has help me control my eating during those troublesome moments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read the said emotional eating post &lt;a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/ourladyofweightloss/2008/12/emotional-eating-3-step-cure.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7542416562668053209?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7542416562668053209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/emotional-eating.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7542416562668053209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7542416562668053209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/emotional-eating.html' title='Emotional Eating'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5249638694190109750</id><published>2009-01-01T11:23:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T15:46:48.649-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Year of The Ox'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happy New Year'/><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1888/1888111v4krttutpm.gif" width="400" border="0" height="395" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's welcome 2009 with smiles in our faces and hopes in our hearts. This year, 2009, is the year of the Earth Ox according to Chinese Astrology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Lao Tzu, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step ". &lt;/span&gt;So let us start this new year that's full of possibilities with the right mind set for a better tomorrow. Keep the good wishes and keep the faith burning!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5249638694190109750?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5249638694190109750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5249638694190109750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5249638694190109750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3734996539518489599</id><published>2008-12-31T11:52:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T13:19:24.601-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspirational Quotes'/><title type='text'>Beginning of a New Day</title><content type='html'>As I am experiencing a difficult time right now in my personal life, my emotions are going up and down. There are days when I feel okay, good and trying to fight and be strong for this trial. There are days also when I just feel so down and low, and I can't do anything productive because my emotions are pulling me down. And so, I am thankful for this beautiful phrases below. I printed several copies of it.  I put them everywhere where I can read them often especially in the morning when I wake up for motivation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: courier new;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/872/872090ivxdu46xk8.jpg" width="248" border="0" height="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This is the beginning of a new day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;God has given me this day to use as I will.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can waste it or use it for good.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;What I do today is important, because&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am exchanging a day of my life for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When tomorrow comes,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;this day will be gone forever,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;leaving in its place something&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;that I have traded for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I want it to be gain, not loss;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;good not evil; success not failure;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;in order that I shall not regret&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;the price I paid for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;~ Author Unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3734996539518489599?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3734996539518489599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/beginning-of-new-day.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3734996539518489599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3734996539518489599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/beginning-of-new-day.html' title='Beginning of a New Day'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-2746412131870215873</id><published>2008-12-30T15:21:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T15:50:43.045-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Holiday Frames</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SVqE4PPfGiI/AAAAAAAAC-c/18J95PZ0bUE/s320/holiday-frames.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285683214371723810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The picture of the beautiful eyeglass on the left, with &lt;span class="ProductTitle2"&gt;stainless steel full-rim frame with comfortable acetate temples, &lt;/span&gt;is one of my favorite eyeglasses at zennioptical.com. The site have a wide and wonderful selection of high quality, yet affordable eyeglasses, including eyeglasses with cool and fashionable &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/9547at"&gt;Holiday frames&lt;/a&gt;. I'll probably get one for my sister. If you're looking for high quality eyeglasses ,  those eyeglasses of great durability, safety and comfort check them out.      &lt;!-- --&gt; &lt;!-- /central space --&gt; I'm telling you, their prices are truly reasonable and affordable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can choose your perfect size and shape, the perfect style that fits  your facial size and features. They are the greatest eyeglasses online store which sells high-quality and complete prescription eyeglasses for as low as $8. Can you believe that? Yes! that cheap. In fact, Zennioptical.com has been featured on Fox News. The prices of their fashionable and stylish eyeglasses are low because they sell direct from their factories to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://tinyurl.com/82p34m" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-2746412131870215873?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/2746412131870215873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/holiday-frames.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2746412131870215873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/2746412131870215873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/holiday-frames.html' title='Holiday Frames'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SVqE4PPfGiI/AAAAAAAAC-c/18J95PZ0bUE/s72-c/holiday-frames.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-1418295425803221473</id><published>2008-12-29T07:02:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T07:48:18.036-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><title type='text'>Rejoice!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl9.glitter-graphics.net/pub/934/934079flrg3e07b5.jpg" width="300" border="0" height="340" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two more days to go before we welcome 2009. It's the time to look back 2008 and reflect on everything and look ahead at the new year and hope for the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The year 2008 has been a wonderful year. I am thankful for EVERYTHING,  for the ups and downs in my &lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;life journey&lt;/a&gt;. So much has changed this year and although, my emotions and experiences in 2008 were in a roller coaster ride, I can truly say that I have accomplished more compared to the previous year and I feel so blessed.  I believe that we should &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Rejoice&lt;/span&gt; for all our successes and for all our conquered fears, pains and failures. For it is the positive and the negative experiences that makes us grow and mold us into a beautiful individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about you? How's your 2008? What was the best thing that happened to you this year?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-1418295425803221473?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/1418295425803221473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/rejoice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1418295425803221473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/1418295425803221473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/rejoice.html' title='Rejoice!'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7410536428807556535</id><published>2008-12-26T07:38:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T18:54:37.061-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Friends Delight</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 382px; height: 331px;" src="http://dl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/923/923231vmc2ljuk2y.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7410536428807556535?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7410536428807556535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7410536428807556535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7410536428807556535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title='Friends Delight'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-9039279215934695523</id><published>2008-12-24T23:49:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T23:57:52.876-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greetings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1762/1762695wfd0l6ae2b.gif" width="489" border="0" height="488" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Life's Journey&lt;/a&gt; just wants to greet everyone a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" &gt;Merry Merry Christmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May you all be filled with love and joy. Peace!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-9039279215934695523?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/9039279215934695523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/9039279215934695523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/9039279215934695523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3380379964330489644</id><published>2008-12-19T12:47:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T13:02:10.994-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>Enjoying Music</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/702/702985uksjsrpszt.gif" width="184" border="0" height="415" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; For a couple of days, I have been avoiding sad sad songs. I had this silly way about music. The only time I listen to sad songs is when I'm happy. That way, i won't be very sad. But occasionally, when I'm hurt, I listen to sad songs to release all my pains and tears, then later I can get back to my normal ways of living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always enjoy the comforting and assuring words of Christian music. The praise and worship songs I play every morning gives me strength. The love songs? I stay away from them when my heart is broken. I listen when I want to feel all my disappoints and release all my pains and regrets, but after that, when I gather all my strengths and my senses, I  try my best to move on. Now, I'm just enjoying the music of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let nature takes its course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em  style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Que Sera, Sera,&lt;br /&gt;Whatever will be, will be.&lt;br /&gt;The future's not ours, to see.&lt;br /&gt;Que Sera, Sera"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: courier new; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3380379964330489644?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3380379964330489644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/enjoying-music.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3380379964330489644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3380379964330489644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/enjoying-music.html' title='Enjoying Music'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-6004214700994090722</id><published>2008-12-18T08:07:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T08:31:02.852-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web Hosting'/><title type='text'>Great Web Hosting Service</title><content type='html'>Are you looking for a great &lt;a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/"&gt;web hosting&lt;/a&gt; service? There are many web hosting companies available online but before picking one for your website, you should know the best and the worst in the industry today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is important to know the web host reliability, affordability, uptime, the different features offered and their technical support, in case you get into trouble and confusion, you have a great support from them. That is why, it would be best for you to do a little research and learn from their past and current user feedbacks as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an awesome webhosting research guide to help you choose the right web host for your website. Your questions about web hosts will surely be answered at webhostinggeeks.com. They have listed the Top 10 Web Hosting- The Best Web Hosts in 2008. where you can see the independent reviews of the best web hosting providers. It's great because in one table, you will see the comparisions and ratings according to the web host' feautures, bonus features, hosting reviews, user-friendliness, hosting awards and more important areas to consider. You will also learn more about website hosting from their many helpful articles. Webhostinggeeks.com definitely makes your decision making easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://tinyurl.com/4wwk7x" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-6004214700994090722?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/6004214700994090722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-web-hosting-service.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6004214700994090722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/6004214700994090722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/great-web-hosting-service.html' title='Great Web Hosting Service'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4726436889069382834</id><published>2008-12-15T09:07:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T09:25:57.106-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Attacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='President George Bush'/><title type='text'>Shoe Attacks at President George Bush</title><content type='html'>I was surprised when I saw this video on the news. An Iraqi Journalist threw shoes at &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(but missed)&lt;/span&gt; President George W. Bush during a news conference, on a farewell Baghdad visit. The man standing beside the US President is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes one after the other, was arrested and is being interrogated. The US President was not hurt. I'm just wondering, what if it the shoes thrown were a woman's pointed high heels  and hit President Bush? Those can be a deadly weapon you know?  I admired President Bush impressive reflexes and good instinctive response. He dodge it both times. It's good to see President Bush in his supremely self-composed and dignified reaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraqi Journalist Threw Shoes at President Bush Video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OM3Z_Kskl_U&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OM3Z_Kskl_U&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4726436889069382834?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4726436889069382834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-attact-at-president-george-bush.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4726436889069382834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4726436889069382834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoe-attact-at-president-george-bush.html' title='Shoe Attacks at President George Bush'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-232380169206333413</id><published>2008-12-15T01:11:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T01:45:27.914-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miss World 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kseniya Sukhinova'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty pagents'/><title type='text'>Miss World 2008 Winner</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SUX5ZMP6EdI/AAAAAAAAC4A/PlidMJi3s-U/s1600-h/kseniya_sukhinova.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 425px; height: 533px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SUX5ZMP6EdI/AAAAAAAAC4A/PlidMJi3s-U/s320/kseniya_sukhinova.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279900349341766098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Kseniya Sukhinova &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Miss Russia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Miss World 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beauties from 109 countries fought for the Miss World 2008 title last Saturday, December 13, 2008 held at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. The winner of the recently concluded 58th Miss World beauty pageant is the blue-eyed and blonde beauty, 21-year old , &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Miss Russia&lt;/span&gt; Kseniya Sukhinova. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Miss India&lt;/span&gt; Parvathy Omanakuttan won as the 1st Runner up and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Miss Trinidad &amp;amp; Tobago&lt;/span&gt; Gabrielle Walcott was crowned as the 2nd Runner up. If you're interested to watch the videos of Miss World 2008, you can check out &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MissWorldYear2008" target="_blank"&gt;MissWorldYear2008&lt;/a&gt; Youtube's channel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-232380169206333413?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/232380169206333413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/miss-world-2008-winner.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/232380169206333413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/232380169206333413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/miss-world-2008-winner.html' title='Miss World 2008 Winner'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SUX5ZMP6EdI/AAAAAAAAC4A/PlidMJi3s-U/s72-c/kseniya_sukhinova.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4028695496645279829</id><published>2008-12-14T23:51:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T00:27:02.239-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oscar De la Hoya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Manny Pacquaio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boxing'/><title type='text'>Videos of Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Boxing</title><content type='html'>Here are the video clips of the much talked boxing fight between Mexican-American boxing legend, Oscar De la Hoya and the best pound by pound boxer, Manny Pacquaio. The said dream match was held last December 6, 2008 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. If you're a big boxing fan, you probably have heard or known that the Filipino boxing champ, Manny Pacquaio won over boxing 'Golden Boy' Oscar De La Hoya. Incase you missed the said fight, you can watch the action below. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Enjoy watching tito Paul)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GqxSCQX_uY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GqxSCQX_uY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TiAtXU954PA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TiAtXU954PA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5bzsff916DM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5bzsff916DM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FGKO4dHUXms&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FGKO4dHUXms&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/agURbgKz--w&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/agURbgKz--w&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcjVRfPExjo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HcjVRfPExjo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 7&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/skK6jIeEPGg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/skK6jIeEPGg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Part 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ff8SR8k6fZA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ff8SR8k6fZA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, the luster is off over the former champ, Oscar De la Hoya. He has regressed but like what Manny Pacquiao told him, he is still my idol. He will always be one of my favorite boxers. I'm just wondering what's his next career move. Is retirement next?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4028695496645279829?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4028695496645279829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/videos-of-oscar-de-la-hoya-vs-manny.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4028695496645279829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4028695496645279829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/videos-of-oscar-de-la-hoya-vs-manny.html' title='Videos of Oscar De la Hoya vs. Manny Pacquaio Boxing'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-8976363733033599476</id><published>2008-12-14T22:09:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T23:11:11.567-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Moving On</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/681/681183cpqt9icqw8.gif" width="150" border="0" height="261" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; My life has been in a roller coaster ride past few weeks. I don't know any other way to describe my mood swings and emotions. My heart was broken, my tempers flared and my mind got messy &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(hey i'm just human like you). &lt;/span&gt;I never been hurt like I did past few days but after a couple of awkward and emotionally draining conversation with the person I had problem with, we got it settled. It was just a difficult misunderstanding.  It's not all fix yet &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(the pains don't just go away that easy you know) &lt;/span&gt;but it's way much better than how it was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am thankful for the gift of friendship that the good Lord has given me. God truly send angels to Earth to help people in troubles and they are our friends. Friends are awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From my recent experience, I learned that self pity is the most toxic and the most paralyzing emotion. Everything in my world was frozen but I learned that we should not let ourselves wallow in pain and self pity. Concentrating on how bad the situation is, or how painful the problem is, won't help ease the pain. Spending time with good friends, sharing good and positive views, reading the Bible and other self help books would help us snap out of our sad emotions and helps ease whatever pain we're feeling. Life is never easy, but we can always come through any problems. We just need to keep focused on the truth, pamper ourselves more, stay beautiful inside and out, give it up to God and we will do just fine. We'll learn and grow. Aside from that, we get stronger every time we get bruised, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;is it not?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-8976363733033599476?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/8976363733033599476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/moving-on.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8976363733033599476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/8976363733033599476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/12/moving-on.html' title='Moving On'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-7831795680262735048</id><published>2008-11-29T14:36:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T14:58:05.710-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ultimate Hunter's Package Deal</title><content type='html'>I found a great great deal for all hunters out there.  Nikon has an unbelievable Black Friday Ultimate Hunter's Package Deal where you can save big on Riflescope, Rangefinder, and more hunting gears and accessories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://tinyurl.com/5wqece" /&gt; This is the &lt;a href="http://www.nikonhunting.com/black-friday-promotion.html"&gt;Nikon Ultimate Hunter's Package Promo&lt;/a&gt; for everyone. Take advantage of the great savings.  This would is perfect for you and your love ones, a perfect gift for this coming Christmas too. The Ultimate Hunter's Package contains: ProStaff 3-9x40 Riflescope with BDC Reticle, ProStaff Laser Rangefinder, Silent Technology Rangefinder Case, a cool Mastering a Long-range shot with BDC DVD and you will get a $50 Gift Card. How cool is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these come together in a great package, saving $144.90 on high quality hunting equipment.&lt;br /&gt;In addition, if you’re looking for a high-quality, rugged binoculars, Nikon Sport Optics has got something for you – for a limited time only, get an extra $20 off on Nikon Action Extreme ATB 10x50 Binoculars!&lt;br /&gt;But that’s not all – just for the Black Friday Promotion, Nikon and NikonProGear.com are expanding the Gift Card Promotion ($25 and $50 value) to include all of the following products – Nikon Monarch Binoculars, Trailblazer Binoculars, Nikon Action 10x50 Binoculars and ANY Nikon ATB Binoculars. Plus you can get special holiday prices on ProStaff Riflescopes, Nikon Monarch Rifle Scopes, Buckmasters and Omega Riflescopes!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-7831795680262735048?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/7831795680262735048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/ultimate-hunters-package-deal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7831795680262735048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/7831795680262735048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/ultimate-hunters-package-deal.html' title='Ultimate Hunter&apos;s Package Deal'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-5457149671953915667</id><published>2008-11-29T05:10:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T05:31:50.361-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Edna Parker'/><title type='text'>World's Oldest Person Dies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Life Journey&lt;/a&gt; says goodbye to Edna Parker who was holding the world title as the world's oldest person more than a year ago, following the death of Japan's Yone Minagawa on August 13, 2007. Edna Parker was 115 years-old. She died  at a nursing home in Indiana, a day before the 2008 US Thanksgiving day celebration, November 26, 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch the World's Oldest Person Dies in Indiana Video (below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pmchBaxhNj4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pmchBaxhNj4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-5457149671953915667?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/5457149671953915667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/worlds-oldest-person-dies.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5457149671953915667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/5457149671953915667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/worlds-oldest-person-dies.html' title='World&apos;s Oldest Person Dies'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-4721153697855359429</id><published>2008-11-27T09:54:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T10:06:40.871-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starwitless.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 352px; height: 344px;" src="http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1609/1609770mz3z9fqffz.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to greet everyone. May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with special treats and many happy memories. It's an awesome time for  wonderful sharing and spreading happiness to everyone. Relax and enjoy the day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-4721153697855359429?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/4721153697855359429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-thanksgiving.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4721153697855359429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/4721153697855359429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-thanksgiving.html' title='Happy Thanksgiving'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34590340.post-3219500696159712278</id><published>2008-11-08T21:18:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T19:16:19.973-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Gift of Happiness</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;I am thankful for this gifts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZI4w5kKQI/AAAAAAAACwg/useYc90AvFo/s1600-h/bricks+038.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZI4w5kKQI/AAAAAAAACwg/useYc90AvFo/s320/bricks+038.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266476954292594946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZJu_5iedI/AAAAAAAACwo/VQRynS8Rg0s/s1600-h/bricks+039.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZJu_5iedI/AAAAAAAACwo/VQRynS8Rg0s/s320/bricks+039.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266477886031952338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZJvCur51I/AAAAAAAACww/2sDAOMcgTCM/s1600-h/bricks+040.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZJvCur51I/AAAAAAAACww/2sDAOMcgTCM/s320/bricks+040.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266477886791739218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;I enjoyed reading these tiny books.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34590340-3219500696159712278?l=ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/feeds/3219500696159712278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/gift-of-happiness.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3219500696159712278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34590340/posts/default/3219500696159712278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ripples-of-joy.blogspot.com/2008/11/gift-of-happiness.html' title='A Gift of Happiness'/><author><name>Vivian</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134471098117019888</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cry18SotXm0/TxhTXoPZK_I/AAAAAAAAD_4/FSqAodS-ysk/s220/10392455.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFs0qOReNzc/SRZI4w5kKQI/AAAAAAAACwg/useYc90AvFo/s72-c/bricks+038.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
