The Brown Mestizo

For someone who’d like to start a blog and document his day-to-day activities and rants, you can start up a free online journal or “blog” as it is commonly called, and start writing. You can keep your blog free as long as you want without fear of losing whatever you put in there for years. The only problem is that, your website address will be under a subdomain and you will share your IP address with tons of bloggers around the globe. This is where webhosting comes into the scene.

While it sounds interesting, it’s quite confusing, too. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I’m starting to understand all this as well. For WordPress users, a start up blogger would see his website addy as www.yourblog.wordpress.com. This means that your website is on a subdomain. Then soon enough, you would want a personal domain instead. If you’ve been blogging for quite a while you’ll realize how important easily-recognizable website address is. Due to the availability of Internet access around the globe, people will easily find you if your website can be easily accessed without a lot of words on the address bar. Web hosting providers does not and they can give you the kind of personality you would want to have on the Internet; content follows.

There are tons of web hosting providers on the Internet but choose the one that are trusted by many website owners. Read comparison sites and make sure that its well tested by many web developers in the business. Ask your friends, officemates or workers who own a site to get information. You’ll surely get valuable feedback from these people. If you still didn’t get any, contact me, I’ll give you a phone number to call! LOL.

Finding the perfect gift for your partner can be a hard thing to do. I’m a type of guy who find it really hard to shop and look for the best gift for someone. The truth is, I suck at gift-giving! (well not the thing you’re thinking!). You see, V-day is fast approaching and I still haven’t figured out the perfect Valentine’s Gifts for my partner. This is probably one reason why my previous one dumped me! LOL! Well, I’ll do my best this time! It’s so sad to be alone, you know!

Well, remember the days when Internet shopping isn’t that popular? I used to go to a small mall in our city and spend 5 to 6 hours just to find that perfect gift for a single person. Now, the Internet is one big mall you can rely on. With one click of a mouse, you can find the best V-Day Gift for your partner that he/she will surely love! There are thousand gift ideas to choose from and you will never run out of choices to choose from. The possibilities are endless. Hopefully, I won’t get another magazine which I got last year! How ungrateful!

I’ts still two weeks before Valentine’s Day but let me be the first person to greet you Happy Valentine’s Day!

I have a few “healthy” friends who had been talking much about the current weight loss fad a week ago. I know these friends of mine have absolutely tried all the weight loss pill diet in the world and have absolutely not gotten the result they wanted. I brought bariatric surgery in the discussion but only one of them is willing to try it. I asked why, and their response was, “it’s invasive.” Who cares its invasive! Achieving that perfect curvature is all that matters nowadays,” I exclaimed. They winced on me although they know that the latter comment was a joke.

I know that this type of weight-loss surgery has become a very popular option for people who needs deliberate weight-management program to reduce the possibility of complications brought about by being pathologically overweight. In fact, the US government even recommends bariatric surgery whose body mass index or BMI is 40 or above and those with specific medical conditions as in the case of patients with diabetes.

Following bariatric surgery, a post bariatric surgery diet is needed to support healing and continued adequate and healthy nutrition for patients. I’m sure doctors will provide patients with a meal guide that should be strictly followed to make the procedure as successful as possible. Has anyone of you here thought of undergoing such procedure just to lose weight?

When I was in Manila last week to buy some stuff for my small quilting business, I had to talk to a bunch of people offering me much lower prices for stuff I needed for my business. They know that I buy in bulk so this potentially gives them something that is 10 times more than their average daily quota on their earnings. I do not intend to buy everything I need that day so I told them that I’ll only do some research and buy tomorrow instead. With that, I now have to amass calling cards which can no longer fit my wallet.

To improve your business, you have to have a calling card. These cards could help you improve your visibility in your target market. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to produce a decent card. There are cheap business cards online and you can choose a template that is fit for your business and personality and enter the information you’d like people to see on the card; that simple. I myself don’t attempt to do it alone in my computer because of I’m not that tech savvy. It will take forever before I create a very simple business card for myself so I’m leaving it all up to the available templates online as it saves me time, money and energy by doing it that way.

If there’s someone who could best represent obsessive-compulsive behavior; that would be me. I make sure that everything is in the right place at the house and I often go back checking the same stuff over and over again. Just recently, I purchased a couple of awnings for our windows to cover the amount of sunlight passing through it.

I learned from a lifestyle program on TV that excessive sunlight could cause the floor to lose its luster especially if your floor is made of wood. I was supposed to only buy two for the windows in the living room but I ended up buying seven! My partner asked me, “what will you ever do with all of these awnings?” , I said, “honey, they’re on sale!”

So far I only used around three of these and will figure out where and when to use the rest. It never occurred to me that installing awnings are tiring. I think I need to call a professional carpenter to work on this instead.

Just last month, I bought a vacuum cleaner so that we could easily remove all the dirt that had accumulated in the carpet and curtains. However, while we got one problem fixed, I think we are faced with one more important problem – fleas elimination.

I have both cats and dogs at home and this makes makes flea a problem for the entire people at the house. I just started to learn that we are infested by fleas when people started itching and showing up red rashes on their skin. I began reading informational site about how to control fleas and it has taught me a lot of things about getting rid of them and preventing them from infesting the house. I’m wary about using a lot of chemicals although I have identified some that are safe for both humans and animals. Reading really helps a lot.

While vacuum helped a lot, I think I still need to fumigate or apply insecticides to all corners of the house to reduce insect infestation. Health is wealth and I cannot bargain high electricity bill (due to vacuuming) with my family’ health.