The Power Of The Mini-Conglomerate

Most business owners detest marketing and do just about everything better than acquiring new customers ... carpet cleaners, for example, to consider also being in the air duct cleaning, ceiling tile cleaning, mini-blind cleaning, mobile auto detailing, pest control, dry cleaning pick-up and delivery [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 07:27:10

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Don’t Let Fire and Water Damage Take Control of Your Life

When fire and water take control of your life, SERVPRO will help you take it back - Like it never even happened ... cleaning carpets, upholstery, air ducts, drapes, walls, ceilings, and biohazard situations ... Cleaning Mold Removal and Remediation Sanitizing Services Document Restoration Commercial Disaster Clean [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 18:47:27

Helping to Clean House

Traditionally, Chinese families will clean up their entire house in the days before Chinese New Year. We had cleaned up our house last Sunday. We started cleaning about 10am and finished it at 5pm. I tried my best to help my family ... old newspapers that used for covering furniture while cleaning ceiling and wall. I would walk or crawl [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:45:00

Perseverance

I’m having a housekeeping moment: I just climbed up on the dining room table and cleaned the ceiling fan! ... t believe in dusting.  But usually my housework time is taken up with vital human services like wiping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:18:39

Ramada - Mobile Home

Ramada - Mobile Home For More Info : Ramada - Mobile HomeDaytona Beach, ... Florida room, Retreat Area - screen room, Range / Stove - Frigidaire Glass top, Self cleaning oven ... - Whirlpool 2007, Dryer – Norge, Ceiling Fans - ( 5 ), Flooring - Berber Carpet & Vinyl Tile Security [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 22:06:00

Here it is - Bailey's New Friend

Many of you know, we homeschool our kids. Well, I should say that I facilitate school and the kids do it on their computer ... UP! I was somewhat calm, breathing a littl labored, my palms were sweaty, I'd much rather be cleaning up poop ... , the K's jump to the ceiling, I scream and have a panic attack!!He makes another mad dash [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:50:00

'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List' recap: Living la vida Oprah!

Last week, PopWatch message-board MVP Mr ... at the middle school. All I can say is yikes! Tiles hanging precariously from the ceiling, shattered windows ... two more days of cleaning, Costco-ing, and computer [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 17:11:38

Fun and Funky Valentines Superstore

Valentine’s Day Superstore at Buy.com! You gotta love a website that has everything from toilet cleaning supplies to toilet water– ... now and buy coffee filters, ceiling paint, a ball gown and platinum earrings and all in just a few minutes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 02:29:38

Home Improvement 101… Part 3 Choosing the right paint finish

A fresh paint of coat is one of the least expensive home improvements you can make that has the biggest impact to your home ... of shine or gloss, it’s good for walls and holds up better with cleaning than flat or matte finish ... used for windows, doors, trim, or ceilings, but can also be used as wall paint. This is particularly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:23:54

Not Me Monday!

Good Morning all my chilly blogger friends!! Hope everyone had a great weekend and stayed warm ... . No, I did not see stars and think to myself did the ceiling fan just fall or something... That boy ... of his. As I was cleaning up Brea's room and moving things around I did not find two pairs of soiled panties in her toy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:29:00

FEMA Assisting in Repairs for Indiana Hospital

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released $6 ... and on the first floor. The work was primarily the removal of debris, and to dry, dehumidify and clean ... of the hospital's medical and lab equipment was filled floor to ceiling with contaminated water, mud and silt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:40:00

Sunday miscellany open thread - plus a bizarre news story

I'd love to say that I spent the weekend doing something fun, but alas, Kate and I spent most of the time cleaning the house and running errands, etc. Did a massive dusting project (even the ceiling fans, argh), vacuuming, Swiffering, putting away ... , eh? If only our canines Chloe and Casey could be put on cleaning detail... Anyway, thanks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 23:44:19

Left on the shelf...

No I'm not talking about me! I'm talking about stunning crystal lights by Phillipe Starck ... from your ceiling... Ylighting_2019_288582358 Morecicatricesdeluxe801 ... $5412' Should you have the money and a good cleaning lady, you can see them in more detail [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 09:42:37

Early Saturday

<--- That's about what I look like so early this Saturday morning. To me it's still Friday night, though, because I haven't been to bed yet ... all bent if he didn't compliment me on cleaning the house or doing laundry, etc. I realized how silly ... at that. Except on ceiling mopping day. (That was a joke. Sheesh.) On that day I realized I don't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 08:37:43

The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

It's a question that is becoming more and more frequent in my mind: should I study three extra hours or get a good night's sleep? ... rested and wholesome), I know it's definitely not 6:30am. I keep my eyes up at the ceiling praying ... closes, get a work out at the gym, do some much needed apartment cleaning and then go to bed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:28:00

tuesday, wednesday.

(still a week behind. confused yet? yeah…me too). ***tuesday*** what do you do when your baby is too busy smiling to eat? seriously ... legs sticking out of my ceiling. i held my breath as i entered the house, prepared fir the worst ... job of cleaning up the plaster in my closet. i just wanted them out of the house before [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:26:34

oh joy...

this is how it looked after 3 days of unpacking. ridiculous! its getting better though. after today i think we will be through the bulk of it ... in the center of the dining room8. how the blinds to the window at the top of our 20 ft ceiling ... us of what we are expected to do when we move includes the most extensive cleaning list i've ever seen [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:11:00

Stretching the Family Dollar

This year will be remembered as a wipeout for the lion’s share of the equity market ... in consumer staples, including food and cleaning products, although it does sell economically sensitive ... to believe the stock may be hitting a ceiling, for now. Buckingham Research analysts note that investors [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 17:11:38

Stretching the Family Dollar

This year will be remembered as a wipeout for the lion’s share of the equity market ... in consumer staples, including food and cleaning products, although it does sell economically sensitive ... to believe the stock may be hitting a ceiling, for now. Buckingham Research analysts note that investors [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:13:56

Yet you can't stop

You work for ten years on one idea. You revise, restructure, rewrite ... interacting with your children, cleaning closets or handing out blankets to homeless people ... of your neighborhood bookstore, with its high ceiling and charming kids' corner. Or if you'll shake your head [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:25:00

Saturday Morning Musings

I got my DTV coupons in the mail and headed over to Amazon and what do you know, most of them are sold out. Figures ... discovered the joy of reversible ceiling fans last night. I installed the fans a while ago to assist ... getting around to — cleaning the fan blades the other day and saw the switch and figured “what the hell [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:20:58

Housekeeping Day!!!

I woke up early this morning and I had hard time going back to sleep so I decided to clean instead and do some laundry ... to put in the washer and dry the first load, I had to start the cleaning job. I started vacuuming ... , upholstery, draperies and every other place in our house from floor to ceiling. It has 30’ hose [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 20:36:00

Well it looked good for a moment….

Today was MESSY!! Wallpaper is mostly down, plaster is down, sawdust is on everything! Yipee! Jess and I were back at the house today - taking down hardware and cleaning out the garage while Juan and his gang got right to work this morning and brought down both bedroom ceilings - plaster [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:51:33

Quiet City

The apartment is solely illuminated by the blue-black flicker of a television set airing football against the white walls. I am just waking up ... productivity. I look up to the ceiling. In the television's dull bleeps I make out a dust web in the corner and think to myself that cleaning my room is at least something. But, that's not going to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:15:00

Baffling Yourself With BS Statistics

I have to laugh at one of the liberal polling experts on the left, someone over at a blog called Fivethirtyeight ... of all four candidates, and we have a woman ready to shatter the glass ceiling in the White House ... are running from the fringes and trying to find any broom or fire house they can to begin cleaning out the DC [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 12:34:50

An Angels' Blood, A Dead Man's Hand, & A Twilight Hero's Abs

AUTHORS & BOOKSRead my interview with author Justin Gustainis and enter the contest for a copy of his new novel, Evil Ways ... on my bed, staring at the ceiling, listening, thinking, 'This is brutal, this is dangerous ... . "I hated the smell of this place: concrete and institutional. Antiseptic. But all the cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 00:49:00

Cold Weather

It has been one cold week here and across the country ... our ceiling fan in the winter to help spread the heat around. Just set it to turn the opposite direction. In fact, ours needs cleaning before we use it again. We want to spread heat, not dust! Our floors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 13:38:02

Speed

From one of my early e-mails to El Engineer in Australia. (Please note the date and excuse the Geordie greeting – I had just begun educating him) ... in the job. Decorating, window-cleaning, security guard (cash in transit), selling cracked china ... salesman.Which leads me nicely into ‘Christopher Chataway’. I actually joined the Fire Service [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:01:00

THE WORLD today!

———————————————————————————1. Barack Obama wins Presidential Election and becomes the 44th President of the United States starting January 20 - Hope ... on Americans to help the needed, to contribute to their communities and to take part in public service ... Summers to head his Economic Council and Peter R. Orszog as Director of the Office of Management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:23:08

Michelle Obama Democratic National Convention Speech (Video, Text)

As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig.I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I’ve felt his presence in every grace-filled moment of my life [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 23:50:00

The War on Bed Bugs in NYC

[Editor's Note: Every so often somebody writes something so interesting on our super-secret internal email list that we feel obliged to share it. This time it was a rant on the return of bed bugs of all things. Since Angry Military Man is too busy to post this himself, the duty has fallen to your hombre-in-chief Angry New Mexican [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:03:36

Never Enough Time

Since I’m a stay-at-home mom, I have all day to clean and cook and take care of small home repairs, pay bills, do laundry, and create decorative centerpieces out of pipe cleaners, pinecones and spray paint.So why is it when 10:00 PM arrives, I look around at the house, the dishes piled in the sink, the stack of paperwork awaiting my attention, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 05:05:00

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida

The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:24:17

Editorial: Remember murky coffee?

Remember last summer's murky coffee brouhaha?  I just came across the following comment, which, in my opinion, ... up his ass and will eventually run himself out of business. There just aren't enough customers in the world for a business person to allow his staff to be condescending to any of them. Customers too often make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 02:32:30

Ommmmmmmm... breath...... Ommmmmm

The noise is getting to me. My head is buzzing from this constant humming. It is like when you stay in a hotel and the wall a/c unit is just blowing. ... and realized that if the washing machine was going to be moved on Monday, I had better do ALL of the laundry ... outlets and covers and get the ceiling fan changed out! The carpet goes in tomorrow and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:35:00

On Frequency (and the inability to shut up, apparently)

In hindsight, it’s been pretty obvious that I was a little bipolar for nearly two decades. I’ve really only been aware of the shifting tides, and later on, their nearly complete predictability, for the past seven or so years, though. Around 19, I decided that enough was enough, I was tired of alternating between hating myself and the world, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:11:32

Untitled

*I thought Lost was new so I posted a picture and explained why I wasn't posting anything else ... meticulously cleaning its firing mechanism. The other stares vacantly out the distant window with arms crossed. The coat of his pinstriped business suit is hung over the back of his chair, specks of blood pepper [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 08:26:00

status update

okay! It’s been a full 36 hours since we “officially” got the house and a lot has happened.  We showed up at noon yesterday and the house was empty- of people.  There was some furniture and a bunch of stuff left behind - but nothing too terrible.  Our amazing Realtor was there and helped up drag out a lot of the junk and pull all the furniture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:28:13

It’s not the poor the middle class should fear

The villains of today are not the radical union bosses of old, but Sir Fred Goodwin and his kind The Observer, ... at the Financial Services Authority who did not and, if their lifting of the ban on short selling is any ... with an unlimited liability for the cost of cleaning up the mess. That we are living through chaos unleashed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:57:08

Another Question Answered

A Fan in Germany asked: You have written a ton of posts. Do you have a favorite? Mine is the one you did on marriage. Well, dear reader, now that you've offered Mrs. G. one more opportunity to talk about herself asked, yes Mrs. G. does have a favorite post. It's the one below which was originally posted last October under the title Things Mrs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 00:02:00

Tuck and Run

"No, I need a bigger wedge please."The nice dental hygienist dentist helper lady nodded and disappeared from my limited field of vision ... I was here I found a crack in the ceiling that looked like Bart Simpson. I let my eyes roam the ceiling to see if I could spot it again..."I'm going to need a bigger wedge. Give me the really big [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:38:00

last week.

monday arrived which meant it was back to work and back to daycare. (bored yet?). monday night we met with some of our family members and a creep via skype to discuss newer and bigger ways to help families deal with everything the follows a moment like we had on march 25th. good things will come from this [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 00:16:13

On The Move Take 1

Well, if I have said it once I have said it a million times, we think we want to move this spring. Spring is quickly approaching ( ... another challence to an already overwhelming challenge! 2. Deep clean. After I get the entire house ... trying really hard to not keep things clean. 3. Have 2 agents come out and look at the house. Why [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:27:09

welcome friends...

come right in... Just a little taste of what I did today....time to start enjoying fall! ... an hour or two into my schedule to get back to doing this...my mother-in-law has some of the most ... and I to work, cleaning, mowing, gardening, cleaning the garage....and I still remember the feeling [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 21:06:15

Energy Efficient Homes – Fixing house components

Creating an energy efficient home is essential nowadays in view of the escalating cost of fossil fuel ... . Clean or replace your furnace or air-conditioning filter monthly, or as recommended by your model ... be making the air feel cold. When shopping for new appliances, from ceiling fans to dishwasher to furnace [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 07:04:48

To discuss an oral exam, and that's not a sexual reference

The last time I was at a dentist, he ripped four wisdom teeth out of my mouth, two days before Christmas.The time before that, it was to take off braces after three painful years during high school.The time before that, I had 11 baby teeth removed. As a ninth grader. I would have made a great prison bitch for an inmate out there [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:23:00

Will’s finally here and we’re getting lots done

Will finally got here Saturday after several plane problems. I thought he’d “take a day off,” but he was rarin’ to get started on the addition ... bathed for 15-20 minutes. Several of the jars have mold on top of the strawberries. Some jars have no mold and we have enjoyed them on french toast, etc. with no problems. Can you tell me what went wrong [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:20:54

Предсказания Кюнстлера на 2009 - США, Нефть, Геополитика, Путин

Спонсор месяца - #1 RX pharmacy affiliate program!Сайт дня (как попасть) - http://www.business-magazine.ru/There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 07:59:00

Curbly Recession Busters: 6 (Cheap) Bathroom Quick Fixes

In this economic climate a remodel might be out of the question (even if fresh tiles a la ModHomeEc aren't) ... . Because shiny is better. Diy Maven has great tips for cleaning on the cheap. Fix - Don't let chips ... about the world if you do. De-funk - Grotty grout is horrible. Give it a lick of bleach [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 22:21:32

Quiet City

The apartment is solely illuminated by the blue-black flicker of a television set airing football against the white walls. I am just waking up ... reflecting off his eyes. I need to get out. Our apartment is so dark. So cold. Everything is cold and dark and the walls of our tiny apartment are finite and looming. There must be errands to run [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:39:57

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