For example, today, just ten minutes into the day, our Toshiba DKT2020SD phones decided to quit working.  An event like this would have been a lot more convenient on the weekend, but we are going to have to figure something out quickly - without our business phone system, we will be in big trouble.

So, I am in charge of calling around to see if I can find someone that will be able to supply us with new phones.  I haven’t had much luck so far, unless you count the company that was happy to sell us some new Nortel business phones - a brand that we have never had luck with.

Hopefully, our luck will change and I will be able to find some new phones for us - or this day will end up being a complete loss.

My wife and I decided that we wanted something special for our wedding to show everyone how much we meant to each other. This meant that we did our own wedding planning and decor and tried to stay away from such things as a store-bought aisle runner and cake.

After bit of searching online, we were able to find a company that created custom aisle runners for weddings. It took us some time to figure out exactly what we wanted written on our custom aisle runner, but in the end we came up with something that was just us.

After making it to the ceremony and into our married life, I’m very happy that we decided to have a unique wedding instead of some cookie-cutter one like everyone else.

In order to make sure that our site had legitimate reviews, I decided that it would make more sense for us to do the product reviews ourselves and share our own experiences with the products that we recommended. I felt that honesty was very important and when I told our visitors about the best coffee maker, I wanted to make sure that I would share what I truly believed.

For example, when we were trying to determine what which company made the best coffee makers, we needed to make sure that our recommendation not only made the best cup of coffee but it also had the best coffee pot (in terms of durability).

Even though this may sound like a lot of work, I really do love my job of trying new things out and sharing what I thought about them.

Okay, I don’t really know the answer to that thought, but I do know that today when I went out to the beauty school to see if I could get a hair cut, I expected it not to be good at all.

So, you might ask why I went over to the hair school to get a hair cut, but the answer was simple - I liked the price.  I guess I should admit here that I am cheap, but sometimes I have been burned because you get what you pay for.

But as it turned out, this was definitely more like a beauty academy than a school and I walked out of there with a stunning look - not what I was expecting at all.

When I found out that my dad was being transferred and we were going to be leaving Washington, I was more than a little bit upset. I did not want to leave my friends or my life behind. I considered staying  on my own, but my parents would not let me.

My dad got me some information on Oregon larp clubs and it helped a little bit. It took some getting used to, being the new guy, but eventually I found my place in the group and was comfortable enough to start opening up to them.

I decided to look into some stock photography companies for all of the sites that we are building and so far, the designs have been better than we could have imagined they would turn out. It is not too often that my husband and I are both pleased with the results, and so far, we both love how the sites are turning out.

I have been using a stock photo in all of the sites and I think, as long as we can keep the desired effect going, I will continue to do so. Now, if I can just convince him to pay me for my hard work, we will all be happy!

But it was quickly apparent that I forgot some things in my excitement.  You see, I wanted to mount the television on the wall, but I didn’t buy a wall mount.  So, my five year old put his hands all over the television and just about wrecked it.

I went back to the store where I picked up my wall mount and asked the sales clerk if I needed anything else.  He asked me if I had ever considered any type of TV screen protection for my new television.

"What’s that?"

He explained to me that if I was to buy a TV screen protector, it would protect the screen from damage, and from my children touching it.  I left the store with one and it has been the smartest purchase that I have ever made.

Lately, I have heard a lot of people talking about SpyHunter.  Whether it is in a forum or on a chat room, it seems that everyone has been talking about it - which meant that I needed to check it out.

I decided to do a quick search for a good SpyHunter review to get the real story behind the software.  I took the time to look at many sites and blogs and I was able to find that most people had very good success with the software.  In fact, according to what I read, it seems like it is one of the better paid spyware removal software options.

So, I have  bought a copy, and I will get back to you when I have used it for awhile, but so far the experience has been great.

So, I have been doing some research into webmaster tools that would not only make my life easier, but be able to scale with the growth of my business.  This was a very important requirement for me as I hope to have about a dozen sites by the end of the year.

I was able to find a program called Atomic Watch that monitors website uptime and some reciprocal link management software to help me manage my marketing.

Hopefully, I will get to the point where I can afford to hire someone to take care of all the website management that I need - but that will have to wait until I have the budget to do so.

I quickly realized that trying to find any accounting jobs overseas would have been tough twenty years ago, before the Internet became popular.  Thankfully that is no longer the case, and the Internet can be used as an effective job search tool.

For me, the Internet proved to be a godsend, and I able to find a job easily.  I am just very thankful that such a great resource was available for me, and I recommend that all my friends do all their job searching online.