Better Care
Feb 8, 2008 Buzz, Daily Blurbs
My grand aunt currently lives in Clearlake, Californina, which is so many miles from here. She has been working as a caregiver, and she is more than 60 years old. She has been thinking of her retirement, but didn’t really want to go those “homes”, so I referred her to bettercaring.com, so that she can get better understanding of what her options are.
Bettercaring is an online search engine for people who wants to find the best care for themselves or their loved ones. The best thing is you can find someone near or in your area to give you the best care that you need. You can choose to stay at home and have someone come over, or you can also choose to move into care homes.
Their website also shares news and useful tips for anyone who wants to stay at home. The very basic tip they offered is the Top 10 things to bring to your care home.
- favorite cup
- favorite chair
- 3 sets of clothing
- glasses
- dentures
- favorite toiletries
- an open mind
- things they might use for a hobby
- address book
- an advance directive
I think the best tip is to have an open mind, because my aunt is somewhat reclusive, and if she’s going stay in a care home, she should be open to changes and she should be able to socialize herself among her peers, which is hard for her to do. I think Bettercaring is the best place to start planning her retirement.
Tags: Daily Blurbs, internet, Thoughts
Dropped It Like It’s Hot Not
Feb 7, 2008 Daily Blurbs, Stuff
Since the birth of Entrecard, a lot of people has been dropping in and out of my life blog. I thought that being a member gives me an opportunity to earn more readership among fellow bloggers all over the world, but, the truth is, most people just visit a website just to find that widget. Oh yeah, it created a big buzz and stirred out some lazy clickers to click and click until the left mouse button bore a hole on it!
According to my Drop rank I was a “Consistent, regular dropper”, when I started out as “Casual and relaxed”. Someone even invented a sitehopping website where each blog that loads has an entrecard widget on it…people can be very inventive. There were, of course, some advantages of having that widget or being a member of that network. I was able to have people link me to their sidebar via “entrecard credits”. The disadvantage that I saw is, a lot of people do not even read the contents of your blog. As soon as they’ve clicked “Drop Yours”, they continue on their way to dropping theirs on others.
So today, I am dropping it. I will no longer drop my card on theirs, neither can they drop theirs on mine. Goodbye Entrecard! The promise of real traffic did not come true for me.
Tags: Daily Blurbs, internet, Thoughts
Home Improvement Part 3
Feb 2, 2008 Buzz, Daily Blurbs
I like watching home improvement shows, especially the one that does extreme makeovers. One of my favorite part of the house is the bathroom, because I like to take long baths, and I think that you can tell what kind of person lives in a house when you see how the bathroom looks like. My dad has been talking about getting another bathroom upstairs, and also he wants to move the dirty kitchen outside the house. He has talked to contractors on how much it will cost him for renovating parts of the house. His main focus are the kitchen and bath, since we all love cooking and taking long baths.
I went online to check on the different plumbing designs. My mom wanted something modern yet efficient, and I want something stylish, like I said, you can tell what kind of people lives in the house by how the bathroom looks like. Anyway, I found designerplumbingoutlet.com and they offer a variety of plumbing fixtures. The moen showhouse collection showcases a lot of modern designs. I like the divine collection. I also checked out devonshire faucets and those fixtures would really look great with our new bathroom. My dad likes the aberdeen faucets because the collection is very classy.
We’ll probably start the renovations by summer, maybe by April, so that there’s no chance for rain. We’re quite excited to do the renovations, and we’ll also repaint the living room, our dining room, and possibly, the bedrooms, too. Each member of the family will help with the repainting. We’ve already picked out the colors from the swatches I prepared and we have agreed on our choices as well. It will be a fun family activity laid out for 2 weeks of our summer. I am really looking forward to this, and of course, I will post pictures and maybe a video, too.
Tags: Daily Blurbs, home improvement, internet
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