Our Money Pit

Content by Mac Kline

We just bought our first house, so we are learning as we go along. We didn’t think it would be this hard to get everything together. We thought we would move in and everything would go smoothly, but we were wrong. The first week we were in our house there was a big rain storm, and we realized the roof needed patching. Then, our master bathroom clogged up and the plumber said we needed to make major repairs. I am angry about it, but I feel like it is my fault since I didn’t catch all of these defects. I’m glad they have good DIRECT TV in West Valley City because that is the only thing that is keeping me sane. After a long day of dealing with contractors, roofers, and plumbers I sit down to watch some TV and decompress with a nice glass of wine. I hope that after we make these repairs my husband and I can start to enjoy this house, and it will all be worth it.

Only a Matter of Time

Written by my friend Betty Walls

There are several sitcoms that I love to watch including Modern Family, The Office and Up All Night. Unfortunately, they were all coming on at 8 or 8.30; too early for me to watch uninterrupted now that the kids go to bed at 9. With my phoenix direct tv dvr, though, I can now record my shows and watch them when I want. Another perk to this is I can fast forward through the commercials. 30 minute shows can now be watched in 25 minutes or less! With the time I’m saving and being able to watch whenever I want I have set my dvr to several other shows I’ve wanted to watch but haven’t been able to catch. My dvr is quickly filling up though so I need to get caught up. Fortunately the kids have not realized we have a dvr so for the moment it’s all mine. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before they figure it out and fill it up with their shows!

philly

Thanks to Jonathon Woods

We recently learned that my husband had gotten a new job that he applied for and that we were going to be moving to the City of Brotherly Love, Philly. I don’t know anything about the city, I actually had never been, only seen it on the movie with Tom Hanks. So we when found out, we went apartment hunting. We found a great quiet apartment close to his office and also close to all of the attractions. It is really an old and beautiful city. We are moving next week and I am getting everything lined up and finalized. I am going up early to meet the installers from direct tv Phila and also to meet with the painters and have the home painted to our taste before the movers show up next Saturday. My family is sad that we are leaving, but I really think that we are going to enjoy living there. Moving to a new city is always an adventure! This is certainly going to be one!

Mother

Thanks for the guest post by Jonathan Curtis

I spent last weekend with my family. It was the first time in several months that I’d been home, but I can say that nothing has changed. My parents still have the same routine on Friday nights. They come home from work, change clothes, and plant themselves on the couches in the family room for pretty much the remainder of the evening. These people watch anything and everything on their direc tv, and my mother always feels the need to fill me in on every minute detail of a show. Her favorites are what I (and most people) consider guilty pleasures. She loves all the reality shows (she definitely keeps up with the Kardashians) and is absolutely obsessed with anything related to The Girls Next Door or Chelsea Handler. When I was younger I found my mother’s interests strange and somewhat embarrassing. I remember thinking that my parent’s Friday night routine lacked vitality and vibrance. But now, after spending time in the working world myself, I am beginning to understand (and even appreciate) the simplicity these nights provide. They give me rest and feel like home.

Sketching away from boredom

Guest post written by Stella Mayer

My mom tells me that anytime she would take me out in public when I was a kid, whether it was the grocery store or sitting in a church service, she would always have a sketchpad for me to draw on and keep me occupied. I'm sure that fueled my imagination, which is still pretty active even now and I decided that I wanted to start drawing actively rather than just scribbles while I'm bored.

I kind of made that as a New Year's resolution to myself, so I went looking online to buy a special new sketchbook for myself. When I was doing that I ran across some information about satellite internet packages and after I did a little bit of reading, decided to CLICK HERE and sign up for one of them.

I found one that looks really nice and has tons of pages in it, which I think will serve as my sketchbook for a long time. I can't wait to fill up all those pages with my creations.

Satellite Directv

We’ve been using Satellite Directv for almost a year now and so far, I never had any problem with it. My husband and I are satisfied at their service and I couldn’t ask for more! Not only that I can watch my favorite Filipino programs but also I can choose the movie I want to watch at the local and international channels. Our friend recommend us different satellite provider but we refuse because we already get saved through DirectTV and we don’t have any reason to change our Direct TV Satellite. Why we make any changes if we already satisfied on what we have right now? How about you? Not happy with your satellite provider? How about transfer to Direct TV? If you are planning to change your satellite tv provider, you better get Direct TV. You can visit mytvoptions.com and get Direct TV for around $1 a day and save $26 a month! Its free for 3 months! So you better call now for their holiday special and get a free $100 Visa prepaid card!