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Wow… family memories… where do I start? Well before I get into some of the greatest and funniest family memories, I guess I should give you a brief history on my family. But don’t worry; I’ll just give you a brief history on my intermediate family.

It’s a family that revolves around my grandmother, Lorraine. She has lived in the same house for the past forty-seven years. This is the same house I was raised in when my mother and me had nowhere else to go. It’s also the same house that all four of my grandmother’s daughters have lived, as children and as adults, and the house that five out of six grandchildren have lived in.

At most, there have been five people crammed into the small, five-bedroom house. Not a big deal you think? Okay… well what about five people crammed into the small, five bedroom house that are trapped in there after three feet of snow (which is unusual for North Carolina) and no way of getting out (again this is North Carolina, NOT New York)? Kinda changes your thinking, huh? Yeah exactly… anything can and will happen…

Let’s see… my grandmother, my aunt, my cousin, Michelle, my mom, and I lived in the house the year that it snowed three feet. Everyone got along, no one was on anyone else’s nerve…YET. But after a few days of doing nothing but playing Scrabble, everyone got to the point to where they needed their space and preferred to be left alone.

I don’t remember where Michelle was when I did, but I sneaked into her room to play with some Barbie Collectibles that she had told me, repeatedly, not to play with. Give me a break, though, I was a little girl who loved Barbies. I was also a little girl that if you told me not to do something, I’d sneak around and do it anyways, especially when it came to Michelle’s stuff. Michelle had told mom numerous times, “Karen, tell Amanda to stop messing with my stuff. She’s going to break something.” I don’t know if mom didn’t think it was that big of a deal or what, but nothing was done to me; until finally, Michelle had had enough.

She had caught me red-handed playing with her Barbies, grabbed me by the arm and made me stand at the top of the stairs. She yelled for my mother who stood at the bottom of the stairs. “I keep telling you that tell Amanda to stop messing with my things, and you don’t do anything about it. You need to learn how to discipline your child.” Wrong thing to say to my mother! The obscenities started to fly, finger gestures started

Quite often I have heard people say, “STOP, living in the past, the past is the past, move on..”

Throughout my lifetime, (as I am 48 now), I have found that growing up has been the hardest thing for me to do. I have often told myself that there are people out there that have had it harder and are by far, been worse off than me. Indeed this is the truth. But at times I’ve got so caught up in my own story, and with not knowing at the time, what I know today, I have learnt to be thankful for my experiences, for this is who I am today, and one needs to learn to live only for this moment, for that is all we have, through our own journey of LIFE.

From my years of learning to grow up, I grew choosing not to want to do that. Coming from and living in a violent and abusive environment, my father was initially one of my biggest fears. Afraid that if he wasn’t happy with something or someone, I was the one who was going to pay for it. The constant put downs, of being told how useless I was and that I was ugly that no one would even look at me, and how I was good for nothing really took a toll on my life.

At the age of 12 years old I was rapidly changing into becoming a teenager, realising that I was not this ugly child, that I had this beautiful long hair and part Maori/European, becoming an attractive young woman, actually excited me. The boys at school were actually taking notice of what I was changing into. Apart of me was afraid of this, but, I guess my hormones were dictating something different. I was taken in by a young man 7 years my senior. He took time to want to know me, he thought I was attractive and lovely, he paid me the attention that I was so starving for, and he told me, after 3 months of sneaking around, that he was in love with me. He gave me great hugs and kisses, and showed me affection that I never knew existed or experienced before in my life. After a lengthy period of time we eventually slept together and I fell pregnant at my second year at college. This was absolutely awesome news for us; we thought it was going to be alright for us. What spiraled from there was an enraged father, a good beating and forbidden to see my friend and my new love of that time. He was sent out of the district, a decision made from the town’s elders. The separation was forced upon us. I was lost, felt betrayed, hurt and so full of sadness. I gave birth to a beautiful son, and his dad sneaked back into town to see me and his son, the threats

Are you interested in buying a used car from a used car auction? If you are and if this is your first time trying to do so, you may be interested in learning more about how the payment process works. If so, you will want to continue reading on.

Before examining how the payment process works at a used car auction, it is important that you know that not all used car auctions are the same. For starters, different auction houses and companies have different methods of operation. It may also depend on the type of auction that you attend. For instance, if you were to attend an auto auction, one where only used cars were being sold, you may have a little bit more flexibility, payment wise, than you would if you attending an auction where a number of products, including used cars, were being sold.

Despite the possibility of a variance, there are a number common ways that you can go about paying for a used car at an auction. One of those ways involves cash. Cash is a nice and easy way to pay for a used car at an auto auction. The only thing that you need to do is be sure that you have enough cash with you. That is why it may be a good idea to attend a sneak peek, if possible. Sneak peeks, which are also known as inspection sections, often take place online or in person at a set date and time. It is also important that you carefully handle your cash, especially if you plan to bring a large amount with you to a used car auction.

In addition to cash, credit cards are another common method of payment accepted at most used car auctions. What is nice about paying for a used car with a credit card is that you do not have to worry about carrying and possibly losing a large amount of cash. Credit cards are also nice as you receive a record or a confirmation for your purchase. Yes, a used car auction house or company should also give you all applicable documents, but sometimes it is nice just to have your on records. In addition to traditional credit cards, it may also be possible for you to use a debit card, as long as it is one that can be processed as a credit card.

Checks are another method of payment that is accepted at most used car auctions. Although checks are commonly accepted, it is not uncommon for restrictions to be attached with a check payment. For instance, there may be a limit on how much you can write a check for, like two thousand dollars or so. You may also find that it takes longer to receive your recently purchased vehicle. When it comes to large check amounts, many used car auction houses or companies hold off on the delivery or pickup of your vehicle until your check has cleared.

Depending on the auction house or company hosting the used car auction in question, you may also be able to receive used car financing. While being able to receiving used car financing is nice, especially if you are in desperate need of a new vehicle, it is a service that is not always offered. Therefore, if you need to rely on used car financing, it is important that you search for an auto auction that has used car financing options available. Of course, before agreeing to sign on any dotted lines, you will want to review the used car financing offered to you, including the term of that loan, as well as the interest rates.

As outlined above, you have a number of different options when it comes to buying a used car from a used car auction. By choosing to attend an auto auction hosted by a well-known auction house or company, like North Shore Auto Auction, you may gain access to as many as fifty used cars for sale.

How to add 2,000 steps to your day. While 2,000 extra steps a day may make you hesitate and shy away wait just a moment, lend me your ear and i will show you the easy peasy way to add roughly another mile your day. Only a mile, only a mile. Two thousand steps for the average person is only one tiny mile.

Do you have stairs in your home? Before starting out for work casually walk up and down your stairs a couple of times. Now that you have arrived at your work place, where i gather every worker is entitled to three breaks a day. Make those cherished breaks work for your mind and body. On your breaks walk briskly one block away from your work, turn around and walk back. Congratulations you have now walked six blocks. A mile walk is roughly ten blocks. A country mile is a little bit further. Are you surprised? Only four more blocks to go and you will have reached your goal of a mile.

I now surmise that your work day is done, but you still have four blocks to go. Grab a bottle of water and head out, walk around your own home block just once and lo and behold you have reached your goal of 2,000 steps. Pleased with your self? Well you should be, now for good measure walk around your block again. Wow i am impressed, you have exceeded expectations. Stick with this routine for three weeks. Now you have formed a good habit. You will be amazed at how much better you look and feel.

How to add 2,000 steps to your day. While 2,000 extra steps a day may sound like a formidable feat, one that may make you hesitate and shy away from the task, wait just a moment, lend me your ear and i shall tell you a very easy way to accomplish the feat of adding only one more mile to your day. Think about it. You can do this it’s only a mile, 2,000 steps for the average person is only one tiny little mile.

Well everyone is entitled to three breaks at work. One morning break. One lunch break and one afternoon break. Guess what i have planned for your breaks. Brisk steps is what i have planned, and yes you will learn to enjoy and even look forward to stepping. Time to make your work breaks work for you and your body.

A mile is roughly ten blocks. A lovely country mile is a little further. Break time has arrived, so place your sneakers on your feet and head out the door of your work place into the fresh air and briskly walk one block away from work turn around and walk briskly back. You have handled your morning break well. Repeat the one block walk and back scenario for your lunch and also for your afternoon break. Well done. You have accomplished six blocks out of the ten for the necessary mile or 2,000 steps.

Well the work day is done but you still have four blocks to walk to attain your goal of adding one beautiful walking mile to your day. Keep your sneakers on and walk around your block. You have now attained your goal. Congratulations. Stick with this routine of adding a mile to your day for three weeks. You will be amazed at how much better you look and feel just by adding an extra 2,000 steps to your day.

“What type of shoe to wear today?” is a question that we all think of every morning. There are hundreds of different types of shoes and it’s important to choose stylish, comfortable, flattering ones that make you feel great all day. Besides basic types of shoes like flats, boots, sneakers, sandals, wedges, stilettos, platforms, and flip flops there are also smaller subdivisions of these like pointed toe flats or athletic sneakers.

Flats look best with mini skirts, mini dresses, shorts, and jeans. Stilettos should be worn with dresses, knee length or longer skirts, dressy pants, and fitted jeans. Wedges look good with shorts, jeans, and mini skirts. Flat boots should be worn with mini skirts or jeans. Boots with heels look best with jeans, nice pants,and knee length skirts. Sneakers should be saved for jeans and sweatpants. Sandals and flip flops go with knee length and mini skirts, short dresses, shorts, and jeans.

The next thing to remember is how your shoes would fit where you are going. Sneakers should only be worn at a park or at the gym. Stilettos should be saved for dates, parties, and formal occasions. Boots should only be worn in fall and winter. Flats can be worn any time of year for almost any occasion. Sandals and flip flops should be saved for casual to semi casual outfits. Wear shoes that will be comfortable for where you are going and that you’ll be able to walk in. If you look ungraceful in stilettos or find them painful try wedges, platforms, or flats.

Finally, do the shoes flatter you body type, your outfit, and your feet? Combat boots make your feet look big and legs look heavy. The same can be said for a lot of types of sneakers. Avoid clunky heels at all costs. They’re hard to walk in, make you look ungraceful, and make your legs look thicker. Also avoid square toed shoes. They are horribly unflattering. Instead look for thinner heels, more delicate shoes, and pointed or oval toes. These will be the most flattering and stylish.

This is something we all want to know, to know if we’ve found the “right one.”

A lot of people go on gut feeling, following their heart and their emotions, yet while this works for some, others find their relationships just not working out with Mr Right. An excellent example would be from sex in the city where Charlotte meets Tray, and rush’s into things because she thinks he’s her one (if you haven’t watched it, I recommend you do!)

So below is almost a list of 20 points, set into two groups; emotional and rational. The emotional ones will help you decide if you can bear to be with the person while the rational ones will decide whether or not it will work.

You don’t need to be able to tick every point off here to realise they are the one for you, but if they’re getting none then… And please remember, this is a guideline to help you if you are unsure, not a by the book dictionary.

Emotional points:

1. You’re breath is taken away from you when you see them, not a gasp, but a slight sickness in your stomach.

2. You can’t stop thinking about them, and they are always on your mind, constantly fantasizing about them.

3. You want to make sure that all you’re friends and family know who they are.

4. You find yourself slightly nervous yet also excited in their presence.

5. You have lustful thoughts about them.

6. You act overconfident around them, trying to impress them.

7. You get on after a month like you’ve known each other for years.

8. When you first saw them, you kept on sneaking glances, trying not to appear obvious and get glanced back at.

9. You would do anything they asked.

10. You find you are constantly talking with them.

Rational points

1. Your generally happy or ok with your partners personality traits (i.e. anything ranging from their shyness to them picking their nose).

2. Your partner hasn’t asked you more than once to do something that you would absolutely hate doing.

3. They respect you for whom you are and understand that you’re not obliged to change for them unless you want to.

4. They don’t constantly keep asking you for money.

5. All your friends and family are telling you that they’re using you yet you can not see how.

6. You are at a manageable distance to work, or are willing to travel that distance regularly.

7. Do they live off of you? Using your stuff constantly yet when you ask them for something they say no.

8. If you want kids are they going to make a responsible parent?

9. While you may have emotional feelings towards your partner, do you have anything in common?

10. Would they be willing to do it your way, even if you don’t want to ask them.

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Walking is en excellent way to keep fit and feel good, whether it’s for dieting or other health issues. An acquaintance of mine told me that her pounds “melted away” just by walking regurally for 25 minutes. Setting up a walking program is not hard to accomplish. But it will be easier if you look at a couple of things before starting a fitness walking; set up a goal for your walking, and be pragmatic about that goal. If you do that it, will keep you more motivated to reach your goals. Try to be realistic about it when starting will also make it easier to keep your new habits. Change things one at a time. Don’t promise yourself that “I will speed walk for one hour seven days a week” if you have never done any physical activities before. You will probably stop after a few days. Be honest about what you can do for for exercise and fit something in your daily schedule that you can hold fast to. Don’t get any expensive clothing or sneakers in the beginning. Just start with what you’re having. Later on in your programme, when you have reached your first goals, you can reward yourself with a pair comfortable sneakers or some new training gear.

Take a few minutes and develop on a fitness walking programme for yourself. It could be: walk 15 minutes four times a week for two weeks. Then 20 minutes for three weeks. Increase your walking to 30 minutes five times a week. If you’re in shape and used to training, set your goals higher from the start.

Some pointers for your walking: Walk straight up and relax your shoulders. Hold your head straight up, don’t lean your head forward. If you are used to working out, keep your arms in 90 degree angle when walking. This puts less force on your back and neck, and it also burns more energy while fitness walking. When you want to get more advanced in your walking, get a pair of MBT sneakers (more about it at the end of this article) or Nordic walking sticks. Remember to breathe right, breath out all the way.

How to stay motivated in your new training endeavors? Well, there are many ways ways of doing that. Or you can keep a journal of your improvements. After a doing it for a while, it will bug you if you haven’t done any walking that day. Get a mp3 player, listen to an audio book or the radio.

If you are aiming to loose some weight, remember that you are now building muscles, and that muscles weigh more than fat. So don’t get too low if the scale is’nt showing what you want it to show. The right way of finding out how much you have lost, is to use a measure tape and measure yourself around the stomach, hips and thighs. Then you will see your real results.

One of my first jobs was to patrol the grounds of a trailer manufacturer in winter at night, just to make sure no pipes had burst and everything was okay. The grounds sprawled over a couple of acres with large empty spaces between the buildings and the lanes of trailers, and I had a pickup truck to cover all the ground. Between rounds, I figured I might as well bone up on my winter driving skills. The ground was all packed snow and ice, perfect for practicing how to get out of skids.

One of the first things I discovered is that it is amazingly hard to pull into a skid on purpose. Either a skid sneaks up on you, or you don’t skid in the first place.

NOT SKIDDING IN THE FIRST PLACE

The trick here is to make sure that you have control of your car during normal driving. Skids happen only when you think you have control, but you really don’t. Can you feel your tires grip the road surface? Does your car respond quickly to slight changes of speed, such as taking your foot off the gas pedal? If not, you’ve got a skid waiting to happen.

1. Slow down! The faster you go, the more likely it is that you don’t have firm contact with the road anymore, though you won’t notice it unless something changes, like trying to negotiate a bend in the road. If the surface is slick, slow down even more.

2. Apply gas gradually, brake gradually. Your car and your gas costs will also thank you. Surprises can sneak up on us, but in most normal driving you should be able to plan your starts and stops. If you are coming up to a light that has been green for a long time, it’s probably about to turn yellow and it won’t catch you off guard if you are already prepared to stop.

If you do intend to stop suddenly, take a glance in your rear-view mirror first. The driver behind you may not be as in control of his vehicle as you are, or maybe it’s a truck coming up behind you, which cannot stop as quickly as a small car. The last thing you want is to be rear-ended into a busy intersection. In this case, better just to go through that yellow light.

PREEMPTING A SKID

If you can feel your tires slipping on the road, you are already out of control, but you are not in a skid. Not yet.

One rule and one rule only in this case. Take your foot off the gas, and let the car slow down on its own until the tires regain their grip. Whatever you do, don’t slam on the brakes! This will send you into a skid for sure. If you absolutely must slow down faster than the car can do on its own, apply the brakes

Plan your menu around the sales adds in the Sunday paper. Make your list. Be sure to eat before grocery shopping so you don’t make impulse purchases and go ALONE so there is no one around to sneak un-needed things into your shopping cart. Apply for and use store incentive cards in combonation with coupons. Another thing that saves time and money is to cook multiple meals. Eat one the night you cook it and freeze 2 or more for another time when you don’t have time to cook. This eliminates the take out restaurant food and expensive ready to eat meals that you may end up opting for if you don’t have something quick and easy at home. Don’t forget that generic and store brands are just as good and sometimes better than the big name brands. When you see a great sale on staples, buy as much as you can. Building a well stocked pantry is the best way to go because you can then wait for items to go on sale before you buy them if you all ready have a good stock. A freezer is your best friend when it comes to saving on meat and poultry. I never pay full price for anything in the grocery store outside of milk. If it isn’t on sale this week it probably will be in the next couple of weeks or so. If you don’t have a freezer, try to save up for one.