Southwest Airlines Deal to Las Vegas - HURRY, it's a doozy of a deal

Southwest Airlines has a tremendous deal running until midnight tonight (Pacific Standard Time), flights to Las Vegas, January 13 - March 11 are half price, yes you heard that right. You must click on the sale icon on their homepage to get those prices however.
I booked a trip for us earlier this evening using this deal.
There is no better time to travel if you have the time and money to do so.

Out with the OLD & In with the NEW YEAR

I want to thank all the friends and acquaintances that come to my blog (hopefully on a daily basis), everyone of you are wonderful, creative, individuals. Each day you bring me joy and friendship and for that there are no words heartfelt enough to Thank You.

I wish for each of you a year ahead full of love, respect, prosperity, and health.
From around the world we are all so different and yet so much alike.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and your loved ones.

An Award from a Wonderful Man

This award was given to me by Mike over at Rambling Stuff
Thank You very much Mike, you're a wonderful man!

Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays - Happy New Year

I would like to thank everyone that comes to my blog, whether it's to drop their Entrecard or read my blog and leave a comment or both.
This past year plus has been one of the best I've ever spent on a computer, my world has opened up as I have read your blogs and made many new friends from all different corners of the world. Each one of you has helped to make me a better person and I feel humbled by your friendship and patronage - Thank You.

I want for each of you a 2009 filled with health, happiness, love, and good fortune.

Where Do You Draw The Line When You Post?

Do you hang out your dirty laundry and talk about your family, your significant other, your career?
Do you hold back in talking about issues dealing with a family member in order to maintain their privacy?
Do you hold yourself back in expressing how passionately you feel about certain topics because it may offend your readers? What kind of topics do you steer clear from discussing?

For me - I don’t hang out my dirty laundry but sometimes I wish I could, there are issues that piss me off so bad that I want to tell the world about them, I could talk about the dysfunctional family I grew up in until I’m blue in the face.

I do my best not to bring my husband or grown children into my blogging and yes there are times when just doing so would keep my blog bustling with posts.

I do hold back in discussing my views, absolutely I do, but I wish I didn’t have to. I have very strong opinions about what is happening in the United States.
I’d love to talk about how I think children are not being parented, how there are too many deadbeats living off the government, how people expect to get something for nothing (or next to nothing), how we spend what we don’t have, how the politicians that we elect get into office and then do something different than what they promised when they were running for election, that crime is out of control and our judicial system doesn’t seem to care.........what bothers you?

What's Happening to the Economy?

Should the government bail out every major failing business in America?
What do you believe is the reason for all this failure in our economy?
Do you think that the world is merely rearranging the order of what's important?

My personal feeling about the economy is that we have relied for much too long on money that wasn't ours, we have taken out loans, used charge cards, and spent, spent, spent without regard to what would happen when it was time to pay. This goes for businesses the same as individual circumstances.
I don't think we can responsibly bail out all these businesses. We can't continue to spend so carelessly and leave the financial mess for future generations. Most businesses have operated with tremendous amounts of fat and that fat has to be trimmed/cut out.
I don't need a big luxury vehicle that gets poor mileage, I need transportation that gives me awesome mileage. It doesn't matter if fuel is $1 a gallon or $5 a gallon, we should have never wasted fuel just because it was cheap and plentiful.

Doesn't it piss you off that the executives of these failing businesses have collected 10's of millions and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses while they ran these businesses and your life savings into the ground?
Does it piss you off that employees of car makers could purchase their vehicles cheaper than you the consumer could purchase them? Did you know that some of the car makers employees made $60-75 an hour and they got discounts you couldn't get?

What's next, what is the next major failure in our economy?

I would love to hear what you have to say about the state of our economy.

Spring Widget Issues

I've noticed that I'm having a problem with the speed of sites with Spring Widgets on them, in particular the Christmas Countdown Widget. It's slow and keeps the other sites from loading smoothly.
Is anyone else having this issue?

I'm not talking about this being an issue on my blog but rather other people's blogs. I know this isn't my computer as I use a workhorse load of RAM.

TOP DROPPER FOR NOVEMBER

I want to thank everyone that has dropped on my blog(s) during the month of November but give special recognition to Valerie at Thinking OutLoud Blog

If you haven't visited this blog, do yourself a favor and make a stop and drop.
THANKS VALERIE!!!!!