Mama Carol

not that it was necessarily better, but the "remake" of "Seven Samarai" was "The Magnificent Seven". Magnificent Seven is a lot better known than the original. I've seen both and quite honestly I like the original better, even with the subtitles. Hubba, hubba. Will Smith in a new movie??? Hubby just may have just to take me to see that, or else him and the son in law will have to keep the grandbabies so daughter and I can go see it.

If you're taking a job out of state, ABSOLUTELY get a management company to take care of the place while you're away. No question! You need a company that is located fairly close to your house, for several reasons. One, being that the closer they are to your house, the better eye they can keep on it. Two, it's just simpler for them to show nearby properties because people generally wouldn't walk into a management company in Midtown and expect to find a house in Paulding. Can't recommend anyone in Paulding, though I'm sure there are good management companies. When I was going to g

maybe this will help someone out: http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?actualkw=&kwchanged=0&sort%5Btype%5D=date&kw=&locations=Austell%2C+GA&industry=&query=locations%3DAustell%2C+GA%2C+USA%26&crumb=dGS5pLKe.Pq&ts=1286981635&email_frequency=1&email=clj1219@bellsouth.net&is_loggedin=1&twitter_id=&metro_search=1

I agree. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you started your last job 15 years ago, you're not 30. I feel quite sure that some of the reason I haven't heard back on a lot of the resumes I sent out is they figure I'm just too darn old to hire and looking at retirement in a couple of years. I'm 55, so I'm not planning on retiring for at least another 10 years. Interviewed yesterday and EVERYONE in the office was young enough to be my kid. EVERYONE. Now, that's depressing!

I know what you mean. Our youngest ended up without a car at college because she broke curfew. If she couldn't be home on time, we didn't trust her to not screw up and have an accident.

I am the kind of person who believes that "life skills" should be taught right along with history, calculus and grammar. Life skills could involve everything from how to balance a checkbook to how to fill out a job application to firearm safety. All of these need to be taught ongoing, not just touched on for one week in high school. I think from the third grade UP these need to be taught, spending 2-4 weeks on these skills. I don't know that teaching about firearms in the schools by itself would be a good idea. It might take away some of the mystery about firearms but at the same tim

I ran into the preacher and his wife at Winn Dixie once. Not sure what else I had in the cart but I know I had a six pack of beer. Then there was the time one of the deacons came to visit and we hid the empty beer can under the pillow behind me. And I agree with your last statement. COMPLETELY!

It's not just the church denomination. Most churches, in my experience, are much the same regardless of what "convention" they are part of. I attended a Christian church (formerly Church of Christ church) and found the primary difference between them and the Southern Baptist church I came from was the name on the sign. They pretty much had the same doctrine, the same beliefs and the same rituals (with the exception of having communion every time they had church and not just once a quarter). So, it's not as simple as finding a church that has beliefs more in line with your own. I have

I worked in downtown Dallas during their beautification project and let me tell you it was AWFUL! It was well worth the aggravation, though. The town looks great. Powder Springs looks very nice, too. We did yard work instead of going to Powder Springs Day. I still have memories of the one where the temperature was in the low 100s and just have a hard time dragging myself up there now for all the things they have. We did hear a marching band. I couldn't figure out where they were starting the parade this year. Next year, I'll take the grandbabies up there. They will be old enough

Hmmm. I guess that explains the marching band we heard Saturday. Can't wait for that darn road to get finished so I can easily come to PowderTown to visit you! Congratuations on getting the daughter married. I know you're happy that she is happy. I have three married daughters myself. Didn't get to see any of them get married but that saved us a ton of money.

REQUIRE driver education before getting license. Not just a test to see if you took the alcohol and drug awareness course but true, honest-to-gosh driver education that includes time behind the wheel. My other main suggestion would be for parents to NOT buy their kids fast cars. It's un-freaking-believable that a 17 year old would even be driving a Boxster! Make buying a kid a fast car so uncomfortably expensive for insurance that no parent in their right mind would buy one. Require more expensive coverage for a car that a kid drives. When my girls were growing up, our insuranc

Same here! I need the gentle type of yoga that is good for arthritis, not some mind and body bending experience. I just happened to be looking for information on yoga when I went back to read your question.

try this: http://www.paulding.gov/index.aspx?NID=605 or this: http://www.yogafinder.com/yoga.cfm?yogastate=GA&yogacountry=USA&yogacity=Douglasville or this: http://www.yogacabana.com/yoga.b.507.g.8028.html or even this: http://paulding.com/forum/index.php?/topic/244029-free-zumba-kickboxing-yoga-and-more/ You must not know Powder Springs very well to even THINK that it would be taught here.

My first thought this morning was that it was 10-10-10. Had my aunt lived one more week, passing away today instead of last Sunday, she would have been born on 05-05-05 and died on 10-10-10. Made me also wonder how all those people who got married on 07-07-07 are doing.

Oddly enough, before the house went to auction the agent responded to me almost immediately! After the auction, the agent responded to my agent several times a day. Now, absolutely nothing. I am a very patient person and since I'm unemployed I have plenty of time. I haven't given up on it yet. It's the perfect house, on the perfect lot, in the perfect place. Oh, did I mention that the price was darn near perfect, too. Fortunately, my agent said that she loves a challenge. I am taking her at her word.

I already know who owns the house and the previous agent. I'm having problems getting a response from the agent, however. He has not responded to me or my agent. I contacted the property owner (Fannie Mae) but they didn't even know what was going on with the house. They said they no longer owned it but didn't know if it had sold (not likely), was returned to the borrower (even more unlikely) or returned to the mortgage company. My agent is pretty sure the house didn't sell because she checked with the county. I can't see it being returned to the borrower after more than two years. The mo

I have a friend who lives in Knoxville but travels most of eastern Tennessee, southern Virginia, southern Kentucky, western North and South Carolina and extreme northwest Georgia for work. He has Verizon and says he has never had a problem except in one place that I think he said was in Kentucky and there is no cell service there. Apparently that is not just on Verizon, though. I called AT&T and asked that they remove the long distance. They said they could BUT they would have to increase the bill $5 a month for *something* if they did. So I told them to leave it. The diffe

That wouldn't surprise me. When I looked at all cell phone providers two years ago before signing up with AT&T there were few choices in prepaid service. It was pretty much Metro and Tracfone. I think all the big ones--AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, TMobile--offer some kind of prepaid service now. For someone like us where you only use the phone minimally, a prepaid makes so much more sense than 700 shared minutes a month. I think our highest use one month was 600 and something but that was the one month my hubby stayed on the road 3 - 4 days a week for the entire month. He was calling c

What exactly is an "off market" property? Is it a property that was previously listed unsold property that did not sell but could still be purchased? If you were interested in purchasing the property, who would you contact if that is the case? Would you contact the listing agent who had it listed previously?

When I started looking at prepaid phone service back in June, I realized for people like us who use the phone very little, there are a lot of plans out there tremendously cheaper than the $70 a month we were paying. Practically nobody offers 60 minute a month contract plans anymore. In fact, I'm not sure I saw ANY of those plans except for the ones for "old people" who want a phone just for emergencies. The thing I had to keep in mind was my husband's Google phone that he bought in January, the week the phone came out. He really likes the phone and wanted to keep it if at all possible.

Our cell phone contracts were up on October 2. We had no contract on the home phone. It was a no-brainer.

My hubby asked me if TMobile had home phone service. I'll tell him that they do. Thanks, Tbird!

I had been with TMobile in the past. Two years ago my hubby decided he needed a phone and wanted to get the same service as the people he would be working with because of the mobile-to-mobile free calls. They had AT&T so I left TMobile and went with AT&T. I loved their customer service then and love it now! Since he wanted to keep the Google phone, we only had AT&T and TMobile to choose from. Yep, $110 less a month! Can't beat that. Couldn't get AT&T to change my service earlier because at that time we HAD to have a separate number for the fax machine and to get

It wasn't just the accents that I was having problems with. One woman I spoke with had a very heavy Indian accent, spoke VERY fast and I could barely hear her. Lots of background noise with her and it was almost like she was on a speakerphone. The last one, the one in Louisiana, was easy oto hear and understand. I just got finished with AT&T and cut $110 A MONTH off our phone bill since we no longer have the cell phones (that was only about half the monthly bill) AND got rid of the bundled package that we never used but two of the features AND got rid of the long distance at $7+ a m

Hubby and I decided we HAD to reduce our monthly bills. We were paying about $165 a month for home phone, DSL and 700 shared cell phone minutes through AT&T. Rarely, just one month in fact, did we even come CLOSE to using that many minutes. They were expensive minutes when you pay for 700 and use maybe 120. Anyway, we decided to go with a pay-as-you-go phone service. I researched all the possible carriers and found just two on which he could continue to use his Google phone which he really likes. Those two carriers were AT&T and TMobile. T Mobile actually has a plan that was mor