You wouldn’t believe how messy a portion of our living room is. The culprit? Our little Hazel and her toys! She has a lot of toys lying around her corner. Even though we pick it up and put it in her box, she would choose a new toy from it and we would find it on the floor where we picked up another one. We are teaching her how to put her toys back in her box. So far, she’s learning it bit by bit. We are also putting the toys she’s not playing with anymore in a big box that we will give to a local charity organization.

Kids these days are playing with computer games more and more. So we are happy Hazel is still interested with her toys. We are encouraging her to play with it and learn things through it.

We really need patio furniture covers right now. It’s starting to rain this side of the country and our patio furniture got soaked this past weekend due to heavy downpours. We could have gotten it taken inside but we are running out of space. My dad decided to just put some plastic bags on the furniture but since it didn’t cover the whole thing, it still got soaked.

We are freeing up space at home so we can put some of the things outside the house that can get destroyed by the rain. It’s really hard to live in a small house when there are seven of you in it most of the time.

Mike is checking out the halo headlights at CARiD.com right this very minute. He is changing the one that his car currently has. He is making major changes in his truck because according to him, he is bored with the look already.

Mike’s indulgence is his car collection. He has three right now. He doesn’t have any vices and car engines and accessories are the only things he really saves up for. Sounds pretty much a common thing guys do, right? It sure does! Go ahead and check out CARiD.com and find the car accessories you need. Or you might be in need of halo headlights, too. It’s there for the taking!

I do think some blog designers charge a ridiculous amount for their services. I know that it’s hard to code and to come up with a design, especially if you are the one doing it from scratch and not just buying vectors from iStockphoto and similar sites. But to charge a $100 design fee for a simple layout and a mediocre header design??? That’s just too much!

I saw this site WAHM Designs (I won’t put the link because I don’t want this designer to get new clients!) charging an exorbitant fee for a not-so-good looking customized Wordpress themes. Ridiculous rates, I tell you! This is a sample design of hers…

Don’t you just feel like it’s not even polished?

Check out this iStockphoto vector designer named Chihhang. You pay for a lot if you have a vector in your header similar to his. Check out Sasha-says.com which has his vector on its header. That customized Wordpress theme was done by SimplyWP. And it’s not even ridiculously priced! Check SimplyWP’s portfolio. That’s what you pay $100 for! I am not sure how much they charge for custom designs now but if they do charge it that much, I tell you it’s so much worth the price! Sasha-says.com has been using the same blog design for more than a year now. I got charged a very good price for that customized blog design. Plus Kathie Wiehanne, the other half of SimplyWP, was very pleasant to deal with. I even had two more designs done by her. This is a sample of a recent design done by SimplyWP…

Now, that’s a really polished and very-well done design!

I hope other blog designers will take the time to reevaluate their service fees. Do not take advantage of bloggers who don’t know any better. Do NOT charge exorbitant fees when you know your design is mediocre! Charge that much if you can actually create a beautiful and unique design.

And if you see a blog designer charging ridiculous fees for their services, encourage others NOT to patronize the site. We bloggers work hard for the dollars we earn. Let’s not waste it in overrated blog designs!

Our neighbor have decided to buy gold bars as an investment. He got a separation pay from the previous company he worked for. He decided that the money he got will go to something that will earn him more in the future.

At the US Gold Bureau, our neighbor can buy the gold bars he wants to invest on. We all know how gold has been in existence since the beginning of time. In fact, when there were no currencies in existence yet, gold was used as the form of trade.

If you want to know more on how you, too, can invest on gold bars, go to USGoldBureau.com now.

I am loving my new mousepad! I saw this kind in another blog and have been looking for it since. While I was looking for a CD pouch for my CD backup files, I saw the mousepad underneath all the CD pouches. Of course I grabbed one right away. You know what? It’s very affordable. It’s only 48.75 pesos!

It will save you from wrist pain. Go get one if you don’t have it yet

By the way, I got my new mousepad in National Bookstore Mo. Ignacia branch.

I don’t know why I haven’t been using the internet to solve my household problems. I am always online! Rats, bed bugs and ants. These are just some of the problems I have at home. I have been hiring someone to clean the whole house every two weeks but these household pests just won’t go away!

Lo and behold! I realized I have the information I need to get rid of the pests. And it’s just a click away!

I now know how I can get rid of the pests. I am praying that it will work. Ah, the internet is really a fountain of information. If you know how to use it properly, that is.

I saw the atv that a celebrity bought. He has a 5-hectare property that he turned into his very own residence. Because the property is so big, he needs an atv to go around it. Imagine that!

I am really envious of celebrities with huge residences. I am not dreaming of a big house. I want a big property. A big lawn, backyard, garden… I want a place where the family can just walk or run around. A place where the whole clan can fit in a day or two of gathering. That I am dreaming about.

I was puzzled why my little cousin looked nervous when I saw him in a corner. He was holding something in his back and just kept shaking his head when I was asking him what’s wrong. It turned out that he broke the Grohe faucet that was installed by my uncle yesterday. He was really scared that my uncle would get mad at him so he’s hiding in a corner of the house.

I told him that it’s okay and that it can be easily fixed. The relief I saw on his face was comical. I hugged him and reassured him that it’s okay and that no one will get mad at him.

Truth of the matter is, I don’t know what to do with the spam comments anymore! They just keep on coming back! I have Akismet installed. I am using the Blacklist in the Discussion settings of my admin page. I have even put there the IP addresses of spammers that Akismet caught. Still, they keep on coming back to spam my blog!

If you have any suggestions, or if you have undergone the same problem as I and have managed to get rid of the spammers, then please tell me how. I will appreciate all the help I can get.