Before we decided to build a house we looked at the possibility of moving in a modular home. We were in a rental house that we didn’t like & we couldn’t find an already built home that we wanted to buy. Plus, we didn’t think we had the money or time to build.
One of my friends had a modular home & I was really impressed with it. Before this I had always thought of a manufactured home as being like a trailer, I couldn’t have been more wrong. These houses were built with care & had fireplaces. They were just a lot less money than the houses I was used to. They had high ceilings, walk in closets & even skylights.
I was looking at Palm Harbor Homes today which specializes in manufactured aka mobile homes. I was stunned. These homes did not look manufactured. The Carthage model looks more like a craftsman style house than a manufactured home.They are even energy efficient. Plus, their model center even has financing options & insurance packages. Model homes have come a long way.
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I loved watching The Next Iron Chef the first week. I thought “this is going to be the best series ever. We get to know more about the future Iron Chef & we still get to watch people cook really really fast”. That’s the mark of a genius TV show, cooking really really fast.
This week, I was a little disillusioned. I thought “Don’t we have a new Iron Chef yet?.”. The Iron Chef’s all share the same characteristics, they are annoying & pompous. I was really gunning for Chef Besh because he is the only one who seems to have fun. Chef Aaron has problems with time, tries to cheat the buzzer, & then complains about it over & over again. They might be able to cook, but they just don’t seem like nice people. Really, I don’t want to see any of these people on the Iron Chef. It’s a good thing that the Iron Chefs don’t talk a lot. Just stand there & look scared of the chairman, that’s all we ask.
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I grew up reading “Anne of Green Gables”. Later, I watched the miniseries. Notice how I’m not talking about Anne of Green Gables the continuing story. I just like to pretend that it never happened.
However, Anne really taught me about home & how awful it is to not have a place to belong. Green Gables always seemed like such a magical place in the books. I always wanted to live there. I wasn’t exactly sure what a gable was. So, I was a little disappointed when I saw the miniseries & Green Gables was just a white house with green shutters. It goes to show what a little imagination can do. It’s also a testament to the fact that any house can be magical with the right family.
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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. Then we finally settled into a house we built & have lived there for ten years. Well my family has lived there for ten years. I’m part of the boomerang generation so I move home for awhile & then move to an apartment, rinse & repeat. However, when I say the word “home” I’m not usually referring to my apartment. I’m talking about the house that I helped build. I have a vested interest in this place, I pretty much put the entire roof on by myself. As such, I’m always really interested in what is going on here, especially in home improvement. Our conversations over the phone go something like this,
Mom: “I’m thinking of painting the dining room brown”
Me: “Ugly brown or pretty brown”.
Mom: “Well pretty brown. I’m thinking of umm this brownish color you know that is just umm brown”.
I was so excited when I won a Packet8 Video Phone because I would be able to keep track of things at home no matter where I live. I opened up the box & saw this:
I was so excited that I felt like this:
I was really impressed that it even came with a nice protective case. I was a little worried about setting it up, but it was really easy. It came with instructions, but I used the online installation guide which was so fun. Whoever thought I would say that installing something was fun?
Then I got the video phone up & running & it looked like this:
I was amazed at how clear the picture is. The best thing about VOIP is the price. You can have free unlimited calling in the U.S. & Canada for just $24.99 a month. It even works as a router. You can have your traditional phone number transfered to their service which would probably save a lot of money. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words so get a Packet8 phone & see how true that saying is.
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