Cheryl Beckham

I had to call our plumber last night to come over and see what is going on with our sump pump down in the basement early this morning. I’m sad to say that it is going to cost me over one thousand dollars to have it all done and said with, sigh…………

Thank goodness for credit cards.

Last week my washing machine decided to dump water all over the floor at the end of the cycle. I had my brother come over and take a look at it and he couldn’t find anything wrong with. He ran a quick cycle and it acted just fine, go figure! Now I have to worry each time I do a load that it will happen again. It is an older model and doesn’t have any type of warranty on it, so I might be needing to buy a new one soon. That’s gonna bit! Those things are not cheap and it certainly isn’t in my budget at this time.

Good news, at the end of next month I will be celebrating the end of my long time relationship with my current cell phone provider, which is Verizon. I have been waiting for this time to come so that I can find a better deal, with more minutes and a better, new updated cell phone, for a better price. There are so many providers to choose from, so I’m glad that I can use the Internet to find the right one for me with less legwork involved. There are deals out there to be made, and I’m going to make every attempt to find one that is right for me.

There are some pretty cool new phones out there that I can’t wait to look at and choose from these days. My old phone has seen better days.

I actually got my taxes done and mailed off before the April 15th dead line this year. It was nice to go to the post office and not have to stand in line with dozens of other people that have waited it out as long as they possibly could before mailing off all of the paperwork that is required of us each and every year.

O.K. this is a pretty cool concept that I stumbled onto just now on the Internet. A company by the name of Jupee Numbers is offering Virtual Phone Numbers that can be utilized not only by businesses which may need numbers for all across the world for it’s clients, but for personal family/friend use for folks who are located out of the good old U.S. of A.You see if you have family in any of the 5 countries that they offer and want them to call you here in the U.S., then they will assign you a virtual number for that country, that rings directly to your U.S. land line or cellphone, and that number can be forwarded it to a gtalk,skype,msn or PBX system, I mean how cool is that?

With this company you always do receive unlimited minutes, they have free call forwarding options and that will save you money on your international calling. What you don’t receive is any software or hardware, no type of equipment what so ever in order to take advantage of their money saving offer.

I’m going to run this across my brother and see if he would go online and see what he thinks. He has his own business that makes it necessary that he makes a lot of international phone calls and receives as many as well. I’m not sure what company he is using right now, but I’ll let him know that it may prove to be a good thing to check into.