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Burton Snowboard Design Contest… would you critique mine?…

Posted on December 3rd, 2012 { No Comments }

For years I’ve been wanting to do snowboard. After my car accident in 2007, where I was left with 2 permanent neck injuries, I said goodbye to many of the activities I took for granted throughout my life. Mountain biking with my oldest son, rollerblading with my youngest, swimming and even going to the gym…

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Reflections before a new beginning…

Posted on September 10th, 2012 { No Comments }

It’s been… a while… We’ve lost quite a lot of people and beloved 4 legged companions that left deep bleeding wounds…. too many too soon! My mother in law in October 2009, my amazing and loving father in December 2010 from brain and lung cancer, my mom’s deep decline into vascular dementia Alzheimer’s after my dad’s death that…

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Help me travel to Tuscany

Posted on May 29th, 2012 { No Comments }

WOW! It’s been a while since I wrote anything on my blog. Not that I couldn’t find anything to say, but life was spinning faster that I could keep up with. We keep our heads above water as much as possible, emotionally speaking and try to find the positive in life, until the next hit,…

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2010 Retrospective

Posted on December 17th, 2010 { 2 Comments }

It’s been a while since I wrote on my blog. Things haven’t been good this year, quite surreal I should say. If I have to guess I’ll say this was the worse year of my entire life! Ever since it started, even before 2009 ended things started to turn for the worse. I see it…

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First National Merchant Solutions – A Scam or a Bad Business?

Posted on August 25th, 2010 { 14 Comments }

UPDATE 4/8/2011: First National Merchant Solutions (FNMS now formal TSYS) was sued in court  in 2010 for the same practices we’ve all described below (as you can see I’m unfortunately not the only one that got scammed by this fraudulent company) .  First National Merchant Solutions are definitely scamming their clients with fake contracts, illegal…

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