Saturday, December 7, 2013

It's Time for a Domain Clearance Sale!

Why can't I just be an ordinary lady with a shoe collection, dress collection, jewelry collection, coin collection, or stamp collection?  No my passion is being online and one thing I like to do is coin domain names of interest to me. 

So much so that I am now up to over 50 domain names.  Good grief!  Unlike with other collections I can't just go and drop them off as a charitable donation.  If I wanted to give the domain names away to someone else I would incur a transfer fee.  It is almost cheaper to keep them until they just expire.

Oh and I have let some expire over the last few years.  I was shocked when I looked at my life across different registrars including my own and saw I was up to over 50. 

It wouldn't be so bad if they were set to automatically renew.  They are just like falling in love over and over again, the feeling of thinking it is going to be something big and it is going to last forever.  If I choose to not automatically renew I may really stand the chance of losing it.  How do you keep up with the registration on over 50 domains?  Not very good.  Some of the domains I would have like to have kept over the past year expired.  What was I thinking?  Set the ones I buy on a fluke to auto-renew and not keep alert on the ones I may have really kept. 

Now trust and believe the ones I really want I keep check on.  I normally set them to renew more than for just a year.  Some of them could have just been one night wonders.  After the next day I thought about them no more.

Of course I have most of them being forwarded to other places because there is no way I have time to maintain all those domains just for myself.  I have tried to sell off a few.  The ones I think are worth the most don't show up as being worth the most when I do an online valuation.

I checked my list of domains and I need to check it twice, unloading at least half of them would be oh so nice.

HUDHOMESVIRGINIA.COM
HOMESFORSALENORFOLK.COM
HOMESPORTSMOUTHVA.COM
OPENHOUSESVA.COM
VAHOMESVA.COM
VABEACHVAHOMES.COM
BLACKBOOKNOOK.COM
LYNNE.CO (if the offering price is really right)
LOCALHAMPTONROADS.COM
HOMEFINANCEVA.COM
DUPLEXSUFFOLK.COM
BUYHOMESNCHESAPEAKE.COM
THALIASHORES.COM
RENTALSVA.COM (this one is really increasing my rank in the SEO world, content is queen!)
HASHTAGHOWTO.COM
LYNNEHOMES.COM
BUYHAMPTONVA.COM
HOMESNEWPORTNEWSVA.COM
YES2COPY.COM

BUYHOTELVA.COM
FORSALEHUD.COM
HOMENORFOLKVA.COM
NEWHOMECONSTRUCTIONVA.COM
FACEBOOKFOOLS.CO
FSBOHR.COM
WEBS2013.COM
NORFOLKVAHOMES4SALE.COM
COUPLECORNER.COM
LOVE1ACCORD.COM
BUYHOMEAUCTIONS.COM
BUYHOMEAUCTIONS.INFO
BUYHOMEAUCTIONS.NET
BUYHOMEAUCTIONS.ORG
HOUSEVA.COM

Help a sister out!  Make me an offer for one, two, or the whole lot you see above.  

Lynne Ruffin
Web Styles
Norfolk Virginia Home Based Business





Friday, December 6, 2013

Senior Safety: When You Think You Know Your Strength - Beware!

Oh it could have been a disaster.  I was out with my Mother the other day.  I was happy she was feeling up to going out.  The past month has really been a time of tribulation.  Her health has hit rock bottom and I was just thankful it was a nice day and she was incredulously feeling up to going out.

Incredibly, she even had the strength to get herself together for the day.  Her skin looked great.  Her hair looked great.  She told me she just wanted to get out the house to go anywhere she just wanted to get out. 

Her medical caregiver was able to help get her completely together and assist her with getting in the car.  She let her roll out to my car in her wheel chair.  And then she helped her get in the car from there.  My mother was able to assist with getting herself in the car just find by using the strength in her arms.

I first took her to go visit my brothers. She is wheel chair bound and not able to walk at all anymore.  She sat in the car while I went inside and let them know there was someone outside to see the both of them. 

They came out to the car and when they saw it was her they were just as happily surprised as I was that she felt up to being out and about.  It's been tough this past month and it was good to see a smile on both their faces.  I think one of my brothers leaped into the air as he walked away. 

Well from there I had to complete a couple of errands and she went along and sat in the car for a brief moment while I got all done what I needed to do.  My taking her out for the afternoon completely caught me off guard.  She didn't care what I had to do she was ready to go out and I was going to be the one taking her.

After I finished my errands she reminded me she wanted to go to a credit union for an account she had opened back during her working days.  I knew she was having a senior moment but to appease her I did exactly as she instructed me to do. 

Well we had her walker in the trunk because her riding wheel chair that she rolled out to my car in earlier was definitely not fitting in my car.  Her wheel chair we normally travel with was locked up in my brother's SUV. 

When we got to the credit union I pulled the walker with the seat that we had brought along out the trunk.  Mind you she cannot walk at all.  I have taken her other places with her wheel chair but this was the first time ever I had to try and sit her on her walker to roll her around. 

Well after I opened the car door and rolled the walker with the seat apparatus on it up to position to get ready to lift her, oh my goodness.  Normally when I lift her she is light as a feather weighing less than 100 pounds.  This particular day when I went to lift her she was so heavy we both ended up bent down to our knees.  I went to lift her from the car and the weight overcame me.  I looked up and by the grace of God there was a young man there who helped me keep her from falling and avoid the potential disaster of us both really splattering on the concrete pavement. 

I say by the grace of God because I was attempting this on my own and as we were falling I was praying and this man literally out of nowhere and totally unexpected help lift her to the seat.  I was so overwhelmed by the vision of how tragically that event was about to end up I don't even think I said thank you until a man in the parking lot hollered to tell the guy it was great what he did.  Thankfully, if I hadn't said it before I said thank you then. 

Well I was trying to convince my mother that maybe we should just call the credit union or go online and attempt to do what she was trying to transact.  She was very adamant that no she wanted to go inside the credit union.  I rolled her over to one of the columns.  She wanted me to roll her right in.  I told her I needed to park the car and then I would roll her inside so I could be with her.

I am realizing no matter how small in size someone is, it pays to be extra careful when handling people when they are ill.  As the old saying goes "dead weight is heavy weight".  When someone is really ill it seems like they are ten times heavier than what you expected if you're used to assisting them.  You can help them position their limbs and all but be really careful when handling lifting their body from one location to another.

I haven't been able to rest peacefully the last two nights now due to the pain in my upper arm.  My gut reaction for the pending fall was to cover her. 

Well, the incident didn't end our day.  We were out late into the night.  She wanted to go out to eat which we did and my oldest two granddaughters went along with us.  We were a lot more cautious with the ins and outs and ups and downs after the incident earlier in the day which could have ended very badly.  I do give praise to Almighty God that it didn't.  I truly thank the man who reached in and helped.