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With two weekends left this month, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed with my tasks list.  There’s just so many teeny-weeny things that needed to be done. We’re also waiting for the outcome of our rental application, which hopefully we’ll know tomorrow.  If it pushes through, then gosh, I’ll be one busy mama!  So, I better finish my blogging activities now so I can move on to the next item on my to-dos!

It would be really interesting to know my family’s roots. I don’t much about relatives that existed before my grandparents, so to be able to trace my ancestors would give me and my family that sense of completeness and added closeness.

This website called publicgenealogy.org is a good starting point to trace the genealogy family tree. They charge a minimal fee, which I believe is negligible considering the amount of information one can access from their archive. Results are quick as the information is accessed through their database. I just might give this website a whirl.

I finally purchased a 2009 calendar kit for my mini Christmas project.  I plan to put in my daughter’s photos and a few of our family photos there, which I will give us gifts to our families back home.  I still have to look for nice CD cases and ribbons for the packaging but for now I intend to finish the kit first by end October!  That means I only have a little over two weeks to finish it. Whew!

Finding information like names, addresses or phone location is made easy with an area code finder. With a few clicks on the searchareacodes.org website, you can also get a free reverse phone look up with just about any phone number. Have I mentioned that this service is free? Well, you can’t emphasize that enough.

With 10 days remaining on the trial version I downloaded almost a month ago, I’m contemplating on signing up for a full license.  The student license is almost half the price but I don’t know a teacher or a university student here who will let me use their IDs to sign-up.  A friend told me to get the software via torrent but this time, I prefer to get the real thing.  I’m okay with torrent stuff really but for some reason, since I’m really serious with this hobby, I’d like to get a license for it.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what the top websites are globally? When I came across talkreviews.co.uk, I found out that my former company is at the Top 20. Interestingly, when I further browsed the company’s link, the Alexa ranking, Google PR, traffic stats and user website reviews are all updated there. Aside from the Top 500 Sites, there are more links to Kids, Sports and Travel Websites. This is one of the best opinion website I’ve seen. Go on, check it out.

Since I started taking photos in RAW file as opposed to JPG format, I’m badly needing more disk space.  I can’t use a regular disk for this because one RAW file is approximately 14MB already!  So now, I’m looking at buying one or two external hard disks.  I’ll check out Ebay and Trading Post in a bit.

Apart from the junk emails we receive everyday, we also get at least five junk mails every week. The usual ones we receive are brochures for properties, house cleaning, car cleaning services and auto insurance quotes. For us, more often than not, those mails go straight to the trash bin.

Instead of spending a good sum of advertising money for that, those companies should advertise on the paper or Internet instead. I think it is more cost effective.

I called my aunt in San Diego a few days ago, to tell her that my family and I won’t be able to attend my cousin’s wedding in November. I was really sad telling her that because I really want to go.

When she shared that the rest of the family who will attend are planning a trip to Vegas, I was so envious! They will be staying at a hotel in Las Vegas because my uncle’s house won’t be able to accommodate them all. Gosh, I hope I made the right decision to miss this important event.

Last night, just out of the blue, my husband said that he’ll grant one of my wishes for Christmas. I didn’t ask him to get it for me (I never got used to “asking” him for stuff) but I guess he knew how much I wanted it. He said though that the gift will cover Christmas, our wedding Anniversary and my birthday and it’s no problem with me!

He said I should receive it in January and that just heightened the excitement! Now I have something to look forward to when we go back to Sydney after the holidays. Wee!