Cheryl's Blog

I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how I want to decorate my house.  I have a new cleaning schedule now and things are clean and orderly for the most part, so it is time to go beyond organization and cleaning, to decorating it to reflect who I am as a person and what I think looks nice.  Here are some ideas I have:

1.  Paint the kitchen so it is not an ugly mint green anymore. 

2.  Paint the living room so it is darker and has more ambience.

3.  Hang pictures!  My parents need to show me how to do this cause I have plaster walls and because of that, if I don't secure the pictures, shelves, or whatever, they will fall right out and I can just imagine them hitting me in the head!

The thing I need to do first, before any of this, is replace the shag rug from my office.  I had to get rid of this thing because it shed so much, there was shedded hair from it all over my house, all the time!  Also the ferrets were eating it inadvertently too, probably.  I already got rid of it and put it into storage, and now I just have to find an affordable rug.  I was looking at IKEA and Target, and saw some nice things, but I don't know, it just seems like you get what you pay for there.  I was looking for something where there was a little more selection and quality.    I googled some stuff and did some research online on where to find rugs online and I found this site on cheap area rugs.  Just what I was looking for! 

Now, to decide what kind of rug I want.  I don't think I want an oriental area rug because I don't think that would really match the style of my home.  I like how you can search by size of rug here too, cause you know you want to make sure the rug won't look silly in the room you have it in.  A rug can really make a room look smaller, bigger, or change the whole feel of the room. 

They have some really neat area rugs at this online store.  Designs I have not seen anywhere, and like I mentioned above, I have in fact been looking around for a nice rug that matches my decor but doesn't break my bank.  Look at how cool this one is:

I have never seen anything like it anywhere, but its so cool looking!  I searched for burgundy rugs, just to see what they have because my room is done in brown and burgundy, and found this really nice one: 

That is definetly something I may purchase!

cheryl @ 13:43 | comments(0) | Permanent link

At my last job, on our first day of orientation we were asked whether we wanted to purchase term life insurance  or not. At the time, I had no idea of the difference between term life insurance and regular life insurance. I had no idea if I wanted it, and if so, how much I wanted taken out of my paycheck in terms of the amount of coverage later if something were to happen to me. The human resources person had to spend a lot of time explaining to everyone in the orientation class, how to choose what we wanted and sign up. Since I don't have children, I wasn't sure whether to purchase any at all but I figured hopefully it could go towards taking care of my pets if something bad happened to me.

At the time, the company I was working with had contracts with a specific company but I am wondering if it would have to our advantage to shop around for life insurance quotes before just assuming this was the best deal out there.

Well this is not a problem I am facing anymore, as that company was not a good fit for me and I am having a much better time at my current company.  But if I ever do need life insurance again, I will make sure to research a lot more about it and make sure I am getting the best life insurance rates .

cheryl @ 13:19 | comments(0) | Permanent link