Have a Better Life

Christmas day is arriving fast. The rush to buy gifts has started and we can now see the shops crowded with people looking for the right present. Those, with Internet connection have the ability to look for presents from the comfort of their houses.

I really don’t know yet what gifts I am going to buy, but for my husband, a fanatic for Top Gun movie, a Movie Memorabilia would be the right present.

I was checking the millionairememorabilia.com website and here we can find all kind of memorabilia: movies, sports, celebrity, music and many others. The one that caught my attention was the TOP GUN autographed Movie Memorabilia with signatures from Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and Val Kilmer. This was the movie we watched on our first date.

For sports lovers there are several memorabilias available: single players, entire teams, collages, etc. Most of them are autographed, signed and framed in different sizes.

If you are interested in something special you can’t find online, you can send an e-mail and ask if they can arrange that for you.

If you take advantage of the Holiday Sales you can benefit from a 20% discount. You can pay with Paypal, Visa Cards and personal checks.

Managing our money is a big issue. Although some people don’t worry too much and have accounts in several banks that sometimes may result in some phone calls from the bank staff saying that their account is red, because they forgot that on that bank they had written a check they don’t remember.

I only have one checking account, money is not much so I control everything in the same account. Once I have some insurances and house loan in that bank, I pay no fees for account maintenance. Most monthly bills like, water, gas, electricity and internet service are paid directly from the account. When I shop or go to a doctor appointment I usually don’t use checks but my debt card.

The are some points you must take into consideration with checking accounts:

• Make sure you get a fair price for the checks. You can order 10 or 20 (depending on the bank), check the individual cost of each one, usually buying more quantity means less individual cost.
• Don’t forget to write down the number and amount of the check you are writing so that you can keep track of it and don’t forget that you no longer own that money.
• When you need to make a payment check if you can do it with debt card once the money immediately will be out of your account.

Zootherapy is used since ancient times, when animals were a frequent presence in psychiatric and health institutions to easy the pain of the patiences by having animals to comfort them.

However, only on the 60′s, the “power” animals have on people was evident, when the North American Child psychologist  Boris M. Levinson noticed the therapeutic potential of the relationship between a child and a animal.

Zootherapy has many benefits:

• Although not being a cure for a specific disease, animals help patients to recover their self-esteem, help with social relationships by acquiring bigger autonomy and developing capacities of language and motion.
• Animal promote the emotional development through the bonds built between the patient and the animal.
• In children case, animals motivate them to think, learn and stimulate the participation in group activities.
• With elderly people, animals helps to put aside the feelings of frustration, solitude, anxiety and sadness.

At home I only have too turtles that I must confess do not promote evident strong bonds with my children. I know that maybe a dog or a cat would be a better choice but due to Asthma problems, animals were always avoided in our home.