Josh Madagan

The Academy Awards is on tonight. I haven’t seen a single one of the films that are being nominated. I frankly can’t afford to spend $10 – $15 per person to go see a movie in the theaters any more. I don’t go to the movies alone, so my out of pocket is anywhere from $20 to $40 for two of us to see one movie. They charge extra for 3D movies, and all the new movies seem to be coming out in a 3D version.

It will be interesting to see which movies win the Oscars tonight. I’m looking forward to watching most of them – when they come out on DVD.

Lately I’ve gone back and read over some of the blogs I have written.  I noticed one thing in particular and that is that they sound a little negative.  I think part of the reason is that I am obsessed with the news.  It’s the first thing I put on when I get home from work and it’s the first thing I look at on the computer.  CNN has become my obsession.  Which isn’t that bad considering it’s good to know what is going on in the world.  But now it is time for a change.  I am going to make a conscious effort to be more positive and upbeat in my blogs.  No more horror stories about the Craigslist killer or anything of the like.  We’ll see how far it goes and how many funny, positive blogs I can write before going back to my obsession with CNN.

Ebay is one of my favorite sites on the internet.  They have great products for great prices and a huge selection of things as well.  I have bought things off of Ebay for years, but finally made the first purchase for myself the other week.  It was a digital camera.  I received it in the mail yesterday.  It was a used item which I was a little worried about but everything seems to be fine with it.  I was using it last night at an event in DC.  It worked great and the pictures turned out perfectly too.  The best part of the whole deal is that I bought it for $29.99 which is less than half price if I would have bought it from a store.  I don’t really mind that it’s been used either, because there is a 30 return policy on it.  Like I said I love Ebay.

Just recently my wife and I have decided to put hardwood floors in our home.  We have lived here now for 4 years and have 2 cats that have torn up the carpeting.  We put off getting new floors in for as long as we could, but now it’s time to do it.  We didn’t know what to expect at first until we researched it a little.  We wanted to put something in that looked nice, but also was reasonably priced.  We knew exactly what we could and couldn’t afford.  It was great to finally find Seattle flooring, because they not only offered everything we were looking for but their prices were fantastic too.

We found the most beautiful hardwood floors on their website.  We actually used one of the photos from their website to come up with the cherry wood floors and the new design for our kitchen.  The job Seattle flooring did on our house was amazing.  We now have top quality floors throughout our house.  Our house looks bigger and brighter.  We couldn’t be happier with the results.  I would recommend Seattle floors to any and all of my friends and family.  The quality, the service and the prices are unbeatable.

I can’t believe it is already April.  It is getting closer and closer to tax time and I haven’t even started mine yet.  I guess I have about a week to get them done.  My wife was telling me the other night she hasn’t started hers either.  For some reason this year everyone seems to be procrastinating on getting their taxes done.  I don’t know if it’s the economy and the shortage of money or are we all so afraid that we wont have the money to pay our taxes so we are waiting until the very last minute.  I think our problem is a little bit of both.  I heard the best news the other day though.  On the radio a woman was talking about getting an extension on your taxes and also setting up payment plans to pay back to the government what you owe over time.  I never knew these options existed without a fee if you can pay it in full within 120 days.  I know I’ll be taking advantage of this option this year.