They are Here

Have you moved lately? I did about 4 years ago. I am a very very organized person. And I make all kinds of plans when I move. Down to blue prints as to where all the furniture will go in the new home. But what was so nice last time was that I did not have to do it all.

Our satellite TV service is with Direct TV and they did all of our move for me. I just picked up the boxes and remotes and took them with us. A service man came and put up a new dish on the house and then set up everything for me. Whew! I loved it.

Have you ever used Directv? I had cable before and I would never want to switch back. I am so happy with the service I get. So much so that now there is a receiver in every bedroom along with the living room. We do not watch much TV in our bedroom but Dear Hubby plays a lot of games on the TV. Yeah they have games like Scrabble and Skip-BO.

Direct TV in Texas is pretty popular. We know of many of our friends and neighbors who have hooked up to satellite. Of course we are out in the boondocks. And TV reception is non-existent without some sort of help from a cable or satellite company.

Fantastic Sweepstakes Available

Charter's Free Gift Card Sweepstakes has it where you can enter for a chance to win a $5,000 gift card grand prize or four weekly prizes of a $1,000 gift card. You can mix and match gift cards in $500 increments in several different brands. The contest is open to anyone and no purchase is necessary.

The contest is part of the easy-to-use website where you can custom build the service bundle that you wish to have. A current or new customer who orders anything online at Charter throughout May is automatically entered to win and will receive $75 or $150 in gift cards depending on their bundle selection. Now that is something people are going to want to win!

They offer bundling services like the phone and satellite companies do now. So things are pretty comparable. A current or new customer who orders anything online at Charter throughout May is automatically entered to win and will receive $75 or $150 in gift cards depending on their bundle selection. This is something that Charter has been really bringing up. Just in the last year they have gave away laptops and Xbox 360 game systems and a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid. Wish that had been me with the Honda Civic Hybrid. Don't you? Just last month Charter gave away an HDTV a day, including a grand prize of a home theater system and one year of free Charter Digital Cable® service with HD programming. WOW!

You know times are changing. I notice how we use to only have the 4 or 5 stations that were around locally when I was growing up. Then cable was the thing. Now people are using satellite too. Heck just the web is an amazing place to crawl around. Well Charter is keeping up with the times too. To keep up with the latest you can Follow Charter on Twitter. Yeah, I like knowing where I can enter to win goodies. Don't you. And heck if you are looking for a change or just adding on then why not try to win at the same time?

Quite a Lady

I have to tip my hat to hard workers. And I do also like to recognize people who know that hard work is what brings us up through the ranks. I just told you about Soojung Cho and her beautiful artwork. Now I wish to direct you to a lady who makes nightly news spectacular.

CBS Laura Diaz is a woman with humble beginnings. Born in Santa Paula of farm workers starting a life for their children, Laura and her family spoke little English. Laura learned, along with her family, English and moved to Santa Clarita Valley. Laura's teachers were very supportive at William S. Hart High School where Laura was on the cheerleading team. She continued on to earn a B.A. in English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. It was from an internship at IBM Communications that she found her love of public speaking. And Laura found her voice through KSBY-TV in San Luis, in Fresno for KFSN-TV and as a reporter for KABC-TV.

Now so far Laura sounds like many we know. Hard working, humble roots and having the experience of a good education. Good but not out of the ordinary. Diaz reported on many stories, such as the First Interstate Bank fire, the Northridge earthquake and the Los Angeles Riots where Laura was held at gunpoint by an angered group. In 1997 she was named lead anchor evening and nightly news and was the first Hispanic woman to hold that spot. In 2002 Laura Diaz changed from KABC-TV to KCBS-TV as co-anchor of the 5 and 11 p.m. news.

Laura now holds eight Emmy Awards, including an Emmy for Individual Achievement in Feature Reporting. She also has 2 Golden Mike Awards for best feature reporting. To top it off Laura holds the national Imagen Award from 2006. Top it off with the L.A. Press Club's highest honor, the "Joseph M. Quinn Award" for journalistic excellence and distinction. She has shown her talent and dedication to her career field. As a field reporter and producer including her anchor duties, Laura told of a undercover federal agent who infiltrated a murderous motorcycle gang, "The Mongols". She shared with us about a gang member that exposed "Emotional Gangs". This is a gang that spreads hate between African Americans and Latinos.

Top this with her commitment to "The Joyful Child Foundation." An organization that grew from her extensive coverage of the murder of Samantha Runnion by a sexual predator. Now this group works organizing neighborhood watches and how to stop child predators. 51 programs have now been established in southern California. It also includes children's creative writing and artistic programs, organisations to prevent child abuse and abduction and research about predator behaviour.

Now I know this is long but I do wish to recognize that dedication to self, to community and to a career is admirable. And in Laura Diaz we see all of this. Hats off!

CG Still Toils Away

Well CG has just one more day left of her spring break. She has helped me so much with the GrandBabes here. Top that off with a paper she has been working on all week for a final. Sad to say her time she had planned to for Direct TV has gone a lil hay wire.

I wish we could afford to hook her up at school. The only have cable there. There are not any Direct TV Options. I was doing a lil research online to see what she could do. And I found this spot that will help you out. It does the search for you. You type in where you live (zip code) and what your interested in (like hd, sports, movies, ect.) and all the options in that area show up for you. Even the phone numbers to call. Makes research a lil easier.

I know CG wishes her research for the term paper was this easy. But alas she must toil away at it. And if all goes well maybe she can fit in a lil Direct T V before she leaves.

CG Favorite Thing

I asked CG what she was most looking forward to during her Spring Break. And her reply was TV! You see she does not have a TV with her this semester in her dorm. She did the first time she was there but they did not have satellite available to them there. She found that she did not watch much TV with what they provided. So coming home for a week she is hoping to catch up on some of her favorite shows.

CG likes what TV offers. Her favorite channel is Bravo for the design and cooking shows they have. Next is the SciFi channel. I know that she hopes to find a Top Chef marathon so she can watch all of this last season.

I know that here it is the last thing I have as a luxury. I think that in cutting my budget I just do not want to lose TV. It is not that I watch it all the time but I do have so much of my evenings alone. And my mom says she can not sleep without it on. DH likes that we have games on through our TV. And when he comes in late at night it is something that helps him unwind before bed. So I guess during this economy we will scrimp and keep it in our budget.