A Good Night of Sleep

A good night of sleep is a key factor to our health and well being. We spend a part of our lifes in bed so it makes sense to invest in a good furniture and matress.
I have learned this lesson the hard way. A few years ago, when we moved to our new flat, I bought a cheap matress. At that time, I though I was doing a good deal but I wasn´t. Now, I realised I really need to replace it because some days I wake up tired, like I didn´t rest anything during the night.
A nice looking bed can be inviting but I think the key for a good night of sleep is a quality matress and pillow. I´ve been doing price comparison and I came across an online shop, called Time4sleep, that sells beds and matress at affordable prices.
Time4sleep has a big sellection of different beds, such as wooden, leather, metal, divan, French style and much more. They sell good quality matresses and have free delivery on orders over five hundred pounds. If you need a bed quickly, this company has "The Next Day Bed" service which allows us to buy online and have it delivered the next day.
Need a good night of sleep? Check out this store.

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Magi´s Day: Portuguese Traditions

In Portugal, Christmas holidays end today.
On 6th January, we celebrate the Magi´ day. Traditionally, we only remove Christmas decoration after this day.
Another old Portuguese tradition is singing "As Janeiras". Janeiras are an old tradition that has been kept, specially in small villages. A group of adults plays and sings traditional music, door by door, wishing a good new year to others. Then, the owner of the house invites them to eat and drink.
This week, my daughter´s homework was to look for Janeiras lyrics. She didn´t know what it was so I took some time to show her how it works. I found several videos of "As Janeiras" in Youtube, so if you´re curious just make a search there and take a glance at our traditions.
Good Night.

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Cheap Web Hosting Services in the UK

UK Cheapest is a company, first formed in 1995, which was created to provide a Network Infrastructure Service and Support to corporations based in and around Essex and London.
In the past decade, this company developed and expanded their activities to provide other services in the website development area. UK Cheapest provides services such as cheap domain names, web hosting and a web site builder tool. With their hosting services there is no setup or additional charges. PHP and mySQL Database is included with all hosting accounts and there are no additional charges if you exceed your monthly traffic allowance. This last detail is very important if you can´t predict the amount of traffic you´ll have.
If you exceed your monthly traffic, they might ask you to upgrade your account if this becomes a regular problem. Besides this, a POP mail server (incoming) and SMTP mail server (outgoing) are included in all hosting accounts. There are no extras to buy and they don´t charge your account for hidden costs. You´ll only pay one year up front fee and they garantee 99.9% uptime and fast Linux based servers.
With UK Cheapest services you´ll have web hosting with all features included, which is a great deal to manage a website on a low budget.

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Link Tool For Blogs

E-Referrer is a free tool created to link back to those who link to you. This tool is a script you add in your blog´s HTML which displays a widget that monitors visitors. If those visitors came from a link on another site, e-referrer registers this link in real-time and displays it on the widget.
E-Referrer provides several features to manage what will be displayed on the widget. You can customize how the widget looks, define how many referrers you want to display, manually delete any referrer, filter keywords, display by hit frequency or by date and time, etc. You´ll also find some video tutorials to learn about this tool.
Currently, E-Referrer is working on some new features to improve the program and they already launched eReferrer 2.0 Beta site. This service is totally free. It can be a good help to manage link exchanges and can create new reciprocal link opportunities.
I´ve seen this tool in use on other websites but I didn´t try it in my blogs yet. I think I will try it out. With this tool I will give some links out but I´ll know exactly who is linking to me and where visitors come from.

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Citizen Eco-Friendly Watch Collection

Citizen is one of the world´s largest watchmakers and a leader in timekeeping technology. Citizen was established in 1924, the year they sold their first pocket watch, and has grown exponentially in the past three decades. Since 1986, this company has repeatedly achieved the world´s largest watchmaker distinction.
Over the years, Citizen has been a very innovative brand. They have developed advanced technology such as the world´s slimmest LCD watch, the first voice recognition watch and the first professional dive watch with an electric depth sensor.
Recently, Citizen has developed an ecologically friendly watch collection of light powered watches which are called Eco-Drive. Eco-Drive watches never need batteries, they run continuously when exposed to any kind of natural or artificial light. The company promises that this new citizen watches last a lifetime. In the long run, a watch which is fueled by light can really be a money saver.
I´ve seen some Eco-Drive watches and I think they´re a good investment both for personal use or a gift. My hubby is crazy about watches, if he could he would make a huge collection. He´s just my opposite. Currently, I don´t wear any watch. The last one I had ran out of batteries and I started using only my cell phone watch. I really wouldn´t mind receiving an Eco-Drive watch, it would be a perfect Valentine's gift. My birthday isn´t far either, it could be a two in one present but I have to find a way to let him know.

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Music Monday IX : Heróis Del Silencio

Hi.
For today´s MM, I selected a group I started listening in the early 90s and became their fan.
The name of this group is "Heróis del Silêncio" (Silence Heroes) and they´re Spanish. They´re the only Spanish rock group I hear and I enjoy both their lyrics and music. I know many of you don´t understand Spanish or Portuguese. I like taking part in MM to share the music I really like to hear, no matter what language.
Herois del Silencio and their singer, Enrique Bunbury, were already nominées for Latino Grammy Awards in "Best Rock Album" cathegory. This song, "Maldito Duende", is one of my favorites from this group and this video is from their Tour 2007 DVD:

You can also visit Herois del Silencio Official Website for more info.

Update - Maldito Duende lyrics:

He oído que la noche es toda magia,
creí que un duende te invita a soñar,
y sé que últimamente apenas he parado,
y tengo la impresión de divagar.
Amanece tan pronto y yo estoy tan solo,
y no me arrepiento de lo de ayer,
las estrellas te iluminan y te sirven de guía,
te sientes tan fuerte que piensas
que nadie te puede tocar.
Las distancias se hacen cortas,
pasan rápidas las horas,
y ese cuarto no para de menguar.
Y tantas cosas por decir,
tanta charla por aquí,
si fuera posible escapar de este lugar.
Amanece tan pronto........


Happy Blogging Monday!

Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. One simple rule, leave ONLY the actual post link here. You can grab this code at LJL Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted.

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Meeting People Online

While visiting other blogs, I came across several stories of people who meet online and start relationships. There are some bloggers that meet others and extend their friendship offline.
Last summer, I experienced this for the first time. I meet a blogger online, we exchanged links and comments for some time and then we meet offline. We meet for a coffee and spent some hours talking about our life, both online and offline. We said goodbye with the promise that one day we´ll meet again. This person lives in another country but visits mine for holidays. We still exchange comments and I think our friendship was enriched by the experience of our meeting.
When I first started blogging I never thought this could happen to me but it did. My experience was on a friendship level but there´s people who extend it further. Like me, you probably read stories of people who meet online and then get married. This stories make me curious about how this relations develop.
Probably, people meet in services such as 100% free dating or trough other social networks and then take a further step and extend that relation offline. Then, they meet again and their relationship develops from there. So, meeting online is just a starting point but it´s a totally different way of starting new relationships and a reality of our days. Technology is having a great impact on the way we relate and communicate with others and I wonder if it´s leading us to better quality relations or not.

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Back To School

Our school vacations ended. This Monday is "back to school" time. We´ve been so lazy this past days.
Without fixed timetables we wake up, have meals and go to bed later than usual. It´s holidays after all and it feels really good.
I´ve been a worst student than my daughter because she did all her homeworks and I didn´t. In January, I´ll have to work harder to make it up.
On top of my shillyshally, my hubby had his company´s Christmas dinner on the same day I had an appointment with my teacher. I had to stay home with my daughter and missed the appointment. What´s worst is I didn´t warned my teacher in advance or contacted her after. I have to mail her first thing in the morning.
Well, it´s time to organize our backpacks and tomorrow off we go.
See you soon.

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