Saturday, March 30, 2013

Easter Wishes~~~

Hello My Diva Darlings,

Well I still have my heart problems, and the Doctor is planning on testing me with some sort of devise to see how my heart action is over a 48 hour period, as I understand it, it will determine if the pace maker will be needed.

Right now I'm at my brother's house in San Francisco for the Easter celebration,  the weather has been going from warm to cold, to warm and now possibly rain.   But that is the Bay Area for you.

Much of the family will be joining us tomorrow and I'll be so happy to see them, I just hope I don't get too tired.

On the investment front, Obama talks about bringing business back to the US, but frankly is he strong enough to do it, is my question.

One of my great nephews has been accepted at the college in San Jose, he wanted to go there because they have an excellent course on electronic engineering, not electrical engineering but electronic, there is a difference.

Because if you think about my Dear Diva's, everything has electronics's involved from planes, to trains, to Automobiles, elevators and the automatic coffee maker.  An acquaintance of my brother said that is an excellent field to get into as we do not have enough electronic engineers.  So it is quiet possible that my great nephew will be making a nice salary. 

And in terms of job or career opportunities that is where a very smart Diva in advance looks into what is the most needed that has the least number qualified, that can be a growth market.  And then the minute you start making a salary, start saving for retirement immediately, don't wait and say "Oh I want that fancy car"...the car will only last 10 years at the most, but retirement funds is a difference between living very well and living at poverty level.  Frankly I prefer living very well, even if it does mean I have to have a pacemaker.

But now I must go my brother is going to treat us to a little outing.

Have a very Happy Easter My Dear Diva's!

Until Anon.  Kisses.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Updates on investing and my life~~~~

Hello my Diva Darlings,

I have not been posting of late do to medical problems, well to put it bluntly I've developed Congestive Heart Failure, I'm on pills and medications and there is the possibility that I will have to have a pacemaker implanted.

Everything is an effort right now, doing something as simple as reading is tiring.

Fortunately my home is set up so if I become invalided I can still move around and be some what independent, right now if I want to go shopping I have to be in a wheel chair. How frustrating!

Fortunately my family and friends including my dear Juanita have been taking good care of me. So I've managed to keep up with things.

On investing----I've gone conservative on my investments of late (before heart problems) and have been looking into Utilities instead of high flying things, when one reaches the senior years going for conservative will bring in the steady income.

I still do my "Mac and Cheese" investing as well on food stuffs and baby items, who would have thought "Pampers" would be such a good idea...I did.

There is talk that Colorado may follow the way of Utah in having gold and silver as the real commodity of exchange, there is a bill being looked at right now. Several States are already reconsidering re-jecting "fiat" money and going with a dollar that is backed by real gold, real silver.

I'm not saying that investing in gold and silver is the way to go, although silver is a good investment, but gold is very high right now. But this is a trend that is building ground.

But my Diva's don't sell your gold jewelry or anything like that, and never get anything less that 14 kt, if it's 10 kt that's costume jewelry in my book and look for the bargains you'll find it.  Check my earlier posts on jewelry investing.

Now I must go, I tire to easily right now my Darlings, remember always take good care of your health.

Until Anon, Kisses