Anyway, I was introduced to a site that might be helpful to people looking for apartments in New Jersey.  The site was encouraging New York Studio Apartments, but I thought I’d do a search in the New Jersey area, and see how low prices are. I put in the town and state of a local town, and searched for prices between $500-$700 a month, and had about 10-15 results come up within an hours drive of the area. I will say that the search wanted to keep defaulting to San Francisco, California, so when you see the results, make certain they are for the area that you’re searching for until they get the “bug” out of the site. Otherwise, it’s a very easy site to use if you are looking for a place to live in the area, and provides nice pictures to help you decide.

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I tried to dig around and see what I could find to connect Elvis with our fine state of New Jersey, this Baby Boomer remembers him well, and remembers how heartbroken some of my girlfriends were when he died.  I mean really heartbroken, you’d have thought they lost a family member or someone they knew personally and very well, when the closest they had been to him was to put together scrapbooks, listen to his music, watch him on TV, or if really fortunate, attend a concert.

Last year in New Jersey, they had the first ever Elvis look (and sound) alike competition in Rahway, NJ, here’s a video for you…these guys aren’t Elvis, but they aren’t bad either:

Always on my Mind - not “polished”, but nice:

There was an article written at examiner.com that made me think about our own experience purchasing glasses online…you can read the post about eyeglasses right here, written by a man who lived in Brooklyn, NY.

This was an honest review sharing how he was able to get glasses at a low price, was pleased with the glasses, and shared honestly why the glasses could be obtained at great discounts.

We have purchased glasses from the same source, and the prices are great…the fact that there aren’t designer frames, which there aren’t…but they are very fashionable, does not matter to us…in the present economy, getting glasses at somewhere between $8 and $50 dollars without insurance is amazing.

We did find that when we made our first purchase, we forgot to give proper measurements for the glasses, and had to send them back and get another pair, working out a fair arrangment with the seller. It’s important to provide your PD (pupilary distance) number…something you have to obtain from an optometrist.

You pick your frames and arrange everything online, it takes a couple weeks for your glasses to arrive by mail. For more information, you may want to stop by and take a look at holiday eyeglasses and then browse about the site and see for yourself what you can get for a great price.

Just recently I did one about making Cranberry Sauce that won lens of the day, and because of it, $1000 was given to a charity I chose, in my case, Soldiars Angels, and on the same week as Veterans Day which was a nice coincidence.  Stop by and visit if you like, Cranberry Sauce - from Bog to Table.  It takes you from the Cranberry Bog where we got the berries, to home where they are made into delicious whole berry sauce using ingredients from 2 vacation locations.

I also did one that’s about our town here in New Jersey, West Milford, NJ Quiz - What Do You Know?  And the one I think I told you about before, Weird New Jersey.

In fact, if you want to stop by and see how this NJ native spends some of her time, here’s my profile page on Squidoo with all of my lenses listed…they call a web page a “lens”:-)

While the rates you pay may be competitive, the penalties for driving without insurance are very severe…not only because of fines you pay, but because of the potential of losing your drivers license and not being able to drive to your place of employment, or the possibility of having your car empounded.

For more information on what to consider when getting a basic policy, click the “live link” above, and also visit the state.nj.us website and search “basic auto insurance policy” for our State guidelines.