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車を売る前には中古車査定相場表は必ずチェックしておくといいそうですよ。
車だけを売る場合では見ておかないと損をするかもしれないですからね。
中古車査定額を自分で知っておくことで、買取業者さんに売りに行くときに査定額を知ってないと、業者が提示した金額が本当に妥当かどうかわからないですからね。
安くても自分で納得して売れた方が断然いいですもんね。
私も中古車査定相場表なんてのネットで調べることができるなんて分からなかったですからね。
最近はなんでもとにかく調べてみるといいですね。
こんな事が？と思うことでも調べることができますからね。
ネットで中古車査定を調べてみると本当に簡単に調べられますね。
車検証を手元に置いておけばもうバッチリですからね。
ただ、想像以上に査定額って低いので驚きますけどねー。
あまりの低さにショックを受けるかもしれないので、その辺は頭の片隅に置いておく事ですね。
私もそう思って試しに調べてみたのですが、やはりショックでしたからね。
私の場合は売る予定がないのでまぁいいかなぁーなんて思いましたけどね。
本当にこれを売りに行くのだったら…と考えたらかなりのショックでしょうね。
しかし、冷静に考えたらそんなに高額に買い取ってもらえるわけなんて無くて当然ですからね。

人間の体に必要な酵素は、消化を助けたり、皮膚の新陳代謝を促したりと、重要な役目をになっています。
この酵素が不足すると、消化や新陳代謝がうまくいかなくなり、食事をとっても栄養をエネルギーに変えることができなくなります。
ちゃんと食事はとっているのに、やる気がでない、疲れやすい、太ってきたというのは、酵素不足が原因かもしれません。
酵素ダイエットは、不足した酵素を補うことによって、体の新陳代謝を活発にし、摂取した栄養をエネルギーに変えていくので、ダイエットに効果があるというわけです。
昔は、食べても太らなかったのにと思っている方は多いと思いますが、若いうちは酵素もたくさん出ているので、太らなかったということです。
それが、加齢とともに体の衰えを感じるようになると、酵素も減ってしまいますので、疲れやすくなったり、太ったりということになってしまいます。
私も、この歳なるとずいぶん余分なお肉がついたなと思うのですが、酵素が関係していたとは知らなかったです。
友人から酵素ダイエットのことを教えてもらいました。
仕事はわりと、ハードなので、酵素ダイエット用のサプリメントと、きちんとした食事をとれば、ダイエットできそうな感じです。
酵素ダイエットは、無理なダイエットを強いるものではなく、体に本来必要な酵素を増やして、新陳代謝を高めるのが目的なので、健康維持にも効果的なのです。
普通のダイエット作戦が長続きしなかった方も、酵素ダイエットを試してみませんか？

看護師求人は至る所でおこなわれています。
看護師求人はハローワークでもおこなわれていますけど、インターネットでもおこなわれています。
求人というとハローワークという考えを持っている人は多いです。
ネット時代の昨今でもハローワークで求人を探すという人はたくさんいます。

看護師もハローワークで探す人はいます。
でも、ハローワークの看護師求人は残りものが多いですよ。
ほとんどの人はネットで探します。
インターネットの看護師求人サイトから探す人が多いです。
良い求人はほとんどネットで埋まってしまいます。
インターネットで埋まるからハローワークにはほとんど残り物しか来ません。
残りものだけにハローワークの求人はあまり良くないものが多いですね。
良い看護師求人を探すのならインターネットから探すのが良いです。
パソコンのインターネットだけではなく、スマートフォンのインターネットからも探せますからとても便利です。
どこにいても求人を探せるのが良いですね。

探すだけなら休憩時間などを利用して探す事も出来ます。
まだ仕事を辞めていなくても求人を探せるのがスマートフォンの、インターネットの良い所ですね。

最近は男性の間でも脱毛はかなり人気みたいです。

もちろん女性はもう特別なものではなく、

年代を問わず脱毛していますよね。

脱毛といえばミュゼがやはり人気のようです。

大手が経営しているので、安心感もありますよね。

また、大手は教育システムも確立しているので、

どの店舗でも同じ技術がうけられるというところも大きなメリットです。

ただ、余りに人気なので問題も出てきたようです。

脱毛は1度で終わるというものではありません。

それは、一度に行うと、刺激が強すぎて、肌によくないからです。

だから、当然キレイに仕上がるまでは、何度かサロンに通う必要があります。

その時、予約して行くのですが、ミュゼプラチナムの予約は取りにくいという

噂が最近流れています。

人気だけに、そうなるんでしょうが、

困ったことですよね。

でも、予約は別に電話でなくてもいいわけです。

意外とスムーズなのがネット予約です。

電話ではなかなか取れなかった予約が、ネットでは簡単に取れたという人も

多分、予約のシステムが別に作られているので、

そうなるのでしょうが、これは結構いい情報だと思いますよ。

今日は台風がもしかしたら直撃するかも、っていうことをずっと言われ続けていて
はや１週間。もしかしたら、もしかしたら昨日の土曜日にはすでに到来していて、
今日はもっかずっと暴風域。なんていうことだったので、気持ちはずっと、昨日から
月曜日にかけては暴風雨圏内でなにもすることができない、っていうイメージだったのですが
なんのその！そのイメージは大きく外れることとなったのです。というのも、この
台風さんは進行スピードがかなり遅いらしく、到着するとしても今日の深夜？
それか明日のお昼とか。なんだかこれってすごい予定が立てにくいことでも
あるのですが、それでも今日はこの快晴がとっても嬉しかったです！で、そんななか
ボーーっと考えていたのですが、もし私が薬剤師の免許をもっていたとしたら・・・
薬剤師は高年収っていうイメージがどうしてもあるので、いまこの生活も
かなりゆとりのあるものになっていたのかもしれない、と思わずにはいられません。
だって、やっぱりこういうのってどうしても資格がものをいうっていうことがありますよね。
しかも、薬剤師ってだれもがとれるものじゃない、っていうのが凄いことすぎます。

病院にはたくさんの人たちが訪れますね。

体調不良を感じたり、体調に異変を感じた場合には

医師の診断をうけることが大切だと思います。

診断を出すためには診察が行われます。

その診察がスムーズに進むようにサポートを行うのが

看護師の仕事になるんですよ。

看護師はこのほかにも様々な仕事があります。

例えば検査や検査の準備、説明も行いますし、患者の

体調をチェックすることもあるんです。

そして入院患者の介助を行うということもしますので

体力的にも、そして精神的にも大変な仕事だと思うのです。

ただ、患者が元気になった姿を見ると嬉しい気持ちになること

でしょう。

多くの人たちが看護師として活躍をしていると思うのですが、

中には「別の病院で仕事がしたい」と考えている人もいるかも

しれません。

そして「東京」という場所で看護師の仕事がしたいと考えている人も

いるのではないでしょうか。

そこで参考になるのが東京 看護師転職の情報なんです。

この求人情報はインターネットから確認することができるようになっています。

ですから自分の好きな時間に情報収集を行うことが出来るでしょう。

別の病院での仕事を行うのにも、精一杯頑張ってほしいですね。

This week’s review: UNDER A SUMMER SKY by Nan Rossiter

Get your beach bag ready! This book is a must read to take to the shore. As a matter of fact, if you can’t make it to the beach this summer, this book will take you there. From beautiful cover to cover, you’ll feel like you need to empty the sand out of your shoes even though you never left your living room!

Noah and Laney Coleman and their five sons and two dogs, one old lab named Mennie (Amen) and a new puppy named Halle (Hallelujah), live in a big old house on Cape Cod. The sons range in age from 21 to 7 (about to turn 8). Life in the Coleman house is a flurry of activity all the time! With Noah being a very busy minister; Laney a teacher; Elijah (E.) and Gabe lifeguards and college students; Ben and Seth on the track team in high school; and little Asher having trouble with a bully at school~~there’s seldom a free moment! With all of that going on, Noah somehow forgot to tell Laney that he agreed to let his brother Micah and his fiancée, Beryl, have their wedding at the very much in need of repairs, Cape Cod Coleman house!

In the midst of getting the big, old house ready for what will be a happy day, the family must also suffer some growing pains and some unsettling news. Laney faces some medical news that she’s reluctant to share. Noah’s parents, Asa and Maddie, are heavily involved in the lives of their two sons and their grandchildren, but when their sons want to know more about what is going on with them, they’re suddenly quiet. Though Asher is relieved that his bully has been kicked off of the school bus, he’s really worried about the circumstances surrounding the incident and even begins to blame himself for the outcome. And Elijah has met and become serious with a girl who seems to differ on some fundamental views of Elijah’s own.

If you’ve never read a Nan Rossiter book, you’ll have no trouble in making this one your first. If you have read Ms. Rossiter’s work before, you’re going to love seeing some familiar names in UNDER A SUMMER SKY that you may have come across in THE GIN AND CHOWDER CLUB and MORE THAN WORDS. And as a bonus to all of us, the author includes a “Cast of Characters” guide in the front of the book that is just brilliant! 


There are so many things to love about this book. Ms. Rossiter takes some very important and timely issues and incorporates them into her story. She also gently handles some very difficult “part of life” issues and pulls at your heartstrings. As with each of Ms. Rossiter’s novels, the story gets told and all of the strings tied neatly in the end…but she always leaves a little something for you to think about for her next book. There are some scenes in UNDER A SUMMER SKY where the author includes sermons that “Noah” preaches at his church. These sermons are some of my favorite writing in the book. Really read those sermons. Some of them really hit home.

And for those of you who just happen to love running~~you’re going to love that this entire family is a family of runners. I absolutely love the competitive spirit of the siblings and even Noah and Laney too! 

Anxiously awaiting Ms. Rossiter’s next book. Though, I’m wondering which character from this book will make an appearance in the next! 

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A copy of this book was given to me by the author. The above opinions are most definitely my own.

Maryellen is a 48-year-old avid reader, runner, and reviewer who lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Mike and their two rowdy cats. The fact that she has a car named RoxyBlue and has a phone named Janet (Miss Jackson if you’re nasty) are only two of a million reasons why I love her. Couple that with her insight, intelligence, and her always half-full glass of optimism and it makes for an exceptional book reviewer. I am lucky to have the honor of Maryellen allowing me to post her reviews here every Monday.

This week’s review: THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD by Laura McHugh

There’s nothing I love more than stumbling across a debut novelist who just blows me away. THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD is Laura McHugh’s debut novel and it is gritty, suspenseful, mesmerizing~~and it blew me away!

Set in Henbane, Missouri in the Ozark Mountains where you’re either a local in town or you’re an outsider, this is a story about the disappearance of two women a generation apart and the one girl that is the link to finding out what happened to both of them, even if it means she could lose everything.

Lucy Dane was just a baby when her mother, Lila, disappeared. Lila wasn’t much older than Lucy is now when she went missing. Lila was an outsider in Henbane and never really accepted by the townsfolk but for Carl Dane—he was immediately bewitched. And that was part of the problem about Lila; she had an exotic beauty and an air of mystery about her that made the people in this backwoods town think that she was a witch. Now that Lucy is older and looks just like her mother, she is a constant reminder to the people of Henbane of that unsolved mystery.

Cheri Stoddard is developmentally challenged. She’s slow. And her only friend is Lucy. When Cheri goes missing no one seems to care, except for Lucy. And a year later when Cheri’s body is found mutilated and on display across from the Dane family business, Lucy is determined to find out who did this to Cheri and if it has anything to do with her Mother’s disappearance. Sometimes the truth is a hard pill to swallow. And sometimes the truth can get you into some trouble. 

“You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There’s no forsaking kin. But you can’t help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family” 

The WEIGHT OF BLOOD is told in alternating narratives between Lucy and Lila. And then about midway through the book we get narratives from some of the other key characters. Though some might think those narratives would muddy the waters of this sordid story, the fact is, they don’t, they enhance it greatly. Watch out for unlikely heroes. And just like in real life, there are characters in this book who are good people that fall into bad circumstances; and bad people who have moments of good. There’s a definite “ick factor” in this book with regard to some of the characters. You’ll need a long, hot shower after reading this one.

4.5 Stars

An ecopy of this book was granted to me by the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions above are expressly my own.

Maryellen is a 48-year-old avid reader, runner, and reviewer who lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Mike and their two rowdy cats. The fact that she has a car named RoxyBlue and has a phone named Janet (Miss Jackson if you’re nasty) are only two of a million reasons why I love her. Couple that with her insight, intelligence, and her always half-full glass of optimism and it makes for an exceptional book reviewer. I am lucky to have the honor of Maryellen allowing me to post her reviews here every Monday.

Like cooking and sex, some people are better at forgiveness than others.  I count myself among the deficient crew.  Up until recently, I’ve taken a backwards approach to forgiveness.  My philosophy was to hand out many “get-out-of-jail-free” cards, but once they were used up, so were the offers of any more.  There was a threshold of betrayal and once crossed, there was no going back.

Part of my problem with the concept of forgiveness is my strong belief that people should be held accountable for their actions.  Moreover, people should pay for their mistakes.  Forgiveness seemed a foolish concept—a way of erasing another person’s slate.  Go ahead and dump on me.  It’s okay, because I forgive you.  Ugh!

Then I started to look at forgiveness from a different angle.  Maybe my job isn’t to dish out punishment.  Maybe forgiveness means realizing we are all human and inevitably, we will all mess things up.  But what about the epic screw-ups?  Are there some things in life that are beyond forgiveness?

You only have to forgive, but you don’t have to forget.  How cliché.  How convenient.  But how right.

Maybe forgiveness is all about letting go of the anger and sourness—like pouring the grease off of cooking meat.  Maybe forgiveness is an internal process.  I toss aside the hurt, but that doesn’t necessarily dictate what I do next.  It doesn’t strictly imply that I allow someone whom I know is dangerous back into my life.  The process of forgiveness doesn’t mean I have to reach out to the person I forgive.  I just have to let go of the poison.

So I tried it out.  I opened my heart and shed feelings of bitterness and resentment.  In some cases, I reached out to those against whom I have held a grudge.  In other cases, common sense told me to stay away.  Either way, I feel lighter and more at peace than I have in a very long time.  Maybe forgiveness isn’t so bad after all.

This week’s review: ABOVE by Isla Morley

Blythe Hallowell is sixteen years old. Today is the Horse Thieves Picnic in Eudora, KS. Blythe is going to meet Arlo Meier there. Young love. Arlo and Blythe find themselves alone for just a moment when Arlo’s name is called over the loudspeaker. He says he’ll be right back. Blythe waits but Arlo doesn’t come. Now angry, she leaves. She starts walking home. And that’s when Dobbs Hordin, a survivalist who knows Blythe from the library, offers her a ride home.

Blythe won’t make it home that night. She has been kidnapped under the guise of being protected from a major world catastrophe. Dobbs locks her away in an abandoned missile silo in the middle of nowhere that he has claimed and fashioned into a bunker of sorts where he thinks she’ll be safe from the destruction of the world. He’s going to save her! She is his prisoner.

At first, Blythe tries everything to get Dobbs to let her leave. She tries to escape on her own. She even tries cooperating to fool him. He will not let her go. He takes what isn’t his. Two years have passed. She gives birth to a son that she names Adam. Trying to raise a son in this prison is the only thing that keeps Blythe from taking her own life.

Adam is fifteen years old when he and Blythe are finally able to escape the prison that Dobbs has held them in all these years. For years he has told them stories of the destruction of the world and their responsibility to restore and repopulate it. Blythe can’t wait to show Adam the real world and for him to meet her family. 

And then this book takes a turn that I absolutely did NOT see coming. Wow what a twist! To tell you any more about it would constitute a spoiler and I truly don’t want to do that. You’ll need to read it for yourself to know what happens when Blythe and Adam venture out into the world after having been held hostage for seventeen years.

Author Isla Morley does a brilliant job of creating a character in Blythe that is absolutely believable. She goes from a terrified teenager to a mother in her 30′s intent on freeing and protecting her son. The descriptions of the missile silo and the claustrophobia of it all will give you a sense that you’re trapped too. I found this book difficult to put down even though at times my heart was racing. There have been comparisons made between ABOVE and ROOM, by Emma Donoghue, though both books have a premise of a young girl being held captive, they become very dissimilar rapidly. Both books get high praise and recommendations from this reader.

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An ecopy of this book was graciously provided by the publisher via Net Galley. The opinions above are expressly my own.

Maryellen is a 48-year-old avid reader, runner, and reviewer who lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Mike and their two rowdy cats. The fact that she has a car named RoxyBlue and has a phone named Janet (Miss Jackson if you’re nasty) are only two of a million reasons why I love her. Couple that with her insight, intelligence, and her always half-full glass of optimism and it makes for an exceptional book reviewer. I am lucky to have the honor of Maryellen allowing me to post her reviews here every Monday.