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Spring is in the air

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

I love flowers!!!  Spring is here, it is time to plant!!!  I live in an apartment, so I cannot plant anything in the ground, I have to settle for hanging baskets and window boxes.  I like to plant a variety of flowers that will bloom at different times during the spring and summer, so I have color all season long.

I like the old fashioned look to my flower boxes, so I shop online to find what I am looking for.  It is difficult to find just the right thing when I shop only at the local shops.  There are so many places to search and shop on the Internet.

I have some hanging baskets as well, and they are okay, but I have to walk a distance to be sure that everything is watered, pruned and fertilized properly each day.  With a windowbox, all I have to do is open my window, and it is right there for me, without having to walk outside.  It makes it so convenient for me.

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shopping with Dad

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

My friend’s daughter received a Target gift card for her birthday last week.  She had wanted to go to the new Target store ever so badly since it opened in her small town last December.  She had been begging her Dad to take her almost every weekend, until she had about driven him crazy.  You see, they live in a relatively small town, where shopping options are very limited and the new Target store had opened up a whole new shopping experience for them.  She and her parents knew that you can save money when shopping at Target, especially since all of the stores prior to this had been small, locally owned shops, where the prices were a bit high as compared to the larger discount stores in the larger towns.

He is not big on shopping, as most men are not, and he is a very busy contractor and really did not have the time to take her. There was a Target located about 40 miles away, and he didn’t want to drive that far to go shopping, gas prices being what they are, and now he had no excuses not to go, so he agreed he would take her.  It happened to be raining this particular weekend, and his crew was unable to work in the rain, so this freed up his weekend to take his daughter shopping.

So she finally got to go to the new Target store.    The gift card she had received was for one hundred dollars, which is a lot of money to a 10 year old.  She made a list of all the things she wanted to purchase and off to the new Target they went.

She was only able to get about half of the things on her list, one hundred dollars does not go as far as a 10 year old imagines that it does, even when you are shopping at a great discount store like Target.  She was able to get some new clothes, so that she could wear what all the kids were wearing these days, you know how kids are.  And she was even able to get some new jewelry and a new purse; she had to have the latest and the greatest.   Then there was the MP4 player and a few CD’s she wanted too.  She certainly got a whole lot for her money that day.  I was impressed.

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Post Thanksgiving

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Ugh!!!  I am so stuffed!!!  But really, we had a nice quiet dinner with no company, no house full of people this year.  In fact, we ate out at IHOP on Thanksgiving and only cooked our turkey dinner tonight!!

I couldn’t see spending all day at work stressing over what I could not get done within the short work week and then coming home, taking care of our little Roo and Pooh bear (two cocker spaniels – for those of you who are not familiar with the family yet), and then trying to cook a big dinner, get pies made, etc., just to get frustrated and tired out.  So, I did the pies on Thursday for Friday dinner.  It worked out great!!  I had a 20 lb turkey to cook for two of us, so I froze a lot of leftovers.

I tried something new this year.  I made the stuffing from whole wheat bread, instead of white bread; I made my pie crust from whole wheat flour (a little tougher to roll out) and made sugar free pumpkin pie.  The entire meal turned out to be very tasty.  We did not do the traditional sweet potato pie or scalloped corn, since we are trying to watch our diets a little more closely these days, but we did not feel we missed out on a thing.  The pie was great!!!

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Reality TV?

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

I have noticed, as I am sure everyone has, that there has been a big increase in so-called “reality” TV in recent years.  I remember when the first “reality” TV show, Survivor, aired.  My neighbor, Becky, was very much into it.  I tried to watch it, but found it to be not to my taste.  I have heard that it is not even filmed in a remote location, but in a studio.  I don’t know if this statement is true, or not, and really, it does not concern me in the least.

I think that reality TV has gone too far.  Who cares about what the Kardashians are doing?  Apparently a lot of people, given the ratings.  I had never even heard of them until their show came out, and I have better things to do than watch what is happening in their lives; I am too busy living my life!!!  I really do not care about the real housewives of New Jersey or Los Angeles or any other city.  I have seen little bits of these shows (a few minutes is all I can stand to watch) and ask myself, “Are these people for real”?  Surely not, at least I would hope not.  And I do not care in the least what Snookie is up to.  People of America, get out there and live your own lives and quit burying yourselves in your television set watching these people live theirs.

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As Seen on TV

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

I am going to do something new, that I have not done in the past. I am going to give you my review of a product that looks great when they present it on the infomercial, but when you get it home….it just isn’t the same.  I am sure you all have done it.  I have done it several times.

Today I am going to talk about the Aah Bra (TM).  I looked great on those TV models and seemed to be everything I have been looking for for so many years.  I am tired of bras that cut into you and pinch your skin, leaving unsightly and sore areas around your torso.

So, one day, while waiting in line at the local Walmart, I see the display for the Ahh Bra (TM).  But, of course, they did not have my size.  So I continued to check every time I went to Walmart, and found the display to be empty.  I did this for six weeks, and one day my patience paid off (or so I thought).  They had more of them on the shelf!!!  Finally, comfort!!!

I purchased three of the bras and excitedly drove home.  After putting away my perishable items, and after six weeks of anticipation, I was going to get to put on my new and long awaited “comfortable” bra.

Well, let’s see…I don’t know if it was me or the bra, but as I tried to get it on over my head, it began to roll up (as had any sports bra that I had previously tried on).  After several minutes of contortion that I did not know I was capable of, I finally got the thing in place.  I found, much to my disappointment that it offered me no support and was what I considered nothing more than another sports bra.  It was definitely not made for anyone larger than a C cup size.  So, my Ahh Bras (TM) were sadly returned to the store, and my quest begins again.

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