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Gear Heads

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

My friend, Theresa, has a gear head for a husband.    He actually drag races semi-professionally.  We have had many a great time at the track over a weekend.   He even made it to the semi-finals for his division once and we spent the weekend camping out at the Indy 500 track!!  It is one of my favorite memories.

Theresa called me the other night and said that Terry was having a problem with one of his cars and he needed to look at automotive lifts so he could get his car up off the ground to work on it.  He has a great garage/shop, equipped with just about everything, except for a lift.  She said he was having some problems with the exhaust system.

She said that he has now gotten into motorcycle racing as well and was looking at motorcycle lifts so he could work on the bike more efficiently too.  I asked her where she was going to find the money for these things.  She said probably their income tax refund.   I am so glad that my husband prefers to watch the racing instead of participate in it.   I could not afford him then.

 

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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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Friends and new careers

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

I have a good friend who recently went back to school to become a male nurse  He is so excited!!  After his first few classes, he realized he was going to need uniforms and a lab coat for his classes that he had labs in.  He wanted something that was stylish, yet durable and comfortable also.  He was looking for a place to purchase men’s scrubs and men’s lab coats that were reasonably priced and easily obtained.

He is a very busy person what with a full time job, classes and study time, and needed a place where he could order online and have them shipped directly to him.

I asked around my circle of friends and I directed him to try http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Men/.  I told him that I have another male nurse friend who uses this website all the time and recommended it highly.  He told me that they have inexpensive uniforms as well as any other supplies and accessories you might need.

I am happy to say that he visited the website and is now a satisfied customer.

 

 

 

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Moving In

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Last night we rented a big U-Haul truck ad loaded it up with my stuff to take to our new house. We aren’t supposed to get the house until the first of May, but the owner said that since the last people had already moved out and the house was clean and ready, that we could move in a week early if we wanted to. So I can take off work for a couple of days, Owen can help move his stuff in this weekend, and my mom can help me do some of the unpacking and setting up the kitchen.

I was carrying boxes in from the truck when one of our new neighbors stopped by to say hello. He’s a nice guy name Micah. He lives across the street and down a couple of houses – I can barely see his driveway from my house because of the hill. But it was nice of him to stop in and introduce himself. That gives me a good feeling about living here.

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Big Love

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you have someone special in your life to celebrate this romantic holiday with. I am still being happily single and dating randomly right now. I was surprised to find a box of candy at my desk this morning! That made my day!

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