Category: Friends

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Insert Foot

Sometimes people should have a mute button. I wished that the person I was conversing with had had one today. I would have gladly pushed it before she released way too much information.

Luckily for her the information she released was not that harmful but could have been saved for inside of her head! Oh well unfortunately people do not have a mute button and we can really only truly be responsible for our own actions.  However, these same actions do have the ability sometimes to effect others. Therefore what would really be nice is to have the ability to scan and mute any words/ actions that could impact other peoples lives. This is all a dream of course.

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Girls Night Out

We are going for our monthly girls night out. I think we will hit the Blues bar this month. I have to see what the consensus is with everyone else first though. I do vaguely remember on our last night out, we had said Blues Bar this time, so we shall see.

My mother is going to keep the kids over night, so I do not have to worry about them. I can crash at a friends if I choose and not even go home till morning. That is a good thing, since one of my friends lives in town and I can park at her place, then take a cab to the bar. No drinking and driving for us.

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Wedding Decorations

There are so many different wedding decorations that it boggles the mind. It’s no wonder that women go nuts right before the wedding. After spending months trying to figure out what you want, placing all of the orders, setting it all up, the stress is tremendous. Add the excitement of starting a new life and wow! Instant insanity!

I feel sorry for those women who don’t actually do the planning themselves. The do miss out on a lot of fun that can be had with their friends. It’s like and integral part of getting married, sharing that time with your closest friends. At least people are still picking out their engagement and wedding ring on their own!

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Girls like sports too

It is true that girls can like sports too and I am a true sports fan, I played many sports as a young girl and I do enjoy watching most of the sports that all of the men like. Football is my favorite and baseball is not far behind. I have learned to love hockey since I moved here to Nashville, I have attended many of the Predators games and I love my hockey seats, we are right on the glass and you can hear the boys sweating.

Now that football is over and hockey is on break all I can hope for is spring training to get started so I can have some baseball to watch. One of the few sports that I do not follow at all is basketball, we went to one live pro game a few years ago and I tried to watch it but just could not make myself, so hurry up baseball season.

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The New Marriage

Today I heard some interesting statistics on the world news.  The news anchor was discussing the recent views of love and marriage for the ages of 18-29.  These views have changed drastically over the last decade.  Apparently, the mindset of this group of people in today’s society is that of raising children over getting married.

The news anchor reports that in 2010, 52% of people ages 18-29 think that being a successful parent over getting married while only 30% of this group believes that having a successful marriage is more important. This does not surprise me.  People in this age group are more concerned with getting their careers started before getting married.  Unfortunately, for some they become involved in a relationship that creates a child before they get married.  I think that this has a lot to do with these statistics.  I think that in the future we we consider to see these trends as the economy declines.  People will look to alternative methods of entertainment, not always for the better.

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March Madness

It is time for the month of craziness to begin, March Madness is the time of year that I truly love. College basketball is a passion to me and many others as well. I love the brackets that we fill out every year, and this year we have added a new game to our yearly brackets.

A free bingo card is something that we have been talking about for a long time now. Take a look at our bingo card and I think that you can see how it works, I can not wait for the March Madness basketball tournament to get here for our fun to begin.

I think we will have a lot of fun with this new way to play at our March Madness party. I know that girls do not know as much as they guys, but I have won the bracket for the last three years and I plan on winning the bingo game this year as well. Come on guys ante up and lets get the game under way.

Of course I know more because I had three older brothers who taught me the best way to win at everything I do. I want to thank my brothers for teaching me to play to win.

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Bring Me an Eggroll

I’m the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of Asian food. I think part of it may be that where I grew up there was no Asian food. I never had anything remotely Asian until I got into college, and that was the cheap take out food that you eat by ordering combination #1 or combo #2. The only food I was willing to try was sweet and sour pork. That was OK, but the best part of the meal was the eggroll. Don’t ask me why, but I like eggrolls.

So tonight we went to an upscale Asian restaurant and I didn’t know what anything on the menu would taste like. They did not have a sweet and sour pork, but they did have eggrolls. So I ordered a chicken dish with a funny name and the eggrolls – the eggrolls were awesome. The best I’ve ever had!

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City water

I hate city water, but never more than now. Seriously, they have made some definite changes to our water and I am so not happy about it. There is so much chlorine in the water that it is messing up my hair. This makes me go through so much more conditioner because I am trying to equalize it and it is not working at all. Even my hairdresser noticed the difference and asked if I had changed shampoo’s or somthing. Definitely not good. I decided to call our local water company and find out what the deal was. Why did they change our water? The answer was basically that they were forced to up the chemicals due to the heavy rains and since our winter weather is mostly rainy, it was here to stay. Great! Just what I needed to hear.

I cannot handle the water as it is right now, so I guess I am going to have to think about putting in a water filtration system. I thought about ones just for the bathrooms, but apparently of the four available, that is not one of them.

  • A pitcher filter only gives you clean drinking water. That is good but certainly won’t help my hair any.
  • A sink or faucet filter only services that particular area
  • An under the sink filter is about the same with only doing that sink
  • A whole house filter will service the bathrooms and showers, but of course is much more costly.

Since my main concern is for my showers and bathtubs, I suppose that I will have to bite the bullet and spend the money for the system. No one in the house is happy about the changes made by the water company as the children have complained that their eyes hurt after taking a shower. You know when that happens, there is way to many chemicals in the water. I had this problem once before when we lived in our old house. We didn’t own it so weren’t about to spend the money for a filtration system for it. Now that I own my house though, I can justify the expense and it will add value to my home as well.

Environment Masters in Jackson MS have come highly recommended after much research, so I have decided to go with them. I have a few friends and family members who have used them and still do for repairs etc… At least I know that my home will be taken care of correctly. I should have done this a long time ago.

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Hair styles

There are so many different hair styles to choose from and hair accessories as well. From barrettes, ribbons, and combs to beads and feathers, you can use so many things to give yourself a new look. I found feathers online that are amazing and come in tons of different colors. They even have temporary color chalk to give yourself streaks of color to add to it. I found it online the other day when I was searching for accessories to wear to a wedding that is coming up.

I decided I want to do something a little different this time as the wedding theme is a bit different. It is a camouflage theme and all the guests are encouraged to wear colors that go with the theme of camo itself. I think I am going to get some green and orange feathers and maybe some chalk and play around with it to see how I like it. I have a green colored dress that will be perfect for it all to go with. I also have some camouflage pants but those are orange and blue and white. I may decide to wear those as the wedding is the typical “redneck” wedding and out of doors. It may work out better that way.

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Such wonderful news

I just got such wonderful news this morning and wanted to share it with you. My best friend in the whole world has just told me that she is going to be a mother. That’s right people. There is a new baby on the way for me to spoil rotten the same way she has spoiled mine. I am over the top. She has also asked that I be the baby’s godmother. I am honored to say the least, but to be honest I kind of knew that would be the case since she is godmother to my eldest child.

Now for the really fun part. We get to shop till we drop for baby gear and that is sooo much fun. I have already told her about all the sites I know for awesome stuff and she is going to come over later so we can oogle everything. As soon as she knows whether it is a boy or a girl, we will be able to figure out what she will decorate with and go from there. I can’t wait !