Life – Page 52 – Allyson Daniel

July 14, 2008

The best day in a long time

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This day couldn’t have been better if I had custom ordered it. A bunch of us got together and went to a local lake on a friend’s pontoon and had a blast. We fished, (I caught the biggest one) we played music, we laughed and we just had a great time. It wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. I’m telling you it was a perfect day. There’s nothing better than being on the water, sunshine, and good friends and I had it all today. I don’t get to go out without my children very often so it was a real treat but I have to admit. I ended up feeling guilty that I didnt bring them along. Mom let them play on the slip n slide in her back yard so they had a good time too.

July 12, 2008

Saturday again

I woke up this morning, looked at the clock, jumped out of bed because I was late for work and realized it was SATURDAY!!! I hate it when I do that. I haven’t done that since I was in middle school. My oldest just did that too.

She came home from school just before the end of school this year and had to read this boring stuff for English class and fell asleep. When she woke up, she looked at the clock and it was about a half hour after she normally got up to get ready for school and the sun was going down so it looked kinda like it would at that time of morning. Anyway, she jumped off the bed and took off to the bathroom to get ready for school and I had just sent her little brother to get her for dinner. He looked at her and said “What are you doing?” She looked at him like he was stupid or something and said “Getting ready for school, why?” Then he started laughing and told her that I had sent him to her room to tell her that dinner was ready. Yeah she felt real stupid about then but we all got a good laugh.

July 9, 2008

Make mine natural

I’m a big fan of natural things that help make you feel better, and many people already know about echinacea that comes from the purple coneflower. There will always be scientific debate over how effective these natural cures can be. Our ancesstors used natural cures and some do work just like some don’t but that’s true with medicines too,

I know from experimenting on myself that echinacea, astragalus and some types of mushrooms certainly kick in the immune system or mine anyway. They can also give you a yeast infection just like antibiotics though. So if you are the kind of person that keeps a bottle of echinacea in your medicine cabinet, I recommend adding some reishi and shitake mushrooms to the mix along with astragalus. That will help keep down the yeast infections.

June 29, 2008

Buffet books

I didn’t know Jimmy Buffet wrote books along with some great music but he does. I always enjoyed the tropical type music that he is so well known for producing so when I heard that he has written some books lately, I couldn’t wait to find one. I was thrilled to find one of his books called “A Salty Piece of Land” at my favorite used book stores for only $2. I’ve really enjoyed reading it this past week. I’m glad that inside of the book it tells me the names of his other books that I will need to see if I can find too. I’m especially interesting in finding the one entitled “A Pirate Looks At Fifty”, if I can’t find it locally then I guess I could always look on-line and see if I can find it somewhere out there in cyber-world.

June 25, 2008

Online Coupons

Everything is getting harder and harder to afford. My poor beagle Belle is a part of our family but sometimes I’m not sure I can afford to keep her. I found all sorts of online coupons for not only dog products but everywhere you can imagine. All I was looking for was discount dog food and found discount everything. A lot of the coupons for the stores also include free shipping of the products you purchase. You save money with the coupon, you save on shipping and you save gas all at the same time.

June 20, 2008

GPS

My mother gave me a GPS system for my car for Christmas last year. At first I wasn’t sure I wanted it but then the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. See, I work late at night some nights and my mother worries about me. She knows that all she has to do is go to her computer and she can see if my car is still at work, if I’m on the way home or if something is wrong because I’m not where I should be. That’s the part I wasn’t too sure about but I know Mom isn’t trying to check up on me, she’s just trying to watch out for me.

It came in handy last week too. I was on my way home about 11 pm and my cell phone was dead and I didn’t realize it. I got a flat tire. Mom knew I would be leaving about then and was watching me and saw that I had stopped. She sent her husband to me and I was never so glad to see someone in my life. He fixed my flat and we got home safely, thank goodness. I don’t go anywhere without it now.

June 2, 2008

I work retail

I work for a large chain retail store and go to college on the computer at night. I have to build a better life for myself and these children. It’s tough being a single Mom but its better alone with them than in a lousy relationship. My mother helps watch the kids when I work so that’s a big help. Sometimes I get lonely but how can that happen with a bed full of children, a computer and my beagle all at one time? 😉

May 28, 2008

Hello world!

Welcome to my very own blog. This is where I can talk about me and my kids, the rest of my family and friends, too.

Since I’m introducing myself, I should probably tell you that I had my first child when I was just 16 years old. His father was killed in a motorcycle accident 5 months before he was born. I was a child myself, no Daddy for my son and I guess I sort of lost it. I let my mother adopt him and I see now that it was the right thing to do. He’s much better off. My mother remarried and has a good marriage. Her new husband has been there from the start for my son and is the only Daddy he knows so that’s good. I lost my last child when he was born so now it’s just me and three.