Month: September 2012

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New Bathroom Flooring Is In Order

My bathroom flooring has become such a disaster that I’ve had just about enough of it and have got to buckle down and find the right replacement bathroom flooring. My brother-in-law, bless his heart, installed the flooring that is in there now and just like everything else that this man gets his hands on, it was a disaster right from the start. He didn’t use the right materials, nor the corrects tools and now I am stuck with the nastiest looking and feeling (yes feeling, it is all uneven, cracking and breaking up) bathroom floor that I’ve ever had the displeasure of stepping on.

This morning I could have sworn that I sliced my foot on the tiles in front of toilet. Thank goodness it didn’t really break the skin, but it came darned close. Having a cut on the bottom of your foot can really ruin your day, that’s a hard place to heal (excuse the pun, if you will) and band aids don’t want to stay on anywhere on feet so I consider myself very lucky that it didn’t go that far.

I am thinking that this time I should stay away from tiles and look for something that comes all in one piece that just needs to be  rolled out, cut to size, along with some hard core glue to keep it from coming up and go from there. Instead of running around all over town looking at the various home improvement stores to find what I want and what I can afford, I’ll be spending my time looking online instead. Sounds like a plan to me.

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Photography

It’s too bad that I never took photography seriously back in school. We had a great teacher who became very well-known in the photography world and really loved teaching everything that he knew and was continuing to learn to his students. Some of them became professional photographers and have done quite well. I love taking pictures, but am lacking what it takes to constantly and consistently shoot good photos. One day I would love to take a class to learn more about it, I do so appreciate a really great shot, much like the one below that I found online today.

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Fog

This morning the fog was so bad on the way to work that I almost turned around and went back home to wait until the sun had a chance to burn more of it off before heading out again. I swear, I could only see about 15 feet ahead of me and to be driving on the Interstate with other cars going anywhere from 60 mph to 75 mph was just crazy. If I had a more understanding manager I would have gone back home, but I didn’t. I was so thankful to arrive at work safe and sound and almost got down and kissed the ground, but didn’t want to get dirty in my work clothes, so I said a prayer of thanks and gratitude instead.

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Pop Stars and Their Demands Backstage

I found this list of backstage demands of Pop Stars on Yahoo and thought them to be so very outrageous and had to share them here.

• Keith Richards: A guitar strap. Chicken sandwiches. Diet Coke. Cigarettes.

• Nirvana: Macaroni cheese.

• Marilyn Manson: Air-conditioning always on full. Gummi bears. Doritos. Microwave popcorn. Bottle of Absinthe. A bald hooker with no teeth.

• Prince: A physician. All food to be covered in clear plastic wrap.

• Frank Sinatra: An ear, nose and throat specialist with the anti-inflammatory drug Decadron.

• Motley Crue: Mayonnaise. Grey Poupon Dijon mustard. Creamy peanut butter. A 12ft-long boa constrictor. A sub-machine gun. Local Alcoholics’ Anonymous meeting schedules.

• David Hasselhoff: Life-size cut-out of David Hasselhoff.

• Sammy Davis Jr: Assortment of groovy chicks.

• Britney Spears: Two boxes of Pop Tarts. Fruit Loops. Cable television. Two 6ft sofas. Odor-free carpet. A phone line.

• Led Zeppellin: Iron. Ironing board.

• Janet Jackson: Chaise lounge. Ten black roses. Male catering staff.

• Beyonce: Pepsi products only. Honey Nut Cheerios. Ginger root. A two-man love seat. Toilet scrubbed with disinfectant. No sweets, chocolate or chips in dressing room.

• Barbra Streisand: Rose petals in toilet.

• Madonna: A new toilet seat. 25 cases of Kabbalah water.

• James Blunt: 120 bottles of beer. 12 bottles of Magners cider. 4 bottles of vodka. 3 bottles of white wine. 2 bottles of champagne.

• Jennifer Lopez: White flowers. White tablecloths. White curtains. White candles. White couches. Low watt light bulbs. Coffee to be stirred counter-clockwise. Skittles.

• Elton John: 74 towels. Flowers (NO chrysanthemums, lilies, carnations or daisies).

• P Diddy: 204 towels. 20 bars of soap. Two bottles of Hennessy cognac. Two bottles of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio. Two bottles of Veuve Clicquot. A bottle of Dom Perignon. Grey Goose vodka. Boom box. Bouquet of white flowers. Cheddar cheese and sour-cream chips. Sweet Tarts. A $300,000 bullet-proof Maybach.

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Basement Wet & Nasty

Fix Wet Basement and have it waterproofed, these are my latest chores to be addressed, and ones that I have not looked forward to starting, but has now become necessary, I can only hope that I haven’t waited too long. When I can’t come up with someone that I know or am related to, to give my business to, it has become useful to use the Internet to find what you are looking for, which in this case it did provide me with a company with a website of B-dry.com that looks promising.

They have been in business since 1958, that is half of a decade, a good long time to be in business. An interesting tool is on their website, a tab labeled WET BASEMENT ANALYZER TOOL, which takes you to a page where you click on whatever your issue is and it tells you what could be the cause of your leaking basement might be, which I gave a try and it pretty much confirms what I believe to be the case in our wetness issues.

I have filled out the request for a Free Estimate and hope to hear from someone tomorrow, would like to go ahead and get this ball rolling.

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Arts and Crafts Online

We keep hoping that an arts and crafts store will open up here in town. We used to have a Ben Franklins but that closed down years ago so now we have to drive almost an hour to get to a store to buy the arts and crafts that we want and need. Walmart has some items but for the most part we get our art supplies from MisterArt.com which is a great place to get all kinds of arts and crafts supplies at some great prices. Thank goodness for the Internet once again.

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No Socks For Men and No Stockings For Women

What is going on here guys? I keep seeing men on TV that appear to not be wearing any socks and it just looks so gross. Are they really not wearing any socks or are they wearing see through knee high hose? A few months ago I was watching a TV show “Millionaire Match Maker” and I remember hearing the match maker tell one of the ladies in waiting to take her panty hose off because they are not in fashion any more. So I guess it is men and women that are changing what they wear on their feet and legs and I don’t like it one bit.

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Friends In The Military

Was checking the custom air force shirts selection at Rangerup.com today. I really, really, really like this site. Their motto: Not everyone’s war stories end in High School – was what caught my attention a while back while I was up late one night mindlessly surfing the Internet. I ended up Bookmarking the site and I come back to it every now and then to see what mind blowing stuff they are putting out there for us all.

With Christmas coming up I am looking for some ideas to mull around and I love their custom air force shirts selection. I have many friends in the military, a few in each of branches actually. When I stop and think about it I know more people that I originally thought that have and are putting their lives on the line for their family and our country and there are several that I buy Christmas presents for each year. I’m thinking I’ll be spending more time at RangerUp.com as Christmas gets nearer and nearer and nearer and nearer………..