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Beauty Salon Equipment Supplies By Elegans

Next week will be a great week if the weather could only cooperate a bit more. The kids will be out of school for their spring break and we are all piling into the car and heading down to North Carolina to spend some time with Judy and her kids. Judy and I have been very close friends since the fourth grade. Even though she moved down south, an eight hour drive from here, we have managed to keep in close contact with each other using our cell phones and of course there is always email and Facebook that we can rely on to communicate with each other.

Judy is in the process of opening up her own beauty salon. It will be good to be right there with her to get a good look at all of the things that she has been telling me about. Finding the right beauty equipment for sale has been a challenge for her. She is lucky that her mother lives less than 5 miles away and used to work as a beautician before they moved down there. I have always been envious of their close mother/daughter relationship. My mother and I rarely talk. I can’t imagine my mother just randomly coming over to the house and just hang out for the day. With her it still requires an invitation and it takes hours to get the place cleaned up before she is scheduled to arrive.

Anyway it looks like she has decided on the salon equipment sydney that she found online with the link that I found and sent her a few weeks ago. That makes me feel good to have been able to contribute to her new goal, even living so far away from each other. Watch out North Carolina, here we come!

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Doomed From The Beginning

As far as any one of us were concerned, our musician friend Eric had flown the coop to San Francisco and had no plans of seeing him again any time soon. He and his buddy, Josh, left right after Christmas, they loaded up their cargo van with all of their musical instruments and equipment and a few things that they would need once they got there and got settled in and left town with the biggest grins on their faces. A Kodak moment to be sure, too bad no one had a camera and didn’t think to use any of the cell phones that we all had that could have captured the moment, sigh.

So imagine my surprise to answer the door last night to find Eric and Josh both standing on my front porch looking pretty ragged and tired. I got them in, fixed them some grub and brought in the six-pack that I had just purchased on my way home and settled in to hear their tales of woe.

They were doomed from the beginning with getting two flat tires even before leaving the state and of course they only had one spare. That held them up an extra day and put a hurting in their budge right off. Then one night when they were in a restaurant/bar some body broke into their vehicle and stole a bunch of their equipment, including Eric’s brand new apogee quartet that he had just gotten for Christmas, which broke Eric’s heart and his spirit enough to were they never made it out to California at all. How depressing this whole adventure turned out to be.

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Aunt Shirley, Our Golden Oldie

Aunt Shirley has mastered her smart phone in a very short time. No one expected her to catch on so darned quickly. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is great, considering a lot of people her age wouldn’t even attempt to do some of the things that this “golden oldie” has learned to do. Last year she celebrated her 78th birthday party. Her 80th birthday party is going to be crazy fun. As a matter of fact it is already in the planning stages.

After Uncle Bernie passed away, she was back on her feet in no time. She went and got her real estate license and has done pretty well considering we are still in an economic crises and houses are still moving at a snail’s pace. She has been using a lot of tools that having a smart phone can offer. Even a pretty cool real estate closing checklist app that has proved to be one of the best toolss to come to the real estate business in a long time.

Heck I don’t even have a smart phone. Don’t want one. Don’t need one. As a matter of fact, my two year contract just ended with AT&T and I am due for an upgrade. I don’t want anything fancy. Don’t need the Internet, GPS, the weather, none of the stuff, just let me make a call, send a text and take a picture and I’m good to go. I know that they still make flip phones, but they don’t come with a slide out keyboard that is required for texting.

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Searching for Chocolate

My sister belongs to the local Red Hatter’s club, so I’ve been helping her to find a cool restaurant to hold their March gathering. They are a great group of ladies, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting most of them at various functions that I’ve attended with my sister. One day I’ll be joining the club, but you have to be 50 years old and I have a ways to go yet, but it will come soon enough, I’m sure.

Anyways, it is cool that we no longer have to rely on the old fashioned paper version of the local yellowpages to find local restaurants and such and that we can turn to the Internet to find just about anything you need at any time. Whether it is a local search or trying to find something half way across the world, it’s all there for the taking for anyone looking.

We did come up with a place called The Frenchman’s Corner, that sounds interesting, you can drink your coffee or tea and  taste their Belgian chocolates on a what is promised to be a journey of gastronomic sweet delights. Going with a group of friends to a place like that is perfect. If and when they decide to go there I’ll tag along, sounds like fun and I love chocolate!

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Insurance Needs and Wants

Shopping for your normal every day life insurance policies online has become a lot easier these days. I remember way back, years ago trying to do some comparison shopping for my auto insurance using the computer and it was a real hassle. I finally got so frustrated that I just about tossed the stupid laptop out the living room window and gave up. That left a real bad taste in my mouth, a taste that I just can’t seem to get our of my system for way too many years.

I was watching a friend go online the other day and it didn’t take him all that long to get some decent quotes for his home and auto insurance needs and wants. He finally hooked up with an agency don allred insurance burlington nc and couldn’t be happier, so I have decided to give it one more try for myself. I mean it shouldn’t be all that bad. I do spend a good amount of time on a computer at work and at home, so I shouldn’t have too much trouble figuring this whole free online quotes and get a much better bang for my buck.

According to all the TV commercials that we end up watching year after year put out by most of the well known top 10 insurance companies, I should be able to save at least $300 a year on my auto insurance policy, if I take my time, follow through and do it right. There is so much I could do with saving $300 a year!

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Pieces of Gold

It seems that gold is all the rage these days. The newspapers, television and the Internet are busy advertising companies that are willing to pay you some darn decent money for your broken, unused and unwanted gold pieces. Wish I had more of that to take advantage of, but I’ve never been much into jewelry.

I have a friend who has been up on the subject of gold bullion and is learning what it takes to make a buck or two by seeing what it takes to buy gold bullion. Once again the Internet has been most useful, it really is a great resource for us to take advantage of in this 21st century. I wouldn’t know the first thing about how to buy bullion, but I guess all it takes is to Google “bullion” and take it from there. But I think that I will let him do the legwork and see where it leads him and then maybe I’ll jump on the bandwagon! We will see how this all pans out.

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What Are You Wearing When You Are Learning Online?

I’m finding it to be true that more and more people are turning to furthering their education, because of the economy issues that have taken such a strong hold on the majority of us common folk and a good amount of them are doing this online at places like the Walden University. From what I can gather WaldenU.edu seems to be the first choice of so many folks that I personally know to be taking advantage of these online classes from the comfort of their own PC, leaving the decision of when and where they do their work completely up to them. Being able to be learning while still in your pajamas seems to be a adverting gimmick for online schools. This makes my warped mind wonder how many are learning in the nude!

I can’t help wonder if all of these people would be back sitting in a more formal classroom in order to keep their heads above water during these extremely rocky years if these online classes were not so readily available. I can only imagine how full and/or overflowing today’s classrooms would be if not for today’s technology making it so much easier to obtain this very important education that has become necessary for so many people to obtain in today’s very competitive world.

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On My Soap Box for Just a Moment

I was always taught that with everything in this world that has good, there is always a bad and vice verse. The holidays are filled with such wonderful things, family, friends, good food and course all the good gifts and presents that are given and received. It is unfortunate that people do turn to drinking alcoholic beverages this time of year and that presents problems with holiday drinking and driving.

Each year we hear how they are catching so many people drinking and driving and lives are lost due to that. Christmas is no time to loose someone due to some one’s carelessness. By getting a DUI is bad news all the way around. I know several people that still don’t have their license, because of getting caught drinking and driving. It can cost you a boat load of money, jail time and then having to find high risk drivers insurance to boot.

So I’m hoping that people will drink responsibly and that we can all enjoy a fun but safe holiday this year. With all the snow still on the ground people need to stay off the bottle, stay off the cell phone and pay full attention to the road up ahead. I’ll get off my soap box now.

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Marching Bands

While looking online at various musical instrument sites, trying to find a good deal on an electric guitar to get for my nephew for Christmas I came across some exquisite Atkinson french horns that brought back a flood of memories from my days back in high school. One of our favorite things to do was to go to the Friday night football games, man those were some extraordinarily good times. The half time celebration was always a blast. I knew a lot of the kids that were in the marching band that always played during this exciting half time. To this day I get goose bumps whenever I see or hear a marching band play like in a parade, or on TV or in a movie, or even on YouTube!

I am still on the look out for a good guitar and with Christmas only a couple of weeks away I’m starting to get a bit nervous about the whole ordeal. It’s a good thing that I got a lot of my Christmas shopping done way ahead of time.

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Atkinson A800 Pro Double French Horn
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Rooommate Jackpot

My roommate comes from a rich family, and her dad completely bank rolls her lifestyle. She is really sweet, and I always end up benefitting from her father’s generosity, so I can’t complain. When we moved in to our apartment her father went ahead and connected all the utilities and said he would be happy to take care of them for a whole year while we got situated. He hooked us up with a great cable package and clearwirelessinternet4g.

I felt bad accepting it at first, but what could I do? When I spoke to my roommate about it she told me she knew it was weird, but that’s the way her dad is and that I should just enjoy it. She said she has tried to tell him she wants to be on her own, but he won’t take no for an answer. If only that was one of the problems I had with my parents! I was worried that she would turn out to be a terrible roommate and that is why her dad needed to sweeten the deal, but she’s not. She cleans up after herself and is very respectful. I guess I hit the roommate jackpot!