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Trendy Maternity Fashions Online at Kiki’s

My best and closest friend is soon to be a grandmother. Her oldest daughter has just announced her pregnancy and the whole family couldn’t be happier or more excited with the good news. The new baby is due to arrive some time in October, what a pleasant time of the year to bring a new little person into the world. Right before the holidays come into place.

Since her daughter will be in full “bloom” during the hot summer months, the hunt is on for maternity clothes that she will be cool and comfortable in in the heat and humidity. So far kikisfashions.com has been a big hit, they do have some of the trendiest and unique maternity clothes maternity styles for great prices. The days of wearing baggy clothes to keep comfortable while expecting are long gone and good looking clothes at discounted prices aren’t such a challenge to locate and afford these days.

I love this picture that was found at Kiki’s. What a cute shirt on a beautiful expecting woman.

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My Bucket List Just Keeps Growing

One of the many things on my current “Bucket List” is to go on a Galapagos Cruise. I swear if I ever win the Lottery or find a check in the mail from Ed McMahon telling me that I’ve won the sweepstakes for the direct marketing company of American Family Publishers that we all wish we would win, I wouldn’t waste a minute booking myself and my BFF on the biggest and best of the Galapagos Cruises that I could find.

For those of you that don’t know about the Galapagos they are located about 600 miles in the Pacific Ocean, off of the west coast part of South America and there are over 60 islets and islands that have kept people entertained and scientists busy as ever with all of the native species that this wonderland has to offer. I have a second cousin who just recently returned from her adventure on a Galapagos Cruise Ship and listening to her stories and looking at all the pictures that she has posted on Facebook from that trip just really sparked my curiosity about that area. I sure hope I get the chance to see and do all the things that my cousin did and more!

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Get It Together Dude

A former boy friend got pulled over for drunk driving a few weeks ago. It wasn’t the first time, I’m sad to say, that was one reason that I stopped seeing him, the drinking would get the best of him much of the time, sigh… This time I believe that if he doesn’t get a good Criminal Defense Lawyers to represent him, he may be spending some time behind bars. I’m sure he was driving on a suspended license so I’m sure that this whole episode will cost him a chunk of change as well.

He moved out to California shortly after our break up, which ended pretty badly. His sister and I became fast friends and keep in touch via email on occasion. His latest misfortune has the whole family pretty well shook up, I wish him the best of luck in getting his life in order once and for all.

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Airport Phobia

Wow it has been such a long time since I had anything to do with airplanes and airports, since 911 air travel has become such a hassle that I have completely shied away from flying, as so many other people have done since then. So when my BFF just announced that she will be flying in from Alabama for her niece’s high school graduation and that she needed me to pick her up from the airport, I almost fell over.

Don’t get me wrong I would do anything for my long time BFF (best friends since the 4th grade and still going strong after all these years) but just the thought of all the issues that go along with airports just gets my tummy all in knots. I mean let’s face it the jfk parking issue is enough to get me all in a tizzy much less finding the right terminal. What really freaks me out is if the flight is delayed then what would I do in the mean time? If it was just for a short time, like an hour or two, I could handle that. I would of course bring a book, but I can only sit and read for so long.

What ever it takes I’ll do it, don’t mean to sound like I’m boo hooing about it all. After sitting here thinking and writing about it it does sound pretty petty, never knew I had such an airport phobia……

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Thanks To My BFF

The one place that I always wanted to go to when I was a kid, much like every other kid, was Disneyland in southern California. It never happened when I was a kid, but now I have the opportunity to go there and by golly you can bet your bottom dollar that I am going to jump on it and go this year with my BFF Judy.

Judy managed to line up a sweet deal for disneyland tickets at dnticket.com that she is going to pay for with her tax refund check and she has invited me, her BFF since 4th grade, to go along with her. She had a lot of deductions this year and is getting the biggest refund ever and wants me to help her spend it! I mean what are friends for, right? We haven’t done anything major like this together in so very long, it will be awesome spending a whole week together in such a fun and magical place such as Disneyland.

I will have to buy some new clothes with some of the money that I get back from Uncle Sam to take with us, but I guess that is the least I can do considering the expenses that she is going to be responsible for for all of this.

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Sheetz Customer

I just got my Sheetz customer appreciation card which entitle me to save 3 cents a gallon as long as I make sure the sales clerks scans my card. I will also expect to receive an email once a month to let me know what item from their convenience store for free, like a free yogurt, a free bottled water, or a free package of candy. I love Sheetz, they all most always have the best price for gas as it is so saving another 3 cents will be welcomed.

 

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Weekend Bike Riding

What a beautiful weekend we had. The weather was perfect and most people were out and about taking advantage of this unexpected warm, sunny end of the work week. I took out the bike that has been in the garage all winter and rode about down town for a few hours on Saturday afternoon and had a blast. I was a bit out of shape, but I didn’t let it stop me and it felt good.

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Education

I’ve been thinking about going back to school, but I can’t decide what classes I would like to take. And I don’t want to do this on the Internet, I want to experience going back into the classroom and being able to discuss things with actual people. You would think that I wouldn’t have any desire to be around people after working with the general public as much as I do, already being in the bar tending trade and all. But I really feel the need to be able to feed, I guess you could say, off of other people’s ideas and suggestions.

I hated school when I was younger, it is such a shame that youth is wasted on the young. I really think that at this point in my life I could really concentrate and do a good job, if I set my mind to it.

I guess going to the website of our local community college would be a good idea to see what courses are being offered and maybe take it from there, see if anything catches my eye.

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Easier Communication

The Author of this post is Velma Baird

I’ve never had an interest in living in the city. I grew up in the country and plan to live here until I die. Sometimes I do wish I had a little more contact with the outside world. My sister told me about www.wildbluedeals.com and next time I am in town visiting the local library I’m going to check it out. I’m thinking that maybe what I need to better stay in touch is internet service at home. I have e-mail and a facebook account but don’t check them regularly. I’d love to be able to use them more to keep up with family and friends! It seems like no one writes letters anymore and I get tired of talking on the phone. There are only so many hours in the day and I feel like I’m just saying the same thing over and over again to different people. How much easier would it be if I could just type up one update and e-mail it out or post it? Same for sharing pictures. No more printing and mailing them to share.

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A Clock For Behind the Bar

Back when I was a kid, I went over to a friends house after school. She lived in a really neat old house that I remember quite well. In the TV room, where we spent most of our time, they had the most unusual clock that had the numbers placed on it backwards and it actually ran backwards. It made an impression on me and I always look for one like it, to no avail, sigh….

There are tons of wall clocks available these days, wish I could figure out where to find one that runs backwards, it would be perfect behind the bar area that I have in the basement. A good conversation piece, wouldn’t you say? I was looking on the Internet the other day to see if I could find this type of clock once again, when I ran across a blog that was about a man whose goat had eaten his clock, his prized mantel clock at that, a Tiffany & Company one that he was very distraught about. Kind of reminds me of the dog that ate the kid’s homework, ya know. Man that has got to hurt coming out of that darned goat!

Although I couldn’t find the wall clock that I was so hoping to find this time, I did find one that would look great behind the bar. Think I’m going to put it on my next years Christmas wish list.