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Holiday Getaways

This is the first year that we didn’t manage to get a way for a week or at least a long weekend before school started. Between all the non-stop drama that seems to be never ending around here and the lack of any extra money in the budget we have pretty much stuck here in town and at the house.

But there is hope that we might be able to squeeze out enough money and time to do a winter getaway. There is always a first time for everything they say. I have been check out some of the groupon getaways that I was told about and I feel myself getting excited about actually being away for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. At first I found myself getting all sentimental about not being with all our other friends and family members during these crazy and hectic holidays, but after giving it more thought I really think that it would be a good thing to try for once.

It is always such a pain trying to prepare for the usual holiday festivities that take so much time, energy, money and emotion. Trying to please everyone, even knowing darn well that is impossible, but I seem to keep on trying year after year after year. And to be honest I really get tired of eating so much turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy at each and every family members house that we are compelled to visit each Thanksgiving and then a month later do it all over again for Christmas.

I’ll get you posted on what I come up with and when.

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I need a new computer

The computer that I use is in my young son’s bedroom.  It has to keep up with 4 different users trying to use it 24/7 and I’m getting so tired of it.  I can’t get on when I want because there is always someone already using it and when I can get on it takes forever for it to boot up and it is so darn slow, but it usually gets the job done somehow.

There I feel better now that I vented.

P.S.  I hear the one of my brothers has a computer for me to use, he just hasn’t had the time to come and install it for me.  Looks like it will be placed on the dining room table, we never use it for meals anyway!

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Termite Control

A cousin of mine is living down south in Alabama with her new boyfriend and was telling me about a problem they had when she first moved down there with serious damage from termites at the house he’d inherited from some aunt. She said that they had to get some exterminating company to look it over and he said they needed formosan termite treatment. It didn’t take long or cost them an arm and a leg, which can be a concern. She says they are now termite free and very happy!

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Not Just Pimples

With two teenagers in the house, we have had our share of drama when the dreaded pimples appear. It always seems to be at the critical times, like right before a school dance or an important first date with that oh so cool guy.

I admit, Acne is not a life or death situation, but to a teenager, a breakout of acne can ruin their social life and after all, that’s what the teen years are all about.

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Drama, Drama, Drama
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New Sewing Experience

I had expressed an interest in sewing to my husband and had told him I wanted to get a sewing machine so I could learn some techniques in creating some beautiful home piece’s such as pillows, blankets, throws, curtains or even clothes I became a pro at it. So my wonderful hubby had brought home a sewing machine from Walmart and man I was so excited to get the actual opportunity to sew. I got straight into the car and went fabric shopping so I could come home and experiment with them, and I had found that it wasn’t as easy as I had thought it would be and being the perfectionist I seem to be I wanted all my work to be precise.

I went to an Arts & Crafts store nearby to purchase a book called “Sewing for Dummies.” Of course the first piece I tried to work on was the easiest, a simple bed pillow and it came out surprisingly nice. I kept on with sewing the simplest things until I felt I was ready for something a little more challenging. I had found a page where it teaches you how to make something called a quillow, it seemed to be trickier then anything I did before, but I gave it a shot. It took me quit a few times to put one together decently. I do believe I have found my new hobby that I enjoy so very much, and I’m hoping that if I become good enough with it, then I could start selling them for extra cash or even give them away for birthdays and Christmas’s to other family members. I am so excited to learn so many more new things and get to gain knowledge on this sewing machine.

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We Need an Auto Loan

Mom’s taxi service is about worn out. I really need to get a car for my oldest so she can start running some of these errands. She’s had her driver’s license for 2 years now and has done so well, I have every confidence that if she has her own car she will be a careful and responsible driver.

A friend of the family has a car lot in Northern Virginia. I don’t usually drive all the way up there, but i called him today and asked if he had any bargains on the lot. He said that he was sure he could find a good car for her, but he wasn’t sure he could help her with a car loan.

I’m not all that concerned about the financing from the dealer. I know of a website that has information on car loans and they help people nationwide. You can apply online for an Auto Loan and find out online if you’ve been approved. They even have auto loans for people with bad credit. Our credit is not bad, but I would like to find a way to get my daughter involved with the loan and start building her own credit. I’ll send them an email and ask for help from their representative in the morning. Then we can drive up to Falls Church and see what kind of car we can buy.

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Problems with Pictures

I have wanted to post a few pictures of my daughter that I have been speaking about her cheer leading, I had tried to a few weeks ago and couldn’t and forgot all about it. Then I decided just now to try again and I’m not being successful at all.

I guess I will have to ask Hubby to come and see what I am doing wrong. I hate asking him for computer help, he has no patience what so ever and I know that it is going to end up with him fussing and cussing (loudly at that) and we will hear a lot of banging and clanging and it usually works out that he has solved the problem. But there are times where he can’t fix it and then we have to call my brother and it can take weeks to get him to come and help us out, but beggars can’t be choosy so they say.

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%&#@$$$ car repair…..

I missed the phone call this morning from my car repair guy, but did find the message in my Voice Mail later in the afternoon and so I called as soon as I got the message. The guy I needed to talk to had left for the day, but I spoke with another gentleman who informed me that we are looking at the $1200 area for what it will take to get the oil leakage problem taken care of.

Not good news.

Called my brother, he is going to call the garage tomorrow and speak with my customer service rep and find out exactly what is going on that warrants the amount of work and expense that is being deemed necessary by them. Since I just had them do an oil change a little over a week ago, and now a seal is blown and oil is spewing out as fast as you can put it in, it just doesn’t sound quite kosher and I need for him to interject with his knowledge of my car, he knows my car well, bless his heart.

In the meantime I’m trying to figure out how to come up with the funds to take care of this very surprising and untimely expense and aggravation in my life right now.

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My love affair with chocolate

As I’ve written before about my newly found love, once again, for chocolate, I have decided that I am going to start looking around for new treats for me to try out, and what better way to search, than the Internet of course.

I have been looking around and bookmarking several websites that look appealing and that I will consider making a purchase at. Can’t say I was surprised in how responses I got when I Googled, “chocolate,” but it did take just a bit of time to get to some organized and placed into a folder for further research.

The one that I have decided that I am going to order from first is from a company called Gertrude Hawk they are a company out of Pennsylvania, actually I’m surprised that I have not heard of them before.

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Cousin Emailed Me

I have so many cousins running around out there, all scattered all across the United States, not to many have stuck around the Virginia area at all. I have this one cousin who I became close with in my teen years because he played in a band, I used to go and listen and dance my heart out – this was in the 80’s, disco was in it’s peek and I loved it.

Anyway we have drifted apart, but have managed to keep in touch via email, but I haven’t heard from him in years so I was surprised to hear from him all of a sudden. Seems he just wanted to touch base with me, he had heard a song on the radio that reminded him of the days of disco and he thought of me.

He seems to be doing all right for himself, still not married even once, and I’m sure he is in his mid fifties, how odd, I don’t think he is gay, but one never knows, and I’m not asking.  He is now living in Texas, close to where his folks ended up living after retirement, and just got a new job at a big Lumber company that produces a wide selection of treated wood products, such as pressure treated lumber for construction, he sent me the website for Pacific Wood so I could see what the company is all about.  It seems like a place that he will do well in, he used to work for a company like that when he lived in Winchester, Virginia.  So I know he knows his wood, I just wonder if he still plays the drums, I’ll have to ask him next email.