I was reading the reviews of the fender precision bass at guitar center earlier today and saw that one of the reviewers wrote that this particular brand and make of guitar was the same one as the guitar that John Entwistle played with the Who in the glory days of 1969-70. I don’t know if that is true or not, but it piqued my interest because I have seen the Who in concert many times. I even saw them before they were famous in their own right – in fact, they were one of the opening acts for Herman’s Hermits back in the ’60s! I remember at that concert the band performed “Boris the Spider” and I LOVED it so much that when their first album went on sale in the US I went out and bought it as soon as I could.
Considering Joining A Book Club
I’ve been considering joining a book club. I used to always be reading something new. I haven’t picked up a new book in some time. I think it would be a lot of fun to get back into my daily reading habit. I always used to read before bed. It helps me relax and feel calm before heading to sleep.
Although, some times it would keep me up longer when I was reading a good book. It would be difficult to put it down. I would tell myself I’ll stop at the end of this chapter in order to avoid it getting really out of hand.
The reason why I’m thinking of joining a book club is because I would love to have someone to share and discuss what I think about the book. I love chit chatting about what I watch on television with my friends so why not do the same thing with the books I read. I think it it would be lots of fun to talk about what what the characters are doing and why they are doing it.
Digging deeper into the meaning of books is really exciting. I know it would be neat to hear the perspectives of others on the same book I’m reading. Perhaps they caught something I didn’t or view something in a total different way that I had never thought about.
Ignoring advice
When Marcia announced to the entire office that she needs to find a place that sells cheap trumpets, I pretended that I had not heard her. She is always telling me that she needs to find a place to buy something and then she never follows my advice. I get tired of sharing my experience and advice with people, just to have them completely ignore it. Sometimes I think about asking people why do they even bother to ask me for advice if they have no intention of even thinking about following it!
New Printer to Avoid the Empty Ink Cartridge Error
Why does my printer always go out of ink when I really want to print something. It never fails, I have something I need to print, maybe a coupon, a permission slip, tax paper work, you name it… anyway I need to print it and then I get the dreaded error message that my ink cartridges are empty.
It used to be that the printer I had would tell me the ink was low and just continue to print. The quality of the print would be very poor but I could still get something on the page. For some things the lesser quality was not a problem at all and I would continue to print until my pages came out blank.
I got a new printer a few months ago for a number of reasons. The primary reason was that the ink cartridges for my old printer were so darn expensive and I was going through them pretty fast. I was tired of paying $50 a cartridge and not having it last very long. I did research on printers that have low priced ink cartridges. I settled on an Epson Stylus NX430.
I love that the cartridges are only about $8! That is so much better than my other printer. And, this printer has individual cartridges for each color so I only have to replace the color that is out not all of them at once. At this price point I can change all for cartridges for still less than just the black cartridge of my other printer.
A good place to be
When Chuck told me that he was thinking about going to work as a paralegal for an office of immigration lawyers in los angeles I told him that was probably a very good place to work in that field. From what I understand there is a high concentration of people in that part of the country that may need some legal help to enter this country legally and become American citizens. I think that immigration law is probably a very secure field to be in.
Unorthodox uses for things
Guest post by Linda Bradshaw
When I was teaching decorative painting at the adult education classes at night, I often found myself needing more than two hands to accomplish what I wanted to do. Sometimes I needed to prop up a teaching aide on the easel board, but it would not be convenient to put it down on the tray. A lot of times it would just topple off of the bottom tray. It was a real challenge! So one day I was in the hardware department of the local department store, looking for a solution to the problem and found some spring clamps that would solve the problem – I could use one of them to clip the teaching aide(s) onto the side of the easel pad. I’m pretty sure that was not the original intention of the clamps, but they do a great job and I’m glad that I found them!
Educating Myself About Annuities
I don’t really know that much about anything at all when it comes to annuities. It wasn’t something that anyone ever took the time to explain to me or teach me about. Well I keep hearing the term tossed around so I thought I would educate myself. I did a little bit of work by searching online and came across annuity advantage.com.
Annuity advantage.com gives you all kind of information for you to learn about, compare and even buy different kinds of annuities. Hopefully after a little while spent on this website along with subscribing to their annuity rate newsletter I won’t feel so in the dark when people are discussing annuities.
The Best Birthday Presents To Get and Give
What is the best birthday present you have ever received? Was it some elaborate and expensive gift or was it a service that some one provided for you?
I think the best gifts are those that tell me that the person giving me the gift really took the time to think about what I would like. I enjoy gifts that people give from the heart and of themselves. I love it when someone decided that they want spend time with me instead of just tossing a gift card in a car and calling it a day. Don’t get me wrong I love gift cards because I can pick out what ever I want to get for myself, but some times I would rather just spend an afternoon with some one and or maybe share a meal together.
I love date nights for gifts too! These usually involve a gift from more than one person too. My hubby of course and then who ever volunteers to watch our kids while we go out and enjoy ourselves. Babysitting is a fantastic gift, it gives me a chance to have some alone time to get out of the house to be an adult or run errands. I’ve also used baby sitting to just catch up on sleep.
You know when you have those really long weeks and you don’t get more than 5 hours a night for a few days in a row. Those are the times when I cash in those coupons that my friends make for me for a night of free baby sitting. My friends come pick up the kids and then I can go back to bed and I love it! If I’m smart I’ll try to plan ahead and see if the kids can do a sleep over so I can sleep in.
So I guess date nights and baby sitting are my top gifts. What is the best gift you could receive or have received?
Tips to Selecting Wedding Favors
Wedding favors are the little items that every one gets to take home at the end of the celebration to remind them of the union of their friends or family. There are a wide variety of wedding favors to choose from that will compliment any wedding theme and style.
Affordable Wedding Favors – When I had my wedding the most important aspect of our wedding favors was that they were affordable. Affordable does not mean some cheap toy that will break after the first use. Now days you can purchase very reasonably priced wedding favors or even buy materials to make your own. As with most things, when you buy in bulk the cost per item goes down.
Practical Wedding Favors – Once you set a price point for your favors you have to determine what kind of favor you want to give. I enjoy receiving wedding favors that are practical and something that I will actually use. Functional items are nice and will remind your friends and family that you were thinking of them every time they use your favor. Bottle stoppers and led key chains are among my favorite in this type of favor.
Personalized Wedding Favors – Then there is the question of whether or not you want to personalize your wedding favors. You can do this by adding stickers or gift tags to bags, boxes, or tins. You can also choose to have something embossed or engraved. The possibilities are endless when it comes to making things your own. And don’t forget you can personalize both functional and consumable wedding favors. For example, if you want to give away those yummy almonds just put them in a favor bag, box, or tin with your label on it and you are all set.
I hope these tips make determining what wedding favors are right for your wedding that much easier. What do you look for in a wedding favor?
Worried about Trisha
When Trisha told me that she had to stop at the store and pick up some kind of detox in a bottle I was not impressed. If something is illegal, you should not do it. Plain and simple. I read her the riot act – I thought that she had stopped doing all of that bad stuff years ago. I told her that if she does not enroll in a program like 48 hour detox by the end of the month I was going to call in her entire family and all of her friends to perform an intervention. She was not impressed with the riot act at all. I’m worried about her.