October 27, 2007
Could Have Used Some Help
Ever since I started watching HGTV all the time (about years ago), I've picked up a lot of helpful tips that I've been able to use both in my home and at school. If you remember, 3 years ago, I painted our whole classroom prior to us opening our brand new preschool class. I also painted all the little wooden chairs, and all the shelving and cupboards. The other day, I found a big stash of heavy vinyl in the school store room that had been donated. I recovered the top of this ugly little table we had. If I had Ingersoll Rand air tools, namely a staple gun, it would have been so much easier and quicker!
October 26, 2007
Can You Tell?
Tell me something. When you are taking your nutritional supplements, can you tell the difference? When I was on 'the right track', I took quite a few different vitamins and things. Now of course, I take nothing, because I'm an all or nothing kind of person! The thing is, I've never been able to "feel" any difference from when I'm taking them or not. I've heard people tell me how they notice a huge improvement. I can't say that's ever been my experience!
Think About It!
You'd think that a company would do some market research before making certain decisions. The company that my husband works for is American owned. While that's all well and good, they're sometimes way off base when making certain decisions. For instance, in our province, we are undergoing a huge boom, and it's very difficult to find laborers. The market is extremely competitive. Therefore, the wage this company pays it's young part time staff, is way too low to be anywhere near competitive in this current economy! My husband's hiring requirement now, is, "If they've got a pulse, hire them!"
October 24, 2007
I Hate to Admit It
I hate to admit it, but I am not a football fan! As much as I am a crazed Edmonton Oilers hockey fan, I could give 2 rat's behinds about football. In fact, if I won Super Bowl tickets, I would NOT go! Fortunately, I'm quite unlikely to win such a contest, and if I did, hubby is equally unlikely to find out that we won! heh
October 23, 2007
World Series Anyone?
The world series starts this week. I don't know how much I'll actually watch, but I was certainly inspired by the comeback performance of the Boston Red Sox. I guess I paid attention because I know a few Red Sox fans, so it clicked more than normal with me. I wonder if any of them have world series tickets! Sure would be excitingI I know because we got to experience the Stanley Cup finals 2 years ago, and it was one of the best experiences of my life!
October 22, 2007
Rather Morbid
Over Thanksgiving, my Mom, Sarah and I were discussing people who have DNR orders, who are in an accident or something, and the emergency response people don't know that the DNR exists, so they take any and all extreme measures to save their life, only to maybe leave them in a state worse than before. I suggested to Mom, who wears one of those medical gold bracelets to inform people that she has a pacemaker, that she should get DNR inscribed on the other side. She thought she just might do that.
October 20, 2007
A Little Bit of Fun
I am just starting to think about Christmas, and gifts. Every year it seems to get a little bit harder every year. The kids get older, they get fussier, and it's just not a very easy experience! Gone are the days when you could just go out and buy a doll, and some crayons, or a teddy bear for Sarah, and some Lego, a hockey stick and some slot cars for Ben! Now it's much more complicated!
October 12, 2007
Darn Knees!
My knees have been REALLY bad for the past few weeks. I'm hoping it's just the damp, cold, fall weather that we've been having. I think that they'll get better once the weather settles down some. I sure hope so, as it makes even walking any distance impossible. My knees not only ache, but they "give out" on me, so it's really getting annoying! When I think of all that I was able to do just a few short years ago, it astounds me! I best be buying some fishing tackle, because soon, that's the only sport my knees will let me participate in! hmmmph
October 5, 2007
Pondering
I'm starting to slowly get my mind wrapped around the whole idea of Christmas shopping, as much as it totally "annoys" me. I've figured out a couple of gifts for people, but basically I'm fairly clueless. I know that Sarah and Jay just want things from their wedding registry, I'm thinking of one of the Luminox watches for hubby, and I'm basically hooped when it comes to Ben and Jess.