Posted By Tina on July 25, 2010
Have you ever noticed at the parties that you go to that the men gather at one end of the party area and the women gather on the other? What is up with that? One of the things that I try to do at a casual party is to integrate the men and the women, but it just doesn’t happen very well. The other day I went to an Elks meeting with my husband. It was supposed to be a pizza party. When we arrived, I helped to set up the tables and chairs and I put my purse down on one of the chairs at one of the tables. When everyone sat down, I noticed that it was all the men at one table, and all of the women at the other table!
To be perfectly honest, I was feeling snubbed by the women at the meeting, so I tried to listen to the men’s conversation, thinking that I could participate in some of that chatter. But all they seemed to be talking about was sports, or cars. I could hear that one of them was trading in his dodge ram but couldn’t make up his mind between a chrysler 300 or a suzuki kizashi . Another guy was talking about buying a new infiniti ex as a graduation gift for his daughter that had just graduated college. Must be nice to have enough money to buy your kid a brand new car like that! I’ve been driving around a 1996 Chevy because money is tight, and these guys are talking about buying new cars. Why can’t men get more excited about fixing up their houses?
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Posted By Tina on July 25, 2010
Last night my hubby and I went to eat dinner at the local Ruby Tuesday. I tried the new appetizer, Boston Barbecue chicken wings. It is served with ranch dressing and celery. Well, I didn’t eat the celery – I read an article recently about secrets waitresses won’t tell you, and it said that at least ten people handle the lemons and the celery sticks, so I don’t go near them with my mouth!
But I loved the chicken wings – they were delicious! I’ve spent at least an hour today looking on the Internet for the recipe to that barbecue sauce. Can’t find it! If you find it, please send it my way! I’d love to have it!
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Posted By Tina on July 25, 2010
One of the things that I find most telling about the economy is how many homes have signposts in their yards that advertise that they use some kind of home security system to deter burglars. As more and more people are losing their jobs and falling off of the unemployment benefits roster, more and more people will be turning to desperate measures.
I can remember just a few years back no one in this neighborhood even locked their doors at night, or when leaving the house! People felt very safe around here. But I’ve been hearing recently that a few houses a couple of blocks away were broken into over the past couple of weeks, and just last night by neighbor told me that someone appears to have been in their house over last weekend when they went away to visit their relatives in Ohio.
They said that it does not look like anyone stole anything, but things were rearranged and food was eaten from their pantry and refrigerator. And beds had been slept in. I have to wonder if it was maybe some neighborhood kids that were just taking advantage of a temporarily vacant house to have some private romance time! I’m glad that nothing was stolen, but I’m sure that it would creep me out if I came home and found that someone had been in the house. Who knows what they might have gone through? How could I tell if a couple of pieces of jewelry were missing?
My hubby asked me to try and find a consumer reports article about what are the best security systems and services to use. I think he is concerned that someone might break into our house and steal some of his NASCAR collectibles! When I got up this morning I saw his laptop computer was on the http://www.broadviewsecurity.com/webpage. So I guess he’s really serious about looking into a system!
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Posted By Tina on July 24, 2010
Yet another day of extreme heat today. I was hoping that this weekend was going to bring us some decent weather for once. I have a lot to do outside, but the heat just makes me crazy and I’m so sick of it. I usually adore the summer months but I have to tell you that I can’t wait for autumn this year. Even winter sounds good at this point!
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Posted By Tina on July 24, 2010
I can’t believe that I let such a pile build up in my bedroom of junk, like old newspapers, magazines, the local yellowpages, old expired coupons and the like. I’m glad though that I do recycle and that all of these are paper products that can be recycled when I go into the part of town that has the recycling containers for us all to use.
These days if I want to do local search for someone or some place all I have to do is go online to sites like local.com and I can find the local restaurants, pet stores, shoe stores, auto repair, etc with just a few clicks on my keyboard, so who needs the paper version of the phone book these days. Of course if you are still in the dark ages and don’t have Internet access you would still rely on the paper version, I just hope that when you are done with them that you would have the common sense and the decency to recycle them, just like I’m planning on doing. We all need to do what we can in order to be a “green” as possible these days and recycling is a big part of becoming “green” in today’s crazy world.
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