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?

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!

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.

We especially get excited when we see a bluebird; we don’t see them very often!  My hubby has been talking about trying to take pictures of them, but by the time he gets his digital camera, they’ve flown off!  I recently came across a website that  sells special bird cameras.  I’ve never heard of them before, but I was intrigued.  These are special wireless bird cameras just for taking pictures of birds!  They are weatherproof, have motion detectors, and one even has a flash feature for night time photos!

The cameras were more affordable than I would have expected!  I just might break down and buy my hubby a bird camera for his next birthday.  I think he’d be really excited to get a gift like that!  No more groans of disappointment when the bird has flown away!

It just seems to me that when I was younger, the only people that I ever saw wearing scrubs had the name of the institution right on the scrubs.  So it would make sense that people would not take them home as they could be considered theft.  I guess the businesses now don’t want to supply the scrubs to their employees and are making them buy their own.  As such it would make more sense to see more of them being worn out on the street.  I still think it’s strange, though.

You can find plenty of nice rain barrels for sale on the Internet if you can’t find them locally. They have some wonderful styles of rain barrels to offer for today’s consumers. Not just the old wooden type of rain barrel that we grew up seeing from time to time. If we all try and harvest the precious and few rain drops that we are getting it could make a big difference all the way around for many folks.

That was my very first time painting on tiles! I used Folk Art Enamels paints, and used the One Stroke method of painting. When I gave them to my mother-in-law, she was thrilled to death! It would be very easy to glue some felt and ribbons to something like that to make a pretty gift!

I feel that buying the custom made for you hosiery a waste of money. I tried that once – I had to get a prescription for them and go to a pharmacy where they took my measurements. They sent away for the stockings. When they arrived they weren’t the right size, my insurance refused to pay for it, and the pharmacy said that once I opened the package that they were not returnable. So I was out over $100 for a pair of hosiery that I couldn’t ever wear!

Now I buy my compression hosiery online at Amazon.com. They have the best price, and you can buy the size you need without having to be professionally measured. And they cost a lot less than $100 a pair! With proper care, each pair can last several years, so they are worth their weight in gold to me!

Swiffer Wet Jet has a really cute and fun commercial that I love to see each and every time it comes on the television. For some reason I seem to see the commercial more often when I am at home on our Best Choice TV, but wherever I see it, I like it just the same!

In this commercial it shows a woman who has replaced her mop with a new Swiffer Wet Jet. The mop is heartbroken and devastated, with the “Baby Come Back” song playing in the background, it will do whatever it can to make its way back into the hands of its owner who threw it out for the Swiffer.

The mop is shown in the background, looking like a sad, lost little mop. It even makes a desperate attempt to win her heart over with flowers. The mop is torn apart as she dumps the flowers in the garbage, and forever ends their relationship. It is enough to make tears form in your eyes as you watch the sad little fellow.

This commercial is so funny! It drew me in well, and I was even convinved to try a Swiffer myself! I hope there are more of these cute commercials to come!

He has been after me for a year now to order a Custom Computer myself. He wants me to buy a second monitor. He says he has two monitors at home. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know if I would have a use for a second monitor; and I sure don’t think I have the room! Besides, I think I have a few old monitors taking up space in my basement!

I would, however, be interested in looking at some Custom Laptops to see what they might have to offer me. Seems to me that I’m the only one in my family that doesn’t have my very own laptop! I don’t know if a Custom Laptop would save me money or not, but I think I would look into one; I can’t see the logic behind getting one that has a lot of stuff on it that I don’t need.