Tina Langley - one woman's journal

Bonnie’s birthday

T T L — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:35:16 +0000

Yesterday Jeff asked me to help him out. He’s in a real bind. His wife Bonnie has told him that she wants him to buy her some Vera Wang Perfume for her birthday. He has been in a real tizzy since then because he has no idea where he can go to buy any Vera Wang Perfume. So Jeff called me up and begged me to buy some for him to give her. I asked him what in the world made him think that I would know where to go to buy Vera Wang Perfume?

His answer – because you always smell so good! Well, I have to give him credit for being smart enough to come up with that good an answer! I told Jeff that I really didn’t have time to shop for him around town, but I’d go online and see what bargains could be had. I have quite the reputation in our social circle for being a savvy online shopper! I told Jeff that he needs to find out which fragrance in particular Bonnie wanted, and to get back to me and let me know. Once I know for sure which fragrance she wants, I’m sure I can find him a good deal!

Yoga mats

T T L — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:19:02 +0000

When I was encouraged by Lily to take some dance classes with her, she told me that the first ten minutes, and the last ten minutes of class involve doing yoga exercises on the floor I was hesitant to join the class. After all, I did not want to have to buy a yoga mat. I went to the first class, taking only a beach towel with me instead. It wasn’t very long after class started before I realized that if I am going to take any more classes with Lily I am going to have to buy one of the best thick yoga mats that I can afford. Doing yoga on a beach towel was very uncomfortable!

Shelves in the shed

T T L — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:57:32 +0000

Several years ago I bought a Rubbermaid storage shed for our back yard. I asked my hubby to install it on a bed of gravel. But he decided that he’d just put it on the ground. As a result all of the shelves that I try to put on the walls keep falling down. When we first put the building up and the installed the shelves, I was thrilled! I filled the shelves with an assortment of garden tools and planters.

I was thrilled to be able to take my outdoor planters out of the basement and put them into the shed – it freed up valuable space inside. But I was quite annoyed a few short days later when I went out to the shed to pick out a decorative planter to put a new begonia in and found all of my garden supplies in a pile on the floor! I have tried many times to fix that problem, but the shelves just will not stay up! I guess the only solution is to put in free-standing shelving units and be done with it! I think if my hubby had installed the shed correctly this wouldn’t be an issue! But I always learn to make do, and I think that is the answer to the problem.

Itchy feet

T T L — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:39:13 +0000

I received some luggage as a gift from my hubby. He asked his sister to help him find a good deal on luggage and she told him to look into buying Tumi Luggage. To be perfectly honest, I had never heard of Tumi Luggage before, but who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth?

The biggest point of the gift, however, was the fact that inside the luggage was a travel brochure to Orlando, along with a couple of fake airplane tickets. I have to say that they were fake because he didn’t dare book a real trip without checking with me to see when I would be available to go on vacation with him. And we have to make arrangements for someone to look after his customers and our pets, and our gardens while we are gone. Anyway, it was a nice surprise, and now we need to buckle down and figure out the dates and work out the logistics of it all!

A Nice Pair of Cigar Cutters

T T L — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:05:45 +0000

This year, for father’s day, instead of buying my father a box of cigars, as I have been doing for so many years, I have decided to buy him a nice set of cigar cutters. He has been complaining about his current cigar cutters and I know that he hasn’t gone out and bought new ones, as of yet.

Since Father’s Day is coming up in just over a months time I think that I will go ahead and start looking around online and see what is out there on the World Wide Web. We really don’t have any tobacco stores around here, the closest one is over an hour and a half’s drive from here and I rarely go to that part of the state. Online is the way to go. I’ll be looking for free shipping and discounts along the way. I’m in no hurry, but I don’t want to wait until the last minute either.

stainless steel knuckle cigar cutter

On The Move

T T L — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:56:46 +0000

People just don’t stay in one place anymore

The world is getting smaller every day it seems. The friends that I grew up with have all scattered around the globe. I am so glad that we have email and texting to keep in touch! I miss them all very much and love to hear from them and hear how they are doing, how their families are, who they are working for (or who is working for them!) and how life is treating them in general. Pictures are always a plus.

I do find myself nostalgic from time to time, wishing that we all still lived close together. I miss the great times we had together, the parties we had, the great group dates we went on. Oh dear, I’m depressing myself!

And don’t even get me started on all the wonderful things that Facebook and the other social networking sites. You won’t catch me anywhere near all that drama that is responsible for ruining so many relationships in so many ways and on so many levels. Thanks but no thanks, real life is difficult enough to handle just the way it is without everyone, everywhere knowing your business and everyone elses.

I love to watch the horses

T T L — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:10:57 +0000

When I go to visit Aunt Jenny I love driving down the long driveway to her house. Part of the driveway is a right-of-way that goes through her neighbor’s place, and they have some beautiful horses that I can see from time to time when I go past the pastures. Last weekend I went to visit her and I saw that the neighbor had let the horses out for the first time this spring, and they were kicking up their heels, enjoying the fine weather.

I was quite impressed to see that she had purchased some new rambo turnout blankets for her horses this year – I liked the neck covers quite a bit! I’ve often seen horses wearing turnout blankets, but never with neck covers! In this cool weather, I think that they make a lot of sense!

A retirement plan to move to Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club

T T L — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:19:41 +0000

It is most interesting to me that my aunt and uncle are looking into retiring and heading south in the next few years and are seriously considering Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club at Vero Beach’s in Florida as their final landing spot. You see my aunt and uncle have been very vocal over the years about various friends and family relocating to gated communities all across the country. My uncle’s main grip is that he feels that residents get a false sense of security while living behind the gates and or walls that keep the properties in the community protected.

My uncle comes from the “old school” brimming over with Irish blood this one is. Most of us have all learned that it is pointless to argue with him and the older he gets the more stubborn and argumentative he becomes. Of course there are some folks that seem to enjoy just egging him on and thoroughly enjoy a good debate now and then. Myself, I tend to just kick back and be a good listener, while keeping a smile on my face, my chin up and looking him straight in the eye.

It will be so different once they really do relocate. They have lived in that same house since they were married and I can’t imagine anyone else living in there as well as not seeing them on all the family get-togethers throughout the year. Although these get together will be a lot more on the mellow side than in the past without my Irish uncle around to stir things up.

Amazing mushrooms

T T L — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:32:26 +0000

Today I was reading an article about a new product for sale called Luminaze that is made from a mushroom that grows in the Swiss Alps. The product is being marketed to the consumer that wants to lighten dark spots on their skin. I found a website that talked about the product, and watched a video that demonstrated it as well. Basically the consumer washes the skin first, then applies two different products from the company to their skin. I’m not sure why it is a two step product, and which step does what, but with my limited knowledge of science would suggest that if the two products were mixed together in the same bottle or jar that the active life of the product would be significantly changed, and that the resulting mixture would either decrease in strength or increase in strength. Either way the end result would not be desirable.

The product is claimed to work in only seven days. The website indicated that there is only place in the United States that I can purchase this product, and that is at Nordstrom. I went to Nordstrom’s website and found that I could buy it online for $120.00. Since I’ve been seeing age spots on my arms the past couple of years, and have been unhappy with their appearance, I think that I will put this product on my “wish list” for the next time I have a little bit of mad money to spend!

What am I missing?

T T L — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:53:15 +0000

Earlier today I was online looking at the eoncode web 2 print website and saw a link to what they called their “demo” site. Well, being a naturally curious person I decided to see what I could learn about their products from watching the demos. The only problem was, when I reached the landing site, there was nothing there that acted like a demonstration! What is up with that?