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Remember When

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I was watching TV the other night and there was this part were a gal opened the door to her hotel room.  She was using a brass key!

Holy cow, I almost but forgot that was how hotel room doors were opened.

I tried to find some information on when key cards became the hotel industry standard, unfortunately I had no luck.  All I found was:

A Day Older

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Yesterday was my birthday and I must say I had one heck of a day.  It started with opening presents. I love presents.

I got exactly what I wanted and more.  I received birthday wishes from friends and family. DK bought me a sewing machine and a Kindle. I had been asking for a sewing machine for at least a year now.  Why? I see things I like in the store, but the colors are wrong or it just isn’t right. I figured what better way to fix that problem than to make exactly what I want. Right?

This morning I made these.  Shown are the front and the back. I am happy with them.

In the afternoon I went for a walk with Andrew, down loaded some books on my Kindle and read for a couple of hours.

In the evening Rich and Debbie took us out for dinner at 7M. It was super yummy!

Finally finished off my day with a few cocktails.  It was an awesome day!

Muddy Places

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I was doing a word search the other day titled “Muddy Places” and there were plenty of words/places I had never heard of.  I couldn’t solve the puzzle, I couldn’t focus, there were to many words I didn’t know. Here is the list with a brief definition.

  • Cranberry bog – where cranberry’s are cultivated
  • Fen – low land covered wholly or partially with water in Eastern England
  • Loblolly – mudhole
  • Marish – another name for marsh
  • Mire – slimy soil of some depth or deep mud
  • Moor – peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with evergreen shrubs common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor
  • Morass – (what’s growing on my south side?) low soft wet ground
  • Muskeg – a bog of northern North America, commonly having sphagnum mosses, sedge, and sometimes stunted black spruce and tamarack trees
  • Peat bog – a swamp in which peat has accumulated
  • Plash – a gentle splash or puddle
  • Pocosin – a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region
  • Quagmire – an are of mire or a bog where the surface yields under the tread or a situation from which extrication is very difficult
  • Salina – a saline marsh
  • Swale – a valley like intersection of two slopes in a piece of land where the lower land is moister than the adjacent higher land

Who knew I could learn from a word search?

Play Time Is Over

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Technically Summer will be over in twelve days.  But I must agree with Michele it was really over the day after Labor day. It is also time for me to stop screwing around and get back to blogging.

I had a wonderful Summer and I hate to think about it being over, it makes me sad. :(

Here is a quick breakdown of how I spent my Summer.

June

  1. Baseball
  2. Baseball
  3. More freaking baseball
  4. Many evenings spent outdoors with a cocktail or two

July

  1. Hallelujah baseball is finally over
  2. Sent Andrew to Oklahoma to spend the month with his uncle and cousins
  3. Did some much needed spring cleaning. (washed walls, tops of cabinets, that sort of thing)
  4. Took a few afternoon siesta’s
  5. Missed Andrew
  6. Quit smoking (July 31st)
  7. Most nights spent with a cocktail or three in hand

August

  1. Andrew is home
  2. My niece Amber came to visit and we tried to spoil her rotten :)
  3. Gained 10 pounds (should of kept smoking)
  4. Andrew started school
  5. Andrew started football
  6. Only an occasional cocktail and zero of them had outside enjoying the evening

September

  1. Started exercising
  2. Cut back on my T.V. watching
  3. Read a self help book
  4. Started dieting, again
  5. Haven’t had a drink since Sept. 4th (diet)

Finally, my summer ended with a fabulous family trip to the Lake of the Ozarks with two of my favorite people, Rich and Deb.

Beautiful

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At work I am surrounded by expensive and unique items.

Some are cute:

Some are simple:

Some items are practical:

Some are ugly:

Some are colorful:

Some are beautiful: (This is by far my favorite piece in the entire store. “Athena”)

It’s almost 18 inches tall and is made of lead crystal and will only set one back $12,000. I love her!

The problem with working at a store like Borshiems is after a while sticker shock is no longer a factor. Some things start to appear like a great value.

When the store isn’t busy and there isn’t much to do my mind starts to wonder.  “Oh, that’s pretty”, “Anna would really like that”, “I should get that for my mom”, “That would be perfect for Granny’s lake house” “Where could I put that” and on and on.

A year ago I never in my right mind would of paid $30 for a cat dish, $60 for a frame, or $75 for a cracker tray.

It’s tough, but I do bring home a couple of bucks every two weeks.

The one thing I have learned is; Nobody needs anything in that store.

 

 

 

Question

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What would you do?

We received an invitation to honored 6th grade students and families next Tuesday from 5:30 – 6:30.  Andrew also has a game that evening from 6:00 – 8:00.

Which one takes priority?

I think recognition night.  DK thinks baseball.

I called the school to find out if all 6th grades got invited. In a way I guess I am trying to discount the invitation and try to think the way DK does. Maybe it isn’t a big deal. However, the school told me that if I did get an invite Andrew will be recognized.

I also know his coach can be a hard ass and he may not appreciate Andrew skipping a game. Regardless if it is school related. He may even have Andrew sit out an additional game.

I am torn and need your help!

What if Andrew was an hour late to the game?

 

 

Bubbles

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Have you ever tried to teach someone how to blow a bubble?  It’s not as easy at it seems.  Most of the time when blowing a bubble the mechanics are very rarely thought of, if at all. Trying to break down the steps is a little more complicated than it sounds.

  1. Chew the gum
  2. Get it nice and soft
  3. Flatten out the gum in your mouth
  4. Divide in two with your tongue. While at the same time being careful not to tear the gum.
  5. After dividing the gum with your tongue, wrap the gum around your tongue, like a glove.
  6. Use your teeth to hold the gum down while sliding your tongue into the gum glove.
  7. Try to blow air under the glove of gum

Like I said, not easy to explain.  Blowing bubbles is something you just can’t do for someone else.

Andrew finally learned how to blow a bubble and it only took 12 years.  I remember the first time I learned to blow a bubble was in the six grade during recess.