Rambling On

A new blog

No, don’t get stressed out here. I’m not starting a new blog. I wanted to tell you all about a friend’s new blog. She is completely new to the world of blogging so I’m really hoping that I can get the word out that she has started a new blog. Her new blog can be found over at Ashely. She is a wife and a mom of three kids and in her spare time she is trying to get her blog up and running. So, why don’t you pop on over to Ashley’s blog to see what she has to say today.

Baby boom

I was listening to the radio this morning and heard the announcer claim that there is a serious baby boom happening in our area these days. I can believe it with all the Baby Shower Invitations that I have been receiving lately. It seems to me that all my friends are now starting to have grandchildren. And they all have been giving out Baby Shower Invitations. The only problem with receiving some many baby shower invites is the fact that some of them are on the same day. So I have to decide which ones to attend and which ones I’m going to have to miss. Oh well, at least our population is growing again.

Reconnecting with friends

I am the type of person that doesn’t have a whole lot of friends. But the friends that I do have I treasure each and everyone of them. Growing up I, like most people had a best friend. We were inseperatable. But over the years we lost touch. Well, because of face book, we were able to reconnect. I was able to learn all about her life during the last 20+ years. She has had a lot of struggles over the last few years with one of them being unable to lose any amount of weight. She has tried all types of weight loss products and gym memberships. I found this to be quite interesting because when we were growing up, we were two of the smallest people in our graduating class and over the years, I’ve never had to deal with this. But now that I’ve found her once again, I don’t ever plan on losing touch again. Some days I’m so thankful for the Internet, and today is one of those days.

Christmas can be stressful

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about the upcoming Christmas season and about how ready (or not) we both are. My friend was a little stressed out by this conversation as she has nothing bought for her family yet and really has no money to make any purchases. She has been considering applying for a credit card just to see her through this gift buying season, but has come across so many bad credit card offers that she is really starting to get a little scared.

I have been trying to give her good tips on how to decide which credit cards are right for her and which cards she should probably stay away from. I’ve used a credit card before for some of my Christmas purchases, but I’ve always paid them off quite quickly so I didn’t incur a large amount of interest charges. I’m just not sure if she would be able to do this. But if she’s determined to apply for a credit card to pay for all her purchases, then hopefully she will do a lot of research and apply for the best one that will suit her needs at this time. Otherwise I guess I haven’t been much help to her. But it does make me feel bad when the Christmas season approaches and people end up getting seriously stress over the whole thing.

Getting discouraged

Last night I sat down to start working on a cross stitch pattern that needs to be done for a friend of mine by Christmas. First of all I’ve been trying to work on this thing for about a month now, but every time I go to work on it something comes up and I need to put it down. So I don’t have a whole lot done on it and time is running away on me. This is very frustrating. But as I said last night I was going to do this again and yup, you guessed it something came up. Really I don’t know if this is the universes little way of telling me that I shouldn’t be working on this project. I’m almost half tempted to tell my friend that I’m not going to be able to get it done for this year and that maybe should should purchase her parents something else. But, I’m going to give it another week and if I get nothing accomplished in that time, then I think I will end up telling her sorry but it isn’t going to work out.

The Internet is a wonderful thing

Last week a friend of mine who does not have access to the Internet asked me to look up Phentermine no prescription for her. She is planning on trying to lose some weight before she gets married at the end of the year. She wants to loose about 70 pounds by the end of the year but wants to go about this in the most healthy and safe way. So being the nice person that I am, I gave her information off the Internet for other methods she could use to achieve her goals.

I am always amazed at the amount of information that a person can acquire just by typing in a few words. It never ceases to amaze me how far technology has come during the last 15 to 20 years.

Great visit

So on Wednesday my best friend called me up to say she was popping by for coffee.  We hadn’t seen one another for almost four years so it was great news to me that she was coming for a visit.  When she arrived with coffee in hand, we got to talking and it was like we had always been as if their were no separation between us.

We got caught up on all the gossip about the kids, her grand-kids and the husband.  It was an awesome visit and I really hope that it doesn’t take us another four years to get it together.  I didn’t realize until that day how much I really missed our talks and get together’s.  We have both promised to try to be a little better in our communications in the future.  So, we will see.

I’m so excited

My best friend who I haven’t seen in over four years is coming to visit.  We talk on the phone all the time and through e-mails but that’s not the same thing as sitting in front of one another and chit chatting.  Oh…I can’t wait.  Now I have to go clean my house so she doesn’t think I’m a total slob.  But since we have known one another for 15 years, she is quite used to me by now.

 So, this is ending up to be a very short post, but I’ll be back later after my friend goes home.  Off to clean now. lol

The Scrapbooking fairy arrived

One of my friends sent me an e-mail the other day about a lady who was getting rid of some of her scrapbooking supplies and she wanted to know if I would be interested in getting them from her for free.  Of course I said yes.  So she gave me her phone number and e-mail address and I contacted this lady. 

Well today she dropped by with the stuff and I have to tell you that I was surprised at all the stuff that she was giving away.  Now don’t get me wrong, I appreciated all that she gave and it will all go to good use, but I was really surprised at her generosity.  I have to say that purchasing this amount of supplies would have cost me a fortune so I am extremely grateful to her.  I am also extremely grateful to my friend for hooking me up with this lady.