Gourmet Anniversary Gifts For Girlfriend

I wish more guys would think of appropriate gifts for their girlfriends. I mean okay, I would not care to receive one of those gourmet anniversary gifts for girlfriends, however I know a lot of women would love to get something like that. Me, I’m the dinner out, maybe a movie type of person. I don’t care for fancy gifts either, I’d rather get a season of my favorite tv show, or something like that, instead of jewelry that I wouldn’t wear.

Stuff

I’m trying to do better at keeping my blogs updated so here I am trying to come up with something new to talk about. I guess my subject is basketball.

Des started her first year of basketball last week. It’s just practices right now. Games start in January. She’s having a good time, and doing pretty well considering it’s her first year. She knows a few of the girls on her team, which helps her be a bit more comfortable. Her shooting is improving, and she’s working on dribbling without having to watch the ball. All in all, I think she’s doing well, and most importantly having fun and learning/trying something new.

Marcus Lab Coats

So here I was a few days ago doing my work, and I thought it was going along fine. I mean what could be wrong with talking about Marcus lab coats and such things?? Then I log in this morning to find that for whatever reason none of it posted the other day. Grrr!!!…Well I guess I tried….but now I have to do work this morning to try and get everything caught up.

Update

Okay, so life is chugging along here, with it’s ups and downs.

A wild turkey hit Dad’s windshield last Wednesday, so he was driving a different truck for acouple of days. I knew then he was starting to get sick. It ended up being pnemonia. Thankfully no hospital stay was necesary!! He has been home all week though.

I had a horrible sinus infection two weeks ago, and finally called my Dr. and got medicine for it early last week. I’m feeling much better, although now I think I have a bit of a cold.

We are eagerly awaiting Christmas!! Although there have been a few mishaps this year, but I’ll tell you all about that on one of my other blogs.

Time for me to move along. Hope you all have a good day!!

Switch Plates

So my landlord was just by a few days ago, because all the lights in the East end of the house were not working. It was quite a puzzle to me, as the outlets still worked, and I had already tried flipping the breaker to no avail. However it turned out to be a loose wire in one of the other outlets. While he was here he also replaced one of the outlets as well as a couple of the switch plates. They don’t match everything else color wise, but then who really cares in a place like this?

I’ve Been Thinking

A friend of mine did a post on her blog, Where The Sun Always Shines…
, last night that got me to thinking. If you pop over and read her entry you can see that she’s had a rough road lately, and that’s what really got me to thinking.

Now I’ve never been able to write the thought provoking posts like she has, but her post got me to thinking about my own relationship with my Mother. For those of you that don’t know, I classify my biological mother as Mother, or real Mom, because I have been blessed to have another that I call Mom. One who accepts me for who I am, and loves me no matter what. But this post, it is about my biological Mother.

I never felt that I was good enough in her eyes. I grew up hearing “I wish you were more like your sister”. My Mother and I never “meshed”…I never felt like she was interested in me, my thoughts, or my wants. Everything always seemed to be about herself, or my sister….Everything I ever wanted seemed just out of reach.

I remember when I became pregnant with Des that I was relieved that my real Mom had already passed away, because I was so happy to be having a baby, and I knew that had she been alive she would have hounded me with how much I had disappointed her, and how much I had sinned, and what a horrible person I was, because I wasn’t married. I figure if we were still on speaking terms after that, when I became pregnant with Meg that would have gotten me disowned by her….

You may think I’m being harsh, but you didn’t know my Mother, or anything about our relationship. It amazes me when people think they knew that person so much better than you, and it was you that lived with that person, grew up with that person….

Anyway, I will say as many times as anyone cares to hear, that I have NEVER been sorry that I had Des and Meg, and it has never made any difference to me that I was not married to the father. They are the light of my life, they are the reason that I live….

My Mother was quick to point out flaws and faults in other people, but never seemed to admit that she had her own flaws and faults…I could go on and on about my Mother, and our problems, but I feel that I’ve gotten off track in this entry….So I’ll sign off.

7:37am

It may now sound like such an aweful hour of the day for you, but it is for me, since I have been up since 3am. In one way being up so early doesn’t bother me, as it gives me a chance to get a lot of things done, but in another way it’s aweful because the girls will be up soon, and I’ll be wanting a nap soon.

As you can see in my previous post, my Christmas shopping is about complete. Basically it’s just a matter of wrapping things now. I wouldn’t even worry about wrapping yet, except I have no where to hide this stuff, so I have to get it wrapped so the girls don’t peak.

Anyway, I’m off to read an email, and then decide if I want to do more work or not.

Gift Ideas for Christmas

Around Thanksgiving it was I that was in need of gift ideas for Christmas, but when I actually went shopping it all kind of fell into place.

For me, it was cookware items that I had been wanting, and also a world globe and a US wall map. Yes, I did my own Christmas shopping. *LOL* Those items will never make it under the tree as I have plans for them before Christmas ever gets here, but it doesn’t bother me to know I won’t have much under the tree.

For the girls it was board games of different types and some girlie items like nail polish, facial cleanser, and such things. They also have a complete fabric paint set coming.

For Dad, it’s sweats and dvd’s to keep him occupied during his time off of work.

wedding videography raleigh nc

Bad grammar and all wedding videography raleigh nc is awesome. Of course I have little use for wedding things, but I know that there are millions of people in the world that travel the rocky path of marriage. So why not partake in wedding videography to record that special moment when you say “I do”. It’s your special day, that you will remember for a lifetime, but your lifetime doesn’t last forever so why not record that moment to share with the generations after you.

Triangle Direct

Talk about difficulty in keywords….try fitting “Triangle Direct” in a post! It’s supposed to fit in seemlessly, without appearing out of context, but I’m at a loss as to how to make this happen!

In other news I’ve had to edit a few of my blog posts, which is easy to do! I wish editing job applications was just as easy!! I realized after I submited one online that I had misspelled a word, but of course I couldn’t go back and fix it!!