August, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
I love the little cat. I really do. But she has completely disrupted the life of one of our other cats – FanceePantzz.
Fancee is so afraid and fearful of Lilly that she won’t even come into the kitchen for breakfast or dinner. Fancee stays on the tree my husband built for the cats and seldom comes down. I had to put a litter box near the tree but sometimes Lilly stakes it out and chases her out of it and back up on the tree. So Lilly has the run of the house and Fancee has been held prisoner (by her own fear) on the tree for almost two months now. We just keep hoping it will get better but I don’t think it ever will. Lilly knows she can intimidate Fancee and she is not about to stop.
I guess we’ll just have to find another home for Lilly. It hurts my heart to do it and I’m really going to miss her, but Fancee should not have to live in fear 100% of the time in her own home.
[tags]cats, pet behavior, kitties[/tags]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
I’m flabbergasted. Utterly stunned. Mona (my daughter-in-law’s mother that recently passed away) didn’t have any life insurance. Okay, I think she had a $1000.00 policy but in my mind that’s the same as having no life insurance. I can’t imagine what she was thinking. She had a good job working for a doctor’s office and was treated very well there. I just don’t know why she didn’t have more than $1000.00 in life insurance.
My husband and I have wonderful medical and life insurance through his work, but I’m telling you people to listen up. If you don’t have life insurance this is something you might want to start doing something about it.
I was looking around at options Mona could have taken advantage of. She loved the internet and was on it all the time. There are websites on the net that give tips to get the cheapest quote for life insurance as well as home insurance, car insurance and just about any kind of insurance you’re looking for.
On a selfish note, Mona not having life insurance is going to take a toll on my husband and I. My husband has already offered to pay off her car (she didn’t have credit life on that loan either) so the kids (our son and DIL) will be able to keep it. This is just the tip of the iceberg and I still can’t stop being flabbergasted.
[tags]life insurance, insurance[/tags]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
So I did a review on my geek blog for Loretta of Gadget Girl Accessories and I like her blog so much I think I’ll write about it here too. 
I just read her entry titled Not your average heart shaped necklace and for some reason it made me chuckle. If that isn’t the perfect gift for the geek girl in your life then I don’t know what is.
I visit this blog a lot but I can see that I need to put Gadget Girl Accessories into my feed reader because I was just there and noticed that I missed out on a contest! Darn. I’m loading up my Google Reader right now – I’m not going to miss out on the latest gadgets anymore!
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but fall is my very favorite time of the year. This probably sounds odd, but I feel more refreshed, more optimistic, and more ambitious during the fall then any other season. Maybe I’ll finally stop procrastinating and go ahead and purchase the dining room set I’ve wanted for so long.
I found a great selection of dining sets over at Great Priced Furniture and I do believe they live up to their name. I really, really like this North Shore Gathering Table Set.
In addition to great prices, Great Priced Furniture offers a 30-day money back guarantee and GE Consumer Financing with no interest and no payments until February 2009. I’m still looking at other dining sets on their website but so far the gathering table set is my favorite.
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Our daughter-in-law (M.) is holding up pretty well since her mother’s death this past Sunday. She lives 100 miles from us so we don’t get to see her very often. My husband did make the drive Monday and spent the day with her. She has a LOT of support from family and friends so that’s one positive thing in her life now.
Our son T. called last night from Kuwait where he was still awaiting a flight. At least now I can say he is out of Iraq so this is good news. I’m not sure if he will be sent to Camp Lejeune before they fly him home or if he will be coming straight to Florida. I hope he gets home soon.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
It is hard to believe summer is nearly over and fall is almost here. I never did buy the mailbox I was talking about a few months ago so maybe it is time to start thinking about that again.
Mailboxixchange is a neat website that features high quality mailboxes. I’m tired of our current little leaking mailbox so I’m looking at some of the post mount residential mailboxes. We live about 2/10 mile from the hard road so I’d like to have a big heavy duty mailbox as a replacement.
With over 1500 residential and commercial mailboxes it should be pretty easy to find just the one I want.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I’m on a campaign to improve and replace several things in my home and ceiling fans are on the top of my list. I recently found a website that has a selection of more than four hundred unique ceiling fans from thirteen manufacturers. This is the largest selection available online.
When we bought our mobile home a few years ago the people we bought it from promised to install two ceiling fans before delivery – one in the master bedroom and one in the living room. After the home was delivered, you guessed it, there were no ceiling fans installed. There were only a couple of gaping holes where the fans should be. Of course I got on the phone and let them know about it and they said they would take care of it and would send someone out with the fans to install them. Ha! By the looks of the fans they sent someone to the nearest discount store and bought two fans for the blue light special.
I’ve been checking Farrey’s website and looking at some of the fans they have listed there. I think I like the Hunter fans best.
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
How in the world can someone confuse “he called from Germany” with “he is waiting for a plane out of Iraq”? I just don’t get it. My husband told me T. called from Germany. I thought he was on his way home from Iraq but now I find out he is still there waiting for a flight.
I keep asking my husband how the information got miscommunicated but he just says it was hectic at our daughter-in-law’s house today and it was just a mistake. This bites.
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Okay, here is my kind of luck. One week after I upgrade my PC I find out about CensusPC. I could have saved about $100.00 if I had purchased my upgrades from CensusPC instead of having the repair shop do the upgrade for me. Of course, I gladly payed for the repairman’s knowledge and expertise since I have no idea how to upgrade a PC.
All isn’t lost however, because there is always some new toy or piece of equipment just waiting to go home in my shopping cart. I’ve been thinking about holding a contest on this blog and I think one of these USB Flash Pen drives would make a really good prize.
I was looking around at some of the other items and noticed they have large selection of notebook AC/DC power adapters . Now, I’m not interested in that for myself but oddly enough my son mentioned that he needed a power adapter for his notebook the other night when we were out to dinner. He is also in the process of building his first computer so I’ll have to be sure to forward the website address of CensusPC to him.
[tags]video games, computer equipment[/tags]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
T. is my husband’s son from a previous marriage but I consider him to be “our” son.
I know that our daughter-in-law M. put in a few phone calls to the Marine Corp last night regarding her mother’s death but I honestly didn’t think they would let him come home, but we have word that he will be coming home from Iraq in the next day or two.
We think he might be staying in the states for good because they told him to make sure to pack everything he owned. I’d think he would do that anyway, but who knows? I hope and pray he does not have to go back to Iraq. He has been there two times. That’s enough.
He is already on his way and called from Germany to let M. know his status. I’m sorry he is coming home for the reason he is coming home. Thank God he is out of Iraq and on his way home.
Added Note: He was still in Iraq when I wrote this – there had been a miscommunication.
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