There used to be a nice salad that I would buy at Wendy’s that had a piece of grilled chicken on a bed of mixed greens and some mandarin oranges, sliced almonds and a special vinaigrette dressing.It was reasonably priced and I would try to order that at least once a month, as I don’t eat out at fast food places very often.
But last month I drove up to Wendy’s to order that for lunch and they didn’t have it any more. Now they have a selection of designer salads.
That upset me, as I really liked that salad and now there is nothing like it on the Wendy’s menu and not anywhere else that I can find, not even a full service sit down restaurant.
September is here! This weekend is the Labor Day holiday weekend, which means the end of summer to a lot of people. But to me, it means off season rates and big savings at http://www.myrtlebeachseasideresorts.com/
This is the best time of year to book golf packages Myrtle Beach and get away for a long weekend of swimming and golf in my favorite family beach destination on the the East Coast.
September and October are both great months to go to the beach. The weather is still warm during the day and the water temperature of the Atlantic is still warm enough for swimming.
I used to see peacocks when we went to Florida on vacation. They are all over Florida, in the wild and in nature parks. I have never seen an all white peacock yet. I think it is a beautiful bird and would love to see one.
Everyone has been talking about bedbugs the past week or two. All the news outlets are running articles, the morning shows are interviewing people, and the Internet is full of search results about how to get rid of these pests.
Evidently it is very hard to get rid of bedbugs from not only your bed but also any upholstered furniture you have, and even clothing and coats. Today I read a warning about buying bedding or furniture from flea markets, as items from those places have a high likelihood of bringing bedbugs into your home.
This won’t work for bed and large pieces of furniture, but if you happen to have any clothing, stuffed animals, or coats that show signs of a bedbug infestation, you can put that item into a large ziploc bag, and then place the bag into the freezer for 3-4 days. That will kill both any bedbugs and their eggs, as they cannot survive being frozen.
I was reading an article in The Chronicle yesterday about how people who continually update their Education make themselves more valuable employees. In this day and age, when people are so worried about competing in the job market, I think that taking some courses now and then is a good idea.
But many of us have transportation issues, or schedule issues and need to be able to take courses online. Fortunately there are lots of schools that offer online degrees. One of those, Walden University offers a degree in Communications, which is something I’ve always been interested in. I’ll have to check and see if my company has tuition reimbursement benefits for their employees! Getting a college education with someone else’s money is a good thing!
It appears that today was the first day of school. I got stuck behind one of the slowest school buses on the way to work this morning, not a good way to start the day. Good thing that most of the buses had taken all the kids home by the time I was on my way home. Just one more thing to add stress to the day.
I’ve always loved watching dramas and reality television because of how exciting they are. There is an adrenaline rush when someone gets voted out of American Idol. Since Ellen Degeneres became a judge on Americal Idol, I decided to check out her talk show on satellite TV packages in California I got.
Let me tell you, I have never been interested in any talk show before. Like I said, I was only checking it out because of my love for American Idol. Ellen’s show is a classic! She always has a smile on her face and she is ready to make the audience laugh with her wit and dance moves.
It seems like all of her guests are really interesting people. Sometimes the AI contestants that have been voted off even come onto the show. Those are some of my favorite episodes. It’s kind of funny that The Ellen Degeneres show is now one of my favorite shows of all time. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Now that I watch her talk show, I sometimes tune in to other talk shows to see if they are as exciting and inviting. I still haven’t found one that I consider on par to her show, but there are some that are decent enough.
Always be on the lookout for newer shows that you might not think are interesting. Some can be really great!
Casey and Leslie are friends who live in Nashville. They are both songwriters and singers. Casey has played with and written songs for over 100 artists.
Casey’s Number One songs include:
“Anyone Who Isn’t Me Tonight” (Grammy Nominated) by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West,
I’m always looking for smart storage ideas. I’m a pack-rat, and I admit that I have a hard time throwing things away. But often times the things that I want to hang onto have no real value other than sentimental. And that is a real problem, because I’m a Virgo, and I need to be practical in everything that I do.
And I suspect that no matter how large a house I had, I would still fill every nook and cranny up with more and more “stuff.” I just hope that I don’t end up on some reality television intervention show like “hoarders!”
Having said that, I’ve been thinking about using some glass racks in my kitchen to help me to better utilize my kitchen storage space. I’m thinking that I could put a stemware rack on the underside of one of my cabinet shelves and then store platters underneath the glasses. And I’d like to get a wine glass rack to organize all of my wine glasses. It seems that too often I am pushing them around in the cabinet to find something else, and then one of them falls out and breaks. Then I end up with a bunch of mis-matched glasses, which annoys me to no end! After all, I am a Virgo!
I spent well over an hour cleaning out my refrigerator this morning. A jar of pickles managed to tip over some time ago and has been leaking, the trickle down effect, big time. So I started just trying to clean up that mess and ended up cleaning the whole darn thing. Don’t get me wrong, it was in need of a full pledged cleaning, it’s just that first thing on a Sunday morning it’s the perfect time for me to tackle something like that.
I love being spontaneous. I do try and plan things out but sometimes things just happen and I have learned to roll with them as best as possible. I don’t mind getting a last minute call from someone and running out the door in order to get somewhere in the shortest time possible. I did grow up here so I know all of the roads like the back of my hand and I’m sure that I know each and every shortcut that is possible around my hometown and the cities that surround it as well, so I can get places pretty darn quick if needed.
I love going to sporting events, even though I’m not really active in very many. I do however enjoy playing a game of golf every now and then. My folks brought us up playing golf and I’m grateful for that. It is a nice easy going game that just about anyone can play and they have golf courses and tee times just about everywhere.
My folks just got back from their annual Myrtle Beach vacation last week. They wanted me to come but I couldn’t really take the time off of work and I all ready have a long weekend planned for the last part of September. My mom was telling me last night that they had a good time, the weather was a bit wacky but all in all it was a success. My dad found a website at www.48hourteetimes.com that they had to utilized during their stay in Myrtle Beach. They are a full service hospitality group that helps people with their accommodations and their 48 hour tee times. Since so many people are flocking to Myrtle Beach S.C. this year due to BP ruining so many of the other beaches on the east coast a lot of the hotels and golf courses have been slammed with customers that need some help finding their way around and finding what is available and for who.
I’m glad that my folks are computer literate. Many people their age are a bit timid when it comes to maneuvering around on the Internet, but they have mastered it quite well and use it to their best advantage when possible. And I’m glad that they are spontaneous, that must be where I got it from, a double dose of it, to be sure.
One of the things that I dreaded while in school was math class. I had a few teachers that felt that girls should not go above pre algebra in their public education. There were even a few that would refuse to answer my questions in class.
When I went to college, I took every single math class that the college offered, and got “A’s” in all of them. I’d love to find those teachers now that I’m older and rub their noses in my college report cards!
But I digress. When I was taking pharmacy technician classes, I was surprised at how many times I ended up helping my classmates learn how to divide fractions and use Algebra equations to help in filling prescriptions.
I saw Mike Posner perform this awesome song the other night on the TV. I can’t remember what show it was, probably The Tonight Show. The next day I heard the song on the radio and was really digging it. As soon as I could I went online and went to YouTube.com to find the song and Bingo, had it done in less than a minute.
Boy what I would give to be able to take off and go on a road trip and stay in one of the nicer resorts in Myrtle Beach that Myrtle Beach has to offer. I hear that Myrtle Beach is rocking this summer. Since the oil company BP has let so many beaches be destroyed by their oil leak that people are flocking to Myrtle Beach South Carolina, where the beaches are clean and welcoming.
I’ve checked out the website of http://avistaresort.com and I have to say that I would highly consider staying at their first class Myrtle Beach hotel. They have good golf packages to offer and the good lord knows I love playing a good round of golf. And to play golf near the beach would just be awesome. My parents got me started playing golf at the local Putt Putt, when Putt Putt was still in business. And then we started playing real games and the big people’s golf courses and I was hooked forever.
Maybe by next summer I’ll have accumulated enough vacation time and I can save up a few bucks and check out Myrtle Beach for myself. That’s something to work on.
Today was A’s last day at work at our store. He’s a nice young man that was a shift supervisor. He’s going back to college, and he’s taking a week’s vacation before starting school. Today was “truck day” so we could not take the time to do a proper good-bye celebratory lunch or dinner. When I arrived at work this afternoon I asked the store manager if we were going to have any kind of luncheon for A and he said no, we were too busy with the truck and we’d just have to say a quick good-bye.
Well, I’m the last one to take a lunch/dinner break, so during my break I went to Domino’s Pizza across the street and bought four pizzas and brought them back to the store. I offered pizza to everyone there, declaring it was my treat in honor of A’s last day. I just couldn’t see letting him go off to college feeling unappreciated by the crew at the store! One of the young ladies that works there DID bring in a couple of cakes, and we all signed a good-bye card. I also gave him a duct tape wallet that I made as a good-bye gift. He’s a sweetie-pie and I’m going to miss his smiling face at work! I wish him the best of luck and hope he stays in touch.
To say that my aunt likes the movie “Wizard of Oz” would be a gross understatement. She’s actually obsessed and will do anything to buy items in any way related to the movie.
That makes it the easiest, yet the hardest task to buy presents for her birthday, which just happens to be soon. She has almost every kind of memorabilia that exists and that’s what people know to buy her for gifts. Some of her collections include all kinds of figurines, snow globes, afghans and T-shirts. Most of it is in the living room and it’s crazy to see how she’s positioned all of it in there perfectly. It almost makes you afraid to sit down or touch anything.
So after I got my new satellite internet packages I decided to just do my entire gift hunt online instead of going to the mall like I have in the past. I found a set of coasters and I knew she didn’t have movie-themed coasters so I bought them on wildblue internet and had them shipped to my house.
I was quite aggravated yesterday when my boss informed me that I was going to be taking on more work and responsibility without any increase in pay, or any extra hours to do the work. He won’t even change my status to full-time even though I’ve been working forty hours a week ever since I started there! I am not impressed. I already feel as if I’m underpaid and being taken advantage of! This will only increase those feelings!
My cousin Lynne sent me an email that her son Jarod is moving across the country and she has been helping him to pack his belongings to get ready. She was helping him to comparison shop moving companies and found a website called EZ removals that provides up to six different quotes from different companies that specialize in helping people to relocate their households.
I can remember how stressful it was four years ago when we moved down here, trying to find the most economical services. The Internet sure is a great source to help people to compare prices and services on just about everything anyone needs in this day and age! And I really like the fact that it can take you beyond your local neighborhood when need be. I think that being able to comparison shop on a wider scope helps keep your neighborhood businesses competitively priced.
