Category: Friends and/or family


Huge gift basket

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Food, Friends and/or family, General Life by Paige — Leave a comment
January 31, 2012

We have a customer that calls our pharmacy every day as soon as it opens.  She talks to one of us for at least thirty minutes.  She is a very nice lady, but her timing is really bad!  When the pharmacy first opens it is slammed with customers wanting to pick up the prescriptions that they called in for refills overnight.  No one worked overnight, so the opening crew needs to hustle and fill them all as soon as possible.

Well, today we received a huge gift basket full of fruit, crackers, cake and snack foods delivered to us.  The card said it was from the lady who calls us every morning, thank us for our patience!  Wasn’t that nice of her!  I think accepting it is a violation of the company’s policies, but I’m not the one the basket was addressed to, and I’m not the one who accepted it, so I won’t get in trouble.  It would be interesting to see if anyone DOES get in trouble for it!

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Turning out the lights

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, Friends and/or family, General Life, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
January 30, 2012

Post contributed by Hilton Miranda

My sister and I have been talking about our energy providers a lot recently and trying to decide if we want to go green. We were using Stream Energy Comparison to see how much her provider differed. We both thought that making more green decisions would be harder than it is. Everyone keeps talking about going green, but really I did not know what people meant when they said it. It just sounded like a catch phrase to me. I think it started with my sister always following me room to room and turning all the lights off. I thought it was annoying at first, but she explained to me that we should conserve energy and lights were a part of that. She convinced me we needed to do it with the lights, the water and even with how much trash we threw away. Now the next step for us is choosing a provider that will allow us to keep saving energy and making green decisions. My sister says that no matter who the provider, it really comes down to decisions like turning out the light.

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What’s next?

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Educational, Friends and/or family, General Life, Money and finances by Paige — Leave a comment
January 27, 2012

Thank goodness my kids have finished their college education and we no longer have to search for financial aid information to get them to have enough money to sig up for their college courses. It was becoming extremely difficult to get the help we needed for one of my sons that struggled with his grades. But now we are in the stage of repaying his student loans, which is another challenge on it’s own right.

When I was talking with Madeline about how we had to search far and wide for the financial aid, she was telling me that she had heard that her son might qualify for a scholarship for left handed students. I had never heard of any scholarships based on something like that! What will they think of next!

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Merging two families can be an adventure

Filed Under: Friends and/or family, General Life, Home and Garden, Relationships by Paige — Leave a comment
January 21, 2012

When we agreed to let my sister’s family move into the downstairs apartment, we really did not realize exactly how much plain old junk was going to come with them. We really did think and hope that a lot of their things would have been sorted through and sold, given away, or trashed. After all, when we moved here we spent a lot of time doing just that. That is the reason why we had enough room to create a small apartment downstairs.

Having made that apartment, our own storage space is now extremely limited, and I have to admit that I get frustrated when I go downstairs to get something out of storage that when I have to move a ton of someone else’s stuff out of the way to get to my stuff it can get annoying. None of us are in show business anymore, why am I tripping over an old microphone stand that has been bent up and is missing the base from it? I fear that my sister is a hoarder, and it is going to be a struggle to keep her hoard out of my space! At least all of her stuff is down in the basement on cement floors so I won’t have to worry about the floors rotting and giving way under all of her junk!

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A hobby that might pay off

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January 20, 2012

With the shop almost completed, my hubby and I have started to go to local networking meetings to let the local businessmen know that in a few weeks we’ll be open for business. He’d like to focus on working on turning classic cars into hot rods on the days that he feels good. Our neighbor George has already asked us if he can come and use the lift when he needs to perform a few rv repairs before his next camping trip. Sounds to me as if we are going to make a small fortune just renting out some lift time.

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