I don’t know if it is stress related, or inherited, but it seems that lately there have been a lot of times when my eyes feel like there are eyelashes fallen into the eye and I end up rubbing my eyes and pulling at my eyelashes. A lot of the times when I do that, several eyelashes come out and I see them on my fingers. I’ve heard that when eyelashes fall out that they don’t grow back. Well, I don’t know if that’s true or not, but if it is true I may have to look into buying some of the ds laboratories revita eyelash growth product that I’ve heard so much about.
Category: Shopping
Over the past couple of years I have been noticing that our gutters and down spouts are deteriorating. I’ve been looking at decorating magazines and seen some articles and photographs of something called rain chains that I think I’d like to consider buying and using when my hubby finally declares that it is time to replace the down spouts.
Nobody that I know has ever told me that they have any experience with chains rain, so I’m a little bit anxious about trying something that nobody else that I know has used. Funny how I depend so much on the experiences of my friends and family!
I’ve fallen in love with the beauty of a copper rain chain that looks like lotus flowers, and I’ve bookmarked the website for future reference. My biggest worry right now about copper rain chains is whether or not some one would be bold enough to come up to the house and steal them just for the melt down value of the copper. Maybe I should consider aluminum instead, but I DO love the warm look of copper!
Seems as if fire pits are all the rage lately. My sister was telling me that she was looking at some patio fire pits at FirePits.com to get some ideas about decorating her little garden oasis in the back yard.
I think that the fire pits are cute, and when I think of the memories of my own childhood of roasting marshmallows around a camp fire, I think about how cool it would be to have a fire pit to roast marshmallows on again. But then reality hits me and I realize that as awesome as it would look, my “real” family would probably never use it; my “real” family is a bunch of technogeeks that don’t like going outside for any reason at all. I love my family, truly I do, but I sometimes wish that we could have some “old fashioned” family fun together.
One of the things that upset me a lot when I was an adolescent in high school was the fact that the girls were not allowed to take shop, they were required to take home economics. And boys were not allowed to take home economics, they were required to take shop. I have always wanted to learn more about tools and what they are used for, and how to use them. I’ve always wanted to know how to build and fix things. I like to think that I’m a reasonably intelligent person, yet when my hubby told me that he needed to buy some special threaded inserts to repair something in his shop I felt really stupid that I had no idea what threaded inserts are, or how they are used. I looked them up online and still don’t quite understand. I think I’m going to have to tell my hubby that I want to see what it is he is working on and how threaded inserts are used.
When I found out that we were going to get a pretty good refund on our income tax this year, I started to day dream about buying a small hot tub or spa to put on our deck that overlooks our back yard. I’d definitely need to buy an insulated hot tub cover as well to keep the leaves, bird droppings and bugs out of the tub, and to keep the heat in to minimize the cost of heating up the water. I wonder if we can get one that is heated by propane instead of electricity. I’d like to find a way to minimize the cost.