Dr Copa

My wife has been talking for many years about wanting to get a grandfather clock to put in the living room beside the fireplace. She has found a website that sells grandfather clocks and has been spending a lot of time looking at the different types, figuring out which one would look the best in our living room.

She was reading the blog about using clocks in an unconventional way and has been rearranging our house’s clocks, confusing the dickens out of me! I’m used to looking for the time in one space, and she’s gone and moved the clock on me! This is going to take some getting used to!

Anyway, her birthday is coming up next month, and she has been dropping quite a few ”hints” about getting a grandfather clock for her birthday. I recently bought a lottery ticket that won a little bit of money and was thinking about spending it on her gift, so I just might humor her and look at which one it is that she wants. She says she wants one of the clocks that does double duty as a curio cabinet, to keep our pewter and crystal wizard and dragon collection inside.

My mother recently had to have surgery to repair an aneurysm.  The hospital gave her some TED Stockings to wear in the hospital and to take home and wear for several weeks afterwards.  They told her that they would help to prevent DVT.  My mother asked me to order her another couple of pairs of them over the Internet, so I am ordering them from the dhphomedelivery.com website.  They sell them in several different styles – knee length and thigh length.  One of the thigh length styles is belted to help keep them from falling down – that is what I’m going to order for my mother.

My wife has been taking classes this summer, and has just recently started working full time, too.  Her classes end this week.  I’m really glad that her classes are ending because it has been very stressful for her to take classes and work full time.  I’ve been trying to help her out around the house more than usual, to give her time to study (and sleep!)  I’ve been quite surprised to realize how much work it really is to do household chores!  I’ve always thought that tending the house was easy.  I guess it’s just that she makes it LOOK easy!

My wife and I have been talking about how our youngest son needs to get a couple of credit cards in his own name to start building his own credit history.  He’s in college, and will be turning twenty one soon.  We started researching VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Credit Cards on the cardhub.com website to see what card would be the best card for him to apply for.  We found it interesting that on the left side of the website you could click in what kind of credit you have and then it would perform a wizard that showed you credit card offers that matched your credit.  We liked the informative articles about credit cards, too.  We’ll be telling our son to use that website himself to look at the offers and then we can discuss the choices with him before he makes a final decision.

My daughter is visiting us this weekend from New England.  This is the first time she has come down here since we’ve moved, so I’ve been very excited to show her our house, and the area.  I’ve been taking her to a few local restaurants and she has been taking lots of pictures.  She’s been helping me to do a few things around the yard that needed doing, like mowing the lawn (I have two riding mowers so she rode one while I rode one.)  I especially enjoyed taking her to the shooting range yesterday; she was impressed with how well I shoot!  It was also nice that the instructor at the range gave her some tips to improve her aim!

Then we went to one of my favorite all-you-can eat buffet restaurants, which we all really enjoyed.  So it was a good day.