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.
I’ve been working out in the garage the last few days. I’ve been insulating it, putting up walls and painting them white. After the walls are up and painted I am going to be hanging shelves on them. This is going to be a great improvement to the garage – it will clear up a lot of storage space! It is starting to really look great, and having it insulated will be a great benefit. I don’t understand why people around here don’t insulate their garages – they get so incredibly hot in the summer! I think maybe the folks that don’t insulate them just don’t spend much time in them – just park their cars and leave. I actually USE my garage as a workshop, and having it insulated will make it so much more comfortable years round – it will be well worth the investment in time and money.
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.
