Dr Copa

A few years ago my wife and I bought a new king sized bed.  The bed we had been sleeping on was over twenty years old and even though we had slid a piece of plywood between the mattress and bed springs, it was simply time for it to retire.  My wife kept complaining every morning that her hips hurt, and when we went on a vacation and slept on a different mattress my wife’s hips didn’t hurt anymore, so we decided it was time to give our mattress the “heave-ho” and buy a new one.  Well, we bought a really nice bed on a payment plan that was 0% interest for the life of the loan, and we just made the last payment on the bed. 

I’ve noticed that this bed is starting to show signs of indentations where we sleep and I’ve been trying to convince my wife that we should think about replacing this one.  Of course, she doesn’t want to buy a new bed so soon – after all the last one we had lasted over twenty years!  But this new bed only had a ten year warranty, and to be honest ever since my car accident I’ve slept better in my recliner.  I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in our bed since the accident.  I’d really like to buy a set of new adjustable beds for our room so that I can adjust the bed the way I need it to be in order to sleep all night long.

A friend of mine is a vendor at a flea market in a city about an hour’s drive from my house.  He invited me to bring some stuff of mine that I’d like to sell to the flea market today and put it in his booth to try to sell it.  I figured “what have I got to lose?” so I took some stuff I’ve been wanting to get rid of and went down there.  I’d never been to that flea market before.  I was rather impressed, and I sold most of the stuff I wanted to get rid of!  I think I might get into this flea market stuff!  I’m going to ask my wife to come check it out with me next weekend and see what she thinks of it all.

With the economy going the way it has been going, I have to wonder just how valuable a college education really is nowadays.  It seems that there are a lot of highly educated people out there that are trying to find a job, and are not having very good luck at it.  When they apply for entry-level jobs, or manual labor jobs, many of them are being told that that they are “over qualified” and can’t get hired because the employer is concerned that the employee won’t stay there very long.  It seems to me that it really is a gamble, no matter what you do.

It used to be thought that education is never a waste, but when I see how difficult a time my wife has been having finding a job using her degree in Business Administration, I have to wonder.  So for all of those who are thinking about going back to school, I encourage them to try to find as many free scholarships as they possibly can to help pay for the courses.  I cannot even imagine trying to pay for a college education in this day and age without being able to count on grants and scholarships!  One good place to look on the Internet for ways to earn and win free college scholarships is the scholarshippoints.com website.

I’ve been hearing a lot about the lady who just gave birth to octuplets – she already had six children, and just had eight more – and ALL of them were by in vitro fertilization! I’ve heard that she isn’t even married, and is living at home with her parents. I can understand wanting to have a few kids, but fourteen is a LOT of kids! I cannot even imagine trying to take care of them all; the expense is going to be astronomical!  I thought I had my hands full with just our three kids!