Dr Copa

I’m not sure if it’s just the area that I live in, or if people are really starting to feel like the economy is picking up. Maybe it’s just the nice weather and people are starting to bring out their nice cars like the audi s5 out of their winter storage and show off their wealth while the weather is good.

My wife has been telling me that she would like to consider getting another car before this coming winter. She’s concerned that our current cars are running on borrowed time. I’ve told her to start thinking about what kind of car she thinks she might like to get if we did buy one. I suggested that she check out the reviews on the volkswagen jetta sportwagen and mitsubishi galanton thecarconnection.com website to see if she might be interested in one of them. Personally I’d love to be able to afford something as nice as a jaguar xf, but I think she would tan my hide if I spent that much money on a car! Well, a man can dream, can’t he?

Between the two of us, we have admittedly had some nice cars.  I’ve owned three corvettes in the past, and she’s owned a toyota celica, a mazda RX-7 and three Mercedes Benz cars.  So it’s not like we don’t know how nice it is to have really nice cars!  But she keeps telling me that she feels very uneasy about the financial security of the family right now, and she really would like to focus on value instead of glamour.

My wife is always misplacing her eyeglasses.  She uses two pairs, one for the computer/reading, and the other for general life.  The “general life” are progressive lenses and the computer glasses are just mid-range single vision.  It seems that she takes both pairs of glasses with her to work because she is on the computer quite a lot of the time, and using the “general life” glasses are not very comfortable for her to use for long periods on the computer.

Seems as though every two or three days she accidentally leaves her computer glasses at work, and then when she gets home and wants to read her email and do our personal book-keeping work on the computer she realizes that she left her computer glasses at work.  She gets very frustrated by that!  So I’m thinking about suggesting to her that she buy a spare pair of glasses through the Zenni Optical website.  I was looking on their website a few minutes ago and saw some lenses that look exactly like the pair she wears, and they were very inexpensive!

I think I’ll suggest that she gets a couple of spare pairs of glasses.  You never know when a pair of glasses is going to break, so having a spare pair or two is always a good idea.  And now, with the great prices at Zenni, it is not a prohibitively expensive luxury.

The Orchid Recovery Center for Women has a useful site for information concerning drug and alcohol treatment, detox and recovery, designed specifically for women. I was reading the Orchid Center Charity Blog that they have and it only makes sense to have a center that is gender specific, theirs is nationally recognized for their exclusive treatment center.

The Internet is a useful tool in researching topics such as this, help is available at the Orchid Recovery Center and you can find everything that you need at their site in order to learn all their is to know. Drug and Alcohol addiction is an ever growing problem. The economy has gotten people so freaked out that they are turning to drastic measures in order to escape all that this economy crisis has dished out to us these past couple of years.

Dr. Drew has brought this addiction issue to the light the past couple of years with his Celebrity Rehab series on VH1. Although celebrities are not the only ones struggling with addiction issues. It is every where and doesn’t show any signs of improving, much like the economy.

This morning, as I was backing out of my drive way, I noticed that my next door neighbor has a For Sale sign in his front yard. This just came out of no where, all of a sudden like. I’m not sure what’s going on there but I will approach him this week end see what’s up.

When we moved from New England to here, we tried to find a moving truck service where we could load the truck ourselves and have them do the driving.  We couldn’t find a company like that.  Now I’ve learned that there is a company called ABF U-Pack Moving that is located in a city about an hour from where we lived that does just that!  I don’t know if it had been there when we moved; if so I wish I’d known about it!  It was extremely difficult to move ourselves down here – we had to make about five trips with one-way rental trucks.  If we move again, I’ll check them out for sure!