Dr Copa Scrip for Success

Sometimes I have to shake my head in disbelief when I poke my head into the media room and see the kids playing their video games. One minute they are playing games like Mario Cart and the next minute they are playing games like plants vs zombies. I haven’t played a video game in a couple of years; I found that they were very addictive to me and I wanted to stay up all night to play the game.

That would not have been a problem except for the fact that I needed to be able to get up early in the morning and go to work! After all, I was the grown-up in the house that needed to bring in the money! One thing that I did learn, by playing the games, is that they truly are a lot of fun to play, and they truly can be addictive. Sometimes I find myself feeling concerned about how much time the kids spend playing the video games instead of being outside in the “real world.”

When I talk to my wife about my concerns, she tends to agree with me, but points out that there are worse addictions to be had. Of course, I have to agree with her about that. I just hope that they grow out of it at some point in time.

I never thought for one moment that a dyed in the wool pick up artist would end up having a son that was so shy that he did not know
how to ask a girl out. (My wife keeps telling me that she gets really tired of listening to me brag about all of the ladies that I had under my spell!) We are always going places where it would be so easy to go up to other people and introduce yourself and start a conversation, but our oldest son always hangs back. Sometimes I wonder if he will ever find someone to share his life with.

Our youngest son, however, is the exact opposite! He is the original extrovert! Put him in a room full of strangers and within five minutes everyone knows who he is, and he knows who they are, and they are all fast friends! Our oldest son will stand by and watch him work, envious of the ease in which he socializes. I really wish that he would gather up the courage to imitate the behavior a few times; after all, practice makes perfect.

I was perturbed when I saw my sister commenting on Facebook that her grandson keeps losing his eyeglasses at school so she has to run him down to the eye doctor’s and buy him new glasses. At about $150 a pair, that is not chump change! She has been doing this about twice a month for the past year, and every time she mentions it I remind her that it would be a good idea to get him a couple of spair pairs of glasses at zennioptical.com’s website.

I don’t remember exactly how I learned about the zenni optical website, but every now and then it seems that I read an article or blog about it, or hear about it a radio show, or even read about it in a newspaper article. But from what I understand, you can get a complete pair of eyeglasses for under $20, and that is a great bargain! I was looking at their website and saw that they have a lot of great looking frames, and a wide selection of frames for kids as well. All you have to do is pick out what pair you want, send in the prescription (along with the pupillary distance – you can get that from your eye doctor) and badda-bing-badda-boom you get new glasses for cheap! Spending $150 a pair a couple of times a month for kids glasses is just plain crazy, when you can get a great deal like that from zenni!

Jason was telling me that he has accepted an internship in Calgary for next summer. He’s always been interested in learning more about life in Canada; he is especially interested in how their health care system works. He’s honestly considering moving there permanently once he finishes his college education. I think perhaps his lady friend that he is spending a lot of time with just might be influencing him a little bit! Her family is from Calgary!

Regardless, Jason is already spending time looking for Calgary apartment rentals to be living there during the internship. I don’t know if he will be able to get a lease on one for only a summer internship program! I suggested that maybe he contact the company he will be working with and see if they have special housing accommodations already set up for their interns. I think it is very exciting to be able to serve an internship with a company that is in another country! Jason’s future is really bright and exciting!

My sons are tall and very slender, and have a hard time finding clothes that fit their tall slender frames. So we decided to try one of the big and tall mens clothing stores in town and were rather disappointed that when they say big and tall they really mean big and tall. As in they have no clothes for slender and tall, they only have clothes for big – as in heavy and tall. Heavy and short, no. Slender and tall, no. Heavy and tall, yes. Both together.

So the search continues for good fitting clothes for my slender and tall sons. It is becoming more apparent that we are going to have to go into one of the larger cities, or shop online for their clothes. That really is a shame; we’d love to give the money to local businesses if we can. But if the business is not going to carry the item, we have no choice in the matter. After all, they can’t run around buck naked!