My Uncle, the Collector.

My uncle is pretty funny, he's started his own meme on Facebook. Every Friday he posts something related to his guitars, whether it's a picture of one of his many or something else music related. Music has been his life and it still is. He was really smart and at the high points of his career, he invested in buying quite a large number of acoustic and electric guitars. Unfortunately, he's had to sell a few during the rough spots, but the good thing for him is that they still held close to their value and he got his money back and then some. Definitely a smart move.

School Fads

I remember when I was in school, there were always all sorts of trends going around and you just weren't cool if you didn't have it too. Even though our girls go to different schools, one things to remain in common, supposedly everyone is wearing a number of ball chain necklaces in different colors.I'm not sure how this one started or why it is, but it is and now our girls want them too, of course. Considering they just are starting school, I almost want to make a scrapbook on the trends they hound us for alone, it would definitely be interesting to look back on lol.

Still Thinking

During the time where I was sure I was going to open my own business, I was looking for all sorts of things that would help keep me organized and on track. I had found a salesforce reporting software that looked really good, but I wasn't sure if I was going to use that or a more common form of POS. I'd still really like to do something of my own one day but I'm still not really sure what my favored niche is yet. I'll just have to keep exploring my options and strengths.

Super Sleepy

My sleep has been totally whacky lately and I can't ever seem to get myself to stay fully awake. I know the cause is because I'm pregnant but it just doesn't seem to want to let up. At least most of my nausea has passed with the help of vitamins and I'm hoping the symptoms won't be nearly as bad as my last pregnancy. If only I could stop feeling like I'm in a constantly comatose state.

Lesson Learned

So, what I learned this last Christmas...finding gifts for girls is a lot easier said than done, especially when they're so close in age. We had a pretty difficult time trying to figure out what to get the girls this year and decided to go ahead and let them choose what they wanted on their lists from the internet. Of course it ended up that they kept choosing the same things and despite our hesitancy, we still gave them pretty much the same gifts to avoid hearing the "I want what she got" whining. Eventually that will have to come, but we thought we would ease us all into that one LOL.

To Each His Own

My BF and I do things quite differently and it's funny when something comes up. Both of us end up staring at the other as if they were from a different planet and we just laugh. One example would be how we assemble furniture. I can't watch him do it at all because his methods are way off from mine, but he'll laugh at me because I always end up leaving the casters off of things because I don't want things sliding around. What I love the most is that, despite our methodology, we still can work together without arguing and get things accomplished, now that's teamwork!

Don't forget the Christmas cookies!

Guest post written by Rita Clarkson

There's always something that I like to have handy around the holidays in case we have company coming over and that's some Christmas cookies. I really love baking and eating Christmas cookies. My whole family is the same way. But I think that the part I love most about having them around the house is the ability to just pull them out at any time. Plus, you don't have to heat them up in case someone drops by unexpectedly, which seems to happen a lot to us around the holidays in our household.

It also doesn't hurt to find a new cookie recipe or two to try out. A batch of cookies isn't a huge commitment or anything. While I was online looking up a new recipe a few weeks ago, I ran across soem info on Miracle Ear. After I looked through it a little bit I decided to go and get fitted with some hearing aids like I've suspected I should get for a while now.

I have found a few new recipes this year that I've loved fixing. One of those is a pretty simple walnut and chocolate chip cookie. But you wouldn't believe just how great these cookies are! I'll have to fix these around other times of the year too!