We ended up getting good clear internet deals and they are going to be installing it into our new vacation home next week. We have always wanted a beach house and have just gotten to the point where we are going to be able to afford one. My husband and I both love the beach. I wish that we had been able to afford one sooner, but now is a great time because our kids are becoming teenagers and already don’t want to spend their extra time with Mom and Dad. Anything that we can do to get them to “hang” with us is worth it. We have already gotten them to agree to spend the summer at the condo. I am going to stay for the majority of the summer and my husband is going to come every weekend. The kids are going to be allowed to invite a friend or two. The good thing is that it is only about two hours from our house, so it is a very quick and easy drive there. I just can’t wait!

We spent a pleasant evening drinking his beer, talking about his book and rehashing the good old days until 1:30 that morning. It was reall good seeing my old friend and am so  tickled that he took the time to come over to hand deliver his book that I can’t wait to start reading.

I always buy my mother something on Valentine’s Day, it’s always best to keep on her good side.

I don’t always agree with their decisions on which ones are the funniest and the audience’s voting always seems to through me for a loop with their voting choices, but who gives a happy crap who wins or not, it’s all funny and it’s all good, as they say!

His birthday is in February and I only have a short amount of time to come up with something and this sounds like a good deal to me. He is a good guy and if he didn’t have his music I don’t know what he would do at this point.

When I was a kid we drank Pepsi and 7-Up when we were allowed to have sodas. But for casual drinking we were supposed to drink from the pitcher of flavored Kool Aid that our mother would keep in the refrigerator.

When I was just getting out of school, the drink of the day was either a White Russian or a Cuba Libre. And the popularity of ordering trays of shots was just beginning. This was also the beginning of wine coolers.

Now people seem to be infatuated with Cosmopolitans and lots of designer vodkas. Personally, I still like my Pepsi.

When it’s all said and done I’ll be taking and posting pictures here for all to see.

My first computer was a Mac and I always will have place in my heart for those brilliant machines that I was forced into leaving their use, quite a while back, due to the fact that everywhere that I worked and did any kind of business always used the IBM PC, so in order to keep in business I was forced into the PC world and have gotten used to it of course, but I still miss my Mac, she is tucked away in the basement, poor thing was banished from my home office and sent into the bowels of the household, doomed to a lonely existence along with all of the other outdated and un usefull items that have been discarded.

Whether you have a Mac or a PC, you should check out and see it my going to the website of ibackup.com, you could learn a thing or two and they possibly can help with all of your back up needs of today.

Besides buying a new vehicle I would like to invest in some nice logo mats to use, I think that they would be a nice touch for my customers to stand on while getting my name out. A nice logo canopy to use when outside and in wet weather would be a good choice as well. If I could count on the flea markets inside I would even consider purchasing some trade show carpet, I’ve seen some real nice ones being used out there, but there are no guarentees from what I’ve heard in the flea market business.

She has a few friends that she has been going to the local pool with and her folks are planning a beach get-a-way long weekend this up and coming 4th of July holiday. So she seems to be keeping busy, it is a drag for some kids that have nothing to do all summer, that is when trouble can start brewing. Busy hands are happy hands, as my mother always says, and there is a lot of truth to that.

One thing that my niece is very good at is the computer, her folks had her up and running on her own PC at the age of two years old and she knows what she is doing when it comes to email, the Internet, several different programs, and she has tons of software full of games and educational ones also that she enjoys.

In her email she was telling me of one of her favorite web-sites that she and her girlfriends just discovered a few weeks ago which is all about GirlSense Fashion Dress Up Games at a site called GirlSense.com. She tells me that it allows her and her friends to go into different boutiques and purchase virtual fashion items of fashion designers and celebrities like MTV’s The Hills, Savy and Mandy, Mudd and numerous others, that I have to tell you I have no idea who most of these are, but she seems thrilled with them.

I have to say that web-sites like these are really a good thing for these girls, it teaches them so many things that will help them later on in life. And I like that there is more and more things coming out for little girls, most video games really are not geared towards them and there has been a push for more girl oriented games to be available to them and it looks like it is working to some degree.