My twenty six year old niece is finally getting her own car. She had been just borrowing her parent’s car when she needed a ride, but they have decided that they are tired of her returning their cars with an empty tank and told her that it is time that she had her own wheels. One of the biggest reasons that she didn’t have her own car to begin with was that they had heard that it was impossible to get cheap car insurance for women. Especially for women under the age of twenty-five. They’ve heard that insurance companies have higher rates for those under that age. Well, now she’s twenty-six, so that roadblock has been removed.
When I asked them where they found a good price on car insurance for women they told me that they found a website that served as a search engine focusing just on women’s car insurance. They plugged in their zip code and the website showed them a lot of different insurance companies that served their area that have good rates. They found that very helpful.
One of the last minute things that we do here at home before company arrives is to We clean the kitty litter box and then vacuum the carpets. The dogs and cat tend to leave tufts of fur around the house and if we vacuum the day before company arrives, by the time they get here it looks dirty again.
So, last night we were expecting company for dinner; arriving around 5. So at 4pm my wife cleans the litter box (which even though she puts the box on top of newspaper always ends up with a little bit of litter on the rug) and then gets out the vacuum cleaner. Wouldn’t you know it, the vacuum cleaner died. Simply died. I took it apart for her, thinking that I could fix it, but the motor is burnt out.
So my wife was very unhappy about that – she likes having the place as clean as possible when company comes over. But she was a trooper and got the carpet as clean as she could and never mentioned it to our company (why point out the dirt – they might not care or notice if you don’t make a big deal about it!) And supper came and went and nobody died. But I will be taking the vacuum cleaner to the repair shop first thing on Monday!
Last year about this time I noticed several packages arriving for my wife from Zappos. I had never heard of it before then, so I asked her who or what is Zappos?
She told me that it was an Internet store she had found out about from a friend when she was complaining about how hard it was to find shoes that fit her feet. Her friend told her to try Zappos for both shoes and clothes because not only do they have a great selection of styles and sizes, but they offer free shipping both ways.
Well, my wife was all over that in a flash! She has bad memories of ordering a dress from a catalog that according to their size chart was supposed to fit her, and it was too large so she returned it for a smaller size, which was still too large, returned it again and it was STILL too large and returned it again and they said that they didn’t have anything smaller so she asked for a refund. She ended up paying about $100 on shipping (both ways) and never ended up with a dress to show for it!
As much as I didn’t feel like mowing the lawn yesterday (it was very hot) I ended up spending much of my day doing exactly that. Most every day this past week it has rained, and the weather forecast for the next week is for it to rain as well. So I decided to bite the bullet and “make hay while the sun shines” yesterday and mow the lawn.
There was a car show that I really wanted to go to instead, but the lawn was looking really scruffy and I couldn’t stand it! My thinks I’m a little bit over-sensitive as to how the lawn looks; she thinks that I could let it grow longer than I do. But she does always tell me how nice the lawn looks after I’ve finished mowing and trimming!