My wife has been mulling over whether to buy new eyeglasses, opt for laser surgery, or try the latest contact lenses. One thing is for sure, she needs a new prescription – her vision is deteriorating fast! Unfortunately eye surgery is not covered by our insurance, and the cost is more than our budget can bear. So I’m all for checking out the new contact lens technology and see if she can go the contact lens route. We just aren’t sure if she can take advantage of the new contact lens technology because one of her vision problems is a condition that requires a lot of prism put in the lens. I guess that is something we will have to ask about when she goes to the eye doctor next time!
Last night my sister and niece came over for a short visit. My goodness, my niece is growing up fast! It seems like overnight she turned into a young woman! They had just been shopping for some new beauty tools for my niece to be trying out. She’s started to take an interest in healthy beauty products.
I’m sure that she wants to make sure that whatever she uses will be something that has not been tested on animals. She was mortified when she learned how makeup is often tested on rabbits. I won’t go into details here because I don’t want to upset anyone, but believe me, testing makeup on animals is cruel. So anyway, she wants to buy the beauty essentials necessary to obtain a clean and fresh and natural look. That always confuses me – why wear makeup if the goal is to look like you aren’t wearing makeup?
My sister is very excited about her up and coming appointment at Sono Bello next week. She has been wanted to have some Laser Liposuction done for some time now. For Christmas her husband gave her a gift certificate to have the work done for her, so now she has no excuse for putting it off. The look on her face when she opened the card up Christmas afternoon was priceless. She didn’t know if she should be upset or happy, you could see her little brain working up a storm, we could even smell a bit of smoke going on in there! LOL
She has always had a bit of a weight issue and since giving birth to two kids, she has been struggling, big time, so we are all hoping that this liposuction will do the trip and make her a happy camper with her body once and for all. Sono Bello has a great reputation and we all feel comfortable in having them do the procedure. Sono Bello does hundreds of laser assisted body contouringprocedures every month and all of their physicians are board certified. They advertise that they can permanently reshape your body in just one session. So we will see what they can do for her and hope for the best all the way around.
I’ve always been interested in history. I like to watch the history channel and I like to read historical writings. One of the things that interest me in history is how gold has always been considered a valuable commodity. I’ve learned that are many uses for gold. One use for gold that most of us already are aware of is it’s use historically as money. I never really understood why the United States stopped using the gold standard – it certainly made a lot of sense to me!
In addition to being used as money, gold has been used as adornments in home furnishings, architecture, and jewelry. It is (was) used in dentistry to fill teeth, or even to replace teeth. And from what I understand it can be used medically as a treatment for cancer, arthritis, and in transplant devices. So even though the world no longer uses it as a base for it’s monetary system, it is still a very valuable metal!
It is a shame that families are spread out so much in this day and age. Back in the day most folks stayed close, living either on the same street or at least in the same town or county and they all looked after each other the best that they could. My family has certainly spread out, but at least most are still in the U.S. and for the most part are on the east coast.
My oldest brother ended up in Tennessee with his wife and their kids. Tennessee is a beautiful state, we enjoy visiting them when we can and always enjoy the scenic drive up and back, as well. They seem to be doing well there, they have good jobs, a nice home and terrific kids. Of course there has to be at least one in bunch that makes life a challenge. In this case it would be their middle son.
This kid has had some issues with drug and alcohol, but they are doing what they can for him. In my brother’s last email, he informed us that they were checking into sending him into Tennessee Drug Rehab, sometime after the Christmas holidays are done and over with. Drug Detox isn’t something to play around with, so they want to make sure that the Residential Drug Rehab Center that they send him to will be a good and healthy environment that will help him through the whole Drug and Alcohol Rehab process.
The whole family is keeping them in their prayers. Drugs and Alcohol are bad news. The statistics on our teenagers and young adults that use drugs and alcohol are down right scary. We hope that my nephew will come out of treatment a much better person and live a long healthy and prosperous life.