Posted on January 12th, 2012 by Jerry under Friends/Family, Health, Home and garden, Life, Opinion, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
My wife is a packrat. Not as bad as the television show “The Hoarders” but there are a lot of items filling up our storage space in the basement. From time to time I tell her that it bothers me that the space is so full, but she just reminds me that she doesn’t have the time or energy to organize it any better than it is. She claims that she has organized it (she has) and other people (meaning me) go down there and move things around and mess it up. (Yes, she’s right) and she’s tired of swimming upstream.
Well, when my mother took ill and we needed to take care of her for a couple of weeks last fall, the old baby monitors that we used when our kids were babies were quickly located (from their spot in the basement) and put to good use for us to be able to keep an ear out for Mom’s calls when she needed something. I have to admit, my wife did good this time.
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Jerry under Friends/Family, Life.
One of the last minute things that we do here at home before company arrives is to 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!
Posted on January 6th, 2012 by Jerry under Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Home and garden, Life, Money and Finances, Opinion, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
Thanks for the guest post by Donn Schroeder
Using one service provider for our internet service and cable has made my life a lot easier. I recently switched to a bundle deal with a new company because I was having trouble with my last cable company. I could never get a hold of anyone or work my way through the phone tree. I would often find mistakes in my bill and it would take me thirty minutes to get everything straightened out on the phone. Sometimes things didn’t get straightened out and I would end up having to call again! I was spending at least an hour a month talking to the cable company on the phone. Now since I have bundled with a new company, I can pay my bill on-line for both services. The service is not spotty and I actually ended up saving a pretty good bit of money. The best part about my new service is that I don’t have to get on the phone every single month to correct my cable bill. My internet speed is actually must faster than it was before too, so I can stream internet movies and watch videos on YouTube. I wish that I had thought of this sooner!
Posted on December 28th, 2011 by Jerry under Computers and/or Internet, Friends/Family, Life, Shopping.
Recently my wife got interested in magnetic therapy. She has arthritis in her wrists, and she’s met a few people who suggested that she try magnetic therapy as a method of treating her arthritis. Well, she decided that she had basically nothing to lose, and found some pretty magnetic bracelets on the Internet. One of the bracelets looks like it is studded with diamonds and sapphires. It really is very pretty.
She has bought probably around ten magnetic bracelets, and two necklaces so far. She has been layering them on, and I’m wondering if it is possible for her to be wearing too many magnets. What do you think?
Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Jerry under Friends/Family, Health, Life.
Earlier today I told my wife that I could not find any antacids and asked her to look for some for me. She opened up the medicine cabinet and a bunch of bottles fell out onto the counter top. Seems as if people (who shall remain unnamed) have been just randomly shoving bottles in the cabinet without any regard for organization. So my wife took that as a sign to start sorting through the bottles and throwing away the expired bottles. I was amazed at how many bottles of weight loss pills and vitamins she threw away. Once she finished, there was plenty of space in the medicine cabinet AND I got my antacids too!