Jerry Loggins » Shopping

There is no miracle cure

Jerry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:05:25 +0000

I’m always leery when I hear or see a new commercial about some kind of new diet pill that is supposed to work wonders. I always wonder what the side effects are going to be and if they are really worth it. I can remember when my brother’s ex-wife started dieting and was taking diet pills. She became extremely agitated and irritable. Sure, she lost weight, but she was hard to put up with! Sometimes I think that is what broke them up!

New windshield wipers

Jerry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:54:19 +0000

My wife had accepted a mystery shopping assignment to do a mystery shop at our local Jiffy Lube last weekend. She had her misgivings about doing it; the last time she had her oil changed there they had tried to convince her to buy a new battery and she didn’t need one. But she accepted the assignment because they DID pay for the entire oil change (which after all is around $40!) They advised her that she needed new windshield wipers, so I went ahead and replaced them yesterday for her. The wipers we bought were the Rain-X brand. Today my wife was driving the car in the rain and she tells me that for the very first time ever she was actually able to see through the windshield during the rain without a lot of streaking!

They are getting cheaper

Jerry — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:40:58 +0000

One of my favorite inventions for the computer is the thumb sized flash drive. I can remember when I bought my very first one, it cost about $25, and only had abou 128MB of storage space on it! I thought it was wonderful! (Actually I still think it is wonderful!) In more recent years, I found I could buy an 8GB one for less than what I had paid for my first 128MB one! I’m glad they are getting cheaper!

Strange reaction

Jerry — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:25:03 +0000

My wife has tried a lot of different types of vitamins in the past few years. She’s especially been interested in the “B” vitamins because she has heard that when someone has a lot of stress in their life that their body uses up a lot of the stored “B” vitamins. The problem that she has had, however, is that many of the ones that she has tried make her nauseous. We really don’t know how to deal with that issue!

Yet Another Anniversary Coming Up

Jerry — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:05:25 +0000

The wife and I are going to be celebrating yet another wedding anniversary come the end of August. Man these years are just passing away like crazy, time flies when you are having fun! It is always a challenge trying to find the perfect gift for my wife each year. I mean first there is her birthday, then there is Christmas and then along comes the anniversary, not to mention Valentine’s Day!

I believe that this year I will be looking online to find her favorite Cologne. Good thing she still has a little left in the bottle on her dresser for me to get the name off of the darn thing. I can never remember what it is called, even after 30 years of being with the woman! The Internet will make finding one of her favorite Fragrances a much easier task to take on. It was a real pain in the rear in the years before the Internet when I used to have to bounce around from store to store in order to find it each time. A man like me just doesn’t feel comfortable in the Perfume department, ya know what I’m saying?

Anyway I do believe that a nice dinner and a nice gift will make it an evening to remember, at least until the next one rolls around in only 12 months.

Little rooms

Jerry — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:04:44 +0000

After checking my email this morning, my browser defaulted to a webpage that featured a story about tiny hotel rooms, complete with photos. Some of the rooms were so tiny that I am sure that I would get claustrophobic trying to sleep in one! One featured platform beds in some renovated drain pipes. That’s a novel idea indeed, but it only had a bed in it! What about temperature control? One of the hotels was in an airport and had no bathroom, saying that the customer could use the restrooms in the airport. I guess those folks aren’t supposed to need a shower or bath! And I had heard about the Japanese hotels where the rooms are only slightly bigger than a casket; this article had photographs of the rooms. Those rooms put me in mind of a sleeping berth in a sleeper car in a train.

Well, those are all novel ideas, but I’ll tell you this – give me a standard hotel room, complete with fancy bedroom sets that include a dresser and night stands, and a real bathroom with a shower in it! When I travel, I need room to stretch, and I don’t want to have to wait in line with a with a bunch of strangers to use a bathroom in the middle of the night!

No zits

Jerry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:20:34 +0000

I think it is amazing how much money people spend on trying to buy the absolute best acne treatment! I can remember how many different products that my kids used when they were going through their teenage years. I can’t say that any one over-the-counter acne product worked any better than another. Even going to the doctor and being put on antibiotics wasn’t any help at all! And the research goes back and forth on whether diet has an effect on acne. I’m glad I’m not a teenager anymore!

Smokin’

Jerry — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:16:56 +0000

My uncle Jeff is finally retiring from his job at the bank next month. Aunt Margie is planning a big retirement party for him. I know how much he loves cao cigars, so I’m planning on ordering him a few from a website that I found that sells them. And I think that I’ll give him a gift card from the website so he can buy more down the road, too. After all of the aggravation that he’s been through working for that bank, he deserves a good cigar!

Men look distinguished

Jerry — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:08:00 +0000

My wife likes to bemoan the fact that as men age, they look distinguished, while women simply look old. I’ve noticed that every month she has at least two different new wrinkle creams on the bathroom vanity! I think that she still looks terrific, but I can tell that she is starting to fight the unbeatable foe – old age. My father used to always say “Getting old is not for sissies!” Truer words were never spoken!

Risy business

Jerry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:16:55 +0000

Do you remember all of the big hullabaloo that happened when diet pills with ephedra were banned a few years ago? Apparently even though these products helped people to lose weight, it increased the risk of strokes and heart attacks to a dangerous degree. And yet people still try to buy it illegally! I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if what people think is ephedra is really a counterfeit drug that is nothing but ground up drywall.

Starting up

Jerry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:09:30 +0000

I met Stan for lunch today at Claire’s and were talking about how his new business is shaping up. He was telling me how amazing it is that there are so many decisions that have to be made – and the small details, such as where to put the new cash register and epson receipt printer without having to run a lot of new cable. Starting a business can be a real challenge!

Not just for teeth

Jerry — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:02:31 +0000

From what I can tell, the sales of acne medicine is a big money maker! I’m glad that our kids have outgrown that stage in adolescence where they were trying every over-the-counter product on the market to control their complexion problems! I’m just sorry that we didn’t find out about how well common toothpaste does in controlling break-outs! It was only a couple of years ago when my wife heard about it, and tried it. Now she recommends it to anyone who will listen!

Pump it up

Jerry — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:52:14 +0000

My wife and I are talking about putting in a half-bath in the basement. We’re thinking about installing a wall-mounted Saniflo toilet with a macerator pump system. From what I’ve been reading, a macerator pump from Saniflo will pump the sewage up to twelve feet high to the sewer line. That sounds like a pretty strong pump to me! I don’t want to have any problems with trying to pump the sewage out of the house, so the pump is very important.

Thank you Discover Card

Jerry — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:44:36 +0000

Last week I received an email notice from Discover that I was nearing my pre-set spending limit. I was quite surprised because I had just paid off the card and had not used it since I paid it off! So I went online and looked at my recent activity. There were a lot of fraudulent charges on my account – some to Microsoft X-Box and some to Apple Ipod! I immediately called Discover and reported the unauthorized charges. They immediately closed my account and sent me a new card. The new card arrived in less than a week. I have to admit that it was a hassle notifying the different companies that bill my monthly charges to that account, but all in all it was a fairly painless process. Thankfully I’m not responsible for those fraudulent charges so I’m happy about that. Isn’t it nice when a credit card company does somethng good?!

Not your typical decorator

Jerry — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:01:08 +0000

I can remember when I got my first apartment and how expensive it was to furnish it! I tried hard to pinch every penny. I used family hand-me-downs that no one else wanted and they have served me well. I used dry bars and fish aquarium stands for my tv stands in the different rooms. Even now I still have those hand-me-downs; they have become cherished family heirlooms. I wouldn’t want to part with them now!