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A wedding we can’t go to

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My husbands niece is getting married next weekend in Mexico.

My husband and I wanted to go when we received one of her lovely wedding invitations but we just can’t afford to go at this time. My husband has been going through rounds of temporary layoffs at work so we just can’t go away for a week. We just can’t spend that much money on a trip.

We’d love to go. We were talking with my husbands sister earlier today and their leaving on Tuesday. Somehow they managed to get a really good deal .. something like $1200 each for a week including the flight. Pretty good! If we could have afforded to have spent that much money we would have. I’ll be that Chris’ brother calls us on the day of the wedding .. someone he’ll make sure we’re there even if we’re not.

My friend bought a farm

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One of these days I have to take a ride out to the country to visit my friends new farm. She moved out to the country last fall for a quieter lifestyle and so far it sounds like she’s really enjoying her new home.

She literally bought a farm. Yeah I know the term bought the farm usually means a person died, but she didn’t, she really bought a farm. You know, one with horse, cows and even a few noisy chickens running around. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s had some foxes raiding the hen house.

I want to drive up there one weekend for a visit but before I do I’d better look at some horse riding helmets as I’d love to do a little horse riding while I’m there. I haven’t ridden a horse for years, but I used to enjoy it. Of course I’d also enjoy seeing my friend and her family. She still doing some renovations on the farm so I think if we go for a visit she has plans to put us to work, so that’s another reason why I want to get some horse riding in – fair trade you know.

Too many teens standing around in front of my house

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I live on a busy street and as it turns out there’s maybe three high schools within walking distance … so … somewhere between 3:30 and 4:30 pm each weekday I probably see about 100 or more teenagers walk by my house. I also live near a few lower schools so there’s lots of little kids going by at different times of day too.

Anyway … a few of the kids have a habit of standing right in front of my house and talking for ten of fifteen minutes before them go there separate ways. They’ll stand in my walkway and sometimes won’t even move when I’m trying to come out of my house with my dog.

I don’t know … but I find that kind of rude. I would never have done that when I was a teen. Sure I might have stood around talking to my friends, but if an adult needed to get by us I would have moved over and certainly we wouldn’t have blocked their property or stood on their property.

Some girls were standing at the end of my walkway yesterday. I guess they were talking about the prom because not only did they block my walkway but they left a flyer that they’d been holding that said prom dresses 2011 or something similar. I’d kind of forgotten how close to Prom time we were getting.

Anyway .. if we ever sell our house I’m not buying another on a busy street or one that’s near high schools. I’m tired of all the foot traffic and even the cars near my house.

Parties at work each week?

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My husband came home from work this evening and told me that next week their having a big birthday party for two of his coworkers. It seems like they’re always having a party for one reason or another at his work. Just on Wednesday they had a party for someone who was leaving.

Anyway … one of the nurses is turning 30 and I was looking around on the internet for some gift ideas and I came across this site that had some great ideas in this category – gourmet 30th birthday gifts. My husband said that the nurse really enjoys cooking and baking so maybe a gourmet gift would be a good idea. Since it’s already Thursday I’ll just have to see if I were to order something if it would arrive in time for the party.

Does your workplace have a lot of parties? How do you manage, do you buy gifts or bring food for each party?

A visitor in the spring?

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My brother in law called just a little while ago. I guess he’s going to be coming for a visit sometime in the early spring. It’s always interesting when he visits, that’s for sure!

While we were talking to him on the phone he was telling us about some new things he bought. I guess he’s taken up hunting which is something totally new to him and he bought a bushnell legend for his riffle. I don’t know anything about hunting or guns so the conversation went over my head, but he was happy so I guess that’s good.

Now we just have to prepare for his imminent visit. I think it will be during spring break. The first few days will be ok but I’ll probably be ready for a quite house again by the end of that week.

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