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Time for the annual Christmas show at work

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My husband is going to be playing guitar at our hospitals’ annual Christmas event this coming Thursday. He’s been been busy picking out songs and practicing them on his guitar over the last month and a half or so. He’s also been taking his guitar to work to practice with one of the doctors he works with as well as a few other people that he works with in the hospital that will be joining them in performing.

I might stroll over to the hospital on Thursday to watch the show. I’ve certainly put in my time listening to all the practice guitar chords – I think I deserve to hear the finished product … plus I’ll get to hear the rest of the “group” too.

Does your workplace have an annual holiday event? Do employees put on any kind of talent show or anything like that? That’s one of the things that I like about the hospital – there’s this Christmas performance every year, but there’s also a talent show usually in June or July I believe and that’s always fun.

A cute little craft site takes off

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My niece has been busy starting her own business. It’s a craft based business where she makes hair clips, earrings, metal art, knitwear, baby clothing and all kinds of things. Everything is adorable!

She came to me a month or so ago asking for advice on how to start a small business and once I knew what kind of business she was working on I suggested that she set up on Etsy. However things have just exploded for her in the last month and I hear that she might be looking into unsecured business loans soon! Yes … that’s how fast things are picking up.

I hope that her business takes off. Of course if it does she’ll probably have to hire a few people to help her out. Anyway if you love craft items or need to get some as gifts for friends or relatives check out Muench Love Creations.

I wish we had a pool in our backyard!

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I wish our property were big enough to have a pool!

I got a little envious earlier today when I noticed a neighbor having some pool maintenance done. I was inside my house when this big truck with these huge colored canisters on the back pulled up in front of their house and then the sound of a pump started up. At least I’m fairly certain it was a pool cleaning service.

I wasn’t sure that this house had a pool but earlier in the summer, on a very hot summer day I saw a bunch of kids wander out of the yard wrapped in towels and that along with a truck that said something about pool heat pumps about a month before that confirmed my suspicion … yep … those lucky devils have a pool!

My yard is so small the best I can do is a big hot tub or a pond. LOL

My husband is on temporary layoff again

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My husband is on one of his temporary lay off weeks again. This is the second one this summer and if history repeats itself he’ll have two more weeks or temporary layoffs at the end of the year. Not very good when you don’t have much money to work with to pay the bills to begin with as it is!

So it seems that every time my husband has one of his weeks off he goes out of town. He’s at his parents house right now helping them out by fixing things around their house.

Part of me doesn’t mind him going away and helping out his family but part of me wants him to stick around and well … I guess get some stuff done around our house too. I mean … I’ve been living in a house with stalled renovations for uh … six years now and my husband all of a sudden has all this extra time on his hands .. maybe just maybe he could work with me to put the ceiling up in our living room dining room? Nope? Nah … he just called and he’s running off to some store to get some polaris sportsman parts. I have no idea what they are but he needs them.

He was supposed to be home tomorrow evening but now he says he might not be back until Thursday … Big Sigh … Oh well maybe we’ll get some work done this weekend.

The noisy neighbors are back Argh

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My immediate next door neighbors were very quiet for the last two weeks and it was pure heaven.

My neighbors have been extremely noisy this year. Their toddler has been going through the terrible two’s and we’re also bearing the brunt of the noise. She’s running around slamming doors, screaming and banging her feet and all that noise really comes into our house at all hours of the day and night and it seems that her parents don’t want to do anything at all to stop her. It’s been going on for 6 months.

So .. when the noise suddenly stopped two weeks ago it didn’t take me too long to figure out that the mother and daughter had gone away on vacation for a while. The father stuck around but he seems to be the quieter of the three of them.

Unfortunately my peace and quiet is over. It’s after 10pm and I can hear the little girl running circles in their living room next door. She’s thumping around so much that the couch I’m sitting on as I type is shaking. Yes she’s a heavy footed little girl! God I hope that I never get any baby shower invitations from them for any new siblings! I can’t imagine how noisy their house would be with more kids! One kid and their already driving me nuts.






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