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A musical gift

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I need to buy a gift for my friends son. I’m trying to think of what to buy him. I’m not always the best with buying gifts unless I really know someone well. Are you like that or do you think you pretty much get it right every time?

I know that my friends son is very interested in music. Not just listening to music but playing it as well. He already has a guitar and even drums. I know that last year he was playing harmonica quite often so maybe I’ll check out the harmonicas guitar center and see if I can find a nice harmonica for him. I wish I knew what key his other harmonicas were in so I could get one he doesn’t have.

Stores selling winter coats in the middle of a heat wave?

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Why do stores sell things out of season? Oh and by out of Season I mean way out of season, like six months out of season?

I’ll give you and example if you’re trying to figure out what the heck I’m talking about, although I have a feeling some of you can probably guess. I was in both Walmart and Costco several times in the month of July and guess what I saw in both stores? I saw them selling things like winter coats and Christmas items!

Yes! It’s true! Now who but the most massive of bargain hunters or seriously confused tourist visiting Canada comes shopping for winter coats in July? In the middle of a massive heat wave no less? The day I first noticed winter coats in the stores the temperatures outside were something like 35 Celsius (95 F) but felt like 43 Celsius (109 F) with the humidity. Yeah .. I wanna buy a winter coat.

I was actually looking for shorts but of course I couldn’t find any .. I have to shop for those in January around here!






Time to go shopping

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I think I need to do some serious shopping this weekend. Earlier this week I had a meeting in Human Resources at my workplace to see where they might place me if I come back – if they have a job for me, and due to my recent weight loss and lack of recent clothes and shoe purchases I really had to scramble to find something nice to wear. As it was the shoes I chose to wear have left my feet sore to this day! Owwww!

So at the very least I must buy some decent dress shoes this week. Not pumps or high heels necessarily, but low heeled dress shoes that I can wear with nice pants or perhaps a dress. Something versatile.

I’ve been holding off getting new clothes because 1. I think I’m still going to lose a bit more weight, and 2. It would be nice to wait until I’m back to work and I have more money to spend on clothes etc. Of course I could be like one of my internet friends who just got one of those quick loans from a company or something called title loans Arizona when she needed some money fast. I don’t think I’ll need to do that though – hopefully not anyway ..

Anyone want to go shopping with me this weekend?

I really need new clothes

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I need to go shopping for new clothes. I’ve been losing weight since last October or November and in the last month or so I’ve started noticing that most of my clothes are way too loose. I simply have to get new clothes.

I was hoping to wait just a little longer until I lost just a little more weight but my clothes are pretty much falling off so I have to buy a few things. I started looking at some clothes online and I came across these great looking spyder jackets but what I really need is pants and perhaps a few tops. Pants are the main things … those are what are falling off!

I don’t want to buy pants online though .. I don’t even know what size I am anymore. Maybe this weekend I’ll go shopping and pick up a few new pair of jeans and other pants.

Almost done cleaning the basement clutter!

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I think I’ve mentioned a few times now that I’ve been busy trying to clean the massive mess that is my basement over the last month or so. Actually I’ve been trying to clean it since the end of December if you want to know the truth so I guess that means I’ve been at it on and off for three months or so! Well .. I think the job is getting closer to being done.

No .. not finished .. I think I’ll have to sort through things at least one more time, but the first major round is almost done. My husband and I spent 8 hours in the basement last Saturday and we went through about half of the basement – the worst part of the clutter. There’s only a small area of unsorted clutter left! Did you know I still had some boxes of unpacked stuff from when we moved from our Apartment in 2001 to the house? I knew there were some small boxes of nick knacks and stuff that were unpacked but one of the boxes had cosmetic and about 7 bottles of womens perfume that I had totally forgotten about. You see I had stopped wearing perfume some time ago because I’m very scent sensitive so I had put my perfumes aside and when we moved to the house I guess I meant to unpack that box and at least put the cosmetics and perfumes in an upstairs closet but that never happened.

The perfumes were nice ones too … like Channel number 5 and so on but the bottles were probably more than 15 years old – packed away in the basement for 11 years and as I said it had been an additional 4 or more years since I’d last wore any of the perfumes so I decided to through them out. That was probably a couple hundred dollars worth of perfume that I threw in the trash!

However, throw out things I must do if I’m ever going to clear out the basement. Did you know that we have a sectional couch downstairs that I hadn’t been able to see (see the seats anyway) for several years? Well as of last Saturday we could actually sit on most of it! So yeah … progress is being made. I think within a month the basement will be pretty clear and we’ll be finishing the renovations upstairs.

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