Coffee Makers

I love my one cup coffee machine. But I'm always looking out to see what the next new product is or how one can be better. Checked out the grind and brew from CoffeeMakers.com

Not bad...something to think about for future purposes. Though it might be better for a gift. Maybe my brother in law! OMG. That man can drink coffee. I had to laugh so hard because last Christmas, our family gave him 4 huge containers of coffee. He still talks about that gift.

So we'll see...this one might be a contender.

Cheap Entertainment

Friday night, I was with the kids.  Hubby had plans.  It was such a beautiful night, I really felt we had to go out and do something.  But I didn't want to go out to an inside activity.  Having such long nights is something we have been waiting for a long time for...didn't want to waste it. 


So we opted to go to the beach.  There's a beach nearby with an open park that's perfect for kit flying.   We had an early dinner, hopped into the car and drove to the beach.  The ride itself was awesome as it was that beautiful of a night.  We were there in 7 minutes and easily found parking.  Woo hoo!   What's even better is that it's a side of the beach that not a lot of people go to.  


When we got there, the wind was perfect.  Consistent, but not too hard, and warm.  


The kidlets started flying their kites right away and I could just see that they were having a fabulous time.  They were trying all different ways of flying their kites.  At one point, both kids were just lying in the grass while flying their kite.  They were so content lying there and watching this kite go back and forth, back and forth.   


It's hard not to be content on a night like this.  By the beach, beautiful water, sun, sounds of nature, incredible clear blue sky and lots of giggles with my 2 favourite girls. 
  

Manners

Manners.  If there is anything I will teach my kids, it's manners.  And over the years, I've been at them to say thank you, please, may I.  To ask in tones that reflect that they are entitled to something, to learn how to ask for things by understanding someone's style.  On and on.  

Yes, I forget mine sometimes.  But I'm usually polite.  I don't think much of it because I just think I should be.  I was fortunate today to have someone tell me how nice it is and how it always makes their day. 

I was suprised at the source.  It was the doctor's receptionist.  I've never had a problem with her in person or on the phone.  She always helps me.  She can't always accomodate the dates and times I want, but whatever.  I find another date. 

I walked in today, said my hello while I checked in and the receptionist asked me if I had a minute.  Sure, I'm just waiting for the doctor.  But she took off her head set and got all serious on me.  Yeah...either she was telling she was leaving or she's mad at me something.  It was THAT type of look.

"I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time."

"Ok, are you leaving?"

"No...I'm never leaving.  But I wanted to say, you are by far the most polite person ever that calls here.  The most polite!"

"Really?" 

"Oh, yes.  I have no problems ever taking your calls.  Why are some people so mean on the phone?"  Then she provided some pretty nasty examples.  

Well, I thanked her.  That was really nice of her to take the time out to say that I was polite.  LOL!  

Wallets

LOL! My husband hates my wallet. My last one was a wallet that lasted me 10 years. It was one of those black leather walletsthat had a change section, could fold up to save room, etc. But the change portion was wearing out so I got myself another wallet. It is a brown leather one, also with a change section and folds. The other day, he was looking at my wallet and said it was lucky. Well, it probably is. But I don't care. I like it and it works for me. Just like when my girlfriends make fun of my gangster like sunglasses. Doesn't stop me from wearing them. I have thicker skin than that. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Can't say I like how my husband's wallet looks....

Videoconference

I wish my organization would use different videoconference services. It's easy enough to book and organize. However, the quality is terrible. Everything lags big time. The picture quality sucks too. It's always fuzzy and the speech is always ahead of how the mouth moves. It's very distracting. I get that there may be a lag even with the best of equipment. But it can't be slower than what we have. Maybe try ActConferencing.com web conferencing. Though, I'm sure this would have to go to tender so I have no clue if any company would be picked up. But I guess in this time of financial constraint, this is just a dream. We'll just have to stick to the current system we have.

Gazebo

Ok...so maybe not a pool in the backyard. Maybe I should buy a gazebo kit instead. Again, the backyard is big enough to support a structure such as that. I just have so many ideas of what I want to do, but not sure what. I might have to suck it up and just get a landscape architect help me draw out some plans with some items that I like so I can have a better visual of what could be done back there. Until then, I'm just happy that my grass is green and it's a ton of room for my kids to roam in.

Flowers

My kids are sweet. On most days, they are actually really thoughtful. What I love is they will go out with me/grandparent/school and when they see buttercups or cute flowers, they love to go see and pick them. But they inevitably pick a bunch of flowers and make a number of floral arrangements for me to put on the kitchen table. Sometimes, the flowers are already wilted from the heat by the time they come home. Sometimes, they are so tiny that they've lost a number of flowers. Some are so full of pollen that I'm sneezing my head off! Regardless of what the flowers look like, I always put them on the table. My kids pick flowers for me because they love me.