if your teenager likes to play guitar and sing, this is a great idea for a birthday cake. It was easy to make and easy to decorate. I love the idea and I know just about any teenager would love to have this cake.
Prescription sunglasses – tip and trick
by Mary AnneI know a lot of people who wear glasses. That actually surprises me, because in this day and age of contact lenses and Lasik vision correction, I would expect to see a lot fewer people wearing glasses! A lot of my co-workers wear glasses, and yesterday during our lunch break we were talking about prescription glasses and prescription sunglasses. The price of glasses nowadays is getting really expensive! Seems to me that two years ago I spent over $300 on my new pair of glasses. I’m due for a new pair in a couple of months, and I dread the expense!
One trick I learned, though, is this. Take your old pair of regular glasses to the eye doctor and have him tint them. He can do that really cheap, and they will work great!
Fireplaces add charm
by Mary AnneWhen I bought my modular home back in 1993, the one thing that I really wanted but didn’t get was a ventless fireplace. I’ve always loved the ambiance and style of a wall mounted fireplace but I didn’t have the finances to get one at the time that I bought the house.
I have a “wish list” of things that I’d really like to buy if I ever had extra money to spend (as if that will ever happen) and near the top of that list is modern fireplaces. I’d love to have one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in each bedroom. I love the charm and the romance of the dancing flames. And I love warming my toes on a chilly night in front of the fire. Brings back great memories of fun ski vacations, and great family times at the grand parents.
New style my butt!
by Mary AnneI was reading that the stores are trying to justify their cheapening of their products by claiming that they are using “new styling” like that is something that is good. They are using less material, cheaper material, yet they are raising their prices. Sometimes I get so irritated that the big corporations think that the American consumer is that easily fooled!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think I’ll be doing more thrift store shopping in the future.
A new age
by Mary AnneSometimes I find it amazing how much technological progress has been made in my lifetime. When I first started going to college, the Internet still had not even been invented! Going to Online Schools was a dream of the future – something you might hear about when going to a futuristic display at Disney World, or going to a World’s Fair.
As it was, I could not go far from home, I had to attend a local school, and live with my parents. That severely limited what programs I could enroll in. And being a female in my home severely limited anything I could do. Sometimes I envy the generation of my children – it is so easy now to get information about financial assistance on the http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ website, and students can get online degree programs in psychology and many other subjects without leaving their own home. People tell me now that it is not too late to go back to school and get the degrees that I wanted as a child. But it really IS too late for me to get a job in the field that I would want to study. Ageism runs rampant in America, and by the time I got my degree I’d be old enough to be collecting Social Security, and no one would want to hire such an old lady.