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Feb 19 2012

What a difference a couple of hours makes

by Mary Anne

We usually get up really early Sunday mornings to do our grocery shopping.  We are usually out of the store by 8am.  Well, I wasn’t feeling very well and didn’t sleep well, so we didn’t even leave the house until 7:45am.  We got to the store about 8:05am.

Boy was the store extremely crowded!  I really did not expect it to be that crowded that early!  We had to stand in the checkout line for over an hour!  We didn’t get home until 11:30!

I guess in the future I’ll have to just bite the bullet and force myself to get up and go early no matter what.

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Feb 11 2012

A wonderful gift for the new mother

by Mary Anne

Ever since I have been invited to Crystal’s baby shower I have been worrying about what in the world to get her that she doesn’t already have? Ever since she found out that she was pregnant she has spent almost every paycheck on things for the new baby! So I was thinking back to the time when my babies were newborn and my mother came to visit us for a couple of weeks to “help.” She was no “help” at all. So with that in mind, I have arranged to give her a gift certificate to a raleigh house cleaning service for three months worth of house cleaning while she is getting used to having a new baby in the house. I sure wish someone had done that for me!

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Feb 4 2012

My son broke up with his girlfriend

by Mary Anne

My son called me from college last night.  He was sad because the girl he had been seeing has decided it would be wise to break off their romance.  He had seen it coming, because they were going to different colleges with a large distance between them.  When they first started dating they had talked about how this might happen, and they agreed that they would still be friends afterwards.  But that is harder to actually DO than SAY!

So, we talked about some different strategies on surviving the break up.  We talked about how he needed to take some time to heal emotionally, and avoid any kind of rebound romance.

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Jan 30 2012

Drop boxes

by Mary Anne

Recently I’ve noticed that quite a lot of people use mailboxes for other uses other than as a receptacle to hold incoming and outgoing mail. Mail boxes are being used by some places as drop boxes. The first time I saw a mailbox being used in that manner was by my mother-in-law. She had set up an arrangement with some clients of her book-keeping business to use padlocks on
residential mailboxes and use them as ways to deliver and safely store clients records.

The first time I noticed that type of arrangement was when I saw my mother-in-law was using a mailbox with a padlock on it as a drop box. She had a padlock on the box, and she explained that the office’s courier had a copy of the key so he could pick up and deliver correspondence independently of the US Postal service.

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Jan 30 2012

Making the best decision

by Mary Anne

The article written by Alonso Kramer

I was trying to use thewww.texaselectricityproviders.com/ website to figure out what the best options were for my energy utilities. I really need something I can rely on. At my one of my old houses, we had some problems with the provider. My husband and I always felt like we were being overcharged and it seemed like the electricity would cut out randomly for what seemed like no reason. We both decided we really wanted to do our research for the next house and avoid the same problem. We are set to move into our new house next month. We are both really excited. It is a lot bigger and a lot nicer than our first house together. However, since it is so big, I am a bit concerned about the price of our utilities and if we can handle it. My husband told me that he really thinks we will be fine. I just get a bit concerned because electricity is essential. I do not want to be strained for money so making the decision for the most cost-efficient and reliable source would be ideal for me right now.

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