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My Late Night Sweet Tooth

Monday, April 30th, 2012

I don’t know what got over me at the grocery store the other night. I spent way too money and came home with a ton of chocolates. There isn’t a piece of chocolate in this house and I have been craving chocolate each night the past week, which I haven’t been able to produce to satisfy that driving craving that hits you late at night, when you are too tired to go out anywhere to get what you are so wanting.

It has been a couple of months since the Christmas holidays have come and gone. Along with it went all the Christmas goodies that end up in the house that time of year. Cakes, pies, cookies, candies, chocolates and all the wonderful deserts that people make during that festive holiday season. The house is back to normal (or as normal as it will ever be) and there isn’t a trace of last year’s festivities and summer is on it’s way!

When I went grocery shopping they were having a massive sale on their chocolates and I couldn’t make up my mind on which ones to get so I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of different kinds, just in case. I now have a good sized bowl in the kitchen filled with a nice variety of chocolates that should keep my night time cravings in check for a few months.

Horse Back Riding Lessons and Apparel

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Now that my daughter has decided to go ahead with the horse back riding lessons that her grandmother is providing her with it looks like I will need to start looking around for some good quality, but affordable equestrian apparel for her to wear during and after her lessons. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on this right now just in case my daughter changes her mind again after just a couple of lessons or so. She has been known for changing her mind in mid stream and it has been a real struggle for her grandmother and I to organize these lessons, there is a lot on the line right now and I can only pray that there will be no kinks in these well thought out plan, but kids will be kids.

Yearning For an RV

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Getting an RV has always been a dream and I have to admit that recently the yearning for one has been getting stronger.

We stopped by a Camper World kinda place a few years ago and I was crushed to see how expensive they can be. Not in this girl’s budget!

But if you have some cash at hand and bide your time, bargains can be had. I have been watching the sell it yourself ad books each week and there have been some good deals out there. I’m just not ready to spend that much money, what with taxes coming due and the price of gas going up a few pennies more every day.

But I have wanderlust in my genes and traveling the country by RV gives you a totally different perspective on the highways and towns on your trip than just flying in on a plane and taking a cab to the hotel. I want to see the country close up and do it while I’m young enough to enjoy the experience.

Music Equipment In Fredericksburg, VA

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

I’ve promised my niece that the next time I plan on going to the Fredericksburg area that I will take her along so that we can stop at our favorite Music Equipment store that is all most an hour away. I’ll be glad when she gets her driver’s license, but in the mean time I guess it does give us time together. I am the cool aunt and I enjoy her very much. I hear that she is studying to get her Learner’s Permit, so her driving will give her the independence that most of us crave at that age. I’ll just have to start asking her to drive me to places in order to ever see her.

Morgan Silver Dollars for Birthday Gifts

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

There seems to be a new interest in collecting money these days among a lot of various people that I know and countless others that I don’t know that I’m hearing about as well. My youngest brother was into collecting coins many years ago and then one day he basically put everything away in his safe deposit box and tucked away the key leaving his coin collection to sit in waiting until about a year ago.

The one thing about people that collection things, it makes it easier to buy them gifts on the many gift giving occasions that come around each year. Since my brother has started enjoying his coin collection again I was thinking to buy buy morgan silver dollars as his birthday gift this year. It isn’t until July, so I have some time to check out a few places that I have in mind and see what is out there that I think will be the best deal for me as well as something that he will enjoy and appreciate.