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Long Weekend Plans?

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I was just talking to my sister in law on the phone. She was making one last ditch attempt to get us to come up to their “cottage” for the long weekend.

They bought a new RV trailer last year. I think it sleeps six people quite comfortably and now – every long weekend – they call wanting us to come for a visit.

If it were closer I’m sure we’d go more often, but from Toronto it takes about four hours to drive there and that’s not including the likelihood of getting stuck in slow moving traffic on the way in and out of the city so make that more like 6 hours.

She was also telling me that they have their rv insurance all paid off for the year so she’s happy about that. No more bills other than utility bills for their RV for the rest of the year.

Anyway … we can’t go away to her cottage this weekend. She had forgotten that her (and my husbands) nephew and niece are flying in this evening from Chicago for the weekend. The kids are doing their own thing in the city but we’re picking them up at the airport in an hour and we’ll be getting together with them for lunch or dinner at least once. So that nixes going out of town.

What are your plans for the long weekend?

I love my neighborhood

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Last weekend when my husband and I were working outside at the front of our house one of our neighbors came by and started talking with my husband.

The neighbor works for our cities bus company and he happened to mention that they were going to be hiring soon in a particular division and since it has to do with health care (this part of the bus division transports the handicapped) he thought my husband might be interested in the job.

It would certainly pay more than what my husband it making now .. oh and there would be great health and pension benefits too.

So my husband has been working on his resume and then going and talking with our neighbor .. polishing up the keywords that they think the bus company will be looking for etc.

Earlier tonight the neighbor came by to offer a few suggestions and he gave my husband a present – a box of cohiba cigars. Now my husband doesn’t really smoke cigars … but his brother does on occasion so I guess we can save them and then they can have a smoke together next time his brother comes down. Maybe they can celebrate my husbands new job together? Now that would be nice.

I love our neighborhood. The people are so nice. We all do favors for each other, give little gifts on special occasions or at Christmas etc. It’s a nice place to live. Now this neighborhood might actually help my husband get a better job. I love it.

Trying to find a special gift for a friend

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One of my friends is turning the big four 0 soon and I’m trying to think of what to get her for her special birthday.

She’s not one to even celebrate her birthdays let alone expect extravagant gifts, however I want to get her something nice. Something that she’d use and hopefully enjoy for a long time.

I’ve been looking at some personalized gifts. She’s a photographer so I was thinking that a personalized photo frame or something similar might be nice for her.

Of course I’ll probably get her something else as well – maybe a gift certificate for a spa day or something like that.

What would you get for a good friend who’s turning forty?

How do you keep your window blinds clean?

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Sometime in the next few days our house is going to get a major cleaning.

We’re going to be having guests for the weekend and I’d like to get this house in top shape.

The only thing that eludes me as far as keeping them clean is the window blinds in the master bedroom. No matter what I do they seem to gather dust.

I’ve tried buying one of those special dusters for mini blinds and that didn’t seem to do much. Now I’m thinking of trying a magic eraser on them – maybe that will work.

How do you keep your mini blinds clean?

Why do stores have fall clothing already?

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I find it funny how stores advertise or stock their stores for different seasons.

A couple of weeks ago I was in a department store and I decided that I wanted to look for some summer clothes – things like shorts and light tops – and I had a hard time finding anything. I couldn’t believe that it was the beginning of July and they already had a good selection of fall clothing.

I’m sure it won’t be long before I start seeing ads for Halloween and Cyber Monday sales. LOL

How are the stores in your area? Do they still have a good selection of summer clothing or are they like the stores here in Toronto – filled mostly with clothes for Autumn?

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