Don’t get me wrong; I’m thrilled that he has finally decided to go to work dressed like a serious businessman. I’m just wondering what in the world changed his mind about how to dress for success! For years now he was perfectly happy to wear cargo pants and T-shirts, but now he spends hours picking out the best looking tie to wear with his gray pin stripe suit.

I immediately started reading an article about how to save money on tools, and enjoyed reading his little story about when he was a little boy his grandfather gave him his first set of tools, and how he and his grandfather worked together on a variety of projects that needed tools. The story brought back memories of my own relationship with my own grandfather and it brought a smile to my face. You see, even though I am female, I was a tomboy, and my grandfather treated me like the son he never had of his own. It was great fun visiting him on his farm and helping him plant seeds in the garden and follow him around in the barn and watch him slop the hogs and feed the cows.

Realizing that I enjoyed his writing style, I decided to click around on his website, and found that the author of the website is offering college scholarships! I found that very interesting that he would do that, and decided to read more about that. Apparently he is going to award two $5,000 college scholarships a year! His requirements for winning the scholarship do not seem to be unreasonable, based on academic history, extra curricular activities, and ingenuity of essays.

That particular article brought back the memory of how my youngest son was able to go to college on a full grant/scholarship to Princeton due to the generosity of one of Princeton’s alumni. A friend came over to visit a few days ago and she was talking about how her son had thrown away his chances to go to college on a full scholarship and how upset she was that he was not taking advantage of the opportunity. Her concerns made me so grateful that my son was fortunate enough to get the financial grants he needed to go to Princeton, and how that college degree will be opening doors for his career for the rest of his life.

I’ve bookmarked this frugaldad.com website; I think I’ll be going back to read it again and again.

Recently she was in the hospital because of blood clots in her lungs. That really worried me. A lot. Now the doctors say that the blood clots are gone (that’s a good thing!) but that they have found something in one of her lungs that they might need to biopsy. My mother has never been a smoker, but her parents WERE smokers. I am worried that she may have something terribly wrong with her and that the doctors might say that because of her advanced age that they don’t want to treat her.

So right now we are waiting for consultations and test results. Sitting on the edges of our chairs. Trying to remain positive, and cheerful, and worried sick. And if I may pass on a little advice to you, it would be to call YOUR mother to say hello and tell her that you love her. There will be a time when you won’t be able to do that.

She was showing me a website that sold titanium rings and tungsten rings, and I have to admit that I liked the look of the hammered titanium rings. I think that the hammered look is more of a traditional look than modern, don’t you? To be honest, I felt that the prices were a lot lower than I expected. I don’t know which one she will choose, but there were plenty of styles to choose from. I’m excited for her to be engaged!

But it was really grand being with her – we are definitely going to rekindle our friendship. I’ve missed having a good friend like her around to socialize with.

Anyway, the starting point of this post was really to lament the observation that too many people get way too upset over trivial little details. Making mountains out of mole hills, starting arguments over nothing. It really is such a shame that so much energy is poured into so much negativity. We could accomplish so much more as a human race if we could turn that energy into positive energy!

Hackers and spammers get in there and try to create total havoc. I never could figure out why anyone would want to do that, I guess it’s just pure evil oozing out of their bodies, trying to ruin the capitalistic societies of the world. Where else could you push a button or two and switch from a screen that gives you a completely honest pacific hydrostar pressure washer review from fellow Internet users, and then a button push or two be able to find out where you can get some price comparisons for the same pacific hydrostar pressure washer, and then thirty seconds later buy a brand new wedding dress size 0 and pay for it all with PayPal? And then five seconds later get the up to date weather report for a country half-way around the world! What a great world this is!

As it would happen, this gift shop is in the middle of the historic district of the renovated Old Town, which I love. The Old Town has been lovingly restored and the streets are lined with small Restaurants and Coffee Shops along with gift shops, boutiques, and specialty stores. A couple of the stores are converted old Hotels that went out of business decades ago. In the spirit of generating the Christmas spirit, I decided to walk down the length of the street so I could appreciate all of the wonderful Winter Wonderland window dressings that the store owners had prepared. Much to my delight, when I purchased my item the clerk at the corner told me that I was getting a 20% discount for purchasing the item on Small Business Saturday! Awesome!

This is good advice. Sometimes we get down on ourselves. It is much better to be gentle with ourselves. I am going to spend the entire day with positive and upbeat self-speak. Why don’t you try it, too?