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?

One of the people who is my friend now is Rachel. I know we would not have ever met if it was not for Facebook, as she lives over 600 miles away from me. But we have really connected. I hope to get to meet her someday – maybe even this summer if I get away for a little va-ca-tion!