journey of life

Matt came home last night with a surprise!  No, silly girls.  Not flowers!  LUSH!  He loves me!

Join me in a Stationery Swap!  It’s an international affair.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves with customer service these days.  If you have a problem, in order to get anything resolved you must know you spoke to.  It’s like they turn the table on the customer.  It’s our fault we didn’t know which one of their employees did something wrong/told us incorrect information/screwed up.  They just don’t care.  Unless we don’t know the name of their employee, it couldn’t have happened.  It makes you want to keep a log book with names, dates, places and transactions, just in case.  But then, we’d all be neurotic, right?  Where’s the balance?

One of the worst things about moving is trying to find a place to get a reasonably priced haircut. The local place near us is $60 for a haircut and as much as I would like to support the local business, I can’t fathom paying that much. After a few failed attempts I may have gotten lucky.  With prices that are unheard of in this area, it’s worth a try.

Graham Webb International Academy of Hair
1621 North Kent Street, #1617LL
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 1.703.243.9322
Email: president@grahamwebbacademyonline.com

Blogging has opened new doors for those of us who like to meet new people, learn new things and, most importantly, be entertained. These are the blogs I visit on an almost daily basis. Of course, there are several others I read occasionally, but these are the ones I frequent the most.

The Pioneer

Cruftbox - Michael Pusateri has been blogging since 2000. I first found out about him while searching for how to wash a baseball cap. Then I read the coffee story and about the turduckin’ and have been reading his blog ever since. If he’s ever in my neck of the woods, I’m inviting him over for dinner. It’s uncanny how similar he is to both me and Matt. Like Slashdot meets Mythbusters. Between online gaming, coffee and at home experiments, the dinner conversation would last for hours. So, Michael, next time you are on the east coast, drop me an email to let me know and I’ll make you some good Southern’ food. Bring along the family!

The Yuppy Hippies

Cold Spaghetti - Holly is honestly one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met. She’s superwoman. I’m constantly in awe of her. Okay, I’ll stop sounding like an obsessed fan. And, unlike most of my blogging buddies, I’ve met her in person. Matt and her husband, Paul, have been friends for years. Through our blogging connection, however, we’ve become great friends…and she introduced me to…

More Lima Beans - Gwen is Holly’s best friend and what’s there NOT to love about Gwen? I’m dying to meet her. Well, maybe not dying. Between Holly and Gwen, I’m convinced that there’s more “eclectic” (Thanks Kristine for that adjective!) women out there whose talents, crafts and abilities bring so much to our world.

The Free Thinker

I Like Seamonsters - I discovered Tina through an article in the Washington Post several years ago. Brutally honest, Tina has shared great stories about her great smallening and on being a mom. A rad artist, she designs and sells her artwork, jewelry and tshirts at local fairs. Note to family: I would really love to have one of her “I take every corner like a dance floor” tshirts for Christmas or my birthday or…whatever. I admire her creativity, her urban view of the world and her sense of humor.

The Frugalites

Like Merchant Ships - Meredith is a bargain hunter, like me, but she’s got her Ph.D. in frugality. She’s…in short…a domestic goddess. I’m always getting ideas on bargain hunting, library books to check out and thrift store secrets. I’m trying to think about how when I first started reading Meredith’s blog, but it’s been so long…and she is an avid poster…so I don’t really know.

MomAdvice - It’s a small world after all. Last month I was reading some comments on More Lima Beans and Like Merchant Ships, both had Amy’s comments! So, if she read the same blogs as I did, she’s gotta have great material on her site. I’ve started working myself through past posts, but I think if I were to give frugal awards out, Meredith and Amy would win, hands down.

The Worldly

Shenanigans - Beth is an American in Dublin with a great sense of humor and a wealth of knowledge. She can put me in stitches even on my worst days. I’m still giggling over this recent post. Whenever I head off to the Emerald Isle, I’m calling her up and treating her to a pint, or two, or three.

Miss USA is tonight and Miss Virginia USA is a student at Virginia Tech. I thought I would read her biography.

Apparently, she assists Frank Beamer with football recruitment. I wonder how? I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. However, her personal story is touching. It really pulled at my heartstrings. Falling off your bike, being knocked unconscious and having scars…I can’t imagine the trauma, the emotional baggage you carry with you the rest of your life.

I won’t be around to watch tonight. All I can say is she needs a kick ass talent to win.

Mine? Bags and shoes. And these shoes are on my must have list for spring and summer. Land’s End Women Beach Sandals look like the best all around shoe for warm weather, maybe better than these on my wish list:

Are you a shoe whore too?

Among my husband’s many talents, he has a knack for figuring out movie music and celebrity voices used in commercials. How? I don’t know. He can just pick ‘em out. Last night while watching The Bourne Supremacy on TNT, Go RVing aired several commercials, and Matt claimed the actor’s voice was Tom Selleck. I thought, maybe, just maybe he had it wrong this time. But, alas, he was right. Magnum is their new guy.