One of the things that always amazes me is when I read an article about how there are dangerous chemicals in a lot of the make-up products that people use. For example I read that a lot of brands of lipstick have dangerous levels of lead in them. And yet women still wear their lipstick! My sister was telling me that she has found a bath body website that sells beauty products that are made from natural ingredients and that some of the ingredients come from the sea. Ingredients like seaweed. What will they think of next?
The new timeline
Have you converted your Facebook page to the new timeline yet? I have been resisting the change; I really did not want to bother trying to learn something new AGAIN. Generally speaking I am usually accepting of change, but to be perfectly honest when I was looking at my friend’s pages that had already converted I found the new format to be confusing. To be honest, I still DO think that it is confusing. I suppose I’ll get used to it, but it is definitely going to take a while before I’m comfortable with it. A lot of my friends have been complaining that they don’t like it, but then again several say that they like it just fine; it reminds them of the “MySpace” pages. I never had a MySpace page, I guess that I never felt “self-important” enough to crow about me online. I only signed up for Facebook as a way to keep in touch with several of my friends, since they never seem to send individual emails.
Reliving prom a little with my daughter
Guest post written by Donna Reins
I realize that I’m way past the age to care about prom dress shopping, but I like to put myself in my prom-going shoes to help my daughter some. Prom is a much bigger deal now than it was back when I was in high school. I guess that I shouldn’t be that surprised about it because there are so many things that are made specifically about prom and TV and movies make it into a much bigger deal than back in my day. It gets me a little excited too so I’m having a lot of fun helping her pick out all kinds of prom stuff.
I’ve been doing a fair amount of research to help her pick out some prom trends for this year and when I was doing that I saw some bankrupt alternatives online. I hadn’t been looking for them, but I thought that I could really use them with all of my credit card debt, so I’m going to check them out.
I’ve already seen all types of gorgeous dresses, but I’m really supportive of a cocktail length dress and awesome shoes instead of a floor length gown. I think that the shorter dresses tend to cost a little less anyway.
Gun safe
When I went to Clark’s sporting goods store I was very interested to see that they were holding a sale on gun safes. I was very interested in looking at a stack on gun safe for my den. My nieces and newphews have started coming over to my place more regularly than ever and I want to make sure that none of the little rascals get their hands on any of my guns. The last time they were over to my place one of my guns went missing and I am very upset about that!
Making little Easter Baskets for the nursing home
When my wife told me that she wanted to hold a party for her Red Hatter club to make Easter Baskets for the local nursing homes I thought that was a great idea. There are several nursing homes in the area that are always in need of volunteers to do things for them to brighten the lives of the residents.
I can remember when my wife and I got married it was in a church that was right across the street from a nursing home, and my wife arranged with the nursing home to use one of their empty apartment units to change into her gown. The residents of the nursing home were all so excited to see her dressed in her beautiful gown, right before she walked out of the door and across the street to the church.
We’ve always had a soft spot for people in nursing homes. I can’t really say why that is exactly, maybe it is because we know that one day we, too, will be old and feeble and in need of some love and attention.