Monica’s opinions on the world around her. Politics, news, business, environment and family!

Next Christmas

by Monica

This year I am going to make sure that I have the perfect photo taken of me and my critters to send out for next year’s Christmas holiday card sending tradition. Each year I have been receiving some of the nicest looking and cutest Custom greeting cards that I really hate to throw away when January finally rolls around and all of the holiday decorations come down and get packed away for another year. If I was the arts and crafts kinda gal I would save them all and do something arts and crafty with them, but alas I’m just not into that type of stuff, at least not at this point of my life. I have enough things that I just can’t let go of that will probably never get used again so adding another pile into my all ready over flowing basement is just out of the question.

Anyways this year I really want to send out a good looking Custom greeting card, the type that people feel quilty about throwing away in January, much like myself. I have plenty of time to get a good photo, but I know that if I let it slid too long that I’ll just let it slip in between the numerous cracks that always wind along and find their way to my door. I did get a new camera for my birthday that I should be practicing taking pictures with, sounds like I’ve got work to do all ready for next Christmas.


Hard Boiled Eggs

by Monica

I always keep a few hard boiled eggs ready to eat in the refrigerator. They are a cheap and tasty snack to grab when in the mood. My mother always kept some ready as well for us kids to munch on and she used them in many of her recipes. She would cook a bunch up and give them to us while they were still nice and hot to put in our gloves when we went out in the cold. When and if they broke all you had to do was eat it!


The beauty concerns of todays young women

by Monica

When my niece was fifteen years old she came to live with us for a year because she was struggling at home with following the house rules. She was getting into a lot of trouble and failing all of her courses. She was a mess. Naturally I was not completely prepared for her total preoccupation with her looks, and I really felt that she had some kind of disorder about how much she wanted to change her looks. I can remember when we were looking through a magazine and she commented that she wished that she was as beautiful and the models in the magazine, when I told her that the pictures were retouched and the models had been airbrushed to make their skin look flawless she immediately said that she wanted me to buy her one of the airbrush tanning systems that are on the market today. I told her she was crazy to think that I would buy her something like that and that she is/was a beautiful young woman just the way she is/was. And that was true. The fashion magazines do our young women a serious injustice, giving them the impression that they need to be as flawless as the pictures in the magazine. It’s actually very sad, really.


Companian Arbor With Bridgehampton Swing

by Monica

Getting my hands dirty has always been good therapy for me. I can’t wait for Spring to finally arrive so that I can get busy with all of the things that need to get done outside, and there are a lot of things that need tending to that will certainly get my hands dirty. I have always wanted a nice arbor in the yard so I have been looking around at some nice wooden arbors that are available online. Was I surprised at how many arbors there are out there these days and all of the different materials that are being used for today’s garden arbors.

What I wouldn’t give to be able to order one of these wonderful Companian Arbors with a Bridgehampton Swing. You would never see me inside the house at all if we had one of these babies out back. My grandparents had a swing simular to this that all of the grandchildren adored playing on every chance that they could when we went over for our visits with them. I wonder what happened to that wonderful swing.


Memories of fun

by Monica

Every time I go into my bathroom I see a little Tinker Belle dangler and a Mickey Mouse dangler hanging in the upper two corners of my vanity mirror. I love those two little disney gifts that my hubby gave me as little souvenirs from our last trip to DisneyWorld. When I see the Tinker Belle dangler I always wish that I had bought several of them because I would love to convert them into some fun and funky jewelry to wear.