Asha Anujeeva

I don’t know why, but I’m always tempted to buy things from the Blair catalog company.  They frequently have one page ads in with the Sunday paper ads, showing some item of clothing or shoes that really appeal to me.  I’ve actually bought a few things from them to time to time.  At first I was afraid that the low price was an indication that the quality was low, but I was pleasantly surprised that the quality was better than I expected. 

Lately I’ve been buying and wearing men pants instead of women’s pants.  I like them because they fit my body better, I can order them by waist and inseam, and they have deeper pockets than women’s pants.  The ability to load up my pockets with more items helps me to enjoy life a lot more because I often don’t have to carry a purse if my pockets are large enough.  I especially like buying men’s cargo pants – because they have even more pockets!  I was just looking through the Blair catalog to see if they had any good clothes on sale that I can use this summer.  I found a lot of nice short sleeve shirts that were reasonably priced, and several pairs of cargo pants too.  Unfortunately my favorite pair of cargo pants they don’t have in my inseam; they only had shorter sizes.

I’d really like to find some culottes to buy,  too.  I’m not supposed to wear shorts to work, but there are times that I find myself having to sit on the floor and I don’t want to have to do that in a skirt.  Wearing long pants to work gets too warm, so I think culottes would be the perfect answer.  At the moment I haven’t really started looking online for them, but that is on my wish list for purchasing in the next couple of months if I can find them.

I saw that a local grocery store was selling carrot cake rolls at a special price.  Well, I like carrot cake quite a bit, so I decided to buy the cake roll.  I was thinking it would be similar to a carrot cake for sure, but somehow I expected it to be different, too.  Well, it essentially is a carrot cake, with the frosting rolled up in the middle.  Yes, it tastes just fine, but I think that the traditional carrot cake with the frosting on the top is more attractive.  Maybe if they had frosted the outside of the roll, too, so it looked like a log (or like a big carrot!) would have been better.

You would think that the airlines would get their act together when it comes to making sure that your Luggage arrives at the same destination that you do and both at the same time would be nice. My sister just got back from a trip that was supposed to be like a second honeymoon but turned out to be one big mess. The whole mess starting with the airlines losing both her and her husband’s brand new Tumi Luggage, so you know that put a damper on the whole trip.

They both had to go out and purchase all new clothes and personal hygiene products that were packed in their bags that they put such faith in the airlines to keep track of and take care of. That was an expense that they were not prepared for, so they had to cut back on quite a few activities that they had planned on participating in on this particular trip.

And the brand new Tumi Luggage that they were utilizing were special gifts to them from his mother just two Christmas holiday seasons ago. It is most unfortunate that his mother passed shortly after this occasion so this luggage has a lot of emotion and love attached to it. The good news is that the luggage has been found but there are items missing and the bags now look pretty grubby, which has my sister really bent out of shape.

Answers given by 2 nd grade school children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of ?

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean .

2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We’re related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?

1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.

2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.

3. They say she used to be nice.

What did Mom need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.

2. She got too old to do anything else with him.

3. My grandma says that Mom didn’t have her thinking cap on.

Who’s the boss at your house?

1. Mom doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.

2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What’s the difference between moms & dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.

2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.

4. Moms have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?

1. Mothers don’t do spare time.

2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?

1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.

2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.

2. I’d make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

I get very frustrated by how much junk mail that I get every day from companies trying to sell me insurance of one form or another.  I don’t know why I get so much of that, and I wonder if everyone gets that much junk mail?  What a huge waste of trees!  If I wanted to switch insurance companies, I would go online and use a website like netquote.com to compare the different prices on policies. 

Their website is easy to use – you just pick out the type of insurance you are looking for, and choose the area you live in.  Then you are redirected to another page where you have to answer a few questions, then your quotes are on the way!  This service includes all of the states – I was helping my aunt Claire find Maryland insurance with it just a couple of weeks ago!