Asha Anujeeva

Talking with my sister last night, she confided that she was depressed about summer coming to an end. When we were kids, we used to go to the beach quite a bit. If we weren’t at the beach , then we were at the river or at the community pool. Now that we are grownups, we are lucky to get to Myrtle Beach once during the summer. That is just not enough water to refresh my soul. The water re-energizes me, clears my head and makes me feel refreshed. I need http://www.horizonmyrtlebeach.com more than once a year.

I’m trying to talk her into booking a Myrtle Beach hotel with me and getting away at the end of September for a long weekend. I would love to spend four days in the sun and sand and on the golf greens with my sister. That would be heaven.

Finally, after almost an hour of persuading and whining, she agreed to look at some of the Myrtle Beach best hotels and consider going away for 4 days. I hope she follows through on her promise and calls me back tonight to finish making plans.

Everyone I know has been to the beach for their week of vacation by now. Once Memorial Day comes, it’s like the gate has opened at the racetrack – everyone bolts for the beach. This year, I’ve been to the beach twice, but I’m not satisfied with just two trips. I want to go to a Myrtle Beach hotel at least one more time.

A quick look at http://avistaresort.com and I know I will find the perfect resort for a 4 day weekend. Four days is a good visit to the beach. You can enjoy the sun and sand and also play golf at least once on a quick getaway.

The Labor Day holiday weekend is just a few days away. If the hurricane heading west across the Atlantic does not spoil everyone’s long weekend, it’s not too late to book resorts in Myrtle Beach and set up a tee time on one of their world famous gold courses. There is still time for summer fun, even at the end of summer.

A friend of mine who works in Nashville is working as a volunteer at this Mutt Strutt. She was telling me about the great success they have had in previous years raising a lot of money and having a lot of fun with people and their pets. It is all for charity and is a different kind of fund raising event. I wonder if it would work in this area?

I’m hoping that my next year’s tax refund check will be a decent one. Decent enough for me to put a large down payment on a new car. My first car was an old VW Beetle and I’ve always had a spot in my heart for the VW Beetle. The New VW Beetle is mighty fine looking and I’m really tempted to go down to the local VW lot and test drive one to see how they feel and ride. A nice rich blue color would be sweet to be driving down the road.

I do like the volkswagen jetta as well, but it just doesn’t compare with my beloved Beetle or “Bug” as we used to call them back in the day. I still see a nice “Bug” going down the road once in a while and I find myself staring them down and almost drooling at the sight of it.

My mother would like to see me in a dodge challenger, I would like to buy American but I have to check an assortment out and see what best fits me and my needs. My Dad has been pushing for a new volvo c30. They are such opposites it cracks me up. Anyway I have almost a year to sort them all out and make a decision so there is no rush, but it is exciting and gives me something to look forward to. The Internet certainly will be helpful in researching this project!

Hey check out this wild looking tiny little thing, the smart fortwo, what a trip!

Since the weather wasn’t all that great over the weekend I took a drive around in my old neighborhood and strolled down memory lane for a few hours. The house that I grew up in is totally different on the outside these days. I’d love to be able to go inside and see how it looks in there, but I’d never get the nerve up to knock on the door and ask. But once in a great while I’ll drive by and check the place out.

The front porch is now enclosed and another house has been built where we used to play in the side yard. It was the perfect house and yard to grow up in. My mother and father took a lot of pride in keeping the place looking nice even with 5 kids running around creating havoc. My mother had the most wonderful window flower boxes in stalled in the windows on the front of the house. She was very proud of how her window boxes looked all year round. And plenty of neighbors were envious of her taste and talents and went out and purchased their own garden window boxes to experiment with, but hers always looked the best.

One of my co-workers just asked me to give them a lift after work today. They had car trouble this morning and broke down on a back road several miles from her home. She had to catch a ride from a complete stranger, who was kind enough to stop when they saw her on the road next to her car.

I don’t mind giving her a ride home, even though it is out of my way. In fact, I am flattered that she thought she could ask me.

It will give us some nice time together for about 20 minutes on the ride to her house. We can chit chat and get to know each other better.  Of course, I’ll be late getting to my own home, but I don’t mind just this once.

I often notice that when I’m driving somewhere new, and am not sure where I am going, that my GPS does not always get me to where I need to go.  I’m not sure if it is out-dated maps, or sun spots, or some crazy hacker messing with the satellite, but I frequently find that the GPS tells me that I’ve arrived at my destination, but the address plaque does not correspond with the address that I have input into my GPS.

I also have noticed that many times the homeowners have simply put new address plaques and numbers from the E-911 conversion process right beside the old address plaques.  This gets me even more confused because I don’t know which one is correct unless one is obviously really old and beat up!  I am reluctant to buy the new download for my GPS so soon after I bought it (I only bought it four years ago) because I really don’t think that the maps are updated that often to make it worth the investment.

I think that when someone buys a GPS unit, they should be provided with free maps for life.  What do you think?

I hear that it is a big issue with our emergency personnel trying to locate the address for many locations that they are called to for assistance that can be a matter of life or death. Our mailboxes need to have our street number printed large enough for them to get to where they need to be. There is now a huge variety of mail boxes to choose from. I’ve gone online to look at a new mailbox for me to put out on the street at my place. Not only do the police and ambulances need to find us, but the pizza and chinese delivery people need to find me in a timely fashion as well. I do like my food nice and hot upon delivery!

So, a word to the wise, you might want to make sure that your house number easily on your house or mail box visible for these variety of reasons. Like I said it could be a matter of life or death and we don’t even want to go there!

Last night’s TV was full of special coverages of the last convoy carrying the last of our American Troops out of Iraq. The word is that the war is over. I’m not sure how I feel about that and I think that that statement remains to be seen.

I really love how the Internet can give you a glance into other countries all over the world. Google has a few great translating sites that come in handy, but it can be time consuming and frustrating at times, so I try and stick to countries that I can understand the language better. Australia has always fascinating to me, I’d love to be able to go there at some point in my life time.

Today I had a bit of time to cruise the “net” and found an insurance company in Australia that I took the time to read a bit about. They offer affordable life insurance for their customers, along with accident and illness insurance, income protection insurance as well as cheap funeral insurance which is something that I wasn’t even aware of it’s existence, but it makes sense, anything to make life (and death) easier to deal with, right!

When the time comes that I get to take a trip to the “Land Down Under” you can be sure that the Internet will come into play for the majority of my needs in order to make it the best trip ever!

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.

My brother wants to buy some Tickets to the 2010 NFR Rodeo and take the whole family to the Rodeo.  I can remember going to some local rodeos in our youth, but I haven’t been to one in many years.  My brother, on the other hand, enjoys going to as many rodeos as he can.  I think that if he had been able to learn to ride and rope he would have been a cowboy too!

I never really even realized that there were National Rodeo competitions!  I don’t know why, I just never really thought about it very much I guess!  I told my brother that if he was willing to pay for the tickets, the travel, and the hotel room then I’d be glad to go!  But I did offer to split the cost of my parents tickets with him.  I think that would be a pretty good present for the two of them.

In the meantime, I guess I’ll try to find some sports channels on television that have rodeos to watch.  Before we go that far to something that big I’d like to learn a little bit more about the sport.  I don’t think I’d enjoy watching the bull riding; watching someone get gored would really scare me to pieces!

For as long as I can remember I’ve loved reading about foreign countries.  The exotic cultures simply fascinate me!  Ant the beautiful photos are so inspiring me!  And I love to watch the Travel Channel whenever I get the chance.  I’ve been saving my pennies for years now, hoping to be able to save up enough to travel around Europe.  If I’m lucky I should be able to find some cheap holiday deals to get me there in the next year or two!  

Over the past several years I’ve become friends with quite a few people from Spain and from Greece and they have regaled me with tales of how beautiful their countries are.  And they tell me that if I go to their home towns that they have relatives that would be more than happy to let me stay with them for a few days as an honored guest!  Now how nice is that?

So I”m focusing now on trying to figure out the best value in Hotels in Alcudia Spain, and the best value Cheap Holidays in Greece to see what I can come up with.  I’m using the website www.ulookubook.com – it seems to have everything I need!

Seeing Mount Olympus has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember!  I’d love to get over there this summer if it is at all possible!