Asha Anujeeva

Thanks for the guest post by Susan Dorman

When my husband decided to surprise me with the birthday gift of one of those upright style commercial vacuum cleaners I exclaimed that it was the best birthday gift I had ever received, he looked at me quite skeptically. “It is?” he queried. “Well, yes of course it is” I replied. “When you give me a tool for floor care it means that you are going to take on the chore, and I can’t think of a better gift than for you to take on the carpet cleaning chore.

Well, what could the poor man say after that? He said “well, I wasn’t planning on taking on the vacuuming.” My reply was “then you should not have bought me a vacuum cleaner! I was perfectly happy with the cannister style vacuum that I have owned since before we met and the upright styles are too hard for me to push back and forth, so if you expect our carpets to be vacuumed with that, then YOU are going to be the one to do the vacuuming.”

Well he hemmed and he hawed and said that it was easy to use the upright vacuum, much easier than using the cannister style. So I told him that was great news because HE was going to be the one using it. Well, he tried to put on his best game face and he DID use it to vacuum the floors for about a month. Then he declared that it was, in fact, harder to use than the cannister style vacuum and he put in out in the garage, never to be used again. Until, of course, we broke up and I kept the cannister style vacuum!  And when it came time that my cannister style vacuum broke down I ended up buying another cannister style vacuum. The upright ones are just too hard to use!

Yesterday I was reading an article about dying Christmas traditions. One of the traditions mentioned was the use of the spray-on-snow. Did you know that the snow used to be made from asbestos? I wonder how many people now are suffering from mesothelioma as a result of the spray-on-snow that they used to decorate their houses with? I can remember when I was a child my parents used it to spray on the Christmas tree!

Ginny has asked me to move to Edmonton with her. I’m really not sure that I want to go; this is a big decision to make. My father is encouraging me to take a leap of faith and go up there – saying that I can always come back home again if it doesn’t work out. Ginny is my best friend, and I agree that it would be quite an adventure; we could scour the Edmonton rentals for the perfect place for two young single ladies to share and to call their home base and be each other’s “wing man” when we go out to paint the town red.

I’m just not quite sure if I want to move that far away from my parents; it would be very strange to not be able to just hop in my car and drive for an hour to go see them whenever I want to go see them. Sure, we could keep in touch by telephone, but that would be very different.  I think that I’ll agree to go with Ginny for a week’s vacation to check out the area and see if the area appeals to me at all.

I didn’t sleep well last night; I only got six hours of sleep.  Then I have had a really busy day.  I’m tired and cranky, I have a headache and I don’t want to cook supper tonight.  My honey just got home and said “what’s for supper?”  I asked him to please cook up some quick steak and cheese sub sandwiches for us to eat.  I really like them, those frozen thin sandwich steaks.  They cook up quick and easy and are really yummy!  So, he is cooking supper right this minute, while I’m typing!  We’ll be having chips to eat with dinner and my tummy will feel so much happier; when I come back to the computer I’ll probably be in such a better mood!

My cousin’s girlfriend Bri has been raving about how much she loves her new magnetic bracelet.  She said that it has helped her arthritis tremendously!  So I started doing a little bit of research on magnetic therapy.  I couldn’t believe how many ailments magnets are supposed to help! From headaches, backaches, insomnia, stress, to diabetes!   Bri told me that she bought her bracelet at the billythetree.com website.  So I’ve gone online to check them out. 

Their prices certainly seem reasonable enough, and they have a good shipping and satisfaction policy.  I think I’ll order one for myself and see if I notice any difference in how I feel!  Sometimes I wonder if these things “work” because of the placebo effect, so I’m always curious, yet cautious.  What is your experience?  Do you have any magnetic jewelry?  Has it improved your life?