Advents Corner

I really like to cook and one of the things I wish I had done was gone to one of those culinary arts schools. I would love to be able to go to school and learn all of the neat things you can do with food. Matt tells me I should just do it but I don’t know. I have been looking around at them and found that no matter where you leave you can find a school close to you.

Maybe when we move out to California and I am looking for a career change I can try my hand at culinary arts school. I really like to cook and I love to try new recipes so think I would be great to broaden my knowledge. I don’t know if I would want to work in a restaurant or not but I think I would be awesome to be able to have the chance to. I always tell Matt that if we get rich one day and I do not have to worry about money I would like to work in a soup kitchen or something just volunteering. I guess I should just do what I want with what I have and not wait for the perfect conditions to come along because we all know if you wait for the perfect moment you will be waiting forever. Sometimes you just have to jump in and do it.

We took Lani to Great Explorations this weekend, which is a children’s hands on museum in St. Pete.  I would not call it is museum, I would say it was more like a hands on activity place.  She loved it and so did we.  Her favorite thing to do was slide down the fireman’s pole.  It was really neat.  They had different rooms with different “jobs”.  You could be a fireman, a tv personality, a musician, a vet and many other things.  She loved the fact that she could just run around without Mom and Dad telling her to come here.  It is really set up as kid friendly and they are able to just be a kid.  Also, great tree house for them to climb in.

I am thinking about getting a magnetic bracelet. I have bursitis in my right hip and it is really giving me a lot of trouble lately. I was in a car accident about 3 years ago and they told me that is what brought it on. The doctor’s told me that I would have probably gotten it when I was older but the accident made it happen faster. My foot was on the brake pedal when I was hit from behind. I have a memory mattress on my bed and that helped when I was pregnant but I am not getting much relief from it now so I guess it is time to try something else. I know a couple of people that wear them and swear by them so I guess they can’t all be wrong.

One of the girls I work with is bringing in some wholesale fashion jewelry so I do believe I am going to start my Christmas shopping. I can not believe Christmas is just right around the corner. The scary thing is Matt gets paid once a month so that means that we only have 2 paydays before Christmas. I need to get busy shopping because at this point I have not purchased one present. We are going to my Mom’s for Thanksgiving and I want to have all of their presents bought before I go so I can just bring them with me instead of having to mail them. Keep your fingers crossed.

I am very excited Matt did a memory upgrade on my big laptop and it is so much faster now. You know I have written about my eee but I have a full sized laptop too that I keep on the kitchen table. I use the big one when I do work from home or when Lani is asleep and I use the eee when I am on the sofa watching TV with Lani because she likes it when we watch Dora together.

Today we took Lani to Sunken Gardens in St. Pete.  The first thing that came to mind was we understand why they are having financial difficulties.  Don’t get me wrong it is pretty neat that you are in a lake 15 feet below street level walking around but the flowers and plants really were not that exciting.  I am sure that when it first opened it was amazing and I think it is wonderful that a man could spend 50 years of his life building and working on something for his own pleasure but it was just not my cup of tea.  We did get to sit on the rock of tranquillity so that was very exciting.  Lani did like seeing the Macaws, she even made a couple of noises to them.  I am sure in her “Macaw language” we knew exactly what they were saying.  At least now we can say that we have been to Sunken Gardens.

Now that Matt is starting to branch out with services on the Internet our ability to have credit card processing has come to the forefront of our business also so the ability to accept credit cards without paying more for the service then we make is very important.  Finding a company that would fit our small business needs was crucial, luckily we found such a company to help us expand without digging into our profit.