Advents Corner

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.