Shopping with my wife

Every now and then my wife and I go to the “big mall” that is over an hour’s drive from home.  It’s a rare treat to go there; we usually only go there two or three times a year.  We try to go on a day when we think it won’t be busy because we don’t like trying to fight the crowds and stand in line at the cash register for a long period of time.

But the big mall has some specialty stores in it that we just can’t go to locally, and we like going to them when we can.  That’s when we stock up on my wife’s favorite reed diffuser oil, handmade soap, and aloe vera products .  We try to go to the Sabon bath and beauty store for those products because my wife likes their products best.  She says the fragrances don’t give her a headache the way other store’s products do!

She likes to use these types of items in gift baskets that she makes up to give to people on gift giving occasions, as well as use them throughout our own house.  She loves how the reed diffusers can fragrance a room without having to burn any candles, or plug in anything electrical.

Really quite rude

My sister has been complaining to me about how she has been trying to refinance the mortgage on her house. She has been talking with several financing companies, and she thought that she had one lined up to get her the loan that she wanted. She had sent them all of the information they had requested, and they said that they would call her back the next day to make an appointment for an appraiser, and to get her credit card information to charge the appraisal fee. They never called back! That was two weeks ago, and now she is worried that they were some kind of scam artist trying to get her personal information. I think she may be right! She’s been sending them emails asking them what’s going on and they don’t bother to respond. Very unsettling, and very rude!