When I go to an automotive service center that specializes in oil changes (I won’t name the chain, but it IS a national chain) that gives out $5.00 coupons online good towards an oil change, the local service center needs to honor that coupon. Last week I took my truck to the local oil change service station and had them perform their oil change. When they rung me up I presented them with the $5.00 coupon. The cashier told me that they had already totaled up my work and it was too late to give them the coupon. Too bad, so sad!
I don’t know about you, but I think that is totally bogus. I don’t know why I just accepted that instead of insisting that they re-ring the sale. Sometimes I’m just too nice. When I went home and told my wife about it, she was very upset that they didn’t give me the credit, and couldn’t believe that I just accepted it. I guess if it happens again I’ll be a little bit more assertive and ask for the supervisor. I’d rather get them upset than get my wife upset with me.
This morning I went to a networking meeting in town at a local restaurant. During the meeting different people were supposed to stand up and talk about themselves for a minute or two so we could learn who was there and what we do and what we are hoping to get from the meeting. During most of the meeting there was a busboy nearby stacking dishes very loudly. It almost sounded like he was throwing them around, the clatter was so very loud. I was extremely tempted to yell at the guy to quiet down. I really don’t know how he could have been any louder if he had tried. If that happens next week I think I’ll complain to the manager. There is no need of that.
Flowers are something that I have always tried to give to the important women in my life for as long as I can remember. I think that I learned that from my grand-father. When I would visit with my grandparents I would spend the day outside with my grandfather, helping him with his chores. When it was time to go inside to eat dinner, he would always take a minute to go out to the cutting garden and gather a fresh bouquet of flowers to take inside to grandma. When he got inside the mud room door he would kick off his muddy boots (instructing me to do the same) and wash his hands and face at the laundry tub before going into the house. He would always sweep my grandma into a back-bending hug and kiss her on the cheek and present the bouquet of flowers with a grand flourish and say “Fresh picked flowers for the love of my life.” Grandma would always pretend to fuss at him for messing up her hair, but I could see the corners of her mouth fighting a smile while she fussed at him. She would put the bouquet of flowers in a vase in the middle of the dinner table and then we would help grandma set the table for dinner.
Those are good memories, and I try to keep those memories alive by having my own cutting garden to be able to pick fresh flowers before going inside to greet my wife for the evening. And cut flowers are my favorite gift of choice for birthdays and other special occasions. When I find that I cannot give someone a gift from my own garden because of distance, then I resort to buying flowers online. To me, flowers are a precious gift of fleeting beauty, just as life is a gift of fleeting beauty. Both should be appreciated fully.
My wife’s doctor has told her that it would be a really good idea for her to eliminate caffeine from her diet. She has varicose veins and a sleeping disorder, and her doctor said that caffeine would make both of those problems worse. So over the past couple of weeks my wife has changed her routine from two cups of tea daily to one cup, and now she has switched over to decaffeinated tea. Unfortunately she has been suffering from migraine headaches over the past couple of years and the caffeine was helping to treat those migraines.
I asked our pharmacist if there was any over the counter treatment for migraines that does not have caffeine in it, and he said no there wasn’t. I think maybe we should change her decaf tea to half-decaf and half regular for a while and see if that helps.
Posted by Von Battle
When I first moved here I watched way too much TV. Like, way more than any normal person should reasonable watch at any given time. I didn’t really have any friends and I got so many exciting new channels from www.expertsatellite.com that I really didn’t have any reason to want to go out – it was like, why would I leave home when my best TV friends are right here? That plus the fact that my job is just ridiculously stressful and I felt like I was always walking into a minefield when I got in in the mornings and by the time I got home I was totally drained…I feel much better about work now though since I got my promotion and talked to my boss and I’m even starting to make friends thanks to all the work happy hours. My next goal is to meet some people I DON’T already work with but I’m taking baby steps, you know? I can’t do it all at once and I’m working on it one thing at a time.
Automotive, Business and work, Computers and/or Internet, General life, Money and finances, Relationships, Shopping | Dean | 
February 23, 2012 6:27 pm | 
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