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I should go back to making jewelery

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I can’t believe how high the price of gold is. It just keeps climbing higher and higher. I wonder when the price will start going down again?

Did you know that I used to be a jeweller? Yeah … back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Yep. I made gold jewelery. I worked for a company that made jewelery from scratch – from wax mold, to castings, then polishing and assembling each and every piece.

When I worked in the jewelery trade Gold reached a price of about $800 an ounce and at the time that was the highest price it had ever been, but now that gold is at about $1338 an ounce that makes the jewelery that I was making seem like discount jewelry!

Hmmm Maybe I should get back into the jewelery trade? Nah … I left it for a reason – I enjoyed the work, but I hated the atmosphere. By the early 90’s I’d opened my own business and I worked 16 or more hours a day (like I do now as webmaster!) but my clients were extremely demanding, cheap and well … rude. I don’t want to go back to that again.

A store my mother in law will love

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I found a store this past weekend that I’ve got to tell my health fanatic mother in law about.

It’s a store called Healthy Planet. I was just talking about it on my other blog. The store has vitamins, bulk foods, organics, and even natural weight loss products – pretty much whatever you want and at good prices.

My mother in law and my husbands Aunt drive in to Toronto from a town about an hour and a half away from here to go to specialty stores like the Big Carrot so I’m sure they’ll love the Healthy Planet.

The location we went to happens to be near my husbands uncles house, so that will be handy for Chris’ mother if they decide to go to the Healthy Planet store as they can visit my husbands uncle afterwords. 😉

My husband is watching Oprah?

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OMG … I have my husband doing something I never thought he’d ever do – he’s watching Oprah!

I usually don’t watch Oprah either (I think I’ve seen 3 episodes in my life GASP), but I happened to notice that Lisa Marie Presley was being interviewed on Today’s show and that she’d be talking about how she felt about the death of Michael Jackson and her marriage to him, so I taped it.

My husband has been kind of fascinated with a lot of the stuff that’s gone on since Michael Jackson died last year so when he saw what I taped this afternoon it was his idea to watch the show. That shocked me! I thought he’d rather read hydroxycut reviews than watch Oprah … but he’s watching the show with few complaints – so far.

Ok I’d better go – I want to see this interview.

Such a sore wrist

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I seem to have hurt my wrist It’s actually been hurting for abut three weeks, but it’s getting worse and worse.

I have a bruised feeling on top of my hand just above my wrist and near my thumb and then the whole area around my wrist- especially the underside of my wrist just aches.

I think I’m going to just do a little maintenance on the computers tonight, maybe defrag the hard drives and for the rest of the evening I’ll wrap my wrist in a heating pad and see if the heat makes it feel better. I hope it helps. This pain in my wrist is waking me up at night.

Should I get an iPod Nano?

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You know what? I don’t have an MP3 player. I know .. I’m horribly out of date it seems.

It’s not like I don’t want an iPod or some kind of MP3 Player, it’s just that money has been kind of tight for the last few years and getting a music player wasn’t at the top of our list of extras … even though it’s something that both my husband and I agreed we wanted and could use.

Anyway … I’ve been eying the new ipod nano. It’s small, it’s cute and price wise it’s not bad.

I even like the commercials on TV for the iPod Nano too. I know, that doesn’t really matter, but it does show you how versatile the iPods are.

Do you have an iPod? What about the new iPod Nano? Anyone have that one – do you like it?

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