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I love special sales

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I love getting notices for special sales. I’m signed up with a few of my favorite businesses to get their regular sales newsletters and their special newsletters. I absolutely love it when I get the occasional notice from one of them that their having an Employee Purchase Program Event or a Midnight madness sale or special bargains that you’ll only know about if you get the newsletter.

Naturally I don’t take advantage of all of these sales because I don’t always need to be out buying things … but it’s good to keep any eye on what’s on sale just in case I need something or in case I have to buy a gift. I always have sales and savings in the back of my mind.

Do you sign up for your favorite department stores sales newsletters so that you can find out when they are having big sales?

I deserve a treat or two – time to shop

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I was just saying on my other blog that I’m due to treat myself to some new clothes. I don’t know why, but it seems that I always get the urge to add to my wardrobe at this time of year for some reason.

Anyway .. it’s been exactly a year since I quit smoking so that calls for a celebration and what better way to treat myself than to use some buckle coupons to buy some new clothes? Yep .. save some money and get some cool stuff. Uh huh … and if I don’t find anything for me at that store I can always use the coupons on something for one of my nieces I suppose.

So what do you think? Doesn’t that sound like a good enough reason to treat myself?

So Facebook changed it’s look again

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So what do you think of the changes to Facebook? I don’t use Facebook all that much, but oddly enough I had started using it more and the last month or two and wouldn’t you know, just as I was getting use to it and getting a feel for it, they went and changed the whole look and feel of the site and well .. I don’t really like it.

Actually the first time I was on when they changed everything they had turned on chat on me and I ended up talking to a lot of people. I normally have chat turned off because I just don’t have a lot of spare time to talk to to people when I’m trying to get work done on the computer or on my sites, but since chat was on by default that day … I ended up talking to people for over an hour before I managed to get out of there!

I talked to some friends and some people that I don’t know all that well about every thing from the recent Facebook site changes to the weather to someone getting car title loans Washington to another friend buying a house and more. I think I’m pretty much caught up! Oh and then the next day Google+ opened up I believe and that was another day of major social interactions on the internet!

So back to my original question – what do you think of the new Facebook? Like it or Hate it?

Our friend is finally getting married

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I was talking with a very good friend of ours earlier today. I’ve always thought of him as a confirmed bachelor a la George Clooney … but it seems I was wrong, so very wrong.

He’s had a girlfriend for about two and a half years and it seems that he’s ready to make it permanent. Just having the girlfriend for this long has been a record. I’ve known this guy for about 25 years and prior to this I’ve never known him to see a girl for longer than about two weeks! So you can imagine my surprise when this relationship lasted and lasted and now when he told me earlier today that he wants me help finding an engagement ring.

I think I just about fainted when he told me he was about to get engaged. He really should have told me to be sure I was sitting down. LOL

I guess sometime next week we’ll meet up and go out and look for the perfect engagement ring. I used to be a jeweler so I still have some great contacts that we can use to get him a very good deal. My husband was a jeweler as well so I’m sure he’ll have some input as well. In the meantime I told him to take a look at various Semi mount diamond ring styles to get an idea of what he thinks his fiance to be might like.

Hopefully he has an idea of what kind of style she’d like. If he really doesn’t seem to have a clue when we go out looking I might suggest that he proposes without a ring and then lets her have some input on her engagement ring. Not quite as romantic, but it’s better than totally hating your ring.

Trying to decide on what type of gift to get my pregnant friend

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I just found out earlier this week that a close friend from work is expecting a baby in the Fall. I’m really happy for her as she’s wanted to have a baby for a long time.

I know it’s kind of early for gifts, but I’d like to get her a mother to be gift now … just to show her that I’m in her corner and that I’m excited for her and her husband.

My big dilemma is whether to get her a gift just for her – something that she can use to pamper herself now, or to get her a gift that she can use when the baby comes in the Fall. Hmmm … What to do, what to do …

If you were just fairly newly pregnant would you want a present for yourself right now or would you want a present for your baby? I mean … in a few months she’s definitely going to have a couple of very big baby showers from the people at work and all of our friends … I think I’m leaning towards getting her a personal gift.

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