Just My Rambling

Since I am looking for my nephew’s graduation gift, I might as well shop for a couple of birthday gifts. Wow, it looks like I cannot be called a procrastinator this year since I am doing my gift shopping so early. Right now I am looking at the Personal Creations website and I think I should be able to get everything I need from the website. They definitely have a huge selection of great gifts. I wonder what an 18 year old would like to have as a gift?

My nephew will be graduating from high school in just a few months. I can’t believe he is so big already. It just seems like yesterday when I bought him a Buzz lightyear toy. Now he is driving and going to college in just a few months. Even though there is a few more months, I already started looking for graduation gift ideas. That way I can actually give him the present at graduation instead of a belated gift like usual. Right now I have no idea what to get for him. I am sure that I will end up getting up a gift that is food-related.

I have a couple of friends who are doctors and one of them is planning to move to Ohio soon. He is planning to open up his own private practice when he gets there. So right now he is doing a lot of research on office leases and medical malpractice insurance ohio. Hopefully he will get great deals on them especially on the insurance. I heard that they are very expensive. It will be a burden for my friend if it is too expensive since he is just opening a new practice.

I am really starting to believe once you turn 40, your body goes downhill. At least it is true in my case. Since I turned 40, I have been having lots of minor medical issues. Lately my back has been giving me problems. It is making it hard for me to sit down and use a computer because my back will hurt if I sit too long. A friend suggested doing laser treatment for back pain but I am a little apprehensive. Maybe one of these days, I will consider doing the treatment but for now, I am doing simple exercises to alleviate the pain.

Last Christmas we spent 2 whole weeks in California. We spent a few days in Southern California where we visited Legoland and Disneyland. We drove around the Los Angeles area and explored a couple of beaches. When we drove by Malibu, I thought a troubled friend who was thinking of checking out malibu rehab treatment center. I wonder how he is doing nowadays. Anyway, then we went back to Northern California and explored San Francisco and the SIlicon Valley. We were having so much fun that it was hard to leave when the vacation was over. Hopefully we will be back soon.

It may finally snow this winter!! Before winter started, it was predicted that this winter would be a nasty one. The ski slopes even opened early this year but it all dried up after that. We ended up having one of the driest winter so far. But it will a different story next week. It is supposed to snow all week. Woohoo!!! I don’t even mind being snowed in for a couple of days. If that happens, I might actually sit down and get caught up on all my mail and do a little organization with the new wire display racks that I just bought. But first I have to find all our snow wear. Hopefully they still fit especially for C.

I have to admit that I love to rearrange my furniture. Every couple of months, I would get the itch to redecorate. Unfortunately some of the furnitures are too heavy for me to move, so I enlist the help of DH who is not too happy about doing all the heavy work. If he has a choice, his furniture will remain the same until he changes to new ones. So, to avoid his grumbling, I am planning to attach casters to some of the furnitures. That way I can roll them around by myself.

My little 7 year old is a little princess. She loves to dress up in fancy gowns and accessories. The little dress-up chest with a couple of gowns that I bought for her 3 years are the most used items in her playroom. This year she complained that she did not have enough dress-up accessories, so she even made some for herself. She drew earrings and necklaces using construction paper and stick them on herself. Yesterday I caught her drawing eyelashes!! Apparently she decided that her eyelashes are not long enough. Yikes!! Such a vain pot! I wonder where she learned about long eyelashes? She definitely did not learn it from me. It must be from one of the books that she has been reading. Anyone knows which is the best eyelash growth product? Just kidding!

I love to bake and one of my dream is to open up a little cafe. My little gourmet cafe will offer pastries and coffee served in a very pretty mug with little coffee art. I will also have a little corner for little kids to play. It will be a cafe for moms to hang out with their little ones. Of course my little cafe will be equipped with the latest Restaurant System and internet for my customer’s convenience. Maybe I can even serve bento sets for the little ones. I am sure the kids will love the fancy shaped sandwiches or fruits. Hmm, I think my idea does not seem so bad. Maybe I should just write a business plan in case I need it someday.

Since I am on a lookout for jobs lately, I am always checking the job section of the newspaper daily. So far I have not found anything that works for me. Maybe I should consider changing fields. According to the papers yesterday, the only industry that is not affected by the economy is the healthcare industry. I don’t think I can be a nurse but those Billing/Coding Specialist Jobs are probably more suitable for me. At least I do not have to deal with patients, furthermore I can work from home. I wonder what kind of training or qualification I will need for that job.