Exercise at Your Desk

Just sitting on the ball chair works muscle groups you would not normally use while sitting. Abs and low back muscles are straightened just by sitting on this ball all day. All, while sitting very comfortable at your desk.

The chair comes with a booklet giving illustrations of stretches and exercises you can do at your desk. The illustrations are great but this chiropractor who designed the chair carries it a step further. He tells which stretches are helpful for which muscles groups, for improving digestion, lung capacity and stretches to energize.

Another multitasker that I love.

A Great Find

I sit at a desk all day. By 10 every morning my low back and shoulders were stiff and painful. One of my coworkers had this odd looking chair....a ball chair. It is a frame with wheels that holds an exercise ball. After much hesitation I ordered this chair. When the chair arrived I opened the box and thought I had made a terrible mistake. In the box was the frame, the ball and a pump to put air in the ball.

I put the chair together in less than 10 minutes. It looked as though it was going to sit to low. As I looked around at coworkers sitting at their computer, they were hunched over with their arms and hands up too high when they were typing. So that was why my back and shoulders were hurting by 10 every morning.

The ball chair does sit lower, but ergonomically correct. After a couple of weeks it felt normal to sit lower. Actually much better.

The low back and shoulder stiffness I was dealing with everyday is a thing of the past. I love, love, love this chair. I paid $100.00 for this chair about 3 years ago and I have not looked back. I purchased mine from Gaiam.com.

Great Service-Great Restaurant-Great Birthday Dinner

Last night we went to dinner to celebrate my grandson's 7th birthday. He wanted to go out to eat and to a movie last night. His birthday party was today.

We went to the Olive Garden. The service was exceptional. Our waitress name was Sammy. She was incredible. She was friendly, energetic, and seemed to really enjoy her job. She made the night special for my grandson. If you live in Greenville, SC...go to the Olive Garden at Cherrydale and ask for Sammy. It was by far the best service we have ever had.....certainly the best waitress we have ever had.

Saving Money

I have used coupons before...rather sporadically. It seemed like too much work with very little savings. I was introduced to a blog about couponing a few months back. The young lady who writes the blog
http://www.daisysdeals.blogspot.com/2009/01/welcome-to-daisys-deals.html, does a great job helping you think about how to be more frugal and how simple and beneficial this couponing thing can be. The first 3 weeks I kept up with my savings, which came to $67.00. I began reading her blog weekly as well as other blogs that she follows.

Some of these blogs tell you exactly what the specials are by store and where to find the coupons. The major benefit is in stacking coupons....a term I did not know before reading these blogs. Stacking coupons means.....

If you find an item on sale at Wal Mart, a store coupon and a manufacturers coupon, you could likely get the item for free. Or even better the store may even have to pay you to purchase. Yesterday at Walgreens, Reynolds Wrap was on sale for 89 cents. I had a coupon for $1.00. After tax was added, the clerk ended up paying me 6 cents to purchase the Reynolds Wrap.

Second Half of Life

Now that I am in the second half of my life, I find myself in a place I have never been...indecisive. I don't know what I want to do with the rest of my life as far as work is concerned. I have always known what I wanted and went after it. This is a strange place for me. A place I am trying to understand and learn from.

I do know I would love to work from home and I would love for that to include a cup of coffee and a laptop. I enjoy working, I just want my work to revolve around my life, instead of my life having to revolve around my work.

I will continue to look until I find what it is I am looking for.

Verizon Wireless and ENV2

We have had service with Verizon many years. They are the only cell service we have had. My husband went on a trip with the men at our church. They were at a retreat center that was down in a valley. All the guys were having to borrow his phone to call home....he was the only one at the time with Verizon and the only one that could get a signal. Needless to say, Verizon picked up some new business when those guys returned.

Not only do we love our Verizon service, but I love my new phone. I got the ENV2 a few months back. It has large buttons and numbers on the front of the phone and a full key pad for texting inside. It is so user friendly, this is the first phone I have had that my husband did not have to set up for me. It has a function button on the full key pad in the top left corner. You can arrange the features you use on the phone most in this menu for quick access.

I only have two complaints about Verizon. I think a Verizon customer should be able to upgrade their phone at least once a year. Right now it is every other year. By the time you can upgrade, your phone is ancient due to technology moving so fast.

The other complaint is that I would love for Verizon to be my internet service. The wireless service is 40 dollars a month for one computer. We have two. That is double what we are paying for internet service. Watching and waiting for the price to be more competive.

Pentax Digital Camera

I purchased this camera about 4 years ago. It does take good pictures, however there are a couple of things I don't like about this camera.

When I am outside taking pictures I can not see what I am taking a picture of because of the glare on the screen. I just have to point and snap the picture and hope for the best. I am actually getting rather good at it.

This camera has a delay when you snap the picture. It is a focus delay, however, when I am taking those priceless candid shots of my grandchildren I have missed some great moments because of this delay.

I would love to have a camera that takes great pictures, has continuous shooting, and the ability to see what I am taking a picture of outside.

Root Awakening Shampoo By John Freida

I have alot of hair but very flat at the root. I have tried so many shampoos that promise to volumize and give body. Many of which only weigh the hair down. I tried Root Awakening Strength Restoring Shampoo and Root Awakening Nouishing Moisture Shampoo. I love them both. I get body, lift at the root, and my hair is shiny and healthy. The shampoo is creamy and latters great. If you are like me and have spent more money than you care to count on shampoos that don't deliver what they promise, you might want to try Root Awakening.

Almond Tea

2 cups ginger ale-diet
2 cups cold water
¼ cup sugar free instant lemon tea
½ teas. almond extract
½ teas. vanilla extract

You can replace the cold water and instant tea with 2 cups of fresh tea.

Frozen Latte

1 cup skim milk-add ice to make 3 cups
1 box fat free sugar free vanilla pudding
1 cup frozen fat free cool whip
1 TBS. instant coffee

Mix in blender and serve with cool whip on top and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Making Memories

My granchildren spend the weekend a couple of times each month. They love to spend the night and we love that they love coming to our house.

My grandson is 6, my grandaugher is 3. They like to have coffee with us on Saturday mornings. Of coarse theirs is heavy on the cream and light on the coffee. A couple of weekends ago, we sat in the sunroom, all of us watching the birds eat while we all drank coffee and just enjoyed talking and spending time together. A memory I think of often.

There is just nothing better than having a cup of coffee with someone you care about. Some of the best times my husband and I have together are on Saturday mornings drinking coffee and just hanging out.