Today I went to a Red-Hatter party where we all met at Patty’s house to learn how to sell things on Ebay. Patty’s been selling things on Ebay for several years and she invited us all to come over and she would help us set up our seller accounts and list something for sale.

When we got to her place, she was completely unprepared. It seems that her comuter is over ten years old, and kept shutting down in the middle of what we were doing. She didn’t have a camera ready to take photos of the items, she didn’t have a list of the flat rate USPS box dimensions and prices, and she didn’t have a tape measure or postage scale.

And to top it off I think she was a little bit inebriated. What a shame!

My hubby got the movie SALT from Netflix in today’s mail.  He told me that he had ordered it because I had told him that I wanted to see it.  I was rather surprised by that since I’ve never even heard of the movie.  But I’m thinking that maybe I had just forgotten about it, and after supper I suggested that we watch the movie together.

Well, throughout the entire movie I kept wondering why in the world I would have ever said that I would want to see that movie?  Don’t get me wrong, the movie was interesting, but it simply is not my “kind” of movie.  I do keep wondering, though, why my hubby would insist that I said that I wanted him to rent that movie!  It’s not as if I EVER tell him that I want him to rent a movie; in fact I’m usually too busy to sit down and watch any movies at all with him.  So I figured that if I really DID ask him to rent that movie, then I should sit down and watch it with him.  And as I said, the movie was interesting, but I am rather annoyed because it took me away from things that I felt that I needed to get done that just don’t partner up with watching a movie.

Up until recently I had a long life of never been fired. Not even once. I was happily retired and then I suddenly found myself needing to get a job to make ends meet. I thought I was doing a great job, but it appears that my co-workers were feeling threatened by my fast progress in learning my job and they lobbied my boss to fire me. So I was fired!

How do you explain that on a job application? When you apply for a job and you have to do that stupid telephone survey where you don’t speak to a live person and it asks you if you’ve ever been fired, and you reply “yes” you are then automatically disqualified from getting the job! How do you deal with that? You never even get to speak to a live person and explain. And even if you DID explain, do you think that the interviewer would believe you?

Would you just act as if you had never worked there, and don’t even include that job in your employment history? What would YOU do?

If you don’t have small children, perhaps you have not noticed what choices are available to kids for lunches and dinners at the fast food places.

I have known for years that McDonalds has “Happy Meals” for kids, but I haven’t really paid any attention to what goes int a Happy Meal until today. I decided that I was hungry but not really wanting a whole big burger and a large order of fries. So, I decided to order a Happy Meal and get kid sized portions instead.

The choices for the Happy Meal included substituting french fries with what they call, “apple dippers.” This is a little packet of peeled and sliced apples that come with a little bucket of caramel for dipping. That is what I ordered and I must say that I liked it a lot.

I am so glad that I stayed home today and cleaned house instead of going out into that insanity that is called “Black Friday.”  I remember last year when I heard on the news that in New York there was a crowd of shoppers so eager to get into their Wal-Mart that they broke down the doors and stampeded over a Wal-Mart employee, who was trampled to death by the crowd!  That is absolutely crazy and stupid, and I think that this is a very good reason to stop holding “Black Friday” sales in the future.  There really is no need of this insanity!  Stores can hold good sales without all of this craziness going on, for crying out loud!  There has got to be a better way!