Archive for June 14th, 2008
June 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank |
Oh man oh man, she wasn’t going to get those baby shower invitations sent out in time if she didn’t hustle!! It’s just that she had soooooo much to do right now. With school, her job, family stuff, and trying to get this baby shower organized, she was feeling more than just a little overwelmed!!
“Okay, done with work” she thought as she shut down her computer. She grabbed the boxes of invitations that she had sitting by the door, and hurried out the door.
June 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank |
I can not tell you how invaluable my laptop has been. Really, before I couldn’t really see that I would want one. Oh, here and there I thought it might be nice, but not enough to make me think about getting one. Now that I have one, wow, that thing goes most everywhere with me!! It’s really cool to take the girls to the library for some thing they are doing there, and be able to sit down with my laptop and do just about anything, even my online stuff, thanks to the wireless internet at the library. It’s also really cool to take it out to my sister’s (or anywhere else I go) and be able to use it for my studying. I can even play a game in my bedroom, all thanks to my laptop. Maybe one of these days I’ll be lucky enough to have wireless internet in my home. *LOL*
June 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank |
As the smoke cleared, she couldn’t think, or feel. She was in shock. There was so much she would need to do, number one on her list would be to take her parents back to her house, and number two would be to get a hold of the home insurance company and get them started on this mess….but she just stood there, with the acrid smell of the fire choking her, as her childhood memories of this house flashed through her head…It was all gone now…
June 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank |
Ahh, billiards, a game of the ages..A game that has been around for centuries! Sometime during the 15th Century, Northern Europeans moved the then lawn game, similar to croquet, indoors; the playing field became a rimmed table with a green, “grassy” surface, and balls were pushed, rather than hit, across the field. The cue itself, was developed sometime during the late 1600’s..
Historians believe billiards crossed the Atlantic to the American Colonies with Dutch and English settlers, but America’s love for the game is attributed to Irishman Michael Phelan, “the father of American billiards.” Phelan wrote the first book on the game in 1850 and is credited with devising many of the rules and table designs we use today.
Early American pool games were played with four balls; after 1870, three-ball and 15-ball games saw some popularity. Eight-ball and nine-ball billiards, as well as straight pool, all developed before 1920.
An interesting game to say the least. My preference is 8-ball, but than, I’ve never learned the rules for any of the others. I’m not that good anyway, considering I only play a game or two every few years.
At http://www.borderbilliards.com, you can find just about anything and everything I would imagine that you would need for billiards. And I don’t know much about the going rate of these things, but their prices didn’t seem out of line. There were some brands I even recognized, so that is always a plus, at least for me!!
June 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank |
Having lived in Las Vegas, I can say without a doubt, that I would never want to live there again. The hotels in las vegas are pretty incredible, but other than that, well, I found the city to be dirty, dangerous, rude, and way too crowded for my liking!!
The cost of living is outrageous!! I realize this is true of most or all places these days, but it’s even more so in Vegas, simply because it is Vegas. I never thought it was where I would stay for a long time, never thought I would want my children raised.
