Investing for Future Savings

I am thinking about getting into investing.  I know there are risks but there can be good return on investment as well (and so far, the tax rates on the gains are acceptable though don't know how long that will last).  I also hear gold is a good investment and have heard people talk about how to buy gold online.

I was thinking about starting small - penny stock it is called.  My brother invests and does quite well.  I bought a book not to long ago (a "dummy's guide" to investing) to learn the basics and then move on from there.  I need a "dummy's" guide to teach me in the simplest terms possible!

Adult Bullying

As a mother, nothing bothers me more than somebody hurting my child. The cheer coach at my daughter's high school is a bully.  She and I had it out Friday night after the game.  I think it's time to talk to the Athletic Director.

I really want to expand my business and move out of this school district.  I need to look into triangle direct media about doing that.  We live in an area that reminds me of that movie - Stepford Wives.  I feel like I'm living around a bunch of clones who are dependent upon following the people with the right last names or being friends with those people with the right last names. It's getting old and the bullying this year of my kids - unacceptable!

Federal Government's Health Insurance Program

Anybody concerned about all the new health insurance mumbo jumbo the federal government is enacting?  There is just so much to it that I don't understand a lot of it (maybe that was their point). What does it mean for office visits, coverage on major illnesses or diseases, Doctors Malpractice Insurance, etc. once it is all enacted (or will it be squashed before that).

I follow politics but this health insurance program is beyond me.  I wonder if the people who wrote it understand it.

Kids with Musical Gifts

I am so proud of my kids!  My high school freshman plays the flute and she sits in 3rd chair in the high school band.  She beat out every freshman, every sophomore, every junior but one and every senior but one.

My 7th grade son is in first chair for percussion in a 7/8th grade band.  He beat out his own classmates plus every 8th grader as well. So cool!

My 5th grader was looking at clarinets (I played clarinet in school) or flutes and she decided on flute as well.  She has only been playing a couple months with the 5th grade band and we can tell she will be advanced musically as well.

Now I wait to see if my youngest daughter will choose clarinet or flute in a couple years.  We seem to be a woodwind type of family (except for the boys).

My kids are awesome (yes, I'm bragging).  They have a gift with music.  They make me proud!

Bathroom Shower Plumbing

We redid the plumbing to our shower last week.  We didn't plan to have to do that but when things crack, what are you going to do?   We bought more CVPC pipe and all the connectors that go with it, opened up a wall (by sawing through the back of a brand new cabinet - eek!) and redid the plumbing.  We looked at copper and I asked what teflon hose was but neither was something we needed. I am definitely not a plumber.

I have new shower fixtures out of it! Yeah me.

People Who Don't Deserve Children

Last night, I saw a mother spank her one year old so hard, she would've did a face plant into the floor if her mother hadn't had her by the arm.  That poor kid's pelvis went flying forward.  The mother had her dressed in these little heels - real stable and then she smacks her.  All because the little girl was crying after an hour of school band concerts.  How much of an attention span did she really expect a baby to have?

I also saw a mother attend the concert for her son and then leave without him.  He looked for her outside, in the rain, at two different entrances of the school.  She'd left him!

What is wrong with people?

Family Camping

Our family is going to try camping next spring/summer for the first time.  I've never camped in a tent before and neither have any of our kids.  It'll be a new experience for all of us.  I am hoping my teenager can leave her flat iron behind and doesn't try to pack it in the osprey packs to go camping with us.

I don't like bugs.  I can't stand spiders - so terrified of them.  Gnats make my nose itch.  I can handle a weekend of camping in a tent...I hope.

Flooding From Rain

It's December and instead of a ton of snow, we're getting flooding right now from rain.  Oh joy.

I can't stand snow but snow would be better than this constant rain that is causing the river to overflow onto people's farms and into town. This is the second time this year.  I am thinking somebody better 

jump on their skid steer and start building up the banks of the river a bit?

Maybe all this precipitation now will mean a dry winter?  I'd love to not see any snow this winter (as long as it means it's not rain).  I'm asking Santa for a dry winter this year.  We really need to dry out!


Dear Santa,


Please take all the precipitation and send it to somebody who has been experiencing drought right now.


Sincerely,
Syn