Fantasy Football
The Author of this post is Solomon Dejesus
My husband loves fantasy football. He was really glad when he found out we could get wild blue in Joshua Tree, and he immediately got our satellite internet set up after he found that out. Every Sunday he spends the whole day on the internet, checking his fantasy football scores. I always give him a hard time about how much time he spends on fantasy football, but I actually think it is great how close he and his high school friends have stayed over the years. He still keeps in touch with the same group of seven guys that he went to high school with. Even in their mid-thirties, the guys get together every year for holiday parties and the fantasy football draft. All of the wives actually hate fantasy football and even made shirts that say “wives against fantasy football” on the front and “fantasy widow” on the back. I actually am glad that my husband has a hobby that he enjoys. I recently decided that I need to take up a hobby that I enjoy as much as he enjoys fantasy football. Maybe I will start taking a sewing class with a friend. However, I doubt it will take up as much time as fantasy football.
Cooped Up
Thanks to Roman May
I love being able to stay at home with the kids but it is hard finding ways to occupy myself all day long. It’s a far more boring existence than I thought it would be and though I waste a lot of time watching direct tv movies I also feel a real nagging to do something with my mind. I used to write in my spare time and I’ve been thinking of taking that up again but you know, it’s tough to jump back into that after a long absence. It’s hard to feel good about what you’re writing when you haven’t written in so long and I’m worried that I’m not as good as I thought I was when I first got started. Anyway, I love being with the kids but I wish they were able to have more intellectual conversations with me. I don’t know what I’m going to do when they go off to school and I’m here alone 6 hours every day – that’s when I’m going to get really stir crazy!
Mom and Me
Guest post from: Constance Rodgers
When my mom told me she was starting her own small business I thought she was crazy. She didn’t know a thing about how to run a store and I didn’t even realize she was that into clothes so I was just really confused when she told me she wanted to do something in the retail industry. I helped her where I could though like getting my friend Sandy who’s a decorator to come in and by looking atwww.smallbusiness.xo.comwhile my mom was busy with vendors. The store’s been open for a few months now and though things haven’t been smooth sailing they haven’t been that bad, either. I’m really proud of her for taking this risk and I know that if she keeps it up she’s going to have a really successful business on her hands a few years from now. To be honest, she’s even inspired me to think about quitting my desk job and doing something on my own. I said thinking about it, not actually doing it yet, though!
Purchasing new scrubs
For the first time, in a long time, I am getting ready to go to work at the hospital as a nurse. I’ve been out of work now for about two years and I feel like a child getting ready to go to her first day of kindergarten. I’ve bought all my cheap scrubs, turned in my nursing licenses, and had my PPD test for Tuberculosis.
I am so excited. I know my first day of work will be great and I will be hit with a great sense of accomlishment as soon as I walk in and see everyone walking around the hospital grounds in their nurse uniform. There is nothing that says hospital more than the uniforms everyone wears to work. To some they are scary, but to me they are simply comfortable and familiar. There are so many different varieties of scrubs online here: http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/
In other wings the of the hospital there will doctors dressed in a white scrub pants which is less scary but at the same time it just seems more clinical. If its been a long tough day for a doctor there may even be fluid stains on the scrubs. Luckily for me, I wear a bright cheery nurses uniform. I can’t wait to get my candy stripe look going and get back to work!
He doesn’t get it
Guest written by our friend Sergio Chaney
When my fiancé and I moved in together I don’t think he was prepared for how much time I was going to spend wedding planning. I love him to death but he really gets in my way when it comes to things like all the invitations and the frames and stuff! He got us direct tv dish so we could watch our favorite sports together but to be honest I end up on my “girly” channels as he calls them, watching show after show about weddings. I know he’s getting sick of it by now but we’re getting married in three months so he’s going to have to hang on for a bit longer! He’ll be fine, I keep telling him it’s all part of the process but he still complains nonetheless. We’re really different in that I’m all about planning andorganizing and he’s more of a fly by the seat of your pants kind of guy so I guess we balance each other out. It’s like they say, opposites really do attract!
