Lauren Reagan Writing Online

I remember the first time I heard the song Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, by the Irish Rovers, man I thought I’d never stop laughing. Although that was many years ago and we have all heard the song way too many times I still have to giggle at it each Christmas season and Christmas is fast approaching!

I’m sad to see the summer leave us. It always goes way too fast. It’s getting colder and colder, the wind is the worst. I have sensitive ears and the wind can give me an ear ache quickly. The leaves are all ready starting to fall off the trees, sigh…..

Guest post from: Bruno Smith

Last night I did my once a week routine of stopping by my grandparent’s house to have dinner with them when I got off work. My grandfather is now 81 years old and he still goes to work every single day. Papa has been practicing law for 60-something years, and when he talks about his cases and the people he is able to help, his eyes light up. My grandmother was a nurse while Papa was in law school, and shortly after he graduated she retired from the working world forever. These days Grandma spends the majority of her days at Kroger hunting a deal for dinner or admiring the tomatoes in her garden and wishing they would ripen more quickly. Papa heads home from work around 3:00 each day. He spends a few hours playing around on his computer while Grandma prepares their nightly meal. The food is always simple, nutritious and prepared with love. The best part of the meal is always the conversation. Papa eats quickly while sharing long-winded tales of wilder days, and no matter how interesting they are, he always cuts them short in order to watch Gunsmoke on his http://www.expertsatellite.com/. At times these dinners are inconvenient, but I know that in a few short years, I’ll be thinking of them as some of the most precious nights of my life.

I received several new released DVD’s as gifts this year for my birthday and the one that I am the most excited about having is Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears A Who, one of my favorite childhood authors, his stories that have made it to the big screen so far have been great.

I’ve heard good things about this movie and Wall E is another one that I got that I am happy to have, these are both good quality family entertainment movies, good clean fun and I love them all the more for it.

Boy I have to say that Trade Shows certainly have come a long way since the last time I attended one, which was I’m guessing around 7 or 8 years ago.  Yesterday I went with a girl friend to a Trade Show that her parents were participating in, we got there nice and early and helped them get all set up with their brand new trade show flooring and their logo canopy and logo mats that they had custom made, with their company’s name and logo nicely displayed for all to see and hopefully remember next time they need the services of a mail and packaging store and pick their newly open store.

It takes a lot of guts to open a new business these days with the economy still in such a mess, with no end in sight. I was surprised to see so many new businesses there yesterday just because of that fact. This particular Trade Show was put on specifically for new business owners, which I think was a grand idea, they are going to need all the help that they can get right now. It was so cool to see all the neat stuff that has come out recently for folks to use at these Trade Shows, this one particular business had the nicest trade show carpet that I have ever seen, I actually took a picture of it with my cell phone camera. Never thought I’d take a picture of any type of carpet. LOL