Lauren Reagan Writing Online

Too bad that May Day isn’t celebrated with the May Pole anymore. What a fun way to celebrate the start of a wonderful warm spring season, the month of May is definitely my favorite of all.

Cinco de Mayo however is a huge event, it is most unfortunate that this Boston Bombing scare is going to impact a lot of the usual celebrations and festivities this year, sigh…..

May Pole Dance

Today has been a good day. I finally got my tax refund direct deposited into my checking account and I am armed and dangerous with this new found money. Of course I am going to be careful and make every single penny count, and I plan on paying off a couple of my credit cards right off. But there are a few projects that I’ve been wanting to start and now is a good time to get started.

I have been eyeballing some really wonderful Wallcovering online that I really want to use in my attempt to redo the dining room. I want my dining area to have a classier look than it currently does. Not that we use it all that often. Usually you can’t find the dinning room table from all the clothes, paperwork and junk that it is used for by everyone in the house. But there are times that we do use it and I’d really like to make a few changes and spring time is a time for all kinds of new and exciting things inside and out. Although I probably won’t get started until the summer time heat that is quickly approaching, but I’ll be inside nice and cool working in the a/c.

I have enjoyed spending my Friday off of work, getting some things around the house done and quite honestly a good amount of time just chilling and spending time on my laptop, while eating up all the left-overs from the past couple of meals. I hate throwing food away, I can be a real stinker about wasting food. I’m kind of OCD in that way. But then we all have our own little unique oddities, needs and wants in this life time.

So while doing some idle web surfing I ran across some Washburn Guitars at music123 that they are slashing prices left and right at. I’m guessing they are still trying to clear the shelves of last year’s merchandise to make room for the new bigger and better stuff that we all just can’t seem to live without! This is a perfect time to get your taxes back if you want to find great discounts on many online businesses that are bending over backwards to keep their online shoppers happy.

I was thinking about it the other day that I did not buy one single Christmas present that I didn’t get online. Even the things that I had picked up throughout the year, it was all done via the Internet. Imagine that!

Last weekend my father pulled me aside after a most pleasant Sunday family dinner was all done and over with, at my parents place, where upon he asked me to be the Executor of his and my mother’s Estate in case they leave this earth together. Or even if one of them goes before the other and isn’t capable of dealing with it all for various reasons that are always a concern for everyone involved. Of course I consented but the more I think about it I find that I am really torn up about the whole thing. The thought of either one of my parents passing away just brings a tear to my eye, in a short matter of seconds. That is bad enough and then there is the real responsibility of being an Executor is a huge responsibility. I have never been an Executor of anyone’s estate but I have know a couple of people that have undertaken the task and from what I’ve pieced together all things that they have told me, it isn’t anything that I would want anything to do with, but I couldn’t bring myself to say no to my father, not something that I’m used to doing and have no intention of starting now I reckon.

Another thing is that I don’t know diddly squat about finances. They are going to have me come over a few times to go over all of their files and bookkeeping which will feel very awkward, as I am a real stinker about keeping my nose out of people’s finances. They are doing a lot of their bookkeeping and banking online, so I’m going to have to have all that information, all the USER IDs and PASSWORDS and the sites that they use. This is going to be a huge undertaking and I am going to have to rely on the Internet for learning more and more about mutual funds, annuities, stocks, bonds, wills, lawyers, a very long and intimidating Read This list.

I’ve heard much about the Walden University’s online degree programs that are helping so many people get their degrees which ultimately enables them to make the “big” bucks. In these past few darken years of being stuck right smack dab in a major Depression the “big” bucks is what we are all striving for. In order to learn about Walden I spent some time checking them out online, I found at WaldenU.edu that they have a very intensive website that took some time for me to absorb. You gotta remember, I just barely made it out of High School. College was never really in the picture for me, back in those days. All my mother wanted me to do was to become a secretary and marry the rich boss, she never really got over the fact that I ended up in the food and beverage industry, a bar wench.

Anyway, I’m thinking of getting into the Social Services field since I have a good heart and know how to talk and deal with people. I think that I am a compassionate human being that enjoys assisting people in any way that I can, been known to literally give the shirt off of my back to some one that needs it more than I do. Anyone that is dealing with people in need most definitely require a HUGE dose of compassion. Unfortunately what I have found from personal experience and from thousands of horror stories that I have heard from friends, family and my bar customers, is that the majority of these “professionals” are seriously lacking any type of compassion along with a lot of other qualifications that I think are necessary for this type of career. I think anyone that chooses a career (any career really) should enjoy it to a certain extent and not in it just for the money.

I like to think that I help a lot of people while tending the bar, but the tip jar is rarely flowing over from them all. Knowing that I could be doing the same thing and was guaranteed to go home on payday with a sum that would not only pay the rent on a house of my own as well as the utilities, insurance premiums, taxes, and keep gas, oil and decent tires on the car, well it would be awesome. But at the end of the day if I look in the mirror and like what I see because of what I have done for somebody that day that really effected their lives that day well that is just be the ultimate high.